youtube.com/shorts/qFp7b... If we ruled the world…

The Chinese government’s repression of journalists at home is well-known. Less visible is how that machinery now reaches far beyond its borders. Read the accounts from Journalists who faced intimidation for reporting on human rights abuses tied to China’s ventures in African countries.

Also rich people know that no matter what they can get vaccines. Everything they are doing is making vaccines financially inaccessible. They aren't making them flat out illegal.

Hudson Valley's Porpiglia Farms ordered to recognize United Farm Workers’ union contract www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...

The Supreme Court is hearing oral argument tomorrow to decide whether a crisis pregnancy center's lawsuit belongs in state court or federal court so naturally Republican Attorneys General spent their whole brief talking shit about Planned Parenthood ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/first...

Different century, same colonizer.

New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It. A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine. Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it

You can bring it back to the mitochondria too: start with stress, trauma, and their impact on the immune response. Toss in telomeres, improper rest, and accelerated aging somewhere.

Oof probably ‘Amor Git*n*’ by La Lupe The Queen of Latin Soul sings of obsessive love better than anyone. ‘Take this dagger open up my veins I want to bleed out Until I die’ youtu.be/XjvLgI4kDdk

Crates and crates that should be better tended.

Esthero - Breath from Another (1998)

Marvin Gaye Joe Arroyo Bob Marley Manu Chao Cab Calloway Otis Redding George Michael Sting

Nina Simone Ella Fitzgerald Billy Holliday Dinah Washington Bessie Smith La Lupe I am working through public domain archives now so Ida Cox, Helen Humes, and others are treasures that deserve more ears.

I’m going to be a broken record here Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Hot 8 Brass Band, El Gran Combo, La Patrulla 15, The Roots, The Upsetters, The Headhunters, Duke Ellington’s Orchestra … I’m a sucker for some filthy brass with bold percussion.

Were they inspired by Citibank, US President Woodrow Wilson, and the US Marines? This is unconscionably horrid, leave Gonâve in peace. Of course they sexually exploited a child the venn diagram says a circle with these men.

web.archive.org/web/20241122... Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.

Come on #Hoopla at least screen the images for the ‘uncanny valley hellhole’ before gurgling them out to our horror. This was such a non-image to illustrate wintry romances and hardly recommends them.

‘Heat burps’ sound Cthulhian in scope and horror.

Gigli fans rejoice! 😂 ‘Christy’ now holds the all time title for the biggest drop in a film’s second weekend. The film lost ⬇️ 92% of its opening weekend audience. Gigli - ⬇️ 81% Justin to Kelly - ⬇️ 77% Don’t put this on lesbians, boxers, or athletes in general put the blame where it belongs.

Svengali by Cakes Da Killa That song literally saved my life. youtu.be/3Z-bVPzg72I

Nina Simone Prince Sade George Clinton Parliament Funkadelic Yasiin Bey Erykah Badu Apashe TLC Hot 8 Brass Band Ministry Stevie Nicks Taj Mahal Caravan Palace Queensrÿche Tito Puente Rammstein T-Pain Tyler the Creator Ibeyi Yo Yo Ma Duran Duran I love live music.

Hot 8 Brass Bands cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division youtu.be/C7FTGxbWkU4

Asheru - The Boondocks Theme Song youtu.be/gDWEcFqILoo

Tupac, Yasiin Bey, Busta, Tego Calderón, Guru, Black Thought, Scarface…

Live (Baduizm) - Erykah Badu Live at Carnegie Hall - Nina Simone DtMF - Bad Bunny Catch a Fire 🇯🇲 Bob Marley & the Wailers

House, Hip Hop, Dub, New Orleans Jazz, Reggaeton, Salsa, early 20th c. Black ‘Big Band’, plus Rural Folk Songbooks (Murder Ballads, Spirituals, Worker Rights Organizing, Cautionary Tale types) too.

Norf Carolina, come on and raise up Take your shirt off, twist it 'round your hand Spin it like a helicopter

I see Chistery studied the great Fannie Lou Hamer when he did what he did in #WickedForGood

That’s good they are acknowledging something we have known since jump. Will they take the next step and reimburse Haiti for 114 years of violence and theft? Loans to Black farmers? Don’t just talk about it be about it.

There’s no hip hop without NYC. There’s no techno without Detroit. There’s no EDM without Chicago. There’s no disco without NYC. There’s no metal without Detroit. There’s no rock without Chicago. None would exist without Black people making music there, be they from the US or the Caribbean.

Boosting this updated version for everyone especially those among us designated as the extended family ‘is this real’ adjudicator.

108 years ago, the US military carried out the largest mass execution in American history. In December 1917, the military hanged 13 soldiers. Another 6 were hanged less than a year later. Yes...they were all Black soldiers. It's best known as the Houston Riot of 1917 🧵

Child’s tunic with hood, Egypt, ca. 600-900 AD. Turns out hoodies have been around for a while!

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"Democrats will never fully support disabled people because disability is the antithesis of capitalism. It requires we take a step back from always making a profit when it comes to the lives of people who can produce no profit outside of extraction from our for-profit healthcare system." 100% this.

I am on team ‘help teach your Mama to swim’. I may get cussed out teaching but she lives in a flooding 🌀 zone and I don’t. Am I good? I make do. She won’t do lessons with a stranger. Plus my teach did the ‘throw the kid in the deep end’ trick then had to jump in/pull me out when I sank. I got sick.

Time for more investigative eyes on it and labels to get illuminated. Of course trans rights were attacked and then they came for the disabled. History is rhyming real loud.

It’s streaming at last! The Detroit roots of Techno/EDM have always been there for those of us that remember. youtu.be/AGhZKS-mGyY

Well I went looking and this should be a bigger news item than it is. Same company was warned to clean up its processing 3y ago over Cronobacter sakazakii contamination. ByHeart destroyed a few cases then but shipped out the rest without proper testing by the looks of it.

In Italy labor unions helped start a network of left-leaning news/music radio stations that have become some of the staples of public information in much of the country. They now run on a donation / ads model, but initial investment was from labor. I think about this often.

These zingers are zinging. These are Lady Nancy Langhorne Astor levels of intercostal stiletto character assassination. Aside: some of these ALT text descriptions feel like an erasure or flattening of culture which is frustrating

Ah yes from the exalted Chronicles of Pimp chapter 20 verse 8 on gathering errant haters as a good shepherd tends an unruly flock. Jokes aside that comedy special turns 20 next year. D. Smith was 7 when it dropped. I better put them knee patches on now.

tbh, the US supreme court not budging on gay marriage is great, but also this happening while codifying anti-abortion and anti-trans laws is either strategic in the face of opposition or an example of the project of homonationalist integration, at a time where fascist parties have cis LGB leaders

New Orleans & New York are undefeated. There’s just too much amazing, approachable, and affordable food in NYC. I am unapologetically biased obvs. Vietnamese is superior in New Orleans.

If only they would clean their own house. Get their people to put down the red hat and pickup a red bandana. Rednecks weren’t always about rolling coal pickups and feeding the capitalist pigs their families. Their clawing at proximity to power is cooking us all. highway58herald.org/the-unexpect...

I send pics of food & nyc sights to folks in prison. “My roommate has been incarcerated since she was 15 for 31 years. She spends every. Single. Night. Looking at ALL food, nature & travel pics on my tablet. Prison removed food & travel stuff from our tablets. Someone must’ve told them we liked it.”

If you don’t get it yet.

A civilization so virulently misogynist it wasn’t cheating but an egregious class violation. Moicheia focused on sex with a free woman/citizen. Raping slaves? 🆗 Sex with prostitutes? 🆗 Seducing a 👰🏽 citizen? Justifiable homicide, humiliation, and/or abuse were all righteous. Note: Not a scholar