One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths
www.theguardian.com
A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths
new thread for #then0ughtie5, bringing some bad news
35. Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes (2004, USA)
(a consummate power pop banger; after reviewing their 2001 work for that tournament it's impressive how streamlined this is, relatively speaking)
youtu.be/Gw0YeT0nJ3A
Traditionally pro-Israel member of Congress who spent the last two years hemming and hawing about how Israel should maybe one day potentially possibly consider being nicer to Arab civilians is now a cosponsor of the Block The Bombs Act after sustained and targeted pressure. You'll see more of this.
Trump's dipshit war on wind power is over, for now at least.
jay
The administration filed to dismiss an appeal of a December ruling that overturned its wind permitting freeze.
Turns out I didn’t have to write this because this post summarizes the whole thing www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
friends and mutuals in the bay! my husband is playing the entirety of his first album at the lost church in SF on june 20th! come thru!
thelostchurch.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/inst...
🌊 For 77 years, CalCOFI has been taking the pulse of the California Current, creating the world’s longest-running marine ecosystem monitoring program & one of science’s best ocean archives. @rosannaxia.bsky.social of LA Times shares more about the crucial program. ⤵️
https://lat.ms/4vqAw1v
Nowhere else on the planet has such a large swath of ocean been studied as thoroughly and for so long, and much of our modern approach to oceanography can be traced back to this hidden gem.
Thank you Rep Stephen F. Lynch for cosponsoring the Block The Bombs Act!
In one year, the Block The Bombs Act has reached 75 cosponsors in the House.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza and their illegal invasion of Lebanon won’t come to an end until our government stops being complicit.
IMEU Policy Project
POTUS mad at PM of Israel, does nothing. 1999.
POTUS mad at PM of Israel, does nothing. 2005.
POTUS mad at PM of Israel, does nothing. 2010.
POTUS mad at PM of Israel, does nothing. 2015.
POTUS mad at PM of Israel, does nothing. 2024.
POTUS mad at PM of Israel, does nothing. 2026.
