Four years ago.... Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser sounded the alarm on the growing trend of athletes and former athletes amplifying conspiracy theories.
This clip has aged incredibly well. Crazy to watch today in light of recent events.
Ticketmaster’s scam fees now cost as much as 78% of a ticket. The company controls the events, the venues, even the artists and it’s destroying live music.
Today, Joe Biden announced he will crack down on outrageous processing fees, like the ones on concert tickets.
New: The Holocaust Museum of LA offered Kanye West a private tour, hoping it would change his views. West turned their invitation down, and said “Planned Parenthood" was his “Holocaust museum.” Now, the LA Holocaust museum is being flooded with antisemitic messages and threats.
FACT: Before Kanye West was "the face of Anti-Semitism," he was one of the hip-hop faces of misogynoir, anti-Blackness, Trumpism, and slavery-denial.
And y'all still gave him contracts, documentaries, endorsements, clothing deals, and millions that became billions.
Shame.
If someone robs a McDonald’s, the robbery might show up in crime stats. But if McDonald’s steals money out of its workers’ paychecks, it wouldn't. In this way, the outsized focus on the most sensational types of crime allows some of the most egregious offenders to escape notice.
Hard to say colonialism is a thing of the past when the monarch of England dying gets 100x the attention of a U.S. colony being flooded devastated by a hurricane while the privately owned power company the U.S. imposed fails utterly.
Outraged about 9 years for Brittney Griner in Russian prison for marijuana? You should be. Meanwhile, in the US,
Tameka Drummer is in her 14th year of a life in prison sentence for being caught w/ less than 2 ounces of marijuana. “American Exceptionalism.”
This top down, centralized, patriarchal, carceral approach to problems is fucking dying. Can electeds and longtime leaders please understand this shit? Y'all need some hand holding to read the room or what?