I knew Abbott was a shitty human but I didn’t know he was a legit imbecile as well. Then again…MAGA 🤷🏾‍♂️

The MTG Talk Show Redemption Tour—in which she gets to sit around and laugh and chat with the media types—is fucking gross.

Since Tuesday, every time 47 uses the word “affordability” he sounds like that mediocre kid in class who heard another student get praised by the teacher for using it, so now he uses it all the time even though he doesn’t understand what it means.

The November 17 cover of The New Yorker ✊🏾💜✊🏾

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Quite a team.

Help grown folks! Can you think of any blaxploitation films (or even just black films from the ‘70-‘77) that feature scenes with singers in them—real singers of the time or fictional characters in the film? Thank you!!

As a professor of African American Studies, I endorse this message ✊🏾🤭✊🏾

One of the great joys of Zohran's victory is that NYC finally has a mayor who doesn't give a shit about what the New York Times thinks of him

Always wild to watch cable news the day after democrats do well. Especially in the age of the orange blimp. The pundits can never quite hide their disappointment over not being able to diss the dems as hard as they want.

Californians had one job. And they did it.

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Zohran Mamdani. That’s all…that’s the post.

Trump didn’t sue CBS for editing an interview, he sued CBS for not making him look good. Despite knowing the suit was bullshit and having the law on their side, CBS paid him. When they edit an interview with Trump to make him look better than reality does, that is consistent with their settlement.

all very good questions (plus it’s a bop)

Look at @theferocity.bsky.social being a NYTimes crossword answer! 💜✊🏾🔥

Stop talking about me! 🤣🤣

🤣🤣 #Blacksky

So wait: Mamdani’s smile is disingenuous? (I’m hearing folks say he smiles too much, too readily, and a lady on Twitter said it’s a typical “fuck boy smile”) Didnt they have issues with Kamala’s laugh and smile? Why these bitches hate joy so much?

That moment when Cuomo is trying to clarify his (dumbass) comment that “diversity can be a strength but also a weakness” and then proceeds to call the black gay host by the name of the *other* black gay host while answering. Then does it again when answering another question. You know what…

@richwanket.bsky.social “as a three dollar bill?” ✊🏾🤣✊🏾

It’s funny to think that the masked ICE Agents terrorizing communities are the same folks that spent two years saying they couldn’t breathe with a mask on.

Every so often I think about how wild it is that we’re living in what feels like the end times simply bc a small spoiled mediocre white man felt insulted by the black president and got his racist feelings hurt And millions of Americans saw in him their avatar What a fucking time to be alive 😐

I sorta think they should rename it Law and Order: Olivia Benson. Or The Olivia Benson Show. Or maybe just Olivia! 🙄😐 📺

This is how it should be done.

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China knows whassup lol

“The Tea: Spilled by @MorningJoe” damn, don’t white folks ever get tired of being culture vultures? 🙄😒😐

This a real account?

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"...no one understands that surviving the impossible is sposed to accentuate the positive aspects of a people..." ~ Ntozake Shange, "spell #7"

Perkins Hall Smith... yup, that sounds about white 😆

Remember when jacobin published a whole essay about how it’s the woke dnc that’s trying to cancel this guy? Remember when they did that *literally today this exact fucking day*??

Mary Astor playing me in a movie. She was so good playing me she won an Oscar for it 🤣

wild to think that it was twenty years ago this month that Doubleday published my little book called HUNG. So grateful to and appreciative of all the folks who bought it, read it, and (even now still!) teach it. the paperback came out a year later…with a new, less provocative cover haha

Trump’s handpicked prosecutor texted a reporter and may have confessed to a federal crime. This is TRULY fucking insane. youtube.com/shorts/WHCff...

Stayed up waaaaay past my bedtime to finish watching “Purple Heart” [s5e21], one of my very favorite Law and Order episodes, featuring world class performances by Lisa Gay Hamilton and Michael Beach and on of its best closing lines from Jack McCoy: “It was her cue for passion.” 📺

trying to find a good piece of non-academic writing about Nina Simone for undergrads. Come across anything recently?

Also, ayo @jay.bsky.team and the BlueSky team, if you’re gonna permaban Link and Palestinian aid accounts, it’s not a good look if you also don’t ban government accounts engaged in obvious violations of the Hatch Act, which is an actual federal law.

you know what 😂

Vibe Magazine, June/July 1995. He told me, “I just want to make some real black music.” And he did. RIP sir and thank you for being, as Roberta and Donny said, real black for us.

I say this enough that I should just make a permanent pinned post, but people: if you're feeling down, just go get yourself a hit of other people's good news---it's the richest espresso, the driest prosecco, the warmest sunshine, the gooey-ist brownie

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

“But I still doesn’t have no champagne!” — Florence, pretending to be Helen Willis, on The Jeffersons [s3e17 “A Case of Black and White” 1977] #blacksky 📺

Sometimes I’ll rewatch Manhattan just for her hilarious, un-self-aware monologues. Sometimes I’ll rewatch Shoot the Moon, just to watch her smoke that joint in the bathtub and sing “If I Fell”. Sometimes I’ll rewatch Mrs. Soffel just to look at her looking at Mel Gibson. RIP Ms Keaton

Ann Arbor people: what internet service do you use if you don’t use Xfinity? I need some suggestions stat!

Please read. Please.

Join ICE today!! 🤡🎯