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Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 3h

Being a D’Angelo addict for three decades, have no idea how I missed this 1998 slow burner (I’m ashamed), one of this superior songwriter’s superior covers, this time of the Ohio Players’ “Heaven Must Be Like This.” Take the lights down low with your beloved…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul1c...

D'angelo - Heaven must be like this

YouTube video by Immortal Real Rap

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

By singing entirely in Spanish and refusing to apologize, Bad Bunny is telling millions of Americans to stop sitting on the sidelines as he takes to the biggest stage in the world at next year's Super Bowl.

The full story: lataco.com/bad-bunny-su...

By Gabriel Buelna and Enrique M. Buelna

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1h

The camera turn cause he knows dude stays watching this. About to get a Truth Social dissertation.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

🔥 ZOHRAN ON FOX: "I want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Adams who will call you to stay out of jail… a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election… I’ll be a mayor ready to speak at any time to lower the cost of living.“

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 28m

still paying taxes for some reason

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 3h

What the fuck are we doing?

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 29m

yeugh these ppl are making it so the only "good" jobs are overseers and slavecatchers

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 33m

interestingly, taylor's vote record puts him as one of the most moderate republicans in the house

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 2h

Screenshot from the Bad Place from user @soychotic:

This guy I know funded his wife's Etsy sticker business by buying her one of these and like $500 in social media ads to give her something to do and now he's quit his job entirely because she's making them so much money

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Suburbanista @suburbanista.bsky.social · 7h

"I don't know if you've heard the news, but DART isn't safe," Evans told Suburbanista from the scene of his latest car wreck.

"My body is acclimated to drinking on my commute because sharing the road with inattentive psychopaths is something I can't do sober. They won't let me drink on the train!"

Photo of man kneeling next to car wreck looking distraught, captioned with "Irving man with 13 DUIs says revoking his license would force him to use 'dangerous' public transit"

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 4h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · 2h

Fun fact: you can estimate a conditional logit by running a fixed effects Poisson. They yield the same estimates and standard errors - they maximize the same likelihood. Poisson regression forever!

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 37m

she really said

a man in a suit and tie says i don t think about you at all

Alt: a man in a suit and tie says, "I don't think about you at all".

media.tenor.com

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 38m

I can't even hit play I'm at work still 😮‍💨

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 41m

"girl I guess" is somehow more disrespectful than "I simply do not like you"

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 3h

nasty work

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Norah 🦋 Mami’s Small But She is Mighty 🔥 @thenoraheffect.bsky.social · 1d

The Bering Sea— A reminder that beauty lives where danger breathes 😌

Good morning and happy Tuesday

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Spooky Electric 🦀🌊 👻 @idabeware.blacksky.app · 7h

Omg at "Madonna walked over and told a woman sitting next to D, “I think you’re in my seat.” The woman got up. Madonna sat down and told him, “I’d like to know what you’re thinking.” To which D replied, “I’m thinking you’re rude.”

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1d

D'Angelo speaking out about the physical and emotional burden of maintaining a nearly unobtainable physique and sexy image as a Black male artist should be taught in labor studies. It absolutely impacted how I analyze pop culture.

GQ Profile Of D'Angelo Explores The Perils Of Being Sexy

Visit the post for more.

uproxx.com

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Mr Autumn Man @pnwnwa.myatproto.social · 22h

It’s not a full D’Angelo song, but it’s one of my favorite songs with his voice. D’Angelo, Common and J. Dilla made some phenomenal music together. 🕊️

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10h

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 4h

The dominant business plan these days seems to be let’s turn everyone into slaves, who famously never revolt

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kyle @meteormajeure.bsky.social · 4h

Once a week I take my kid to the French bakery and my wife always says “don’t go crazy”, one day I’m coming back like this

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 6h

If we attach a turbine, they can power millions of homes

David Simon, the writer behind The Wire and The Deuce (and a former journalist for the Baltimore Sun), finds only the blackest humor in Weiss's ascent to the top of the news heap. When asked for his perspective, Simon replied via email, "Murrow and Cronkite have both interrupted their peaceful mouldering, and are now revolving at such speeds that never mind the affront to televised journalism
—we need to consider the geologic risks to us all."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 5h

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 5h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 4h

watch out, @audubon.org

Allison @ajoff.bsky.social · 5h

my birthday was relatively recent and my nephew drew this for me

a child’s drawing of a tree with a hammock, an eastern screech owl, and a mallard duck

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 4h

All of this, but also: the casually racist conversation I overheard some white college students having fully in public not two weeks ago <<<

There was this idea that all racists would just die off somehow and idk how anyone ever thought that would just happen,,,

Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 5h

In ‘92 my GF at GWU was being tormented for the sin of being Black on campus. When I stopped by with a couple of friends from Howard—we were meeting up to go to the movies—the same guys accused her of summoning thugs to intimidate them.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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