Author Larry Benjamin

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#LoveWithoutPermission

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HE is a story about two people finding connection when the world insists on definitions. About #LoveWithoutPermission
At a time when America is debating who gets to exist freely, HE offers a simple answer: Love doesn’t need consensus. It needs courage.
READ: bit.ly/4o9Wx0p
#HEthenovel #blacksky

Bad Bunny celebrates Puerto Rico in celeb-packed Super Bowl halftime show performance The rapper brought the house down with fan-favorites like "Tití Me Preguntó," "Yo Perreo Sola" and "DtMF," as Cardi B, Jessica Alba, Karol G and Pedro Pascal danced around him.

Bad Bunny celebrates Puerto Rico in celeb-packed Super Bowl halftime show performance

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The #BadBunny #Superbowl half-time show was fire & roses. And love.

Seriously, I'm just here for the half-time show #BadBunny #superbowl

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

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non-fiction: elite capture stokely speaks when dragons fly a taste of power: a Black Woman's story assata tip of the spear soledad brother balagoon: a soldier's story

fiction: friday black stories model home raybearer archangels of funk bluff: poems Black arms to hold you up

some recs for Black history month! (and always!)

ICE Barbie’s full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem. The initials spell KLAN. Sometimes the universe writes the joke itself.

I #standwithsurvivors #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

This is positively dystopia. Not content with #ICE killing American citizens in the streets, abd bringing back measles, this administration is now trying to rob PLWH of life saving medication that protects us all.

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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

If you’re drawn to stories like Moonlight, personal narratives going viral on TikTok, or books that spark real conversation, this one belongs on your shelf.

What happens when love doesn’t fit the labels the world gives you? Right now, America is having big conversations about identity, belonging, and what it really means to live honestly—at work, in love, in life.
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#HEthenovel #LoveWithoutPermission #Blacksky

The moment I knew: as we sat on the veranda playing Scrabble, it hit me – I was in love When Dion Padan met Ben Graetz and his drag queen persona, there was an undeniable energy. A weekend away deepened their connection

When did YOU know?
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The only thing I've learned from the last decade of Trump is that there are A LOT more really stupid people in the United States than I ever realized.

Holy shit.

What the HELL is Lola Young wearing to accept her award at the #grammys? She looks like she just rolled out of bed.

Bruno Mars needs to lose that ridiculous headband thing he's wearing at the #grammys

Why is Justin Bieber performing at the #grammys in boxers and socks?

Olivia Dean won more than a #Grammy tonight. She won my respect (elegantly dressed) and my love ("I am the granddaughter of immigrants:). She relied on her talent to perform rather than striping down to her skivvies.

Pretty tough to blame Dems for a shutdown when Lindsey Graham is shutting the government down so he can get money from the taxpayers for himself.

The Lindsey Shutdown

We got to break the stranglehold they have on our country.

Public pressure can and does work. We have voices and collective power. We must use it.

So the DOJ has arrested a journalist whose actions are protected by the First Amendment, but allows #ICE agents who murdered two US citizens in cold blood on camera to walk free? What has happened to our country?

Statement from FPF Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern: “The government’s arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are naked attacks on freedom of the press. Two federal courts flatly rejected prosecuting Lemon because the evidence for these vindictive and unconstitutional charges was insufficient, and Lemon has every right to document news and inform the public. Instead of accepting that humiliating defeat, the government has now doubled down. “These arrests, under bogus legal theories for obviously constitutionally protected reporting, are clear warning shots aimed at other journalists. The unmistakable message is that journalists must tread cautiously because the government is looking for any way to target them. Fort’s arrest is meant to instill the same fear in local independent journalists as big names like Lemon. “The answer to this outrageous attack is not fear or self-censorship. It’s an even stronger commitment to journalism, the truth, and the First Amendment. If the Trump administration thinks it can bully journalists into submission, it is wrong. We’ve recently seen that even in the Trump era, public pressure still can work. It’s time to do it again. News outlets across the political spectrum need to loudly defend Lemon’s and Fort’s rights. Journalists are not making themselves the story, Trump is.”

The government’s arrests of journalists @donlemonofficial.bsky.social and @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social are attacks on freedom of the press.

Two federal courts flatly rejected prosecuting Lemon, but instead of accepting that humiliating defeat, the government has now doubled down.

Read our statement:

CN The FBl's arrest of our former CNN colleague Don Lemon raises profoundly concerning questions about press freedom and the First Amendment. The Department of Justice already failed twice to get an arrest warrant for Don and several other journalists in Minnesota, where a chief judge of the Minnesota Federal District Court found there was "no evidence" that there was any criminal behavior involved in their work. The First Amendment in the United States protects journalists who bear witness to news and events as they unfold, ensuring they can report freely in the public interest, and the DO's attempts to violate those rights is unacceptable. We will be following this case closely.

Statement from CNN on the Don Lemon arrest: