Some Thoughts
Some Thoughts
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I Thought I'd Never See a Finale as Bad as Game of Thrones's. Then I Watched Showtime's Your Honor
āI just donāt get what you get out of watching thisā my wife said to me, several times over the past two months, while I watched Showtimeās Your Honorāthe Bryan Cranston-led limited series about a series of increasingly terrible moral quandaries a New Orleans judge finds himself in after making a series of increasingly amoral…
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John Fetterman Has Had Eight Years To Apologize For Pulling a Shotgun on a Black Jogger in 2013, But Still Refuses. Why?
Itās not completely accurate to say that Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has recently emerged as a nationally renowned darling of liberals, mainly because itās a status heās possessed since he was the mayor of Braddock, Pa. But his star has risen in the past several months, as more Americans have come to recognize this…
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Eat Your Grits However The Hell You Want To
Before I began writing this, I finished eating a makeshift breakfast of two-and-a-half scrambled eggs mixed with shreds of pork pulled from the leftover ribs of last nightās dinner order. It was a slightly disappointing mealānot because of the taste of the food, but the temperature of it. I sat down to eat it at…
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Everything You Need to Know About the GameStop, Reddit, and Stock Market Story, Explained
Thank you! For what? Explaining this story. Iāve keeping up with it and trying to understand whatās happening, but I havenāt been able to find a clear deconstruction of it in terms I can understand. Ā Thatās what Iām here for! So yeah, before we begin, let me tell you something. Thereās no nobility in…
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Remember This Face Because This Monster Should Never Play Another Down In the NFL Ever Again
Trigger Warning: This article contains graphic details of domestic violence. Prior to the arrival of Surviving R. Kelly, as the tide began to turn against the embattled singer, Spotify tried to get ahead of the curve by banning controversial artists from its popular playlists. This new āhate content and hateful conductā policy was the streaming…
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A List of People Who Asked for Apple's Limited Edition, Black History Month, 'Black Unity Collection' Watch
1. No one 2. Nobody 3. Nathan 4. Nan niggas 5. The people in the room when Apple devised the following paragraphs: Members of the Black creative community and allies throughout Apple came together to design an Apple Watch Sport Band and Apple Watch face to honor the ongoing fight for racial justice. Inspired by…
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Red Lobster Is the Greatest Place on Earth and I'm Tired of Y'all Pretending Like It Ain't
I do not remember the first time I went to Red Lobster. Which is fine. I also do not remember the first time I saw Halle Berry. But I know that my reaction was the same: How does something so perfect exist and are there more of these in Cleveland? As a Black kid from…
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Yup, That Image of a Mitten-Clad, Socially-Distant, Errand-Running Bernie Sanders Is the Greatest Meme Ever
Itās been 12 years since I last felt how I felt while I begrudgingly watched some of the inauguration yesterday. Whatever relief experienced in ridding of the outgoing president (minimal) or pride in witnessing history (eh), was flattened by anxiety that something terrible was going to happen. And so from the time President Biden and…
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America's Long Racist Nightmare Is Over
It is a new day in America. That we have chosen to forge a path into the bright, beautiful morning is a testament to this nation. Once again, in our darkest hour, we overcame our penchant for self-destruction and chose to embrace the light. But, in all the exultant triumph, let us not forget one…
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Unify With Deez Nuts
In less than 24 hours, Joe Biden will become the president of the United States of America. During his inauguration ceremony tomorrow, he will deliver a speech, and it will revolve around the concept of unity because he is a sentient shoestring and unity is his entire steez. In fact, pledging to take a shot…