@Phil_Lewis_
Are you following this story? Black male from Detroit severely injured at this festival. His throat was slashed.
Second incident involving black males at Michigan music festivals.
Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the retired pilot who successfully landed a commercial airliner filled with passengers in the Hudson River, announces he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. https://t.co/82X3kFzOAq
To everyone who helped bring the Obama Presidential Center to life, thank you. Michelle and I are so grateful for all your dedication and hard work over the years.
I got a little teary-eyed tonight thinking about my mother-in-law, Marian Robinson.
Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter
P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.
@dgamer2663@HunterBiden Tr*mp can’t have a pet dog because animals hate him. Yes, gold by itself is a good investment, but buying gold with Don Jr as a pass-through for the purchase is just plain d*mb.
I hate to admit this but Trump was right.
He said that if I vote for Kamala Harris gas prices, groceries prices and my utility bills will go through the roof.
I voted for Harris and my gas, groceries and utility bills have gone through the roof.
@ProfessorE59@Local4News@nbc It was cut for my local station to show rebroadcast of the 11pm news. SNL usually runs long. They cut a live show for a rerun of the news. They can fix this.
Why was Colman Domingo’s closing cut from #SNL? Was this just my local station @Local4News or did @nbc cut it? @Local4News has a bad habit of cutting off the end of NBC shows. It happens way too often to be a mistake.
In anticipation of the Flash Fiction Challenge 2026 kicking off May 1st, we're happy to announce that we will be publishing the top three stories from last year’s competition. Today, we're proud to publish the 3rd-place story, ./Human Legacy by MM Schreier, at https://t.co/2O4YCoEmQs. Original illustration by @znayberg. Enjoy!
@JoshLipnik I don’t know if it was a contractor or Detroit Edison, but the deal was usually made through the block clubs. There was something about lowering the cost when more people bought and it made the houses look more uniform.
Dorothy Butler Gilliam, the first Black woman reporter hired at The Washington Post, donated $10,000 to recently laid-off guild members https://t.co/CFyfHuW4uJ