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Oakland native. Gramma. Obsessions: History, baseball, music, books. Work: neuroscience and trauma recovery. Living with MCAS she/her/hers
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2/13
Florence Price, composer
Symphony No. 1 in E Minor: IV. Finale. Presto - Chineke! Orchestra
Roderick Cox, conductor
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From the Thelonious Monk composition.
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2/13
If you haven’t been introduced to any of these musicians, I invite you to hear some true MFSBs
Emmet Cohen w/ Cyrille Aimée & Wayne Tucker - Well You Needn’t
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Having attended private schools from 6th grade up, I was exposed to kids from old money and new. A good portion—or maybe just the loudest—expressed standard conservative views. Rand Paul reminds me of those kids. An a-hole for sure, but one who values the law, due process, and civil liberties.
12.02.2026 20:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian, who co-wrote the film "It Was Just an Accident" with dissident director Jafar Panahi, has been arrested and imprisoned in Iran. We spoke to Panahi shortly after the news of Mahmoudian's arrest.
12.02.2026 17:08 — 👍 45 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 1
People being sexually trafficked, and sex workers, often experience barriers to accessing healthcare and other resources.
An Oakland nonprofit is bringing a clinic to the streets, focusing on serving and empowering sex-trafficked youth.
oaklandside.org/2026/02/12/d...
Jewish Congressmember Becca Balint explains why she walked out of a heated House hearing about the Epstein files after Attorney General Pam Bondi accused her of supporting antisemitism.
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The Justice Department appears to be surveilling lawmakers as they review the unredacted Epstein files.
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If you’re a clinician featured on Psychology Today’s therapist finder, you may have always felt conflicted: appreciating the platform while knowing the magazine is trash. Like straight to recycling when the free subscription arrives every month. EMDR has saved lives and quality of countless lives.
12.02.2026 16:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you Rep. Becca Balint.
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Raskin to Bondi: "You're not showing a lot interest in the victims. Whether it's Epstein's human trafficking ring or the homicidal government violence against citizens in Minneapolis, as AG you're siding with the perpetrators and ignoring the victims."
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Feb 11
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
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Day 10:
Jimmy Scott - Nothing Compares 2 U
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Day 11 - "So Lucky," Shannon and The Clams
This tragic love story is sadly a true one. The latest from the Oakland garage-rock band is primarily about singer/bassist Shannon Shaw's coming to terms with the death of her fiancé just weeks before their wedding.
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2/12
Syreeta - Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers
Stevie Wonder, composer
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2/12
Toumani Diabaté And The London Symphony Orchestra - Mamadou Kanda Keita
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Film director Cheryl Fabio shares a vibrant history of Oakland and the West Coast blues, sprinkling in stories about Larry Graham, the Pullman Porters, Sugar Pie DeSanto and the DIY genius within the Texas/Alabama/Louisiana/Oklahoma diaspora.
#MusicSky #BHM
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who should know better will betray the disempowered.
7/7
you'd think there'd be some question about what a woman petitioning for justice just might have experienced. It seems the privileges of wealth and access to power trumps generations of knowledge and loyalties. When patriarchy is accepted as an is, not a system to be questioned, people
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would think there'd be a rush of images: the harassment and rape of serfs, indentured servants, and domestic workers (ask my paternal grandmother), and the routine rape of enslaved people, including children. Even if their next thought is "but my friend is a good man",
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and being compliant to their wishes, they see nothing amiss - or at least nothing that discomfits them. When someone raised with all the socialist, working class bona fides hears that a friend, a wealthy powerful man, is having trouble with a woman or girl he's employed, you
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(Why is a typical misogynist riposte "make me a sandwich" or "show your tits" or "why don't you smile"?) So when somebody like
Professor Chomsky sits at a table of powerful men and maybe a token woman, while being served by young women and girls chosen for looking pleasing to men
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cultural changes spurred by women insisting on living full lives and developing their full capabilities and claiming their bodies as their own and their desire as a matter of fact, there is still a default worldview that casts women and girls as a servant class.
2/7
Noam Chomsky's camaraderie with Jeffrey Epstein is not surprising. Men can interrogate the uses and abuses of power and the machinations of wealth in perpetuating inequality while failing to consider the relationship of women and girls to power. Even with significant
1/7
“The most essential thing about the Trump Administration right now is that it is weak, chaotic, and wildly unpopular …but if you want to see the administration as the drunk driver, more and more people are getting out of the car, or trying to turn it around (and take the keys away)”
11.02.2026 03:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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2/11
San Francisco in the late 70s/early 80s was crawling with underground art school bands. To me, Tuxedomoon was the most engaging and has proven to be the most enduring.
Tuxedomoon - Music Number Two
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One of the best signs of a singular voice is people comparing it to other singular voices and missing the mark.
10.02.2026 20:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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2/11
“How do I stop, stop the bleeding?
How do I stop, stop the needing?
How do I stop, stop repeating the cycle, the cycle of sabotage?”
Baby Rose - Stop The Bleeding
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“In one of the biggest upsets in recent political history, Analilia Mejía just won the primary in the special election for New Jersey’s 11th district, taking down several establishment candidates backed by corporate PACs and the political machine in New Jersey”
patrioticmillionaires.org/take-action/
