Focus Pocus

Food/wine/jazz/books. #MLIS Creating a new groove. City spirit with small town roots. I ❤️animals, especially elephants.

[Focus Pocus @PupsherLive]

@NyashaJunior Question the story you’ve told yourself about yourself. Try things, even if you’ve told yourself you won’t like it or won’t be good at it. Save $ every paycheck, even if it’s only $10.

[Focus Pocus @PupsherLive]

@jayquintana_jr @jasonwblakely Johnny Carson was on television at a time when there were way fewer channels and viewing options.

[David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS]

The dude who grew up with his mom buying annual Chanel jackets was also just lecturing everyone on spending $28 on lunch btw.

[Focus Pocus @PupsherLive]

How did letting Trump win improve the situation in Gaza?

Was your answer to Gaza making everywhere else worse?

The Gaza reason for not supporting Kamala Harris is illogical.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

There is not a single mention of Gaza in the 192 page DNC autopsy report. As someone who campaigned in Michigan and Wisconsin, let me tell you- one of the main reasons we lost was our blank check to Israel while they committed a genocide.

Our party must put human rights first.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The trailer for Questlove’s Earth, Wind & Fire documentary is out:

[Courtney A. Kemp @CourtneyKemp]

I am grateful and humbled to have this opportunity to tell more stories for the culture! https://t.co/9inB4ULPqD

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

Ok-
We didnt get the screen count we wanted for I Love Boosters- but we got 1700, which is good.

This means: if it's not on a screen near u tomorrow, it won't get there-

unless we blow it out on 1700, then we can get more.

So- please travel to a screen even if it's not close!

[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

Colman Domingo spoke to Men's Health about his experience coming out as gay to his family in the 1990s. The first person he told was his older brother:

"I told him that I was gay. He looked at me and was just like, 'What?' He just couldn’t believe it. Eventually, he said, 'I don’t care, man. I love you anyway.' And he just hugged me. Then he said, 'Have you told anyone else?' I said, no. He said, 'Alright, this stays between you and me.”’

Her sister found out two days later:

"She was pissed off. I said, 'Look, yes, it was really hard for me to tell him.' She said, 'No, no, no. Why didn’t you tell me first?' She was pissed off because she didn’t get the information first.’

Some time later, he told his mother—who accepted it calmly. Twenty minutes later, the phone rings and she says:

“I talked to your stepfather.” She puts him on and he says, in his blue-collar masculine way, “You’re a good boy and there’s nothing you can tell me that would make me stop loving you.”’

🔗https://t.co/qHS6o9eE2y

[Amanda Litman @amandalitman]

That the guy Martin “hired” to do the autopsy fucked up so bad is STILL DOING WORK FOR THE DNC months later on a different project is so incredibly damning.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

My take on what makes Stephen Colbert one of today's best Catholic evangelists.
https://t.co/TW86sw96yG

[William A Goldsborough @WmAG_V]

I reiterate, the Democratic Base of Black voters dont need a report for things we already know.

We gave warnings & this country decided to fail an open book test. Dem leadership helped by pushing out Biden and half assing support for Kamala.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The Washington @Nationals saw the post below and invited two of our aspiring journalists to interview Nasim Nuñez!

I’m so proud of them and they asked great follow-up questions. Journalism opens doors. @WABJDC

[Melat Kiros for Congress, CO-1 @MelatKirosCO]

He’s right bc we tax income, not wealth.

Bezos takes out a tiny salary, pays the income tax, and lives off loans borrowed against his stocks, basically tax free. They all do this and now 935 billionaires hold more wealth than 170 million Americans.

It’s time to tax wealth.

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

it's genuinely crazy that Elon got free reign to do the exact thing that every "just cut spending" dipshit has wanted to do for decades, it failed catastrophically, and they're still running the exact same script like nothing happened

[Focus Pocus @PupsherLive]

It should have been Ben Wikler. Is he still available?

[Amanda Litman @amandalitman]

In case I didn't make it clear: Ken Martin is not up to the task of being DNC chair -- the most important part of which is preparing to run the presidential primary process with trust & competency -- and should resign.

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

A fact that’s often overlooked: many of the recently dismantled and defunded ‘diversity’ initiatives on college campuses were focused on geographic diversity- ie encouraging and supporting underrepresented rural students to attend colleges.

Baby with the bath water?

[Focus Pocus @PupsherLive]

@MikeLupica The person who hired Bari Weiss should be fired as well.

[Focus Pocus @PupsherLive]

@tombogert Yes.

[herculez gomez @herculezg]

Timothy Weah was essentially told to “shut up and dribble” by his #USMNT manager Mauricio Pochettino after he spoke out against outrageous World Cup ticket prices.

Here he is at Zohran Mamdani’s affordable tickets press conference.

[nikki mccann ramírez @NikkiMcR]

Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to pay them a fair wage and not hoard the value of their production while claiming taxation is too much of a burden on you

[Focus Pocus @PupsherLive]

Every day they come up with a bad idea.

[Nick Miroff @NickMiroff]

SCOOP: Markwayne Mullin met with airline and travel executives at DHS last week and told them he's serious about plan to pressure sanctuary cities by cutting CBP passenger & cargo screening at intl airports after World Cup. Execs have warned economic impact would be "devastating"