Lil 2018 was a rapper on ice skates flipping refugees and glaciers out of a frying pan. He built a house out of rainbows pepper sprayed babies -said they could put the chemical on tacos. 2-kilo-18 was the brain eater chasing northern lights that look like whips cracking the ether for free thinkers. This was the year that some lungs took their last heaveWe still got ticks on the clock. Ain’t nobody going quietly. Food like lead wateris the same …
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Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz reads Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss on the Senate floor during his 22-hour filibuster against ObamaCare. In response, New York Democrat Chuck Schumer is “appalled.” To a crowd of reporters he said, “Green Eggs and Ham has a moral: Don’t criticize something, don’t reject something, until you actually try it. Sam said he didn’t like green eggs and ham for a long time. And then when he finally tried it, he liked it.” …
After a year of doing the weekly posts “On The Scope” and “Around The Way” I noticed how the music, art, culture, film, politics and news in our TMG posts was starting to overlap each other, 2014 was a wacky year. I had a talk with editor Tracy Jones and we decided to revamp our weekly post to reflect the intersections of seemingly different worlds we’ve been observing, to juxtapose and highlight overlaps in music, art, culture, film, politics and …
Democracy Now! Headlines 12-19-2014 [Amy Goodman & Juan González] Obama and the Beginning of the End of the Cuban Embargo [Amy Goodman] Democracy Now! – Assata Shakur: What Does New U.S.-Cuba Pact Mean for Exiled Black Panther Wanted in New Jersey? Petition to Pardon Assata Shakur [change.org] These American Fugitives May Be Hiding Out in Cuba – Other Political Exiles in Cuba [Meghan Keneally] 9 things the Sony hack has taught us about Hollywood [Tim Walker] Crimethinc Podcast #32: White …
Democracy Now! Headlines 12-12-2014 [Amy Goodman & Juan González] READ: Senate Committee’s Report on the CIA’s Use of Torture [Amy Goodman & Juan González] Senate torture report confirms CIA had ‘black site’ at Guantánamo, lied to Congress. Are they still operating it? [Xeni Jardin] America Is Built on Torture, Remember? [Noah Berlatsky] Fighting for the Climate in the Heart of the World [Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan] Democracy Now! – Pipe Dreams? Labor Researchers Say Keystone XL Project May Kill More …
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