I have been noticing hate speech on Michigan in ads on YouTube when I watch one of the biggest independent news channels. Somebody is buying that time. I need to watch more closely on who it is. It shows pics of broken-windowed, vacant homes and other unpalatable things, while an aggressive male voice says (paraphrasing)…
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#SLS — Rhiannon Giddens (2/21/77)
Rhiannon Giddens When I saw this week’s prompt and learned that Rhiannon Giddens’ birthday is in February (b. 2/21/77,) she was my choice. I originally wrote a post on her for 2022’s Women Music March, then used the post again for Glyn’s Mixed Music Bag. Looking again for any updates I see Rhiannon is a…
The Oracle Speaks — Heaves
Heaves Mistly men scream. Thousands sleepfrom life, neverrecall red rainsprays eat sky. You watch throughmean purple lightraw, sweating shadowsuits with whys. Some must meatnot sing, mad in fiddle drive,smelly, ugly heaves. The Oracle speaks through magnet poetry.
Tom Morello, Rage Against The Machine, & Bruce Springsteen in Minneapolis January 30, 2026
The Ghost of Tom JoadMen walkin’ ‘long the railroad tracksGoin’ someplace and there’s no going backHighway patrol choppers comin’ up over the ridgeHot soup on a campfire under the bridgeShelter line stretchin’ ’round the cornerWelcome to the new world orderFamilies sleepin’ in their car in the southwestNo home, no job, no peace, no restWell, the…
FFF 66 — Doodads
Difficult to believe that January is almost done. Groundhog Day is coming soon, and maybe it will mean only 6 more weeks of winter? This FFF will have pics taken in January but not shared yet. Maybe some music. Maybe a poem. Let’s start with pics. I bought the 5-disc set of “Spectacle: Elvis Costello…
dVerse OLN 400 — You have to imagine it.
Zohran Mamdani inauguration ceremony You have to imagine it. — from Proof, by Cornelius Eady, Written for the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani, Jan 1, 2026, NYC. You have to imagine it. Teeny tiny crystalswafting straight downsmaller than snowmore like orderly grainsof salt, aiming to scrubwinter politic dirt away. No winds wind us upstill life that…
Tao-Talk 