"In my vision of your future, you’re the wise guide who inspires and includes, who innovates and reflects. You fight for interdependence, not dominance."

Medicaid cuts thesicktimes.org/2025/12/02/t...

Back on @kalxberkeley.bsky.social tomorrow night! Please tune in!

Syracuse Cultural Workers Enters Busiest Season - Westcott Community share.google/44RzQf1wFeod...

12/2/1980 Four Catholic missionaries raped and killed by El Salvador National Guardsmen for helping impoverished people survive U.S.-supported repression

Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting publicdomainreview.org/essay/cabine...

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I utterly missed it in the midst of the silly season (figures!) but 11/17 was my 25 year work anniversary woo

Sale continues until midnight PST. 15% off everything on our site. We have 80 T-shirt designs, all Earth and worker-friendly. Be bold or more subtle! syracuseculturalworkers.com/collections/... #cybermonday #sale

12/1/1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to white man in Montgomery, AL. Her arrest sparks Montgomery Bus Boycott, pivotal early battle in Civil Rights Movement

John McAuliff won against a Republican by focusing on something affecting all his constituents: the cost of energy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Bloomberg publishes extraordinary transcripts of secret discussions, but their provenance remains unclear www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US envoy also offered tactical guidance on how Putin should raise the subject with Trump, audio recording suggests www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Listening: Neil Young, Jimi Tenor Band, The O’Jays

Véronique Leroy Fall/Winter 2025

The Quiet Achiever

We’re running an end of year campaign to finish up our renovation! We’ve raised about $100k so far, and have another $50k of expenses budgeted to get the place open and suitable for performance and exhibition again. Support the campaign here: givebutter.com/the-lab-expa...

Updike on Updike: “I have fallen to the status of an elderly duffer whose tales of suburban American sex are hopelessly yawnworthy period pieces.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Following the dismantling of the Kwoneesum Dam, the area has been transformed and its wildlife is returning reasonstobecheerful.world/kwoneesum-da...

15 years ago - Kremlinology with Rupert Murdoch: what do the Times paywall numbers mean? www.theguardian.com/technology/b...

The 2026 Peace Calendar addresses seeks to educate and inspire. David Najib Kasir's July art in the 2026 calendar uses traditional Arab designs to show the beauty of Palestinian culture and the tragedy as everything around them crumbles. #peacecalendar #freepalestine bit.ly/48f32IG

11/26/1970 Charles Gordone becomes first African American to win Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Looking carefully at track records when I consider where I spend my money these days www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The final (waaaaaaaaaah) Tiny Showcase benefits Family Service of Rhode Island! And it's a bee-yoot! Keep On by Caitlin Cali: www.tinyshowcase.com/shop1/keep-o...

"It’s the place where effort becomes effortless, where you stop trying and simply love the doing. In the coming weeks, you can enjoy this state more than you have in a long time. Ride it with glee!"

KALX Tour Episode 2: The Music Library buff.ly/o0eeRee

London peeps: Noémie Goudal and Sarah Dry in conversation 9 December 2025 tickets.artangel.org.uk/events/artan...

Exercise trials fail to include PEM thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...

We have just released a special limited edition 60th Anniversary Selma T-shirt The Selma marches brought international attention to the brutality of racist segregation and Alabama’s denial of voting rights to Blacks. #selma60 #civilrights #civilrightsmovement bit.ly/43NTlji

11/25/1792 Black scientist Benjamin Banneker publishes his first farmers' almanac

Hannah Shirley, born in November 1973, was celebrated with Hungry Hungry Hippos-themed party www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tech critic Cory Doctorow explains why for so many the internet – from Amazon to Google to Instagram – seems to be getting worse www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

10 years ago - Activist tricked into 6-year relationship with undercover cop tells her story www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015...

From the NYT: college Radio Keeps Its Cool

Stopping states from acting on AI will stop progress. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

11/24/1995 Irish citizens vote to legalize divorce

10 years ago - England: You have four days to reply to the secret consultation on the NHS’s future www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

US president says ‘Thursday is an appropriate time’ in radio interview as Ukrainian leader weighs up US proposal www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

What I Learned Today: Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC geacron.com/home-en

Help keep KALX bringing you music you don't hear anywhere else, live sports, news, community orientated programming, and more buff.ly/Q15D7LQ

‘I turned a corner and saw this: a dusty alley lined with daisies, a few redheads, a handful of puppies and a woman with a gas can, all in blinding sun. That’s the miracle – when everything comes together and you’re there to catch it’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The pristine copy of Superman No 1, the character’s first solo title from 1939, was discovered in an attic in California last year www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Listening: The Replacements, Kiss, Sharp Pins, Rufus Wainwright & the Pacific Jazz Orchestra, Bill Evans, Keaton Henson, Goldfrapp, Wreckless Eric, Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover, The Bug & Ghost Dubs, Burn It Up: The Rise of British Dance Music 1986-1991

ICYMI: The bill that reopened the government also included a backdoor federal ban on basically all hemp-derived products. Call your reps and demand they repeal the provision. We need effective regulation, not prohibition. 🔥📞🔥 > 5calls.org/issue/hemp-t...

Check out our updated “Early Warning Signs of Fascism poster." Text: Laurence W. Britt. Despite this dire threat, we are heartened by the millions of people raising their voices and taking action. syracuseculturalworkers.com/collections/... #StopFascism #NoKings #DumpTrump #WarningSignsOfFascism

11/21/2006 "Nurse-ins" held at over 30 U.S. airports to protest mom being thrown off flight for nursing her baby. Delta Airlines apologizes

Tomorrow: [10am] Massari chats with Andy Bell of Erasure who have 3 shows next week, [4:30pm] !nterroban? sits down with Agriculture who play The Chapel 11/21

Judge ruled DoJ engaged in ‘profound investigative missteps’ on way to indicting the former FBI director www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sonia Guajajara tells Cop30 the rights of traditional communities must be maintained in the face of exploitation by the mining industry www.theguardian.com/environment/...