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Emma I thought of us agreeing

artappraiser — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 22:20:19 +0000

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Emma I thought of us agreeing that NYTimes has become excessively woke, when just now I saw this interchange on Twitter (in response to Michael Kimmelman announcing a new NYT project)-- had to laugh that it's still all in the eye of the beholder:

Will this project also focus on spreading Republican propaganda like the NY Times news desk? How can anyone believe what you guys print when your news desk proudly lies to the American people and writes whatever Republicans want them to?
— urban house llama (@lunaticllama) August 13, 2020

you are living in a mirror universe?

pretty sure nytimes is the DNC-urban-liberal mouthpiece. pic.twitter.com/3P6BQBgpB7
— cool dad (@praise_moloch) August 14, 2020

from late June:

artappraiser — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 23:20:24 +0000

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from late June:

Spent a night browsing Brooklyn, photographing [with permission] the people shooting illegal fireworks all night. And of course I asked them about the NYPD-psyop conspiracies... https://t.co/fHiU5XufKN
— Aymann Ismail (@aymanndotcom) June 30, 2020

Sad that Murder Hornets didnt

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 09:38:45 +0000

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Sad that Murder Hornets didnt get invited to this years fest. How quickly we forget.

From "East Oakland" trending

artappraiser — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 08:43:56 +0000

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From "East Oakland" trending on Twitter:

Live view of me walking my dog outside right now in East Oakland pic.twitter.com/wiLAE7WI78
— LeVar aka LV (@LV400_) July 5, 2020

East Oakland or Disney Land pic.twitter.com/hTnIWauY6J
— CIERRA (@Cierra_Xo_) July 5, 2020

We blew some shit up here tonight in East Oakland. And by blew some shit up, I mean it’s midnight, the sky is still exploding, and has been for 3 hours nonstop. https://t.co/DBGNbAz10n
— Minda Murphy (@mindamurphy) July 5, 2020

A Black-Market Fireworks

artappraiser — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 08:32:24 +0000

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A Black-Market Fireworks Dealer Explains This Year’s Boom

He’s skeptical about the conspiracy theories; his customers are post-lockdown revellers, looking to blow off steam.

by Anna Boots @ NewYorker.com, June 29

Last week, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a thin man in a white T-shirt and a wide-brimmed Chicago Bulls cap proudly popped the trunk of his Chevy Malibu. Inside, there were Golden Willows, Chain Reactions, Parachute Battalions, and Mini Artillery Shells—dozens of colorful boxes, one of them labelled “For Daytime Use!” This was what remained of the twelve hundred dollars’ worth of fireworks that the man, who asked not to be named, had purchased during a visit to Keystone Fireworks, in Pennsylvania, and then sold, for more than double the price, around Brooklyn. (Fireworks are illegal in New York State.) He takes calls for deliveries from regular customers, or parks on a busy street and does business, out of his car, with whoever stops by. “People have always done fireworks,” he said, “but they’re going harder than ever this year. They can’t wait to come outside.”

A few blocks over, a group of young men, probably in their twenties, launched a several-minutes-long blitz. They took turns darting from the sidewalk into the street to light streams of Roman candles, which they topped off with five-hundred-gram “cakes”: the largest firework that can be legally used without a federal explosives permit. People watched from their apartment buildings. One neighbor leaned out his window and begged the group to stop; the fireworks were scaring his dog. “Fuck your dog!” one of the men yelled back at him. “We will shoot these shits at your house!” Moments later, a cop car rolled up, and the group retreated.

For the past two weeks in Brooklyn, the sight—and deafening sound—of fireworks exploding has become as much a fact of daily life as the Black Lives Matter protests and the 7 p.m. cheer for essential workers. Big fireworks sellers such as Keystone are seeing increased demand; Kevin Shaub, the chain’s co-owner, said that when his stores, which had been closed since mid-March, finally reopened, a few weeks ago, customers came flooding in. “People haven’t had any entertainment for a long time,” Shaub said. “They’ve had to delay weddings, graduations, and birthdays.” A lot of these fireworks have ended up in New York City. People bought troves from street venders in early June, and then, instead of saving them for the Fourth of July—as they normally would—set them all off on weekends, or on Juneteenth, or on a random Tuesday. And then they came back to buy more. “The money’s good,” the man in the Bulls cap said. This year, he sold in two days what would have normally taken him two weeks.

His fireworks aren’t cheap; the fanciest ones in his trunk go for two hundred bucks. So most of his customers are adults—“people with money,” he said—rather than teen-agers. Nearly all of them are men. They tend to be in their late twenties or thirties, and sometimes, if they’re buying fireworks before the sun has set, they bring their kids with them. That night, the man gestured around at the neighborhood, which was coming off a four-month lockdown. “They’re celebrating,” he said of the people setting off the fireworks. “It’s definitely about freedom.”

There have been several injuries: a man was hospitalized after lighting a firework that shot out the wrong end, and last week, a three-year-old was burned by one that came through his bedroom window. Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced a “huge sting operation to go and get these illegal fireworks at the base.” In response to recent calls about illegal fireworks in Flatbush, dozens of N.Y.P.D. officers showed up in riot gear.But, hours after the Mayor’s announcement, the man was back in Crown Heights, selling his supply [....]

L.A. tonite:

artappraiser — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 06:34:23 +0000

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L.A. tonite, unfucking believable:

Sky5 got a look at fireworks lighting up the skies for Fourth of July pic.twitter.com/nkFNUh4N8O
— KTLA (@KTLA) July 5, 2020

I'm not interested in

artappraiser — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 21:17:07 +0000

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I'm not interested in discussing that. I see little value in deconstructing the coverage of a small local story.

Actually, I posted the story because there are conspiracy theories out there about al the fireworks being a government plot and I know for a fact that in NYC, it's all just stoopid local people allover the place playing with fireworks, and this was just one example.

Here I simply wanted to acknowledge to Emma on the bigger picture about the NYTimes that she was mentioning as a side issue. Which I see as a real problem.

And I'll say right now I don't care to get into it with you on topic, that would be a waste of time.

The complaint focused on the

rmrd0000 — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 20:55:26 +0000

In reply to Emma just wanted to confirm

The complaint focused on the fireworks story. The story seemed to provide details about the incident.

Emma just wanted to confirm

artappraiser — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 20:47:42 +0000

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Emma just wanted to confirm you are not imagining things that the NYTimes has become unbelievably "woke" in editorial practice. It really did seem to happen all of a sudden, the last month or so. (The publication of The 1619 Project was like a warning that they might go in that direction but it didn't happen right away with that.) So many I follow on Twitter and in real life are seeing the same thing. It's so bad that it colors what's one thinks of what is happening in the country as a whole, and there actually might be a danger in that in misreading things. The rapid nature of the change has been creepy.

That said, I don't see it that much in their local coverage yet. What all of us do see there: they are dropping a lot of local coverage! Cut it to the bone, have even eliminated a separate section in print called "New York". Not doing enough stories to fill a separate section...

From the article

rmrd0000 — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 01:04:49 +0000

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From the article

One of them, his right hand raised in the air, shoots several fireworks into the sky. Then his arm drops toward the ground, and his next burst goes through an open window into one of the homes.

What follows, in a video of the incident, is a striking example of the dangers posed by the amateur pyrotechnic displays that are rattling New York’s neighborhoods, prompting officials to initiate a citywide crackdown.

Within minutes, flames rise inside the house. Neither the man nor the other two people notice, and the man continues to ignite fireworks. At one point, as the flames climb higher, he enters the burning house, then comes back out and resumes his incendiary activity.

It takes the group several minutes to see the fire. By then, the back of the house is engulfed in flames. After a feeble attempt to douse the blaze with a garden hose, all three flee the driveway. As they do, the siding on the second house appears to melt from the heat of the fire next door.

Seems very readable

And

Mr. Bend was the 18th person to be arrested by fire marshals on a fireworks-related charge in recent days, and the first to face an arson charge, officials said. The others have been charged with illegal possession of fireworks and reckless endangerment, officials said.

Since the crackdown began, officials said, marshals have seized $36,700 worth of illegal fireworks.

Mr. Bend appeared in court in Brooklyn on Thursday and was given a desk appearance ticket, according to a spokeswoman for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office. No return date was set. Mr. Bend could not immediately be reached for comment, and it was not clear whether he had a lawyer.

Twelve units and 60 firefighters were needed to bring the fire under control, officials said. No one was injured, but the house sustained major fire, smoke and water damage and was left uninhabitable, officials said.