Dropping this here because it feels like a good counter to cynicism and defensiveness.

Now that Juneteenth is a thing, I’d like to call in “emancipated” to work tomorrow.

The truth is that SCOTUS saved the GQP from the consequences of their own actions. If they had gutted the ACA, that would be our message all the way through the midterms. Focusing on health care brought us the blue wave in 2018. It would be an even more potent message once people started losing their coverage and…

You are trying to make sense out of senselessness. Just think about the mindset of white Evangelicals. These are people who long for the Rapture or the End Times. They are hoping for the end of the world because they believe that they will get to sit at the right hand of God and watch those left behind suffer. That’s…

I really don’t understand why the GOP have beef with the law.

I was wondering if we were going to get a happy piece about Juneteenth after yesterday’s misery porn. Congratulations to Opal Lee. She owns this victory and unlike so many she lived to see it, which is an even bigger miracle given how many of our elders the pandemic took.

I’m seeing the same thing in Cleveland. Every weekend seems to be a brand new bloodbath.

“Babbit Hunting Season” is some seriously elegant shit. Well done!

I’m just going to leave this here. I’m sure Miss Opal would be happy to hear how the thing she’s been fighting for for years is meaningless.

So you want it to be just for Black people? You don’t want the entire country to acknowledge the end of slavery? And since service workers don’t get the day off then the holiday doesn’t matter? People work on every other holiday. Hospitals are open on Christmas does that mean Christmas isn’t a real holiday?

Then let me know when we get to the celebration, darling, because I’m not seeing it.

“Can we sing so loud and raucous they can hear us across the bridge in East Secaucus” will always be one of my favorite musical lyrics ever.

That was amazing.

Juneteenth is on its way to becoming a national holiday 38 years after MLK Day was approved. We should be celebrating. But please notice how many of our “brothers” and “sisters” - here and elsewhere - want to make sure that we don’t celebrate for a Single. Fucking. Minute.

Accordingly, when she was approached to star in Fox’s 9-1-1 spinoff, 9-1-1: Lone Star, she asked showrunner Tim Minear if that character could also be Afro-Latina, explaining exactly what that should look like.

She’s a Big Damn Hero.

Does anyone know where this bit is buried? Or did they have the sense to cremate her and toss the ashes down the sewer?

I wish that were true but Twitter is filled with vampires who want to make sure that nobody is happy about this. Either it’s the CRT thing or “This should’ve happened a long time ago” or “This is performative!”

We’ll see. I’m putting my money on there being some new drama in a couple of days. Somebody else will accuse Chrissy Teigen of bullying them or someone will get pissed off at the new Pixar movie coming out or the internet will discover some old movie with problematic history. (Did you know James Earl Jones starred in…

Doubtful. This bit of outrage theater (theater outrage) will probably be out of steam by the end of the week and I think that’s being generous. This whole thing has “Ellie Kemper is a KKK princess” energy. There will be some brand new drama in a couple of days.