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Roberta Flack, the magnetic singer and pianist who was one of the most popular artists of the 1970s, died on Monday at 88. Flack was known for her majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” nyti.ms/4h1KzSh

submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments

If you're a white dude with some flexibility in your life, get a group of your like-minded bros together & go to these events to act as counterbalance to these "private security forces." Get in their way. Occupy space. Ask for their IDs. Outnumber them. Make their fascism difficult.

submitted 4 days ago • 80 comments

When I landed in SLC, I used the bathroom despite an anti-trans bathroom ban. Nobody cared. Nobody ever does. The truth is, whatever anti-trans laws they keep passing, nobody actually gives a damn or wants to be the bathroom police. This is the ultimate reason anti-trans hysteria will fail.

submitted 4 days ago • 176 comments

This trailer is the shot in the arm that I needed today.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Fraudsters, phonies and flatterers All of Trump’s picks are ticking timebombs of disaster

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Great. The next Bond "villain" is going to be a Black reporter who tries to tell the truth

submitted 7 days ago • 52 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 10 days ago • 606 comments

Have you heard that our Members of Congress aren’t thrilled to be bombarded with our calls & e-mails? Try this! Use faxzero.com! It’s super easy & free! Here’s how to find their fax numbers: shorturl.at/R0mYV 🗣️ the_casalmon (IG) #GoodTrouble

submitted 9 days ago • 66 comments

The lead prosecutor in the Eric Adams case has resigned over DOJ's order that the case be dismissed. "I expect you will eventually find someone who will be enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 13 days ago • 63 comments

Just in case people don't know the context, this is a policy called splitting the letters, developed by fundamentalist Christians to use feminist and queer language and culture to split the T off and then turn the others against each other. You can watch their 2017 conference planning it.

submitted 14 days ago • 41 comments

With last week’s bill that banned collective bargaining for teachers that was passed simply as retribution against the union, the Utah Legislature has surely reached absolute and rock bott…

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This isn’t a minorrrrr accomplishment, it’s a major one: Kendrick Lamar now holds the record for the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show performance ever. An average of 133.5 million viewers tuned in.

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Star Wars Celebration Japan peeps! I want to share a few tips from my 2023 trip in this thread for you. DM me if you have questions I might be able to answer! * Make your plans now to get from Narita to the hotel. It can be overwhelming when you arrive. You can take the train (Keisei), bus, or taxi

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Anybody who was wondering why Kendrick Lamar was performing at half time yesterday need only look at the ratings today. He’s incredibly talented, even more popular, and speaks directly to and for millions of people.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

As promised - 100 things about #StarWars #ReignoftheEmpire #TheMaskofFear. Somehow only 1 of them is truly a spoiler. Here are the first 40. You can read the entire list here: thecubicleattheendofthegalaxy.substack.com/p/star-wars-... #MTFBWY

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Anybody who was wondering why Kendrick Lamar was performing at half time yesterday need only look at the ratings today. He’s incredibly talented, even more popular, and speaks directly to and for millions of people.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Bluesky accessibility request yall: PLEASE ALT TEXT your photos, screenshots, attachments, etc. Once you start doing it, it'll become second nature, and you'll notice more if you don't. Exception to Alt text is if you're posting a whole thread that gives the text of the attachment.

submitted 17 days ago • 30 comments

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

submitted 18 days ago • 231 comments

This is it. This is the take.

submitted 20 days ago • 52 comments

The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.

submitted 18 days ago • 178 comments

Here's Kendrick Lamar's full Super Bowl performance. youtu.be/KDorKy-13ak?...

submitted 18 days ago • 23 comments

ASL interpreters who work in the arts (concerts, opera, theatre, etc) deserve to be valued as artists too. it takes so much skill to be this good at capturing the FEEL of music beyond just translating the meaning of the text and it’s an invaluable accessibility service

submitted 18 days ago • 69 comments

epic use of viscious mockery by a level 20 eloquence bard

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submitted 18 days ago • 89 comments

Weird that the Fox News ad doesn’t have any footage from January 6 when it talks about about unprecedented events.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate Kendrick: actually

submitted 18 days ago • 119 comments

First, the entire Grammy audience yelling ‘A-MINOR,’ now, an entire stadium. Kendrick Lamar has definitely won the beef with Drake, doing a victory lap at the Super Bowl 59 Halftime Show alongside SZA, Mustard, and Drake’s ex Serena Williams.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Saying DEI with the hard R

submitted 18 days ago • 574 comments

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

submitted 20 days ago • 51 comments

Never underestimate a woman with a needle.

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

SCHIFF: “Why is this firing of FBI agents such an important piece of this effort by Trump, Musk & their enablers? Because if they're going to raid the treasury, take people's private data, illegally shut down agencies... They don't want an FBI to examine anything they're doing.”

submitted 22 days ago • 131 comments

When you solve for the wrong problem, not only do you not get the solution, you can cause harm. The President wasted water that was being saved for farmers for a PR stunt. This was harmful, ludicrous, and solved nothing.

submitted 21 days ago • 873 comments

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

submitted 22 days ago • 811 comments

New via Guardian — USAID security was defending a secure room holding classified data when a message came directly from Elon Musk: give the DOGE kids whatever they want. It was one of three calls by Musk to get access, including threatening to call US Marshals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 22 days ago • 113 comments

Resistance to ICE has already begun in my hometown of LA.

submitted 24 days ago • 170 comments

I have said it for years, trans women would be welcomed as sisters of Themyscira.

submitted 25 days ago • 43 comments

Dear Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Europe: 100 percent tariffs on Tesla.

submitted 25 days ago • 1626 comments

That’s a delicious level of geographical specificity.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

submitted 26 days ago • 215 comments

Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

submitted 26 days ago • 1063 comments

In Silicon Valley in 2016, A.I. whizzes and VCs met to plot how to “replace all the writers." I was there. "I was taking careful notes," I wrote, "so that the replaced writers of the future would have some record of how the purge went down.” Now I’m publishing them. the.ink/p/special-re...

submitted 26 days ago • 21 comments

Everyone knows Trump is now open for business.

submitted 28 days ago • 37 comments