Shawnte McCall

Since this person (who was actually quoting a famous writer without attribution) blocked me, I'll just clear this up by explaining that the advice he was sharing was "Write with as much urgency as if there was a gun in your mouth." Again: Do not.

All of this "Write as if nighttime lightning has guided you to earth's last remaining inkwell" stuff...honey, no. Sit down at your desk or laptop or whatever. Lower the stakes. Try something. Nobody's looking. The goal is to just get it down so that you have something you can fix.

Any lady hitting me with this will be met with “… desire is awesome, ain’t it?”

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

The “You should buy one of these survival kits to keep you and your family safe in case things go LEFT wink wink” commercials airing on FS1 during the ALCS are gross and also dystopian af

Newsom: This president appears unhinged… seems listless… he seems, dare I say, in decline—cognitively, and… physically. These are just the rantings of someone who needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.

Yes, that is the idea

That is the idea for this AFI graduate thesis film and every professional film he's made after this

(should be but won't be) For the last time

My answer used to Salo, that is until America decided to lose its goddamn mind in 2016 and 2024

Ari Aster's AFI graduate thesis film, The Strange Thing About the Johnsons

AFI, stand up?

Yes, it's on YouTube

No, you should not watch it

But it did beget Hereditary and Midsommar and his whole "disturbing and provocative" catalog thus far, so

Watch it if you wanna, you were warned

Remembering the dickhead to responded to a joke post of mine one time with "A white woman laughed at your joke, that should tell you something," which, yes, it actually told me that you're possibly young and definitely a fucking moron and that we "as a people" are cooked...

I find it amazing/a little daunting that Thursdays are the day when I get lots of new episodes of the podcasts I subscribe to...

Seeing that I've been writing too many "Will be back later with more thoughts" reviews on my Letterboxd...

A 3,000-pound ice sculpture spelling out the word “DEMOCRACY” was seen melting on the National Mall within view of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

All the edgy sneering about "representation" was a way to ironize and therefore obscure the complaint that someone not white was being hired to do a job.

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

NEW for @washingtonpost.com:

Pentagon reporters exited the building in unison Wednesday after turning in their badges, having refused to sign the Defense Department's press policy.

@nancyayoussef.bsky.social called it a “sad day for those who support a free press.”

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article) The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Oh shit

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

Aside from losing many Democratic seats, Black representation in Congress will probably drop from around 14% of seats (nationally representative) to maybe 7 or 8% (not representative)?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

There are a lot of bad people in American politics right now but for some reason Mike Johnson evokes the most loathing in me. He's got a Dolores Umbridge vibe: there's something about a person so mild mannered and normal-looking saying evil things in the most calm, neutral tone possible.

Actress Carrie Coon shares a pic of her “Wu-Tang Band” tattoo from the show The Leftovers

Think I’m gonna get a “Wu-Tang Band” tat

Beautiful words here.

Exactly

That said, when I go, I’ll probably get the sandwich instead of the naked bites by themselves

Welcome to 1996, Billboard Magazine?

Deaths of Hip-Hop Artists Reveal the Alarming State of Black Men’s Health Neo-soul singer D'Angelo joins growing list of Gen X Black male performers who are dying relatively young.

I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

❤️

People don't want governance, they want to be entertained.