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Jimmy Cliff, 1944-2025

The first major influence in the global expansion of reggae, with a hit film and album in 1972's rollicking The Harder They Come.
Jimmy Cliff Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More... | AllMusic
Explore Jimmy Cliff's discography including top tracks, albums, and reviews. Learn all about Jimmy Cliff on AllMusic.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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somevelvetblog.bsky.social
Some of these you might know, some you might not.

open.substack.com/pub/offlinec...
Cool Sites for Real Music Discovery
six sites that make music discovery feel personal again
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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trbrtc.bsky.social
The forensic audio analysis by Rob C. Maher of the 2024 Trump assassination attempt has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. This is great news for visual and audio investigations! aes2.org/publications...
Diagram explaining how the timing between a bullet’s supersonic shock wave (“crack”) and the muzzle blast (“pop”) can be used to estimate the distance between a shooter and a microphone. Three scenarios (T₁, T₂, T₃) show a rifle firing a supersonic bullet past a microphone. In each scenario, the ballistic shock wave cone reaches the microphone before the slower muzzle blast sound. To the right of each diagram is a waveform: a sharp spike labeled the shock-wave “crack,” followed by a later cluster of peaks labeled the muzzle-blast “pop.” The time delay between these events (t_d1, t_d2, t_d3) increases as the microphone is positioned farther downrange. A formula shows distance = t_d / (1/c − 1/v), where c is the speed of sound and v is bullet speed. Text boxes explain: “Downrange timing between shock wave ‘crack’ and muzzle blast ‘pop’ gives distance estimate between shooter and microphone,” and “For investigation of Trump assassination attempt: microphone signal was from the lectern.”
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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tchristianmiller.bsky.social
Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
fgranada.bsky.social
Gotta appreciate the pile of spaghetti cables
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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thenatidude.bsky.social
Meanwhile in the First World…
marklemley.bsky.social Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 27d
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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thelouvreof.bsky.social
An actual goat‬ ‪@kokorozek.satan.social‬ Amazed that in the year of our lord 2025 people are still pulling the “eyyyy c‘mon you can’t hit me, it’s my birthday! I’m the birthday boy!” ‪Ava Rose-Shirley‬ ‪@cinderelladesade.bsky.social‬ What lord? ‪Ultraviolent Lights‬ ‪@ultraviolentlights.bsky.social‬ "Year of Our Lord" is the English translation of Anno Domini, which refers to the Christian God and is not an implicit statement of faith, in common usage it's simply the designation we give to any year following 1 B.C. You can use C.E for "common era" if you prefer. Hope that clears things up. ‪Ava Rose-Shirley‬ ‪@cinderelladesade.bsky.social‬ Do you always get off on over explaining the bleeding obvious, or is today your birthday? I’m sick of people barging in and making bad faith arguments without taking half a fuckin’ second to consider the possibility that I intended to challenge all theological notions— from a humanist POV.. JFC! ‪Ultraviolent Lights‬ ‪@ultraviolentlights.bsky.social‬ Sorry, what does JFC stand for?
November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
from 2003
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
fgranada.bsky.social
Oldie but goodie from earlier this year and trying to make sense of it all.
eliothiggins.bsky.social Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Feb 28
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
October 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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“You don’t need a political-science degree to understand why having wealthy individuals cutting secret checks to the president to pay the military is a bad idea,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
A Donor-Funded Army Wouldn’t Just Be Illegal—It Would be Dangerous
You don’t need a political-science degree to understand why wealthy individuals cutting secret checks to the president to pay the military is a bad idea.
bit.ly
October 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing." John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."
October 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
fgranada.bsky.social
Good rally day
October 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
“The 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.”

If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.
October 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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democracydocket.com
PA voters will cast their ballots in one of the most consequential elections of the year: the state Supreme Court race. With three Democratic justices up for retention, the outcome of this contest could flip control of a court that decides election laws. https://bit.ly/3JeB3Ax
Why Anti-Voting Activists Are Using the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Election to Spread Disinformation
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
bit.ly
October 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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vermontgmg.bsky.social
America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids"
ICE crosses another big, important line.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
October 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Trump and Republicans spread lies and scapegoat immigrants to distract you from how they are picking your pockets.

Do not be fooled.
October 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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amandalitman.bsky.social
40% of state leg races went uncontested in 2024.

@runforsomething.net is aggressively recruiting for 2026 - we can't leave a single place up for grabs.
September 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.
September 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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darinself.com
This is how elections in competitive autocracies work. Your vote can still lead to a change in who holds an office -- but those in power use the state to tilt the playing field in their favor.
marcelias.bsky.social Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Sep 25
The National Archives under the Trump administration released @mikiesherrill.bsky.social full, unredacted Navy personnel file to Jack Ciattarelli's campaign.

This is an unprecedented and illegal weaponization of the National Archives and private, personal records to attack a political opponent.
September 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration. These cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made Trump seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up. Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All of these powerful people trying to save their own skin have effectively multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility.
September 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
The Kimmel suspension is a much bigger deal than you know.

It's really about a growing alliance between Trump and the companies that own America's local TV stations - like Nexstar - to turn local TV into Trump propaganda.

1/ Let me tell you the short story. It's chilling.
September 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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barackobama.bsky.social
We need more ideas like the ones @captmarkkelly.bsky.social has outlined on how we can shape the future being created by artificial intelligence. Kelly.Senate.gov/AI
September 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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levernews.com
"There is no center between fascism and democracy." – @rbreich.bsky.social

Full episode at www.levernews.com/robert-reich...
September 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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mattdpearce.com
Feel free to quit TikTok if you don’t like all this. You have free will!

mattdpearce.substack.com/p/you-dont-h...
The economist Albert O. Hirschman studied when people quit in his famous book "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States." When situations go bad, you can try improving things by complaining, or leave for greener pastures. Agitation or exile. Many reasonable people from all eras and corners of the world, including many brilliant and influential ones, have left their jobs, their homes, pulled up stakes and crossed rivers, fields and mountains, sometimes across borders, even into statelessness, because it was the better choice. To every thing there is a season, and exit is a winter. It's ice cold, but sometimes you just have to throw a jacket on and get the fuck out of there.
September 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM