"Happy May Day and long live Mike Davis." Activist and fierce intellectual, MacArthur Genius grant recipient, and mentor to many, Mike Davis, passed away in October 2022. Author of over… Read the rest of the article: MacArthur Genius grant recipient Mike Davis reading from Star Spangled Leviathan

We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few, by Robert Ovetz. The US Constitution is hailed by some political scientists, some lawyers, and some political pundits as the… Read the rest of the article: "We the Elites" is a new book about an old problem: the U.S. Constitution

Brazilian-American professional skateboarder Leticia Bufoni is constantly pushing the limits of the craft. From winning six X Games gold medals to grinding a handrail 9000 feet in the air. Now,… Read the rest of the article: Sidewalk surfing in the 2020s as imagined in the 1980s

You might remember when Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) held up and tossed a snowball during a Senate session in February of 2015 to "prove" that global warming was not… Read the rest of the article: Temperature Check is a podcast about climate, race, and culture

Labor violations, short staffing, long hours, low pay, limited job security, and corporate denials of wrong-doing or liability are just some of the characteristics workers for Dollar Tree report are… Read the rest of the article: Dollar Tree's working conditions condemned

A new video has surfaced: "Don Carmignani, the ex-fire commissioner who was allegedly beaten by a homeless man with a crowbar, is now accused of macing several homeless men himself… Read the rest of the article: Is former San Francisco fire commissioner Don Carmignani the Marina District vigilante?

The idea that 9/11 was an inside job got circulation through the "documentary" series Loose Change, described as the "first internet blockbuster". A recent filing at The Gray Zone, "Bombshell… Read the rest of the article: Investigator claims U.S. intelligence unit had attempted to "recruit" two 9/11 hijackers

Playful growling possums, chilling capybaras, and now sneezing seals videos for your enjoyment. The cuteness code collides with audio adorability in this video of seals clearing their nasal passages while… Read the rest of the article: The soothing survival sleeping sounds of sneezing seal's non-stick lungs

When SpaceX's rocket Starship blew up shortly after take-off last week, questions rose about safety, intentions, and consequences. While company PR posed the vehicle's "rapid unscheduled disassembly" as immaterial to… Read the rest of the article: NDAs help Elon Musk's exploding rocket problem stay in the dark

It has been almost fifteen months since Russia invaded Ukraine. As civilian casualties continue to increase, what about the indigenous peoples that live in territory occupied by Russia and Ukraine?… Read the rest of the article: Indigenous peoples caught in the Russia-Ukraine war

We have all seen the videos. Some of us suffered real-life encounters in the wild. Entitled, arrogant, nosy, pushy… there's a full casserole of traits for one to experience. In… Read the rest of the article: Karen, the archetypal American busybody, honored by an eatery

The Smithsonian Magazine recently reported on the existence of horses on the continent before the arrival of Europeans. This is not a revelation to everyone. As previously posted at BB,… Read the rest of the article: Sicangu Lakota Hip Hop artist and music producer Frank Waln reimagines "Wild Horses."

The third album by the eclectic Swedish garage rock/punk anti-authoritarian music collective "The (International) Noise Conspiracy," A New Morning, Changing Weather included a political essay critiquing modern-day capitalism, "The Global… Read the rest of the article: The Swedish rock album that came with a supplemental reading list

At the beginning, and throughout the first two years of the ongoing, yet to be over, COVID-19 pandemic, ideas pioneered by disability justice organizations were finally given credence by larger… Read the rest of the article: 10 principles of disability justice

You may be familiar with the idea that the planet's tropical rainforests are the earth's lungs. Lungs that right-wing capitalists are destroying with the extractivist logic of accumulation through dispossession,… Read the rest of the article: Watch a leaf produce oxygen

In 1973, a group of young musicians from East LA – Cesar Rosas, Conrad Lozano, David Hidalgo, Louie Pérez, Steve Berlin (joined in 1984), and the late Francisco González formed… Read the rest of the article: Half a century of Los Lobos del Este de Los Angeles: "Just another band from East L.A."

Every song is an instrumental – if you listen right. "A sad fact widely knownThe most impassionate songTo a lonely soulIs so easily outgrownBut don't forget the songsThat made you… Read the rest of the article: When the "songs that make you smile" are Smiths instrumentals

"Ni de here, ni de there pero en los dos." With sixty-nine episodes to date, El Pochcast, hosted by Rodrigo Nuñez, provides accessible, imaginative reviews and opinions concerning music, movies,… Read the rest of the article: El Pochcast, Talking to Houseplants, and the podcast worlds of Rodrigo Nuñez

Ronald Reagan is invoked by many as a transformational president. Barack Obama fashioned his own presidential trajectory after the Gipper. Shrilling for the General Electric Corporation as an influencer and… Read the rest of the article: Ronald Reagan on Gun Control circa 1989

You may remember from Season 2, Episode 43 of The Trailer Park Boys: Park After Dark series, "The Sunnyvale Snack Company." In this offering, "The Boys are making their own… Read the rest of the article: Trailer Park Boys potato chips and Gettin Learnt with Ricky