Worth noting, before the misty-eyed tributes begin, that Brigitte Bardot was handed six fines for “inciting racial hatred,” opposed to MeToo-era reporting on sexual assault and publicly endorsed far-right leaders in France.

Lenwood Sloan - A Black historian who preserved Harrisburg, Pennsylvania art, culture through storytelling dies. #RIP “If I can help somebody along the way, then my living shall not be in vain.”

I don’t understand how legal obligations do not apply to the president, any executive branch officials, or the Kennedy Center, but the strictest reading applies to performing artists.

I am once again begging the news to let someone who has touched a horse at least once pick the stock photos for horse related stories

”and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people," Bing Crosby refused to play at a venue unless Louis Armstrong was given equal billing. The Beatles refused to play segregated venues.

Your duty as an artist is nothing of the fucking sort.

Me when I’m put in charge of one of the largest broadcasting networks in the country “is this what it’s like to be hounded out of society?”

“Woman Enjoying Career Literally Made Possible by Feminism Declares Feminism a Failure”

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”

My curmudgeonly thought for the day: We would not need so many "The ending of blahblahblah EXPLAINED" videos if full-length works of narrative fiction were still routinely taught in grades 5-12. If fairly straightforward plotlines are baffling this many people, something has gone seriously wrong.

I’m not even quite as anti-car as some folk, but yeah, there is no good reason for cars to be this goddamn huge and dangerous, other than an individualistic arms race with all the other people who think they need a big car to protect them from big cars. Ban them.

whenever some rich tech asshole is like “we all must leave california because it’s about to turn into a hell hole!” I cross my fingers they’ll be right so I can afford to buy a house.

Winter, Tove Jansson for #BookWormSat

The media outrage that would have been generated if Joe Biden was slapping marble armrests on seats at the Kennedy Center - less than 2 weeks after his cronies added his name to the building - while Americans are struggling to put food on the table would have been measured on the Richter scale.

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

There’s no pitch for genAI in the classroom that doesn’t boil down to “it’s everywhere,” or that takes education as more than job training, or, consequently, that actually argues for genAI as a tool that has a distinct function in education. It’s not educators who have their heads in the sand here.

Folks: Your vote is a chess move. It's not falling in love. Please stop looking for the candidate who "inspires" you if the fundamentals aren't there, the experience isn't there, the clean social media/body art isn't there. Just. Stop. Making. The. Same. Mistake.

“The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech. If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.” Via @mmasnick.bsky.social

I don’t know, I feel like it shouldn’t cost me more to stream a new movie than it would cost me to go to the theater and see it. $25 to rent a movie? I don’t think so.

Happy Wait-What-Fucking-Day-is-it? to all who celebrate.

From the archive for Barbara Comyns, #BornOnThisDay in 1907, thoughts on WHO WAS CHANGED AND WHO WAS DEAD, in which the inhabitants of an English village fall victim to a series of disturbing occurrences. Surreal, distinctive & utterly compelling. #BookSky jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2021/05/11/w...

Genuinely believe that cops have become a service elite—a hereditary caste w special legal priviliges and status—like samurai or boyars or Qing bannermen

I think if there's one thing I hope more shows learn from something like PLURIBUS it's the power of Watching People Think. Silence, spacing, the slow act of discovery, these are all incredible tension builders too often displaced by dialogue designed to constantly regurgitate the plot.

I honestly feel sick. This is a tragedy. Let kids draw. Let kids create. Celebrate human endeavor, human learning, human art. Not this fake garbage.

Think how many millions of public school students have created glorious holiday art with their own minds and hands this month. Weingarten could be sharing actual art and celebrating actual human kids whom the @aft.org is supposed to be serving. But no. She's sharing "A.i." garbage based on theft.

Here’s another of them by Nina Leen, for the article “LIFE’s Most-Ready-to-Leave-the-Party-Guests”.

Here’s to 2026

Again, it is utterly shameful & demonstrates the total failure of all of our political institutions that threatening our closest NATO allies with territorial conquest has not immediately ended this presidency.

The fact that she includes one of CS Lewis most famous nonfiction books as an example of a book by a “forgotten” white man tells me everything I need to know.

Back to the lazy work of the original piece. Having referenced two opinion pieces to undergird her opinion piece, she now claims to be shifting to anecdotal evidence, and wow we're really doing "my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard Ferris was snubbed at a convention" huh.

And again, the problem isn't that white men are having trouble getting published now. They're more published than ever. The problem is, it's harder for them to be celebrated for it now. The problem was there at the start of the article that set me off. The problem is the applause.

A federal judge this week canceled the trial of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and scheduled a hearing on whether the prosecution is being vindictive in pursuing a human smuggling case against him. n.pr/3L3sZng

You know what IS being pushed out of "our" lives? Diverse voices. Google "book bans." Google "DEI bans." Or just turn on the fucking news. Choosing to frame white men's apparent struggles to be rewarded, awarded and cheered as the problem to be solved sure is a fucking choice in 2025.

Mentioned this before but all these dudes trying to pattern themselves after “alpha” wolves… Wolves engage in mutual communal grooming, so the most alpha thing is getting together to give your bros mani-pedis and wear beauty masks.

There is a false but very popular supremacist belief that diversity pushes out what was there already. And a whole cottage industry, much of it positioning itself as "centrist," that is devoting to pushing this narrative, based on the fact that other voices exist, and that this is a problem.

Pivot to video was bullshit the first time why are we replicating it.

Don't know why Chris Hayes is worried about lethal diseases returning to kill American children. This is the GOP chaos Hayes and Sarandon giggled about on the air as being a necessary precursor to the Bern It All to Ashes Revolution.

163 years ago in Mankato, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in our nation’s history. I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

The wildest thing to me is that multiple Black people had to die in a manner akin to public spectacles for 2020 to happen and the backlash is being fueled by white guys who can’t sell a screenplay or manuscript.

An industry is 100% white: nothing to see here An industry becomes 99% white: grab the rocket launchers, file the lawsuits, make up the imaginary white men who are being discriminated against otherwise we will all die

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

Money: Donated to NAACP, held fundraisers for MLK Jr. and other civil rights leaders, hired Black people. Frank Sinatra was effectively accused of being woke back in 1958. And his response was to tell people, "Shut up. I'm Frank Sinatra. I do what I want. Stop being such a hateful little jerk."

Yup. I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡 Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money. Actions: Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly. Words: Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

Banning chemtrails is “like banning unicorns or banning Bigfoot,” says one weather expert.

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.