Do you think, some day in the future, Kevin Hart or LeBron or [insert any famous person] will feel remorse for aggressively hawking the cigarettes of the 21st century?

Wherein Duke, predictably, makes more of an effort to distance itself from The White Lotus than they have Stephen Miller: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/s...

Just FYI, you might want to think twice before you bring that weak shit into the NYT Cooking comments section

One (of many) forms of recourse in the face of authoritarianism: joy. Specifically, DJing and hanging outside with friends. In that spirit, we present The Hang — a new North Carolina-based video series from @superempty.bsky.social and One Speaker Radio.   www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqZp...

I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes

Is there a clause that says if Clemson loses this game, the ACC has to be disbanded?

Now that the influential bigot who did a Hitler salute publicly claimed that organic protests against his malfeasance are secretly controlled by a list of foreign Jews, some of whom aren’t even alive today, are we allowed to call him a Nazi, or is there something even Nazier we have to wait for?

I write an anthem, throw a tantrum and remain handsome

once i remember why i walked into this room it's over for you all

When is The Carolina Times getting this treatment?

Very heartened by this pair of EPs out of Durham the past few weeks from Jaythehbk and CJ Monet. Highly suggest you give them a spin, after giving them a read: www.superempty.com/please-touch...

did not expect to be attacked like this at the art museum

For as long as I can remember, the website @diddukewin.com has been the cherished online destination for reveling in every single one of my rival's losses. In that spirit, I thought a few would enjoy it if I made one for the biggest loser of all: Jefferson Griffin. www.didgriffinwin.com

Oh my gawd there’s a family on White Lotus from Durham, NC and Parker Posey is the matriarch and I can’t stop laughing every time she opens her mouth.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Just the latest and most striking illustration that any hope of an even semi-"just" Democratic party (i.e. one not beholden to Israel) is an impossibility. Many of the party's most prominent backers care more about another country than they do about this one. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u...

State auditor Dave Boliek, who changed his voter registration from Democrat to Republican in 2023, embraced Trump on the campaign trail and won with 49 percent of the vote against incumbent Jessica Holmes. www.theassemblync.com/politics/ele...

The roundup of Best EPs from 2024 on @superempty.bsky.social each came with an extra comment from a writer or artist I know. Sharing my friend Connie's (on Moses Sumney) because it's too good not to Full article here: www.superempty.com/super-emptys...

Tomorrow me and Questlove's follow-up to Summer of Soul arrives on Hulu. SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius). Please watch! Tell your friends! (Sadly, first week numbers will allow us to do this again!)

Could say this about a lot more than just Green Day/American Idiot — across the board it seems like even "Bush II" energy in the art/culture zeitgeist would feel like a step up from where we are today.

Brain genuinely turning to sludge so I'm just putting out these local music blogs and trying to cook every night, and hoping the rest figures itself out

This is like Kendrick and Drake if both of them were Drake.

Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.

10 years ago today, Muslim American students Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salhah were murdered in their Chapel Hill home by their neighbor. From last year: a wrenching documentary follows the fight to designate the murders as a hate crime.

i wonder why these guys hate the CFPB so much ohh

On one hand, constitutional crisis sounds pretty bad. On the other hand, it takes up about as much space on today's NYT front page as a Portland couple's downsizing journey. Someone help me understand how big of a deal a constitutional crisis is.

A real look at my X feed

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

Extremely close to offering my Tesla up (it is admittedly not worth much) for communal smashing as some sort of fundraiser, if that sounds cool to you Sky me

If one thing has remained true my entire adult life, it's that nowhere, and I mean nowhere, does my material land like it does in vision/dental/etc offices. It's quip central in there. Riffing and bantering like you wouldn't believe. As I depart, it's not uncommon that I receive a standing O

One of the largest media companies in America being cowed into settling a bogus $10 billion lawsuit from a sitting president, without a shred of evidence of wrongdoing. However dim you thought the future of journalism looked - it's worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

If you're one of the 3-5 followers I have on here who a) doesn't work at @indyweek.bsky.social, b) lives in/near Durham, and c) isn't an AI dating bot, LISTEN UP: 6 pm at MotorCo, INDY Week panel on Durm's future. Hosted by my good pal @justinlaidlaw.bsky.social motorcomusic.com/event/durham...

I’m still stuck on the baby chicks in a blender situation 2025 has already jumped the shark

I never know how @imgarysuarez.bsky.social manages to keep tabs on half the music he covers on CABBAGES, so it's only fitting that his omniscience extends to podcasting as well. Nice one that spends just enough time on the more gutter-dwelling characters of the genre before pivoting to hope:

Very cool and normal stuff.

"Big high rises are not why you want to go to a city.” One of the coolest "celebrity in town" pieces I can remember in a while, from @lenarosegeller.bsky.social 🙇

Tired: DEI Hire Wired: DUI Hire

"With the major caveat that I’m a hopelessly naive person, I believe that when you treat underappreciated or less-popular things (like local/regional hip-hop) with the reverence and consideration of things that are, you can somewhat will attention, interest, and shared community into existence."

Loud, extremely racist voices will get a lot of the attention over the next few years, but here's hoping we don't forget about the sewer rats like Lee Roberts who will quietly, through pursed lips and dead eyes, clear the path for unspeakable cruelty.

Goodbye post on the Bad Site, which feels like a more or less appropriate Hello post on this one. Looking forward to posting stories, general updates and NC music news somewhere other than this dude's f*cked up playground.

"should I make a newsletter... I'm afraid only ten people will subscribe or something 🥲" babe that's ten whole people who love you so much they want to receive emails you write. social media sucks. make that newsletter