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Saturday, February 5, 2022

So That Everybody Can Dance - Saturday Night OT

 


Trying to create those new ideas




Yas, Quest





Tonight's music is inspired by recs from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

(flores @rooopixx)


Saturday, March 6, 2021

American Relief Act Passes the Senate the Day Before the 56th Bloody Sunday Anniversary

 




This is the relief Americans got because the majority of us voted for the people who voted to pass the Act

 




It feels worth noting that the same people who refused to vote for the American people to get economic relief in 2009 after the Bush Administration nuked the economy (that Democrats had build) and bailed out the big banks are the same people from the same party who tried to whittle down the ACA and then refused to vote for it anyway are the same people from the same party who just tried to chip away at the relief the American Relief Act offers and then to a (wo)man refused to vote for it anyway are the same people from the same party who are trying at the state level to , right now, narrow and restrict and suppress the voting rights of the people who empowered those in the House and Senate who voted to get this done to get it done.

 




Saturday, February 27, 2021

Yolanda King the Younger, Activist and 7th Grader - Saturday Night OT

 





I heard her speak today on Politics Nation as part of a special feature on Black History Month

I thought the reminder -- she is a March for Our Lives activist and spoke at one of their outdoor events (in the before times, when we had those; it wasn't that long ago but it might be fair to say that all the chaos has warped our collective sense of time) was inspirational given that in the face of all this backlash -- which has been seen before, literally each and every time minority citizenry makes any kind of progress toward approaching parity in the country -- it sometimes takes more than one generation, with all these reactionaries still in the population, to make progressive change.



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