Jay Smooth

Speak of the devil

I think it’s worth being explicit about what’s going on with the Zohran admissions stuff - this is a bad faith attack designed to try to drive the older Black voters that made up Cuomo’s base in the primary and who vote party line in the general to support Eric Adams to keep Mamdani out of City Hall

This implies that if Mamdani had simply refused to comment, the NYT would not have deemed the piece newsworthy. I'll leave it to you to decide whether that is plausible. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Paying tribute to Sly on the Twitch stream if you're around <3 about to dig into some rare footage from his set at the Harlem Cultural Festival twitch.tv/jsmooth995

that is one of my shirts that draws the most comments when I wear it

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If that one part of "Sinners" gave you an appetite for some 90's hip-hop era Vampire lore, we're about to watch a little bit of 1990's Def By Temptation over on twitch :) twitch.tv/jsmooth995

I am baffled anew at your update on it

All obvious heinous things aside, this is a reminder that—despite lies from republicans—undocumented people pay taxes. and now their contributions are being used against them.

The Senate seat Schumer holds has only had 3 people in it over the last 70 years

I don't even know how to articulate how clueless this is. It's like if someone at the Bulwark was told that Andrew Tate is a Democrat, saw that Tate gets lots of views and said "hey this could be our guy!" with no further research

E V E R.

I 100% think Adam or his people pitched this to one of those never-trumper rubes and they got rainmade.

an absolutely spectacular L

Under no circumstances will I "hand it to" Adam 16, but assuming he's the one who pitched this story, this is the wildest bamboozlement of a writer since that "fake grunge slang" piece in 1992

Wow granted there's a lot going on but I don't think I had heard of this new doc's existence

Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy Trump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.

OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.

told you! :)

Weird response but it's actually getting lots of attention now

Did they storm the field or was it one of the background performers? (great work either way)

This means he did his job 👍

The Eagles winning because of DEI (a white cornerback)

If they had done an SNL sketch last summer where Diana Ross winds up giving Kendrick the Song of the Year Grammy for Not Like Us i would've said "ok that's a bit much"

Yeah the sections of the interview about "I felt like we have to be loyal to our guy" based on his past track record were maybe the most exasperating to me. How do y'all tell us "democracy's at stake and fascism's at the gates" and then put concerns like that over making sure you stop all that??

The DNC's outgoing chair says Democrats should have stuck with Joe Biden in 2024 The departing leader of the Democratic National Committee is reflecting on why his party lost to Donald Trump.

Note: in the full exchange he's referring to his thought process at the time, not necessarily his POV now, but I didn't really find it any less exasperating in that context.. apnews.com/article/jaim...

This is getting attention for what's in the headline, understandably, but the second screenshot feels equally notable--and galling--because

1. Oh NOW you're ready to admit this?

2. Admitting strategic failure on Gaza, without reckoning with yall's catastrophic *moral* failing, is still nasty work

YouTube video by Jay Smooth Snoop Just Doubled Down On Riding For Trump (And Here's Why)

On "payola pardons" and why Snoop doubled down on riding with Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgd...

yup yup...honestly gives a lot of insight into his character

YouTube video by Jay Smooth Ten OTHER Things Martin Luther King Said

Every year I share this @jsmooth.bsky.social video about 10 other things MLK said and not the usual quotes that are shared each year.

youtu.be/AIFTNmOOLmk?...

We're on live for the next few, catching up on some news and celebrating some LA music and culture <3 twitch.tv/jsmooth995