Music Notes

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Perhaps my all-time favorite album is Sonny Sharrock's 1991 masterpiece Ask the Ages. By far the best album of his career, it's literally the perfect jazz album, combining straight ahead.

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Another Republican laser-focused on the material needs of working Americans: Gov. Henry McMaster is ordering the state’s Department of Employment and Workforce to withdraw from the federal government’s federal pandemic unemployment programs.Starting on June 30, the state will no longer participate in the expanded unemployment benefits...
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The Great Circle Jerk of Life

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This is an amusing article about Christopher Ruddy, the conservative publisher/conspiracy nut who faces some legal jeopardy because hs network routinely and falsely accused deep-pocketed corporations of stealing the 2020 presidential elections for Hugo Chavez. Needless to say, Newsmax is basically a loss-leader for an array...
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Black Women and Police Violence

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Keisha Blain is one of our most important historians of Black history. At The Baffler, she has an important essay on Black women's long efforts to end police violence. You need to read it. An excerpt: The Bumpurs and Taylor cases offer a longer perspective on...
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