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#BestSongHeardToday #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Jackie Venson & Jackie the Robot - Destruct Thank you @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social for the introduction! youtu.be/_f9uEdLhl40?...

#BestSongHeardToday #MusicChallenge #MusicSky youtu.be/7psSgSOniHU?...

Deliberate endangerment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In Serbia and Croatia, there are Antifascist Parks, Antifascist Monuments, streets called the Antifascist Struggle. As in much of Europe, anti-fascism is foundational. In Belgrade, Antifasisticke Borba will take you to a Tortilla Casa, a Beauty Express, and the Novak Djokovic Foundation.

Proud to announce Leaders We Deserve is endorsing @justinjpearson.bsky.social in his race for #TN09. From his work stopping the Byhalia Connection oil pipeline to his fearless stand for stronger gun safety laws, he's shown the kind of backbone needed to take on powerful special interests.

It's too bad the public discourse is now dominated by Christians who less resemble disciples of Jesus and more the tyranny that executed him. Reverend J. Alfred Smith's service was the epitome of faith and love in action. oaklandside.org/2025/10/07/o...

Reading White, Latino, Asian, Black, Man, Woman, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish-- we are remarkably alike in the printed word. In sharing our experiences, we're talking about the outside. Our inner voice, our happiness & despair, is universal. This is why people who want to divide us attack books.

#booksky #europeanhistory #antifascism Now’s a good time to buy and read Mark Bray’s excellent ANTIFA: THE ANTI-FASCIST HANDBOOK. An especially recommended read for the people who signed the petition against Professor Bray. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In his new book A GENOCIDE FORETOLD, Chris Hedges stays true to fact-based reporting and assessment of consequences with loyalty to humanity, not to the project of empire. With the NYT, he won a Pulitzer for his coverage of Al Qaeda. He resigned from the NYT in 2005. What accelerated the break:

“There’s a neighbour who says, ‘All these kids are mine’ to the cops. The children…are confident and precocious and unafraid of the police. They are loved and secure. They have multiple guardians. I want to show how one outlier with access to a gun – one dangerous person – could change all of that.”

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Proud to announce Leaders We Deserve is making 4 endorsements, including our first incumbent challenger. Our candidates don’t take corporate $, have beaten the GOP in court, taken on big polluters, reduced gun violence, and will serve their communities – not special interests.

“You could be eating Ciba Geigy goat cheese. You need to tell someone to tell you when to stop.” When forgotten Howard Devoto lyrics attack out of nowhere. #musicchallenge #musicsky

#BestSongHeardToday #MusicChallenge #MusicSky L'ENTOURLOOP - Dreader Than Dread Ft. The Architect & Skarra Mucci youtu.be/R9CASzQjuUY?...

Sulkypants of Ohio strikes again. Nice line-up with demanding Zelensky say thank you. But I guess being Ukrainian is like being BIPOC in the Book of Vance? Formerly demanded Kamala Harris show gratitude, more recently Mamdani.....

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

#lookandsee #musicchallenge THEY SAY I’M DIFFERENT Inspiring image below 👇 #bettydavis #funk #funksky #music #musicsky youtu.be/ok7r0s48B5U?...

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

The new documentary "Orwell: 2+2=5" hits U.S. theaters this week. Director Raoul Peck “knew that this country and many other countries around the world needed Orwell” to help viewers "recognize the signs” of totalitarianism.

Exactly. He has to own this.

#BestSongHeardToday #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Start at the start and stay for the rest… Stanley Clarke - Song to John With 4EVER: saxophonist Emilio Modeste, guitarist Colin Cook, drummer Jeremiah Collier, violinist Evan Garr, keyboardist Cameron Graves. youtu.be/R81jAk9LgiQ?...

Go, Jane, go! She's rounded up hundreds of Hollywood figures to revive the First Amendment organization her father championed. Fonda, in her late eighties, is in her prime as a climate champion and a powerful voice for justice.

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge Day 30 Thanks to @lagrume.bsky.social Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World youtu.be/CaCSuzR4DwM?...

#MusicChallenge #MotherNatureSong 9/30 Thanks to @lagrume.bsky.social for hosting this month’s challenge! Jamie Jones x Baby Rose - Rolling Thunder New house music. A call to commune with nature, or to hook up with Molly? I'll opt for the sober interpretation. youtu.be/a24b3kk7_-M?...

Always loved that Arby's/coal fact, and the coal industry has shrunk a lot since then. The piece also noted more people work in museums than in coal..... (and Mr. Weinstein is responding to yet more coal-industry welfare in the name of jobs.)

#MusicChallenge #MotherNatureSong 9/29 Tony Allen & Jeff Mills - The Seed youtu.be/fdJ0OuDezSM?...

My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.

#MusicChallenge #MotherNatureSong 9/28 Michael Prince - Floating Rock (feat. Jeremiah Price) youtu.be/LhqSk0vgek4?...

#MusicChallenge #MotherNatureSong 9/27 Grace McLean - Gazelle youtu.be/At0h_Xv3-7g?...

#MusicChallenge #MotherNatureSong 9/26 Geri Allen - Light Matter Geri Allen: Piano Wallace Roney: Trumpet, flugelhorn Robin Eubanks: Trombone Dwight Andrews: Flutes Vernon Reid: Guitar Ralphe Armstrong: 7-string bass Buster Williams: Bass Lenny White: Drums Mino Cinelu: Percussion

#MusicChallenge #MotherNatureSong 9/25 Helen Ganya - Horizon youtu.be/FOecHaBFAtY?...

#MusicChallenge #MotherNatureSong 9/24 Maya Youssef - Samai of Trees Samai refers to a 10/8 rhythm often played on the qanun (here by Youssef) and the oud. youtu.be/ptXZhuj_56U?...

#booksky “Every single creature you encounter is a someone,” Keim writes. [He] doesn’t just want us to look at wildlife differently…; he wants to change how we act on both individual and institutional scales. “We the People ought to include animals as well.” sentientmedia.org/meet-the-nei....

“That’s just throwing money at the problem.” Exactly. That’s the solution when the problem has been underinvestment, especially when paired with evidence of what works. oaklandside.org/2025/09/22/h...

Where are the more establishment figures in the fight, including conservative ones? You’ll find a lot of them here. www.democracydefendersfund.org/about

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

Citizens’ power of the purse. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#MotherNatureSong 🌼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 2️⃣3️⃣: 🗣️ The Neville Brothers 🔊 Yellow Moon

#MusicChallenge #MotherNatureSong 9/23 DJ Harrison - Lil Birdie A new take on a fall favorite: Vince Guaraldi’s song from A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. youtu.be/FEr9fzjf70E?...

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#MusicChallenge #MotherNatureSong 9/22 Cults - Onions youtu.be/y-8yVIEy40A?...

#MusicChallenge #MotherNatureSong 9/21 Wanda Felicia - Flowers in the Garden youtu.be/bRBfzbrrxIw?...

So much capitulation by educational, media, and business leaders may be something more than craven toadying. I’m wondering if they just have no clue how to fight back. Privilege is a nice cushion; it means more often than not, power is on your side. They haven’t had

“when social hierarchy changes, groups used to more powerful or privileged positions will respond with intense emotional reactions to their loss of status and respect”. Who benefits? Right wing movements that accelerate the economic inequality and instability that harmed them in the first place.

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge 20- Baobab Tree youtu.be/uHSh7AMdmxc?...

#MotherNatureSong 20 rose After Japan's Neil Young and Bob Dylan, here's a lady regularly described as Japan's Kate Bush. Akiko Yano from 1981. Disclaimer: I don't really approve of these lazy comparisons! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wk4...

#MusicChallenge #MotherNatureSong 9/20 Robin Trower - For Earth Below Maybe it’s the heavy gauge guitar strings, maybe it’s James Dewar’s vocals, maybe there’s a greater depth, but there’s something that has always set Robin Trower apart from stadium-rock-era convention. youtu.be/wFzXm55nisc?...

Another way to put it is: they are obsessed with the idea that with enough repression and punishment, they can create their peaceable kingdom--on the corpses of their enemies and the corpse of the US Constitution. Behind that is the fantasy that a wholly homogenous USA can be created....

"What really kept me strong was my anger." In his first extended broadcast interview since being released from prison, Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier talks about spending five decades behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit.