Weekend Open Thread

Good Morning.
I hope that you are enjoying this weekend with family and friends.

Tony Award Winner Joshua Henry

Just look at how his fellow co-stars are looking at him.

The comments on this video cracked me up.
Folks said
‘ He sounds like how a Disney Prince should sound.’
‘Idk if this makes sense but his voice sounds handsome lol’
‘Saw him on Good Morning America the other day, and my dad said, “What song does his voice make you think of?” And we both said, “Old Man River.” 😅 That rich, soulful bass is just so resonant. 🥰’ (me too. Thought immediate of Paul Robeson’s Old Man River)

Joshua Henry Performs ‘Soliloquy’ from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel

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24 Responses to Weekend Open Thread

  1. rikyrah says:

    Erin Burnett OutFront
    CNN
    @OutFrontCNN

    28-year CIA veteran John Sipher reacts to CNN reporting that Trump’s new acting intel chief asked if he’ll have access to a government plane and a security detail: “He’s unserious and unqualified.”
    https://x.com/OutFrontCNN/status/2068125776659243267

  2. rikyrah says:

    UH HUH
    UH HUH

    ABC News
    @ABC

    A man whose life sentence for manslaughter was commuted by then-South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has been charged in connection with the death of a 14-year-old girl, in what authorities called a “horrific” case.
    https://x.com/ABC/status/2068091801144099149

  3. rikyrah says:

    Dr. Angela Rasmussen
    @angie_rasmussen

    Tony Fauci was in charge of an agency that funded research which allows us to develop vaccines in 10 months.

    Kennedy cancelled that research and is responsible for thousands of preventable deaths
    https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/2068281245423763572

  4. rikyrah says:

    Christopher Webb
    @cwebbonline

    Wait. So Trump’s Iran deal is now being negotiated by his buddy Steve Witkoff, a billionaire real estate developer, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner?

    Not a seasoned career diplomat or nuclear expert in sight.
    🚩 Trump is desperately making a bad deal because of oil. At the G7, he admitted we’d “run out of reserves in about four weeks.”
    https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2068319738963644645

  5. rikyrah says:

    Aaron Rupar
    @atrupar

    Trump claims that Pete Hegseth, who is 0-1 in wars, “doesn’t know how to lose”

    Norman Ornstein
    @NormOrnstein

    He knows how to lose soldiers to the flu. He knows how to lose common decency. He knows how to lose billions in armaments and key equipment. He knows hiw to lose the respect of our troops. And he knows how to lose readiness and protection from our enemies.
    https://x.com/NormOrnstein/status/2068314462289887645

  6. rikyrah says:

    AL X , the deboosted democrata
    @thecorpmex

    Representation matters!!!

    Texas is home to highest number of black voters in America, ignore and slight black voters at your peril….keep chasing those dumb MAGA voters in the sticks or crying Muslim dude that keeps voting GOP even though he was told to leave.

    https://x.com/thecorpmex/status/2068069482581406098

  7. rikyrah says:

    FactsLivesMatter 🟤
    @Facts0601

    I don’t understand why Leftists feel they deserve to lead a party they actively despise and lie about.

    Saying “Fuck Kamala Harris” is a huge turnoff to most Democratic voters, specifically the base of the party, Black voters.
    But then again, the DSA is 85% white for a reason.
    11:58 PM · Jun 18, 2026
    https://x.com/Facts0601/status/2067758774639603888

  8. rikyrah says:

    Rep. Mike Levin
    House Democrats
    @RepMikeLevin

    This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.

    Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.

    The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.

    Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.

    The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
    propublica.org/article/trump-…

    https://x.com/RepMikeLevin/status/2068352574818816093

  9. rikyrah says:

    Fly Sistah 🪷
    @Fly_Sistah

    Replying to @Fly_Sistah and @KwikWarren
    He’s coming off as weak with reports of him trying to convince Rep Jasmine Crockett to help him. He could have simply started Black voter outreach in the primary or at least in March after he won. He didn’t. Now he’s scrambling because in reality he can’t win enough white voters.
    https://x.com/Fly_Sistah/status/2068346439046996323

  10. rikyrah says:

    Christopher Bouzy (spoutible.com/cbouzy)
    @cbouzy

    White lefists: Fuck Jasmine Crockett, her loud ass can’t win statewide in Texas. She can fuck off!

    Four months later…

    White leftists: Why won’t Jasmine Crockett help Talarico?! Why is she being such a brat?!
    2:12 PM · Jun 20, 2026
    https://x.com/cbouzy/status/2068336199261937870

  11. rikyrah says:

    Longtime Black Man Here
    @groove_sdc

    I’m from Texas and yall have been advocating for her to be blacklisted and banished from politics while also calling her ghetto and having an “attitude.”

    The time to be a team player was during the primary when she was being attacked.

    You failed to meet that moment.
    https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/2068358997367717949

  12. rikyrah says:

    Longtime Black Man Here
    @groove_sdc

    Talarico supporters were literally saying shit like this to Crockett supporters.

    And his biggest online supporters were retweeting this shit.

    But now they’re all like “who said we don’t want Black votes? Show us the proof.”
    Does this sound like someone who wants Black votes?

    https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/2068372435380981887

  13. rikyrah says:

    Longtime Black Man Here
    @groove_sdc

    I would hope to be pleasantly wrong about Talarico because I do think he has a good chance to beat Paxton.

    But I doubt I’m wrong about his most ardent supporters.

    His victory will only embolden their hostility to Black voters.
    Just know that.
    5:00 PM · Jun 20, 2026
    https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/2068378425853624726

  14. rikyrah says:

    ✨HungryBaldAshbamaOssoff✨
    @AshariExpresses

    Y’all called Jasmine Crockett every name in the book, still fucking are & you expect her to campaign for the guy who lets it happen? Y’all got my girl fucked up.

    She’s so based for this. She doesn’t owe y’all a bitch ass thing. Now go be mad at a wall.
    https://x.com/AshariExpresses/status/2068077169578799478

  15. rikyrah says:

    The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
    @Needle_of_Arya

    I hate this version of the party; we now have other Black people hopping in to hate Jasmine

    but this dispute is not about Jasmine but whether or not Black people should participate in a party that has spontaneously decided to hate them~

    ~and that’s directed at Black voters, too
    2:24 PM · Jun 20, 2026

    The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
    @Needle_of_Arya

    casting the Texas primary as simply a “respectability politics issue among Black people” misses the point

    when Crockett was rejected in the primary it was not about her but about what future roles that non-Black voters & candidates want Black people to have in the party

    https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2068400548529754354

  16. rikyrah says:

    𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉
    @OrevaZSN

    If you had told me 10 years ago that a billionaire would accuse humans of drinking too much water in 2026 because data centres need it to power the AI tech that is now threatening our entire way of life, I would have told you to write a better Bond villain, because wtf?
    9:25 AM · Jun 20, 2026
    https://x.com/OrevaZSN/status/2068263887699419503

  17. rikyrah says:

    Christopher Hale
    @ChristopherHale

    Pope Leo XIV says that the Catholic Church’s teaching on sexual ethics must be less prioritized over “greater, more important issues.”

    “We tend to think that when the Church is talking about morality, that the only issue of morality is sexual. And in reality, I believe there are much greater, more important issues, such as justice, equality, freedom of men and women, freedom of religion, that would all take priority before that particular issue.”

    https://x.com/ChristopherHale/status/2068339710695510439

  18. rikyrah says:

    The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
    @Needle_of_Arya

    I’m approaching the opinion that this version of the party that has accepted this much anti-Semitism & anti-Blackness doesn’t deserve to win anymore; winning in 2026 with this level of both sentiments poisoning the liberal movement will embolden the bigots even further in 2028

    The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
    @Needle_of_Arya

    ~it was the recent discovery that white Gentile Democrats in the South, who are often too old to fall down the “AIPAC” & DSA rabbit holes, are now openly resentful of Black & Jewish influence in a party that desperately needs both to win anywhere, especially the South~
    https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2068338378370879731

  19. rikyrah says:

    All day Astronomy
    @forallcurious

    JUST IN🚨: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says human water consumption is limiting Al’s potential

    https://x.com/forallcurious/status/2068350803161887052

  20. rikyrah says:

    Referring to Rep. Crockett

    LA-Tiere
    @LuvLaTiere

    So the Left can be uncommitted but it’s embarrassing for the Black woman to say she don’t want to get out the vote for him.. She was told she wasn’t needed. Now you want her to jump in line.. I swear smh
    https://x.com/LuvLaTiere/status/2068105492665127409

  21. rikyrah says:

    Melanie D’Arrigo
    @DarrigoMelanie

    Big Tech will absolutely destroy our drinkable water supply to advance their AI products and increase their profits.

    Just like the health insurance industry lets people die to increase their profits.

    Just like Big Oil destroys the planet to increase their profits.

    Just like military contractors donate millions to politicians to start wars to increase their profits.

    Just like polluters poison our air to increase their profits.

    Just like food manufacturers add poisons to our food to increase their profits.

    Billionaire and trillionaire greed is killing us.
    https://x.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/2068360404326060355

  22. rikyrah says:

    BeshearStan
    @BeshearStan

    The amount of KHive accounts and centrists swarming my replies after I called out Crockett’s selfishness is insane. They really think Democrats owe them loyalty while they act like kingmakers.
    5:34 AM · Jun 20, 2026
    https://x.com/BeshearStan/status/2068205798002438423

    Longtime Black Man Here
    @groove_sdc

    Soooo Black voters? That’s who you’re talking about?

    Imagine your Kentucky ass telling my third generation Texas born ass Democrats don’t owe Black voters any “loyalty” but we have to act like vote mules for your preferred candidates.

    Whew yall ain’t shit.
    https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/2068329885668430277

  23. rikyrah says:

    Pubity
    @pubity

    The U.S. is investigating Germany for making medication and healthcare a little too affordable for their citizens.

    They’re pressuring Germany to raise prices and invest more in “innovative pharmaceutical research” to keep international drug prices from going down.
    https://x.com/pubity/status/2068166951554425277

  24. rikyrah says:

    Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊

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