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I'm curious who (if you're willing to share) are other comedians you're looking at?

Also, that women is brilliant. Thanks for the intro.

This is called implementation and execution of a sound strategy based on solid market research. It pays to listen to marketers in the trenches instead of of C-suiters going off vibes.

Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Fun factoid given today's developments:

I went to high school with the younger son of the deposed (i.e. dead) Shah of Iran. Ali Pahlavi. He committed suicide in 2011. And now is brother is angling for his glorious return.

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

Senator, OUR current administration is also a brutal and murderous dictatorship at this point.

The cover of Public Enemy’s classic album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Chuck D and Flavor Flav, two black men, stand behind the bars of a prison cell. Chuck D wears a black Raiders jacket and cap. Flavor Flav wears a blue jacket, black hat, sunglasses, and a large clock around his neck because he knows what time it is.

“I got a letter from the government, the other day. I opened and read it, it said they were suckers.”

Chuck D; correct then, correct now.

Point taken, but I think we need to go back farther. It's the hubris of colonialism. AKA white supremacy.

In one four-day period in March 2025, engineers logged 205 maintenance calls. Sailors reported working up to 19-hour days to fix leaks and restore suction, with problems in a single head capable of disabling an entire section of the ship. Since 2023, the Navy has carried out at least 10 acid flushes, each costing about $400,000, though the procedure cannot be performed while the carrier is underway.

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

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Adding to the mix: Black Episcopal (not AME, "mainline"), Methodist and Presbyterian churches (just to name a few). The late Joseph Lowery led a United Methodist congregation in Atlanta. I got married at Calvary Episcopal in DC.

Wow. This is so unhinged that this is necessary.

Listen...these dudes changed the locks on her mailbox

They marked her mail undeliverable and returned it to the sender

They blocked her & her tenants from receiving doctor’s bills, medications, credit card statements, car titles, property tax statements, & more

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...

Every Dem that voted for the appropriation bill (the big beautiful baldersash) owns this.

As Trump builds up to attack Iran, the Dem establishment––again––shows its support with silence Feigned helplessness, process criticism, no public statements or editorials: Liberal elites continue to let Trump do their dirty work for them.

Feigned helplessness, process criticism, no public statements or editorials: Liberal elites continue to let Trump do their dirty work for them: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

Saw this too late, but hyped for the concept. Hoping they put the video online. Background (that I could find): abcbirds.org/news/afrofut...

GW Bush's "compassionate conservatism" has entered the chat.

The Trump Administration Can’t Kill Black History Month We don’t need permission from the government to commemorate a complex past.

Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

Snowflakes.

If they'd shitcanned him 18 years ago, when he was explaining to a room of women engineers that maybe women just aren't naturally good at STEM, on the basis of the toys his daughter most enjoyed playing with (many science! so logic), society would be better off. But since when do we listen to women?

A part of Akinola Davies Jr's speech the BBC decided not to air

If you don't *already* understand how most (not all) roads lead back to GamerGate, 4chan, #yourslipisshowing, etc. this is a decent rundown.

Unrelated: I've gotten into etymology a lot recently, for reasons mostly having to do with how trash English is as a language.

historical detail I can't help but bring up: by some accounts, the event that instigated the British soldiers to open fire on Crispus Attacks and the rest of the crowd in the Boston Massacre was a soldier being hit by a snowball

"We're going to do to ICE what they did to USAID" isn't a bad slogan

*just me wondering how many Dems will vote for her confirmation*

cc: @pedalingpastor.bsky.social

Thank you Pastor for the glorious thread.

🎵 Well🎵

And *some* people still wonder why the Black maternal mortality rate is so high.