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Mark your calendar for THE VAST BLUE WE with Del Sol Quartet. Celebrate 1 trillion pages on the #WaybackMachine with music inspired by our digital memory.

📅 Tues, Oct 7 at 7 PM PT

🎟️ IN-PERSON ➡️ eventbrite.com/e/1626895701...

💻 VIRTUAL ➡️ eventbrite.com/e/1626897768...

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Stomp out bullying day should be longer than one day and involve everyone.

YouTube video by Mimi Pickering Hazel Dickens Performs "Black Lung"

HardlyStritctlyBluegrass2025 paid tribute to Hazel Dickens' career with the all-woman string band Della Mae, singer Laurie Lewis, and Hazel’s longtime performing partner Alice Gerrard.

She wrote this song, Black Lung, for her brother who was a coal miner.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODg9...

YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman What the Heck Just Happened? With Heather and Joanne

Listen to the history professors Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5pG...

I found HardlyStrictly streams here too: www.youtube.com/@hsbfest

Taylor Swift wears one of your sea otter T-shirts in her new promotional film about her new album The Life of a Showgirl.

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 25 - Fri Oct 3, Sat Oct 4, & Sun Oct 5, 2025. 3 days and 80 acts on 6 stages in San Francisco's beautiful Golden Gate Park

Take a break this weekend and listen online to performers such as Emmylou Harris, Margo Price, Lucinda Williams, Roseanne Cash or tributes to Hazel Dickens and John Prine.

hardlystrictlybluegrass.com

Someone should write an obituary for the Hatch Act.

'The Nerve', a new female-founded media title is up and running, bringing independent journalism, a dash of culture and a weekly Stewart Lee column.
www.thenerve.news

And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.

This is a fundamental point that 99% of higher-ed coverage, and 100% of immig coverage, have missed.

The New Deal Masterpieces Threatened by Trump’s D.C. Downsizing Your great-grandparents paid Ben Shahn and Philip Guston to create gorgeous public murals. Next year they could be rubble.

My latest is a scoop. The Trump administration is rushing to sell a New Deal-era federal building two blocks from the Capitol that contains gorgeous WPA murals by Ben Shahn and Philip Guston. Shahn called it “the best work I’ve done.” Next year it could be rubble.

newrepublic.com/article/2010...

San Francisco is the 77th city in the US for violent crime and he’s telling the military he’s going to send them in to “straighten [us] out”. There is literally no plausible reason to do this other than to intimidate and attack Democratic cities that are anti-Trump and anti-fascism.

Rediscovered images of 1970s Old Town capture long-gone era in Portland, power photographer’s social-media fandom Patrick F. Smith, just out of high school, came upon memorable people day after day: immigrant shop owners, dockworkers between shifts, men down on their luck.

I remember when Portland had a Skid Row in the early '70s.

www.oregonlive.com/history/2021...

The best analogy to the decline of coal miners is journalists, who we actually need.

(Can't find a more recent chart but you know it's worse)

YouTube video by Oregon Zoo Beaver Branch Managers Manage Branches

My favorite nature's engineers are residents of war-ravaged Portland: Filbert and Maple.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOJu...

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Dial-A-Poem, the phone addiction that’s actually good for the soul The Sixties experiment that spread the joy of poetry has been resurrected for the smartphone age

Dial-A-Poem, the phone addiction that’s actually good for the soul

The Sixties experiment that spread the joy of poetry has been resurrected for the smartphone age

As the President flouts the Posse Comitatus Act by sending troops to Portland, I can’t help but be struck by the irony that Portland was the birthplace of the Christian Nationalist and white supremacist, right wing domestic terror group called the Posse Comitatus.

War ravaged Portland

How do you build a massive industrial empire as a woman in the early 20th century? You call it "glorified housekeeping." Nelly Don framed her state-of-the-art factories and enormous output in familiar... TikTok video by Fashion Conservatory | Vintage

How am I only now hearing about this woman www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMY7fBbJ/

This SoCal water was once bottled and sold. Now it’s returning to nature. The million-dollar fight to save a rare water source.

www.sfgate.com/la/article/l...

Can I go there?

YouTube video by YaleCourses DeVane Lecture, Class 1 – The Road to 250

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TNc...

Tomorrow on my live podcast History Matters:

What the Heck is the World Thinking??

The UN meeting this week definitely raised this question.

It’s been asked a LOT at key moments—and Americans are never prepared for the answer.

Let’s talk.

Friday 10AM ET
NCHEteach.org/conversations

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Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

YouTube video by The Daily Show John Fugelsang - “Separation of Church and Hate” | The Daily Show

John Fugelsang talks about his NYTimes best-selling book.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj3O...

Tuesday, 9/23/2025, 2pm - Jazz In The Afternoon Special: A John Coltrane Birthday Celebration Join Jesse ‘Chuy’ Varela for a celebration of the birthday of John Coltrane (b.Sept.23,1926), considered among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music....

www.kcsm.org/kcsm-hd1/tue...

Can a Family Resurrect the American Chestnut Tree in Appalachia? Virginia family farmers have planted American chestnut seedlings that come from an old grove that survived the 20th century blight. Will the trees survive?

"Can a Family Resurrect the American Chestnut Tree in Appalachia?"
My story for @barnraiser.bsky.social about one family carrying the torch.
This is a story against the grain. A story of hope in a dark time. A story of long time horizons. 1/n
barnraisingmedia.com/can-a-family...