Postmambo Studies

The only way to know is to go there.

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

Hello from the impossibly beautiful city of New York as the full moon rises.

The Nobel Peace Prize is extremely problematic for many known reasons but if anyone truly deserves a peace prize it’s Greta Thunberg.

Tomi’s (on the left) slow blink as she tries to process that Puerto Rico is part of the United States and therefore Bad Bunny is an American citizen is delightful and should be projected on the big screen during his Super Bowl appearance.

When I went to Spain in 1969, I was astounded to see Francisco Franco’s picture on every denomination of coin. Every town’s main boulevard was named Avenida de Generalísimo Franco. In the DR Rafael Trujillo renamed Santo Domingo Ciudad Trujillo. How close are we to renaming Washington Trump City?

The absence of a national opposition party in the face of what is now clearly a coup d’état

— the takeover of the federal government and security apparatus by a fascist clique who are breaking every law in sight and boasting about it —

is WILD to me.

Cowboys are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other - Live

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Just out: the Phoenix Gay Men’s Chorus version of this timeless classic. Includes the original 3rd verse not included in the Willie Nelson version. Nice brisk waltz tempo. When they hit the chorus it’s a big fat fun sound.

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Kristi Noem tells Bad Bunny that ICE will be at the Super Bowl and the event should only be for Americans who “love this country”

“Appeared in Blood and Sand and other movies.”

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Remembering how alien and ominous "homeland" sounded when Bush first started using it, along with the premonition that it would become normalized once codified in a Department.

Saw her one night 20+ years ago while hanging with friends at the Lenox Lounge in Harlem, I think it was. Never forgot it.

'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

Tony Blair's institute took $350M+ from Larry Ellison, whose company powers Israel's military tech.

Ellison & Rupert Murdoch are buying TikTok—a platform Netanyahu calls a critical "weapon" in the war.

Oh, and Trump just made Blair the man who'll govern Gaza.

www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

To be fair to Vought, the very existence of the City of New York is a daily refutation of the racist, xenophobic ideals he holds dear.

Check out Mark Ronson's bookshelf! It's great to see Tim Lawrence's "Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983" so prominently displayed.
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New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana, as big as 70 football fields, requiring more than twice as much electricity as the City of New Orleans.

Louisiana has had to greenlight $3 billion in new energy infrastructure to service Meta's facility.

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I’ve been writing about Latin music in national publications for over 20 years and to think that, in that time, it’s gone from persuading editors to allow the tiniest inch of space for our music to Bad Bunny playing the Super Bowl halftime show is an insane cultural shift, this rules

On view at Tulane University, and it was a joy to work on this. But you don’t have to visit campus to see it. Check out the digitized collection of Black New Orleans nightlife posters, 1979-1980, newly published online via the Tulane University Digital Library: libguides.tulane.edu/BlackNightli...

Jeremy Bentham

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

World Leader Compares Trump to Hitler in Front of Entire U.N. American media has barely covered the scathing comments from Colombian President Gustavo Petro.

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Los Van Van, “Anda Ven y Muévete.” (1984, Cuba)

Monarch butterfly feeding on a lavender flowered bush in our coommunity wildlife habitat garden.

Capturing this made me smile all day. So many duds to trash. Butterflies may be free, but they are hard to catch!

Pete Hegseth responds "Cool story, General" to a man named Ben Hodges who writes: "July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions."

This is real:

When the real story is told of how the US STILL terrorizes and impoverishes #Cuba after decades for allying with the Soviet Union, people will be outraged.

Especially now that US prez is buddies with Putin.

* $1MIL bounty on exiled #AssataShakur. Cubans did not give her up.

* Keeping Guantanamo