What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

Seems like the best solution would be to enact a similar bill in Maryland and Virginia, or in those states localities. Problems of scale require bare minimum cooperation between local governments (most of whom seem unwilling or unable to participate in cost-incentive programs)

An hour and 11-minute long mix of nothing but D'Angelo live tracks from various shows during the Brown Sugar and Voodoo eras. It's so well done. Also downloadable.

D’Angelo. Hard to even process this one. He was one of a kind, but part of a continuum. That’s at the heart of what made him so special. #RIP

RIP to D’Angelo! One of the greatest artists of all time, and my favorite artist.
Fuck cancer man

there is a lot here that stinks but the record shows that they were never arrested and the grand jury no-billed the charges. the one surviving claim is the most damning: a malicious prosecution suit against the supervising officer who fabricated evidence to get the claim to the grand jury.

A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals.

lol @ “a ruthless terrorist organization (Hamas)” when they’ve been the only one of these parties to advocate for human rights in Gaza, to propose practical technocratic governance, and to be completely open about intention

Remember how people lost their minds when I said go to a protest but don't rsvp to one

So let me get this straight: the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Venezuelan opposition leader aligned with the Likud Party and the Israeli government, who has asked that her country be invaded and the current government overthrown lmao?

(Cheryl is his third wife I think)

NEW! from @nicolefroio.bsky.social: The reason governments, universities, and other public institutions across the world want to quash pro-Palestine speech—including art and music—is because they understand the danger it poses to life as we know it. Which is all the more reason to say it louder.

Yeah, this Geese album is pretty damn good.

‘The world needs to know what happened to my baby’: inside devastating new police-body-cam film The Perfect Neighbor

The weird snipe at @stevevladeck.bsky.social aside, Ilan misses the entire point that even the framers accepted the general idea of judicial oversight re: the president's deployment of military forces. Congress enacted a statutory regime. The president is bound by it. Courts have equitable powers.

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder:

* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.

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They literally just fought a Supreme Court case for the right to racially profile. It was in the news!

Bill Nye is currently on the Hill to advocate against a proposed 47% cut to NASA science from the Trump admin

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland.

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Bari Weiss is an unapologetic advocate for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and war crimes committed by the IDF - but she’s also a poor writer and editor, blinded by pure ideology and incapable of producing a respectable product.

No need to manufacture consent when you can just outright pressure media to produce in your own image.

Several journalists resigned this week from three newspapers in Alaska after the publications’ corporate owner made significant edits to an article about Charlie Kirk’s death, after pressure from a Republican state lawmaker who had criticized the coverage.

The 1st Circuit reaching the right result -- and exemplifying ways to use history that are non-originalist. History is not a source of commands (contra originalism) but, when understood properly, it does provide real lessons for prudent decision-making in the present.