I would like to suggest Tongues Untied (1989) as an important documentary for queer Black History

You had me at Captain Caveman!

“Monsters are something exceptional, an inverted miracle that comes out of nowhere with no real explanation” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

When I was a kid they would play this on the radio every Valentine's Day. music.youtube.com/watch?v=6FH4...

@wcp.bsky.social investigative reporter Suzie Amanuel has been reporting on Razjooyan and his associates since 2024, including his doctoring of loan documents and tricking tenants out of their rights as he has built a portfolio of neglected slums: washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7541...

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Millenials when it's time for a good Rotisserie:

Wild if true. I heard a rumor that eating several times a day makes you have enough energy to do things. I don't know if I believe it though.

Post a banger that isn't in English youtu.be/22HL5ZOOHGI?...

Yemaya y Ochun by La India Don't hate/disqualify bc it has some English, it is still my favorite!

What annoys MAGA about Bad Bunny is their inability to control/disrupt/destroy joy. We are all supposed to be conquered peoples. We are supposed to despair and eventually die at their command. It is unfathomable to them that people can find joy despite their suffering. …and that is how we win.

I read this and couldn't help but think about how Wisconsin gov in 2015 weakened tenure protections and the ongoing and potential impacts of his statute

No Kings includes Draft Kings

A rather succinct summary of the usefulness of AI by Ted Chiang:

Can't forget Sam Cooke as one of the greatest voices in the whole of music too

GRRM describes a character's vagina as 'nether lips' Can we please have him arrested?

This wind been HOWLING since 3am!

EXCITED to announce that after years of work and planning, we are so VERY PROUD to announce that - GLSEN is now GLISTEN! - as we launch and introduce our NEW WEBSITE and branding. GRATEFUL to our fearless leader Melanie Willingham-Jaggers our BOARD & our devoted STAFF for making this possible.

Using ALT text promotes literacy and comprehension skills. So what does it say about you when you don't use it?

This, plus the op have always made me laugh, but this just triggered a memory of a book I read in the early aughts about how our bodies designed, and how that influences perception. I wish I could read it again, but I have to remember what its name is.

So, I just checked and they did not post it here (yet) but @huckmag.com has a profile that stopped me dead in my tracks and transported me to The Roxy in the 80s. A time if so much joy and beauty. The link: to www.instagram.com/p/DT2txaUDP6z/

25 years ago, Reflections in Black changed photography www.huckmag.com/article/25-y...

This is the word. “drained-pool politics”

I realized that a lot of the guys who have been found in the Epstein files are probably really struggling because the guy they would have gone to for advice about being discovered in the Epstein files was JEFFREY EPSTEIN

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This below is probably great. But what is the business proposition to subscribers (hell even advertisers if we want to be generous) in buying a paper/ad in a greatly reduced vehicle!?! Like they are clearly offering less. It is being reduced. No sports or books?!? Make that make business sense?

the Barbara Kruger mural the chase is happening in front of reads: "WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?"

🎶Maybe you think I'm being a little self-centered But I, I said I want to be all of the things you are to me (if I was your girlfriend) Surely, surely you can see🎵

would you remember to tell me all the things you forgot

would you let me dress you? I mean, help you pick out your clothes before we go out?

Would you run to me if somebody hurt you even if that somebody was me. Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be....

"If. I. Was. Your. Girlfriend."

If you combine this with "When You Were Mine," then you have the two best songs that Prince's twisted pen ever wrote about relationships!

I don’t believe disability justice is possible in a system that treats care as charity and access as optional.

Also, I used to be the person who made fun of people who ran towards charismatic megafauna and then I was in Alaska and ran towards a polar bear and look, they have rizz. You lose your senses. They seduce you. It doesn't make sense. That's how they win though.

There is no way, in no world, that people stop telling stories about ourselves. Journalism as we all know it is dead and dying but I’m really hopeful we can rebuild something that is truly equitable, illuminating, and clear-eyed about the world that we actually live in.

The best of the truth-telling that actually makes our world better came in spite of the people who founded this country. Not because of them. And it came from people who were Black, queer, disabled, etc. writing from bedrooms, churches, home offices, and tiny newsrooms.

Thinking about how growing up in the 80's/90's we were spoiled with alternatives: the alt weeklies, magazines, zines Village Voice, Spy magazine, and so many others that shaped a mind outside the mainstream media. We've lost whole libraries of recipes

We get misty-eyed about Pulitzer-winning stories (they are nice. I want one one day) but I think this is also the moment to be clear-eyed about all the people who have never been served by the CBS News’s, Washington Posts, Baltimore Suns, and the rest.

Look at this awesomeness!

Forty years later, every track is still a bop. Thank you, Janet!

Reminder that @51st.news and @washingtoninformer.com exist and could, I’m sure, use support

And this is why I said it'd be even better if MacKenzie started giving money to local news orgs

It’s important to keep in mind the existence of a lot of antipathy toward D.C. specifically, and its limited capacity to protect itself because of its relationship to the federal government.

Very weird to have a really traumatic time for the people of this city just completely erased.

Already reading histories of 2025 that talk specifically about the federal government sending National Guard into cities but conspicuously leaving out DC. Please don’t forget DC. We still have National Guard patrolling all over the city

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“Billionaires are job creators”

Not for nothing, but it was a Washington Post article about romance fiction that pushed Jacob Tierney to contact Rachel Reid about making #HeatedRivalry.