Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Looking the through the whole trove of Epstein emails, beyond the most newsworthy bits there's also lots of interesting (i.e. repulsive) insights into how these super-elites move and think.

"I can't believe people are still talking about that guy who just passed out over there. I like guys who don't pass out. I've never passed out. Everyone will tell you this. So what were we talking about? Oh yeah magnets. Did you know magnets can't get wet."

guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀

I think it’s worth being explicit about what’s going on with the Zohran admissions stuff - this is a bad faith attack designed to try to drive the older Black voters that made up Cuomo’s base in the primary and who vote party line in the general to support Eric Adams to keep Mamdani out of City Hall

This implies that if Mamdani had simply refused to comment, the NYT would not have deemed the piece newsworthy. I'll leave it to you to decide whether that is plausible. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Paying tribute to Sly on the Twitch stream if you're around <3 about to dig into some rare footage from his set at the Harlem Cultural Festival twitch.tv/jsmooth995

Andrew Cuomo knows: moving to New York City can be hard. But voting here shouldn’t be. 🏠 Already registered here? Update your address by June 9th 🧳 New or never registered? You must register by June 14th Head to zohranfornyc.com/vote. We’ve got an affordable city to win.

If that one part of "Sinners" gave you an appetite for some 90's hip-hop era Vampire lore, we're about to watch a little bit of 1990's Def By Temptation over on twitch :) twitch.tv/jsmooth995

All obvious heinous things aside, this is a reminder that—despite lies from republicans—undocumented people pay taxes. and now their contributions are being used against them.

The Senate seat Schumer holds has only had 3 people in it over the last 70 years

Under no circumstances will I "hand it to" Adam 16, but assuming he's the one who pitched this story, this is the wildest bamboozlement of a writer since that "fake grunge slang" piece in 1992

OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.

This means he did his job 👍

The Eagles winning because of DEI (a white cornerback)

If they had done an SNL sketch last summer where Diana Ross winds up giving Kendrick the Song of the Year Grammy for Not Like Us i would've said "ok that's a bit much"

This is getting attention for what's in the headline, understandably, but the second screenshot feels equally notable--and galling--because 1. Oh NOW you're ready to admit this? 2. Admitting strategic failure on Gaza, without reckoning with yall's catastrophic *moral* failing, is still nasty work

On "payola pardons" and why Snoop doubled down on riding with Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgd...

Every year I share this @jsmooth.bsky.social video about 10 other things MLK said and not the usual quotes that are shared each year. youtu.be/AIFTNmOOLmk?...

We're on live for the next few, catching up on some news and celebrating some LA music and culture <3 twitch.tv/jsmooth995

We're live on Twitch about to get into some film studies with perhaps the preeminent classic of 70s anti-racist cinema, 1972's "The Thing With Two Heads" twitch.tv/jsmooth995

We're on twitch for the next few getting into some vintage Black sitcom Xmas episodes twitch.tv/jsmooth995

I pray one day the world will be ready for this young prophet's wisdom

Important update: Nardwuar just dropped his Doechii episode www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bjF...

We're about to go live at twitch.tv/jsmooth995, catching up on some news and watching the second hour of Nikki Giovanni's classic rap session with James Baldwin 🙏

I haven't been paying much attention to the whole drones thing, been basically assuming there's nothing to it. But this latest one...I'm still a skeptic but how do you explain this? Is it just some really good AI?

We're about to do a watch party for Michael Moore's "Sicko" on the twitch stream, twitch.tv/jsmooth995 7PM EST

Forever one of my favorite Nikki Giovanni clips, calling out Bill Cosby back in 2007 ❤️

One of them is Badia 😱

Okay tonight is Doechii Appreciation Night on the Check-In stream 🔥 7PM EST at twitch.tv/jsmooth995 we'll be starting out with a trip back to her early Youtuber days and then charting her rise to Undisputed #1 Best Rapper of 2024 (don't argue, you will lose)

the first anniversary of henry kissinger’s death is a good time to revisit this interview i did with @attackerman.bsky.social about his righteous obituary for the heinous war criminal: www.thehandbasket.co/p/writing-an...

can't stress enough, as someone who has a lot of experience in media, they know what they are doing when they run provocative and/or genuinely dumb takes. they do not deserve your well-intentioned "marketplace of ideas" counterarguments even a little bit! bsky.app/profile/aoc....

We're on twitch for the next few, getting into some Digable Planets and related projects twitch.tv/jsmooth995

What fascinates me is it's the same people who have no problem believing JD Vance completely flipped his view of Trump from 5 years ago, that can't conceive of the GOP having changed from what it was 150+ years ago

We're about to go live at twitch.tv/jsmooth995, to chop it up with veteran Hip-Hop journalist and Rap Law expert Shawn Setaro who will help us make sense of Drake's legal shenanigans this week

Beautiful new video from Sade, dedicated to her transgender son Izaak ❤️

Tonight at 5PM-ish EST we will be rebutting this Atlantic article that might be the worst piece I've ever seen written on De La Soul twitch.tv/jsmooth995

I'll be hanging on twitch again tonight at 5PM EST www.twitch.tv/jsmooth995

Listening to this with the combined feelings of "how crazy that this Al Green cover of 'Everybody Hurts' now exists" and "how crazy that this Al Green cover of Everybody Hurts had not always existed"

This makes both less and more sense when you realize he means "fear of childlessness among white people that will lead to us being outnumbered"

I'll be giving a test run to streaming on Twitch tonight, come by and say hi if you're around! twitch.tv/jsmooth995

Nothing good will come out of this "fight" tonight and I strongly advise divesting from any hopes or emotion you have put into it

Anyway, embrace living in a world where you can go 'man that fucking sucks I'm so sorry' without the reflexive need to come up with a helpful or jokey suggestion. Sometimes it actually just sucks and a person just wants to feel seen and affirmed.

Koreatown robot encounter

My results crossposting this one seem to be in line w/ Bluesky being the most amenable to political discussion Bluesky - 3500 followers 31 comments 78 reposts 289 likes Threads - 3000 followers 14 comments 4 reposts 70 likes Twitter - 60,000 followers 12 comments 29 reposts 130 likes

Would you have preferred Kamala picked Josh Shapiro? "Oh absolutely, and here are all my enthusiastic reasons..." Okay so you have voted for her then? "...no." Your verdict on the "we can win over center-right voters" strategy, in a nutshell. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I've always assumed the average American bases their vote on vibes and emotions, but hard to stomach grown adults basically telling us "the vibes and emotions are controlling my body I don't even know what's happening"

New from me: Criminal justice reform fared better last week than headlines would suggest. But it did fail in places where tech/hedge fund bros spent millions to spread misinformation and stoke fear of crime. And that doesn't bode well for the future. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-brolig...