Life On Broadway!

Two face actress mocks Audra McDonald and Kecia Lewis.

I don't watch award shows or have any interest in Broadway theater. But there is some drama going on in the realm of showbiz.

A 76 year old white actress and singer caused a lot of controversy.

She made some offending comments about Audra McDonald and Kecia Lewis in an interview with the New Yorker.

Patti Lupone was absent at the Tony Awards. The industry is still buzzing about the feud she created when she attacked the two Black Broadway entertainers.

It was so big, the Queen of Daytime Television, Oprah Winfrey had an opportunity to address it without dropping names. But the subliminals were live and direct.

Patti LuPone has apologized for “flippant and emotional” remarks she made about fellow marquee actors in a New Yorker magazine interview.

The mea culpa came via LuPone’s social media accounts Saturday after more than 600 members of the Broadway community signed an open letter condemning the three-time Tony winner’s controversial comments about Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald.

The letter, addressed to the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League, criticized LuPone for calling Lewis a “bitch” and saying McDonald is “not a friend” in the New Yorker profile.

“This language is not only degrading and misogynistic — it is a blatant act of racialized disrespect. It constitutes bullying. It constitutes harassment,” the letter says.

Theater publication Playbill reported signatories to the letter include Tony winners James Monroe Iglehart, Maleah Joi Moon and Wendell Pierce.

In her apology Saturday, LuPone said she, too, signs on to the document, at least in spirit. “​I wholeheartedly agree with everything that was written in the open letter.”

Kecia Lewis addresses Patti Lupone.

She apologized for using words, particularly toward Lewis, that were “demeaning and disrespectful.”

“I am deeply sorry,” she said.

LuPone added, “I regret my flippant and emotional responses during this interview, which were inappropriate, and I am devastated that my behavior has offended others and has run counter to what we hold dear in this community. I hope to have the chance to speak to Audra and Kecia personally to offer my sincere apologies.”

Lewis stars in “Hell’s Kitchen” on Broadway, for which she won a 2024 Tony Award. McDonald won the 2014 Tony Award for best actress in a play (her sixth) and is the first performer to win the award in all performance categories. She is nominated for the 11th time this year for her lead performance in the musical “Gypsy.”

As of Saturday, the letter had garnered 682 signatures, according to a document that allows people to request the addition of their names.

“Individuals, including Patti Lupone, who use their platform to publicly demean, harass, or disparage fellow artists — particularly with racial, gendered, or otherwise violent language — should not be welcomed at industry events, including the Tony Awards, fundraisers, and public programs,” the letter said.

The American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League — which present the Tony Awards, set to be held June 8 — did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

LuPone also did not immediately respond.

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In the New Yorker interview, LuPone was asked about a controversy that circulated during her time co-starring in “The Roommate” with Mia Farrow last fall. The play, which has since closed, shared a wall with the Tony-winning musical “Hell’s Kitchen,” featuring Lewis.

LuPone reportedly asked for the sound design of “Hell’s Kitchen” to be adjusted because the music would bleed through the shared walls, and sent the sound and stage management team flowers and a thank-you note once it was fixed.

Lewis posted a video on Instagram in November in response, calling LuPone’s actions “racially microaggressive” and “rooted in privilege.”

Audra McDonald.

Producers of “The Roommate” posted a statement the following day thanking the “Hell’s Kitchen” staff for the fix, saying, “These kinds of sound accommodations from one show to another are not unusual and are always deeply appreciated.”

LuPone said of the back-and-forth in the New Yorker interview: “Let’s find out how many Broadway shows Kecia Lewis has done, because she doesn’t know what the fuck she’s talking about. ... She’s done seven. I’ve done 31. Don’t call yourself a vet, bitch.”

The New Yorker noted that Lewis has actually done 10 shows and LuPone 28.

Michael Schulman, the interviewer, mentioned to LuPone that McDonald — who holds the record as the Broadway performer with the most Tony Awards and nominations — gave the video “supportive emojis.”

The 76-year-old actor responded: “And I thought, ‘You should know better.’ That’s typical of Audra. She’s not a friend.”

McDonald was asked about LuPone’s comments in a “CBS Mornings” interview with Gayle King to discuss her latest Tony-nominated role as Mama Rose in “Gypsy.”

“If there’s a rift between us, I don’t know what it is,” McDonald said in a clip CBS shared on social media ahead of the full interview, which airs next week. “That’s something that you’d have to ask Patti about.”

The open letter said LuPone’s attempt to “discredit” McDonald’s legacy was not only a personal offense, but “a public affront to the values of collaboration, equity, and mutual respect that our theater community claims to uphold.”

In her apology on Saturday, LuPone acknowledged those values and said she had let them down.

“From middle school drama clubs to professional stages, theatre has always been about lifting each other up and welcoming those who feel they don’t belong anywhere else,” she said. “I made a mistake, I take full responsibility for it, and I am committed to making this right. Our entire theatre community deserves better.”

Sly Stone Passed Away!

Sly Stone had passed away from breathing difficulties.

Growing up an 80s baby, you would know some of the Black theme songs!

"It's a Family Affair."

Sly Stone has passed away from complications of COPD. His family and publicist confirmed the news today.

Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People,” “Stand!” and “Family Affair,” died Monday at age 82.

Stone, born Sylvester Stewart, had been in poor health in recent years. His publicist Carleen Donovan said Stone died in Los Angeles surrounded by family after contending with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other ailments.

Founded in 1966-67, Sly and the Family Stone was the first major group to include Black and white men and women, and well embodied a time when anything seemed possible — riots and assassinations, communes and love-ins. The singers screeched, chanted, crooned and hollered. The music was a blowout of frantic horns, rapid-fire guitar and locomotive rhythms, a melting pot of jazz, psychedelic rock, doo-wop, soul and the early grooves of funk.

Sly’s time on top was brief, roughly from 1968-1971, but profound. No band better captured the gravity-defying euphoria of the Woodstock era or more bravely addressed the crash which followed. From early songs as rousing as their titles — “I Want To Take You Higher,” “Stand!” — to the sober aftermath of “Family Affair” and “Runnin’ Away,” Sly and the Family Stone spoke for a generation whether or not it liked what they had to say.

Stone’s group began as a Bay Area sextet featuring Sly on keyboards, Larry Graham on bass; Sly’s brother, Freddie, on guitar; sister Rose on vocals; Cynthia Robinson and Jerry Martini horns and Greg Errico on drums. They debuted with the album “A Whole New Thing” and earned the title with their breakthrough single, “Dance to the Music.” It hit the top 10 in April 1968, the week the Rev. Martin Luther King was murdered, and helped launch an era when the polish of Motown and the understatement of Stax suddenly seemed of another time.

Led by Sly Stone, with his leather jumpsuits and goggle shades, mile-wide grin and mile-high Afro, the band dazzled in 1969 at the Woodstock festival and set a new pace on the radio. “Everyday People,” “I Wanna Take You Higher” and other songs were anthems of community, non-conformity and a brash and hopeful spirit, built around such catchphrases as “different strokes for different folks.” The group released five top 10 singles, three of them hitting No. 1, and three million-selling albums: “Stand!”, “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” and “Greatest Hits.”

Sly was a man of the people and the music.

For a time, countless performers wanted to look and sound like Sly and the Family Stone. The Jackson Five’s breakthrough hit, “I Want You Back,” and the Temptations’ “I Can’t Get Next to You” were among the many songs from the late 1960s that mimicked Sly’s vocal and instrumental arrangements. Miles Davis’ landmark blend of jazz, rock and funk, “Bitches Brew,” was inspired in part by Sly, while fellow jazz artist Herbie Hancock even named a song after him.

“He had a way of talking, moving from playful to earnest at will. He had a look, belts, and hats and jewelry,” Questlove wrote in the foreword to Stone’s memoir, “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin),” named for one of his biggest hits and published through Questlove’s imprint in 2023. “He was a special case, cooler than everything around him by a factor of infinity.”

In 2025, Questlove released the documentary “Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius).”

Sly’s influence has endured for decades. The top funk artist of the 1970s, Parliament-Funkadelic creator George Clinton, was a Stone disciple. Prince, Rick James and the Black Eyed Peas were among the many performers from the 1980s and after shaped in part by Sly, and countless hip-hop artists have sampled his riffs, from the Beastie Boys to Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. A 2005 tribute record included Maroon 5, John Legend and the Roots.

“Sly did so many things so well that he turned my head all the way around,” Clinton once wrote. “He could create polished R&B that sounded like it came from an act that had gigged at clubs for years, and then in the next breath he could be as psychedelic as the heaviest rock band.”

A dream dies, a career burns away

By the early ’70s, Stone himself was beginning a descent from which he never recovered, driven by the pressures of fame and the added burden of Black fame. His record company was anxious for more hits, while the Black Panthers were pressing him to drop the white members from his group. After moving from the Bay Area to Los Angeles in 1970, he became increasingly hooked on cocaine and erratic in his behavior. A promised album, “The Incredible and Unpredictable Sly and the Family Stone” (“The most optimistic of all,” Rolling Stone reported) never appeared. He became notorious for being late to concerts or not showing up at all, often leaving “other band members waiting backstage for hours wondering whether he was going to show up or not,” according to Stone biographer Joel Selvin.

Around the country, separatism and paranoia were setting in. As a turn of the calendar, and as a state of mind, the ’60s were over. “The possibility of possibility was leaking out,” Stone later explained in his memoir.

On “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin),” Stone had warned: “Dying young is hard to take/selling out is harder.” Late in 1971, he released “There’s a Riot Going On,” one of the grimmest, most uncompromising records ever to top the album charts. The sound was dense and murky (Sly was among the first musicians to use drum machines), the mood reflective (“Family Affair”), fearful (“Runnin’ Away”) and despairing: “Time, they say, is the answer — but I don’t believe it,” Sly sings on “Time.” The fast, funky pace of the original “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” was slowed, stretched and retitled “Thank You For Talkin’ to Me, Africa.”

The running time of the title track was 0:00.

“It is Muzak with its finger on the trigger,” critic Greil Marcus called the album.

“Riot” highlighted an extraordinary run of blunt, hard-hitting records by Black artists, from the Stevie Wonder single “Superstition” to Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” album, to which “Riot” was an unofficial response. But Stone seemed to back away from the nightmare he had related. He was reluctant to perform material from “Riot” in concert and softened the mood on the acclaimed 1973 album “Fresh,” which did feature a cover of “Que Sera Sera,” the wistful Doris Day song reworked into a rueful testament to fate’s upper hand.

Known for funk hits, Sly & The Family Stone paved the way for Black music.

By the end of the decade, Sly and the Family Stone had broken up and Sly was releasing solo records with such unmet promises as “Heard You Missed Me, Well I’m Back” and “Back On the Right Track.” Most of the news he made over the following decades was of drug busts, financial troubles and mishaps on stage. Sly and the Family Stone was inducted into the Rock & Roll of Fame in 1993 and honored in 2006 at the Grammy Awards, but Sly released just one album after the early ’80s, “I’m Back! Family & Friends,” much of it updated recordings of his old hits.

He would allege he had hundreds of unreleased songs and did collaborate on occasion with Clinton, who would recall how Stone “could just be sitting there doing nothing and then open his eyes and shock you with a lyric so brilliant that it was obvious no one had ever thought of it before.”

Sly Stone had three children, including a daughter with Cynthia Robinson, and was married once — briefly and very publicly. In 1974, he and actor Kathy Silva wed on stage at Madison Square Garden, an event that inspired an 11,000-word story in The New Yorker. Sly and Silva soon divorced.

A born musician, a born uniter

He was born Sylvester Stewart in Denton, Texas, and raised in Vallejo, California, the second of five children in a close, religious family. Sylvester became “Sly” by accident, when a teacher mistakenly spelled his name “Slyvester.”

He loved performing so much that his mother alleged he would cry if the congregation in church didn’t respond when he sang before it. He was so gifted and ambitious that by age 4 he had sung on stage at a Sam Cooke show and by age 11 had mastered several instruments and recorded a gospel song with his siblings. He was so committed to the races working together that in his teens and early 20s he was playing in local bands that included Black and white members and was becoming known around the Bay Area as a deejay equally willing to play the Beatles and rhythm and blues acts.

Through his radio connections, he produced some of the top San Francisco bands, including the Great Society, Grace Slick’s group before she joined the Jefferson Airplane. Along with an early mentor and champion, San Francisco deejay Tom “Big Daddy” Donahue, he worked on rhythm and blues hits (Bobby Freeman’s “C’mon and Swim”) and the Beau Brummels’ Beatle-esque “Laugh, Laugh.” Meanwhile, he was putting together his own group, recruiting family members and local musicians and settling on the name Sly and the Family Stone.

“A Whole New Thing” came out in 1967, soon followed by the single “Dance to the Music,” in which each member was granted a moment of introduction as the song rightly proclaimed a “brand new beat.” In December 1968, the group appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show” and performed a medley that included “Dance to the Music” and “Everyday People.” Before the set began, Sly turned to the audience and recited a brief passage from his song “Are You Ready”:

“Don’t hate the Black,

don’t hate the white,

if you get bitten,

just hate the bite.”

Terry Moran Iced!

Terry Moran was iced after called Trump official a hater.

The folks at ABC News had suspended longtime reporter Terry Moran after he posted on social media his thoughts on how the Trump Administration weaponized American politics.

ABC News caved to the pressure and placed him on leave. It is a potential for him to join the independent journalism circuit to express opinions Unfiltered.

He aimed at White House Advisor Stephen Miller.

He called the white nationalist a "world-class hater."

In the social media post, Moran, who has worked as a senior national correspondent for ABC News since 2018, wrote that “bile” is what’s interesting about Miller.

“The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism,” Moran wrote early Sunday morning in the since-deleted post. “Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that’s not what’s interesting about Miller. It’s not brains. It’s bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate. Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred only a means to an end, and that end his his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”

Vice President JD Vance called the post an “absolutely vile smear” of Miller. Miller said Moran “pulled off his mask.”

Miller is feuding with Elon Musk after allegations swirled about his wife Katie.

Katie Miller left the Department of Government Efficiency along with Musk fueling speculations that the sexual predator is having an affair with Stephen's wife.

The wildest criticism led to this bullshit. The folks at HuffPost got ABC News to make a statement.

“ABC News stands for objectivity and impartiality in its news coverage and does not condone subjective personal attacks on others,” an ABC News spokesperson said in a comment to HuffPost. “The post does not reflect the views of ABC News and violated our standards — as a result, Terry Moran has been suspended pending further evaluation.”

HuffPost, for the time being is allowed in the White House Press Pool. The Associated Press was suspended indefinitely after the outlet made it clear they will not follow the Trump Administration’s declaration naming of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

Moran was the only ABC News host allowed access to the president. Trump forbids George Stephanopoulos from interviewing him.

Trump accepts interviews from Kristen Welker, Chris Cuomo, Bill O'Reilly, Laura Ingraham, Maria Bartiroma, Stuart Varney, Mark Levin and Sean "Softball" Hannity.

Miller responds with his snarky attitude.

“The most important fact about Terry’s full public meltdown is what it shows about the corporate press in America,” Miller responded on social media. “For decades, the privileged anchors and reporters narrating and gatekeeping our society have been radicals adopting a journalist’s pose. Terry pulled off his mask.”

It’s unclear what led to Moran’s post, but Miller has been credited with shaping President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, including a zero-tolerance policy, which separated parents and children who illegally crossed the border.

An outside White House adviser told Vanity Fair in 2018 that Miller likes seeing photos of families being separated at the southern border.

“Stephen actually enjoys seeing those pictures at the border,” an outside White House adviser told Vanity Fair. “He’s a twisted guy, the way he was raised and picked on. There’s always been a way he’s gone about this. He’s Waffen-SS.”

In April, during Moran’s interview with Trump, Trump said Moran wasn’t “being very nice” after Moran pushed back on Trump’s claim that Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a gang tattoo.

Abrego Garcia is expected to return to the United States. Attorney General Pam Bondi now accused him of being a human trafficker. The U.S. accused the man of smuggling people into the country. Abrego Garcia denies the allegations.

Y'all voted for this.

You voted for a convicted felon who is a sexual predator and a senile bigot. You voted for a cross dressing a couch humping doofus who wrote a book lying about his upbringing. You voted for an eraser headed Jewish white supremacist who looks like James Bond villain. By the way losing his wife to a hair plugged Keteamine and cocaine addict billionaire. You voted for a blonde gold digger marrying a sexual predator. She is masquerading as a press secretary when in fact she is just a slut in heels.

The Golden Age of America.

Make Free Speech Great Again.

Y'all Better Not!

The Israelis are trying to sink the Madleen.

FREE PALESTINE🇵🇸

Zionists are racists.

After seeing endless images of children being massacred, politicians openly cheering for destruction, inaction from our elected leaders, one would think that action is necessary. I mean these folks are getting tired of the status quo.

Peace activists are trying to deliver supplies to Gazans. Israel vows to stop them with brutal force. You see this is the total decline of Israel.

You are witnessing the total decline of the United States.

Both countries have long established unethical interests over international law.

Conservatism is a threat to world order.

Israel’s government on Sunday vowed to prevent an aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists from reaching the Gaza Strip.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Israel wouldn’t allow anyone to break its naval blockade of the Palestinian territory, which he said was aimed at preventing Hamas from importing arms.

“To the antisemitic Greta and her fellow Hamas propagandists — I will say this clearly: You should turn back, because you will not make it to Gaza,” he said in a statement.

Thunberg, a climate campaigner, is among 12 activists aboard the Madleen, which is operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. The vessel departed Sicily last Sunday on a mission that aims to break the sea blockade of Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid, while raising awareness over the growing humanitarian crisis 20 months into the Israel-Hamas war.

The activists had said they planned to reach Gaza’s territorial waters as early as Sunday.

Thiago Ávila, a Brazilian activist on board the boat, posted a video on social media Sunday afternoon saying someone appeared to be jamming their tracking and communication devices about 160 nautical miles from Gaza.

Rima Hassan, a French member of the European Parliament who is of Palestinian descent, is among the others onboard. She has been barred from entering Israel because of her opposition to Israeli policies toward the Palestinians.

After a 2½-month total blockade aimed at pressuring Hamas, Israel started allowing some basic aid into Gaza last month, but humanitarian workers have warned of famine unless the blockade is lifted and Israel ends its military offensive.

An attempt last month by Freedom Flotilla to reach Gaza by sea failed after another of the group’s vessels was attacked by two drones while sailing in international waters off Malta. The group blamed Israel for the attack, which damaged the front section of the ship.

Rima Hassan.

Israel and Egypt have imposed varying degrees of blockade on Gaza since Hamas seized power from rival Palestinian forces in 2007. Critics of the blockade say it amounts to collective punishment of Gaza’s roughly 2 million Palestinians.

Israel sealed Gaza off from all aid in the early days of the war ignited by the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, but later relented under U.S. pressure. In early March, shortly before Israel ended a ceasefire with Hamas, the country again blocked all imports, including food, fuel and medicine.

Israel killed Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly their own people civilians, in the Oct. 7 attack and abducted 251 hostages, more than half of whom are IDF soliders. Some been released in ceasefire agreements or other deals. Hamas is still holding 55 hostages, more than half of them believed to be dead.

Israel’s military campaign has killed more than 54,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which has said women and children make up most of the dead. It doesn’t say whether those killed are civilians or combatants.

The war has destroyed vast areas of Gaza and displaced around 90% of the territory’s population, leaving people there almost completely dependent on international aid.

Thunberg, a 22-year-old activist who rose to fame as a teenager who led climate protests in her native Sweden, gave a speech before the departure and wept as she said: "We are doing this because, no matter what odds we are against, we have to keep trying. Because the moment we stop trying is when we lose our humanity. And no matter how dangerous this mission is, it's not even near as dangerous as the silence of the entire world in the face of the live-streamed genocide."Israel, which was founded after the horrors of the Holocaust, has repeatedly denied allegations that its war against the terror group Hamas in Palestine is a "genocide" and says using the term against Israel is an antisemitic "blood libel."

You know what blood libel is?

Watching people blown up by military weapons of destruction by a country devoted to ethnic cleansing. 

They are riled up enough to cause havoc.

Israel is conducting Nazi-like actions. They are attacking Gaza, the West Bank, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran and Yemen. They are blackmailing critics. They are calling for U.S. lawmakers to crackdown on antisemitism and protests on college campuses. They are ignoring the United Nations and International Court of Justice warnings about their occupation. They are threatening the lives of prosecutors in the International Criminal Court. 

Israel launched a new hasbara to target the West with the notion that their actions prevent terrorism from invading the West. The latest attacks on pro Israeli protesters has only fueled the U.S. to pass more stupid draconian laws to strip freedoms to protect Israel, Christian and Jewish superiority.

Of course, they will blame Hamas for their attacks.

WHITE PRIVILEGE IS REAL! IT'S "SUIT AND TIE" WHITE SUPREMACY ON TELEVISION, RADIO, THE INTERNET AND AMERICAN POLICY!

FOR EVERY BAD COP, THERE WILL BE A DEAD COP!

IF THE UNITED STATES CONTINUES TO AID ISRAEL, THE WORLD WILL BOYCOTT THE U.S. AND ABANDON THE DOLLAR!

I DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET OR THE COP'S VERSION.

THERE IS NO GOD!

GOD IS NOT FIXING THIS!

FUCK YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS!

Trump gave us open season.

The burst of violence at the popular Pearl Street pedestrian mall, a four-block area in downtown Boulder, unfolded against the backdrop of a war between Israel and Hamas that continues to inflame global tensions and has contributed to a spike in antisemitic violence in the United States. The attack happened on the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which is marked with the reading of the Torah and barely a week after a man who also yelled “Free Palestine” was charged with fatally shooting two Israeli operatives outside of a Jewish museum in Washington.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement Monday saying he, his wife and the entire nation of Israel were praying for the full recovery of the people wounded in the “vicious terror attack” in Colorado.

“This attack was aimed against peaceful people who wished to express their solidarity with the hostages held by Hamas, simply because they were Jews,” Netanyahu said.

Notice the AP refuse to acknowledge that Netanyahu has an active warrant for crimes against humanity. The International Criminal Court has issued the warrant.

Netanyahu continues to be allowed entry in the U.S. since it doesn't recognize the ICC as a legitimate court. Most countries recognize the court. Only genocidal countries like Belarus, Israel, Russia, India and the United States ignore the rule of law.

Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel Katz. These ghouls are planning to ambush the Freedom Flotilla.

Israel has become one of the biggest road blocks in the Republican and Democratic Parties. Also the age issue is haunting both of the parties. Many of the leaders are old, tired and stuck on 20th Century policies that drive America futher down.

Israel and its allies overplayed the use of antisemitism. From now on, as long as there is no violence towards anyone practicing Judaism or Islam, I will not hold my tongue when criticizing Israel, Jews, President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, former president Joe Biden, former vice president Kamala Harris, most members of Congress, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, the Canary Mission, Zionism, colonialism, imperialism, slavery, racism, Christian nationalism and white supremacy.

They are the cause of global instability in the world.

Again, as long as there is no violence towards anyone practicing religious beliefs, there is no antisemitism when criticizing the Jews.

Let's clear up the YNet, the AP and ABC News' account of Oct. 7. The Israelis used the Hannibal Directive to massacre the settlers to prevent Hamas from taking IDF soliders. The IDF has used the weapons to kill settlers at a festival.

Hamas has been very clear on who they targeted. They targeted the IDF and the walls. They do not target civilians. Israel has exaggerated the way this went down.

They have used American weapons to kill children, women, men, their own settlers, journalists, doctors, humanitarian aid workers, UN peacekeepers and their own IDF soliders. Israel has killed Americans, British, German, Australian, Canadians and French citizens. 

No investigations were carried out to why Israel targeted them.

Israel refuses to allow independent monitors into Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.

IDF soliders who refuse to carry out orders are often taken out by snipers.

The "hostages" were IDF soliders. 

Israel has violated the ceasefire. They are planning on invading Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria. They have stopped humanitarian aid and attacked any attempts by volunteers or independent surveyors. 

Israel wants the U.S. to start a war with Iran.

The supporters of former president Joe Biden and former vice president Kamala Harris are playing on this "We tried to warn you" nonsense. How can you morally stand on principles of being a progressive and back Israel?

First and foremost, Americans have a right to vote for whomever they chose.

Second, Harris failed to win over voters. She stuck with former president Joe Biden on the economy, Israel, Ukraine, immigration and inflation. The former president failed to listen to voters and his base.

The former president gave unilateral support and cover. We knew Trump would be worse. We demanded that Biden and Harris put pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel to stop killing. We urged them to stop invading other countries. Biden ignored the concerns. The Democrats paid the price.

This shows a lot of "tone deafness" within the Democratic Party. 

It is not Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) or the former supporters' fault for Biden and Harris' missteps. She warned them that Arab Americans did not like being ignored. 

Those fucking hypocrites sat in silence as Israel is killing men, women and children.

They can fuck themselves.

Israel has killed Americans. No one was held accountable.

The killing of Rachel Corrie did not move George W. Bush to cut Israel loose.

The deaths of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, Tawfiq Abdel Jabbar, Mohammad Khdour, Omar Assad, Shireen Abu Akleh, Jacob Flickinger and Kamel Ahmad Jawad were never investigated by the U.S. Justice Department.

Mask off.

Resistance is not terrorism.

Occupation of oppressed people is not peace.

A two state solution is "separate but equal" and a de facto apartheid.

Telling other countries to take Palestinians is ethnic cleansing.

A sovereignty seizing land in a violent conflict is a war crime.

A violent attack on children throwing rocks at tanks is justified in the minds of those who support Israel. 

Spitting and shoving Christians, Satanists, non Zionist Jews, Muslims and Hindus is considered a custom in Israel. How is this disgusting act justified?

The double standard in media coverage is the Israelis are hostages and the Palestinians are prisoners. Some of the Palestinians held in Israeli custody are children under the age of 14. 

When Russia seized Ukrainian land and Crimea, the U.S. pushed for sanctions.

When Israel seized Lebanese and Syrian land, the U.S. recognized it as Israeli sovereignty. They have actively rejected sanctions imposed on Israel.

When the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Russian president Vladimir Putin, the United States praised the decision. When it came to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the United States rushed to sanctions and threaten imprisonment for the workers at the ICC.

Iran supports the resistance. The U.S. and Israel labels it as an enabler of terrorism and war. Yet, Israel has created the conflicts by forcing regime change, killing their civilians, their scientists, their military generals and their diplomats. No one seems to call this terrorism. In fact, some U.S. lawmakers see it as justifiable offense.

Hamas stated the reasons for the attack on occupation forces. It has nothing to do with the Jewish religion, a concert or Iran. 

The IDF has the weapons to destroy everything. All on the American taxpayer, Israel has killed civilians, their own citizens and the status quo.

Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions. 

Israel must be held accountable for war crimes and the U.S. must end its aid. Our taxpayer money should not help Israel any further.

Israel is the red line. If any lawmaker, entertainer, athlete or social media influncer backs the apartheid ethnostate, they will face a boycott. 

Regardless of political affiliation, if you are supporting Israel, you are not getting donations or a vote from me.

Americans Are Tired Of The Status Quo.

The Resistance Must Stop Israel!✊️🇵🇸

Israel 🇮🇱 Will Be Destroyed.

This 🇮🇱 And Zionism Will Be Regarded As A Symbol Of Evil In The 21st Century.

I will hold President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance accountable.

The call number to the White House and U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official White House numbers 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414. This is the Congress official phone number, 202-224-3121. Please be respectful to operators, staff members and elected leaders. Your calls are monitored by the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Capitol Police. 

Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to", blaming "illegal immigrants" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to focus on ending gun violence, lowering costs, improving healthcare and building relationships with other nations. Let them know that we are tired of police officers using immunity when committing death of suspects in custody. Let them know that you are tired of private equity firms getting away with destroying small businesses and long established companies. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-Semitic or in support of terrorism. 

We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We don't want any more wars on behalf of Israel. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying. There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and legislators avoid influence from lobbyists.

Civil War!

Melting ICE.

The Golden Age.

How can the United States lecture other countries on democracy when we can't our own shit together?

President Donald J. Trump and former president Joe Biden put the United States in decline.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement are met with resistance in California. The president and Republicans are calling it an insurrection. Quite ironic, that the very same folks who tried to overthrow democracy are complaining about others doing it.

Trump overriding Gov. Gavin Newsom and ordering the California National Guard to aid in the ICE raids of so called "sanctuary cities."

Newsom and Los Angeles city mayor Karen Bass are being targeted by FBI director Kash Patel for "looking the other way." 

Trump infamously stalled the Washington, DC mayor Muriel Bowser's call to deploy the National Guard to stop the rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

We reelected this guy.

Y'all voted for this.

These are the same tactics used by Israel by the way. Israel is the most hated country. Russia comes second and the United States in third. Each of these countries have used illegal tactics on its citizens and those perceived as enemies.

All the while, China is becoming the world's superpower due to its innovation and ignoring American slanders of it being a "Communist" threat to the world.

When Trump declared that democracy is met at the barrel of a gun, that there tells you that America is on the wrong side of history.

The president is deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles over the objections of Newsom after a second day of clashes between hundreds of protesters and federal immigration authorities in riot gear.

Sporadic confrontations broke out again Saturday in the heavily Latino satellite city of Paramount, south of Los Angeles. Agents unleashed tear gas, flash-bang explosives and pepper balls, and protesters hurled rocks and cement at Border Patrol patrol vehicles. Smoke wafted from small piles of burning refuse in the streets.

This is America!

Tensions were high after a series sweeps by immigration authorities the previous day in LA’s fashion district and other locations, as the weeklong tally of immigrant arrests climbed past 100 and a prominent union leader was arrested while protesting and accused of impeding law enforcement.

The White House announced in a statement that Trump would deploy the Guard to “address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, objected to the move and said in a post on the social platform X that the move was “purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.”

In a signal of the administration’s aggressive approach, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened in a post on X to deploy the U.S. military.

“If violence continues, active-duty Marines at Camp Pendleton will also be mobilized — they are on high alert,” Hegseth said.

Trump’s order came after morning and afternoon clashes had died down in Paramount and neighboring Compton, where a car was set fire.

At the entrance to a business park, across from the back of a Home Depot, immigration officers faced off with demonstrators who set off fireworks and pulled shopping carts into the street, broke up cinder blocks and pelted a procession of Border Patrol vans as they departed and careened down a boulevard.

Paramount Mayor Peggy Lemons told multiple news outlets that no immigration raids took place in her city and demonstrators appeared to respond to possible preparations federal agents outside Homeland Security Department facilities.

“They’re just frightened,” Lemons said. “And when you handle things the way that this appears to be handled, it’s not a surprise that chaos would follow.”

In other clashes demonstrators kicked at a Border Patrol sedan, and Los Angeles County officers also deployed flash-bangs.

Law enforcement personnel and protesters mostly stayed at a distance, kicking tear gas cannisters back and forth amid streams of white gas. Among several hundred protesters, a handful were bloodied by projectiles.

More than a dozen people were arrested and accused of impeding immigration agents, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, which the names and mug shots of some of those arrested on social media.

Trump federalized part of California’s National Guard under what is known as Title 10 authority, which places him, not the governor, atop the chain of command, according to Newsom’s office.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that the work the immigration authorities were doing when met with protests is “essential to halting and reversing the invasion of illegal criminals into the United States. In the wake of this violence, California’s feckless Democrat leaders have completely abdicated their responsibility to protect their citizens.”

The president’s move came shortly after he issued a threat on his social media network saying that if Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass did not “do their jobs,” then “the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!”

Trump signed the order shortly before he went to attend a UFC fight in New Jersey, where he sat ringside with boxer Mike Tyson.

Newsom said in his statement that local authorities “are able to access law enforcement assistance at a moment’s notice,” and “there is currently no unmet need.”

“This is the wrong mission and will erode public trust,” he added.

In Paramount, some demonstrators jeered at officers while recording the events on smartphones.

“ICE out of Paramount. We see you for what you are,” a woman said through a megaphone. “You are not welcome here.”

Los Angeles Riots 2025.

One handheld sign read, “No Human Being is Illegal.”

Protests continued into the evening in the city, where more than 80% of residents identify themselves as Latino. Several hundred demonstrators gathered near a doughnut shop, and authorities held up barbed wire to keep the crowd back. Flash-bangs went off, some protesters stared fires and the smell of chemical irritants was in the air.

The California Highway Patrol said Newsom directed it to deploy additional officers to “maintain public safety.”

In 2020, Trump asked governors of several states to deploy their National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., to quell protests after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police. Many agreed and sent troops.

Trump also threatened at the time to invoke the Insurrection Act for those protests — an intervention rarely seen in modern American history. But then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper pushed back, saying the law should be invoked “only in the most urgent and dire of situations.”

Trump did not invoke the act during his first term, and he did not do so Saturday, according to Leavitt and Newsom.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers executed search warrants at multiple locations Friday, including outside a clothing warehouse in the fashion district. The action came after a judge found probable cause that the employer was using fictitious documents for some of its workers, according to representatives for Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

DHS said in a statement that recent ICE operations in Los Angeles resulted in the arrest of 118 immigrants, including five people linked to criminal organizations and people with prior criminal histories.

Among those arrested at protests Friday was David Huerta, regional president of the Service Employees International Union. The Justice Department confirmed that he was being held Saturday at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles ahead of a scheduled Monday court appearance.

It was not clear whether Huerta had legal representation.

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for his immediate release, warning of a “disturbing pattern of arresting and detaining American citizens for exercising their right to free speech.”

Mind you Schumer has no problem with students losing their visas or being deported when they are protesting against Israel. He claims that "antisemitism" is a big threat to Jews and the state of Israel. He supports Zionism and wants those who support Hamas or any resistance groups arrested.

So he is offering nothing but useless platitudes once again.

Mayor Bass said the crackdown was meant to “sow terror” in her city.

The far right and moderates want to make Bass a one term mayor because they accused her of negligence when she was in Ghana while the wildfires destroy affluent neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Like these motherfuckers believe she set the fires to torture elites. They ignore the fire warnings and burn bans. They scapegoat immigrants and the homeless for setting fires.

ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons chided her for LA’s response to the protests.

“Mayor Bass took the side of chaos and lawlessness over law enforcement,” Lyons said in a statement. “Make no mistake, ICE will continue to enforce our nation’s immigration laws and arrest criminal illegal aliens.”

Dehumanizing rhetoric is so white people. The white supremacy that the United States and Israel harbor will sow the chaos for a civil war.

So Tha Carter VI....

Tha Carter VI got mixed reactions.

The curse of association with President Donald J. Trump. Many rappers came out in support of the Republican president despite his chaotic previous term. 

Some individuals believe misogyny is key to why they voted for Trump. Of course, Trump will bring "free speech" back. Except when you are criticizing Israel, his policies or holding nudity on your phones when you are entering the United States.

Some believe Trump giving $1,200 to the Black communities was monumental shift in voter demographics. Yet, that amount only covers either an ambulance ride, one month's rent, groceries or a vehicle being fixed. 

Some believe Trump surviving an assassination attempt changed the game. We know all about the two incidents involving two men attacking Zionists. Yet, we are coming to the year of that assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania and still no details on the suspect or his motives. I believe he wanted to trigger chaos if candidate Trump died. Cause he saw a martyr in Trump and if he could rattle the cage, Trump won.

Lil Wayne, is no exception.

He endorsed the president in 2020 and 2024. Despite being invited by former vice president Kamala Harris at the White House to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop, Dwayne Carter, Jr., 42 is hardline to Trump.

Also some of his featured guests on Tha Carter VI have endorsed Trump as well.

He released his album on Friday.

It has mixed reviews.

Most see the album as moderate at best. 

Not like his legendary Tha Carter and Tha Carter III albums. 

Featured guests were Big Sean, BigXThaPlug, Bono, 2 Chainz, Kodak Black, MGK, Andrea Bocelli, Wyclef Jean, Lil Novi, JellyRoll, Jay Jones, Mannie Fresh and Kameron Carter.

Kameron Carter is Lil Wayne's son and an inspiring rapper.

Wayne reunited with longtime producer Mannie Fresh who executive produced the album along with Wayne and Wyclef Jean.

Kameron Carter, one of Lil Wayne's children with actress Lauren London.

Mannie Fresh, Wheezy, Manny G, Infamous, Ben Billions, Boi-1da, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lil Wayne and others produced the album.

Some complained that Tunechi didn't have his former Young Money talents on the album. Drake, Nicki Minaj and Tyga have left Young Money and Cash Money Records after fulfilling their album obligations. 

I think Kendrick Lamar's GNX set the bar so high, it makes veteran rappers like Lil Wayne, Drake, Future and J. Cole struggle to achieve their past successes.

Lil Wayne has been sloppy. It took five years to release an album. The Funeral was released in 2020 during the pandemic. It went No. 1 but no one seemed to care.

The previous collaboration album Welcome 2 ColleGrove with 2 Chainz didn't land in the No. 1 spot. 

When K. Dot released that album, he took jabs at Tunechi and it finally drove him back into the studio. But when fans were expecting a raw New Orleans rap sound of Wayne, they ended up getting a pop rap album.

So I want you to listen to it and make your own decision. I like about seven of the tracks on the album. But it's your choice to like it or not. I am not here to trash an entertainer. He put in the work and folks are listening.

Lil Wayne has four children. The mothers include: media personality Toya Johnson (Regine), media personality Sarah Vivian (Dwayne III), actress Lauren London (Kameron), and singer Nivea (Neal).