Been a minute since I made some sauce, always fun to make food you enjoy eating. Several dozen tomatoes (and lots of garlic, onion, herbs, green chile, other spices) condensed to a pure intensity

One of the brave Quakertown teens describing clearly what happened. Worth a watch. The kids are alright, I gotta say

"There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man." -Alan Paton

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Such a great and, I think, underappreciated soundtrack. And this song is just 🔥🔥🔥

This is a wild quote. The linked video includes this clip and then tries to explain to anyone like minded how research is actually supposed to work. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThxqNJqN/

Public health malpractice should be a civil and criminal crime when done at this scale. It's beyond the pair that they're *not even reviewing the application*!!!!

Have been wanting to work on more "serious" classical in my recording journey, recorded one today

Jay-Z with his group wtf. No. Beyonce with her group, jfc

Recording I made for Black History Month

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Powerfully stated

Just to reiterate what so many others have said, no amount of training would have made slave catchers, SS officers, or concentration camp guards more moral. You can't train away evil. We need leaders who don't keep missing the mark.

We need to take lessons from the Black Panthers on policing the police. That is what is needed now

Community defense

Registered tribal member, American citizen, detailed by ICE, slammed to the ground hard enough to break her eye, unsure if she'll have any vision in that eye. WE ARE NOT ANGRY ENOUGH

Another excellent video from @cybelecanterel.bsky.social about the administration's "Veruca tactics" of "tantrums with nukes". As always a great analysis, with good discussion of how they have overextended themselves and created lots of opportunities to resist in ways that can end this

Which, if there were any validity to it, should be about the lowest and easiest bar to clear. Like sports fans chanting, "We're not last! We're not last!"

Oh, so maybe Europe dumping US debt *doesn't* defy logic, but instead follows his *own* logic.... 🤔 www.indianagazette.com/the_wire/bes...

I will never understand the mind of the person where all these horrors fail to shake them in their support for all of this. How are so many people walled off from any sense of basic human decency? (Intellectually,: otherization, cult mentality, etc etc... But *how*‽‽)

Could there be a more nakedly mafioso justification for tariffs? It's kind of amazing to me that he's managed to cobble together such a shameless cadre of openly dishonest, greedy, ass-kissing sycophants. I know I shouldn't be surprised, and yet www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

"It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation, not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people who would bomb a church in Birmingham, Alabama but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say wait on time."

A difficult read. Despite incelish "men's rights activists" claims to the contrary, women are often at a severe disadvantage in these disputes. My own mother lost her custody in court, but my dad realized that wasn't actually best and gave her custody anyway. So often it's solely about "winning"

Was listening to an eclectic mix this morning and Starship's "We Built This City" came on. I was really reminded how many songs in the era were so upbeat, despite referring to issues eg corporations or the shout-out to police brutality. I can't imagine that optimism now 😞

There have got to be a few patriots at the FBI who want to save the world. Someone who doesn't want to see the world burn in order to protect one of history's most terrible people. I just know there are

There is not enough rage

Did a light adaptation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for a video, threaded the individual statements below. We are very much failing to live up to these solid ideals of human rights and freedoms, regressing globally, very little progressing. 😞

There are more of us than there are of them, heed the warnings that point out what the admin is doing, be prepared, and resist

In "statical improbabilities" I got another jury summons today. This is at least my 10th, but I think even higher than that. I live in Houston, it's *crazy* that I'm a potential juror every couple years. Almost all county, one federal, one city. Impanelled 4x I think, served once.

Excellent video, worth your time

Although I don't care deeply about either bill, this speaks to the *deep* weakness and cowardice in today's Republican party.

These people do not understand that not everyone and everything is for sale, that just because *they* would do anything for a buck does not mean that others will. I have zero doubt the good people of Greenland and Denmark will have little truck with this

Stephen Miller is the exemplar of the impotent, small, feeble man whose braggadocio comes entirely from proximity to a power he does not possess, which he has not earned, and which he has no ability to wield with even a modicum of skill. The only innate strength he possesses is his fetid hate

I've seen a lot of discussion about Ukraine and Russia in the context of the invasion and kidnapping in Venezuela; but I think the biggest risk is Taiwan. This administration is willfully ignoring just how badly they've destabilized the world order and who that benefits.

When you're feeling down, and you need a hug

It's truly sad how little things have changed in over 20 years (despite what the video title says, this lecture is from 2003 originally). I have the album, and this segment at 22:30 is a track entitled "Israel, The US, and the Geneva Convention" youtu.be/LezMLXVxzSI?...

Such a peaceful way to start Christmas

Couple pies a-cookin, the others I want to make will have to wait for later today lol

Have yourself a minor little Christmas!

Not exactly holiday music, but, the fruit of last night's labors (I really need someone to shake me before I decide to duet myself, it's *so* much more work :/ )

Clinton's gotta be high in the list of people who would know *just* how compromised Trump is by the Epstein files 🙃

"national security" is "stop resisting". same energy

There are many problematic uses of AI which will be resolved by the bursting of the AI bubble. There is a lot of (well deserved) concern about students failing to learn because they use AI, of artists being sidelined in favor of AI, of people creating fake images & videos that spread disinformation

This administration is truly monstrous and evil.

I *know* AI isn't capable of doing my job. But I don't make CEO money...our capitalist system is a scam fortune.com/article/klar...

In any decent country this would result in outrage and maybe jail. Here? Just another day where we kill someone using "healthcare" Mount Vernon cop on dialysis following kidney failure, 6 months from retirement being terminated leaving him without insurance | abc7ny.com share.google/WBMDOejYyqHB...

Yes, next question

Councilwoman Paladino should be exiled a remote, uninhabited island to live out her days in quiet asceticism, pondering the steps that led her to such deep seated hate