Shawn Setaro
@SameOldShawn
Reporter, Complex. Author of ‘Dummy Boy: Tekashi 6ix9ine and the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.’ Email [email protected].
Check out the podcast I wrote and reported about #YNWMelly, hosted by @Acehood. Exclusively on @spotify.
“Hamas can have no role in post-war Gaza because of the horrific crimes they committed on Oct 7 but Israel killing 20,000 kids, starving 100,000s, and raping their captives somehow doesnt morally disqualify them as having a post-war role I am a liberal this is a serious position”
Every editor who canceled a story about Palestine brought us here. Every boss who censored an employee. Everyone who said “not this way” to protesters. Every university admin calling the cops. Bloody. All your hands are bloody, and we will never forget.
RIP to the great Cleo Laine, who among countless other virtues could sing the hell out of a Sondheim song. open.spotify.com/track/55FtS3OT…
I wrote about how Britney, Kanye and Trump are the most definitively American Americans of the 21st Century
The career arcs of Britney Spears, Kanye West, and Donald Trump are proof that celebrities really are just like us—only more so. @Passionweiss trib.al/dWvLF9V
Ancient Scythians used to get high AF. (From Herodotus’ ‘Histories’).
The student protesters were obviously correct on Gaza. The reaction to them was obviously idiotic and depraved. We're probably still a while out from this being banal conventional wisdom, but it's coming.
Even the guy who wrote the IHRA definition now says it’s being used to repress free speech, as this article makes clear. “A Columbia genocide scholar says she may leave over university’s new definition of antisemitism” apnews.com/article/columb…
A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
Talked all things Diddy trial with my guy Bee Getz. pod.link/1438163781/epi…
Trump wants to make sure that AI is as racist and as environmentally destructive as possible. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
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Just got out of 6ix9ine’s court hearing. Story coming soon.
Just got out of 6ix9ine’s court hearing. complex.com/music/a/shawn-…
Let’s not forget that among Ozzy’s many accomplishments is that he successfully fought back against the moral panic over heavy metal and the related one over supposedly hidden/backwards masked lyrics. latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
My biggest Ozzy memory: saw him during Ozzfest, sometime in its early years. I forget who was playing guitar. But the guy has his big solo moment during “Crazy Train” and…the screen shows footage of Randy, so the audience en masse starts crying and pays zero attention to him.