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Luke Hill
@masscommons.bsky.social
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Posting about: books, food, history, music, politics, religion, sports…and anything else that comes to mind.

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Morning Song - Luther by Kendrick Lamar & SZA

"If this world was mine, I'd take your dreams and make 'em multiply...." #GRAMMYs #RecordOfTheYear

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Morning Song – Luther
It takes a lot of damned nerve to sample a Luther Vandross/Cheryl Lynn love ballad that was itself a cover of a Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell duet. But Kendrick Lamar and SZA have not only the nerve bu…
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February 6, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Morning Song - Man I Need by Olivia Dean

"...a 12/8 Whitney Houston-esque dance jam that encodes some excellent romantic advice for all you shy gentlemen out there." #Grammys #BestNewArtist

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Morning Song – Man I Need
When I learned Olivia Dean’s middle name is Lauryn because her mother liked Lauryn Hill, I was halfway to becoming a fan myself, but that’s not what won her this year’s Grammy for…
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February 5, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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Morning Song - Just Keep Watching by @tatemcrae.bsky.social & Amy Allen

"Goes like this, move from the back,
Eyes on me, how you like that?"
#SongwriterOfTheYear #Grammys

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Morning Song – Just Keep Watching
It is a long-held (and increasingly firm) editorial viewpoint of this little blog that #TheKidsAreAllRight. Every year the Grammys, in all their self-indulgence, excess, and messiness, provide nume…
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February 4, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Morning Song - American Pie by @donmclean.bsky.social

"Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry..."
#TheDayTheMusicDied

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Morning Song – American Pie
The past really is a foreign country. How else to explain that 54 years ago the inescapable #1 song in the country was an 8 minute impressionistic folk-rock ballad about “the day the music di…
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February 3, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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Eagerly awaiting a Billy Baker @bostonglobe.com
follow-up on how America's worst public golf course is a fantastic cross-country ski center. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/16/m...
Golfer’s gem or joke? What I learned from 18 holes at America’s ‘worst’ course - The Boston Globe
A writer tees off to find out what’s gone wrong at Weston’s Leo J. Martin Memorial Golf Course.
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February 2, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Morning Song - Bitin' List by Tyler Childers & the Food Stamps

“To put it plain, I just don’t like you,
Not a thing about the way you is,
And if there ever come a time I got rabies,
You’re high on my….” #Country

h/t: MAH

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Morning Song – Bitin’ List
Beware the cheerful haters. Someone who flies into a rage and screams “I’ll kill you!” is one thing. They might cool down and get over it. But someone who calmly and cheerfully la…
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February 2, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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"#Karate is all about trying to get the most amount of power with the least amount of effort. So, highest #ROI."

Denise Coursey on #MoneyUnplugged with @chrishillalx.bsky.social

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Money Unplugged Podcast
Listen to Money Unplugged with Chris Hill. The new podcast from long-time host and executive producer of Motley Fool Money podcast and radio show.
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February 1, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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Morning Song - Walk with Me by Sr. Marie Knight

"While I'm on this tedious journey, I want #Jesus to...."
#spiritual #gospel

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Morning Song – Walk With Me
Sister Marie Knight’s 1956 recording of the old spiritual “Walk With Me” takes it for granted that there’s evil and suffering in this world. “What are you going to do …
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February 1, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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Morning Song - #Aquarius by Mary Lou Williams

Enjoy.
#ZodiacSuite #jazz

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Morning Song – Aquarius
Dig into the roots of American popular music in the second half of the 20th century and you’ll find, astonishingly often, the great Mary Lou Williams. “Aquarius”, from her 1945 Zo…
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January 31, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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Morning Song - City of Heroes by @billybragg

"When they came for the immigrants…the refugees…the five year-olds…my neighborhood…I got in their face.” #Minneapolis
#ThisMachineKillsFascists

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Morning Song – City Of Heroes
In 2004 Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld infamously told a soldier pleading for better equipment, “You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later …
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January 30, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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Morning Song - Streets of #Minneapolis by @brucespringsteen.net

"We'll take our stand for this land & the stranger in our midst."
h/t: NMH

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Morning Song – Streets Of Minneapolis
Late last night we received from one of our long-time correspondents a link to the video below. No words, just the link. Some of you know us well. Despite what nostalgic baby boomers may wish, a ne…
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January 29, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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This brings to mind the #CRM lunch counter sit-in students who acted in part because "I was a kid when #EmmettTill got killed".

"History doesn't repeat but sometimes it rhymes."
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8d
I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder
January 28, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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Morning Song - Act Naturally by Buck Owens

"...one of the all-time great 'man-just-can't-say-he's-sad' songs..." #country

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Morning Song – Act Naturally
Buck Owens’ 1963 #1 hit, “Act Naturally”, helped define the “Bakersfield Sound”, without which there’s no Creedence Clearwater Revival, no country rock (think: G…
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January 28, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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Morning Song - Comin' Home by Delaney & Bonnie

"To keep from going crazy I gotta sing my song,
Got a whole lotta loving baby, and that's why I'm...."

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Morning Song – Comin’ Home
An amazing live clip of “Comin’ Home” from that time in 1969 when Eric Clapton and George Harrison decided there was nothing they’d rather do than back up Delaney & Bonn…
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January 27, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Afternoon Song - Snowed In by Albert Collins

“I don’t mind a little snow, and I can handle a little rain;
Now I don’t mind being cold but this winter, man it’s sure insane.”
#blues

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Morning Song – Snowed In
There are some of you out there for whom this is your first serious winter storm, and there are even more of you who are out of practice. That’s why Albert Collins is here with his custom-mad…
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January 26, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Morning Song - Jesus is the Light by the Florida Mass Choir

“If I live the way God wants me to live/He’ll show up in me….” #gospel

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Morning Song – Jesus Is The Light
You may have your various theological interpretations and definitions of what “faith” is. I’ll trust the definition that’s in the Florida Mass Choir’s groove that they…
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January 25, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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"My earliest memory of #money is a feeling...somewhere between #stress & #anxiety (because) there wasn't #enough."

Carl Richards on #MoneyUnplugged with @chrishillalx.bsky.social

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Money Unplugged Podcast
Listen to Money Unplugged with Chris Hill. The new podcast from long-time host and executive producer of Motley Fool Money podcast and radio show.
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January 24, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Correction: that's "80 year-old NFL Hall of Famer, retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice, and grandfather" Alan Page.
debbiecvinette.bsky.social Debbie Chavez Vinette @debbiecvinette.bsky.social · 13d
NFL Hall of Famer Alan Page protesting in Minneapolis today. Alan was a Minnesota Viking and is a retired Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. #MinnesotaStrong
January 24, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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Morning Song - Night Train by Jimmy Forrest

Enjoy. #jazz

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Morning Song – Night Train
Happy birthday to tenor saxohonist Jimmy Forrest, born 126 years ago today. One of the classic mid-20th century”that guy” sax players, Forrest was impressively versatile, playing with e…
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January 24, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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Morning Song - Actions Speak Louder than Words by Chocolate Milk

"Mr. Say is nothing. Mr. Do is the man."
#FunkyFriday

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Morning Song – Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Conversation, debate, dialogue, verbal persuasion…these all have their place. And an important one! If anything, despite the barrage of words and images most of us are daily subjected to&#821…
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January 23, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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Morning Song - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean by Mavis Staples

"They say those streets are paved with gold,
Well they say those streets are paved with gold,
Oh Lord have mercy on my soul"
#FirstRuleOfCoverSongs

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Morning Song – See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Miss Mavis Staples is the last of her kind—the last of her siblings still alive, the last great gospel singer who rode down dusty roads in rattletrap cars past Jim Crow towns, the last great …
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January 22, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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This would be an excellent opportunity for Archbishop Hebda to call for an extraordinary Day of #Prayer & #Fasting for #Minneapolis #Catholics this Friday.

With churches open & priests leading the praying of the #rosary to invoke the aid & protection of #OurLadyOfGuadalupe.
sarahlazare.bsky.social Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 16d
Look who just endorsed the January 23 Minnesota-wide shutdown to protest the federal assault! “No work, no school, no shopping.”
The Executive Board of the Minnesota AFL-CIO, the state’s federation of more than 1,000 affiliated local unions, voted to endorse Friday’s Day of Truth and Freedom as Minnesotans stand together against ICE’s occupation of our communities and the unconstitutional detention of countless innocent Minnesotans including a significant number of union members.
January 21, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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Morning Song - Personal Manager by Albert King

"Yeah, I want to be your milkman every morning,
Your ice cream man when the day is through….”
#blues

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Morning Song – Personal Manager
If, as they used to say in the 1960s, “Clapton Is God”, then what does that make Albert King, whose searing solo from his 1967 Stax* ‘B’ side, “Personal Manager”…
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January 21, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Morning Song - Fight by Mavis Staples & @sonlittle.bsky.social

“So I pray, though I’m tired, but this can’t wait, so we….”

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Morning Song – Fight
Why are there all these thumb-sucking reviews bemoaning the first year of Trump’s second administration when Mavis Staples’ defiant, skittery, anthemic collaboration with Philly bluesma…
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January 20, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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Morning Song - I Have a Dream by Herbie Hancock

"...as gorgeous a tribute to the man and the movement he led as you’re likely to hear."

Happy #KingDay, y'all. #jazz

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Morning Song – I Have A Dream
Recorded just over a year to the day after Dr. King was assassinated, Herbie Hancock’s exquisite “I Have A Dream” is as gorgeous a tribute to the man and the movement he led as yo…
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January 19, 2026 at 11:46 AM