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[𝔹𝔼𝕃𝕃𝔸 🦋 @QuencaBel]

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[𝓝. 𖤐 @luvblessingz]

Progress that I can feel. Joy that I can bask in. Love I can melt in & Money that I can freely spend. 🫶🏾

[Unknownbadboyy🫟🌴 @Unknownbadboyyy]

Wetin dey do me don pass English music, Make I enter Chinese😭

[𝔹𝔼𝕃𝕃𝔸 🦋 @QuencaBel]

@RamatVictory @NICKIMINAJ Thanks love💖🤗

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Nicki Minaj is one of the greatest rappers alive, and she just did something almost no artist dares to do: openly back Trump and show up at SpaceX to thank Elon. To understand why that's so rare, you need to understand why the overwhelming majority of actors and artists are anti-Trump. And it's not because they're smarter, more sensitive, or more moral than everyone else. It's because they live inside a system where thinking differently costs you your career. Let me explain how it works.

An artist starts with nothing. No capital, no distribution, no audience. Everything they have, they receive from someone else. An agent who decides to sign them. A studio that decides to cast them. A label that decides to push them. A brand that decides to attach them to its image. A festival that decides to select them. An academy that decides to reward them. At every step, there's a gatekeeper. And those gatekeepers form a tiny ecosystem, concentrated in Los Angeles and New York, socially homogeneous and politically aligned. Historically, the entertainment industry's political money flows overwhelmingly to one side.

This system works like modern patronage. In the 16th century, artists depended on the prince or the Church, and they painted what their patron wanted to see. Today it's the same, except the patron is called an agency, a streaming platform, a selection committee, or a "brand safety" department. The mechanism hasn't changed: you depend on their money, so you adopt their values. Not necessarily out of cynicism. Usually by osmosis. You go to the same dinners, the same galas, the same schools, and you end up thinking like the people who feed you.

And for those who don't align on their own, there's punishment. It's never official. Nobody calls to tell you your career is over. The roles just get rarer, the brands stop calling back, the invitations disappear. Gina Carano got fired from The Mandalorian over her posts. The entire industry got the message loud and clear. Everyone knows what stepping out of line costs. So the line holds. Even Oscar eligibility rules now include ideological criteria. The system no longer just rewards talent, it rewards conformity.

The result: when you see 95% of celebrities signing the same open letter, that's not a consensus. It's a cartel. It's exactly what Gramsci described: culture as an instrument of consent, and artists as the organic intellectuals of a system that pays them to legitimize it.

That's why Nicki Minaj's move matters so much. She has a historically progressive fanbase, and she had absolutely everything to lose. And yet, since late 2025, she's publicly backed Trump. She went on stage with him in Washington. She went to Starbase to watch the Starship launch and thanked Elon live on air for what he's doing for humanity. She's been insulted, mocked, attacked by her own fans, roasted in the middle of the Grammys. And she hasn't backed down an inch.

That's courage. The real kind. Not the "courage" of signing an open letter your whole industry applauds. The courage to think for yourself when your entire economic and social ecosystem is pushing you the other way.

And that's why the culture war won't be won by convincing Hollywood. It'll be won by making Hollywood unnecessary. When anyone can make a film without asking a gatekeeper for permission, the cartel collapses on its own.

[boyjim @boyjimgram]

We really are poor people, and it’s not even about money

We are poor in conscience. Poor in morals. Poor in honor.

The country cannot change if the masses don’t change. Period!

[Tory🫧💕 @ayanfe2k]

I don't follow people I don't like, I don't watch stories of people I don't like and I don't interact with people I don't like. Y'all got this weird ass obsession with keeping up with mfs you don't like and I find that soo strange!

[Tshepi🥇 @silv_ermoon]

Words that will never come out of my mouth😭 I love sleeping sm

[• • • @QCWorldwide]

Woke up still a Nicki Minaj fan and there’s nothing you or that Keyboard can do about it.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Because a certain kind of man believes that not getting everything he wants from women is oppression. This applies both to incels and to the type of trans-identified man who insists that speech, laws and physical spaces should be reconfigured around his self-image.

[Abiodun @bin_gbada]

An average MRI machine cost $250,000 (375,000,000).

Dayo Israel shared 7 brand new 2026 Prado SUVs at the cost of 165 million per unit which cost 1.1 billion ($825,000).

Dayo Israel is the Chairman, federal medical center in Abeokuta, which is a specialist hospital with ZERO MRI machine. None at all.

The 7 SUVs can purchase 3 MRI machines. Please vote out these wasteful losers in 2027!!

[Surg_Akande @Pharm_Surg]

“I’ve not been seeing you and that your friend”

Lie say you never hear the gist.🙄

[Chvn-C(Ιi)t 🥢 @seasonmaraj]

THIS SHOT RIGHT HERE? WOAH.

[🍒 @nimibillions]

deadass

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Three points at Anfield 😍 #LIVBHA

[ᴢᴇʟɪq Is ALONE ♪♪💙 @zeliqisALONE06]

😭😂😂

[Ayo @Alhajirostova]

oh to have light 🥹

[James @Jamesiff7]

He who dislikes plantain has no plan to attain

-Aristotle

[DREY🥷🥤 @BabyGucci4L]

If algorithm show you this, you are getting your spark back

[DREY🥷🥤 @BabyGucci4L]

That feeling when you finally get your spark back