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Xscape is a female R&B group who actually sings, not a male group in which only one person really sings and the other two mostly play rap whose signature is danceable uptempos. But again, BBD is not a Biv 10 group, it was not Mike's creative call.

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@stillnaima.bsky.social playlist is also undefeated.

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3 dallas austin songs and 3 jermaine dupri songs in 1993 = them being accused of trying to sound like Kris Kross or ABC

and hootiemack did aiiight. It didn't tank. but it wasn't Poison.
I liked the single that ended up not being a single, Gangster

BBD wasn't a Biv 10 project, so. Mike didn't have creative control.

Dallas didn't work on Poison, and ABC was HIS group; his little brother was in it. ABC & BIIM were working on their projects at the same time, which is probably how Dallas ended up on CooleyHighHarmony

And even then he blocking somebody else's moment. Why couldn't it just be Snuffy's day?!?!

[November 18th, 1985] In the Season 17 premiere of Sesame Street, Episode 2096, the adults on Sesame Street finally meet Mr. Snuffleupagus and realize he is real, not imaginary.

Elmo is also introduced as a new character.

I loved this interpretation. I wished it was a series.

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.

ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.

We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

With a serial abuser and sex trafficker? Noooo....

Y'all gotta leave Bobby out these conversations. Bad boy back then was him getting a dui and arrested for humping the stage.

Yup.

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

And that just reminds me that more than half of US adults read below a 6th grade level and the average adult attention span for watching video before splitting attention with something else is less than a minute.

No amount of messaging can fix that.

Evil men have ascended to leadership before, but they were usually either men of few but choice & powerful public words, or masterful orators. This is a man enamored by the sound of his own voice, talking just to talk, with no substance. And they elected him anyway.

My ADHD brain refuses to suffer through it. I'll read the transcript after.

I genuinely cannot sit still and watch him speak. I have a visceral AND physical reaction. My body goes into fight or flight. I will start fidgeting if I don't tune out. It's that bad.

I refuse to watch 47 talk on camera if I can help it in anyway and this is why.

When he lost in 2020 I was so relieved to not have that man reminding me how ignorant America is every day, and I still refuse to subject myself to it in real time.

I will never get over the fact that the president of the United States talks and writes like this.

I know the framers are in the afterlife FUMING, bc even they didn't anticipate someone who couldn't even be bothered to perform protocol and dignity to ever sit in that seat.

Damn. The Pope just did a whole film theory class in one post.

In the case of these emails, yes, but criminal activity in general now - you know how many ppl get caught bc they post about their scams and crimes on socials?

Presidents reap the benefits of cooperative congress or bear the ills of a divided congress.

Times change fast but the machinations of government do NOT. Again, unless you just wanna UNdo stuff or just ignore your oath to uphold the constitution like old boy in the seat.

We needed a Biden at that moment: somebody who knew what was supposed to be what within the house, and had been around long enough to call our allies and get them to relax and trust us again. I fully expected that first term to just be cleanup, and they still only got to a fraction of 45's mess

... + with our global standing. No administration has ever come into the white house with more work to do just to make it run the way it's supposed to, and less corporation from the previous admin. Add COVID on top of that and they had a massive task list ahead of them.

I don't think it was so much about a return to "status quo" as trying to level set and restore stability and infrastructure both on the exec branch (45 had gutted half the cabinet and the administration didn't follow any protocols with record keeping and didn't participate in the transition)...

America is a multi-level marketing scheme that keeps changing the bonus metrics.

I feel like women who shill for the right must have literally stood in a room and signed a contract that explicitly demanded their souls.