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So Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis wrote and produced "Human" by The Human League and then two years later said let's run it back with "Can You Stand the Rain" by New Edition? Geniuses.
September 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
goodthiiings.bsky.social
"Highest 2 Lowest" just added evidence to my belief that you need to have some of the most rancid vibes to live in the Olympia Dumbo...not that anyone actually lives there lol.
August 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
he's right and he's right to say it
screenshot of a Facebook post by Corey Robin, which says: "By the way, did you all notice how Zohran made affordability a central issue of his campaign without selling out trans kids or shitting on immigrants? Might be some lessons there. Just a thought."
June 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
goodthiiings.bsky.social
I want Ticketmaster dead. How is every ticket available a RESALE when I was in the queue a minute into the PRESALE?!? Nasty nasty work.
May 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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jamellebouie.net
“anything we can actually do, we can afford”

stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college
lottelydia.bsky.social Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Aug 15
Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
Let us not submit to the vile doctrine of the nineteenth century that every enterprise must justify itself in pounds, shillings and pence of cash income … Why should we not add in every substantial city the dignity of an ancient university or a European capital … an ample theater, a concert hall, a dance hall, a gallery, cafes, and so forth. Assuredly we can afford this and so much more. Anything we can actually do, we can afford… We are immeasurably richer than our predecessors. Is it not evident that some sophistry, some fallacy, governs our collective action if we are forced to be so much meaner than they in the embellishments of life? …
April 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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thomasav.bsky.social
The University of Michigan Black Student Union has released a statement on the dismantling of DEI at the institution.

"To Santa Ono: You are a coward, and bending to the will of fascists will not save you.

To the regents: We see you for the racists you are."

Via: www.instagram.com/p/DH1qbq8JpvJ/
BSU STATEMENT ON THE DISMANTLING OF DET AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN March 30th, 2025 On Thursday, March 27, 2025, University of Michigan President Santa Ono, Provost & Executive VP for Academic Affairs Laurie McCauley, Executive VP for Medical Affairs Marshall Runge and Executive VP & CFO Geoffrey Chatas sent an email to the university community stating that they were reneging on the university's nearly nine year commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). This university, made up of the "Leaders and Best," should have the spine to fight for their students and staff until the very end. Our administrators should have stood up for us, should have advocated for us, and should have protected us - until they were literally forced to acquiesce. The university did not have to cut DEI - they wanted to. In recent years, DEI has become a weapon wielded by white supremacists in office to sow division amongst the American people. From Donald Trump, who referred to DEI as a form of "tyranny," to Regent Sarah Hubbard, who called UM's DEI programs "curtailment of speech," white conservatives in this country are no longer hiding their racism behind facades of valuing a "merit-based society," and "diversity of thought," and are openly speaking to the real problem of DEI - the advancement of Black people. We, as Black students, have often spoken to the limitations of the university's bureaucratic DEI system, in hopes of improvement. We have advocated for increased student involvement and control of DEI initiatives, and the prioritization of Black voices - both students and staff - as the way towards a truly more equitable university. We, the Black Student Union, have worked tirelessly to try to improve the existing structure and efficacy of the university's DEI work. Our More Than Four platform, housed under the now-defunct Office of DEI (ODEI, was aimed at increasing Black student enrollment at the university, a hope that is now even more far-fetched. Current and former students have poured countless hours into advocating for themselves, and those who would come after them. To blatantly throw out all of the programs that they worked so hard for is to spit in the faces of generations of Black students, staff, and faculty on this campus. Furthermore, these attacks on DEI are coupled with attacks on student's rights - the right to protest, to dissent, and to use their voices - that were crucial to the advancement of Black students, and other students of color, on this campus. The Black Action Movements (BAM I, II, & III) of 1970, 1975, Jand 1987, along with #BeingBlackatUM in 2013, led to crucial wins for Black students and benefits for the entire university community. The student strikes of BAM I, in 1970, led to the creation of the Afro and African American Department here at UM, and #BBUM led to the creation of the Trotter Multicultural Center, the only building to be named after a Black person on UM's campus. These wins did not happen through quiet negotiations with the university, but through loud, disruptive, and angry protest. To crack down on student activism, especially in such violent and repressive ways as to sic the university police on students sleeping in the Diag, is to disregard the long history of student activism on this campus, and is deeply cowardly. The dismantling of DEI has real-life consequences. Staff who have worked their whole careers to support and protect students of color have suddenly had their lives upended. Jobs are not only people's passions, but their livelihoods - how they feed their children. Students who have chosen to pursue fields based in the advancement of and advocacy for marginalized communities are suddenly left scrambling. We wholeheartedly condemn the university's disgusting and deplorable stance on DEI programs. The regents and Santa Ono are rolling over to the Trump Administration's blatant racism, and are ensuring that conditions on this campus get even worse for students of color, especially Black students. Violence against Black students is already present on campus. From intimidation tactics by hate groups such as "White Lives Matter," to the word "n*gger" being scrawled across the walls in East Quad, we can already see how life under Trump affects Black people. Santa Ono and the regents are perfectly comfortable subjecting Black students on this campus to the growing racism and anti-Blackness that runs rampant in this country, and don't have the backbone to even attempt to defend us against rising facism. To Santa Ono: You are a coward, and bending to the will of fascists will not save you. To the regents: We see you for the racists you are. Truth! Action! Power! The Black Student Union #EyesOnBlack #BringBlackUmich
March 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
goodthiiings.bsky.social
Nobel Prize to whoever brokers the peace between Hall & Oates. We have to fix this!
blueskyoldschool.bsky.social OldSchool @blueskyoldschool.bsky.social · Mar 26
48 YEARS AGO TODAY on March 26, 1977, "Rich Girl" by Daryl Hall and John Oates reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
March 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM