Some personal news

*spits on ground, hisses*

Excellent!

My Father's Shadow is in theaters today. A beautifully shot and tender portrait of Black masculinity through the complicated relationship between a father and his two sons in Lagos. Gorgeous.

www.psypost.org/a-high-sugar... I do sweetener in my coffee and try to go as black as I can. And I don’t understand how people eat like Panera sugar donuts and stuff. They’d bring that in the doctors offices I worked at for breakfast and I wouldn’t eat it. Diabetes before 8 am.

Every time there's media layoffs we have the same damn conversations about how "paid newsletters aren't sustainable" and "wouldn't it be great if someone just fixed this for us." No one is coming. You have to create the way forward. The question is are you up for it or not?

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Intelligence shouldn't be reduced to what a computer can do.

Little Caesars' Italian cheese bread is delicious and has gotten me through some lean times. Forever grateful 🙌🏽

I've gotten some very kind emails about this story already, and I have to say that local news matters so much.

The mass layoffs at the Washington Post feel worse than the ones made during 2020, especially after the ones at NBC News, CBS, and the WSJ. So many smart and experienced people will leave the industry forever.

i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.

Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...

Read of the day: reverse mortgage scammer Mark Diamond and an accomplice are now behind bars, but >100 victims and their next of kin are still in court fighting to regain title of family properties. Others have lost those homes. By @tatiwm.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/03/f...

NEW from me: After Mark Diamond & his co-conspirators defrauded older homeowners, some of the victims are fighting mortgage companies to keep their homes. Others have lost their properties altogether. I wrote about the uphill battle for @blockclubchi.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/03/f...

In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, what book by a Black author has changed your life?

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Perhaps we should focus on taxing the wealthy instead of begging them to part with their fortunes.

“How many times, then, will Western journalists allow themselves to be fooled by Israeli propaganda – by military denials that later collapse under the weight of evidence?”

The tentacles on that monster of a man stretched far and wide.

Did not know people are named Wambsganss in real life.

Bosses are under pressure to turn AI adoption into profits. Many will be tempted to chop entry-level jobs in response. The better option would be to rethink what junior workers do

I... wouldn't be surprised if that lady was enduring unspeakable things at home and now feels free. Still, I can't sympathize with her, because she's actively undermining the freedoms of everyone else.

second sitting black congressperson to be assaulted in the past week. all the violence seems to be coming from one side, and it ain’t ours

"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference" "there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies" "2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year" A win!

They were students at the University of Hawaii and cadets in the Reserve Officer Training Corps, on track to become Army officers, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Gemini cut on by itself & started listening to my conversation. F*ck that, I’m gonna get a flip phone.

Fasting for a doctor's appointment, and all I can think about is a bacon cheeseburger.

It's common to see cars with their windshield wipers pointing up when snow is expected. But why do drivers do this and is it actually helpful?

Is it just me or does this week's episode of #TheIndustry reminiscent of the Wirecard scandal?

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This is Alex Pretti, the man the pedophile admin called a "domestic terrorist." Here he is reading the final honors, honoring a soldier who had passed away at the hospital he was a nurse at. We will not let the right tarnish his reputation!!

Sold my graphic in 2017. It came out in 2019. It still hasn't earned out the advance and my sales are steady

In Davos last week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney advocated building stronger multilateral coalitions to counterbalance U.S. power— a way through Trump’s totalitarian designs. @gurleygg.bsky.social has the story: trib.al/5oG7Fov

People have had more to say about college students protesting on campus or Ch*rl** K*rk's death than they have about ICE killing people in cold blood. Very telling.

Puppets - including one of Trump's head - coming down Clark

There are far fewer police out here than I've seen at similar marches. Things remain calm regardless. Police do block the march from continuing south toward the Metro Correctional Center and the Chicago ICE field office. Chants continue: "From Minnesota to Palestine, occupation is a crime"

The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up, "Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"

Thank you to everyone in #Chicago ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🏳️‍🌈

Nurses are pissed. This is on the front page of the nursing subreddit, along with many discussions about it on several other posts.

37 is so young. There's so much life to be lived. So much he'll never experience. All because of this occupation.

This is solidarity.

I've waited all day. The snow has finally come.

Friday night sleep is elite 🙌🏽

Is it too get emergency Oreos?

Whoever's running the @poynterinstitute.bsky.social Instagram deserves a raise. Top-tier niche memes over there

Who's gonna be the first rapper to mention this in a song?

Singing