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[Killa 🌺 @KillaKreww]

Bobbi Althoff makes her rapping debut on Sukihana’s new song “Bills Paid” 😭🔥🎵

[Ice @WeBecomeTheIce]

The greatest Pixar film is outright Right-Wing Propaganda

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Laverne Cox tells @Guardian she’s lost 90% of her income due to Donald Trump’s DEI rollbacks:

“The past year or two, I’ve had to dip into savings and my retirement fund. So, the blessing is that I finally have the privilege to have a retirement fund to dip into, but you don’t really want to do that. If it’s affecting me, then it’s definitely affecting other people.”

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Actress Laverne Cox claims she’s lost 90% of her income due to Trump’s DEI cuts.

[Obsrvate @obsrvate]

Oliver Tree's last video on the Internet is currently resurfacing and he revealed that he feels his life is in DANGER after he left his record label Atlantic Records 😳👀

"They told me to watch my back and that I will regret leaving them"
"I just wanted better for my career"

[Morgan Barrett @MorganBarrettX]

Quarterly reminder that James Garfield’s (President #20) great great grandson, Richard Garfield, invented Magic: The Gathering

[Æthelstan @TheHauskarl]

The ageing wizards of the early 00s apex of shitlibbery, the familiar tunes, the contorted notion that they're fighting the establishment when they literally are the establishment, the ecstatic public dancing and singing to signal to others the depth of their devotion to the cause...

I often talk about how fundamental amateur drama, costumes and street theatre is to progressivism, and it is, but it doesn't quite get to the heart of what we're watching.

It's more helpful to describe this as an ageing cult constantly on the lookout for new converts and heretics to steel themselves against.

The behaviours all make a lot more sense within that intellectual framework, and you can temper your expectations accordingly.

It's never been more obvious that religion in the West didn't disappear, it was sublimated into politics and has become far more harmful and toxic than Christianity ever was.

The body modification, the public displays, the siege-like mentality of a life lived in opposition to a range of virtually nonexistent threats eg global warming, "fascism", or even 1984-esque hate figures in the vein of Emmanuel Goldstein.

It's all there right in front of us, and yet stuck in the eye of the storm with these lunatics as we are, truth and perspective have long left the building.

We're stuck in a society with a very serious cult that brooks absolutely no dissent whatsoever, and it doesn't matter how reasonable or articulate your complaints are.

This is a cult doing cult things. People need to recognise this.

[The Music Collective @wavcollections]

@Crowchanter @parasociality Artists have always made the bulk of their money from shows and touring, the album side is completely separate deal.

[USA NEWS 🇺🇸 @usanewshq]

Gavin Newsom pretends the boos are cheers and tries to play it off

His son is so over it

Hunter Newsom is definitely a conservative!

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Here is a story about a group of students who fundraised and worked for an entire year to bring Neil de Grasse Tyson to speak at an event:

"We were a small college club with around 10 members and on a whim one of our members emailed tyson's agent to see if we could book him. We found out it would cost 40k (it raised to 50k in December of that year where I think it still might be) for his speaking fee plus expenses to have him come to our college for 1 day where he'd host a small lecture, a press meeting, dinner with up to 6 people, and the main lecture and a book signing time permitting. We decided to go for it, and spent a year where our club exclusively worked on bringing him in.

When he arrived, myself and others introduced ourselves and our fields of study. He went after first of us in humanities or soft sciences pretty much relentlessly from the get go. We're all used to the philosophy major working at McDonald's joke, but he wasn't trying to be funny, and spent the ride from the airport making repeated comments about the uselessness of our majors. Additionally he spent about 5 minutes trying to show that logic was stupid but he was citing logical rules and Occam's razor.

The small lecture was him bragging about how famous he was, and how easy it is to pull yourself out of poverty or etc. The dinner was for leaders of other clubs so helped us raise money. He took the piss out of how one student held her fork, and was impossibly smug when giving advice to physics students.

The main event was a terribly boring lecture consisting of fart jokes and fan service; teasing the upcoming TV series he was in and not much else. He spent a quarter of the time reading Sagan's blue dot, which is nice but shouldn't have cost us because it wasn't his material.

He left at about 2am, and we were all exhausted because we had spent the day busy setting up and tearing down. The whole affair cost nearly 85k. The additional money being for locations, personnel, air fare, Tyson's hotel, catering, etc.

We all decided he was an ass hole. I'd never want to spend 16 hours with a celebrity again."

From another member of the same group:

"Neil deGrasse Tyson, who came to our university, gave a crappy speech rife with lame fart jokes, was rude and disrespectful with the people who organized the event (there were a couple campus clubs working on it for about a year). He equated one of the group's member's philosophy major as a degree in mental masturbation.

We were so pumped to hear a talk about the universe, astrophysics, black holes and dark matter, and instead he gave a speech on debunking lame pop media science misconceptions such as the "supermoon" because the organizing club is known as a skeptic/secular humanist society. He then basically said he did us a favor and that we "owed him one" for that.

He delivered a private lecture to our group and members of the campus physics club in which he realized he had said something witty, whipped out hsi iphone, and spent the next fifteen minutes trying to come up with the perfect wording for it to post it to his twitter. In the middle of a lecture we spent a year's work and $55k total to organize."

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Let me explain why I think Freddy resonates.

Lots of Europeans visit the USA as tourists. They visit New York City, or Washington DC, or Hollywood, or Las Vegas, and if they visit natural beauty too, they go to really crowded places like the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone.

So while they see our cultural and natural icons, they are mostly in blue cities and they therefore also see the decline, the homeless, the drugs, the dirt and the rude, rude Americans.

But Freddy is not doing that. Freddy is driving, and he’s doing it through the heartland, where people are kind and polite, the skies are wide open, and the bounty of Buc-ees and Bass Pro Shops are overwhelming.

Freddy is not seeing fentanyl and decline.

He is seeing the real, hopeful, patriotic, kind America that European tourists rarely traverse.

And he loves it.

That’s why Freddy is a phenomenon.

[Darren of Plymouth @DarrenPlymouth]

“I never thought I’d live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing becoming the snivelling self-righteous twats, going around shaming everyone.”

- John Lydon, The Sex Pistols

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

Today's feel good video.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Kanye dropped a new music video directed by his wife where she milks a giant cow in lingerie in a mountain field, then he walks in and feeds her the milk.

I've read that sentence four times. It does not get more normal...

Writer: Daniel

[Southern Accents @AccentsSouthern]

That time Jr. came out in full Confederate garb to sing Tennessee River with Alabama.

The Yankee mind truly cannot comprehend this.

[The Music Collective @wavcollections]

@ej56982735 @HW_Helser @johnrich @Justinjpearson @bryanandrews_ He sings that song Summer of ‘69 and Everything I do I do it for you

[𝑴𝒐 𝑴𝒐𝒉𝒍𝒆𝒓 @MoMohler]

The fact that a dog took this photo makes it even more impressive.

[HarrietEve9 @HarrietEve9]

Larry Johnson, former NFL running back, and close personal friend of Beyoncé’s husband, Jay Z — says Jay Z totally embarrassed himself with his arrested development freestyle, and dress attire on stage at The Roots picnic..

Johnson says he really feels sad for Jay Z, who at 60 years old, claiming to be a billionaire, and is married with children — is trying to compete with younger Black talented artists, who are 30 to 40 years younger than him..

It makes one wonder if Jay Z is actually happy with his life — or could it be that the choices Jay Z has made in his life are now haunting him???

Johnson says that the compromised OG’s of hip hop are controlled opposition who are sent by record labels to destroy the careers of younger talented Black artists — and this is the sole reason Jay Z is attacking Drake, Nicki Minaj, and Tory Lanez..

Johnson explains how the music industry emasculates Black men, saying that this was the reason for Kendrick Lamar wearing a dress looking like a boy bride on a magazine cover — and why he wore women’s bell bottom jeans during his Super Bowl halftime performance…

“The man who views the world the same at 50, as he did at 20, has wasted 30 years of his life.”
Muhammad Ali