Brush Bates

[j 💌 @sheflowerfeast]

FUCK YOU @onedirection

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism. 

American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.

And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.

For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.

We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.

The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.

It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

"'The Innocents' (1961)- This Jack Clayton adaptation of 'The Turn of the Screw' is one of the rare pictures that does justice to Henry James. It’s beautifully crafted and acted, immaculately shot (by Freddie Francis), and very scary."

--- Martin Scorsese

[Grace⁷ @S0ULMATES_95]

ok i’ll stop this is the last one but i genuinely couldnt stop laughing after seeing this for the first time

[LUMUMBA VEA 🇨🇩🐆 @JumbaDrc]

MEXICO 🇲🇽🤝🇨🇩 CONGO 🙋🏾‍♂️

[Star Wars Holocron @sw_holocron]

Sam O’Hara, the man who was handcuffed after playing Darth Vader's "Imperial March" at National Guard members, said that his experience was proof that Star Wars' themes of standing up to fascism and tyranny are "timeless."

"Here we are in 2026 dealing with that same... fascism. Tyranny…. I wasn't harming anyone. I wasn't being destructive. Using art and using music—I think that spoke for itself. The song I chose brings up feelings in others that I wanted to convey. It paints a picture, and it tells a story on its own. I think good protest, just like good art, should be provocative."

(Source: https://t.co/YytBw2K58o)

[lex ❦ @atropalex]

whenever i hear ‘horseradish’ this is what i see in my head

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” by Public Enemy was released 38 years ago today.

[Cello/Phn @Cellowphane]

Only 8% of Black men in America hold a master’s degree. Black queer men make up about 3% of that 🫶🏽

[LUMUMBA VEA 🇨🇩🐆 @JumbaDrc]

❤️💛💙 🇨🇩🇨🇩 💛💙❤️

[ُ @absoIute_batman]

How that first drive in GTA VI is gonna feel

[Jason from GTA VI @JasonfromGTAVI]

THIS IS THE SAME CHARACTER BTW

[PAC-MAN @officialpacman]

Happy birthday to my bestie, @sonic_hedgehog! 💙

Let's keep this party going! #Sonic35

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Sonic the Hedgehog made his debut 35 years ago today.

[meems ᥫ᭡ @aoifesvega]

Everytime i search a gif all i see is loser millennial ones i feel sick

[KoiJay🍥 @KoiJayx]

The most insane mii lineup you’ll ever see💀🌈

[The Weeknd @theweeknd]

Out of Time is one of my favorite songs that I’ve ever written. It would not exist without the magic of Tomoko Aran.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

5 years ago, the Biden-Harris administration made Juneteenth a national holiday

[Rhythm & Blues 💎 @RnB_DITR]

Encore

Cheryl Lynn (1983)

[John Densmore @JohnDensmore]

Today is Juneteenth. A national holiday, just as important as the fourth of July and all those other nationalist days we celebrate.