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This is just a brief post that I will be posting from @nukirk from now on. This blog is retired and posts going forward will be on my main account.

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The End...

I lost my domain name thanks to a recent personal drama I will not get into (it's household related, so nothing major).

Since someone else got my domain name and will probably use it in ways I can't imagine, along with the uncertainty of Tumbler's future and my lack of interest to maintaining this blog, I decided to push my efforts elsewhere.

So, if you still have an interest in my outtakes and what not, I'm going to be blogging from @nukirk from now on. I'll keep the @thoughtremixer up for as long as possible, but don't expect any new updates on this side.

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Can someone look at my last post and tell me why it's blocked from public view?

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Brian Cox reads “If I Must Die” by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.

Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike. This was the last poem he published.

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Rest In Piss, Mr. Heinz Henry Kissinger.

OP Link: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8aHnehM/

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Stuff to be mindful of when using Cash App.

I'm the original OP of the TikTok by the way.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT85Hp9pe

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... Enjoy.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8jTkoYF/

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Just a message for you. To all those feelings they don't deserve good things.

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3 Years, 3 Months, 6 Days and I finally got a speck of justice... hopefully.

For those of you who followed me throughout the years, on May 31, 2020, I was attacked by the NYPD unjustly for covering the George Floyd Protests. I was held in a holding cell along with other protesters and later released literally an hour before the crack of dawn, without being charged with a crime.

A brand-new electric bike destroyed by the FDNY (no fault of their own). My phone busted, along with any evidence. My chest is forever scarred. The memories of the NYPD forever in my mind, altering my already views on policing in general to the point of abolishing the current police system.

What followed years after was me in a case vs. the NYPD and NYC. Along with other victims of NYPD's brutal tactics, we stood firm in holding the NYPD accountable.

I decided to become one of the public faces of this case, by doing interviews (under my real name of course), recalling details while trying to hold back tears mixed with anger.

I spent years reading comments about how I was "a paid actor by the Democratic Party", a "plant" by Black Lives Matter, a "crisis actor" and an opportunist when the only opportunity I wanted was to cover the protest from the protesters side, sell my work to the media and go home and have a quiet birthday.

I have to fund raised and get strangers to help me put my mental state back together in a quick manner so that I will be able to be of sound mind as I speak up for people.

Well, I'm happy to say that something came out of it.

My quote, if you don't want to read the article states:

Matthew King-Yarde, a protester involved in the suits, said all New Yorkers should support the agreement — whatever their political leanings.

“Regardless of your stance, none of us should have faced trauma, both physical and mental, for voicing concerns about law enforcement’s disregard for Black lives,”

King-Yarde said.

“The NYPD must undertake extensive work beyond what’s been done. Are they up for the challenge? One can only hope.”

(The reporter didn't do any research, just grabbed quotes from the lawyers website)

Sadly, one of the things I can't do is go into the exact details of how I feel about the settlement. I do have some strong opinions about it, but that's the problem with settlements. You can't really express them the way you want to.

However, I will in the near future talk about the impact of the settlement.

But at the very least... the very least... I can start to move on from this long and tiring court case.

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“Luka Kinard knew his vaping habit was out of control when it started costing him $150 a week.“I was selling my clothes,” Kinard, a 15-year-old high school sophomore, said. “I would get shoes, sell them, go out get cheap shoes, sell them. I was doing anything and everything to get money.”His parents noticed when his grades started plummeting.

“He went from being a straight-A student to an F student,” Luka’s mother, Kelly Kinard, said. “(It was) a very rapid decline in grades. His behavior became explosive. He was very angry and it just wasn’t him.” Luka stopped his boy scouting activities, stopped fishing and spent all his time locked away in his room. He was vaping. 

Luka is part of what the Food and Drug Administration and the Surgeon General call an epidemic of e-cigarette use. And, as with most teens who are taking up the habit, it was the slender, easy-to-conceal Juul device that really got him hooked. 

Luka was hooked in a way that doctors never noticed before with regular cigarettes. “The flavor was better than the taste of a cigarette. Also the buzz was a lot better,” he said. But it was a pricey habit. 

“When I started spending $17 every four days or every day it was getting to a problem,” he said. “I realized (I was spending) $150 on pods in a week, and I noticed like this was getting out of control.” 

What brought matters to a head was when he had a seizure. “He was at his girlfriend’s house and an ambulance was called and he ended up in at the emergency room,” Kelly Kinard said. She knew it was the Juuling that had done it. 

“We followed up with the pediatrician, cardiologist and neurologist, and we couldn’t get anyone to listen to us when we told them the seizure was preceded by Juuling,” she said. “I found on the internet that it should be treated like a substance abuse issue. That helped when I called the insurance company and told them we need a referral for a substance abuse treatment.” 

The High Point, N.C. teen ended up spending 40 days in an addiction rehabilitation program before he was able to kick his habit. 

This makes sense to Dr. Sharon Levy, director of the Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program at Harvard Medical School. 

“We’ve seen a real influx in the number of phone calls that we’re getting for kids who need substance use evaluations and, remarkably, we’re seeing a big increase in the number of kids who are coming in specifically to be evaluated for nicotine and Juuling problems,” Levy told NBC News. 

“We’re seeing kids that seem to be getting a much higher nicotine level in their blood and that’s causing a completely different picture when they come in.” 

Other teams have found this, also, and the FDA is trying to crack down on sales of e-cigarettes to teens and young adults because they do deliver a much higher dose of nicotine than traditional burned cigarettes, Juul products, in particular, don’t offer a way to dial down the dose of nicotine-bearing vape fluid n the same way that other devices do. 

The extra hit of nicotine can have especially strong effects on young bodies, Levy said. 

“Kids are coming in with problems like difficulty in focusing, common symptoms of withdrawal, things like headaches, sometimes fatigue, stomach aches — which might be a symptom of nicotine toxicity or poisoning in some of them,” she said. 

“We’ve had kids who come in and say that they can’t concentrate in school, that they need to leave the classroom, they need to sneak out to the bathroom so that they can hit their Juul, or that they need to go to the nurse’s office because they just need to lie down,” Levy added. 

“That’s something we didn’t see in use of cigarettes. This is very concerning. This is really uncharted territory and we don’t know what use of nicotine in this way is doing to the developing adolescent brain.””

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TL;DR, vaping and juul’s really aren’t as harmless as a lot of people seem to think they are, in a lot of ways they can be more dangerous than traditional cigarettes. This article doesn’t even go into the way a lot of e-cigarette companies have been preying on vulnerable minority groups  that face higher levels of stress like the LGBT+ community and Native American reservations in their marketing. Like, taking advantage of stressed out vulnerable minority groups to sell them a toxic and dangerous way to temporarily relieve stress, but will eventually cause serious health problems for them, is actually pretty evil. 

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How "American Gladiators" is proof that Whiteness gets fast approval for anything...

I'm watching the American Gladiators documentary on Netflix. And while I'm only on episode 2, here's a summary of how the show got a pilot.

An Elvis Impersonator got the greenlight to do the show based off of coming up with the title of the show.

That's it.

A production company came up with what the show was going to be about and everything. All the guy did was just come up with a name and the company was like "yeah, that's cool!" and he gets credit.

Who lives off hype based on just coming up with a name... you know what, don't answer that.

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"Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination." -- Thomas Sowell

Everyone's for equality. Until they're treated equally.

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Let's have the conversation about UBI.

Let the actual data and facts end the bad faith arguments.

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This is horrible, tho. Imagine all the people who put such hard work into this show…only for it to a frigging tax write off.

And, yes, I know they all still got paid, but it must be so disheartening. Especially for all the child actors who had to take time off from school/leave home for a tv show they assumed would help their long term career.

Same thing happened to the lead girl from the Batgirl film. Her career was on the rise and she turned down a lot of other promising projects to do the film. And look how that worked out.

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You know how messed up America is? There's an orientation video that has to give soldiers a heads up that Black people will be treated with respect in England. And we have to get used to that idea.

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