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Quebec City at a dark hour… Getty Images And so, after a day of heated speculation, and Trump supporters going nuts about how Muslim terrorists attacked a Mosque in Quebec City on Sunday, the smoke is now clearing and the person at the center of this terrorist action—which claimed six lives and injured 15 people—the […]
“Let’s do this crash lesson again.” The Big Short On the night Trump was elected, the Dow Jones was at 18,000 points. Today, it hit 20,000 points. That is a 2,000-point increase. That shit is straight up crazy. Dow Jones Industrial Average hits 20,000 for the first time https://t.co/yctLLfikvX— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 25, […]
Moonlight has the second-most nominations in this year’s Oscars. The 89th Academy Awards, which will be broadcast by ABC on February 26, is not as white as the 88th edition. That is for sure. Three of the five big films (Fences, Lion, and Moonlight) are not directed by white people, and the documentary on 20th […]
“A cloud of pollution [caused by capitalism] hangs over the Eastern United States…” NASA In 2012, Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil’s CEO, and Trump’s pick for the next Secretary of State, admitted to the Council of Foreign Relations that climate change is a real thing (or, to use the language of Timothy Morton, a hyperobject) and caused […]
What’s so funny about loving bikes and trying to save the planet? IFC Season 7 of Portlandia premiered Thursday on IFC. The comedy show, which stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, continues to make fun of white, urban, progressive people who would never vote for Trump—indeed, who, if given the chance, would for Bernie Sanders. […]
Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis in Black Mirror’s “San Junipero.” LAURIE SPARHAM/NETFLIX • The moment when, in Black Mirror‘s “San Junipero,” “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” plays and Yorkie rounds the bend in her little red convertible and Kelly comes out to greet her and you realize that in this horrible Trumpian universe, good […]
It’s a Wonderful Life if you’re rich and white, that is. My family was never into Christmas. We were just too African to really feel it. Christmas is a feeling. The gifts, the trees, the little lights, the stockings, the carols were all a big bother without this feeling. For my family, Christmas was a […]
The Matrix is hiring… 20th Century Fox While there was lots of talk about the 1,000 or so jobs that Trump saved with a bunch of promised tax breaks—an approach to job protectionism that if it expands or becomes a national policy (jobs for tax breaks) could have very bad consequences for the larger economy, […]
We be in the city. Charles Mudede Yesterday, the president-elect stunned everyone by claiming that he would have won the popular vote if not for the millions (yes, millions) of people “who voted illegally.” Of course, this is complete nonsense, and almost all of the major newspapers said so in their headlines. There was no […]
“Freedmen at a voter registration office, Macon, Georgia in 1867. During Reconstruction (1866-1876).” Everett Historical/shutterstock.com Trump’s campaign team totally freaked out when it learned that early voting in Nevada saw a surge of Latino voters and that polling stations in Nevada’s most populous county, Clark County, had long lines and stayed open after closing time, […]
The director Tim Burton has finally explained why there are no black people (or people of color) in almost all his films. It’s not that he dislikes blacks or anything like that, but, let’s face it, he makes films about white people, the things white people like to do, and the places white people like […]
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