So We Want To Know If Anyone Went to A Fun Free Festival – Saturday Night OT

 

Back & Forth and Try Again – Succession Return and Dune Anticipation Weekend – Saturday Night OT

 

Cover of the NYT Mag - and the artist IINM is Basi Butler

One thing we're doing tonight is mini-focusing on Aaliyah in part because someone in the TL pointed out how he'd forgotten how good she was.

Some Rest and Some Joy on a Saturday Night – OT

 

Ruben Santiago Hudson told Jonathan Capehart this morning in Tiffany Cross’s hour (because she is on vacay and has been covering for Joy Reid during the week all week) that 

Lackawanna Blues is going into previews and then back on Broadway by mid-September (we’re going to be optimistic here)

We don’t forget what led up to needing it.  We certainly remember the people who continue to LEAD THE WAY in making it permissible and to their critics we say *raspberry*

with (in comments) a nice little case of schadenfreude in both Piers Morgan’s and Novak’s case

Oh, Novak

Novak Djokovic pulling out of the mixed doubles actually costing his a medal after throwing a tantrum and losing in a singles match….let’s see how Piers Morgan, Megyn Kelly, Charlie Kirk feel about that since they have much to say about Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka

— 𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 (@exavierpope) July 31, 2021

 

Just One Month Ago: Rep Hakeem Jeffries Went All In and I Forgot It Was Saturday Night

 Andra Day as Billie Holiday

 

It feels like this is (yet another, if people didn’t have time yet to read the piece on recurring White election violence by Michael Harriot for the Root that might’ve been put up here two or three times) a time when there’s a lot of whiplash on how we’re all going to try to learn how to get along and move forward in the re-imagining of these United States as a multiracial democracy.

 

Because of some reactionary people who just can’t seem to get with the program (helped along no doubt by the forerunner of “I love the uneducated”, the man Nixon whose minions produced a raft of studies showing the less educated people were the more likely they were to vote Republican, at which point he promptly gutted funding for public education and we’ve been living with the aftermath of that decision in the population ever since), we have A LOT OF WHIPLASH – like how Sherrilyn Ifill is named Attorney of the Year by the National Lawyers Association for her tireless work advancing rights for marginalized peoples while at the literal very same time the NYPD shows its entire *ss by wearing TRUMP PATCHES while attacking protesters in the street (both of which things are completely against current rules and NYPD Comms insists the offending officers have been “disciplined” as a result but we haven’t heard anything yet about their being fired).

 

What I hope is that going forward, the vigorous pushback continues against what I heard an anti-school-shooting activist call “pain denial” … the kind of trash any person who  has been

 

That’s a fascist tactic – the attempt to drum compassion out of people so that otherwise criminal levels of dehumanization by any method or means continue to go unremarked because people have been numbed to the abuse because it’s been normalized *by people of influence, visibility, and power*.

 

We’re not here for that.  We’re not here for the Grand Failure of Imagination and the seemingly never-ending excuses that attach to it.

 

Make art.  Make more art.  Imagine that which has not yet been envisioned.

Let’s continue to do better.