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[ethical hater @frostedtakes_]

You know the culture really fucked with Mac when a brotha accuse the white man of stealing his work and nobody gave af

[kamau @poorteffy]

I know niggas in the hood still on ps3 and that bitch just a nba youngboy video machine to them

[Ladé @LadePlatinum]

i remember when uncle phil was discouraging will to become a stand up comic

will said “i bet sinbad’s parents supported him”

uncle phil said “the nigga’s name is sinbad‼️‼️ he had two choices, stand up. comic or pirate‼️‼️”

[fresh @fauxfresh]

fantasia was so tuff they gave her a movie in her prime like she was 50 Cent

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The hat tilted low, the single white glove, the way Michael Jackson freezes mid-move: he got all of it from a guy who started going bald at 17 and wore the hat to cover it, and the gloves because he hated his own hands.

That guy was Bob Fosse. The hat and gloves were only two of his fixes. He was pigeon-toed too, so his feet pointed inward instead of turning out the way a trained dancer's are supposed to, and instead of fighting it he turned his knees in and made that a move. Three things he was self-conscious about, all turned into a style.

The clip going around is from a 1974 movie, The Little Prince. Fosse plays the Snake. He came up with the dance himself, bought his own hat and gloves, even picked the camera angles. In the clip he's all in black under the desert sun, sliding across the sand, wrists flicking, before he stops dead. And he was no nobody: he had already beaten The Godfather to the Best Director Oscar for Cabaret. Pull up "Billie Jean" right after, and you're looking at the same man: the hat low over the eyes, the gloved hand, the trick where he holds completely still and then hits a pose that lands ten times harder because of the pause right before it.

Jackson knew exactly where it came from. In 1983 he took Fosse out to lunch, told him straight up how much his dancing had shaped his own, and tried to get him to work on the Thriller video. Fosse said no. He died four years later, in 1987.

Fosse didn't invent any of this from scratch either. He took it from the rundown stages and burlesque clubs where he started dancing as a kid, and from his own idol, Fred Astaire, the same way Jackson would later take it from him. The look that defined the King of Pop began with one man trying to cover up the parts of himself he couldn't stand.

[Greta Thunberg Respecter 40K 🇸🇪🇵🇸🚀🇰🇵 @JucheAffirmer]

Folks, if you haven't been paying attention, the plan right now to deal with a possible stock market crash is to straight up make pension funds around the world the bag holders of last resort.

We are moving beyond Russia in the 90s in terms of outright looting at this point.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

Section 224 of the 2027 NDAA - National Defense Authorization Act integrates the U.S. military with the Israeli military.

This is what complete capture to a foreign government looks like and there hasn’t been a single shot fired.

[CHUCK INGLISH said it. @Chuckisdope]

Dog.

[El Jefe @ChaseEnCashe]

Nigga fucked around and said the quiet part out loud.

[Gnostic Informant | Neal Sendlak @Gnosisinformant]

This is like one of those crazy stories you read in Herodotus that nobody would ever believe if they couldn't see it for themselves.

[k @kurtos]

in 2020 kanye said he wants yeezy products to be cheap because "money isn't real, so the world should eventually be free." half a decade later in the middle of the worst inflation rise i've seen in my lifetime he drops a full catalog with the most expensive item being $100. gotta respect it

[Rain Drops Media @Raindropsmedia1]

Grief-stricken dad is stuck replaying the death of his 14-year-old son, Amari, who was sh*t to d*ath in a mass sh**ting while at a child’s birthday party in Stockton, California, over the weekend. 💔🙏🏽🕊️

[Emy @emy21S]

Nobody talks about Sudan

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

This is how Patrice Lumumba was arrested by the Belgian army, the US and the UK 💔💔😭😭

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

First father-daughter dance held at Angola Prison for inmates who haven’t seen their daughters in years

[Isabella Anderson @IsabellaAn67]

The Philippine Navy recently caught Chinese Fishing Militia putting Cyanide in the water near the BRP Sierra Madre at the Second Thomas Shoal.

The incident that was recorded on camera demonstrates the brutality & destruction meted out by the Chinese Fishing Militia inside Philippines's waters.

Chinese vessels are wreaking havoc inside Philippines's waters. China Coast Guard & the Chinese Fishing Militia have already destroyed thousands of acres of Coral reefs. China's illegal fishing activities have almost depleted Philippines's own fishing stock.

The illegal Chinese vessels that do not care about other nations' territorial sovereignty & carry out China's Gray Zone Warfare in the name of fishing must be treated as Pirate Boats. @RealTonySLee @supbrow @RommelFLopez

[lola @lolaarchive]

i want to write about the low-grade stalking the internet not only allows but encouraged and facilitates

[X @XaviercMiller]

Because everything does work out… as long as you’re not a BAN.

[New York Post @nypost]

Rich ‘sniper tourists’ allegedly paid $90K to shoot civilians — including kids — during ‘human safari’ trips to Sarajevo https://t.co/jcIqwSNlaI

[Raphousetv (RHTV) @raphousetv2]

A Woman In A Minivan In Thousand Oaks , La Just Led Police On A Wild Chase Down The 101, The 405 And The 5 All The Way To The Mexico Border... With Zero Traffic. Over 300+ Miles... And She Actually Made It Into Mexico without getting caught.😳