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“Uncle Joe” needs to lay off the rap and the pandering

May 20, 2024 by Shay
Official portrait photo of Joe Biden, arms crossed in a dark blue suit as he leans against a desk with a US flag to his right

So, President Joe Biden is trying to ride the coattails of Kendrick Lamar to humiliate Donald Trump but—more importantly—to try to win over Black people. Sit with that for a moment while I fill you in on backstory. Even though it’s all over social media, and I find it hard to believe that many people …

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Are we gonna “ride or die” all the way to regional war or worse?

April 20, 2024April 17, 2024 by Shay
black-and-white image of the front of a slightly busted-up old jeep, taken from ground level looking up, with a cloudy sky in the background

Look, I understand the “ride or die” concept. There are people who have my back or whose back I watch over who qualify as ride-or-die—either the way they feel toward me, me toward them, or both. But like so many sentiments and philosophies, when it’s taken to a certain point, it loses positive meaning and …

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Florida gets positively “antisocial” about media and minors

April 2, 2024 by Shay
black and white image of a child shouting into a professional stage mic

As wildly out of touch with reality, rights, logic, compassion and more as Florida lawmaking can be, it might shock you that when Florida passed a law to ban minors from social media last week, it wasn’t the first state to do so. Still, if it survives legal challenges, it will be one of the …

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