Yolanda Machado
@sassymamainla.bsky.social
Editor: EW
I watch a lot of things.
Writer. Critic. Beyoncé stan. Scorpio.
Born and raised L.A.
I watch a lot of things.
Writer. Critic. Beyoncé stan. Scorpio.
Born and raised L.A.
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every journalist who has been ringing the alarm bell about this for the last three years should get $10 million from any bailout, as a treat
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
every journalist who has been ringing the alarm bell about this for the last three years should get $10 million from any bailout, as a treat
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Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
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"People — including real-life radicals — are messy. The boundaries of their politics, personal lives, and morality are porous. This is most obvious in the image of Perfidia, a tornado of energetic reappraisal and erotic possibility. A reminder that the representation conversation can be a trap."
Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another
Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.
www.vulture.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
"People — including real-life radicals — are messy. The boundaries of their politics, personal lives, and morality are porous. This is most obvious in the image of Perfidia, a tornado of energetic reappraisal and erotic possibility. A reminder that the representation conversation can be a trap."
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Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
www.avclub.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
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I ❤️ @mattbelloni.bsky.social for this. The ethics of Hollywood are basement level. Same for tech (see below a column I wrote in 2019).
September 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I ❤️ @mattbelloni.bsky.social for this. The ethics of Hollywood are basement level. Same for tech (see below a column I wrote in 2019).
I think people have forgotten we're human beings, and that feeling feelings is normal...is something I say as I smoke weed and type into an app.
August 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I think people have forgotten we're human beings, and that feeling feelings is normal...is something I say as I smoke weed and type into an app.
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Today was the day BlueSky finally became Twitter
August 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Today was the day BlueSky finally became Twitter
I just hope he's suffering a lot
August 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I just hope he's suffering a lot
As a Mexican-Peruvian American:
que barbaridad es esto! me da ascó verlo.
que barbaridad es esto! me da ascó verlo.
August 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
As a Mexican-Peruvian American:
que barbaridad es esto! me da ascó verlo.
que barbaridad es esto! me da ascó verlo.
Level of dissociation I'm currently at?
I'm on my 200th rewatch of Beyonce's Cowboy Carter Paris shows. I'm not sure what outside looks like anymore, but that's OK. Outside is expensive and scary.
I'm on my 200th rewatch of Beyonce's Cowboy Carter Paris shows. I'm not sure what outside looks like anymore, but that's OK. Outside is expensive and scary.
July 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Level of dissociation I'm currently at?
I'm on my 200th rewatch of Beyonce's Cowboy Carter Paris shows. I'm not sure what outside looks like anymore, but that's OK. Outside is expensive and scary.
I'm on my 200th rewatch of Beyonce's Cowboy Carter Paris shows. I'm not sure what outside looks like anymore, but that's OK. Outside is expensive and scary.
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Incredible mom energy from Mira Nair
June 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Incredible mom energy from Mira Nair
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I really, really, really hope this is only happened at the Frank McCourt-owned parking lots at Dodger Stadium, so that it's just another thing to hate Frank McCourt for.
Regardless, it's a good time for folks to read up on the Battle of Chavez Ravine.
Regardless, it's a good time for folks to read up on the Battle of Chavez Ravine.
June 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I really, really, really hope this is only happened at the Frank McCourt-owned parking lots at Dodger Stadium, so that it's just another thing to hate Frank McCourt for.
Regardless, it's a good time for folks to read up on the Battle of Chavez Ravine.
Regardless, it's a good time for folks to read up on the Battle of Chavez Ravine.
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the only reason CBS hasn't folded and paid Trump his bribery money yet is California threatened an investigation into whether such a deal would violate state bribery laws, which chuck here "forgets" to mention
Exclusive | Paramount delays $35M settlement with Trump as media giant fears bribery backlash: sources
Negotiations to settle Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against CBS News over the Kamala Harris “60 Minutes” interview entered their sixth month.
nypost.com
June 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
the only reason CBS hasn't folded and paid Trump his bribery money yet is California threatened an investigation into whether such a deal would violate state bribery laws, which chuck here "forgets" to mention
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I really wish all reporting of immigration stories would stop using the term ‘federal agent’ unless it can be confirmed that these cowardly motherfuckers are actually federal agents. Use the term ‘unknown masked men’ or, in the rare cases women are involved ‘unknown masked people’
June 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I really wish all reporting of immigration stories would stop using the term ‘federal agent’ unless it can be confirmed that these cowardly motherfuckers are actually federal agents. Use the term ‘unknown masked men’ or, in the rare cases women are involved ‘unknown masked people’
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Thoughtful thread that rings very true to me based on over three decades of covering the media and culture
If we continue to idealize a 'free' press - which is in fact not free, but controlled by the people with the most wealth and thus the most reactionary - then we will endlessly repeat cycles of ebb and flow, with the left riding waves here and there but the tide always coming in from the right.
June 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Thoughtful thread that rings very true to me based on over three decades of covering the media and culture
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I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
June 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
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It’s not hyperbole to say that the deaths in Minnesota are on the GOP’s hands. They’ve built this political environment and they’ve allowed a demagogue to spread hate. This is entirely on them.
June 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It’s not hyperbole to say that the deaths in Minnesota are on the GOP’s hands. They’ve built this political environment and they’ve allowed a demagogue to spread hate. This is entirely on them.
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Pope Leo XIV will address a packed baseball stadium in Chicago on Saturday, greeting a U.S. audience directly for the first time and offering a glimpse of the potential impact of the first American papacy.
At Chicago baseball stadium, Pope Leo makes his first pitch to America
Chicago’s elation over the hometown boy’s election led to a huge party for the first U.S. pope, who will begin to chart his historic path.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Pope Leo XIV will address a packed baseball stadium in Chicago on Saturday, greeting a U.S. audience directly for the first time and offering a glimpse of the potential impact of the first American papacy.
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It is imperative to recognize and call out this regime's bigoted identity politics. Their treatment of nonwhite electeds amounts to Taneyism.
To them, these officials hold no authority they are bound to respect. Padilla, McIver, Baraka are merely the latest. They are doing this to POC on purpose.
To them, these officials hold no authority they are bound to respect. Padilla, McIver, Baraka are merely the latest. They are doing this to POC on purpose.
Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)
June 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
It is imperative to recognize and call out this regime's bigoted identity politics. Their treatment of nonwhite electeds amounts to Taneyism.
To them, these officials hold no authority they are bound to respect. Padilla, McIver, Baraka are merely the latest. They are doing this to POC on purpose.
To them, these officials hold no authority they are bound to respect. Padilla, McIver, Baraka are merely the latest. They are doing this to POC on purpose.
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wonder if the battalion of marines sent to LA for literally zero reason will enjoy seeing the big minion
June 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
wonder if the battalion of marines sent to LA for literally zero reason will enjoy seeing the big minion
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UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!
June 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!