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Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 26/11/2025

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Looking the through the whole trove of Epstein emails, beyond the most newsworthy bits there's also lots of interesting (i.e. repulsive) insights into how these super-elites move and think.

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

"I can't believe people are still talking about that guy who just passed out over there. I like guys who don't pass out. I've never passed out. Everyone will tell you this. So what were we talking about? Oh yeah magnets. Did you know magnets can't get wet."

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀

Andrew Coumo kissing a woman who does not particularly look involved in the situation herself

Woman covering her face with her hand at Cuomo party

Man with his face in his hand at cuomo party

Woman holding NY hearts Cuomo branded campaign sign but it’s upside down

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 05/07/2025

I think it’s worth being explicit about what’s going on with the Zohran admissions stuff - this is a bad faith attack designed to try to drive the older Black voters that made up Cuomo’s base in the primary and who vote party line in the general to support Eric Adams to keep Mamdani out of City Hall

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

This implies that if Mamdani had simply refused to comment, the NYT would not have deemed the piece newsworthy. I'll leave it to you to decide whether that is plausible. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Paying tribute to Sly on the Twitch stream if you're around <3 about to dig into some rare footage from his set at the Harlem Cultural Festival twitch.tv/jsmooth995

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Andrew Cuomo knows: moving to New York City can be hard. But voting here shouldn’t be. 🏠 Already registered here? Update your address by June 9th 🧳 New or never registered? You must register by June 14th Head to zohranfornyc.com/vote. We’ve got an affordable city to win.

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

If that one part of "Sinners" gave you an appetite for some 90's hip-hop era Vampire lore, we're about to watch a little bit of 1990's Def By Temptation over on twitch :) twitch.tv/jsmooth995

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

All obvious heinous things aside, this is a reminder that—despite lies from republicans—undocumented people pay taxes. and now their contributions are being used against them.

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The Senate seat Schumer holds has only had 3 people in it over the last 70 years

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Under no circumstances will I "hand it to" Adam 16, but assuming he's the one who pitched this story, this is the wildest bamboozlement of a writer since that "fake grunge slang" piece in 1992

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.

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Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy

Trump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.

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Jake @brehlol.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The Eagles winning because of DEI (a white cornerback)

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

If they had done an SNL sketch last summer where Diana Ross winds up giving Kendrick the Song of the Year Grammy for Not Like Us i would've said "ok that's a bit much"

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is getting attention for what's in the headline, understandably, but the second screenshot feels equally notable--and galling--because 1. Oh NOW you're ready to admit this? 2. Admitting strategic failure on Gaza, without reckoning with yall's catastrophic *moral* failing, is still nasty work

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

On "payola pardons" and why Snoop doubled down on riding with Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgd...

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Snoop Just Doubled Down On Riding For Trump (And Here's Why)

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Charles P @handle.invalid · 20/01/2025

Every year I share this @jsmooth.bsky.social video about 10 other things MLK said and not the usual quotes that are shared each year. youtu.be/AIFTNmOOLmk?...

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Ten OTHER Things Martin Luther King Said

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

We're on live for the next few, catching up on some news and celebrating some LA music and culture <3 twitch.tv/jsmooth995

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

We're live on Twitch about to get into some film studies with perhaps the preeminent classic of 70s anti-racist cinema, 1972's "The Thing With Two Heads" twitch.tv/jsmooth995

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

We're on twitch for the next few getting into some vintage Black sitcom Xmas episodes twitch.tv/jsmooth995

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I pray one day the world will be ready for this young prophet's wisdom

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Important update: Nardwuar just dropped his Doechii episode www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bjF...

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

We're about to go live at twitch.tv/jsmooth995, catching up on some news and watching the second hour of Nikki Giovanni's classic rap session with James Baldwin 🙏

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I haven't been paying much attention to the whole drones thing, been basically assuming there's nothing to it. But this latest one...I'm still a skeptic but how do you explain this? Is it just some really good AI?

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

We're about to do a watch party for Michael Moore's "Sicko" on the twitch stream, twitch.tv/jsmooth995 7PM EST

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Forever one of my favorite Nikki Giovanni clips, calling out Bill Cosby back in 2007 ❤️

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When Nikki Giovanni CALLED OUT Bill Cosby (2007)

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Okay tonight is Doechii Appreciation Night on the Check-In stream 🔥 7PM EST at twitch.tv/jsmooth995 we'll be starting out with a trip back to her early Youtuber days and then charting her rise to Undisputed #1 Best Rapper of 2024 (don't argue, you will lose)

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

the first anniversary of henry kissinger’s death is a good time to revisit this interview i did with @attackerman.bsky.social about his righteous obituary for the heinous war criminal: www.thehandbasket.co/p/writing-an...

I had a conversation with my daughter who was like, “Why are people excited? So are you happy that this guy died?” And I was trying to talk about it in terms that I wanted her to take away from this. That it is a bad habit of the soul to celebrate anyone's death. But that emerges from our understanding of our humanity, what we owe to one another, the basic respect and dignity in viewing human lives as precious and in viewing them as valuable. And that's a contract. And there are gonna be some people, like Henry Kissinger, who break that contract at grand scale, and you don't have to be sad when someone like that dies. You can feel relieved. You don't want, in general, to be happy when people die. That is not a good way of being that will ultimately hurt you more than it will hurt them. But there are some people whose deaths come as a relief, and sometimes they come as a relief because justice was never served for the acts of such a person. And relief is the closest thing to justice that people will experience.

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

can't stress enough, as someone who has a lot of experience in media, they know what they are doing when they run provocative and/or genuinely dumb takes. they do not deserve your well-intentioned "marketplace of ideas" counterarguments even a little bit! bsky.app/profile/aoc....

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

We're on twitch for the next few, getting into some Digable Planets and related projects twitch.tv/jsmooth995

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

What fascinates me is it's the same people who have no problem believing JD Vance completely flipped his view of Trump from 5 years ago, that can't conceive of the GOP having changed from what it was 150+ years ago

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We're about to go live at twitch.tv/jsmooth995, to chop it up with veteran Hip-Hop journalist and Rap Law expert Shawn Setaro who will help us make sense of Drake's legal shenanigans this week

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jsmooth995 - Twitch

30+ year Hip-Hop DJ, Radio Host and Commentator. First(ish) Hip-Hop Blogger. First Hip-Hop Youtuber.

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Tonight at 5PM-ish EST we will be rebutting this Atlantic article that might be the worst piece I've ever seen written on De La Soul twitch.tv/jsmooth995

Atlantic tweet promoting their terrible article about the De La Soul Is Dead album, followed by a response from @jsmooth995 urging them to discontinue this disrespectful behavior.

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I'll be hanging on twitch again tonight at 5PM EST www.twitch.tv/jsmooth995

Jay Smooth and his cat Rusty streaming on twitch

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Listening to this with the combined feelings of "how crazy that this Al Green cover of 'Everybody Hurts' now exists" and "how crazy that this Al Green cover of Everybody Hurts had not always existed"

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Al Green - Everybody Hurts (Official Lyric Video)

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This makes both less and more sense when you realize he means "fear of childlessness among white people that will lead to us being outnumbered"

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I'll be giving a test run to streaming on Twitch tonight, come by and say hi if you're around! twitch.tv/jsmooth995

West Coast Check-in tonight at 9PM EST/6 PM Pacific: twitch.tv/jsmooth995

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Nothing good will come out of this "fight" tonight and I strongly advise divesting from any hopes or emotion you have put into it

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 14/11/2024

Anyway, embrace living in a world where you can go 'man that fucking sucks I'm so sorry' without the reflexive need to come up with a helpful or jokey suggestion. Sometimes it actually just sucks and a person just wants to feel seen and affirmed.

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

My results crossposting this one seem to be in line w/ Bluesky being the most amenable to political discussion Bluesky - 3500 followers 31 comments 78 reposts 289 likes Threads - 3000 followers 14 comments 4 reposts 70 likes Twitter - 60,000 followers 12 comments 29 reposts 130 likes

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Would you have preferred Kamala picked Josh Shapiro? "Oh absolutely, and here are all my enthusiastic reasons..." Okay so you have voted for her then? "...no." Your verdict on the "we can win over center-right voters" strategy, in a nutshell. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Yeah, I’m a huge Josh Shapiro guy. I think he’s done great things for the State of Pennsylvania. I call him the Glenn Youngkin of the Democratic Party. He’s just a really good leader and someone that’s honest. I don’t think I would have voted for her, but it definitely would have made a difference in my decision making.

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Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I've always assumed the average American bases their vote on vibes and emotions, but hard to stomach grown adults basically telling us "the vibes and emotions are controlling my body I don't even know what's happening"

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

New from me: Criminal justice reform fared better last week than headlines would suggest. But it did fail in places where tech/hedge fund bros spent millions to spread misinformation and stoke fear of crime. And that doesn't bode well for the future. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-brolig...

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The "broligarch" threat to criminal justice reform

Crime rates are falling, and criminal justice reform remains urgent and popular. But led by Elon Musk, a new generation of Republican megadonors are spending millions to kill it.

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