Cory Booker’s action was in a way a perfect encapsulation of Democratic Party strategy: bloviate for hours on end when the stakes are non-existent for the sake of a hollow victory that ultimately won’t change people’s material conditions so they can claim to be “resisting”.
🧵 A lot of Americans just don’t know what life is like for those in Gaza, so here’s an analogy that might help:
Imagine Gaza as Rhode Island. Here’s what reality would look like:
the airbnb collapse is so awesome and i hope every property owner has to sell at a gutwrenching loss to someone who might actually live in the fuckin place
quintessential “dudes rock” duo right here. they saw you from across the bar & are perplexed by your vibe but want to invite you to record the sounds of an iceberg melting
Sakamoto-san was the first Japanese artist I heard while in high school. It set the trajectory for so much of my taste in music, creative processes, and life in general.
His music will always be some of the most beautiful, coolest, and transcendent.
That was the final humiliation of Dave Chapelle. This is a man who famously stopped doing the show because he didn't want to be a clown and 20 years of people screaming "I'm rich bitch" at him on the street later, an apartheid nepotism case does it and he has to pretend it rocks
To be American is to become shamefully numbed to a steady diet of mass death, political cowardice, & corporate greed -- the erosion of fundamental decency, honesty, and the desire for equality. Every day for the rest of our lives is this: numbing tragedy and contemptible inertia.
Starting to suspect that we shouldn't have used celebrities as the intellectual, moral, and political ideals for the last two decades of American identity
DOOM was infinite and timeless but Daniel Dumile's physical form would've turned 50 today.
All our articles on the supervillain are here, written in 3-D with the red and blue BIC pen.
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The prosecutor did not “make an error.” He lied.
He lied about the police killing a child.
Ending this isn’t just about consequences for who pulls the trigger. It’s about admitting to and confronting an entire system that exists to protect, defend, and cover up state violence.