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People SUBSCRIBE Halle Berry Draws Gasps for Saying Gavin Newsom Is 'Devaluing' Women and 'Shouldn't Be Our Next President' Moments Before He Comes on Stage The actress made the comments at 'The New York Times' DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Dec. 3 By Becca Longmire Published on December 4, 2025 10:17AM EST

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"To decide that these bad faith issues must be compromised on in the name of savvy politics is precisely wrong. The compromise itself does the damage. The compromise itself brands you as insincere, weak, a sellout."

If you're buying gifts for the holidays, maybe consider supporting artists, writers, creators. Gift someone a Patreon, commission an art piece, buy a book, purchase handmade jewelry, etc. Your support means everything.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

collective memory is something you have to work at constantly, and the persistent drumbeat of land acknowledgements is an extremely valuable way to produce widespread consciousness of basic material fact of dispossession and genocide

we are going to win

yay see you there!

heading back to my hometown of NYC tomorrow to see yMusic play my music along with a big new work by Gabriella Smith (very exciting) and a set with Emily King, which is a show that I tried to get on the Ecstatic Music Festival but Covid intervened. So I'm glad it's happening now!

anyway come say hi

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We have an opportunity to hound these criminals out of public life and power forever.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.

So much work remains to be done.

Ostracize sex pests and creeps in music academia, they are ruining the vibe and we need to focus on important stuff like arguing about enharmonic respellings

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Democrats at every level of power could simply repeat "he must resign" over and over and over again. It's what the GOP would do if the situation were reversed. Further erode his power by pushing him to lash out more.

The discourse around authenticity in art creation and art consumption, triggered by AI slop and maybe a bit by JCO is honestly inspiring. Especially while Charli collabs with John Cale and Rosalía with Caroline Shaw and Angélica Negrón

new Charli + John Cale goes so hard. Always cool to see a-list artists collaborating with avant-garde names, especially when the result is as striking and weird and authentic as this

New Rosalia and Charli + Cale this past week makes me think we’re going to see the pop tides continue to turn towards the weird and uniquely self-defined in the face of genAI sonic wallpaper. Taylor Swift should’ve collaborated with Laurie Anderson on the new LP 🤦‍♂️

Need a comfort read... any recommendations for an alternative to my standard go-to, the Left Hand of Darkness by Le Guin, before I re-read it for the 7th time?!

The biggest tell that someone is a dullard is having no favorite bands or movies or some form of entertainment. It's how you know those "grindset" types are the dumbest fucks on the planet. They have no interests. They are literally the NPCs they bitch about. You're a cog in the shit machine

These guys are constantly saying that Dems need to abandon identity politics and run on kitchen-table issues. They get the most kitchen table-ass candidate imaginable, spend months saying he's secretly radical, then as soon as he wins they say he's secretly moderate.

The words "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE" placed over David Lynch's face (a still from TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN).

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

If you have a regional accent, please never try to get rid of it. Accents tell stories.

The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.

YouTube video by IgorLevitVEVO Igor Levit - Rzewski - The People United Will Never Be Defeated! Thema. With determination

From pianist Igor Levit, the opening of Frederic Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!" (1975)

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None of what Trump is doing is popular and voters are telling us that

Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible

it’s just so weird to me how none of these big imprints care at all about prestige. just an interminable race to the bottom…