TBH I think he might be the only person writing right now who can even claim the title of "public intellectual," although it's not like I keep current on stuff like that.
It's my belief that if you're a pundit who uses your little essays or TV segments to criticize Ta-Nehisi Coates, you have unfortunately gotten above your station. He's this country's most thoughtful, insightful, and honest public intellectual and I don't think it's close.
I have such talented friends who cannot find steady work in journalism while the biggest rubes and dingdongs in the world get paid six figures to talk about "momentum" on TV
wrote about the three-part 9-1-1 bee-nado television event yes, Angela Bassett had to land a mangled airplane on the freeway network television is back, baby briancgrubb.substack.com/p/the-three-...
ain’t no way Angela Bassett wasn’t landing that airplane
Here's an example of a news org framing things in a misleading way. The article very precisely notes she lost 4083 followers but does not mention that her accounts have 5.6 MILLION followers combined. She's lost 0.073% of her following. I think she'll be fine. www.newsweek.com/alex-cooper-...
Host of "Call Her Daddy" Alex Cooper, has lost thousands of followers on social media following her interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
I'm like, "Look at that he was wide open!" and they just stare at me. Ridiculous.
