Weekend Open Thread

Posted on September 5, 2026 by rikyrah

Good Morning.

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

We lost singer Cassandra Wilson this week.

RIP

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7 Responses to Weekend Open Thread

  1. rikyrah says:
    September 5, 2026 at 12:08 pm

    UH HUH
    UH HUH

    Walrus in a Top Hat
    @Red_Roscoe
    The silence of AOC and Ro Khanna as the leader of their own caucus was called a monkey by someone who shares their politics is duly noted. I hope they get called out on it the next time they head South to pander to Black voters.
    4:39 AM · Sep 5, 2026
    https://x.com/Red_Roscoe/status/2096171234161471978

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  2. rikyrah says:
    September 5, 2026 at 12:07 pm

    Percy Hopweather
    @PercyHopweather
    🎯💯🙌🏿⚡️🙌🏿

    Anna Kasparian whitesplains to a black woman that calling Hakeem Jeffries a monkey is no big deal, while employing several other racist tropes.

    Coincidentally, this is the post that finally got her to block me.

    Just go on and say it @AnaKasparian

    We know already.
    @tify330
    Candidly Tiff
    @tify330
    5h
    You can advocate for Palestine, criticize Israel, and oppose Jeffries without resorting to “cattle,” “political prostitute,” or “race vultures.”

    Degradation just exposes your ignorance and lack of having substantive dialogue.

    Girl bye!
    8:16 AM · Sep 5, 2026
    https://x.com/PercyHopweather/status/2096225992620568743

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  3. rikyrah says:
    September 5, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    Wajahat Ali
    @WajahatAli
    14h
    Many of the folks who have smoke for me today, a small time podcast host who drives a minivan, somehow barely muster a few or zero words of condemnation against Laura Loomer, Randy Fine, Bill Maher, Fetterman and other racists and apologists for Israel’s genocide.

    Interesting. Show more

    @WelchRobII
    Robert Welch II
    @WelchRobII
    Laura Loomer, Randy Fine, Bill Maher, and John Fetterman did not book that guest or air that line. You did. Their records do not erase yours. “Other people are worse” is not a defense of a racial slur aimed at a Black official on your own platform. You are also not a small-time podcast host who happens to own a minivan. That is a costume. You run a Substack, a YouTube channel with six-figure subscribers, a second podcast, and a large X account. Hosts with that reach are responsible for what they platform and what they let stand. People can condemn Loomer, Fine, Maher, and Fetterman and still condemn a guest calling a Black man a monkey on your show. Those are not competing duties. One does not cancel the other.

    Rula Jebreal sat on your show and called Hakeem Jeffries, a Black member of Congress, a “bought and paid by AIPAC monkey” and an “errand boy,” then added that she did not mean it “in a racist way.”

    You did not stop her. You noted the racial connotations, accepted the disclaimer, and kept the interview moving. That clip is why people have smoke for you.
    1:44 AM · Sep 5, 2026
    https://x.com/WelchRobII/status/2096127392477745629

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  4. rikyrah says:
    September 5, 2026 at 12:02 pm

    Paige W. Cunningham
    @pw_cunningham
    Scoop: HHS’s Office of Minority Health has cancelled 16 grants, several focused on maternal/infant health, telling grantees it’s pivoting to a focus on the root causes of infertility and promoting exercise. with @EricM_Katz
    https://x.com/pw_cunningham/status/2095938705122811918

    Eric Katz
    @EricM_Katz
    👀 In canceling the maternal and infant mortality grants, HHS said those issues were no longer a priority for the office and grants would instead focus on “low sperm count, low testosterone levels and erectile dysfunction.” 👇
    https://x.com/EricM_Katz/status/2095951448844492966

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  5. rikyrah says:
    September 5, 2026 at 12:01 pm

    Meidas_Charise Lee
    @charise_lee
    🚨🚨🚨 This is happening all over the government because they are trying to run it like a “business”, which never works for public services.
    Air traffic controllers are accusing the DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION & FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION of prioritizing efficiency and cost cutting over public safety, a shift that workers warn has driven morale to an all-time low & place the flying public at heightened risk‼️
    https://x.com/charise_lee/status/2096198023646777401

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  6. rikyrah says:
    September 5, 2026 at 1:29 am

    RIP🙏🏾😪

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  7. rikyrah says:
    September 5, 2026 at 1:29 am

    Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊

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