Ok so we got Kendrick Lamar followed by Bad Bunny. That mean next year's halftime show will be like BTS and BlackPink doing a historical walk through US Military interference in East Asia with a midshow dance break that pays homage to the Black hiphop and r&b greats that influenced them, right?

Relatedly, if you’re an academic and someone challenges doing scholarship at the intersection of pop-culture as “unscholarly” or “less important,” you can tell them to fuck off into the sun. The intersection of pop-culture is where we LIVE.

I cannot emphasize enough that what he's singing here, obscured by beeps, is "If your boyfriend doesn't eat your ass, he'd better fuck off"

When I heard this, I had to do a double take because I couldn’t believe he did that shit. Also, I learned the meaning of this song from an essay one of my Philosophy and Pop-Culture students wrote. It low-key made me an instant fan.

"suspected political message" haha I get it. My Spanish isn't fully what it used to be, but fam, I could see the sugar plantation and exploding electric poles. Granted these are the same people who "missed" Any political messages in Green Day singing American Idiot & Holiday Soo not surprised.

Tomorrow is a great day to rip the Ring cameras off your house and smash them with hammers.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

Ok, still photos are out and it was definitely not Liam. Giving the Grammy to a child symbolizing a young him with the direct to tv address about believing in yourself remains beautiful. Also now that we have a still from the performance, don't be racist. Those are very clearly different kids.

English speakers like "that was less political than I thought" lol they had ricky martin singing "dont do us like you did hawaii"

THE BUSHES ARE PEOPLE

The sheer number of AI commercials is DISGUSTING.

Ok... Yo Soo I saw a clip of the TPU thing and Kid Rock couldn't even lip sync half a song. Imagine trying to sell the idea that Bad Bunny isn't brilliant and the thing you are holding up is a man who couldn't even sync his lips to one verse of his biggest song.

Bad Bunny naming Haiti in his list and I fucking bawled like he deadass gave recognition (I heard it after Grenada). Oh that Afro-Latino shout out 😭

Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show

Like, I think my ancestors were whispering in my ear when we saw the sugar cane that the spent their lives being forced to cultivate for no pay, with no freedom

Benito said "God Bless America," and then proceeded to name every country in South and North America. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Beautiful Halftime show. My only issue is that I was promised a dress and there was no dress.

We recorded this a year ago. Black folks have been dealing with state violence since before the US was a country. Black History holds lessons for everyone. We get through this hellishness together. A new episode of Windy City Nihilism releases Monday morning. wokementalwellness.buzzsprout.com

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

Non-Black folks are far too comfortable taking space and centering themselves in Black spaces. I really need folks to interrogate their feelings of entitlement and refusal to respect and protect Black life, space, and epistemes.

Unprofessional and illegal are two different spheres & I will need people serious about creating an *industry* to be able to cleanly distinguish and respond to them Someone can do no legal wrong and still create a toxic space to work by failing to communicate. Someone can be kind and break the law.

We will never have the communities of care and accountability we want until we tackle rampant pedestalling and celebrity culture. Everyone fucks up. But the ability to discern mistake vs malice and to act accordingly requires us to have spectrums. Your fav is still a person. Treat them as such.

Three geniuses gaining and using their platforms without compromising their humanity or their artistic visions, and showing us just why art matters. They are changing the conversation, each one of them.

I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them

Gonna continue this train and talk about another black creator that means a lot to me. Dwayne McDuffie. One of the founders of Milestone comics which was the first comic book universe that featured black and POC characters and of course Static Shock. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_...

STEM Black History Fact 6/28 Dr. Ernest Everett Just showed that egg cells play an active role in fertilization, reshaping early embryology and modern cell biology.

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

When your representative says "Don't talk to me about my own morality," I suggest talking to them about their own morality INCESSANTLY.

generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023 people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip

Brother if reading the Epstein files and seeing the world’s richest white men OPENLY PLAN how to kill off the poor and non-white of the world doesn’t convince you to: - get vaccinated - wear a mask - take care of your fellow man and neighbor - look out for children You’re lost.

Something that I think is important to note is that this is the Canadian broadcast. Here in the US NBC muted the boos like some WWE shit. Fellow USians we are one of the most propagandized and lied to populations in the world. We always need to look outside of our media sources at this point.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

Perfection

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

That mask is also popular with neo-Nazi accelerationist groups, which I think is really important to mention. Just like it's important to mention that ICE agents in Denver have been dropping Ace of Spades cards where they've kidnapped people. The white nationalist culture at work is clear.

Some US soldiers dropped Ace of Spades cards to mark kills in Vietnam. It's a move that got picked up by some white supremacist accelerationists, and now by ICE. They are dropping death cards when they disappear people and building concentration camps. We need to be very plain about the severity.

I care about kids. I want my niblings to experience freedom.

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

Democracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership

heartbreaking to see public health people people get as far as “ICE detention is a driver of disease” only to call for increased funding for ICE medical services not “free them all for public health”

This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.

ICE shot a man THROUGH HIS FRONT DOOR and then lied to cover it up, claiming he attacked the agent with a snow shovel. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Chicago students, we salute you! On Monday, students at Roosevelt, Mather &other north side Chicago high schools walked out to protest the Trump administration's deportation atrocities & to advocate for immigrant communities. We applaud these young leaders, fighting for justice now & for the future.