The end of episode 5 on Heated Rivalry? Gagged. Gagged by some gay guys, and I liked it.

Just went to a book club meeting at my local public library. We read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, and everyone HATED the book; many wondered how it won the Pulitzer Prize. Tough. Ass. Crowd. I loved it. It was like reading Diet Beloved. Toni Morrison Lite. #GomoReads2026

I want us to understand this in the context of these same people killed affirmative action using Chinese-American plaintiffs because they said helping Black people was discriminatory against Asian Americans and anti-merit. Once again: it was never about that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Paw Patrol literally starts every episode inside of a damn Panopticon, and nobody else seems to notice how creepy it is. I hate this show. I hope those mutts discover their power and CHASE this kid out of town.

The fascism essay opens the book and that was a deliberate choice...

Just finished Black Genius by Tre Johnson. It's interesting to get a closer look at how "good jobs," and "mission-driven work" can weigh on you when you actually care about the mission. As a Black healthcare provider, I get it. #GomoReads2026

Smart.

Me, every single time I read the news

Picking my munchkin up from daycare and I saw a flock of high school kids protesting 🧊. The kids are going to be alright ❤️.

The only reason I keep carrying on...

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

Just finished Where Peace Is Lost by Valerie Valdes. Not my usual genre, so I was surprised by how thrilling the romance was. It was a fresh balance to the ethics questions; very real questions about holding on to mercy, peace, and community in the face of sociopathy. #GomoReads2026

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Just finished Paradise by Toni Morrison. This is my favorite book of all time. I've read it 5x, and I'm blown away every single time. The whole book is an allegory for America, and I think I was itching to re-read it following Baldwin's The Fire Next Time for a reason. #GomoReads2026

You see what them lying to themselves has done to their minds and hearts and souls? Do whatever you have to not to become that. The worst person you can ever lie to is yourself. It’s trading all your real agency for the myth of perfect safety.

Paradise is Toni Morrison's best work, hands down. Just reached the Patricia chapter (my favorite chapter in the whole book). I understand it much better after reading The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. I might re-read Song of Solomon after this to round out the hotep/patriarchy themes.

I open this app once a day just to see if he's dead yet.

It's one of life's great ironies that the only way to find the strength that sees us through strife is by building up the resilience only suffering can impart. If we seek only a life of comfort, comfort will always be out of reach.

Parenting a toddler is crazy, because you really expect me to entertain this child alllllllll day looooooong without *me* having a tantrum too?

I already have a well thought out theory about the Black Hollywood Vampire Coven. Headed up by Angela Bassett.

On a Libby 6-week waiting list for Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamozo, so I think all re-read Toni Morrison's Paradise. I've been thinking about out it often. Posting this to hold myself accountable #GomoReadingList2026

Just finished The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, and I wish I was in an upper-division English Major course, because I'm DYING to discuss and dissect it, line by line. I see how Baldwin is the foundation upon which Toni Morrison stood. She said as much ALL THE TIME. Now I get it. #GomoReads2026

Next H&P...

Next in line is James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time. Posting this to hold myself accountable #GomoReadingList2026

Just finished Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson. Byron was a little shit. Gibbs/Bert was also a mess. Lin had a stroke and deserved it. The only man who seemed to have any sense, was Charles Mitch. Also, Bunny was with the shits, Lord bless her. #GomoReads2026

Everyone’s saying RIP MTV because they “won’t play music videos anymore.” But maybe hold them accountable for ushering in the reality TV era instead. That was the real death spiral. Culture has not been better for it.

If I was Mamdani I'd wear a tan suit my first day in office just to watch their fucking heads explode.

Platonic Form of a White Person

Also, some men have sex with men, and they deserve HPV prevention, too. Anal cancer is very real, especially among ppl with HIV (which overwhelmingly affects the gay community) EVERYONE needs Gardasil-9. PERIOD.

Ding ding ding

immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes

Fiber needs the same PR team protein has. No one is eating enough fiber.

My 3 year old daughter DRAGS ME in casual, everyday comments, and I just need to accept that motherhood is going to be a wild ride. On Thanksgiving, she told her auntie that she helped spray down the carpet in the garage because it smelled like mildew... and I can't 🫠

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

They never say exactly what Janice Combs did for money, but it's obvious that she was a Madame (or some other kind of sex broker). Most sex predators aren't also raised by sex predators. Also, the Alpo Martinez story? Jesus Christ. SOULLESS. #seancombsthereckoning

I’m over talking about their cold blooded war crimes of the war we’re not in because it’s cut & dry it’s murder so all their justifications & everybody’s rebuttals are frustrating & I’m like wake me up if they ever face consequences for their evil.

America's not a serious country, just a loud one.

Vemlidy stock is about to skyrocket

Ms. Rachel, I appreciate YOU!!!!

Ms. Rachel has more of a spine than anyone at the NYT and 99% of our useless politicians 😊

Costco deserves the Medal of Freedom for keeping their hot dog and drink combo at $1.50 during these trying times.

We are the bad guys, folks. Your country, my country--our leaders, our voters, all the people that say wait and see....all complicit in allowing abusive western hegemony to brutalize entire countries. We are the bad guys.

its about to be 2026 and Bluesky still got trash ass gifs 😭😭

🗣️ turn it the fuck up

Me listening to True Crime podcasts and not being surprised because SERIOUSLY--my mom (or aunts) always told me...

Impressive. According to my Libby app, I checked out 60 books this calendar year, up from 51 in 2024 and 30 in 2023. I'll have to do a final count of how many of the 60 I actually completed.

I remember thinking it would be a glorious triumph for the world if we could ever wipe out cancer. We dreamed of cures, but blocking the root cause like this…wow. I never dreamed of large organized groups trying to stop people from preventing cancer.

And here I am, submitting prior auths for Gardasil-9 😵‍💫

Growing up Black & gifted when some peers will project resentment & strangeness & "not-Blackness" on you both makes you terrified of failing to live up to your potential but also isolates you from grasping how the expectations go to your head, and I had both of those issues going on. (3/5)

And thinking that everything we do is because of white folks is logic of people obsessed with white folks.