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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

We believe that in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, working people deserve a dignified life.

And to the billionaires who think this movement is an existential threat to their corruption of our democracy: you're right.

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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 1d

They built a $100 million Center for the Arts, then cut the arts

kate wagner @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 1d

wrote briefly about architecture and the situation at u Chicago www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Why Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities?

The answer is simple: to spend untold sums on useless buildings by starchitects.

www.thenation.com

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essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 23h

One of the greatest videos to ever grace the internet

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Rotten Tomatoes @rottentomatoes.com · 3h

Keanu Reeves gives us an update on the highly-anticipated #Constantine sequel 👀

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SinnamonS @sinnamonscouture.bsky.social · 4h

Meg sitting with Klays mom 🥰❤️

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 4h

😔💜

casey morell @caseym.org · 4h

news from the network:

npr founding mother susan stamberg has died, aged 87

NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.

www.npr.org

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Browned Butter @brownedbutter.blacksky.app · 4h

After getting away with this photo why not use your billions to make sure none of your things look Nazi coded if that’s not what you want?

Taylor Swift in photo with white guy who has a giant red swastika painted on his white shirt
His hand is on her waist and they are shoulder to shoulder

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 5h

Starring Zoe Saldana.

Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 5h

Oh just you wait until the regretful ICE agent falling in love with “a brown” movies start popping off.

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 20h

Promise me that yall aren't going to platform the eventual "repentent ICE agent" stories that will come out...

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 5h

“Go ‘head; admit to it.”
“Admit to what?”
“That you dead.”

I’m neverrr going to get over that. I love that moment in Sinners. The first time I saw it in theatre, the chill that radiated down my spine, man. Annie, the legend.

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Method Man's Hand Gestures @jamellpelle.bsky.social · 5h

The Lost Boys is a film thriving off of the imagination, off bits of genre recognition/nods, and ambiguity about its relationships and its plot, its atmosphere, and emotions left to perception...all the possibilities in Sutherland's eyes when Star introduces Michael ..

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Method Man's Hand Gestures @jamellpelle.bsky.social · 5h

Vibe movies require vibe performances and over the years of returning to the Lost Boys as a fun little ritual I've developed a very serious actors crush on how inextricable Kiefer's very vibes-possessed performance is from what works ...

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Iesha @ieshabewriting.blacksky.app · 5h

2 episodes of Abbott dropped?

Iesha @ieshabewriting.blacksky.app · 5h

I ain’t gon hold you! I did not see that reveal coming! Wowza #GenV

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DT @dthom1117.bsky.social · 5h

#GenV

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ReecyRu @reecyru.bsky.social · 1d

They done gassed Marie up way too much. Now she isn’t listening to anyone lol. #GenV

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André @dreco.me · 1d

#GenV has been banger after banger after banger…

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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 5h

‘Is This Thing On?’ Review: Bradley Cooper Finds His Limit in Divorce Dramedy www.thewrap.com/is-this-thin...

'Is This Thing On?' Review: Bradley Cooper Finds His Limit in Divorce Dramedy

Bradley Cooper directs, co-writes and co-stars in the marital dramedy "Is This Thing On?" starring Will Arnett and Laura Dern.

www.thewrap.com

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 8h

This grieves my spirit.

choreography, mannerisms, style (swagger), and singing style, even the Motown music group finishing school methods— copied.

And most press about these groups never mention it.

Museum exhibit I went to on K-pop never mentioned it

MrJohnBusiness @mrjohnbusiness.bsky.social · Jul 21

back in the day my daughter didn't believe me when I said her favorite K-Pop boy band BIG BANG was nothing but rehashed 90s Black everything

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10h

The director and the artist stole from Yseult AND the choreography, production & design collaborators she paid $100k to make her video.

Whole Kpop team had to study Yseult's video to copy their work, too.

So funny because Yseult's song says, "You want to be a version of me, b*** you could never"

BITCH YOU COULD NEVER 💋

TikTok video by Yseult

www.tiktok.com

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 12h

Also Yseult
“The K-pop industry, like others, has sucked on Black culture like a vampire for decades. It samples our music, steals our movements, wears our skin like costumes, and profits from our pain while erasing our names.”

See "Blacksound" by @drmadmo.bsky.social & "Black Meme" by L. Russell

French Singer Yseult Alleges Plagiarism in R.Tee Video

French Singer Yseult Alleges Plagiarism in R.Tee Video Director Apologizes for Similar Scenes in Damdadi Music Video

www.chosun.com

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 12h

Yseult's IG "spent 100K on a music video I produced last year, only to get it copied and pasted by a K-pop creative a year later"

Video dir. Hong Min-ho
"I sincerely apologize… scenes were identicall to Yseult's original work. It is true I was inspired by Yseult's work…"

He apologizes with what? 💰

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Iesha @ieshabewriting.blacksky.app · 6h

I LOVE HER SO MUCH!!!!!

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Mar 19

Yseult: Tiny Desk Concert

"The French singer-songwriter Yseult blends chanson, R&B and pop with a punk-ish je ne sais quoi." 🎶🎼 #punk

MUSICIANS
Yseult: vocals
Darius Woodley: drums
Brandyn Porter: guitar
Evan Rainey: bass
Christian Almiron: keys
Livv, LennAsia, Jhetti Rose: background vocals

Yseult: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 11h

Legacy Russell’s "Black Meme" says owning, replicating and remediating Black material is a theft rooted in historical frameworks of subordination.

Prof. Matthew Morrison's "Blacksound", citing Saidiya Hartman et. al., looks at origins of blackface minstrelsy & its impact on U.S. music
#Blackademics

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Jenn Q. @jennqueen.bsky.social · Jul 20

Black people don’t got culture.. then

Why y’all want an invite to the cookout?

Why y’all want braids so bad?

Why y’all imitating our dialect?

Why is there an urban dictionary?

Why is there a “sneaker culture”?

Why y’all bumping any type of music?

Why y’all getting long nails and popping gum?

a man in a pink hat is covering his mouth with his hand .

ALT: a man in a pink hat is covering his mouth with his hand .

media.tenor.com

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Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 6h

Neon has acquired the worldwide rights to Steven Soderbergh’s ‘THE CHRISTOPHERS’ starring Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen.

(Source: https://variety.com/2025/film/news/steven-soderbergh-the-christophers-neon-2026-release-1236554576/)

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