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Ebo Taylor, Ghanaian highlife pioneer and guitarist, dies age 90 Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, has been called the greatest rhythm guitarist in history

Ebo Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, has been called the greatest rhythm guitarist in history.

His son Kweku Taylor:
“The world has lost a giant, a colossus of African music, leaving behind an unmatched artistry legacy. Dad, your light will never fade.”

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Put another way, we could get rid of corn ethanol, switch 30% of the freed-up farmland to solar to generate 100% of US electricity, and use the other 70% of the freed-up land for whatever we want.

“Enjoying all that summer brings” HOW HARD IS THAT

Claudette Colvin is an icon of American history.

It was an honor to be her neighbor and attend her memorial last week at Abyssinian Baptist Church alongside her family.

As we continue to uplift her story, let us honor Ms. Colvin by living the way she did: with courage.

This is not your point but putting “someone trying very hard to sell me drugs” on the same list as quicksand and killer bees as things I expected to have to deal with more as an adult than I actually do.

Raphal de la Ghetto @ilovesmick All these white people mad about Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl performance... I hope next year they get Bad Bunny performing the whole set in Spanish. 5:32 PM • 2/11/25 • 6.7M Views

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The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

The vibe of the Halftime Show

8 minutes of pure joy. Miigwech, Bad Bunny.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

My grandest dumbest theory of all is that, seeing the political climate that results from an environment free of leaded gasoline, this is an effort by the worst people on earth to do political terraforming by getting the supplement folks to put as much lead in people's bloodstreams as possible

For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career — from his embrace of birtherism to his hatred of birthright citizenship — cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism. Trump is not profound. He has been the same person this whole time. The question is why so many others have refused to see what he has never bothered to hide.

This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.

A post on threads from user stephens_bens. It reads 'I'll always remember an interview with Steve Buscemi on Bulleye, Jesse Thorn asked him "As an actor with many decades of varied and outstanding roles across your career, does it ever bother you that one of the things you will most be remembered for is a 3-second gif in which you're wearing a backwards baseball cap and carrying a skateboard?" And without missing a beat, Buscemi replied "I'm carrying *two* skateboards." And you know what? He is.' Below that is a screen cap of Buscemi's famous "fellow kids" moment.

I never noticed this either.

A Trump ‘Blockade’ Is Stalling Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide

The tech guys all desperately need new electricity, Trump is thwarting the fastest source of new electricity, and the tech guys ... just keep kissing his ass anyway.

Oh God next year they’re gonna pick BTS and the takes are gonna be thermonuclear

who called him Jeff Bezos and not Lex Loser

Also, this is the second-most impactful thing he’s ever done. The first is kill hundreds of thousands of people by also illegally dismantling & cutting funds for USAID.

the most impactful thing Elon Musk has ever done or will ever do regarding science and innovation in this country is illegally cut billions of dollars of research funds for literally no reason

I invite you all to get into the weirdest, hardest and most wonderful sport: Biathlon.

(I love it so much I went to Norway last March to see my favs biathletes retire.)

Here’s an intro I wrote in December 2024.

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IRS commissioner says taxpayers will pay the bill if Trump wins $10 billion lawsuit Treasury Secretary and acting commissioner of the IRS Scott Bessent confirmed the details in a hearing with the Senate Banking Committee.

Let's call this what it is. Donald Trump is trying to shake down the American taxpayer for $10 billion to enrich himself. www.mlive.com/news/2026/02...

Multiple measles exposures in DC: Check sites and dates DC Health said Saturday it was notified of multiple people with confirmed cases of measles visited a variety of locations in the District. Officials did not specify exactly how many infected people th...

So, the March for Life appears to have brought Measles to DC.

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Finished watching Death by Lightning. Four episodes isn’t enough. Ready for the sequel about the Arthur administration! Thank you @Netflix, @Nick_Offerman , and @mike_makowsky

Still thinking on this but my post reminded me that we’re like 20+ years into internet conversations and no one has even attempted a symbol or shorthand for “this is not my original thought but this really isn’t a ‘go dig out the original post to give specific credit’ kind of situation.”

Someone said that much of therapy is convincing people that their anxieties are unfounded but in this era it’s like “Yeah those are all good points but there’s nothing to be gained by having Nazis AND dead houseplants.”

Will Lewis’s exit is long overdue. His legacy will be the attempted destruction of a great American journalism institution. But it's not too late to save The Post. Jeff Bezos must immediately rescind these layoffs or sell the paper to someone willing to invest in its future.

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy and Kevin Nealon Challenge Dictionaries To Redefine “Take A Hike” - Appalachian Trail Conservancy Campaign encourages outdoor engagement, mental wellness, and calls for a redefinition of “take a hike” while protecting the Appalachian Trail for future generations

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