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[SᑌSᗩᑎ✨🇺🇸 👑✨ @_Susan]

This HAS to be a mistake. Prince was supposed to be immortal. :(

[Stephanie Ruhle @SRuhle]

@jaimeyperham @11thHour @MSNOWNews Thank you so much - join us Monday morning 9AM on @MSNOWNews when #moneypowerpolitics kicks off ❤️

[Rose - BodyAndSoul @purpleroseh23]

@HunterBiden Hi. Please join us over on a black owned social media platform called Spoutible. We’ve been following you and your journey here and would love for you to post here and to join us in our live audio pod discussions.

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[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

“It’s time to wake the fuck up”

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Half of my fellow graduate students when I was getting my PhD were foreign nationals. Do you realize one third of all the Nobel Prizes in sciences won by Americans were won by immigrants to America? If you’re gonna trail the world in practically everything, including your economy, it’s time to wake the fuck up”

[South Carolina Democratic Party @scdp]

South Carolina Democrats didn't just show up, they made history.

Voters across our state turned enthusiasm into action, delivering the highest June Democratic primary turnout in recent history and sending a clear message that Democrats are energized and engaged.

[SandyB @SandyBro20th]

I’m going to retweet this every week until Midterms 👇🏾💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[🌎 Kev_Almighty 🌎 @BigYash_609]

Black Americans have been getting screwed by this white supremacist system since its inception. The wheat is now being separated from the chaffe. We know how to navigate the hell that's coming. White social welfare recipients are in trouble.

[Jasmine Crockett @JasmineForUS]

Not even a month into congress, and this man was sitting down having conversations with little unknown reps like me about how we could best serve our districts. 3.5 years later, I was proud to stand with an experienced & authentic public servant as he stepped up to lead California as their next governor! Congrats on such an impressive election night @becerraforgovernor!

[Strictly 4 My X’ers @Lizzs_Lockeroom]

"Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful."- Prince

Remembering Prince on his day of birth.... (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) #PrinceDay #Prince4Ever 🕊💜💜💜💜🕊

[SᑌSᗩᑎ✨🇺🇸 👑✨ @_Susan]

Let's go crazy celebrating Prince on his birthday

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[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

NOT GILES!

[Verbal Riot @verbalriotshow]

I was crazy busy at work today but wanted to say a few words about this before the day ended. I don't normally write shit like this but this one hit hard.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer just by name alone should have been a 1 season corny 90's teen soap joke. But it ended up being a beloved show that took it's audience serious and created a lifelong fandom.

A huge part of that was because Anthony Head's Rupert Giles, a strong, caring, smart, father figure to a whole generation of young people. He was strong, caring, smart, and talented, and that's something we don't get a lot of today in modern day male characters.

RIP "Ripper" 🥃

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Anthony Head got so famous in Britain for a coffee advert that his serious acting work dried up. So he moved to America and ended up on a hit show about hunting vampires. He died this week at 72, and that coffee advert is the least interesting thing he ever did.

It was for instant coffee. The story started in 1987 with a woman knocking on her neighbour's door to borrow some, and it ran for six years like a tiny soap opera, each instalment ending on a will-they-won't-they cliffhanger. The country got hooked. When the last one aired, around thirty million people tuned in to see if the couple would finally get together, and a newspaper ran it on the front page. There was even a spin-off novel and a hit album, all from a coffee advert.

That kind of fame can trap an actor. The bigger parts stopped coming, so Head went to America and landed Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He played Giles, the school librarian and guardian of a teenage girl who secretly hunts vampires, the calm grown-up quietly keeping her alive. He once said he based the character on Hugh Grant, all stammering and bookish. For seven seasons he was the warmest father figure on television.

Years later he got to play the exact opposite. Ted Lasso is a comedy about a kind American coach loose in English football, and Head was the villain, Rupert, a rich and cheating ex-husband. His former wife wants to hurt him so badly that she hires Ted hoping the team will collapse. Head started as an occasional guest, then joined the main cast, ending up in 18 episodes.

He said the bad guy was the fun part, because a villain has more going on, and he liked playing men who were nothing like him. You can see the care in it. Rupert starts out as a cartoon and slowly turns into something sadder, a man with money, a young wife and a new baby who still cannot enjoy a single thing he owns. By the end everyone around him grows up. He just shrinks.

None of that was him. His Ted Lasso castmate Brett Goldstein said Head "played the worst person in the world," and pulling it off so well took real talent, because in life he was the kindest man on the set. When the news broke, Sarah Michelle Gellar, the young actress he had looked after on Buffy, posted a photo of the two of them. "I'm not okay," she wrote.

He died months after losing Sarah Fisher, his partner of more than forty years. He leaves behind two men named Rupert, one a gentle teacher and one a cruel charmer, and a long line of people who knew him saying the same thing. The gentle one was closer to the truth.

[SᑌSᗩᑎ✨🇺🇸 👑✨ @_Susan]

I'm in shock. Condolences to the family, friends and admirers of Anthony Head. RIP. #Buffy

[Pop Base @PopBase]

‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ and ‘Ted Lasso’ actor Anthony Head has died at the age of 72.

[Branden @A3Branden]

Rest in peace, Anthony Stewart Head 🕊️. Here’s a clip of him as Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer performing a cover of Behind Blue Eyes by The Who. A beautiful performance that fans will never forget. 💙

[Variety @Variety]

Sarah Michelle Gellar pays tribute to her "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" co-star Anthony Head following his death:

"'Tell Giles I figured it out and I’m ok’ Well I don’t have it figured out and I’m not ok. But I know I’m the lucky one because I knew you. Thank you to Daisy and Emily who not only shared their dad with me, but with the world."

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[𝓝𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓼 @NikkiBarnes]

Sending love to the Demings family and wishing Jerry a speedy recovery.

[SᑌSᗩᑎ✨🇺🇸 👑✨ @_Susan]

No lies detected.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@Cactuscali19912 Stephen Miller is an ugly fuck.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is what Trump's done to the people's house:

A third of it is rubble.

Another third is a cage match.

What a metaphor.

[dj short @_DJShort]

Legendary Philadelphia keyboardist, producer, and arranger Dexter Wansel has passed away at the age of 75.

[KingBritt @kingbritt]

Rest in Power Dexter Wansel

Blacktronika and ArtPhilly send strength, love, and heartfelt condolences to the family of Dexter Wansel during this time.

Grammy Award Winning producer, Dexter Wansel was one of the most important composers and electronic music innovators in modern music, particularly within Black musical traditions. Joining Philadelphia International Records in 1973 as a keyboardist, he became one of the label’s key creative forces, introducing synthesizers such as the ARP 2600, EMS VCS3, and Oberheim Six Voice into its recordings and sonic vocabulary.

His 1976 masterpiece, Life on Mars, remains one of the most groundbreaking and visionary works in the Philadelphia International catalog. Expansive in scope and fearless in imagination, the album opened new possibilities for listeners, merging futurism, spirituality, and electronic experimentation in ways that continue to resonate today. As a composer, Wansel helped shape some of the label’s most enduring recordings, working with artists ranging from Lou Rawls to The Jones Girls, including the timeless classic “Nights Over Egypt.”

His legacy has been expanded by everyone from Rick Ross to Cole to Mobb Deep through sampling.

For the past several months, we had been planning to honor Mr. Wansel with the inaugural Blacktronika Icon Award and a special performance celebrating his extraordinary contributions. The event on June 24 will now serve as a celebration of his life, creativity, and love.

He was our hero, mentor, and guiding light. He now joins the ancestors, leaving behind a body of work that will continue to inspire generations to come.

See you in the cosmos, Mr. Wansel.

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