Gotta repost it whenever I see a mention on my feed - may be my favorite book about hip-hop (and if I'm wrong, please share suggestions!).
PJ Rodriguez@pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 9h agoAlso, see Dan Charnas’ excellent book DILLA TIME.
Jamaal
@jamaal30.bsky.social
Dad + Husband + Lawyer + Writer + Trustee + Accessibility Guy. Does it need doing? He/Him/His. https://about.me/jamaal.thomas
PJ Rodriguez@pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 9h agoThis is very sad. As always, the lesson is that Ben Shapiro's the worst.
Ant@agramuglia.bsky.social · yesterdaySo Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.
Kind of obsessed with this spooky season scene my 12-year-old painted today.
Victim‘s brother doesn‘t want execution broadcast. “Does witnessing another person's death… make our communities safer? Or does it simply give the public another act of violence to watch, this time carried out by the government?” www.newsweek.com/exclusive-br...
Brother of slain Fort Hood soldier urges Trump to stop livestream execution
Kristopher Craig told Newsweek he is writing to Trump to prevent his brother's death becoming "part of another public spectacle."
newsweek.com
Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump
A smart NY Mag post on the problem with the Social Reckoning. nymag.com/intelligence...
The Problem With Facebook Was Facebook
In The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin is fighting, and somehow losing, the last social-media war.
nymag.com
Surprising!
Mad Scholar Frights@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6d ago"Sorkin’s style is now widely satirized and dismissed as glib and pernicious, but it’s hard to watch a Sorkin-penned film with an audience and not come away admitting he’s great at what he does." On The Social Reckoning. Yep, I liked it. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
Awful news.
kelsey ables@kelseyables.bsky.social · last wk.New: The White House is conditioning $190 million for the Smithsonian on compliance with its executive order "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" through legally-binding footnotes in recent OMB apportionments. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
Rough news.
kelsey ables@kelseyables.bsky.social · last wk.New: The White House is conditioning $190 million for the Smithsonian on compliance with its executive order "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" through legally-binding footnotes in recent OMB apportionments. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
So @adamreck.bsky.social and Zachary Jenkins did an excellent and candid interview with Jonathan Hickman for @comicsxf.com and sites are sharing it without crediting them. Not cool. But go listen to the podcast, it’s a very good interview.
“The Court’s order in the Washington cases is a significant setback for pro-voting groups that challenged the state’s redrawn map after the 2020 census as a violation of Section 2 for intentionally diluting the voting strength of Latino voters in the Yakima Valley region.”
With Voting Rights Act gutted, Supreme Court vacates discrimination finding against Washington map
The Supreme Court sent two redistricting cases out of Washington back to a lower court for new proceedings in light of its Louisiana v. Callais decision, which gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Ac...
democracydocket.com
This sucks (and George Brett Olson's a funny dude).
Nate Bowling@natebowling.com · last wk.Tiffany Sloan is a joke stealing AI generated stand-up comedian that has amassed a following of 350K users on Instagram. AI is supposed to transform the world and it's doing it in the worst and dumbest possible ways. buttondown.com/natebowling/...
I forgot about this! I used to love (and was deeply terrified) by this book when I was a kid.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last wk.This book had me sleeping with the lights on when i was six bsky.app/profile/slee...
“Not only are the songs not ones you’d associate with Ndegeocello — whose music has generally dealt with heavy topics and carries real gravity — but her interpretations entirely reshape any prior associations with them.” Meshell Ndegeocello Is Just a Soul on a Planet:
Meshell Ndegeocello Interview: A Soulful Journey - SPIN
Join us for a fascinating Meshell Ndegeocello interview and learn what makes this Grammy winner so beloved in the music scene.
spinmagazine.com
Just about everything this administration does makes me incandescent with rage. But their fucking with special education takes me to a whole new level. progressive.org/latest/scape...
Scapegoating Special Ed
As the Trump Administration kneecaps federal agencies for sport, special education takes the latest hit.
progressive.org
I think the "AI as sentient threat" narrative is incredibly sticky - I think it comes from a century of sci-fi stories + the fact that ppl prefer outlandish conspiracy theories over mundane ones.
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · last wk.Lolll I've been doing this shit forever and saying the same exact thing I'm saying right now more than a decade ago and am "being pushed by contrarian media dynamics." 🙄 All of you are hypnotized by talk of fictional machine gods and it's me who has to bring evidence to the contrary.
Not looking forward to the Roc Nation Data Center.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2w agoPutting money on who proposes the first black-owned data center. need to start my own polymarket.
"The reality is that there are no silly culture wars happening in America. There are equality wars and justice wars and fairness wars. Democrats should try to win those wars—and the elections that involve them." 💯
Perry Bacon@perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 2w ago"Economic issues not cultural wars' produces a party that both loses elections and abandons moral causes and vulnerable people. That’s not a theoretical argument—it’s the story of the Democratic Party of my entire adulthood." newrepublic.com/article/2159...
Okay, since we agree it is basically October, here's what I tell myself you've been waiting for: A new list of recommended streaming horror and horror-adjacent movies for you to watch in time for Halloween -- movies on Netflix, Hulu, Shudder, Amazon Prime, and more boxd.it/XbLjo
New Screams to Stream for Halloweam 2026
If you’re reading this in October, there's a better than average chance that you might be looking for something spooky to watch this month, so I'm here to help you out with suggestions of good movies ...
boxd.it
It'd be cool to have one less thing to worry about (re: work, my son's education and the world). I can live without a semi-clever party trick that doubles as a tool for chaos and misinformation.
Phineas, a corpse@phineas.bsky.social · 2w agoIf all AI disappeared tomorrow I'd be down to only a million things to be sick/sad/angry about every day but I would try to cope
I still need to catch up with both of these - the mixed reception is intriguing...
I Scare You Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2w agoI really liked Is God Is, and Supergirl
Zoe Thorogood and her new husband Joe Whiteford are teaming up on VAMPIRE ON AISLE 6, an Image miniseries and accompanying EP arriving this December.
Thorogood and Whiteford to team up on VAMPIRE ON AISLE 6
Zoe Thorogood and her husband Joe Whiteford will team up on the Image miniseries and accompanying EP Vampire on Aisle 6, which tells the story of a recently turned vampire trapped in a superstore until the Sun sets.
comicsbeat.com
"The idea that you can easily separate 'economic' and 'cultural' issues is nonsense. It’s very expensive for transgender Americans to move to blue states so they can live freely. It’s harder to buy a house in a neighborhood with rising home values if you are Black." newrepublic.com/article/2159...
Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”
Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.
newrepublic.com
Hello Portland! I will be at Books with Pictures this Saturday at 1pm for Day of Dredd, hope to see you there! @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social
And when I say bad behavior I mean no, you should not be fucking your students and I mean that broadly. Not a student in your department, not a recent graduate, not even a student in another department. Not someone you’re mentoring. Some of the men who like to talk about me have done these things
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor said, "People died for the right to vote. But people also died for democracy and justice and inclusion, and voting does not necessarily secure that. When people say that, they ignore the most important factor in creating progress in the United States: social movements..."
Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.
Never forget that Frank Oz believes the stress of dealing with Disney's initial, relentless attempts to buy his creations is what killed Jim Henson. "The Disney deal is probably what killed Jim. It made him sick," he told The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/culture/2021...
Frank Oz on life as Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and Yoda: ‘I’d love to do the Muppets again but Disney doesn’t want me’
He played some of the most memorable characters of all time on The Muppet Show and Sesame Street - then became a brilliant comedy director. What is he most proud of?
theguardian.com
Brian Jay Jones@brianjayjones.com · 3w agoJim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
