... and what I mean by "that evening" is "the evening of the White House Correspondents' Dinner in about a month" -- as I don't know about you all (even though I kind of do) but the primary reason I had planned to watch has literally been canceled
"Comedian" Dropped from Hosting WHCP - BBC
I found out about this in the NYT, but I posted the BBC coverage first since I'm still vibrating a bit with a host of feelings reading their coverage of how Eugene Daniels (!!!), who's apparently some prominent representative of the WHCP this year, exhorting her about how she "really needed to lean into both sides"
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as well as Amber's response that she absolutely was not going to do that.
And so in yet another episode of The People Whining About Cancel Culture Trying to Cancel Everyone Else, here is Professor Keith Boykin explaining in very useful detail for those of us attached to the wealth of knowledge that is the Smithsonian complex in this country exactly what Donald can and cannot do with his enablers' attempts to wreck the preservation of American history on one of his rampages
... as well as a reminder posting of Dr. Jason Johnson's exhortations in conversation with Lurie Daniel Favors pretty much right after the November 2024 election to do what we can to preserve our respective family histories since he could predict with reasonable certainty that they were going to try to do exactly what they're trying to do right now
Lots of practical tips in each video, but it requires a little reading between the lines
We have two music Qs this week as well -- one more inwardly-focused, if you will
and one that kind of felt like it reflected this week's topical theme, for however people want to read that
