Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

Pat Thomas's relentless dedication to improvisational music has made him a revered figure in the contemporary free jazz scene. Here are some of his standout works.

Just going to say that there is no need to exceptionalize immigrant jails because every US jail and prison is like this. All of them without exception.

Community center
Ribera, NM

AOL To Discontinue Dial-Up Internet
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Folks, life is short. It's so short and very very precious.

Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have theonion.com/watchdo...

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

Car window, heading to Santa Fe from Taos w @gkors.bsky.social #oilpainting #landscapepainting #contemporaryart

The failure of the United States government to do what it needs to do regarding climate change is one of the most undemocratic and possibly consequential things to ever happen in human history

Two million people are being threatened with forced starvation in #Palestine, as the US government continues to support ongoing ethnic-cleansing.

We've created a list of on-the-ground mutual aid groups in #Gaza that you can support, amplify, and follow. itsgoingdown.org/your-guide-o...

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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

I've said this before but the fascists don't seem to be having fun. They really do not.

Thrilled that "Cassette Album", a comp I contributed to on @flamingpines.bsky.social, gets a write up in The Wire this month!

People make art under hellish conditions locked up in prisons as just one example. It's because making things affirms our humanity. So yes, make art during fascism. What are we fighting for? A free society FOR ALL where we can revel in beauty, culture and all good things.

To celebrate the release of this stellar compilation on @flamingpines.bsky.social

flamingpines.bandcamp.com/album/casset...

Playing London in one week! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/casse...

Playing London in one week! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/casse...

"This AI automation mania pushes bosses to train the crosshairs on anything and everything that isn’t built to optimize corporate efficiency, and as a result, you get the journalism layoffs, the Duolingo cuts; you get DOGE."

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.

It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies

But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

Alice Notley passed away Monday night in Paris, where I'm writing from. This will come as a shock to many, but she was battling a number of maladies in recent months, and things had gotten difficult rapidly. Her work is out there. Please feel free to spread the word.