The phrase “low IQ individual” has always had a hard R in it.

It’s this. Higher Education is not “left leaning” by choice, it’s the nature of knowledge. It turns out the more educated and well-rounded people are, the more left leaning they tend to be. MAGA and alt right politics only thrive in environments where people are uninformed and uncritical.

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act. Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

Black folk in the US are still angry over what many of us see as multiple betrayals. People focus on Harris, Booker, and Jeffries. Yes, sure. But look at Bowman, Bush, and now Crockett. Al Green, censured twice. Black SES & life metrics, cratering. Silence re: Ed Blum & AA attacks. We all we got.

Every "dilemma" Trump voters find themselves in re: their support of Trump is the equivalent of, "One guy is covered in shit and one guy has a mop. Which do you let into your house?" And every time, they're like, "Oh, um...geez...sorry, like...er...what do I do???"

For absolutely no reason at all… I’m thinking about all the folks who live(d) in abusive households and each day felt the mixture of hope and guilt that comes from wishing “someone” would just not come home or not wake up. It adds a layer of pain, and I feel y’all.

Who that is? That's just my baby dad Who that is? That's just my baby dad Who that is? That's just my baby daddy Who that is? Joseph, that's just my baby daddy

Got asked an ideology question during my talk at Chicago and shared that my first question is always "Which viewpoints are y'all looking for? Folks who say I'm not human because I'm Black?" Say it with your whole chest. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Druski about to win an Oscar like MBJ for playing both roles.

Wait are you saying the....church....should be.....separate....from the state?

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

ed blum is straight up just trying to eliminate educational opportunities for black kids under the guise of “equality.”

"The right’s characterization of higher education is a fiction. Students across the ideological spectrum feel free to express themselves, think their education is worth the cost and don’t think their views are silenced." Only 3% of Republican students feel out of place on campus for their views.

Takes like Zakaria’s feel so lazy, facile, and childish. Everything in our daily lives (kids, pets, phones, computers, cars, our bodies) require consistent effort, care, and upkeep. These arguments pretend that society and justice are somehow different. Despite millennia of evidence.

This is what i mean when i say “you are running a valueless proposition”

The goriest moments in this UFC event are covered in orange, not red.

Same vibe.

It’s a good question, let’s clear the air: 1) Disco is awesome, like 25 all-time classic tracks in a 4 year span, 2) Disco was hated because it was queer, brown, and black, 3) Disco was hated because it paired women and men in a different power dynamic. 4) “Disco Sucks” was a “ MAGA” test run.

We're a national of 350 million people I feel we can scrape together a functioning government of 540 elected federal representatives that are neither sex pests nor nazis.

I would have loved to see Mac Miller’s evolution continue. And I miss DOOM almost like a lost family member…Sean Price too. Hip hop is a beautifully inclusive, accessible, and connective “high art.”

If politics & science wanted to actually help autistic people and not "cure" us they could start by simply giving us their research budgets directly as cash, starting with Black and Indigenous and brown autistic people!

“Open Secret” is a cute euphemism for “accepted.”

Listen…I know abuses aren’t wholly gendered. But can we, perhaps, have a moratorium on men in positions of power.

Another one who had a massive artistic impact while also destroying lives.

Coffee, mayo, avocados…y’all just be putting anything in your mouth.

I am not the only Black person I know who got teary messages in 2020 from people we hadn’t seen in years demanding we tell them they weren’t racist, or apologizing for the world while maintaining they were the good ones. And we never heard from most of them again.

I’d love to have a president who isn’t a sloppy amalgam of every cliched 80s movie antagonist.

Ban this entire fucking industry.

I think disassociating has been the national past time since Sandy Hook tbh. That was the first time (working a fully normie job) that I noticed a truly horrific thing had happened and we were just supposed to work through it

There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.

whenever I hear "the greater good" spoken in any tv show, podcast, etc. I repeat "the greater good" in the voice of "Hot Fuzz" I cannot help myself.

Hide, so we have to send Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill on an ill-fated rescue mission.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

I usually don't go off like this but I just need to say something. Many of us have been trying to tell y'all about this Christian nationalism and all of this religiosity in the Trump administration for damn near a decade.

What’s wild is people will get snitty if you point out there hasn’t been nearly enough pushback on this.

One thing y’all all need to learn…test a woman from “Norf” at your own peril.

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Reactionary centrists and republicans spent years smearing, belittling, or dismissing anyone who properly described the Trumpism as a white supremacist project. bsky.app/profile/nbcn...

You ain’t gotta go home but….

No April fool's jokes folks. We've been living through April fool's everyday since January 20, 2025

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

this is burnout. a lot of people I know need a lot of sleep and doing very little. and it takes more than a week, unfortunately.

And we’d need the ability to come out the other side sans guilt and the pressing desire to make up for every down second.

down $1M a day and there are kids going without school lunch

The answer to every question about what's wrong with America is racism

I’m always impressed by how certain demographics presume that the things they create have somehow been fully sanitized of their own (or any) political worldview. Apolitical art is not.