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Messiah Rhodes
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NYC via Far Rockaway. Filmmaker, writer, Black stranger | My tweets represent only me | made videos for vicetv.com ajplus.net act.tv | Senior News Producer at democracynow.org

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Vaccine expert Dr. Fiona left her role at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention amid Robert F. Kennedy's "hostile takeover" of the public health agency. She says he is using the agency "to advance anti-science views."

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/12/robert_f_kennedy_jr_cdc
December 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The disparity between that XPENG Chinese robot walking and the Tesla Optimus just crapping out constantly when they showcase it makes it feel more obvious that the world is leaving the United States behind when it comes to the technology

youtu.be/bEKH2eblWBk?...
Inside the Viral IRON Robot Everyone Thought Was Human | What The Future
YouTube video by CNET
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December 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Amid escalating ICE raids in New York City, Democracy Now!'s Messiah Rhodes spoke to advocates supporting newly-arrived migrants and asylum seekers from West Africa with hot meals, legal advice and job training.
West African Asylum Seekers Find Safe Haven in NYC Volunteer-Run Kitchen
Amid escalating ICE raids in New York City, Democracy Now’s Messiah Rhodes spoke to immigrants and advocates supporting newly arrived migrants and asylum seekers from West Africa with hot meals, legal...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Breaking! Exclusive! I have proof from Zohran Mamdani’s own campaign that he has several times used the term “my brother” to address someone not his actual brother. More at 11.
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Bulldozing the White House in broad daylight, well done
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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In response to Comptroller Lander’s post titled “NYCC and BlackRock and Brad, on my!”

We began organizing on climate change in 2012 after Hurricane Sandy, when our members were trapped in their buildings without power, without access to food or medical care for weeks on end. 🧵
October 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The hyper normalization of fascism has outstripped the public’s ability to fully see the scope of the damage and that in part has always been the point of the fascist weaponized unreality state.
he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep
October 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Faced with rain and chilly temperatures, the NYC Columbus Day Parade was canceled, and the Portland Naked Bike Ride Protest continued as planned
October 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Yes.
October 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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when do we start using a term other than “social” media?
October 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Another example of afropessimism, white nationalists literally won’t leave Black people alone, showing up in our spaces to antagonize and find their purpose. This is important for them at the moment, especially since Kirk was killed in a predominantly white state and white school by a white man
MAGA supporters invaded an HBCU and got shown the door.
September 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
good cop stories are like "police play jump rope with children" bad cop stories are like "police ignore woman's plea about estranged husband that leds to a triple homicide"
September 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The media coverage feels more like a national period of indoctrination than mourning, untethered from reality
September 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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the best response to Trump remains telling him to fuck off loudly and clearly

appeasement doesn’t work in general but it very explicitly does not work on that guy
(CNN) - President Donald Trump shelved his plans to target Chicago as the next city for his domestic crime push after advisers warned him that sending in troops .. could create legal headaches they want to avoid, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

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September 13, 2025 at 2:47 AM
it’s about to be 24 hours since that man died in Utah, and Cable News can only pull like one or two quotes from him that's not divisive and nasty
if i get killed, you can quote stuff i wrote. that's why i wrote it
September 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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“Kirk was not just a part of the extremely tense, very dangerous national dialogue, he was an accelerationist force whose work to dehumanize LGBTQ+ people and threaten the free speech of professors, teachers, and school board members around the country has directly put … many people in danger.”
Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way
The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.
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September 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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September 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
None of the cable news media outlets is even sharing what that man says cause it mostly provokes hatred, and is arrogant ignorance
September 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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meanwhile I accidentally bought organic blueberries instead of the regular ones today and almost had a panic attack over the price, journalism rules
Lord save us:

"Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
The Bari Market
With Paramount securely in his pocket, David Ellison is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.
puck.news
September 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM