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If you're a DC area bartender or related service industry worker and you hear govt./military people talking about the strikes on Iran, let me know what they're saying. I'm on signal at nslayton.12

Imagine you're paying like $100 a month or whatever for Claude and realizing the government used the same shit to kill schoolchildren in Iran. And they're using your tax money to pay for it. So you're paying Claude twice to kill kids. Crazy.

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

The post-show parties tonight are going to be lit! People have been partying all week though. I don’t know how they’re doing it. One after party last night was enough for me to need to spend the day recovering. 😆

Big ups also to Sac State alum Ryan Coogler. 🔥 #ThePeoplesUniversity #NAACPImageAwards

Halle & Rege-Jean are too much gorgeousness in one camera frame! 😍😍

Colman Domingo is a beautiful person in every way. #NAACPImageAwards

And I was having trouble saying this politely, but yes. everyone is saying the same. Sandi D has had a radical transformation, pour ainsi dire. Still love her in any case.

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I was trying to come up with a nice way to say it. But yes. Not just clothes or a different weave.

Damn, Cheryl spit 🔥 even though she forgot her reading glasses. Her freestyle linked #StrangeFruit, James Weldon Johnson and white knees 😮.

She truly is the 👑

(& she would love me too if she knew me right? I’ve had a parasocial relationship with her since before the term 😆😍) #SaltnPepa

And yes, I did not get to meet my girl Salt, or Pepa, this trip - though I met some other 🤩🤩 I’ve long admired. But I’m glad I’m getting to watch them get this lifetime achievement award on TV. They deserve it so much! #NAACPImageAwards

Sterling K Brown: they want to erase us. But they can’t, because there is no America without us. 🔥🔥

#NAACPImageAwards

Samuel L Jackson is really one of a kind. #RIPJesseJackson #NAACPImageAwards

Back home to watch the big last night of #NAACPImageAwards. What you see in that theater on CBS is what we experienced in the hotel for two days - gorgeous stylish Black people living their best lives. Very memorable &😍.

I’ll post more about last night’s #LegendsOfHipHop once I catch up on sleep!

Terrifyingly Orwellian. With the added kick of lapdog GOP House members weighing in.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

Are you cool with this as long as you have the chance to endorse it? And the only problem is that you didn't authorize it - but once he asks, you'll say yes?

Don't you mean: but "that doesn't give the US authority to initiative a war of choice?"

#Orwell2+2=5

You sure about that, Democratic representative from Ohio?

Donald Trump is dragging the United States into a war the American people do not want. Let me be clear: I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran, and our troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice.

Read my full statement:

A dementia addled grifter is drooling on the levers of power, and your ask is to be briefed by him? Listen, Idiocracy wasn't meant as a blue print. You all have to start calling loudly for grampy to be put in a care home, so someone with cognitive capacity can make 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽 more rational decicions.

One can detest Maduro and Khamenei and still think a state taking it upon itself to kidnap or assassinate rival leaders outside an actual declaration of war is a horrendous precedent, especially when it’s done by states led by people who are equally vile.

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I was a teenager when George W. Bush took us to war in the Middle East based on lies.

Like everyone in my generation, I have friends who never came back from that endless war or never came back the same.

We cannot let Donald Trump do that to another generation of Americans.

🗃️ #skystorians a plea to US historians and literary scholars: hoping to learn of a reading that considers the amalgam of expansionist popular literature, 1865-1900. Iinclusive of romanticized west novels or short stories(?) up to a more global turn (?) of yellow journalism. Hard stop 1900.

If this is true, which is of course completely up in the air, we're going to find out yet again that no matter how much people hate their dictatorial government, they hate it more when another nation bombs them.

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Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

Lobby with NAACP awards banners, and an interview

The morning after in the #NAACPAwards hotel lobby. Lots of people (like me) drinking ☕️ &recovering from after parties.

Other people (not like me) are doing interviews about improving media depictions of Black people.

Anyone recognize the woman at the next table? Too many luminaries.

Wow!!! And yes i didn’t bother her when she was behind me so I was glad to run into her later. Bonjour chère Gabrielle!