it's such small brain energy to ask me which team i'm rooting for.......i'm rooting for the game of basketball. i'm rooting for beauty and drama and for wemby to elbow sga in the neck
The woman whose home Chi is defending is Carmela Charrington, who has been in Rikers for 6 days now for for fighting the theft of her family's home. "Our community is pretty much gone," she told me last month. Said people need to be asking: "How did it happen? Who did it?"
Jack Dorsey says the “dinner with Jay-Z” meme is real and that every conversation with him leaves him with more wisdom:
"The meme—half a million dollars or dinner with Jay? Like, that is real. Every moment I’ve had with him, every story I could tell, is really just a compounding realization around how much wisdom he has. A lot of it’s through experience, but a lot of it is just instinct. [...] I don’t think people realize how deep it is. You get it only through these small snippets in the music or maybe a speech or an action. But if you put the whole corpus together, it’s pretty impressive."
(via GQ)
I think Zohran's co-opting of efficiency from the right will be seismic for the American socialist project. We need to run a national campaign against The Contractor State—neoliberalism's grand, massively inefficient outsourcing of government functions to private contractors.
“Black art and buying power aren’t our only commodities; It’s also our outrage, despair, and anger that fuels the zeitgeist. If all publicity is good publicity, then the groundswell of engagement gained from playing in our faces is a go-to attention tactic.”
my latest ⛓️💥
hi. i am billionaire. for my entire adult life, i have rewired my brain to only seek to extract money. i am building a machine to destroy you and everything you love and turn it into money that i own.
(American) : This is so cool. this is the coolest thing i have ever heard
This was always the way it was going to go. All industry in the US is ultimately downstream of the business of war. This is the strategic culmination of all those stupid Ghibli photos, the creep of that awful writing style into every corner of our lives, all of it was for this
🚨Israeli soldiers fired nearly a thousand bullets during the Red Crescent massacre of 15 Palestinian aid workers in southern Gaza on March 23, 2025—with at least eight shots fired at point blank range:
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