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JLBarrow
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He/Him | Digital Storyteller | Mentally been many places, but I’m Brooklyn’s own | Regis | Wesleyan | ΑΦΑ |. 🇬🇾🇬🇩🗽
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In the return of my FathersWhoBother podcast I speak to my brother Datwon Thomas (VIBE/KING/XXL) a year to the day after he suffered an Aortic Dissection that almost took his life. In our talk he shares how his wife and 3 daughters used music to nurse him back to health : youtu.be/R5Crdc9cbwE?...
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the reason we don't have anything at all in this country, is because these insufferable people have spent 250 years worrying about the 100 people who might take advantage of a program that 300,000,000 people actually need.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Aaaaand there it is.

The "Not my lane, haven't read it, I don't know nothin' about it Sycophant Speaker Sgt. Schultz default response.

Pathetic.
Q: You outlined the dangers posed by drugs. So what explanation do you have for Trump pardoning the former president of Honduras?

SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I don't know the details. Happy to look into it. I can't speak to it

Q: Alright. Um. Ok. Like, no thought on it?

MARSHALL: I haven't researched it
December 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Except we are not at war and HE JUST PARDONED A LITERAL CONVICTED DRUG LORD
Sen. Roger Marshall defends Hegseth: "Look, we're losing 200 Americans every day to drug poisoning from these drug lords. This is a war. And it's ugly. War is never pretty ... that strike probably saved thousands of American lives."
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I just finished Roy Wood Jr’s great book, “A Man of Many Fathers” and it prompted me to revisit our talk about parenting for my podcast youtu.be/ssLhw2QG0xM?...
Roy Wood Jr On Fatherhood: "This is the most productive six-year stretch of my career."
YouTube video by Fathers WhoBother
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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For the past six weeks, an AI Facebook account has been pulling my history posts on Instagram and slopping out new captions, so I’ve been feeding it poison pills and its followers are having meltdowns in the comments. It’s been pretty spectacular.
November 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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This is the same university that rescinded a res life job offer to me when I was a grad student after they found out I was gay and partnered.
December 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Does New York really need 3 more casinos?
December 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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I Heart radio has pulled an AI artist from the air and its chief programming officer has started an initiative called “guaranteed human.” He says this also applies to their podcasts. www.billboard.com/pro/iheartra...
iHeartRadio Exec Says Company Won’t ‘Play AI Music’ or Use ‘AI Generated Personalities’ in Staff Memo
iHeartRadio banned AI music, podcasts and radio DJs with a new program called "Guaranteed Human," programming head Tom Poleman wrote in a staff memo.
www.billboard.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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At issue is whether internet providers can be liable for their users' committing copyright violations using its services. n.pr/4pJUZLq
Supreme Court weighs copyright fight between music industry and internet providers
At issue is whether internet providers can be liable for their users' committing copyright violations using its services.
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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“Trish Carter-Goodheart, a Democratic candidate and citizen of the Nez Perce Tribe, spoke plainly: Racism and discrimination remain real and persistent …

When the conversation hit a nerve, [the GOP senator] abruptly stormed out, shouting: ‘Why don’t you go back to where you came from?’”
Tribal IDs Are Federally Recognized. ICE Agents Are Ignoring Them.
Opinion. During last year’s Idaho election, a Republican state senator lost his composure when a candidate forum turned to the topic of racism.
nativenewsonline.net
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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CALIFORNIA: “Four people killed and 10 others wounded Saturday night in a mass shooting at a children’s birthday party in Stockton… during a child’s birthday celebration at an ice cream shop…” www.sacbee.com/news/local/c...
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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"Data centers are important for many reasons."

@vanhollen.senate.gov
"The data center began taking on the toxic sludge as it drew on groundwater to cool its electronics. Evaporation only further concentrated the wastewater, which contained nitrate levels 8 times higher than Oregon’s safe limit."
Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers
A sprawling data center in eastern Oregon has been linked to a huge rise in rare cancers, muscle conditions, and miscarriages.
futurism.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Stuart changed the language and energy of sports coverage. He brought it up to date with the times, made it relevant, and I honestly don’t know where many of us would be without his savoir faire, his confidence, charm, and his constant door-kicking shinebrighthq.substack.com/p/boo-yah-im...
Boo-Yah! I'm at work in the new Stuart Scott doc
also: "California Love" turns 30
shinebrighthq.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I want breakfast for dinner, but I already had breakfast for breakfast.
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
NLE Choppa going Shamone Shaboozy and Desiigner doing a convincing Smoke DZA cosplay were not in the 2025 scouting report.
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Turkey gumbo
November 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I had my last plate of leftovers for breakfast. What’s your preferred post Thanksgiving meal?
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I’m gonna fuck these leftovers up for breakfast.
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Senile Satan, Con Junior and Fredo announced their phone in June, promising delivery in August to commemorate a decade since Satan came down the escalator. Not one phone has been delivered and good luck getting a refund. They took 590,000 deposits totaling $59 million.
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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This was a delight.
More than one of these made me gasp, but one made me shout out loud
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Ozempic going to war with all the turkey, stuffing and pie tonight
a soldier with the letter u on his arm stands in front of a fire
ALT: a soldier with the letter u on his arm stands in front of a fire
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Didnt Luke Skywalker slice one of those open and hide inside during a storm?
Hey, we saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe.
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Eating lol
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
First plate down. Second probably around 4:20…
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM