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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 15h

It's the 14th anniversary of the Sudden Departure. How are you going to commemorate it?

A mother reacts to her baby vanishing in the Sudden Departure in a scene from HBO's "The Leftovers"

Nora Durst's family has just vanished in a scene from HBO's "The Leftovers"

The Guilty Remnant holding up signs saying, "Stop Wasting Your Breath" in a scene from HBO's "The Leftovers"

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 8h

Every year since 2016 has been varying degrees of trash.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 8h

They don't think they have a "pattern of behavior." In their minds, they're non-ideological and completely reason-based, and they get offended when anyone identifies how strictly ideological their thinking actually is.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 9h

It amazes me that he was drafted 14th, after what he did in Houston with Phi Slama Jama.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 9h

I really enjoyed the Grit and Grind Grizzlies.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10h

Can we acknowledge that there's been a freakout about the fact that young liberals want to human rights for Palestinians, but general willed ignorance to how young conservatives are all flirting with Nazism?

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 10h

Agreed on all of this.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 11h

I find it interesting that ATCQ has eclipsed them in the public's memory, but I feel like everyone at the time recognized that De La was the greatest group in the Native Tongues collective. Or maybe I was the only one who thought that.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 11h

As a 50+ Black man, this shit cuts so deep

Big Bad Booty Daddy @bamaslymm.blacksky.app · 12h

D'Angelo was 51
DMX was 50
Chadwick was 43
Phife was 45
Trugoy was 54

It just don't feel like we long for this world, man...

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 11h

D'Angelo is one of the only artists I can think of where his brilliance allows for no subjectivity. If you don't like his music, there's something wrong - a fundamental inability to understand the magic and sorrow of existence.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 11h

I don't really have an opinion one way or the other on this argument. Still, the metaphor does make me think of all the "reefer madness," super strong Negro high on angel dust, and other myths used to justify police brutality.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 12h

I literally bought Voodoo on vinyl on a whim this morning because of a marketing email I got from the Okayplayer store.

🕸️🕷️ 🥀 Nani🥀🕷️🕸️ @sinmachine.is.severed.fyi · 12h

The least we could do is run up the D’Angelo and Angie Stone discography, because I’m sure the son is inheriting the estate

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13h

I think that how people talk about colonialism I think is one of the better tells for what their politics actually are. ymmv

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 13h

Is that John Starks sitting next to Don Nelson?

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[No//Thrones] @krakoan-lorax.bsky.social · 14h

The Krakoan Age was the best the X-Books had been since Claremont. It could have easily sustained 20 years worth of comics and killing it early was a massive mistake. Even the current X-Office knows it was a mistake, which is why they can't quit referencing it despite all of Brevoort's bluster.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 22h

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 13h

That's what made the Krakoa storyline so refreshing, and ultimately so disappointing.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 13h

This, to me, is the inflection point of any social media platform. When they invariably decide to start serving me more content from their algorithm than from the people I actually follow is when everything goes to shit.

Freeyore @mewefree.bsky.social · 14h

Facebook is pretty terrible. My TL is all accounts I don't follow...

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 17h

Ahh, delete this

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

So glad we stopped all those terrible identity politics and got back to concrete material issues…

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Ada Bee @mercury01.bsky.social · 4d

it always frustrates me that the Republicans make the Democrats sound so much more progressive than they actually are

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 5d

Okay sorry, I just tried it and it didn't work for me either.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 5d

In case it's helpful in the future, you can usually get past paywalls by pasting the URL into archive.is

archive.is

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 5d

Just on a basic level, anyone who would be willing to do this should be considered a danger to society.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 5d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 5d

I've reached the point where Abolish ICE isn't enough. These bastards need to go to jail.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5d

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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