I might need to signal boost and see if @stillnaima.bsky.social knows because I remember the New York Undercover thread featuring Natalie's performances, but that Gerald Levert feature was "A Song For You".

I've been playing @stillnaima.bsky.social Christmas Playlist. It's perfect

Shout out to @stillnaima.bsky.social for making the playlist I clean to every Christmas Eve! open.spotify.com/playlist/3Aq...

I think age does matter. Not so much "charging" but some level of responsibility to the bills, bc more adults in your house = higher bills. In their 20s and trying to get on their feet? Maybe they just chip in on groceries or cover wifi. But if I had to move in with my mom, I'm paying bills.

Just wanna say shoutout to @stillnaima.bsky.social and this Christmas playlist 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾 #MusicSermon

*Calls the authorities*

That man's child probably in middle school and y'all still on his neck 😂

@stillnaima.bsky.social playlist is also undefeated. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

[November 18th, 1985] In the Season 17 premiere of Sesame Street, Episode 2096, the adults on Sesame Street finally meet Mr. Snuffleupagus and realize he is real, not imaginary. Elmo is also introduced as a new character.

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

I refuse to watch 47 talk on camera if I can help it in anyway and this is why. When he lost in 2020 I was so relieved to not have that man reminding me how ignorant America is every day, and I still refuse to subject myself to it in real time.

I will never get over the fact that the president of the United States talks and writes like this.

Damn. The Pope just did a whole film theory class in one post.

America is a multi-level marketing scheme that keeps changing the bonus metrics.

And people are focused on the midterms while they're actively trying to get rid of the voting rights act of 1960 now

Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a piece about the fact that he dismantled 60 years of legislative achievement in 9 months. It’s going to take, not months, not years, not decades, but GENERATIONS to rebuild, restore, and evolve. I’m not sure if this Veruca Salt-ass populace has the stomach for that.

The hard part, it feels like, is getting people our age to see that we may not see all the progress in undoing this mess. Selflessness is not exactly an American trait.

I hope people understand that we're far past just setting shit 47 has knocked over back upright. This will be rebuilding: NEW legislation, new institutional knowledge, new case law even. This will take decades. Not 4 years, not 8.

we had whole pigeons trained to send messages and now people are sending password protected notes where the password is: RUSSIA2024

The fear of emails leaking ain't got shit on the fear of getting a note taken up and read out loud in high school.

Back in the day, people sent shady sh+t via letters written in code carried under cover of night and handed off discreetly with instructions to burn them. The internet killed discretion in unseemly & criminal activity.

I am shooting my shot. I love writing op-eds. @teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you. Signed, A Black woman who writes for the public

Yes but not in Black households 🤣

Pardoning Nixon was an enormous mistake. The nation did not move on. Elite accountability was thrown out the window.

😂😂😂

And also “THE WORD ON THE PAGE IS THE WORD!” This make up a word of what you think the word is insane!!!!

I'd never heard of the three cues model before reading this report, but this explains SO MUCH about interactions on social media. Sooooooo much.

WHY is it snowing?

This is in response to the picture below and a story about Jamaicans embracing solar power. Jaqueline Hazelton is an adjunct in an international studies program at Stanford, which is terrifying.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Watching reaction videos to "Drop It Low..." never gets old. Glad y'all are enjoying. 😂😂😂

😂😂😂 @zo3hree5ive.com get in here

A real man for real

Pulitzer Prize photo right here.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

THIS is y'all MAYOR?????????????

Breaking the 12 year long GOP supermajority in Mississippi seems like a big deal. A bunch of Black women mayors seems like a big deal. Can’t wait for the hot “How Democrats winning is bad news for Democrats” takes.

People are like "This is so great!" But ask yourself WHICH voters wouldn't know that you can't vote in local elections for other states... The other side was sending GOTV messaging, too. The penny will drop eventually.

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post? This. This is what you get.

LOL... I know Eric Adams is so salty wherever he is tonight. Busta.

As of this morning, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (AKA: SNAP, Food Stamps or EBT) recipients STILL have not received their benefits. Meaning, they are unable to buy food. Because I h been both a SNAP recipient and a state caseworker who processed SNAP applications, I thought I should do

This, if anything, is what's going to ultimately push the right to figure some shit out.

Damn, Teen Vogue has low key been some of the best political reporting of the last 8 years.

"Why doesn't the Dem gubernatorial candidate for Virginia take a page from --" THIS IS NOT NEW YORK

And in the NYC election cycle, all we hear is how comparable it is to the national executive role, just at a smaller scale, but larger than many countries. No NYC mayor in my lifetime has left the job with an approval that merits being a Senator, let alone President.

I'm so glad the election is tomorrow so everybody who don't live in NY can shut up about what's going on here and what NY'ers need to do. Y'all have been exhausting.

Y'all remember the scene at the very end of Montell Jordan's "On Tonight" video where he's looking in the fridge and singing the song to himself, closes the fridge door and ol' girl is standing there staring him down? That def happened in "their" kitchen with "Wasn't Man Enough" today.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Jordan's face during Megan's announcement... The cameras really ain't shit for that. #LoveIsBlind