Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4hCountry rube stuff 101: if they talk fast, they got their hands in your pocket. 6918162
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldThe Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 4h“Not only are the songs not ones you’d associate with Ndegeocello — whose music has generally dealt with heavy topics and carries real gravity — but her interpretations entirely reshape any prior associations with them.” Meshell Ndegeocello Is Just a Soul on a Planet:spinmagazine.comMeshell Ndegeocello Interview: A Soulful Journey - SPINJoin us for a fascinating Meshell Ndegeocello interview and learn what makes this Grammy winner so beloved in the music scene. 0259
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4hPlease, for the love of God, leave me behind with all the books because you don’t read. I want to be left behind! 1057390
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6hSlander is spoken; libel is written. But this isn't either of those. It's detailed reporting from a respected outlet with damning evidence. And "most consequential Commerce Secretary in modern history" is as impressive as "shortest NBA player from Luxembourg" 20727971166
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 4hsee now I done skeeted myself into finally starting this book see what I mean about not trying to do culture on colonizer time? This book came out in 2014! 1253
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 4hAustralia is creepy as hell because they just wave away the Aboriginal people—the Black fellas—when they bring up. Colonization is a violent motherfucker. 1315
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 4hWe are a melting pot in the sense that a gentleman's agreement wrt the inferiority of Black people is what provides the roux for the stew 1508
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldDigital Diogenes @digital-diogenes.bsky.social · 8hapnews.com/article/memp...apnews.comAutopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the backAn autopsy shows that an armed man killed by the Tennessee National Guard was shot in the back. The report that Tyrin Johnson’s family shared with The Associated Press on Thursday contradicts accounts... 214552
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 8hA member of the National Guard shot and killed a man in Memphis and it barely made a ripple in our discourse. 5521134
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 4hSinners was about how everyone becomes American by acceding to this very tradition, even Black people 15611
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 8hIt’s genuinely remarkable how complete the consensus around anti-Black racism as an unremarkable feature of public and political life has become. 21868220
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 4hI love a fancy pen, I do with the fancy weight you feel when you hold it. I do. Nonetheless, this girlie pop with the extra fine nib has me in a chokehold. I'm obsessed.muji.usAluminum Fountain Pen SetThis set includes a aluminum fountain pen and cartridge. Designed with a clip for convenience. Comes with a storage case to keep it secure. 1221
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 5hHubris? Folly? Decadence? Gee, I wonder what comes next! lol no spoliers pleez 0190
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 6hDavid Ellison looked at media and said, "What if we didn't *remake* "Titanic?" What if we *BECAME* the Titanic? Gilded Age 2 making some extremely Greek choices let's see how this goes, what with the $80 billion debt load and the coming AI market correction hooooo buddy! 4788
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7hremarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading. 663128830
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 6hTurnstile. I mean Turnstile. Birds is the song? Anyhow, hot drummer on SNL last night. 🥵 2120
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 6hNobody tell me how old the Birds drummer is. Let me enjoy this crush without feeling like a dirty ole crone Good grief, he is scrumptious 😩 3230
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldFree DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 7hTeam Trump likes to tout the sky-high number of arrests they are making in DC. But these arrests are often an unconstitutional mess — and DC Courts are the ones who have to clean it up.nbcwashington.comSafe and beautiful ‘is not free': DC Courts under pressure with flat funding since 2022Since Congress left D.C. Courts’ funding at 2022 levels, criminal cases are up 160%, with President Trump pushing a tough-on-crime agenda. 29029
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 8hThe limits of the what now 1539833
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 7hIt is so gross, and so irresponsible to continue this bullshit pantomime in the face of decades of hard evidence that to the GOP, "meritocracy" = treating white supremacy as fact 2223
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 7hYup. The entire 16 months I’ve been on the ICE flight/TCR beat, I’ve encouraged other journos to join me, bc there are more stories here than I could possibly tell on my own. Many indy journos have. But for MSM reporters, too often they seem content to just repeat what’s already been reported. 625458
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10hSure. There are journalists who are so thirsty to be fancy (or desperate for any job) that they’ll complain for years about being dicked over by NYT and then leap at the chance to work there. But not everyone. And I think that number of refusers grows as NYT’s misbehavior does. 136420
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11hThere are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high. 71612425
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 7hAnd they are in no danger of going out of business by rightfully crediting you and others! It's such horseshit. It is based on a culture of petty theft that comes DIRECTLY from the circ wars between Pulitzer and Hearst. It is an extremely dumb practice in the Internet age. And THEY CAN AFFORD IT. 0131
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldredactor @redactor.bsky.social · 7hLewis Lapham once said that he didn’t read the new and buzzy thing for at least several years. If people were still talking about it by then, it might be worth picking up. 191
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 7hI was so surprised when I finally watched Silence of The Lambs. It was fine! I was fine! One of the first films that really opened up horror for me was The Shining. I fucking love that movie. I don't love the hell inflicted on Shelley Duvall during production. That was awful. But the film SLAPS 100
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 7h'preciate it! And I'm always happy to comp a membership for you if you'd like one! tysm 🫶🏽 020
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 7hAlso, there are always going to be things that hit different when you revisit them and you're the age of the characters, or the age of the artist when they made the thing. You will notice and appreciate entirely different stuff. Sonia Sanchez spat bars when she said re-read Toni every decade! 072
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 7hOk that is mighty impressive! I *still* haven't watched that film. 🫣 I'm not a horror weenie anymore (had to get over that to be able to write cogently about Jordan Peele's work), but I am very much a gore weenie. *Shudders* 110
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 7hCéline Semaan and Slow Factory been known 💗 slowfactory.earth 250
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 8hJoin me! Be kind to your brains! Become a Recency Bias Refusenik! There are worlds upon worlds in the archives! Embrace marination! It makes the juiciest chicken anyway! 2363
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 8hIt doesn't. It matters to the people who need to show their bosses a "number go up" line. That's not the same as steady longevity. 140
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 8hAlso, "doing more with less" is a lie. It's a lie! It's ok to divorce your attention from the hamster wheel of the release calendar and Internet zeitgeist. There will still be plenty worth saying about a thing, I promise! Consumption is not the same as curation. 1322
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldMatt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 8hrepublicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem? 262860584
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 8hSo what if something came out last year, or 10 years ago, and it was trendy and everyone was talking about it and you hadn't read/seen/listened/experienced the thing. That's ok! Recency is not the most important thing when the work is about seeking understanding. Culture is not a race! 5637
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 8hAnyhow, I just finished Jonathan Mahler's THE GODS OF NEW YORK last night, and what a fascinating, rewarding read. Cultural attention/discourse cycles are built around profits. Don't be bullied or guilted by your TBR list. Good work will keep. You're still smart. No one brain can hold it all!penguinrandomhouse.comThe Gods of New York by Jonathan Mahler: 9780525510659 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • A sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever—and anticipated the forces that would soon divide... 0163
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 8hThe thing about doing criticism at-large is that there is a tradeoff to not sticking to one medium or genre: you will not, you cannot, immediately respond to or even experience every new hotness the moment it comes out. Well, not in a way that is thoughtful or memorable. Stuff has to steep. 2766
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9hthe idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead 804236513
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit 352219814
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldCandice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 10hWe asked dozens of librarians about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comForget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say.We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us. 313352
Reposted by Soraya Nadia McDonaldAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I don’t think the roman helmet guys on musk’s csam emporium know this one (from josephine quinn’s how the world made the West) 311115186