SCOTUS just said a president can do anything without getting in trouble and Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are still going to email me saying their hands are tied on every issue I care about unless I give them $20 today
Alex was trying to remember the lyrics and sang “do you hear the people sing singing a lovely lovely song and if they all sing it loudly then one day they’ll get along”
✨ hey guys i went on NPR about this! ✨
in honor of Tony weekend, i joined @bmluse and @NPRItsBeenAMin to talk about presidents onstage, what it means for politicians to produce broadway shows, and why jefferson can't stop kissing his wife in 1776 !!!
https://t.co/pOI8lFaW7b
There’s this weird slippage people do where by “peaceful” they mean “lawful” but then they want to use MLK as an example and seem to forget where “letter from Birmingham Jail” was written from
Tonight I learned that Alex only knew Kristin Chenoweth as “that funny actor who shows up in movies sometimes” with absolutely no idea that she is musical theater royalty and it sent us down the most glorious YouTube rabbit hole of Broadway divas :)
Having your own students arrested for trespassing — a crime only because you suspended their right to be on campus — is just so obviously, horribly beyond the pale literally no matter what they were protesting.
Incredible story. USC offers a minor in “resistance to genocide”, this girl minored in it, was named valedictorian, and then they cancelled her speech because she might talk about genocide
Let it be known now and forever. He could’ve done this months ago. That America will never ever be the heroes this time around. We watched them veto every time the world asked for lives to be saved. But it only took 3 white people, not the 30 000+ Palestinians gone…
You get maybe 1 election every generation where you say "Nothing matters but making sure this guy isn't in office." You do not get 3 in a row. This has been the line of the Democratic Party for almost 10 years straight now. At some point you need a policy platform of some kind.
Either the IDF is extremely bad at identifying targets, to the point that it’s dangerous for aid workers and civilians, and the U.S. should stop sending them weapons.
OR
Netanyahu is lying and the U.S. should stop sending them weapons.
Either way—STOP. SENDING. THEM. WEAPONS.
getting ur shot at an snl monologue and using to confront people with the pain of Palestinians and to beg for their freedom and peace is not only brave and righteous, it is what comedians should have been doing every week for the last six months
Awarding indigenous artists in the mainstream could pave the way for more indigenous art getting funded, more indigenous stories being told, which could have real world impacts on things like hate crimes, hiring inequity, and on and on and on.
The tragic reality is that Lily Gladstone becomes a stand-in for all indigenous people, all nonbinary people, all women of color. A loss for Emma will never be a loss for cis white women as a whole. But Lily’s loss gives Hollywood the excuse to say “See? These stories won’t sell”
The most depressing thing about Gladstone losing out is that it's entirely unclear if Hollywood will ever meet her at her level and give her the material for another shot.
Emma’s performance was brilliant and the Oscars are meaningless when it comes to quality of art. But if we have given this much power to something so flawed, I wish we would at least use that power for good.