Kenny & The Kasuals - I Never Had It So Good

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more classic Ohio psych:

More Than 9 Million People Are Freecycling Instead of Buying New

More Than 9 Million People Are Freecycling Instead of Buying New: Freecycle plans to add a lending and borrowing tool to encourage people to share with friends and neighbors.

More Than 9 Million People Are Freecycling Instead of Buying New

More Than 9 Million People Are Freecycling Instead of Buying New: Freecycle plans to add a lending and borrowing tool to encourage people to share with friends and neighbors.

Tony & The Bandits - It's A Bit of Allright

Paddy O'Brien's / Scatter the Mud / Arthur Darley's - Gerald Trimble

Growing Roots and Rights for Just Communities

Piano Magic - Incurable

Note on Fascism

Fascism is as diffuse as the phenomenon of power itself. Fundamentally, it is a sick or depraved impulse for or desire for power. On a subconscious level, whoever supports fascism wills their own destruction. It is desire turned against itself. Consequently, liberalism has to be comprehended not as exceptional to but coextensive with the very form of fascism it claims to have 'conquered'.




"[C]omprehensive fascism need not be an attack by the body politic on itself, or upon its parts. Comprehensive fascism makes 'things' work. It constitutes a kind of global efficacy. It is habitual. As such, it is an order that operates beyond politics and is indifferent to normalized political fields (i.e. the state, government, democracy, social movements or the markets). Comprehensive fascism makes the world go round, not by targeting the body politic, but by making human habit that desires more habit."

Geoffrey Whitehall, 'Movement and human logistics: pre-emption, technology, and fascism,' in Deleuze and Fascism, ed. Julian Reid and Brad Evans, Routledge, 2014, pp. 74-5.

clipping. - Work Work (feat. Cocc Pistol Cree) [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

XTC - Do The Dwarf

Wastod Ar Y Tu Fas

Fred Hampton quote

“A lot of people get the word revolution mixed up and they think revolution's a bad word. Revolution is nothing but like having a sore on your body and then you put something on that sore to cure that infection. And I'm telling you that we're living in an infectious society right now. I'm telling you that we're living in a sick society. And anybody that endorses integrating into this sick society before its' cleaned up is a man who's committing a crime against the people.” Fred Hampton

Allen Ginsberg's Handwritten Poem For Bernie Sanders, "Burlington Snow" (1986) | Open Culture

Allen Ginsberg's Handwritten Poem For Bernie Sanders, "Burlington Snow" (1986) | Open Culture: Special Collections, University of Vermont Libraries
No matter how much of a political junkie you are, you must surely have had enough of the spectacle that is the 2016 campaign for the presidency.

Heat Wave (From "Alexander's Ragtime Band")

Rearrange

Ed McMahon Says

The Tulu Babies - Hurtin' Kind - 1965 45rpm

Classic Ohio Space Rock

UN lists 112 businesses linked to Israeli settlements - BBC News

UN lists 112 businesses linked to Israeli settlements - BBC News: The companies identified include Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia Group and Motorola Solutions.

Moonbeam Levels

The Emperor Is Naked Today-o

Purple Music

AIPAC Is Helping Fund Anti-Sanders Super PAC Ads in Nevada

AIPAC Is Helping Fund Anti-Sanders Super PAC Ads in Nevada: The group is telling donors that contributions to the Democratic Majority for Israel, whose ads are attacking Sanders, count as donations to AIPAC.

Fact Sheet: Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) Program

Fact Sheet: Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) Program

ALEC Legislator Retires a “Charter School Millionaire” from ALEC’s Top-Rated School Choice State | David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education

ALEC Legislator Retires a “Charter School Millionaire” from ALEC’s Top-Rated School Choice State | David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education: Reblogged on WordPress.com

Psychopaths in cars getting coverage:

The Biggest Municipal Solar Farm in the US Is Coming to…Cincinnati? – Mother Jones

The Biggest Municipal Solar Farm in the US Is Coming to…Cincinnati? – Mother Jones: "This really is a big deal."



Reminder: Trump’ withdrew from the Paris climate agreement: The Biggest Municipal Solar Farm in the US Is Coming to…Cincinnati? – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/02/the-biggest-municipal-solar-farm-in-the-us-is-coming-to-cincinnati/

Wow! Not All Ohio Voters Are White Guys In Diners! | Full Frontal on TBS

Prince - Just As Long As We're Together (Unreleased Version)

France Update — “Urgently Needed: Call by Labor Federations for a General Strike!” – Socialist Organizer

France Update — “Urgently Needed: Call by Labor Federations for a General Strike!” – Socialist Organizer: IN THIS MESSAGE: (1) Choose the Right Battleground (reprinted from La Tribune des Travailleurs [Workers’ Tribune] Issue no.225 – 5 February 2020 – Editorial) — By Daniel Gluckstein (2) 115 labour a…

Donald Trump (Black Version)

Ohio House Passes Emergency Amendment Which Would Solve Some EdChoice Voucher Problems | janresseger

Ohio House Passes Emergency Amendment Which Would Solve Some EdChoice Voucher Problems | janresseger: Ohio’s House Speaker Larry Householder is leading his chamber expeditiously to address the crisis over school vouchers which emerged last weekend, when negotiations between the Ohio Senate an…

Notes on the (CIA) hologram that is Pete Buttigieg

Big Buttigieg Bloviations: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix – Caitlin Johnstone: Prediction: if Sanders somehow manages to win the primary, a majority of the centrist pundits screaming “vote blue no matter who” at Bernie supporters right now will help amplify smear …





Notes on the (CIA) hologram that is Pete Buttigieg 

Responsible investors: “Wendy’s must join the (Fair Food) program as soon as possible”… – Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Responsible investors: “Wendy’s must join the (Fair Food) program as soon as possible”… – Coalition of Immokalee Workers: Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, Investors Alliance on Human Rights pen powerful letter to Wendy’s CEO, Board Chair following visit to Immokalee to meet with CIW, study Fair Food Program...

The Rebels 1979 Prince Vault (Full Album)

The Rebels 1979 Prince Vault (Full Album) . Still digging through the Vaults of His Purpleness and ‘Too Long’ (and 'Disco Away') seem to perfectly capture the late 70s/early 80s 'Minneapolis Rawk Sound' (Grant Hart, R.I.P, was clearly influenced by Dez's vocal style!)

Historian: With Impeachment Acquittal, the GOP Has Given Trump a Blank Check to Do Anything He Wants | Democracy Now!

Historian: With Impeachment Acquittal, the GOP Has Given Trump a Blank Check to Do Anything He Wants | Democracy Now!: The U.S. Senate has acquitted President Trump of two impeachment charges in just the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history. Trump was accused of abusing power and obstructing Congress to aid his re-election campaign by pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden. Every Democratic senator voted to remove President Trump from office, but they were joined by just one Republican: Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, who supported impeaching Trump on abuse of power. Romney became the first senator ever to vote against his own party’s president in an impeachment trial. President Trump responded on Twitter by hailing the vote as “the country’s Victory” and described the impeachment effort as a hoax. He also tweeted a video claiming Mitt Romney was a secret Democratic asset. Donald Trump Jr. called for Romney to be expelled from the Republican Party. While the impeachment trial is over, the probe of President Trump’s actions could continue. On Wednesday, House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler said the House will likely subpoena former national security adviser John Bolton. We speak with Manisha Sinha, professor of American history at the University of Connecticut and

FOCUS: DNC Members Discuss Rules Change to Stop Sanders at Convention

FOCUS: DNC Members Discuss Rules Change to Stop Sanders at Convention: Siders writes: "A small group of Democratic National Committee members has privately begun gauging support for a plan to potentially weaken Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign and head off a brokered convention."

Brian Eno’s message on Brexit day – and a reply – Yanis Varoufakis

Brian Eno’s message on Brexit day – and a reply – Yanis Varoufakis: To my European Friends: I just wanted to tell you that, although my country has made the insane, childish and probably suicidal decision to leave Europe, I remain proud to be a European, and proud …

Who's Who On Trump's 'Blue Lives Matter' Policing Commission - Shadowproof

Who's Who On Trump's 'Blue Lives Matter' Policing Commission - Shadowproof: Shadowproof Bi-Weekly Newsletter - February 2

Media Attacks Aren’t Slowing Sanders’s Surge — They’re Showing His Independence

Media Attacks Aren’t Slowing Sanders’s Surge — They’re Showing His Independence: Corporate media outlets are trying desperately to shape public opinion as the efficacy of their propaganda wanes.

American Fascism

“If totalitarianism comes to this country, it will almost surely do so in the guise of 100% Americanism.” – Huey Long

Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man, circa 1792.

“That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord, and cultivate prejudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.” Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man, circa 1792.

Truman quote

“Selfish men have always tried to skim the cream from our natural resources to satisfy their own greed – and the instrument in this effort has always been the Republican Party.” Harry S. Truman

Carlos Cortéz Koyokuikatl quote

“An idea does not become trapped in one person. If the person has an idea and does not give it freedom, it will escape to someone who will.” – Carlos Cortéz Koyokuikatl

Dorothy Day quote

“The class structure is our making and by our consent, not God's, and we must do what we can to change it. We are urging revolutionary change.” – Dorothy Day

Communism: a definition

Communism is the rupture of the index between one’s labor input and one’s access to necessities—the twin social activities regulated by wage and price respectively. It does away with the mediations that bind production to consumption, breaking with the compulsions of value that organize social relations.

On this day in history

February 3rd, 1788 became known as the date of the "last battle" of Shays' Rebellion.  It marked the end of the three-year period during with tenant farmers in western Massachusetts took over half the state and prevented the allegedly "revolutionary" courts from functioning -- thereby preventing any evictions of actual revolutionaries.