“Apologies that begin with “I’m sorry you feel that way” will be considered null and void. Violators will be sentenced to mandatory reflection on their transgression while lying awake at 2 a.m., for twenty years to life.” www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

#NewMusicChallenge #50YearsOfPunk Day 3 Swell Maps - Midget Submarines youtu.be/XwM4iVkMecA?...

#NewMusicChallenge #50YearsOfPunk Day 2 Essential Logic - World Friction youtu.be/4xhUHxSk7tI?...

#NewMusicChallenge #50YearsOfPunk Day 1 “No tears for the creatures of the night…” Tuxedomoon - No Tears youtu.be/1GwdHe5nQSQ?...

#NewMusicChallenge #50YearsOfPunk Day 2: Swell Maps - Read About Seymour youtu.be/o09p4jn-rNk?...

#NewMusicChallenge #50YearsOfPunk The Raincoats - No Looking I'm not looking I'm not talking I'm not looking I'm not talking I'm not looking I'm not talking www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpOd...

“We want to honor and celebrate the fact that even through genocide, even through assimilation, Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer folks are alive and thriving, and are contributing in endless ways to their own families, to their own communities, and to the world.” ictnews.org/news/two-spi...

Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)

“Fantastic discussion with implications for skill building in youth before and in puberty. Plus interesting stuff like the fact stem cells are found in menstrual blood and that women’s preponderance of slow burning fat feeds incredible endurance.” kpfa.org/episode/agai...

An estimated 300 immigrants detained at the Delaney Hall ICE jail in Newark, New Jersey, are continuing a hunger and labor strike to demand their freedom. Watch our report ⬇️

It’s still hard to simply mind one’s own business. capitalbnews.org/black-colora...

If you absorb nothing else take this observation in fully. And here’s a gift link to the entire conversation. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

#OtD 31 May 1989 legendary Trinidadian Marxist, CLR James, died in London aged 88. He wrote The Black Jacobins, the definitive history of the Haitian Revolution, as well as influential texts on class, colonialism and cricket. See some of his works here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#MusicSky #Blues #FreddieKing #THE!!!!BEAT Freddie King - I’m Tore Down Recorded live for TV in Dallas 1966 youtu.be/BrLJscDcyQ8?...

Absolutely shocking how easy this is.

“the groundswell of comments such as these towards CMAT and Rodrigo comes with a distinct tang of bot farming, a coordinated attack boosted by figures or movements with a vested interest in shrinking the ways that women can exist in public.” www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

WATCH— @aoc.bsky.social :“We’ve been taught to lower our expectations for things that a generation ago were afforded to every American. It didn’t feel like a fantasy to be able to have one job, support your family, go on vacation, and put some money in your pocket…” (From @marcofoster.bsky.social)

“As the wealth gap widens, the fear of making mistakes and hypersensitivity to the opinions of others become dominant, central features of youth psychology due to the escalating penalties of falling down the economic ladder.” neurosciencenews.com/economic-ine...

Yes, yes this!!

Congratulations to all the finalists! I hear that the prize is a lottery stone, which is awesome. #booksky 💙📚💙

#OtD 28 May 1913 thousands of @iww dockers in Philadelphia won their 2-week strike for higher pay and union recognition. Local 8, led by Ben Fletcher, was probably the most ethnically integrated union in the country at the time. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e73-...

In case you’re still subscribed, a rare NYT opinion that’s not nauseating. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Honored to host Congolese land defender Samuel Yagase at Morehouse last night for a screening of “Mabele na biso.” Support basandja.org + @friendsofthecongo.org.web.brid.gy + @blkalliance4peace.bsky.social vimeo.com/70904858

And then there were none. 😞 #jazzsky

From the article:

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

Summary by Jake Baker-Brown: "27 law students in Vanuatu went to the world's highest court and won. The ICJ ruling they sparked may be the most consequential legal decision in human history. This is what it looks like when ordinary people refuse to accept the limits others set for them."

#MusicSky #BestSongHeardToday #VivaCubaLibre Sexteto Boloña - Aurora En Pekin youtu.be/CZpE8h9NLtQ?...

#MusicSky Nice hearing this pop up on the radio this morning. Herbie Hancock: The Imagine Project - Tamatant Tilay / Exodus (feat. Tinariwen, K'naan, & Los Lobos) youtu.be/E_YzgBJvf8Q?...

I sat down with violence interrupters and young men directly impacted by gun violence to talk about what this administration is doing to keep New Yorkers safe.

Happy 73rd birthday to Dennis Bovell. Amongst many career highlights, Dennis wrote, produced and played on Silly Games. He had previously worked with Janet Kay and knew she would be perfect to hit those high notes... youtu.be/T6LjYAaHy7A?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

#SunRa #MusicSky Happy Born Day to Sun Ra. Remember, "If you find Earth boring / Just the same old, same thing / Come on sign up with / Outer Spaceways, Incorporated." Sun Ra - Rocket #9 youtu.be/1WXQ2mTlBEY?...

#BestSongHeardToday #MusicChallenge #MusicSky aja monet - elsewhere (feat. Meshell Ndegeocello & Georgia Anne Muldrow) aja monet Composer, Lyrics Josh Johnson Composer Meshell Ndegeocello Composer Novena Carmel Composer youtu.be/yYqyL1Y9kvQ?...

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

Reparations just aren’t feasible unless you’re a felon...

The BLM—short for the Bureau of Land Management oversees an astonishing 245 million acres across the western states and Alaska. In this excerpt from his new book 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙙 Josh Jackson sets out to discover this often overlooked public inheritance.

Al Hajj Malcom X would have turned 101 today. “They won’t even admit the knife is there.” This white supremacist regime pretends that racism is over, as they gut voting rights — this is exactly what they’re doing.

3 yrs ago I started writing a book that is in stores TODAY. It's narrative nonfiction, anti-fascist spy thriller set in Trump era. It's timely as hell & I'm proud of it. A thread of what people are saying abt it & why I hope you'll help make it a bestseller www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

#2009SongsTop20 #MusicChallenge 7 Another World: Anthony And The Johnsons

Like @mychal3ts.bsky.social writes, “The library is always here for you." That's why we're committed to being here for our libraries. This year, we're adding $31.7 million in permanent, baseline funding to our city's three library systems so they can better serve New Yorkers.

“Bankole’s The Edge of Water, published by Tin House, is set between Nigeria and New Orleans, following a young woman whose dream of life in America collides with traditional prophecy and family bonds during a devastating storm.”

Hartung and Freeman “unmask the enablers of the war machine-politicians, lobbyists, the media, Hollywood, think tanks-whose work enriches a wealthy elite at the expense of everybody else, spreading conflict around the world and embroiling America in endless wars.” quincyinst.org/collection/t...

The members of the Jewish Bund navigated profound historical changes from the founding of their movement in 1897 until its ultimate destruction in the Holocaust, writes acclaimed artist and author Molly Crabapple in her new book, "Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund."

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 14: a bebop track with fast improvisation I think this piece may be a "bebop hybrid" 😁. Dizzy is considered a pioneer of the fusion of Afro-Cuban rhythms & bebop. “Manteca” · Dizzy Gillespie m.youtube.com/watchv=A5tRG...

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Two fiery rational (or rationally fiery) mensches in conversation. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

“The seven studio albums released after Miss Perfumado are all of a high standard, and while there were plenty of mornas already written – Évora’s uncle B Leza was a noted composer – contemporary Cape Verdean songwriters queued up to write new ones for her.” www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...