My kids have been listening to this show for YEARS. I’m behind on episodes, and just heard their May 26 last episode announcement today. current.org/2026/06/circ...

The answer is obviously Do the Right Thing. I agree that Nashville is a good choice, too. My other pick that wasn’t included is Giant. Gift link; no subscription required. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/m...

I’m not sure what the critical reception of Blink Twice was—I know there was a lot of anticipation around it because it was written and directed by Zoë Kravitz—but I watched it this weekend and liked it a lot. It’s currently free to all on Tubi, but leaving soon, so check it out if interested.

Four Black women. Nine degrees. Not one steady paycheck. The president promised to save “Black jobs,” but his policies have resulted in fresh pain for the Black middle class as the employment gap widens. wapo.st/4vbKVNC

This mess had me howling for a full week.

Gift link; no subscription required: Happy 100th Birthday, Mel Brooks! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."

The audiobook edition of All Fours was a mistake.

Ozymandias watch: -Airports have three letter codes. LAX ATL ORD, etc -They don't get changed. DC National was re-named for RReagan but remains DCA. -One famous exception: Idlewild, IDL, became JFK in Dec 1963. Now another exception. Palm Beach Internat'l PBI is now DJT. Per Flying magazine:

Work cafeteria has aughts bodega prices. A sausage, egg and cheese in a croissant for $3.23z

Season 11 of Grantchester is now on PBS. (The whole season for PBS Passport members, who donate $5/month.) I’m bummed it’s ending, both because I like the latest vicar, and because the whole conceit of the show is more absurd the longer it goes and the more vicars there are. Oh well.

what’s ironic about Cthulhu is that Lovecraft was a white supremacist who made up this cosmically evil force, this hyperbolic Other, when in reality the cosmic evil was already right there—the State that makes its abjected members die

I’ve switched to using “neurotypical” as an implicit insult. if I assume you’re neurotypical, it means you’re basic

In a society that actually cares about people, someone who's even believed to be stealing diapers would be met with assistance, resources, and money to make sure they would never again feel like they must steal for their basic needs. In the U.S., we respond by sending government sanctioned killers.

abc7.com/post/family-... Ain't no way they was threatened by this guy.

The reason why you don't have nice things in your life especially in this country is because the government doesn't want Black people to have it. So no universal health care, no universal basic income, no universal housing, no universal education, because that means Black people will get it too.

Hey Bull City: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8saNCoo/

Remember when writers didn’t use AI and instead just stole their wife’s work and claimed it as their own?

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

Tonight’s Sunday Scaries sponsored by The Big Chill. This film came out when I was a toddler, and I think I’ve only seen it piecemeal on tv. It’s uncanny—watching characters younger than me that I was familiar with as older than me for so long.

The accuracy: youtube.com/shorts/F29qw...

RIP Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)

Why is there so much cultural amnesia about Mark Wahlberg having committed multiple hate crimes? He was recently in a film where he plays a mafia hit man who works with a Black FBI agent investigating civil rights murders in the 1960s, and, as a hitman, he kills a bunch of white supremacists.

Striking to me how little reporting there is on this rule proposal, which is maybe the biggest change to American governance in almost a century. And this reporting is … weak. www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

I want to say one thing about this. This has been the hiring process for low wage workers for awhile. Wal Mart et al have been using automated job application systems to gamify everything from postings to schedules. The crisis, such that it is, is that it is now happening in middle skills jobs.

Remember when people online once argued that calling them Nazis was reactionary and hyperbole? Disinformation campaigns, concentration camps, removal of civil rights, propaganda as news, decline of health & services, & now we’re at the escalation of the dehumanization step — for those keeping track

Today is election day in California! Please make your voice heard by voting. Not sure how? Please visit the website below: www.sos.ca.gov/elections/wh...

Say it louder for the people in the back.

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves

New York City, we have no excuse to be bored this summer. The map at Nyc.gov/summer is full of free and affordable stuff to do -- sports, music, arts, movies, video games and more -- in every borough.   The city is your backyard. Get out there and enjoy it.

INDEXERS: anyone willing to share your current rates with me? I'd like to get a sense of the range of current-day rates, and I don't want to rely only upon the data shared by EFA. (DMs are totally fine!) thanks!

ummm...this seems bad

i have nothing but spitting contempt for people who look at this political movement and downplay or deny its open and explicit white nationalist

Current fall of the Roman Empire: Keke Palmer and the hot wings guy. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8pvQTGY/

“A Stanford-led study of 4mn job applications across 156 employers who used the Pymetrics hiring platform, which assesses people using a series of online games, found evidence of ‘systemic rejection’ linked to the algorithms it used.”

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95 #giftlink

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

On June 5th, 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control first reported on what would become known as HIV/AIDS. This June 5th, a Friday, ACT UP New York will be marking the 45th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic with a candlelight vigil and march, starting at the NYC AIDS Memorial. Save the date.

Um. I was today years old when I found out about this. I only looked into it because the grocery store had “robust” molasses in addition to blackstrap, which is all I’ve ever seen. (Robust is the same thing as True Molasses, from what I can tell.) www.seriouseats.com/what-is-blac...

Here's a free version of the same article gcaptain.com/drowning/

In this era of too much news too fast, take a second to read about some of the federal employees and contractors who had their lives turned upside down about 500 news cycles ago.

Americans are more optimistic about #AI’s impact in medical care but pessimistic about its impact on education and jobs.

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

Hi. 😊 Black American here. Norway is an almost entirely white country. The United States is racist as fuck. That's why we don't have a social democracy or, like, healthcare. Follow for more glimpses into a racist society where white people* would rather die than see a Black person succeed.

Showing kids the very first episode of Star Trek.