This becomes MORE apparent when you look up the lyrics to the songs as I have been doing for the past few minutes. Also, to be able to perform in Spanish and still have the message about colonialism, about imperialism, and how our joy in he face of that keeps us going? Art. Pure artistry there.

This, I think, was really the point. Inasmuch as he dialed in the intersectional history of colonialism across the Americas (the diversity of performers wasn’t an accident and you can’t convince me otherwise) he REALLY dialed in the history joy as a revolutionary act.

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

Don’t speak a word of Spanish but am going to learn what I can about Puerto Rico now cos damn! And the Americas bit at the end? ALL the flags? 💯 Hope some of the kids trapped in their homes in MPLS got some joy from that. 🇵🇷

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

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Another great & timely thread.

🧵 “…we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?”

“William Shakespeare. 400 years ago.” Chills

"I don’t pretend to know the exact nature of what this letter is regarding, but I’m not gonna lie to you, folks: it has me worried. I am worried."

So accurate… youtube.com/shorts/T1lXu...

While ICE is a straight shot from the enslaver patrols & the Trail of Tears & every white supremacy story on which the US is built & maintained it’s also not for nothing that fascism has distinctive hallmarks— & one of the oldest is that you control a population by going after their children.

new example of nominative determinism just dropped

Listen to this and weep - and embrace the power and beauty of poetry. (And his foot stomp near the end as he struggles to keep it together 💔)

Also trying to parse all the emails that read like they were written by a concussed golden retriever I think I finally get why these guys are so enthusiastic about getting chatbots to write for them

So it seems one of the hot trends for Gen Z is buying and filling Analog Bags - a nice big tote with Stuff to keep you away from the phone. Like books, crafts, etc. And I can’t decide if this is a good sign or just another way to get people to buy more Stuff - probably via a phone shopping app.

God took the wrong person from "Home Alone 2." It's really that simple.

Watch through. An undocumented person in Minneapolis brought dogs to a shelter after ICE kidnapped their humans, abandoning the dogs in their homes with no humans around.

Listening to classic mysteries while recuperating from surgery - Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy Sayers - and instead of crying out or shouting to express verbal surprise, their characters all “ejaculate.” “Oh no!” he ejaculated. “Surely not!” she ejaculated. Very disorienting. #BookSky 💙📚

This is brilliant. Just brilliant.

Really? ICE are going to Italy to provide “security”? Akin to what the KGB used to do for USSR athletes - make sure no one derides the homeland - and make sure they don’t indulge in any pesky DEI activities or anti-Trump statements. Despicable.

On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

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If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week

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This.

Reminds me of John Birmingham’s “Without Warning” trilogy; the USA is ‘removed’ (via a batshit premise that he makes work) and there’s lots of “hmmm what does this do to global geopolitics?” SFF always poses the best questions 😏 #Booksky 💙📚

Lot of wisdom in this 🧵 I learned young that losing myself in fiction was the only way for me to survive. It’s not ‘hiding from the world’ it’s literally making it possible for me to make it thru. Thank god for our local library & it’s wonderful staff. Must try to tell them what they mean to me rn.

Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy

Carney’s speech was fantastic - erudite, pointed, clear arc of argument. And as always, @charlotteclymer.bsky.social gives us the summary to really bring it home. Is that…maybe…a wee glimmer of hope on our collective geopolitical horizon?

MLK Jr was “a woke, critical race theorist who fought against wealth inequality while demanding reparations and DEI.” Harriot educating us again. (His “Black A.F. History” was a real eye opener; required reading for all us melanin-deprived types.) www.contrabandcamp.com/p/everyone-c...

The first great live thread of crazy of the year; was NOT expecting where this was headed! 👇🏻🧵

Day 3 post-op knee replacement: Watch a #Farscape episode Ten mins slow walk up/down hallway with walker Farscape Walk Farscape Cursed PT exercises ow ow ow Painkiller Farscape Walk… Periodically look at phone, spit curses & imagine tripping up ICE fuckwads with my cane Back to Farscape

This legit makes so much sense to me.

Tehran Under Siege: A Regime in Panic According to a detailed report by the Social Headquarters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran inside the country, the regime has deployed a staggering 52,000 suppressive forces solely to control Tehran. @chadbourn.bsky.social

Magnificent

This guy is just the best thing to watch this morning. 10/10 no notes.

The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Terry P. once again illustrating why he was the absolute best.

A fantastic tale! Inspired by the Chinese classic “Water Margin,” but with a feminist & queer twist; great plot & delicious vengeance; bloody and all the best kinds of heroic; deep characters and a really satisfying ending. #BookSky 💙📚 #Fantasy

In hindsight, it's only logical that their whole foreign policy would be couched in sex offender terms as well.

Him: hey remember that plane hijack thing with Idris Elba? They made another one. It’s about… Me: … you had me at Idris. Where’s the remote.

My whole life, fascism was defined as being stopped by armed, masked agents of the national government who demand your papers, on pain of arrest, injury, or death. That’s now here, and the group of people who warned about that the most are either silent or in favor of it,

As a Jewish alum of UPenn, I cannot say this loudly enough: WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK “It’s for your safety” Yeah, sure it is.

Ten years ago today, woke up to the news that David Bowie had died. I stg that jolt of grief knocked me into an alternate timeline where everything is going more & more to shit. Or maybe he was just the harbinger? That would track. Turn and Face the Strange.

There is joy in the world. Love this so much.

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.” A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.