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

Can't wait to hear how this is deeply un-American

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

The Durand Bernarr victory lap is a gift that keeps on giving. The running down the aisle memes. Sharing his relationship with his parents. Detailing his long career path to get to this point. The gratitude and dedication. It's nice when the deserving people win.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Bezos gave rapey ass Ratner an easy, cushy gig and the Trump family a $28 million direct bribe while snuffing out a formally foundational newspaper and also dumping 16,000 employees. Billionaires are viruses.

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There's no agreed upon value for journalist labor when living in the era of Facts Don't Matter.

Assholes like Bezos, Musk, etc. could fund journalistic, humanitarian, scientific, cultural institutions in perpetuity on the planet, probably cure world hunger and still have lifetimes of money they could never fully spend. Billionaires are a virus.

It was some clownery when WaPo adopted the tagline "Democracy Dies In Darkness" but when there's an information crisis, a widespread rejection of empirical truth across society and snowballing authoritarianism, that phrase isn't alarmist at all.

The WaPo cuts are devastating. And to cut the Books section entirely makes the already bleak critical landscape even more bare. This was all preventable but Bezos, who could find the post I perpetuity without noticing it, is hellbent on destroying the Post. And for what?

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

Another cataclysmic round of WaPo layoffs discarding more of the smartest and most dedicated people I've ever worked with. And a dickhead who is wealthy beyond human comprehension is responsible. How much more money does Bezos need to hoard?

Kendrick has won nine and counting Grammys since Drake said "Kendrick just opened his mouth, someone go hand him a Grammy"

Man, it’s wild that normal people just go to work every day while the people who run everything meticulously document their sex crimes

correct. there are going to be different levels of participation and knowledge but those ppl wanna be in the room with perceived “status”

white supremacists really like fantasizing about Black people in chains, for some reason.

Maybe they'll find the Epstein files in the Fulton County Board of Elections office . . .

if CBS and the Washington Post both gut their newsrooms this week, that’s the nail in the coffin for the “just find a nice billionaire and settle down” theory of media preservation

I saw a video of Alex Pretti reading the last rites over the shrouded body of one of his patients who died. It wrecked me. These are the people who care for my dad when I take him to the VA hospital. Seeing his colleagues honor Pretti like this, I will never be the same.

The GOP and NRA spent decades fighting for the right to carry guns anywhere. Now they say if you do it near ICE they get to kill you. They think we are all morons and won’t notice this.

They're going to be as silent as #they were when it came to Philando Castile...

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

I fear that if we make it through this, won't be no Nuremberg trials. These assholes gonna skate just like the Confederacy did.

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I know the idea of “better” policing is as old a demand as civil rights movements in this country, the impulse to call for it at this moment is so terribly cruel that it can only be understood as aligned with the terrorists.

the 45,000 gun deaths we suffer each year are just the price we pay to live in a society made safe from government tyranny by an armed populace

I like you, Tim. I voted for you. But I hate to break this to you. They are going to keep ignoring your demands.

JD Vance said that ICE can operate with absolute immunity. That's not a police force. That's a death squad. They are doing exactly what they are being told to do.

Y'all Qaeda been waiting for this moment for years. The regime gave paramilitary cosplay gear, guns, salaries and full indemnity to America's biggest losers. It's like Make-A-Wish Foundation for domestic abusers.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Serena was dragging Sharapova by her ass hairs and they had the nerve to call it a rivalry. Serena won 19 straight.

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As the world burns, let's get one thing straight. A video podcast is just a TV show.

I can't believe that we've been doing this for ten years.

This is how it feels

i just want to find out HOW trump's greenland obsession started. you know there's a story there and you know it's incredibly stupid.

I am what I am because my personal icons are iconic. #BlackGenX

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

A fall on ice like this left me with a reconstructed ankle full of metal that barks at me every time the barometric pressure changes and required me to relearn how to walk for most of 2024. But these dipshits will be able to get right back to kidnapping and killing.

This is a brilliant idea that somehow has never occurred to me but if I combine it with this jazz cabbage I got for my nerves, it might be a problem.

I've been making an effort to be in community with my people more, to stave off the constant dread. But I do music for a living and haven't made any for mad long because I am always enraged or on edge.

Tacky is an irrelevant concept at this stage. But if you're strictly making a stylistic and effectiveness of communication argument, you might got a point. But not if it's about what's appropriate.

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

when It Happens what song are we getting to the top of the charts

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

Black people, make it a point to unplug, get together with friends and family, get into your hobbies, find joy any and everywhere you can. This is a marathon, not a sprint. Don’t let these ⚪️ people burn you out with their hysterics. We knew this was coming. We told them. Protect yourselves.