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[Madeline @mchayne]

@SpotifyUSA

[Madeline @mchayne]

How is my top song not in my library (and a song I haven’t heard before)?

[𝓝𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓼 @NikkiBarnes]

For those who may need this message today.

[Clayton Sandell @Clayton_Sandell]

After yet another Colorado school shooting, an eighth grader named Winston tells @KDVR: “I only moved here a few months ago, and I didn’t think this would happen so soon.” So soon. This is the heartbreaking effect gun violence is having on our kids. They now just EXPECT it.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Demanding people pay their student loans while canceling payment plans is diabolical

[Taylor Hale @TheTayHale]

Grammys and Super Bowl 59 really were for the timeline where Kamala won 😭

[Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️ @0liviajulianna]

They’re going to be too stupid to realize that entire performance was a fuck you to them and everything they stand for

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

not sure Snoop Dogg fresh off performing at Trump’s inauguration is the best spokesperson for Stand Up To Hate tbh

[B.W. Carlin @BaileyCarlin]

An “a minor” necklace is crazy 😭😭😭

[Shea Serrano @SheaSerrano]

“say drake…”

fucking crazy

[FLAVOR FLAV @FlavorFlav]

The way the WHOLE stadium just yelled “A MINOOOOOOOOOORRRRR”
#KendrickLamar #SuperBowl

[Kev @klew24]

“SAY DRAKE…”

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Charlie Roumeliotis @CRoumeliotis]

The Patrick Kane video tribute and his three curtain calls. Epic. #Blackhawks

[Chicago Blackhawks @NHLBlackhawks]

Heartbreaker.
Showtime.
Kaner.
88.
Thank you @88PKane ❤️

[Barstool Chicago @barstoolchicago]

Watching Chris Chelios give one of the best jersey retirement speeches ever and remembering Patrick Kane is still a Red Wing and we’re still in last place

https://t.co/SOSOm4A3uL

[Blackhawks on CHSN @CHSN_Blackhawks]

"Patrick Kane will go down as the greatest American-born player... Just don't go stealing my thunder today"

Chelios ignites a massive standing ovation for Patrick Kane at the United Center

[Blackhawks on CHSN @CHSN_Blackhawks]

Patrick Kane embraces his former teammates — Brent Seabrook, Duncan Keith, Patrick Sharp and Marian Hossa — as he returns to the United Center for the first time 🥹😭

[Joe Frick @joefrk]

Andy Reid to Travis Kelce when they get into the locker room