The great hip-hop engineer and sometime producer Bob Power has passed away at the age of 73. He brought us classic hip-hop and soul albums over the decades by A Tribe Called Quest, D’Angelo, De La Soul, Erykah Badu, The Roots, Meshell Ndegeocello ETC!
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Jon Stewart, last night, after watching Trump in a news conference yesterday about the Iran war, sleepily speaking at length about drapes he has installed at the White House:
“I can’t believe it. Our bombs are now smarter than our president.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkc...
The Washington Post lost 300+ of their reporters last month, but is still publishing some truth:
03.03.2026 15:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As any informed person coulda predicted, Trump’s idiotic Iran war has already spread to several Middle East countries: Lebanon, Kuwait, Israel etc. Iran just closed the Strait of Hormuz, endangering oil distribution, driving up prices. It was never gonna be the 2-3 day war Trump predicted.
02.03.2026 23:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Political, diplomatic, military experts now on @deadlinewh.bsky.social made it clear Trump administration has NOT learned one of the main lessons of forever wars since the 1960s as seen in Vietnam, Iraq etc: Trump and his officials know nothing of the culture & history of Iran. Shameful. Stupid.
02.03.2026 22:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In revisiting the Blue Nile’s revelatory 1984 debut album, Sam Sodomsky explores more effectively than other writers have why the Scottish band is so different, emotionally and musically, why they have touched so many so profoundly for decades.
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Presidential historian Jon Meacham reminds us “successful war presidents” are ones who make clear, honest explanations of wars they start, & what their goals are, to the American people. Trump seems incapable of this w/his constantly shifting, false justifications.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeDJ...
Ayman Mohyeldin reports that, contrary to what the US was hoping, the three leaders replacing Iran’s Supreme Leader and the 48 other Iranian leaders that Trump bombed and killed, are also political hardliners. Not much political progress.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlQE...
How much you wanna bet billionaire Trump partisans Larry and David Ellison, architects of the deal, are already planning how to take down national treasure "Last Week Tonight With John Oliver," as they helped to destroy "Colbert Late Show" and "60 Minutes" when they took over CBS?
(Washington Post)
Don't get me wrong, Iran had a horrible government, killing thousands of its own people, committing terrorism worldwide for decades etc. But militarily neutralizing Iran seems more of an advantage for Israel & the Saudis, than USA. I think there's a lot hidden beneath the surface at the moment.
02.03.2026 18:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So why is it that Trump cannot name a rationale or endgame for his Iran war, yet in ~60 hours, 1000 targets (now 2,000) have been hit. Who set those targets? Is the U.S. now doing Netanyahu’s dirty work for him that he has wanted done for decades? Did he and MBS hoodwink Trump and the US?
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“If we don’t unite progressives, we risk opening the door to the darkness and division of Reform [which] takes Trump as inspiration, promising ICE-style forces on UK streets which will send shivers down the spine of every minority community.” And me.
--Sadiq Khan
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"She tells me she's decided that she'll go away
And I guess it's right that she alone should have the final say
But in spite of her decision forcing us to say goodbye
I'll still love Irma Jackson till I die"
--Merle Haggard (2 of 2)
Though written in the 60s, Merle Haggard’s song "Irma Jackson," about interracial romance, finally came out in 1972, delayed by Haggard’s label Capitol--they felt the country market could not handle such a scenario. Merle pushed for years for its release. (1 of 2)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaAK...
Bush’s 2003 “Iraq war killed 100s of 1000s, cost trillions of dollars and was recently crowned by Council on Foreign Relations as worst foreign policy decision in history. Trump seems determined to seize that title” now with another Middle Eastern regime change.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
How did Iran evolve as a country during the last 120 yrs? Ali Velshi provides an excellent short history starting with their 1906 efforts to become a democracy before anyone else in the middle east--and starring the CIA, oil, the Cold War, corruption etc!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhpd...
Ali Velshi provides a history of the U.S. attempting regime change in countries post-1945--mostly disastrous, violent, expensive, non-democratic results. It’s a safe bet Trump has no plans to help Iran after their totalitarian leadership has been decapitated.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRp1...
An hour ago, Trump said the Iran attack "will continue until all our objectives are achieved. We have very strong objectives." Really, Don, shouldn't you tell Americans what those objectives are? And are they Netanyahu and MBS' objectives more than yours?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Nutsy Trump yesterday linked the massive attack he ordered against Iran to his persistent B.S. claims about his 2020 election loss to Biden, in a social media post that also alleged with no evidence that Tehran’s gov't interfered in US presidential elections.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
A new photo journalistic essay on the Mexican tradition escaramuza from Constance Jaeggi: “part ballet, part calvary moves…and a dazzling display of skilled horsewomanship, art and power.”
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
love that and her book on Great Migration
01.03.2026 01:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Armed with facts, Rachel @maddow.bsky.social explores why Trump just initiated a large dangerous war with Iran. What you should know first: everything he said last night about that subject was a lie, especially his B.S. about wanting to help the Iranian people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiNs...
One scientist featured in this article states that “The data right now shows that about 76% of people experience burnout,” during their careers.
01.03.2026 01:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New research on burnout, particularly on the job, shows that it isn’t the job that causes it as much as “the way the organisation is managed and the support people get.” Also, “there’s overwhelming evidence that burnout is becoming more and more common.”
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
More from ex-Rep Greene less than an hour ago:
For years, MAGA "said 'No More Foreign Wars, No More Regime Change!' Trump, Vance campaigned on it, promised to put America First...1000s from my generation have been killed & injured in never ending pointless foreign wars, we said no more."
Trump's new Iran war will be a political disaster for him. Marjorie Taylor Greene agrees & just said: "This is heartbreaking and tragic. And how many more innocent will die? What about our own military? This is not what we thought MAGA was supposed to be. Shame!”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
White Americans apparently felt this way⬇️even though “economic statistics consistently show that the average White family holds considerably more wealth than the average Black or Hispanic family.” Such Trump voters also exhibited the “strongest opposition to DEI initiatives.”
28.02.2026 23:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A new study “sheds light on factors influencing voting behavior in the 2024 US presidential election, [especially] that White Americans” who see themselves as ranking the same as Blacks in the racial economic hierarchy—were most likely to support Trump.
www.psypost.org/trump-suppor...
The US president, clad in an embarrassing baseball cap, just started a war with Iran for no clear reasons, no approval from Congress, his only international ally the disgraced murderous international war criminal Netanyahu. What is the plan, endgame? No one knows. Tragedy & folly loom.
(@nytimes)
The mostly non-existent "liberal bias" in news was actually a centrist balanced consensus based on facts that GOP bitched about since the 1970s. But today's documented Trumpy right-wing bias exists⬇️is getting worse. They want you to be trapped into hearing nothing but their side.
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