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"We the kids that they don't like to talk about...
We the kids who come from mining for cobalt
We the kids that were abandoned and trafficked and sold off
We the kids underneath all the rubble in Gaza
We the kids that are missing all their mothers and fathers."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BAp...
Hey! The Neighborhood Kids' new album came out this morning. Get to it.
youtu.be/4MWD5I0MHHw
May the memory of this righteous one be a blessing. #RIP
And how did I not hear this until last month... and why are there so few views?
Incredible:
youtu.be/KcOEd72IxeM
📌 Compose yourself. One day the cosplay Nazis will be purged from the White House, the anti-acronym campaign will have failed, and all those school leaders & boards you're grinding molars about will have lost their excuses to capitulate on the commitments they never championed in the first place.
"Back in the days when I was a teenager
Before I had status and before I had a pager
You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop
My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop
I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles..."
- ATCQ
All of it: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
New walk-on music for workshops/presentations. ;)
youtu.be/cIxPzqaCmEc
We WP who plunge recklessly down hillsides on bicycles don't need your cracker whiteness or tradwife maleness in our space. We got enough problems with whiteness and maleness already...
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And the Nazi iconography or Nordic hoo-hah across your branding, YT Bikes? It's completely mental that you do this and completely mental that you get away with it...
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For example, we're quick to drop a black artist's song into a video but slow to recognize the Nazi iconography of YT's branding. It stands for "Young Talent?" Mmm-kay. But you're winking at gerbils if Goebbels with the phonetics....
PEN National Conference | October 2-4, 2026 | Columbus, OH
"Beyond the Edges" invites us to ask: What happens when the old edges themselves no longer hold? What comes after the versions of “traditional” and “progressive” education we’ve inherited?
PEN National Conference | October 2-4, 2026 | Columbus, OH
progressiveeducationnetwork.org/event/pen-na...
It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.
"[Chorus]
"Motherland, cradle me
Close my eyes
Lullaby me to sleep
Keep me safe
Lie with me
Stay beside me
Don't go
Don't you go..."
- Natalie Merchant, "Motherland"
open.spotify.com/track/6Jrb8p... & genius.com/Natalie-merc...
"Write a lyric essay of 300–500 words organized in sections (use white space or small roman numerals). The subject should be something you genuinely don't fully understand yet, an unresolved question about your own life, history, or community..."
via Saint Trey Wooden: substack.com/home/post/p-...
So go ahead with googly eyes and tell me I'm nuts for hauling a bike up this mountain for the daily Civil Twilight Ride. :)
Sure I was worried about X. But then this happened...
I hadn't heard Brickell cover Dylan until just now. I absolutely love her voice, though I could do without the chord changes as I am currently not riding an elevator. The original was our theme song for a handful of drives across the desert. Both come with an ugly cry for free.
youtu.be/_ZZ2myqz04I
The last few years, Dylan & I signed off on text threads w/ "Loves Chunks" (me) & "Loves Munks" (him). He started it. I never knew why.
Just now Spotify reminded me of our joyous, manic head banging to this, like 20 years ago, when he was 7 or 8.
So thank you, Algorithm...
youtu.be/vGMqOhXtIa0
No, seriously: here's the kind of thing I get to look at while you're reading the back of the cereal box...
(Um, yeah: that's the Pacific Ocean in the background.)
#ILoveLA #SkiTopanga
Some folks think I'm mad as a hatter for schlepping a mountain bike up here well before dawn...
But look at the Beauty I get to encounter with a ~270 degree view of my beloved & completely mental city below...
I love L.A. #SkiTopanga
It's completely mental how much is at play in Blanco y Negro--across multiple genres, generations, ethnoracial identities, and entangled histories. Every musician at the top of their game, playing with and for each other. If you haven't seen or heard this, you're welcome. 🫶🏻
youtu.be/a9xYA9rFZ_k
U! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
C! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
L! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
A! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
UCLA Fight Fight Fight! 💪🏻
dailybruin.com/2026/02/13/t...
How do ICE actions land with non-ICE law enforcement officers ?
Here's an interesting breakdown of responses by 2 focus groups -- Harris-voting & Trump-voting cops -- with Sarah Longwell & Tim Miller: youtu.be/RMqwOnfjedE
“One of the things that faith requires of you is the ability to believe that this current state that you are in is not the end. There is a possibility that something can be greater. And even though you cannot see it, you believe that it can happen.”
Trevor Noah ~ Bucar substack.com/home/post/p-...
May the memory of this righteous one be a blessing. 🙏🏻
"And maybe the answer is simple: one song protects mythology. The other tells the truth. What a nation chooses to sing together is, eventually, what it chooses to become..."
Dr. Stacey Patton: open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
Be a part of the 2026 #TeachingInColor Summit!
Charlotte, NC — April 25, 2026
More via CREED-nc.org: mailchi.mp/creed-nc/reg...