Yes, I am the birthday. Actually. 4/20: Since 1972.

Why Fashion Suddenly Loves Older Women

Because we have style and money, duh. All fashion trends of this millennium so far have been derivative of eras we lived through and embodied organically and authentically & some of us stay hot. #SartorialShit

"It’s a striking shift in an industry that has long been famous for fetishizing youth."

This is my favorite scene from The Bible!

Baddie to the bone. Since 1972.

‘An incalculable loss’: Hampshire College to close doors after fall semester Massachusetts liberal arts college laments ‘heartbreaking reality’ and says financial pressures to blame

Sad news. #HigherEd #ExistentialCrisis

Politics of Black hair: why grooming rules are under scrutiny across the diaspora From schools in Ghana to workplaces in Britain, underpinned by the colonial roots of ‘respectability’, conversations around natural hairstyle persist

"Hair discrimination can be traced back to the trade in enslaved African people and has its roots in Eurocentric ideals."

I dedicated an entire chapter in my book (forthcoming via Rutgers University Press) to this perennial subject of discrimination and systemic racism against natural black hair.

April's fool. Since 1972.

Meta, YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction trial A Los Angeles jury awarded $3 million in compensation to a young woman who alleged she had become addicted to the platforms as a child.

Best news I've seen in weeks. #BigTech #accountability

Walkway Over Dangerous Train Crossing Is Dead After Norfolk Southern Backtracks on Funds, Mayor Says The mayor of Hammond, Indiana, says the rail company had promised to help pay for a pedestrian bridge after ProPublica and InvestigateTV documented dozens of children crawling through trains to get to...

NEW: After we documented children crawling through trains to get to school, the mayor of Hammond, Indiana, said train company Norfolk Southern pledged to help fund an overpass. Now the project is dead after the company reneged, he says.

Norfolk Southern denies making a commitment.

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority..." Lord Acton writing to Bishop Creighton in 1887 and clearly relevant to every man in power on the planet. Still.

Day four of no power. 🌨️❄️ I expect a Nobel prize for this. 🏅

Gisèle Pelicot on rape, courage and her ex-husband: ‘He was loved by everyone. That’s what is so terrifying’ The case against her former husband shocked the world, while her response inspired awe. As she publishes a memoir, she discusses chemical submission, the abuse hidden within her apparently perfect mar...

Give Gisèle a Nobel.

“It was the trial of cowardice and denial,” she says. “My decision to make it public lifted the veil on the evils in society, because our society fosters denial. And we’re still seeing it today through what’s emerging in the Jeffrey Epstein case … Everybody shut their eyes.”

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

Imagine spending billions of dollars to fund ICE and "detention centers" but zilch on universal health care, housing, quality food, or education. #AsTheDystopiaTurns

And what do these dudes all have in common, besides being billionaires? 🤔

I read books and auras.

Out them ALL. #pedos #rapists #EpsteinFiles

Playing the long game. Since 1972. #Winning

The real question is: why are there so many pedophiles? #EpsteinFiles

As Hatoff’s fades away, so does a part of the city - The Boston Globe The venerable gas station in Jamaica Plain, a Boston institution, is about to go the way of, what else, housing.

As a fourth-generation Bostonian from JP, after the demise of Doyle's, this is truly the end of an era. Hat Off's was so close to my family's home you could see it from the house. Bye-bye best cash price for gas in Boston, and a Jamaica Plain institution. #IYKYK⛽

Opinion | I’ve reported on UFO sightings for decades — and come to this conclusion We call them UAPs now, but they’re the same thing. Why do so many people believe in them?

"...I have come to the conclusion that aliens are sky gods for skeptics, deities for atheists and a secular alternative to replace the rapidly declining religiosity in the West — particularly the United States and the United Kingdom, where, not coincidentally, most UAP sightings are made."

Opinion | I’ve reported on UFO sightings for decades — and come to this conclusion We call them UAPs now, but they’re the same thing. Why do so many people believe in them?

Asked my Gen Z undergrads if they "got" the reference depicted in this op-ed's illo. They didn't. They don't know about the "The X-Files." 😱 👾 👽 #Old

True story: I've never put a sticker on a laptop.

Let’s just hibernate for the rest of the week. Clearly Mother Nature wants that for us. ❄️🌨️

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

"...fringe researchers thwarted safeguards at the [NIH] and gained access to data from thousands of children...purporting to find biological evidence for differences in intelligence between races, ranking ethnicities by I.Q. scores; suggesting Black people earn less because they are not very smart."

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

Can you believe they're STILL doing this pseudoscience shit to justify white supremacy? I can. My IQ is 140, tested when I was a teenager in the deplorable foster care system. Now what? Sit your racist, insecure asses down and STFU. #RealTalk www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

The Europeans Have Some Notes About American Sauna Culture

TL;DR: Americans ruin everything.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/w...

Imagining utopias. #ThinkDifferent

X to disable Grok tool in some areas after fury over sexualized images The social media platform X said it was further limiting Grok’s image-generation tool after outrage over sexualized images and allegations of profiting from the problem.

Per my previous post. ⬇️ "...the California attorney general said that the state would investigate the “shocking” reports of nonconsensual sexualized material generated by the AI model.” #BigTechHubris #AI
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They're still hubristically moving fast and breaking things. #BigTech #AI #LLMs

Committed to love, beauty, and truth. Since 1972.