Y’all hating but I think “nclecta” perfectly captures Cam Newton’s Gotham City First Baptist Deacon Board aesthetic.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

This political moment where conservative institutions are pushing nonwhite people out of public life and their jobs is providing A LOT of cover for the supposedly liberal institutions doing the exact same thing.

I promise to bring it back!

I’m not religious and I haven’t been to church in years, but whenever I’m going through it, my playlist gets real sanctified. I’ve listened to so much gospel this year, my Spotify wrapped is gonna call me a praying grandmother.

I think many Barbs prefer Nicki unstable & insecure because it’s more likely that she’ll interact with them. They enjoy having access to celebrity & an excuse for bad behavior more than her music. That’s how you can dox people for a music opinion even when you don’t know what a whole note is.

There’s not a single program on television more entertaining than Lushious Massacr shopping at an outlet mall

Bought that expensive Law Roach salmon only for my cats to eat it before I got the chance

Best candy on the market

It’s pretty obvious that Bari Weiss thinks the news is just putting on that voice

My gut says that this will go down with the National Geographic “the mixed races person of the future” cover as a regrettable artifact of limited imaginations.

Hi! I’m Hilary Duff and you’re watching DisneyPrimeFlixMcAIChatbot!

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

Favor ain’t fair

The Diddy doc has me reflecting on how many men we attribute artistic “genius” to when in reality they have only built a creative extraction process akin to sharecropping.

And if I said I wanted to play Saucy Santana in the biopic about his life, what then?

Now why does the barista look like he’s on the hockey team too?

That Sean Cody hockey show is delightful

My audition to play a bitchy baristx

🎂🍰🎈

Me for a few weeks after my college study abroad

This week’s main story is about Paramount’s decision to name Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS News, the future of U.S. journalism, and why we think she shouldn’t describe her endeavors as “punk.” Bari, look at us: You are not punk. Joe Strummer would’ve hated your fancy Substack, Bari!

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

Those AI pics and videos don’t make y’all spirits itch?

I’ve said it before, any judge who so comfortably and clearly shows their prejudice should immediately be barred from their jobs, but we don’t live in a world that makes sense. We live in a world where white people get to deem racism as a simple inconvenience and be the sole arbiter of its weight.

We’re back tonight at 11pm on HBO Max/11:10pm on HBO! After an eventful few weeks away. And if the FCC is reading this, we just want to say: tonight’s episode is about…how cute your outfit is! And every episode after that, too, cause you’ll just keep wearing outfits! And we love that about you.

Joy Reid. Karen Attiah. Gene Robinson. Jonathan Capehart. There are lots of others. Circumstances differ. But really sad to see new organizations not keeping super-talented Black staffers. The news industry spent decades talking about diversity, improved some from 2014-2020 and is now going back.

They aren’t calls for civility. They’re demands for forgiveness. Because if Black people can “forgive” the most virulent racists, then there’s certainly hope for your racist loved ones or even you. Grief is an extension of love. It’s why hate coalitions don’t know how to do it alone.

I love every episode of You Are Good, but one that I return to again and again is Moonlight with @ryankenacts.bsky.social. I figure I might as well print out two meaningful quotes, so I can stare at them all the time. 💚

Just a casual conversation between spouses on reality television

It’s wild that we refuse to acknowledge that almost everyone in the Trump regime has been hired on the basis of their race and/or gender and that’s also the reason the quality of their “work” hasn’t gotten them fired

***SINNERS SPOILERS*** POV: You ran into a vampire you used to know

From Reuters, July 2024

“You put your foot in that!”

Of all the violently eugenic things RFK has said, claiming that autistic people will never write a poem is one of the most ridiculous! Poetry!? You mean one of the preferred modes of expression for people misunderstood by society? Baby, you can’t spell poeticism without tism!

Interesting how the party who spent years telling everyone that learning American history is “too woke” is citing the most obscure 19th century laws to justify its actions.

I’m finally watching Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and it’s truly incredible how this show manages to be every genre of TV simultaneously. I’m on season 2 and now it’s true crime!

Here’s last night’s story about trans athletes, why they seem to be at the center of U.S. politics right now, and a really good ad for mud: youtu.be/flSS1tjoxf0

“I just think we need to protect the kids from the trans agenda,” say the parents whose children flinch whenever they enter the room.

When we beat them, and we will, I hope we remember not to over-value these institutions or the community members they produce. They are not, and never have been, better than the rest of us.

When you see agents surveilling a neighborhood or building, let it be known to everyone in that area. Document and expose the surveillance and overseers. Warn people in the vicinity, it can help people be prepared.

I’ve calmed down and I will try again

Fuck yeast!!

I have finally experienced enough ego death to attempt baking with yeast. An excerpt from A Control Freak Hands Over the Keys to Microorganisms: A Memoir.

Realizing that I now dress like the art teachers/coming out sounding boards I grew up with

Hard agree. These are the boys who couldn’t stand up to their fathers and developed an entire politic around feeling powerful through crushing people while still holding onto the hope of being daddy’s special boy. All the money & power in the world and they’re still miserable.

I'm so jealous of birds, yo, I'd love to be able to just fly up out a nigga face...

At the end of the day, most of these mfs trying to overthrow the government are failed artists who couldn’t hack it, frat boys, whose daddies made some important calls, and incels who got lucky with money. And yet, they still aren’t happy. You must remind them of that AS WELL as call them fascists.

A Republican congressperson photo shoot