Today's mood.

Fannie Lou Hamer challenged the Democratic Party power brokers at the 1964 Democratic National Convention to allow Black delegates to represent Mississippi. "All of this is on account of we want to register, to become first-class citizens," Hamer told the DNC credentials committee in 1964.

This is entertaining coming from an old comedian This is fucking horrifying from your country's health guy

With your phone in your pocket, practice hitting power and volume up at the same time for a couple seconds. Next time you go to unlock, biometrics are disabled and you'll have to enter your passcode. As would, say, a cop. support.apple.com/guide/iphone...

#NowPlaying @queenesther.bsky.social Home Free to end the show this week - the album Blackbirding will be available on Friday from Bandcamp Have a great week 🙏 queenesther.bandcamp.com/album/blackb...

#NowPlaying @queenesther.bsky.social Oh My Stars - a song about The Wheatfield at Gettysburg in 1863 and Covid in 2020... on 107 Meridian FM

If you think measles is exciting, great news! You can catch it in South Carolina! We eliminated it decades ago, but SC said “not on my watch” and now has 840 cases! Huge shoutout to right wing media and influencers telling people not to trust science. Make America Sick Again!🇺🇸🇺🇸

Your Sunday Sermonette of the Day: "If you haven't met Satan recently, you're probably going his way." - CS Lewis

I've subscribed to these words of George Carlin for many years now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOTA...

Whew. Judge Biery (Clinton appointee) is not messing around, dropping on the feds the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the Fourth Amendment, Ben Franklin, and the Bible. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Glad the files are coming out. Otherwise we would’ve had to believe these women.

This is incredible???

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If you are in NYC or can get there on March 21st, do not miss @queenesther.bsky.social's album release show at Joe's Pub/The Public. You will thank me. publictheater.org/performances...

Ahead of the launch of Blackbirding, @queenesther.bsky.social joins me on the show on Monday night to talk about the album, the Civil War, slavery and protest. Not to be missed... On air from 8pm GMT on Meridian FM

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

Rest in peace, funny lady. #catherineohara

4,249 boxes to go. We can do this.

The GOP is in fact the party of divorced middle aged men whose blue haired daughters hate them

More than 60 years ago, President John F. Kennedy mobilized 30,000 federal troops to stop rioting over the admission of James Meredith, a Black student, at the University of Mississippi. President Donald Trump now threatens to use the Insurrection Act to quell protests in Minnesota.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE! My alt-Americana album Blackbirding and the first single Hold Steady are in the top 40 on the AMA Radio Charts. (YAY!) americanamusic.org/americana-ra...

...and in other news: The film Melania sold ONE ticket in the UK. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/40m...

Kamala warned y'all. Repeatedly. www.threads.com/@michaelbmct...

neutrality becomes complicity. This is a moment that demands “polarization,” not another bland white man promising “comfort”. #LifeBeyondTheSupremacyMyth #ProfitWithoutOppression #KimCrayton

from federal violence in Minneapolis to the ways Black women are described in leadership, and you still cannot see “polarizing” as the real answer to fighting back, then know this, what comes next will be your fault. When policing, enforcement, and political power operate without accountability,

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GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE! My alt-Americana album Blackbirding enters the AMA Radio Charts for the week of January 21st at #39 -- and the single Hold Steady is at #43! americanamusic.org/americana-ra...

I want for you whatever you want for immigrants

Gonna tell my kids this is Stephen Miller and Greg Bovino

Suburbanites are discovering both their courage and their love for the cities they often vilify. People who said “it’s sad you can’t go to downtown Minneapolis any more with all the crime now” four years ago are driving in, carrying signs, and tailing ICE in their cars

These people have absolutely zero ability to say "I was wrong, y'all were right."🤷🏿‍♂️ The closest they get is "I was right then when I said you were panicking for no reason and deranged, and I'm also right now, when I'm saying what you were saying, but way too late. I alone decide when it's right."🤡

Sociopathic narcissists aren’t trying to convince you of anything. They get off on the power of being able to say whatever they want. It’s about imposing their will on reality. It’s about control.

I was raised by a sociopathic narcissist who lied as a matter of routine. If you challenged his lies, the consequence was violence. It wasn’t about convincing you. It about how you either accepted his truth, or were willing to suffer the consequences. Trump doesn’t care if you believe him.

declaration by a physician at the scene: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Text of the video posted by Mac Randolph “Never wanted to share this video but his speech is very on point.”

YAY! Coming up: #hotjazz with Drew Nugent & The Midnight Society at The Triad, 1/23 + #BlackAmericana at Lucinda's, 2/2 + @JoesPub album release party, 3/21 + more! mailchi.mp/ad015af8816f...

Hey, everyone! If you'd like to hear my new alt-Americana album Blackbirding and get your hands on a CD before the digital release date on February 6th, this is the one for you: February 2nd, theee acts, $15. See you soon! Get your tickets here ---> www.ticketweb.com/event/queen-...

Damn. www.kqed.org/arts/1398535...

THE NEXT GIG: An evening of hot jazz at The Triad Theater with Drew Nugent & The Midnight Society - Friday, 1/23 at 9pm.

Y'all. My alt-Americana album Blackbirding is now available for pre-order digitally via Bandcamp for $10 please and thank you. queenesther.bandcamp.com/album/blackb...

The first review for Blackbirding -- from Bill Bentley, Americana Highways

any 21st century update of the Kaleckian theory for why capitalists can hate jobs and growth needs a great heaping scoop of Gender

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

Award-winning filmmaker Michael Premo joins #BigBlendRadio to discuss "Homegrown: A Portrait of a Nation Divided," a powerful #documentary exploring the human stories and social forces behind #January6. Watch: youtu.be/tUw8P8N8ebc?...

IMO the argument is that you can make things into big enough deals that it matters. Khanna found Massey and found survivors and made the Epstein Files the gigantic story it should be. Only then did establishment Dems come along. You can, in fact, make things into big hairy deals if you do it right.

Supreme Court OKs racist gerrymandering.

Pete Hague-seth seems to think the expression "The Fog of War" is literal. It is not. It is a metaphor, and one that would not excuse executing shipwrecked passengers you can clearly see on your video screen.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service