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Spoken word artist Saul Williams released the EP "Not in My Name" two decades...
Not in my nameYou fight a war against terrorists and violence and try to wave your guns toFear us all into silence.No….You built your empire with natives and slaves like the truth won'tResurrect...
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Research into magic mushrooms pondered by Arizona legislators
In conservative, purple-ish Arizona, Kevin Payne, a Republican House member from Peoria, a suburb northeast of Phoenix, proposed in House Bill 2486 that the 48th State be the first to approve natural...
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Who is behind the "No Labels" political action committee bankrolling Kirsten...
A More Perfect Union, "Media that builds power for working people," released this video, narrated by Andrew Rivera, investigating the people and organizations behind the Super-PAC No Labels. Arizona...
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Nike faces class-action lawsuit accusing it of greenwashing
The movie Air dramatizes the risks that Nike took when signing Michael Jordan as their anchor athlete. Beyond sustaining the brand, Jordan transformed the corporation into a global capitalist...
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Correctile Dysfunction: the global crisis of men correcting women who know...
Do you need "to correct women who know more about something than you? Do you tag Hank Green in videos where a woman is talking about something she literally has a doctorate in? You are not alone....
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Tony Hawk and the origin of the trick "The Madonna."
Kick flips, ghetto birds, ollie impossibles, airwalks, bean plants, acid drops, gazelle spins, pop shuvits, and the Madonna are the names of some of the hundreds, perhaps thousands of skateboard...
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Clarkesworld editor Neil Clarke on the writers' strike and AI
Clarkesworld Magazine and Forever Magazine editor and publisher Neil Clarke released a statement about the Writer's Guild of America strike and hopes others will sign onto it too: "I've complained that...
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Sixty years of A Confederacy of Dunces' Ignatius J. Reilly
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Johnathon Swift, epigraph to A Confederacy of Dunces. Sixty years ago, John...
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After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics
On May 24, 2022, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, teenager Salvador Ramos murdered nineteen children and two adults with two AR-15 assault rifles he recently and legally purchased. A new...
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Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View is a rewarding retelling
If you are a Star Wars fan, every day is May 4th. I recently let the force choose a book to read from the shelves. Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View has been in my bookcase for a hot minute. —...
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How voice data is being used with AI to generate "predictive" medical diagnoses
A new episode of the podcast In Machines We Trust explores how universities, medical researchers, practitioners, and the private industry use AI as a diagnostic tool for medical issues. "Hidden away in...
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The 2008 interviews that sank Sarah Palin wouldn't matter now
Whenever I come across a video of Marjorie Taylor-Greene making things up from a position of ignorance, I think of an interview with Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah...
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Trailer for "I'm a Virgo" new show about a 13-ft tall teen
"Can I have seven Bing-Bang burgers, please?" With this phrase, spoken by a 13 ft tall, 19-year-old Black man named Cootie ordering some fast food and shocking the restaurant's clientele, the trailer...
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Shining a light on the dark money of The Marble Freedom Trust
I have posted about No Labels, the reactionary centrist political action committee bankrolling Senator Kirsten Sinema and her attack on what's left of the social infrastructure of the Second...
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Enjoy this tri-lingual Indigenous podcast in Quechua, Spanish and English
Solidarity amongst Indigenous peoples is circulating and growing. Shared experiences enduring and thriving despite the ravages of capitalist accumulation and Christian dominion on the people, plants,...
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Human Rights Campaign declares a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans
In the past year, 49 states in the U.S. have proposed 556 anti-queer/anti-trans laws, of which 80 have passed, 104 failed, and 372 are still active. Combined with increased violence against the LGBTQ+...
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Zena Sharman's "Queering Death" series tackles end of life care for LGBTQ+...
In 1963, British muckraker journalist and political activist Jessica Mitford, who lived much of her life in the U.S., wrote An American Way of Death, exposing the funeral industry's abuses and...
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Black Thought and Yasiin Bey to collaborate on new musical project
"Glorious Game," released in April by El Michels Affair & Black Thought, is "a fusion of impossibly sharp lyricism and languid Jazz." Eleven tracks (with a title track reprise) featuring guests...
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Here's how rodent research on the International Space Station is going
The Rodent Research 5 mission, a collaboration between NASA and SpaceX (Elon Mouse-k?), is the subject of a new study published in Cell Reports explaining some of the medical insights these...
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"This bill is 100% supposed to scare you," says Rick Roth, Florida State...
In the fallout from the Florida governor and Republican candidate for the presidential nomination, Ron DeSantis's anti-human laws, Republicans are talking out of both sides of their mouths -again....
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A book about the rebellious history of the banjo
Every musical instrument has a history, an origin story with primary practitioners that were storytellers and sound makers. Every origin story exists within social, political, economic, and cultural...
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A short documentary on gun violence: "The United States and Mexico: The Same...
Gun violence in the U.S. does not respect international borders. Gun violence perpetrated in Mexico by drug cartels is directly related to the politics of the Second Amendment in the US. The...
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Noname new album Sundial drops this summer
"I saw a demon on my shoulder, it's lookin' like patriarchy." — Song 32. Hip Hop artist Noname announced from her Instagram account nonamehiding that a new album will drop in July. Titled Sundial, I...
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The Pentagon Papers were first published 52 years ago
At a time when classified information is again in the news it might be worth remembering a different example of someone keeping – and then releasing – classified information. On June 13, 1971, the New...
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Two songs with the sound of cows mooing
In 1985, a Houston, Texas-based pop punk outfit released "The Moo Album." Among the memorable tracks like "Don't Be A Hippie," "Ghost in a Bikini," and "Milk" is "The Moo Song," featuring – you guessed...
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No Way Home: a new documentary about life without parole
According to the most recent numbers from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2020, 1 in 66 adult U.S. residents, some 3,890,400 people, were on either parole or probation, two forms of community...
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Lawsuits loom for DoorDash
In a Tik Tok reel, a lawyer demonstrates in real-time (with receipts) how iPhone users pay more for DoorDash than Android users, one of the points scaffolding the $1 billion class-action lawsuit...
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Scientists study why people do not believe in scientific studies
"Knowledge overconfidence is associated with anti-consensus views on controversial scientific issues," runs the title of a recent study published in Science which highlights the consequences of...
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Inspired by the ideas, philosophy, and worldview of Octavia O. Butler, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne marie brown invites readers to embrace the constant and contingent,...
View ArticleWatch RuPaul fronting an underground punk band in 1983
An episode of Untucked: RuPaul's Drag Race featured a "New Wave Queens" episode itself inspired by Wee Wee Pole featuring RuPaul and The U-Hauls, the underground punk band RuPaul fronted during the...
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