01 Ethnic communities that voted as a bloc are about to be redistricted into irrelevance. Black Americans are always on the invitation, but really, you’re the birthday.
02 I dig “Roommates” by Malcolm Todd. My daughter put me on. I have trained her musical tastes for 13 years and now she is better than any algorithm from Apple or Spotify. It’s the 2026 version of having her change the TV channel for me.
03 It’s an expected trope now that internet personalities will be shit at their day job. EEEE-MAgine expecting activism from artifice. Come for the reads. Not for a roadmap.
04 @_michellelynn has captivated me in a way no other creator has. Her vignettes are a warm hug from my childhood and got me missing summer breaks in Ashland, KY bouncing between Dawson Pool, St. James AME, and Dairy Cheer. Grandma warning me to be back in the house before the street lights came on.
05 I read a TikTok that said “no one ever says ‘yo, throw on that Jermaine Jackson jam.’” I laughed because it is so right. He’s not Michael, but he had that iconic song with Whitney. And I cassette recorded “Do What You Do” off the radio when I was nine. Y’all know the words.
Let me jog your memory:
Filed from my couch. At 10pm
Favourite and only Jermaine Jackson song I know is "Let's Get Serious". It's a good one.