Postmambo Studies
@postmambo.bsky.social
Immmersive music seminars involving travel, led by Ned Sublette. No website, DM for details. Reposts appreciated.
Hello, I’m The American Slave Coast. www.chicagoreviewpress.com/the-american...
Kathryn Brightbill ✒️@kebrightbill.bsky.social · 22h agoIntroduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I'm Hit By A Car That Was Going Too Fast On Hilly Farm Roads. You might also know me by Crashed A Motorcycle Face First Into A Concrete Pillar.
Postmambo is in Salvador da Bahia, where a lizard is drinking leftover beer
Postmambo is in São Francisco de Conde, Bahia, at the Espaço Cultural Essa Viola Dá Samba. I had never seen a pandeiro with a snakeskin head before. “A relic,” says the player. /1
“Flying bribe so unsafe that president has to leave hidden in catering truck” is just one facet of a scandal that casts doubt on the ability of the Trump USG to guarantee continuity of government www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...
The Five Scandals Within the "Air Force One" Scandal
Donald Trump, a Catering Truck, and the Qatari "Air Force One" represent a Russian Nesting Doll of Scandal and Corruption
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Postmambo is in Salvador da Bahia as a bird perches on Ogum’s head — the Yoruba emblem of wisdom — one of Tati Moreno’s 7-meter-high sculptures of 8 orixás in the canal called Dique de Tororó . . .
Postmambo is in Salvador da Bahia. Pictured: the divinatory oracle Ifá as visualized by the sculptor Carybe, UFBA Afro-Brazilian Museum.
how are we ever going to fucking make this right? what follows this sort of horror?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoTrump on Somali-Americans: "They're not smart. They have no aptitude. They have nothing going."
My review of Alan Michelson’s wonderful new public art work on Governors Island is up, and I talk about the pivotal history of the oyster in NYC and how it relates to his art. Did you know that in the 17th century half of all oysters in the world were found in NYC waters?
The Lost Pearls of New York City
Alan Michelson's public art installation “The Oyster” on Governors Island conjures up the overlooked history of Indigenous shell middens.
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Vicki Wickham helped shape the British Invasion, helped Dusty find her way to Memphis, helped birth Labelle and was Nona’s beloved partner for 60 plus years. Sing her name! RIP www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/a...
Vicki Wickham, Behind-the-Scenes Force in Pop Music, Dies at 87 (Gift Article)
She managed artists like Labelle and Dusty Springfield, and helped run the influential 1960s British TV showcase “Ready Steady Go!”
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the only downside to owning many, many, many books is that occasionally you need to find one specific book
Creating, possessing and distributing child sex abuse materials are all crimes. Prosecute Zuck and his collaborators. Dissolve Meta. Salt the earth where it all once stood.
WIRED@wired.com · last wk.Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.
A pleasure to read, both for the content and the style. www.allaboutjazz.com/i-thought-i-...
‘I Thought I Composed That’: Terence Blanchard and the Inheritance of Jazz – Terence Blanchard | Interview | All About Jazz
Read ‘I Thought I Composed That’: Terence Blanchard and the Inheritance of Jazz by Kofi Adjepong-Boateng on All About Jazz. Discover in-depth jazz Interview coverage, artist features, and expert writi...
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RIP to one of the greatest every to lace up the boots, Dory Funk Jr. This is from the Sept. 18, 1970, final showdown between Wahoo McDaniel and NWA champion Dory Funk Jr. at the Sam Houston Coliseum. It is one of my favorites.
I genuinely don't know if higher-ed will survive this administration.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
“We work hard, we pay our taxes, we give back to our communities and we are a big part of the engine that keeps the United States workforce in many essential industries moving,” writes Haitian #TPS holder Josiane Valsaint. “We deserve to stay here, with our families and loved ones.”
I’m a Haitian TPS holder. 350,000 of us hold our breath as Congress decides our future | Josiane Valsaint
Temporary protected status allowed me to rebuild my life. Now thousands like me help keep this country running
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next time someone asks me “are you proud to be an American” I’m gonna show them This
OLIYA SCOOTERCASTER@scootercaster.com · 2w agoHaitian TPS holders walk out with a fitted ankle monitors after mandatory ICE office check in at Blue Ash Ohio facility. After Supreme Court decision to terminal Temporary Protective Status, many Haitian community members received notices to appear at the location.
Just saw this very good article, published two weeks ago, a review of Disputed Pasts: Forgetting and Remembering the Dictatorship in Brazil, by Cristina Buarque de Hollanda [yes, Chico’s sister] and José Szwako. www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...
Truth Without Reconciliation
Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?
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Safavid oil painting of an African soldier, Persia, Isfahan, circa 1680-90
What the fuck is wrong with this country that we are allowing this www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
nytimes.com
2. Willie Nelson is speaking out against rural data centers.
My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
Saul's new book is out on September 8th in the Vanguard Series on Haymarket Press. ❤️🔥 Pre-order here: bookshop.org/p/books/song...
La justicia tarde en ocasiones demasiado, pero lo que importa es que llegue. elpais.com/chile/2026-0...
Detenido en Chile el último prófugo por el asesinato del cantautor Víctor Jara, el exmilitar Nelson Haase Mazzei
El coronel retirado del ejército fue condenado a 25 años de cárcel por el crimen y permanecía oculto en la región de Los Lagos. En septiembre de 1973 se transformó en hombre de confianza de Manuel Con...
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I was proud of the Museum of New York providing a T-shirt with this slogan.
Postmambo is traveling to Salvador soon. Thank you for this!
Thiago Krause@thiagokrause.bsky.social · 3w agoI’m reading the English updated edition of Alencastro’s “The Trade in the Living,” and it is fascinating how he thoroughly updated a book that was already of the best works of Colonial Brazilian history ever. I first read it in my first year of college, and have reread it many times since, but…
Louisiana’s far-right governor is doing his best to crush New Orleans. www.nola.com/news/politic...
Gov. Jeff Landry, former Mayor Mitch Landrieu spar on social media amid feud between city, state
The two leaders spent Friday trading barbs over New Orleans' place in the state economy and the former mayor's record.
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