Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

“woke” is the new caravan.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

This fight is for everything.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Second rate reporter says what?

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

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Late Night Open Thread: Touch Touch

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I knew Makeba’s signature song, going back to its original American presentation in the 1960s. But until now, I didn’t know the defiant dancehall history behind it, per Wikipedia:

… The song’s title “Pata Pata” means “touch touch” in the Xhosa language, in which the song was originally written and sung. “Pata Pata” was also the name of a style of dance that was popular in the shebeens of Johannesburg’s Townships in the mid-1950s. The dancer crouched before his partner and patted her body to the rhythm of the music as he rose up and she spun around, making hip circles. In another version of the dance,

The male dancers stand in a row with their arms extended out to the front, palms to the floor, while the women pat each in turn in a manner resembling security search body-frisking, after which the men do the same to the women.…

D’ya think Mr. Sullivan had any idea what Ms. Makeba was actually talking about?

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