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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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Roberta Flack, who died last week, at 88, sang like she had been holding on to a secret that was waiting to become yours, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.

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morality aside: it turns out, as a purely sociological matter, that a politics premised on empowering people who loudly and performatively don't care if discriminated-against Others suffer and die results in surprisingly indiscriminate suffering and death. this needs to be explained to people

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

As someone who spent 2 summers working in an SFV movie theater I cannot overstate how fun of an experience it is and how many strange, but delightful, interactions you have. Thread is a beautiful story

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I'd flip this. The right has an ideologically coherent project, which is the defense of hierarchies that have dominated American society and opposition to policies that undermine them. Liberals and the left by contrast believe vaguely in helping people they feel sorry for but don't agree how or why.

submitted 7 days ago • 141 comments

Who can afford a child??? apple.news/Al_f4FTpmSEu...

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

I'm always listening to music as albums and this essay gets at the value of the rap album, something I'd been thinking a bit about in getting the pink siifu, 454, and MIKE albums in quick succession www.hearingthings.co/pink-siifu-a...

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This lady is basically Dr Sebi

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

When you think you heard something on the other side of the house, but you’re not sure if it’s worth getting up to investigate.

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Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.

submitted 21 days ago • 350 comments

I think social media basically supercharges all of the normal human tendencies towards ideas that are emotionally affecting/appealing, while removing all of the traditional societal brakes on such things.

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The problem with DEI is not that it went too far, but that it didn’t go far enough. My latest:

submitted 26 days ago • 11 comments

Being correct about all of this for years doesn't actually feel good.

submitted 26 days ago • 116 comments

The conciergification of US society is just pathetic. Door Dash activism is NOT a thing. What YOU won't do yourself cannot be "delegated" to others to do from your keyboard. Look in the mirror before asking why the things that you want to happen aren't happening if they aren't. Then be humble.

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

Racial purges, re-segregation, discrimination Call it what it is

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

rambling 🧵 i think so much of how folks in the US engage politics, economy and the social world is inflected by what my dear friend and sister calls "christian chauvinism" because yes, everybody ain't christian and this is not a flaw or a problem.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Friends have been talking about filling the information gap for each other the last few weeks. That's not quite a bad thing, but it rings a bit hollow knowing there are roles in information gathering that we—as individuals—just can't do. Journalism's slow, then quick, death is being felt.

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There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.

submitted 32 days ago • 329 comments

A day late on #MWE Day 1 but this was a shocking listen. The writing is specific and in that specificity stirring. I often found the melodies sweet and soothing, but listening harder found something more complex and conflicted boiling underneath that surface. standout: "Savior Complex"

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

I saw that first goal and in utter grief told my soccer watching discord that City was gonna lose 5-1 and now here we are. will be applying this ability for good moving forward

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I don't think "seeing the consequences" automatically moves people to take action. We've all experienced consequences that actually serve to demobilize us in our own lives. That's why "FAFO" is not actually a strategy for anything constructive. It usually just means more suffering.

submitted 32 days ago • 28 comments

In case anyone is into definition, what happened this week is an administrative coup. Trump and the broligarchs are refashioning our government to be of, by and for the billionaires.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

submitted 33 days ago • 45 comments

Music Writer Exercise. Each day in February, listen to one full album you’ve never heard, from start-to-finish. Write one post about the record. #MWE

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Washington is full of rule-following valedictorians who were inspired by the West Wing and did Model UN and moot court and studied their heroes and who believe in using government to help people. That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.

submitted 34 days ago • 246 comments

Los Angeles is a disgustingly warm place in the winter

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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 34 days ago • 2305 comments

I don’t know who needs to hear this today but… TIGHTEN UP. We have work to do.

submitted 36 days ago • 21 comments

once again thinking about how no broke boys deserved what nasty enjoyed. the way that "now i got standards" hits www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ltT...

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

submitted 45 days ago • 54 comments

Need a 454 x Erika de Casiers track music.apple.com/us/album/com...

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One of my favourite things anyone has ever said about art. You'll be missed, David. 🌹

submitted 49 days ago • 24 comments

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submitted 48 days ago • 29 comments

after you read this great piece revisit my 2023 guide to tase grip over at bandcamp

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

it’s Going Up Week at @hearingthingsco.bsky.social, 5 days of profiles spotlighting acts on the verge. to kick it off, I profiled Tase Grip—the collective of AKAI SOLO, Phiik & Lungs, Wavy Bagels, S!lence, Gam, iblss, & more—about their past and their banner 2024

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

I read Mike Davis’s ‘Ecology of Fear’ at either the best or worst time

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My serious efforts to reduce screen time and push notifications overlapping with a 3-week stay with my grandparents in the middle of nowhere in the south has done a lot on my perception of what news is, what should matter to us, and how news should get to us

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Our first issue of 2025 explores bodies—how they’re controlled, how they disappear or are reclaimed, how they become political. This month, we’ll bring you writing and reporting from Chile, Indonesia, Poland, Nigeria, Sweden and more: www.thedial.world/articles/iss...

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

I've been opposed to the teen social media bans because I think the evidence justifying them is undercooked, but at this point, I'm willing to instrumentally back any policy that hurts Meta for that reason alone.

submitted 58 days ago • 95 comments

Chiefs selling cause they don’t wanna see the Bengals

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

this is 100% the case and the funniest way to me is how often computers get updated and the big difference is an increase in processing power that the average consumer/user literally will not feel in any way and yet an army of "reviewers" will wax poetic about the "updates"

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Does it feel like tech is ceasing to evolve in ways that are useful to everyday people, and instead functions to control, placate and diminish us?

submitted 59 days ago • 175 comments

we live in the era where the language of social justice is being co-opted into arguing in favour of literally every position the speaker wants a justification for irrespective of reality

submitted 60 days ago • 21 comments