Gene “GD” Demby
@geedee215.bsky.social
co-host, Code Switch at @npr.org. South Philly forever; Tottenham 'til they kill me.
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Yeah, code switch really is one of my go-to shows these days. Here's @geedee215.bsky.social and @equalityalec.bsky.social talking about how and on whom copaganda works; & I gotta say some of this was surprising, even in light of the part we been trying to highlight for years.
Are we safe? How 'copaganda' makes the case for investing more in police : Code Switch
As President Trump flirts with invoking the Insurrection Act on anti-ICE demonstrators in LA, we look back at the national protests of 2020, when Trump last talked about invoking the act. Back then, t...
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June 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Yeah, code switch really is one of my go-to shows these days. Here's @geedee215.bsky.social and @equalityalec.bsky.social talking about how and on whom copaganda works; & I gotta say some of this was surprising, even in light of the part we been trying to highlight for years.
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I spoke with @geedee215.bsky.social for an @npr.org Code Switch episode about antisemitism
June 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I spoke with @geedee215.bsky.social for an @npr.org Code Switch episode about antisemitism
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Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.
June 8, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.
This is so deeply stupid.
BREAKING: According to multiple journalists, Ange Postecoglou has been sacked.
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BREAKING: Ange Postecoglou fired by Tottenham Hotspur
WELP.
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June 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is so deeply stupid.
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Dumb.
This is going to take me a bit to get over. I continue to have zero faith in this ever becoming a serious club.
This is going to take me a bit to get over. I continue to have zero faith in this ever becoming a serious club.
BREAKING: According to multiple journalists, Ange Postecoglou has been sacked.
cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2025/6/6/244...
cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2025/6/6/244...
BREAKING: Ange Postecoglou fired by Tottenham Hotspur
WELP.
cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com
June 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Dumb.
This is going to take me a bit to get over. I continue to have zero faith in this ever becoming a serious club.
This is going to take me a bit to get over. I continue to have zero faith in this ever becoming a serious club.
Ah, the transfer window slop is upon us once more
🚨 BREAKING: Heung-Min Son could LEAVE Tottenham this summer! 😳❌
He has an extra year on contract meaning Spurs could demand a fee - they are looking to generate funds ahead of UCL return.
Saudi Pro League clubs have long-standing interest.
[Sam Wallace] 🥇
Your thoughts? 🤔
#SpursArmy #THFC
He has an extra year on contract meaning Spurs could demand a fee - they are looking to generate funds ahead of UCL return.
Saudi Pro League clubs have long-standing interest.
[Sam Wallace] 🥇
Your thoughts? 🤔
#SpursArmy #THFC
June 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Ah, the transfer window slop is upon us once more
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Some of y’all noticed I’ve been uncharacteristically offline. This is why, and I remain on leave for a few weeks to handle a PTSD relapse. CJR was dogged in its pursuit of my story. Because of what I do and who I am, I felt that I had to answer their questions honestly.
www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...
www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...
Journalists Attest to Experiences of Sexual Misconduct with Wesley Lowery
Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault.
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May 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Some of y’all noticed I’ve been uncharacteristically offline. This is why, and I remain on leave for a few weeks to handle a PTSD relapse. CJR was dogged in its pursuit of my story. Because of what I do and who I am, I felt that I had to answer their questions honestly.
www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...
www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...
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Actually, the best case scenario is that Postecoglou ends the wait for the trophy, and then stays, and then delivers more trophies.
Tottenham should not base their decision on whether to keep Ange Postecoglou on the outcome of the Europa League final. They can’t be emotional. Best case scenario could still be for Postecoglou to end the wait for a trophy and leave on a high #thfc
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Ange Postecoglou leaving on a high could be Spurs’ best-case scenario
Tottenham’s riches have underpinned Europa League progress but, win or lose in Bilbao, they need to be decisive about their manager to succeed at home
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May 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Actually, the best case scenario is that Postecoglou ends the wait for the trophy, and then stays, and then delivers more trophies.
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The only way out is through. The only way through is together.
This is a very compassionate look at how local residents in suburban Detroit are trying, slowly and haltingly, to talk honestly with each other about the stakes.
Kudos @geedee215.bsky.social
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This is a very compassionate look at how local residents in suburban Detroit are trying, slowly and haltingly, to talk honestly with each other about the stakes.
Kudos @geedee215.bsky.social
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Arab and Black communities are trying to reconcile after Trump's election : Code Switch
Trump's win exposed political tensions between Arab-American voters — who were critical of Democratic support of Israel's war in Gaza, and Black voters — who remain the Democrats' most loyal supporter...
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May 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The only way out is through. The only way through is together.
This is a very compassionate look at how local residents in suburban Detroit are trying, slowly and haltingly, to talk honestly with each other about the stakes.
Kudos @geedee215.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/05/14/1...
This is a very compassionate look at how local residents in suburban Detroit are trying, slowly and haltingly, to talk honestly with each other about the stakes.
Kudos @geedee215.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/05/14/1...
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Please listen to this conversation btwn @geedee215.bsky.social & @atdeyrupmdphd.bsky.social on the ways that debunked "race science" persists through medicine, from training to practice.
And then remember that these same tests, interactions, treatment regimens become training data for medical "AI."
And then remember that these same tests, interactions, treatment regimens become training data for medical "AI."
How race science shows up at the doctor's office : Code Switch
We've probably said it a hundred times on Code Switch — biological race is not a real thing. So why is race still used to help diagnose certain conditions, like keloids or cystic fibrosis? On this epi...
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May 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Please listen to this conversation btwn @geedee215.bsky.social & @atdeyrupmdphd.bsky.social on the ways that debunked "race science" persists through medicine, from training to practice.
And then remember that these same tests, interactions, treatment regimens become training data for medical "AI."
And then remember that these same tests, interactions, treatment regimens become training data for medical "AI."
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the time Philadelphia dropped a bomb on a middle-class Black neighborhood and killed 11 people.
We talked to two people whose lives were forever shaped by the day.
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We talked to two people whose lives were forever shaped by the day.
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40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV : Code Switch
We're looking back on the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a rowhouse in a middle-class neighborhood. Even though that bombing and the fire it set off killed eleven pe...
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May 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the time Philadelphia dropped a bomb on a middle-class Black neighborhood and killed 11 people.
We talked to two people whose lives were forever shaped by the day.
www.npr.org/2025/05/07/1...
We talked to two people whose lives were forever shaped by the day.
www.npr.org/2025/05/07/1...
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40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV
www.npr.org/2025/05/07/1...
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40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV : Code Switch
We're looking back on the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a rowhouse in a middle-class neighborhood. Even though that bombing and the fire it set off killed eleven pe...
www.npr.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV
www.npr.org/2025/05/07/1...
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What, exactly, did they think Palantir did when they got hired? It’s not Meta, you can’t really plausibly claim that you bumbled into a situation you did not anticipate a decade ago because of the company’s veneer of positivity…
NEW: 13 ex-Palantir employees condemn work with the Trump administration as violating Palantir's code of conduct, including using products to collect data on immigrant children.
"These injustices could be facilitated by the very software infrastructure we help build."
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"These injustices could be facilitated by the very software infrastructure we help build."
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Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration
In a rare rebuke, more than a dozen former workers of the powerful data-mining and surveillance company say the firm's work with the Trump administration violates the company's founding principles.
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May 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
What, exactly, did they think Palantir did when they got hired? It’s not Meta, you can’t really plausibly claim that you bumbled into a situation you did not anticipate a decade ago because of the company’s veneer of positivity…
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Only threes players have recorded a 40-point, 20-rebound game over the last 25 postseasons:
Shaquille O'Neal in 2000 & 2001
Giannis Antetokounmpo in 2022
Nikola Jokic tonight
Shaquille O'Neal in 2000 & 2001
Giannis Antetokounmpo in 2022
Nikola Jokic tonight
May 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Only threes players have recorded a 40-point, 20-rebound game over the last 25 postseasons:
Shaquille O'Neal in 2000 & 2001
Giannis Antetokounmpo in 2022
Nikola Jokic tonight
Shaquille O'Neal in 2000 & 2001
Giannis Antetokounmpo in 2022
Nikola Jokic tonight
That was an incredible finish. Shouts to the Nuggets.
Me and my wife almost woke up the pre-schooler from yelling.
Me and my wife almost woke up the pre-schooler from yelling.
May 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
That was an incredible finish. Shouts to the Nuggets.
Me and my wife almost woke up the pre-schooler from yelling.
Me and my wife almost woke up the pre-schooler from yelling.
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Your Spurs to take on the Hammers 💪
May 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Your Spurs to take on the Hammers 💪
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I have a lot to say about the resurgent young men / masculinity discourse but for now will confine myself to:
I wish I knew how to convince teenage boys/young men is how little of the world actually requires or even invites the hypermisogynist "tough guy" aesthetic
I wish I knew how to convince teenage boys/young men is how little of the world actually requires or even invites the hypermisogynist "tough guy" aesthetic
May 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I have a lot to say about the resurgent young men / masculinity discourse but for now will confine myself to:
I wish I knew how to convince teenage boys/young men is how little of the world actually requires or even invites the hypermisogynist "tough guy" aesthetic
I wish I knew how to convince teenage boys/young men is how little of the world actually requires or even invites the hypermisogynist "tough guy" aesthetic
wanted to see Richy and Dom play up top all year. That gives us a lot of pressing — especially against two backup Norwegian league CBs.
👀👀👀👀
#COYS
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#COYS
May 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
wanted to see Richy and Dom play up top all year. That gives us a lot of pressing — especially against two backup Norwegian league CBs.
👀👀👀👀
#COYS
👀👀👀👀
#COYS
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Remarkable from WaPo poll: Trump sinking fast on immigration among independents.
56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there
Engage, Dems.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there
Engage, Dems.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
Trump Is Suddenly Bleeding Independents. A Brutal New Poll Shows Why.
Immigration was his best issue in the polls. But now he's sinking on it. Maybe Americans care about the rule of law after all.
newrepublic.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Remarkable from WaPo poll: Trump sinking fast on immigration among independents.
56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there
Engage, Dems.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there
Engage, Dems.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
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one of the many things missed by the people who complain about “woke” for a living is that the spread of wokeness is as much of a function of demand as supply
Sinners looks like a huge success but it's a black movie and execs want to make less profitable Trump slop to kiss his ass and so they're deeply unhappy www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Box Office: ‘Sinners’ Sizzles Midweek as Pic Speeds Toward $100M
Ryan Coogler's vampire feature starring Michael B. Jordan should clear the century mark this weekend as it competes with Ben Affleck's new sequel 'The Accountant 2' for No. 1 domestically.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
one of the many things missed by the people who complain about “woke” for a living is that the spread of wokeness is as much of a function of demand as supply
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The "Jackie Robinson Day background" section of MLB's official press release about Jackie Robinson just notes that he was a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers who debuted in 1947. Nothing about the how, the why.
April 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The "Jackie Robinson Day background" section of MLB's official press release about Jackie Robinson just notes that he was a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers who debuted in 1947. Nothing about the how, the why.