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  • Elías Villoro
    12:00 am Mon, Oct 24, 2022
    Whom would Harriet Tubman leave behind?

    In May of 2021, in response to comments by South Carolina Senator Tim Scott that the United States was not a racist country, Tiffany D. Cross from MSNBC's "Cross Connection"… Read the rest of the article: Whom would Harriet Tubman leave behind?

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  • Elías Villoro
    5:53 pm Sun, Oct 23, 2022
    "Slaves" crash a civil war enactment

    Watch what happens when Civil War reenactors are confronted with volunteer participants from the Black community. At first, there is a bit of confusion, then some bad-faith subterfuge on the… Read the rest of the article: "Slaves" crash a civil war enactment

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  • Elías Villoro
    5:25 am Sun, Oct 23, 2022
    How We Survive podcast tackles lithium's relationship to climate change

    "The Climate crisis is here. The Western United States is burning; much of the Northeast is underwater after a hurricane; towns in Europe are swept away by massive floods. Time… Read the rest of the article: How We Survive podcast tackles lithium's relationship to climate change

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  • Elías Villoro
    5:10 am Sun, Oct 23, 2022
    "Close clinics and let patients pick up methadone at a real pharmacy" Photo: Shutterstock

    Pharmaceutical capitalism and the criminalization of addiction puts evidence-based treatment for opioid addiction out of reach for many people. Profit motives and punishment are not perspectives that lend themselves to… Read the rest of the article: "Close clinics and let patients pick up methadone at a real pharmacy"

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  • Elías Villoro
    4:59 am Sun, Oct 23, 2022
    Artifa posts anti-fascist graffiti, stickers and other works of art

    @ARTIFA161 posts graffiti, posters, stickers, banners, postcards, and music from across the globe calling out Fascists. Antifa Artifa: anti-fascist artists. These images also highlight political movements trying to create a… Read the rest of the article: Artifa posts anti-fascist graffiti, stickers and other works of art

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  • Elías Villoro
    3:08 pm Sat, Oct 22, 2022
    Questions about Chilean poet Pablo Neruda

    "How did the abandoned bicycle win its freedom? Is the rose naked, or is that her only dress? "What's hidden under your hump? said the camel to the tortoise." Born… Read the rest of the article: Questions about Chilean poet Pablo Neruda

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  • Elías Villoro
    8:31 am Sat, Oct 22, 2022
    Let It Kill You is a book about skateboarding and tattooing

    Let It Kill You is a book by Ben McQueen. Ben McQueen is a tattoo artist and skateboarder from Indianapolis living in San Francisco. On October 28, 2022, Resolute Press… Read the rest of the article: Let It Kill You is a book about skateboarding and tattooing

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  • Elías Villoro
    6:23 am Sat, Oct 22, 2022
    Who killed the student activist Oscar Gómez?

    On November 17, 1994, when Oscar Gómez's body was found at the bottom of a massive cliff in Santa Barbara, California, he was a familiar and popular voice on the… Read the rest of the article: Who killed the student activist Oscar Gómez?

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  • Elías Villoro
    6:20 am Sat, Oct 22, 2022
    Mac Sabbath is a "drive-thru metal extravaganza"

    Black Sabbath meets Ronald McDonald in this drive-thru metal extravaganza. Members include Ronald Osbourne on vocals, Slayer MacCheeze on guitars, Grimalice on bass, and The Catburglar on drums. Originally from… Read the rest of the article: Mac Sabbath is a "drive-thru metal extravaganza"

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  • Elías Villoro
    2:07 pm Fri, Oct 21, 2022
    The history of Latinx Punk

    Punk, punk rock, punk politics, and punk aesthetics are global phenomena. Genealogies intersect when we recognize the relationship between different places where punk politics emerged. Tracing the relationship between punk… Read the rest of the article: The history of Latinx Punk

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  • Elías Villoro
    6:38 am Fri, Oct 21, 2022
    Dukes of Hazzard's Bo Duke has a new film for fellow victims of the "woke left"

    John Schneider's new film, To Die For, comes with a trigger warning: "This movie is intensely patriotic. If patriotism and love of country offend you in any way… watch this… Read the rest of the article: Dukes of Hazzard's Bo Duke has a new film for fellow victims of the "woke left"

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  • Elías Villoro
    6:25 am Fri, Oct 21, 2022
    Did Jesus want to be worshipped?

    In the video embedded below, Alan Watts (1915-1973), a lo-fi firebrand spiritual scholar and irreverent philosopher, begins with a discussion of the complicated and political origins of the Bible and… Read the rest of the article: Did Jesus want to be worshipped?

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  • Elías Villoro
    4:54 am Thu, Oct 20, 2022
    Redress for forced sterilizations

    Women forced into medical sterilization in California now have resources for possible recourse from these consent violations. Sterilized as a result of state eugenics laws on the books since the… Read the rest of the article: Redress for forced sterilizations

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  • Elías Villoro
    6:37 am Wed, Oct 19, 2022
    Freedom Dreams finds "the future worlds Black radicals struggled to achieve"

    Robin D.G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. Historyat UCLA. A prolific historian for the people, Dr. Kelley's research on social movements, the Black diaspora, cultural… Read the rest of the article: Freedom Dreams finds "the future worlds Black radicals struggled to achieve"

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  • Elías Villoro
    6:24 am Wed, Oct 19, 2022
    Skateboarding and mental health

    In 2019, the family and friends of British professional skateboarder Ben Raemers created the Ben Raemers Foundation to honor the memory of their friend and loved one. In May of… Read the rest of the article: Skateboarding and mental health

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  • Elías Villoro
    12:01 pm Tue, Oct 18, 2022
    The Young Ones and the Fifth Housemate

    The Young Ones aired from 1982-1985 on the BBC. If you watched MTV in the US in 1986, when MTV showed music videos, The Young Ones was paired with the… Read the rest of the article: The Young Ones and the Fifth Housemate

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  • Elías Villoro
    3:06 am Sun, Oct 16, 2022
    Acoustic solutions to ocean noise pollution

    "This extraordinary year [2020] has shown us that wherever we step back the space we leave is providing wildlife with new opportunities." — David Attenborough "Sound is life in the… Read the rest of the article: Acoustic solutions to ocean noise pollution

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  • Elías Villoro
    1:08 pm Sat, Oct 15, 2022
    Where are the lines between incel misogyny and violence?

    A new research study by Michael Halpin, "Weaponized Subordination: How Incels Discredit Themselves to Degrade Women," published in Gender & Society, asks, How do men who see themselves as subordinate… Read the rest of the article: Where are the lines between incel misogyny and violence?

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  • Elías Villoro
    6:42 am Sat, Oct 15, 2022
    Study shows extent of hiring bias in academia: 20% of schools produce 80% of tenure-track profs

    "Faculty hiring networks in the United States exhibit a steep hierarchy in academia and across all domains and fields…." There are approximately 5,300 universities and colleges in the United States. In… Read the rest of the article: Study shows extent of hiring bias in academia: 20% of schools produce 80% of tenure-track profs

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  • Elías Villoro
    6:27 am Sat, Oct 15, 2022
    The American Empire publishing project

    Colonialism, empire, capitalism, secrecy, fascism, oil, domination, and power are the topics of the publishing endeavor The American Empire Project, published by Metropolitan Books. "The American Empire Project is a… Read the rest of the article: The American Empire publishing project

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