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Music matters. Fight fascism. Support the marginalized. Go see live music. I have been (occasionally) running Stupid Internet Music Argument Friday on multiple platforms for over a decade. Let there be songs to fill the air!

Becky Sullivan of NPR has written this terrible article about the cynical "protect college sports" bill, that frames as bipartisan the intentional attempt to undo what I and many other people accomplished: reducing the financial exploitation of some of the poorest, Blackest kids in the nation.

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The Protect College Sports Act is on the brink of passing in the Senate, where a handful of former college athletes who are now senators on both sides of the aisle have an extra say in the debate. n.pr/4d9LuBg

The devastation that Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires and mega corporations had on wealth inequality is profoundly under discussed. That’s why people ask if a meager increase in a local tax on a $100 million corporation is going to be a burden to the company. The scale of wealth is incomprehensible

WATCH: A group of ICE goons beat a man they were detaining after they'd already wrestled him to the floor in Naples, Florida on Wednesday night. Bystanders began to yell that they were filing when the ICE goons punched the man repeatedly.

The closest NYPD got to arresting Netanyahu yesterday was stomping on an effigy of him that protestors set on fire. One could alternately easily interpret their efforts as NYPD trying to protect Netanyahu. It’s one of those magical poetic moments where every interpretation can be true.

It's a good reminder that the cops in the system they work for are not there to help you. calling and emailing them with your information and videos ... You're just giving them information not only about yourself but also on those that you associate with

I did a 6 month course about Oswald Mosley in college. I read basically everything he wrote or said during and before wwII. But you don’t need to do that. One clue he was a Nazi is that he was the leader of a party he called the “British Union of Fascists.”

Now we need to know if this ICE flight headed for Ghana has third-country nationals onboard. If so, it needs to bring them back. The emergency ruling is binding immediately, which includes planes in the air. Any lawyers or anyone else with standing think they might know someone onboard? File!

An FR24 map showing N50JE heading for Accra over the middle of the Atlantic.