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Remembering legendary musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone on her birthday. February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003 Lisle Atkinson (on bass) Rudy Stevenson (on guitar & flute) Bobby Hamilton (on drums) youtu.be/lwTitp3omXY

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Nina Simone. Born this day in 1933. Ink, pencil and watercolour drawing from 2018.

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Wishing a happy birthday to Irma Thomas, born February 18, 1941 youtu.be/aiX9GwI1lBE

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My cartoon for issue 1640 of @privateeyenews.bsky.social, out now

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If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US. My latest in @thenation.com

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Shopify has been happily hosting Nazi shit for years and their platform powers so many shopping carts without anyone even knowing it. Just about anything you buy off IG uses Shopify. Someone should write an iOS content blocker extension that alerts you to sites that use Shopify bc it's the only way

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Saw the “Songs of Freedom” concert celebrating Black History last night! Powerful performances by Candus Churchill, Dawn Pemberton, Krystle Dos Santos, Minnijean Brown-Trickey, Star Trickey, and the Marcus Mosely Ensemble, accompanied by Diane Lines, Andreas Schuld, and Lincoln Tatum.

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New malware traps "AI crawlers... sending them down an 'infinite maze' of static files with no exit links, where they 'get stuck' and... can be fed gibberish data...designed to poison AI models." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Today we launched the Pledge for Canada. We have voices from across the political, cultural, labour, Indigenous spectrum. We are building a movement to maintain pressure on our leaders not to sell out our nation or our values. Please sign and join the movement. engagement-canada-pledge.ca

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Remembering phenomenal singer and songwriter Etta James on her birthday. January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012 youtu.be/GCUMJkj1szQ

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Remembering composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, singer, and creator of the bossa nova, Antônio Carlos Jobim, on his birthday. January 25, 1927 – December 8, 1994 youtu.be/uwlu0uwmKTQ

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Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. -Primo Levi

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I had the great pleasure of seeing Thu Le perform as part of International Guitar Night a few years ago. Here is her masterful rendition of Bach Prelude Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis 997 youtu.be/3poyunFgrSw

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More from George Duke on his birthday! January 12, 1946 – August 5, 2013 Michael Manson-bass Jeff Lee Johnson-guitar Ronald Bruner-drums Shannon Pearson-vocals Andrew Papastephanou-second keyboards youtu.be/zTX3ivF4MqU

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Remembering the great George Duke on his birthday January 12, 1946 – August 5, 2013 youtu.be/8BFCtoWlrvE

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#OTD in 1920, James Farmer was born. He organized the first Freedom Ride in 1961, co-founded the organization that became CORE in Chicago, and helped plan the 1963 March on Washington. A vital voice in the fight for equality—Happy Birthday, James. #TheMarchContinues

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Anti-choice members of parliament list courtesy of Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada: bsky.app/profile/abor...

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This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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Powerhouse performance from Ella Fitzgerald-vocals, Tee Carson-piano, Keter Betts-bass, Joe Harris-drums Berlin, 1968 youtu.be/u2bigf337aU

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Phenomenal performance of Quique Sinesi’s "Cielo Abierto" by classical guitar virtuoso, Stephanie Jones. youtu.be/7UwA8zvDcho

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Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States. “I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”

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Remembering the great singer and bandleader Cabell (Cab) Calloway III on the anniversary of his birth. December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994 youtu.be/RlE-Zv4Pyhk

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Remembering hugely influential screenwriter and television producer Rod Serling on the 100th anniversary of his birth. December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975

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60 years ago yesterday, on Christmas Eve, Wayne Shorter recorded his album “Speak no Evil” with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Elvin Jones. youtu.be/oJoSrQ6iP0c

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The Church in Palestine reminds us that the Christmas child lies in the bombed-out rubble.And today we witness more state-sanctioned murder of children and families. The Israeli war criminal regime continues to act with impunity while receiving weapons from the west. But the world is watching.

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I hope the Irish are proud of the fact that historical records will show how they objected to genocide and could not be intimidated into silence. I'm so excited to live there www.foxnews.com/world/israel...

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my wet t-shirts are the sexiest because mine are wet from soup

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Nope. Absolutely the fuck not. www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

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Remembering Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton on her birthday December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984 Performing with Buddy Guy’s Blues Band in 1970: youtu.be/IJlBo5KJ3b4

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Insanity www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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Really informative piece about the age of disinformation that we are living through, how it started, how it operates, etc. Worth a watch.

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If you watch something today please take time to watch my thoughts on the crisis facing Canadian democracy. We are in deeply uncertain times and parliament is failing to step up beyond dumbed down partisanship. Democracy is not meeting the crisis of the time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHPL...

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Article: ‘"We're not looking to prosecute fellow law enforcement officers," said Eric Harden, former special agent in charge of the ATF's Los Angeles field division.’ www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...

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Conservatives aim to block not just abortion services but also discussions on women's reproductive rights in the House of Commons. This effort to silence debate reflects their intolerance, making it clear why Canadians should be concerned about a potential Conservative government. #NDP

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Article: “Sources said campaign workers were told by representatives of the government of India to stop supporting Brown, not to sell membership cards for him and not to invite him to certain events.” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Conservatives are moralizing public health the same way they like to moralize economics. Disease, death, unemployment, poverty – these aren't evils to be vanquished, they are God's instruments to chastise the wicked.

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🦃 New Animal 🦃

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The iconic James Bond theme song was based on a melody by Monty Norman for a stage musical based on V.S. Naipaul’s acclaimed novel A House for Mr. Biswas. The musical was never produced, but Norman repurposed the melody. youtu.be/lNHbKBHV0kw

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New work

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