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Professor of English, African American, Caribbean, U.S. Latina/o/x literature, film and aesthetics. Black feminist. Non-human animal lover. Eclectic musical taste. Views my own.

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ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after remarks about Charlie Kirk | CNN Business Disney’s ABC is taking Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show off the air indefinitely amid a controversy over his recent comments about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer.The Federal Communications Commiss...

Unfuckingbelievable! Trump can threaten liberal Americans, call us vermin, scum, any number of vile things.

But Jimmy Kimmel says Tyler Robinson may be MAGA, we don’t know, and his show is taken off air.

Free speech is history in America.

www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m...

17.09.2025 22:51 — 👍 74    🔁 38    💬 9    📌 0
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ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel after Charlie Kirk comments The move comes shortly after FCC chair Brendan Carr warned ABC about potential action over Kimmel's comments.

🚨 BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel suspended at ABC after Charlie Kirk remarks

17.09.2025 22:56 — 👍 97    🔁 34    💬 40    📌 17

Meanwhile... I had just been putting the finishing touches on an article about Disney/Jimmy Kimmel just *won* the lawsuit George Santos had filed against him... Guess I need to put that aside to write up this nonsense.

17.09.2025 22:41 — 👍 359    🔁 68    💬 1    📌 5
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Education Dept. partners with conservative groups for civics programming A coalition of 41 groups, including Turning Point USA and the Heritage Foundation, will create educational programming for the country’s 250th anniversary next year.

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17.09.2025 22:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89

Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

16.09.2025 12:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump officials order removal of photograph of enslaved man’s scars

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A Tender New Biography Emphasizes James Baldwin’s Romantic Side

A Tender New Biography Emphasizes James Baldwin’s Romantic Side www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...

19.08.2025 15:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator
YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

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15.08.2025 03:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What the DOJ Is Doing Behind the Scenes Read more here.

Under the spectacle of the Epstein Files and the horror of migrants being disappeared to foreign gulags, the bureaucratic assault on democracy is all too easy to miss. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

31.07.2025 11:37 — 👍 6760    🔁 2921    💬 252    📌 117
BAD BUNNY - NUEVAYoL (Video Oficial) | DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
YouTube video by Bad Bunny BAD BUNNY - NUEVAYoL (Video Oficial) | DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

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28.07.2025 12:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis | James Baldwin One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on black flesh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a sight for the American people, and so unbearable a memory, that...

www.nybooks.com/articles/197...

28.07.2025 00:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | JD Vance Claims One of Our Worst Traditions as His Own

JD Vance Claims One of Our Worst Traditions as His Own www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

This.

26.07.2025 20:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | What the Democratic Party Still Doesn’t Get About Deportations

What the Democratic Party Still Doesn’t Get About Deportations www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...

26.07.2025 14:21 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.

25.07.2025 22:26 — 👍 7096    🔁 1553    💬 42    📌 173

Reminder: we don't need Ghislaine Maxwell to get to the truth.

It's sitting in files inside the DOJ that they could release TODAY.

She is a liar, a child rapist, and a sex trafficker.

Blanche is meeting with her to buy her silence, nothing more.

25.07.2025 14:25 — 👍 18102    🔁 5058    💬 702    📌 231
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This is an uninterrupted minute of Maruay the rescued tiger with his beloved ball..🥰😇 #bluesky

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Again, the targeting of advisory boards and external task forces and so on is meaningful — external expertise will disagree with EVERYTHING he wants to do, so he is taking steps to eliminate external expertise entirely.

26.07.2025 01:22 — 👍 119    🔁 41    💬 3    📌 1
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Hackers breach intelligence website used by CIA Unidentified hackers recently compromised a major intelligence website used by the CIA and other agencies for submitting details of sensitive contracts, according to the National Reconnaissance Office...

Quite the scoop for the Washington Times.

Hackers compromised the National Reconnaissance Office, with sources saying they likely obtained information on key technologies for CIA operations.

Hackers breach intelligence website used by CIA
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/ju...

25.07.2025 10:09 — 👍 58    🔁 28    💬 9    📌 7
Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein Doodles | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein Doodles | The Daily Show

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25.07.2025 14:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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She couldn’t stop the Paramount merger. But she warned against it. Anna Gomez, the sole member of the Federal Communications Commission appointed by a Democrat, voted against a deal Chairman Brendan Carr set down markers on.

“The merger was approved less than a month after Paramount agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Trump” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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The silencing Colbert, The Washington Post, Columbia University … and on it goes

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25.07.2025 12:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This doesn’t really sound like how you conduct a criminal investigation. Which is what DOJ does.

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Oh wow hey @tulsigabbard did u see this?

23.07.2025 21:13 — 👍 17321    🔁 6049    💬 381    📌 239
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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow N.I.H. to Cut D.E.I.-Related Grants

Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow N.I.H. to Cut D.E.I.-Related Grants www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...

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45-year-old Venus Williams becomes the oldest woman since Martina Navratilova to win a singles match apnews.com/article/venu...

23.07.2025 02:11 — 👍 9965    🔁 1301    💬 160    📌 133
Was it a struggle for him? Did he ever—

I wouldn’t say struggle. He didn’t struggle with it. He was in a position financially to yield to it, big time. But nevertheless, he could not help himself. I’ve seen him do things which he couldn’t—couldn’t help himself, he was afflicted with it. If he had tuberculosis it wouldn’t be called a perversion, would it? Because he coughed too much?

Was it a struggle for him? Did he ever— I wouldn’t say struggle. He didn’t struggle with it. He was in a position financially to yield to it, big time. But nevertheless, he could not help himself. I’ve seen him do things which he couldn’t—couldn’t help himself, he was afflicted with it. If he had tuberculosis it wouldn’t be called a perversion, would it? Because he coughed too much?

I always loved this 2019 interview with one of Jeffrey Epstein's best friends where he complains people are being very unfair to his friend Jeffrey because he had a disease called being a huge pervert not unlike tuberculosis.

www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

23.07.2025 02:30 — 👍 10515    🔁 2334    💬 478    📌 159

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

23.07.2025 16:27 — 👍 12139    🔁 2846    💬 71    📌 43

Philadelphia District Attorney weighs in:

23.07.2025 22:41 — 👍 2223    🔁 678    💬 62    📌 16

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