In case anyone didn't know, Staten Island is where the fascists like to live in New York; Trump won it almost 2-1 in 2020.
[Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella said] "I know there are folks out there who think, 'Well, New York City voted for a right to shelter.' Staten Island is different. Staten Island doesn't support these concepts."
At a panini shop a few blocks from the shelter, Peter Monte agrees. He says the new shelter worries him because it's "right behind the school and it shouldn't be behind the all-girls school."
Actually, according to police statistics, the rate of sex crimes in the area is unchanged in the month since the shelter opened. But Monte says he feels uncomfortable.
"You've got girls walking around, you know, in school. It's not right."
[We can't have these brown immigrants around our girls!]
Just a collection of horrible, racist people (well, about two thirds of them).
Representative Brad Wenstrup (R–OH), who chairs the House of Representatives’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, says his panel and the House’s Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have heard testimony from a whistleblower “who presents as a highly credible senior-level CIA officer.” According to the press release
"presents as"
Jesus Fucking Christ they didn't even verify their single source's background before publishing a press release.
On N.Y.'s Staten Island, anti-immigration protests intensify as migrants stream in (www.npr.org)
New York City has been housing migrants in makeshift shelters throughout the city. In some areas, it has led to protests and court challenges.
Why Japan is building its own version of ChatGPT (www.nature.com)
Some Japanese researchers feel that AI systems trained on foreign languages cannot grasp the intricacies of Japanese language and culture.
CIA bribed its own COVID-19 origin team to reject lab-leak theory, anonymous whistleblower claims (www.science.org)
Agency denies allegation as congressional panel demands information from CIA probe into pandemic’s start