W. Kamau Bell

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I won Celebrity Jeopardy!

2 weeks ago | wkamaubell.substack.com | W. Kamau Bell

The cat’s finally out of the bag! I am the winner of season 3 of Celebrity Jeopardy! When I say “finally” I mean finally. I’ve been holding this secret since the finals were taped in November 2024. I hope you all forgive me for not telling you. I was sworn to secrecy. (And I’m guessing I signed stuff saying I couldn’t tell.) It has been slightly maddening to regularly talk about being on Celebrity Jeopardy! and not be able to say, “I’M NOT JUST ON IT.
Know Your Digital Privacy Rights with Esha Bhandari and Daniel Kahn Gillmor

3 weeks ago | aclu.org | Esha Bhandari |W. Kamau Bell |Daniel Kahn Gillmor

Free Speech Immigrants' Rights Whether a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. can be arrested and detained on the basis of their political speech and advocacy. Mahdawi V. Trump. Explore Case.
See You This Tuesday, vol. 3

3 weeks ago | wkamaubell.substack.com | W. Kamau Bell

It’s been an especially heavy couple of weeks in politics. Trump keeps doubling down on disappearing people. RFK Jr. keeps doubling down on eugenics. And there was all of that (likely) insider trading that happened right out in the open?! Secretary of Defense and Future Fox News host Pete Hegseth is addicted to texting government secrets to people who shouldn’t have government secrets. So for the sake of sanity, today you’re getting a silly video from me.
In case you missed it, here's my conversation with theee Kathleen Hanna.

1 month ago | wkamaubell.substack.com | W. Kamau Bell |Kathleen Hanna

In my role as the self-appointed official (unofficial) spokesperson of Substack, I was thrilled to welcome the legendary Kathleen Hanna to the platform. You know and love her from Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, The Julie Ruin, and her book Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk. Well, she has a new newsletter, Future Windows, that you should check out. She even made the intro video to beat all intro videos.
Yes, Trump is F*cking with The Museums

1 month ago | wkamaubell.substack.com | W. Kamau Bell

Earlier this month when I was on Marc Maron’s podcast WTF, Marc and I had a rollicking good time. We talked about everything under the American sun… but mostly the fall of America. At one point, Marc shifted the conversation and asked me about being a dad, something we had never really talked about in the years I have known him. I was excited to let him know about my three girls, but then somehow — as always seems to happen in conversations these days — we made it back to the fall of America.
The Cruelty is the Point

1 month ago | wkamaubell.substack.com | W. Kamau Bell

In the early years of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg used a perfectly Zuckerbergian motto. Because of the success of Facebook, the motto was adopted all over Silicon Valley. The depressingly misanthropic motto is “Move fast and break stuff.” At some point Mark Zuckerberg claimed to have changed the Facebook motto to “Move fast with stable infrastructure.” Meh. You’ll notice that even with the change of motto, there is nothing in there about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook making the world a better place.
Office Hours with Anna Sale

1 month ago | wkamaubell.substack.com | W. Kamau Bell

In case you missed it, here’s a recording of today’s Office Hours with Anna Sale. We had fun with our first Substack Live. We’ll be live again next month with another set of Office Hours. Get more from W. Kamau Bell in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android
Gavin Newsom’s Bro Ambition

2 months ago | wkamaubell.substack.com | W. Kamau Bell

It was a nice day. I do remember that. But because it was San Francisco, I have no idea if it was July, November, or March. Any of those days could be a “nice” day in the Bay. I was walking down 4th Street in downtown San Francisco, between Market Street and Mission Street. For those of you who don’t know, Market is the main street of downtown SF. It is basically the “Broadway” of San Francisco.
When Something is Nothing

2 months ago | wkamaubell.substack.com | W. Kamau Bell

One of the most cringeworthy political moments of my life happened in the summer of 2020 when several Democratic Congress folks draped themselves in Kente cloth and took a knee to protest police violence. We know that the moment was clearly designed as a photo op, because we have photos of it. Plenty of them, in fact. It was a part of Congressional Democrats’ press run around the Justice in Policing Act.
I Really Don't Like Steve Bannon

2 months ago | wkamaubell.substack.com | W. Kamau Bell

Steve Bannon looks like the dad who left home in 1970 to buy cigarettes and not only forgot to come back, but also forgot to take a shower or change his clothes. He's just been deadbeat dad-ing it around for the last 50 years. Steve Bannon looks like he smells bad from the inside. Like if you cut him open, he would bleed and then the air would get thick with sulfur. Steve Bannon is halfway to Beetlejuice. Steve Bannon doesn’t look like he has an alcohol problem.

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