Patricia Williams @kaploded

Floyd Norman, Disney’s first Black animator, is getting his proper due. At 90, the animation pioneer behind classics like 'Sleeping Beauty' and 'Mulan' will receive an honorary Oscar this November. More #OnTheGrio: thegrio.com/2026/06/10/flo…

There is an international attempt to incite racist pogroms, or carry them out with government powers

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

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Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. And that is what we've been

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Inflation would have taken a $35 concert ticket to about $50 today. The jump to $350 came from a change in how the music business makes its money. Fifteen years ago, the concert was an ad. Artists made their money selling albums, and the tour was there to sell more CDs. Then streaming showed up and wrecked that. Spotify pays about $0.003 to $0.005 per play, so an artist with 10 million plays in a year makes around $30,000. Money from recorded music fell so far it hit bottom in 2014 at $13.1 billion, down from $22 billion in the CD days. The album stopped paying the bills. So the tour became the paycheck instead of the ad. For many working musicians it now brings in up to 80% of their income. Even Taylor Swift, the biggest streaming artist alive, made 91% of her 2018 money on tour and under 6% from streaming. When the live show is the only thing left to sell, it gets priced that way. Then there is who controls the tickets. Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged in 2010 and never let go. Ticketmaster now handles about 80% of tickets when they first go on sale at major venues, and Live Nation owns or runs close to 78% of the big outdoor amphitheaters. In April 2026, a jury in New York found the company ran an illegal monopoly that overcharged fans. Live Nation made a record $23 billion in 2024. Fees pile on top. A 2018 government report found fees add about 27% to a ticket's price, and a look at 40 recent concerts put it closer to 28%. That turns two $100 tickets into a $256 bill. To be fair, the venue keeps most of that fee, not Ticketmaster, whose own share is only a few percent. The biggest jump came from something newer. After the pandemic, promoters saw that fans would pay almost anything, so they turned on dynamic pricing, the same way airline seats cost more as a flight fills up. Bruce Springsteen's $400 seats shot up to $4,000 and $5,000 the moment they went on sale. Live Nation's own finance chief said it plainly: stadium tickets are now priced to scare off scalpers. That means setting the official price at whatever a scalper would charge, so the extra money goes to the artist and Ticketmaster instead of a reseller. The $35 ticket made sense when a concert sold a $15 album. The $350 ticket makes sense when the concert is the product, the streaming money barely counts, and one company controls almost the whole path to the stage.

Jack Califano @jackcalifano

2 days ago

does anyone have an explanation for why concert tickets were $35 fifteen years ago and now they're $350

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"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.

There is no evidence that including trans athletes undermines competitive integrity. Integrity in sport means fair play and respect for all competitors. Inclusion supports those principles by keeping competition based on performance, not fear or assumptions. #TransAthletes

ms. rachel also said every illustration on her dress was drawn by kid in gaza, that's MY woman of the year!!!

yogesh @yogeshtwet

3 days ago

Ms Rachel is such a baddie for this

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@KCCerise I am one of those people!

Terence Rattigan (b. 10 June 1911) was one of England's most popular mid-20th Century dramatists and screenwriters. He excelled at writing the "well-made play", crafting works typically set against an upper-middle-class background that explored themes of emotional repression, sexual frustration, and the painful inequality of love. Rattigan was a master of both light comedy and intense social drama. Success as a playwright came early, with French Without Tears in 1936, his breakthrough West End comedy hit that centered on a group of young men attempting to learn French while being wildly distracted by a beautiful woman. Additional successes included The Winslow Boy (1946), a powerful court drama based on a real-life case where a young naval cadet is unjustly accused of stealing a minor postal order; The Browning Version (1948), a heartbreaking portrait of an unpopular, aging schoolmaster facing the failure of both his career and his marriage; The Deep Blue Sea (1952), a study of obsession and despair following a woman's failed suicide attempt, later adapted by Terence Davies into a 2011 British film starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, and Simon Russell Beale; and his most well-known play, Separate Tables (1954), set in a seaside hotel, exposing the loneliness and isolation imposed by rigid social conventions, which had also been adapted as a film in 1958 starring Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Burt Lancaster, and Wendy Hiller. During the 1940s and early 50s, Rattigan was the golden boy of the West End stage. However, his reputation suffered a massive blow in the mid-50s with the rise of “kitchen-sink realism" introduced to great acclaim by the Angry Young Men movement. Critics were suddenly dismissing Rattigan’s style as old-fashioned or overly genteel. Discouraged, he shifted his focus to screenwriting for Hollywood in the 1960s, adapting several of his own plays and penning original stories like The V.I.P.s (1963) which starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) featuring an all-star cast including Rex Harrison, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley MacLaine, Omar Sharif, George C. Scott, Alain Delon and Jeanne Moreau. While not critically acclaimed, the films were box-office successes and for a time, he was the highest-paid screenwriter in the world. In 1962, Rattigan was diagnosed with leukemia but seemingly recovered two years later. He fell ill again in 1968. He disliked the so-called "Swinging London" scene of the 1960s and moved to Bermuda, where he lived off the proceeds from his lucrative screenplays. Knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 1971 for service to the theater, Rattigan became only the fourth playwright to be knighted in the 20th century (after W. S. Gilbert 1907, Arthur Pinero 1909, and Noël Coward 1970). He had previously been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), in June 1958. Consequently, he moved back to Britain, where he was experiencing a minor revival in his reputation. Terence was gay, with numerous romantic relationships but no long-term partners, the exception being Michael Franklin, who acted as his lover, closest confidant, and occasional manager from the early 1950s until Rattigan's death. From 1944 to January 1947, Terence had enjoyed a volatile affair with the handsome politician Henry "Chips" Channon, who detailed their relationship in his scandalous diaries which were published uncensored in 2022, thankfully long after Rattigan – for whom discretion ruled – had died in Bermuda at age 66 on November 30, 1977. It has been claimed Rattigan’s work was essentially autobiographical, containing coded references to his sexuality (known by some in the theatrical world but not to the public); but as a gay man writing at a time when homosexuality was criminalized in the UK, he likely felt it necessary – even required – to adapt his personal dilemmas into narratives that would be acceptable to the theater-going audiences of the time. For instance, today it is widely understood that The Deep Blue Sea was inspired by the suicide of a young actor, Kenny Morgan, who had been Rattigan’s lover for nearly 10 years, before taking his life on February 28, 1949. To prevent scandal and guarantee that the play would actually be sold and performed, when he wrote the drama in 1952, Terence followed the details of the events closely, but he reimagined the characters as heterosexual, and turned Kenny’s story into that of a woman, Hester Collyer. The distance we have come.🏳️‍🌈

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On a summer evening in 1972, a pivotal generation of Harlem Renaissance legends gathered at Duke Ellington’s townhouse. The trailer for “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” is out:

I wrote this piece a few years to try to historicize and contextualize the current counterrevolutionary war in Sudan. It’s finally out now and is meant to give a sense of what and why it is happening. Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times…

CNN's resident fact-checker Daniel Dale hasn't conducted an on-air fact check of Trump in more than three months, a stretch that coincidentally began around the same time Paramount announced its merger with WBD status.news/p/daniel-dale-…

In his Considerations column this week, @tylercoates digs into the Emmy prospects of “The Comeback” and “Hacks,” which respectively star sitcom veterans Lisa Kudrow and Jean Smart as characters determined to survive industry collapse. filmmaker.substack.com/p/consideratio…

Farage, Musk and Trump have been friendly to enthusiastic about the Tate brothers. Evil.

Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 @portraitinflesh

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The New Yorker exposé of the Tate brothers is long but essential reading. These men are cartoonishly evil; if a novelist invented them, it would feel like hack writing. I'm going to share a paywall-free link in the next tweet, because as many people as possible need to read this.

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@televisionaryZW @SitcomPeople Mark Russell

Israeli authorities have deliberately accelerated formal annexation of the occupied West Bank through a state-driven ethnic cleansing campaign targeting Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities in Area C of the West Bank, while committing the crime against humanity of forcible transfer. Our new report is out now. It shows that: ➡️Palestinians Bedouins and herding communities have been erased from their ancestral land, cut off from their pastures, and terrorized into fleeing their homes amid this ➡️What is happening is not an historical or political aberration ➡️The ethnic cleansing campaign is NOT new. It is rooted in Israel’s longstanding system of apartheid, a crime against humanity perpetrated by Israel against all Palestinians under its control for years. Decades. ➡️The campaign is NOT driven by some rogue settlers. The international community is guilty of mischaracterizing the annexation as “settlers’ violence” driven by some bad apples or “extremist” ministers. ➡️Ethnic cleansing in the West Bank is state-sanctioned, state-implemented and state-enforced. ➡️What the the 37th Israel government – a coalition between the Likud, the Jewish Power and Religious Zionism parties - has done is to accelerate a campaign of ethnic cleansing and longstanding oppressive practices, making them more aggressive, and more destructive. ➡️Israel’s turbo-charged campaign of ethnic cleansing must be met with an equal surge of measures by states around the world. ➡️We are calling on states to ban all trade, investment relations and activities that contribute to, or are directly linked to Israel’s unlawful occupation, system of apartheid and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. ➡️This must include banning the provision of funds or any other assistance to organizations that are integral to the settlement enterprise and apartheid system. ➡️The EU in particular must leverage its influence by expediting the long overdue suspension of its association agreement with Israel and suspending visa-free access to all Israeli settlers living in the OPT. ➡️We are also calling on states to impose unilateral, targeted sanctions, against senior Israeli officials directly implicated in Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign, including Benjamin Netanyahu, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel Katz, Bezalel Smotrich, and Orit Strock. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

James Baldwin, 1961-1971 yılları arasında yaşadığı İstanbul’da (I)

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1/ This @HfxExaminer piece is important because it says the quiet part out loud: @CANADALAND is now a media accountability story. The outlet built to scrutinize Canadian media has become a case study in why that scrutiny matters. halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/j…

I hate us being in an era of people seeing something they couldn’t fathom writing so they automatically assume it’s AI.

This one hits hard.

Northern Ireland was dubbed the "UK's most dangerous place to be a woman" just two months ago. 30 women have been violently killed since 2020. An Irish man murdered his pregnant girlfriend and left her facedown in a dog bowl as a final humiliation Where were the rioters then?

BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking

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Several homes on fire across Belfast as disorder continues following knife attack bbc.in/49NVcYl

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