I hear Jon Stewart is hosting The Daily Show tonight & Maria Ressa is his guest. If you haven't dug into her work/interviews & have access to the show, please watch. I also highly recommend her book, How To Stand Up To A Dictator.

I wrote the QP yesterday before news broke of Carr threatening the affiliates & ABC/Disney to pull their licenses, then Nexstar pre-empting the show, followed by Sinclair, & then ABC/Disney indefinitely suspending the show. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

A lot of free-speech absolutists are showing that the only absolute is it's only free if we comply & perform their expectations of "etiquette" regardless of the harms they cause us.

I've shared this on my private SM account & I'll try to distill it here w/the caveat that I haven't seen the article he references. In the larger scheme since last Wednesday, I haven't seen anyone "celebrating" his death. /1

2 hrs ago, a Kroger employee bad at his job gave me the Perpetual Foreigner tx bc I didn't know he was talking to me. Stating non-undocumented are only briefly ?, when reports state otherwise, is remarkably privileged. This affects more than Latines in LA--outside HI, people think I'm Mexican.

YouTube keeps giving me OPM recs & I'm not mad about it. Got Sugarfree vibes from this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk3c...

I second this. One of El Akkad's statements that remains in my head is: "It is a hallmark of failing societies I've learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist."

I didn't go looking for OPM Punk, it found me. Also, this one is reminding me of Tantra Monsters minus the horns. 😍 youtu.be/px016fzWiC4?...

I go through new music drops every Friday & share the ones I like on my other accounts. This cover popped up on YouTube when I was grabbing video links & I love it---can't get enough of SB19. The original is on my writing playlist for Never Again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHAX...

An allegory for the effects of disinformation from individual to institutional to systemic. Masterful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBkd...

It's Aloha Friday 🤙 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgpa...

About to run off and rewatch it! (link I'm sharing is a gift link for anyone w/o access to WaPo through subscription or their library digital media) wapo.st/46Zjkq8

Woke up with this song in my head & it won't go away. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tRJ...

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

Found out...last week...this week (? who tf knows w/ADHD wibbly wobbly timey wimey) TSS is dropping Meet Me At The Record Store 8/15. SQUEE! The cover tickles my brain w/nostalgia. A few of their older songs are on my Never Again writing playlist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UgI...

Go back & read the 🧵beginning to end. I wanted to share the main message quoted post. The email Alex shares reads like the CEO is seeking sympathy (they are) while exposing their shitty business plan---if one even exists. Anyway, I found Alex's audiobook on Libby! YAY LIBRARIES!

@defectivemoxie.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8h4...

I went down a Stell rabbit hole this morning after one of his singles popped up on my YouTube recs as I was looking for some good New Music Friday drops. Filipinos got it all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeoU...

@defectivemoxie.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6kJ...

My favorite song from their EP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=alWY...

Happy pub day to @kennedyryan.bsky.social ! www.cbsnews.com/video/author...

April reads

A woman threw greeting cards at me when I was called for backup at the checkout. She wanted to scan them and I said, "I can do it" while holding my hands out for them because she still had them in her hands. I guess throwing them at me was her way of handing them over. /1

Ed Kowalczyk Mila Kunis Lea Salonga Steve Perry Jason Elam

Anyone watching MobLand? ADHD Brain decided this week the theme song will live in my head for the foreseeable future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UEF...

Goo Goo Dolls released a 25th anniversay lyric video of "Iris" that includes archived, unreleased footage. I swear I can still listen to this on repeat all day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDOI...

@defectivemoxie.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXBF...

If you read Tainted Love, here's a little treat for you. My sistah from anoddah mistah shared it & had to too. Buttah, jelly, cinnamon! www.instagram.com/reel/DHpOWT2...

Listened to Ruby Ibarra, Klassy, Faith Santilla, & Rocky Rivera's "Us" on repeat for hours after therapy this morning. Now it's "Bakunawa." Needing empowering Filipinas to keep me going with the maelstrom of feelings since Duterte's arrest last night (U.S. time) www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBOP...

I opened the wrong app before brushing my teeth. Was supposed to be the Libby app for listen to Hammajang Luck (by Makana Yamamoto). The accident led me to hope & a lot of tears. A special 🖕🏽🖕🏽 to our MoCs who voted to ensure this never happens to a tyrant here. www.rappler.com/philippines/...

Saved the first 2 parts of Cobra Kai's last season for this week. Every episode is making me wish Pat was still alive even if just to watch. I'll never forget the "y" he gave me the night I graduated UH & my cousins & I saw him outside Yum Yum Tree. youtu.be/I1u3lCPomyU?...

Happy Aloha Friday! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh7q...

Take a few seconds to support IATSE's production crew at the Atlantic Theater. On strike since 1/12, they ask for industry-standard wages, fair scheduling, & healthcare benefits for ALL employees. The Atlantic Theater has not offered a counterproposal. actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Fellow authors! (saves for later for myself)

Happy Aloha Friday! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOBF...

Earlier this week I remembered I can stream Hawai'i radio stations---b/c I ALWAYS forget. I spent several days listening to KCCN while editing. Then this video popped up on YT when I opened it. KCCN has them on rotation so I recognized the name. /1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQlq...

Who Laughs Last ~ Lord Huron ft. Kristen Stewart www.youtube.com/watch?v=1828...

There are way more pearl-clutchers about to lose the whole strand b/c of Sexxy Red's collab w/Bruno than I thought there would be. Unorthodox Jukebox was an entire album about getting laid. If you don't like it, don't listen to it! Both get to make the music they want guaranteed by 1A.

Chasing Paradise ~ Kygo, OneRepublic www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArTE...

Childlike Things ~ FKA Twigs & North West www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejch...

Fat Juicy & Wet ~ Sexxy Red & Bruno Mars (NSFW) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwmg...

Every day haoles on the left remind me (uncreatively) why we don't trust them.

Endless supply of dopamine Bakunawa (live) ~ Ruby Ibarra ft. Ouida, Han Han, & June Millington (plus a few members of Pinay Voltron) www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBOP...

Believe In Ya ~ T-Pain, Yaeji, Girl Talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Us...

Afford It ~ Keke Palmer youtu.be/la8N82bUQZk?...

Rushmere ~ Mumford & Sons www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sBw...

Walls Come Down ~ Seether www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6G6...

So Good ~ Hyunjin (Stray Kids) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yp1...

Orlando In Love ~ Japanese Breakfast www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFNq...

Hypnotized ~ Anyma & Ellie Goulding www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z92J...