Black Women & Girls Matter

Father | Husband | Mets #LGM #LFGM | ‘I am immersed in the Black culture at all levels’ | Patriot: 🗽

[Black Women & Girls Matter @TKOEd]

Two things the U.S. should thank Black folks for:
1. Building this country.
2. Not justifiably burning this whole country to the ground.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The best mosquito repellent for your patio costs $20 and runs on a wall outlet: a fan.

Mosquitoes are terrible fliers with a top speed of about 1-2 miles an hour, slower than you walk, and they struggle to make headway against even a gentle breeze. Point an oscillating fan at your outdoor seating area and they'll physically struggle to get to you.

It works on two levels too. A mosquito finds you by following the plume of carbon dioxide you exhale, plus the heat and scent rising off your skin. A fan scatters all of it and erases the trail that leads them in. So it knocks them out of the air and helps hide you from their senses at the same time.

This isn't folk wisdom. The CDC notes that fans reduce mosquito landings, and studies have found that using a fan can substantially reduce mosquito bites.

Citronella candles offer only modest protection and are generally much less effective than a fan or EPA-registered repellents. Plug in a fan, aim it at the table, and take your evening back.

[Joel D. Anderson 🆓 @byjoelanderson]

In all fairness, maybe he thought because we live in a world where you can lie as a rule and threaten a 23-year-old panelist live on TV, that maybe we’re past any kind of accountability in the medium.

[Black Women & Girls Matter @TKOEd]

@ryderkessler Your take is somehow worse than hers…

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Bari Weiss built her entire public identity on the proposition that cancel culture was destroying American discourse. She wrote about it. She founded a publication around it. She championed the Intellectual Dark Web as brave thinkers being silenced for saying forbidden things.

Scott Pelley said factually true things, without yelling, without cursing, without threatening anyone, in a staff meeting. He said Bilton had slender qualifications. He said Weiss was murdering 60 Minutes. He said these things because they are true and because saying true things in rooms where powerful people prefer comfortable silence is - per Weiss's own stated philosophy - exactly what journalists are supposed to do.

She fired him.

JVL names what this exposes precisely. They never wanted to end cancel culture. They wanted to control it. Some forbidden ideas - the ones MAGA likes - must be protected and platformed. Other ideas - the ones Bari Weiss dislikes - are genuinely verboten. Say them out loud and you lose your job.

The Pentagon press office is now classified. Tim Miller was threatened with FARA for sharing a public news report. Comey is being prosecuted for seashells on a beach. The federal workforce faces proposed NDAs. Pelley was fired for refusing instructions to broadcast unverified assertions and then saying so in a meeting.

The through line is not chaos. It is a consistent, documented project to determine who gets to speak, about what, to whom, and under whose authority. Cancel culture was never the target. It was always the tactic. Weiss just proved it by doing the thing she built her career opposing, the moment she had the power to do it.

[Tisya Mavuram @tmavuram]

I think Vickie Paladino is most certainly a New Yorker. I find people who are not from the tri state area are a bit in denial about this but “insane racist white person who loves cops and is addicted to spray tanning” is very much a Type Of New Yorker. Trump is from here!

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

Hey media

Not a Platner fan, but why is he a nonstop story and not Ken Paxton's TWENTY indictments by a GOP led-Texas legislature, securities fraud charges and his wife's filing for divorce on "biblical grounds?"

[vibe instructor✌🏾🐝 @Vanessa_ABee]

was it by “drinking raw milk”

[NYC DOT @NYC_DOT]

don’t make us take this down, bro

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[Joel D. Anderson 🆓 @byjoelanderson]

man, who should we believe: someone who's virtually never gotten along with her colleagues in a true newsroom and was previously accused of being a terrible manager at their previous stop, or the multi-Emmy-Peabody-Polk award winner beloved by his co-workers?

[Black Women & Girls Matter @TKOEd]

@thanos876 @jemelehill And you are wrong af DUMBASS

[Black Women & Girls Matter @TKOEd]

@manspider2026 @MrDeshawnThomas @jemelehill #1 in what? Sales? Best rapper?

[Black Women & Girls Matter @TKOEd]

@MrDeshawnThomas @jemelehill LOL. Never the number one guy… 🤣🤣🤣

[Black Women & Girls Matter @TKOEd]

@thanos876 @jemelehill If he wasn’t relevant this entire conversation wouldn’t exist. You wouldn’t be commenting on this post bare the post wouldn’t exist. So stop it.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

@GovKathyHochul but it wasn’t a “celebration of jewish pride.” it was a celebration of the state of israel, of which war criminal smotrich is a high-ranking official.

of course he was there. the question is, why were you?

[C @fbgcon]

My god

[Desus MF Nice💯 @desusnice]

that’s the drop of volcano sauce sandy tried to pour on spongebob’s tongue

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals.

As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them.

Go Knicks.

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

This is basically like if you had a Serbian-American day parade and invited Radovan Karadžić