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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 19h
Waging A Good War: Developing a #Nonviolent Cadre Thomas Ricks

"Every military leader knows that intense training is essential...playing a large role in whether an organization fails or succeeds. The more rigorous & realistic the training, the better."
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Waging A Good War: Developing A Nonviolent Cadre
(One in a series of posts about Thomas E. Ricks’ 2022 book, Waging a Good War: A Military History Of The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-68.) “The civil rights movement was often creative, …
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 19h
Waging A Good War: Change Is Not Linear by Thomas E. Ricks

‘People said, “Great victory in #Montgomery, what does that mean for us? What can we do?” 'It took some time to answer those questions.' #CTVivian
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Waging A Good War: Change Is Not Linear
(One in a series of posts about Thomas E. Ricks’ 2022 book, Waging a Good War: A Military History Of The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-68.) Ricks does not belabor this point, but it’s an …
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 19h
Waging A Good War: The Siege of #Montgomery by Thomas E. Ricks

"...(m)ore than anything else, they were well-organized."
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Waging A Good War: The Siege Of Montgomery
(One in a series of posts about Thomas E. Ricks’ 2022 book, Waging a Good War: A Military History Of The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-68.) It’s best known as a bus boycott. Its practitio…
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 23h
Morning Song - The Fate of #Ophelia by Taylor Swift

"You dug me out of my grave and
Saved my heart from...."

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Morning Song – The Fate Of Ophelia
The only thing this little blog has to offer to the reams* of commentary already devoted to “The Fate Of Ophelia” is a simple question: What’s the over/under on when Taylor Swift …
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 1d
Waging A Good War: Change Is Not Linear by Thomas E. Ricks

"People said, 'Great victory in #Montgomery, what does that mean for us? What can we do?' It took some time to answer those questions.”

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Waging A Good War: Change Is Not Linear
(One in a series of posts about Thomas E. Ricks’ 2022 book, Waging a Good War: A Military History Of The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-68.) Ricks does not belabor this point, but it’s an …
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 1d
Morning Song - Will the Wolf Survive? by @loslobos.org

“It’s the truth that they all look for,
Something they must keep alive….”
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Morning Song – Will The Wolf Survive?
Outsourcing to the magnificently multi-talented Elizabeth Nelson for commentary on “Will The Wolf Survive?”, title cut to Los Lobos’ 1984 major label debut album: “It’…
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 2d
Waging A Good War: The Siege of #Montgomery by Thomas E. Ricks

"...(m)ore than anything else, they were well-organized."

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Waging A Good War: The Siege Of Montgomery
(One in a series of posts about Thomas E. Ricks’ 2022 book, Waging a Good War: A Military History Of The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-68.) It’s best known as a bus boycott. Its practitio…
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 2d
Morning Song - Opus 38, No. 4 #Andante in A Major by Felix #Mendelssohn

"...like a hymn of thanksgiving."
#SongsWithoutWords

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Morning Song – Opus 38, No. 4 (Andante In A Major)
(One in an occasional Monday series of Felix Mendelssohn’s Lieder Ohne Worte (Songs Without Words).) With Mendelssohn’s Opus 38, No. 4, you can hear why he and his sister named this new music…
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 3d
"All behavior makes sense with enough information."
The Art of Spending #Money

@morganhousel.bsky.social on #MoneyUnplugged podcast 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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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 3d
Morning Song - Done Made My Vow to the Lord by The @morganstateu.bsky.social Choir

"...I will go, I shall go, to see what the end will be."
#gospel

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Morning Song – Done Made My Vow To The Lord
The repetition of a single sound (“Om”), word (“Krishna”, “Jesus”), or sentence (“Namu myoho renge kyo”, “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living …
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 4d
Morning Song - Topsy Turvy Part 2 by Cozy Cole

"At the late 1950s intersection of soul #jazz, show bands, the #mambo craze, and magnificent #drum solos...."

Enjoy.

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Morning Song – Topsy Turvy Part 2
At the late 1950s intersection of soul jazz, show bands, the mambo craze, and magnificent drum solos (starting at 0:57 and lasting for a good 40% of the song), there’s Cozy Cole’s &#822…
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 5d
Waging A Good War: King's First Speech

"It was an amazing presentation. King…had laid out the way forward...planting the flag of nonviolent action. And he...foresaw ultimate victory. He did it all in just 16 minutes."
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Waging A Good War: King’s First Speech
(One in a series of posts about Thomas E. Ricks’ 2022 book, Waging a Good War: A Military History Of The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-68.) The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was 26 years old…
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 6d
Morning Song - Powers Collide by Them Vibes

"...trippy, surrealistic, psychedelic #funk..."
#FunkyFriday

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Morning Song – Powers Collide
In answer to Waylon Jennings’ song/question, “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way”, no. No, I’m pretty sure Hank Williams didn’t do it the way East Nashville band Them …
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 6d
Waging A Good War: How Bad It Was

“In the first 6 weeks of 1946, police in Birmingham, Alabama, killed several Black vets, perhaps 5 in total (though the number is not certain due to careless official record-keeping).”
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Waging A Good War: How Bad It Was
(One in a series of posts about Thomas E. Ricks’ 2022 book, Waging a Good War: A Military History Of The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-68.) To set the stage for the Movement’s emergence, …
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 6d
Morning Song - Once in a Lifetime by Angelique Kidjo

"And you may say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?"
#FirstRuleOfCoverSongs

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Morning Song – Once In A Lifetime
I think Angelique Kidjo understands what Talking Heads (and specifically, lyricist/lead singer David Byrne) were trying to say in their existentially weird 1981 single, “Once In A Lifetime&#8…
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 7d
Waging a Good War: A #Military History of the #CivilRightsMovement by Thomas E. Ricks
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"...of particular value for those seeking perspective and insight to apply to the current political moment in US history."

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Waging A Good War: A Military History Of The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-68
(One in a series of posts about Thomas E. Ricks’ 2022 book, Waging a Good War: A Military History Of The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-68.) Add award-winning war correspondent Thomas Ricks&#821…
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 7d
"A man is not a plan. You've got to be able to take care of yourself."

Sara Rathner of #NerdWallet 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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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 8d
Morning Song - Happy Together by Sonia Dada

"I don't complain unless I got to,
I can't contain it, I cannot restrain it because we're so...."

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Morning Song – Happy Together
There are lots of “Happy Together” songs about the first flowering of romance. This isn’t one of them. Sonia Dada’s 2002 deeply funky and deeply sexy deep cut is about a cou…
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 8d
Morning Song - Riot in Cell Block #9 by The Robins

"In the forty-seventh hour the tear gas got our men,
We're all back in our cells but every now and then..."

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Morning Song – Riot In Cell Block #9
Songwriter Mike Stoller once said that he and his partner Jerry Lieber “…can’t and won’t claim credit as the inventors of rap, but if you listen to our early output, you&#82…
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 10d
Morning Song - Knucklehead by The Bar-Kays

#soul #instrumental

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Morning Song – Knucklehead
Given the absence of easily available online information about “Knucklehead” (B side to The Bar-Kays’ first single, “Soul FInger”, back in 1967), I’m just going …
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 11d
Morning Song - Up Above My Head by The Holmes Brothers

"...I see trouble in the air."
#GoodTrouble #gospel

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Morning Song – Up Above My Head
“… I see trouble in the air.” The word “trouble” has a particular meaning as The Holmes Brothers sing “Up Above My Head”. It’s not a word of judgment…
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 11d
Morning Song - Bud on #Bach by Bud Powell

Enjoy. #jazz #piano

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Morning Song – Bud On Bach
Born 101 years ago today, pianist Bud Powell lived a short (dead at 41), troubled (vicious police beatings, involuntary psychiatric treatments, tuberculosis, malnutrition, alcoholism), and brillian…
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 13d
Morning Song - Get the #Funk out Ma Face by The Brothers Johnson

"You don’t like my music,
You don’t have to use it,
#Funking is a thing that all of us release...."
#FunkyFriday

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Morning Song – Get The Funk Out Ma Face
There’s music you write when you want to appeal to a broad audience, produce hit records, and make a lot of money (see: everything Berry Gordy and Motown did pre-1968, for example). Then ther…
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 14d
Morning Song - The Longest Time by Billy Joel & Boyz II Men

“Maybe I’ve been hoping too hard,
But I’ve gone this far,
And it’s more than I hoped for….”
#doowop

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Morning Song – The Longest Time
Put this video in the “we’re so glad we’re still alive and can do this thing that gave us so much pleasure when we were young” category. It’s Billy Joel and Boyz II Me…
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Luke Hill @masscommons.bsky.social · 14d
Morning Song - I Ain't Got You by Jimmy Reed

“I got a tavern and a package store,
I hit the numbers, 4-44;
I got a mojo and don’t you know?
I’m all dressed up, no place to go but….”
#blues

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Morning Song – I Ain’t Got You
An entire generation of blues-based rockers on both sides of the Atlantic covered “I Ain’t Got You” trying to capture the magic of Jimmy Reed’s original version (recorded 19…
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