Came across this quote from @SaraKAhmed in The book I am reading, and just love the opportunity it has for us as educators and caregivers to be reflective.
The planet's most fanatical Israel loyalists now own and control (or are about to) Paramount, CBS, TikTok, Warner Brothers, CNN: all acquired in the last two years by Netanyahu's close friend, Larry Ellison, right as public support for Israel in the US and the west collapses:
Until about three years ago, every song you've ever loved, every book you've ever devoured, every beautiful speech you've ever heard was written by a human.
It's so sad what they've done to our sense of human capability
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Michael Jackson is probably the last superstar we’ll ever have.
Not because nobody else is talented. The world that made him is gone, and the kind of person he was doesn’t really happen anymore.
And Taylor Swift doesn’t come close. Just calling it now.
He came up in the last real monoculture. When something hit, it hit everybody on the same night.
47 million Americans watched the moonwalk at Motown 25 and the next morning every kid in the country was trying it on their kitchen floor.
That’s not happening again.
Taylor Swift sells out stadiums and there are still millions of people who couldn’t pick her song out of a lineup.
Everybody now has a lane.
MJ never had one. He was loved everywhere at the same time, because there was nowhere else for the culture to go.
He shot the Beat It video with actual Crips and Bloods on set, from rival sets in LA, in the same room with him.
Nobody else was doing that. Nobody else COULD.
He was lonely and weird and broken, and he poured all of it into the music. There’s a reason you can still feel something in Billie Jean and She’s Out of My Life forty years later.
That’s a person bleeding into a microphone. Not a brand.
The biggest stars now are LLCs. They’re products.
Taylor Swift is about breakups within a target demo. Songs are two minutes long because that’s what TikTok pays for. There’s no soul.
MJ was a ridiculously talented person who actually moved people. Produced, wrote, danced, made short films it’s pretty insane.
Anyways just saw the movie and was reminiscing.
It’s like Hollywood.
The era of superstars is waning.
Don’t think we get another like him.
What the fuck.
A US Admiral just briefed Trump on preparations for a new wave of strikes to deliver the “final blow” to Iran.
Final blow sounds like they’re planning to use nukes. This should concern everyone. The people of Iran are not our enemy. Our own corrupt government is.
Today's Supreme Court decision is a direct assault on the promise of the Voting Rights Act. It risks disenfranchising millions of Americans along racial lines and weakening the very foundation of our democracy.
Democracy is not self-sustaining. We must build, preserve, and defend it together.
Here in New York City, we will always lead a government of, by, and for the people — all of the people.
If you were horrified last night watching our elected leaders run and scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed.
Now, becomes a part of the solution and only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.
While journalists inside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner celebrated with the powerful, we brought them the face of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil and asked a simple question: why are you silent while your colleagues are being killed? From Gaza to Lebanon to Iran, reporters are being killed by Israel, civilians are under bombardment. History will remember who spoke up and who partied with war criminals.
Abdul El-Sayed: “Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics, he’s just the worst symptom of the disease. The disease is the system that allows big corporations and billionaires, special interests like AIPAC to buy and sell politicians. They use their money to rig our system against us. It’s why we pay more for the stuff we gotta buy, get paid less for the work we do, and watch our tax dollars misappropriated to drop bombs on other people’s kids rather than to invest in our own”
Bernie: “Americans don’t want us to spend billions in support of the illegal horrific policies of the Netanyahu government in Israel.”
Rep. Rose: “Sanders' comments border on antisemitic.”
This doesn’t work anymore. You cannot “antisemitism” your way out of committing genocide.
This is an amazing piece of old-school New York footage.
Local NBC news after the Mets won the 1986 World Series.
Chuck Scarborough. Sue Simmons. Al Roker. Len Berman. And a bunch of absolutely HAMMERED Mets players.