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Frank Ancona, the imperial wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, smelled like cat piss. The stench clung to the 51-year-old's...

“Those who knew him say he cared deeply about crafting his public image and wanted everyone to know his name. He posted a video on his Klan website of him sparring on national television with MSNBC host Chris Hayes, and he told the New York Times, "We need to preserve the white race because we are the ones who keep civilization civilized."

Privately, he was literally living in shit.

They provide a bland response to a detailed timeline and questions, then proceed to complain about omissions.

Citing House records, CNN’s Raju earlier this week reported that last March, Price bought $1,001 to $15,000 worth of shares in Zimmer Biomet, a medical device company specializing in knee and hip implants. The purchase was followed less than a week later by Price’s introduction of the Healthy Inpatient Procedures (HIP) Act, which would delay implementation of a regulation affecting companies such as Zimmer Biomet. “This new, mandatory payment model handed down from CMS comes with tremendous risk and complexity for patients and health care providers. Rushing its implementation would be unreasonable and potentially detrimental to patients and their quality of care,” Price said in a statement. “At the very least, a delay in implementation is warranted to give all involved time to better assess, review, and weigh the impact and consequences of this proposal and more adequately prepare so patients are protected.” As Raju reported, Zimmer Biomet was among two companies that would have been most dramatically affected by the regulation that Price sought to delay. And here’s the money-in-politics kicker to this story: After Price introduced the regulation-delaying bill, his reelection campaign received a contribution from the medical company’s political action committee.

#not cool

I used to think that any solution would come from the paradigms that I know. Now I think that the only thing is to think of the unimaginable. For the new generation, the unimaginable is not as unimaginable.”

Alfonso Cuaron, in “Is Children of Men 2016’s Most Relevant Film?"

#film #cuaron

"It is not possible that an assembly of men called for the most part from pursuits of a private nature, continued in appointment for a short time, and led by no permanent motive to devote intervals of public occupation to a study of the laws, the affairs, and the comprehensive interests of their country, should, if left wholly to themselves, escape a variety of important errors in the exercise of their legislative trust."

James Madison, Federalist Paper 62

Happy Friday!

#t-shirt #panties #90s r&b

“I’m going to say something that’s a little bit controversial, but is, in my opinion, true. I think because cops are so in our heads and in our hearts in so many ways, that asking quote unquote ‘the community’ how to solve police violence may produce terrible results.

Here’s what I mean by that: We cannot live outside the structures we live under without hard work from imagination and decolonization. I’ve been to so many community meetings, CAPS meetings, or meetings where we ask people what they think would address police violence, people always point to community policing. And what they mean by that is if the cops knew us better, if they had a stake in the community, if they lived by us, they would be kinder and gentler. They would put a check on their violence against us. I think that idea is born out of an honest place. Yes, if you build relationships with people, they’re less likely to harm you. That’s just true.

What is not, I think, understood is that you can’t have a relationship with the state. And what the cops are, for us, is gatekeepers for the state. They’re people, yes, but their interests are with the state, and protecting whatever the state values. And for the most part, the state does not value its most marginalized members. The state oppresses its most marginalized members. So the police cannot be in relationship to us the way we are to each other.”

#prison abolition #legal system #policing

Rings of stalactites and stalagmites arranged by Neanderthals around 176,000 years ago in Brunquiel Cave, southwestern France.

#old shit #anthropology #cave mysteries

Petty Genius Prince Thoughts

Realizing that Prince covering Best of You is just the zenith of the shady games he played on the Foo Fighters/Grohl. Prince told Entertainment Weekly in 2004 that he hated the band’s cover of Darling Nikki (“Write your own tunes!”) which they had recorded and put on an Australian B-Side that got radio play in the US. And he’s right to. It’s the song that got content advisory labels put on albums and the Foos douse it in monotony. Their cover adds nothing, though I admit it might be fun to see live. Prince sits on this for three years, and when he does the Superbowl he performs a blended cover that he had leaked to the Howard Stern show a few weeks before (see where Queen Bey gets her ideas?) He starts with All Along the Watchtower, a song that has been covered ad nauseum, a standard bearer for song covers, a default song to cover, and then he just glides into The Best of You, reading the Foo Fighters for their basic, boring song structures... and then fucking murders them both! Makes you hear both songs in a way you never had before. That year Taylor Hawkins said it was better than their own version, and at some point (I am not digging in the archive/maybe it was yesterday) on the Stern show Grohl was asked the fucking stupid question of whether he thought Prince was a better musician than him and he very correctly said, “Dude, Prince is a better drummer than I am.” NOW FOUR YEARS LATER, 2011: Dave Grohl meets Prince IRL in Los Angeles and Prince invites him to jam before one of his residency performances. Grohl said to Howard Stern, who is clearly the real key player in this story: “I waited for him to call all week, I didn’t know whether I was going to play drums or guitar, his song or mine. I walked into the empty arena during soundcheck and Prince just appears … He picks up a bass and starts shredding … and we started playing ‘Whole Lotta Love”.” Then we end it, he said, ‘Yea that’s great,’ and I said, ‘Yeah that’s amazing,’ and he said, ‘What are you doing next week?’ and then I never saw him again.”

LOL

Anyhow I hope Prince did some other mean girl shit to Dave Grohl that we will never know about, and I only wish I could be in the position for Prince to okay those games with me.

#prince #petty #foo fighters #high key shade

Hello / Erykah Badu ft. Andre 3000

#music #spotify

The US homicide rates were 6.9 times higher than rates in the other high-income countries, driven by firearm homicide rates that were 19.5 times higher. For 15-year olds to 24-year olds, firearm homicide rates in the United States were 42.7 times higher than in the other countries. For US males, firearm homicide rates were 22.0 times higher, and for US females, firearm homicide rates were 11.4 times higher. The US firearm suicide rates were 5.8 times higher than in the other countries, though overall suicide rates were 30% lower. The US unintentional firearm deaths were 5.2 times higher than in the other countries. Among these 23 countries, 80% of all firearm deaths occurred in the United States, 86% of women killed by firearms were US women, and 87% of all children aged 0 to 14 killed by firearms were US children.

Homicide, suicide, and unintentional firearm fatality: comparing the United States with other high-income countries, 2003. - PubMed - NCBI

Fuck yo archivist: Birds saved centuries old documents in their nests

Their duties were not necessarily onerous; their chief function often seems to have been just to look decorative.

Found this nice bit of slavery apologia while looking up the residential history of the global majority in England/Wales (via BBC - History - British History in depth: The First Black Britons)

Fantastic feature about fast food labor from Eater: One Day at Panda Express

#fast food #minimum wage #labor #fightfor15 #panda express

abandonedbanana

So many banana peels, not enough bananas

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Coincidental Incidents #6

Crash (2004)

Ludacris, portraying a carjacker, attempts to steal a Lincoln Navigator from Terrence Howard, a TV director.

Result: Terrance Howard beats up Ludacris and takes his gun.

Hustle & Flow (2005)

Ludacris, an established Memphis crunk rapper, hires Terrence Howard, a pimp, dealer, and aspiring rapper, as his weed man for a Fourth of July homecoming party. Howard takes the opportunity to give Luda his mixtape. Luda accepts the tape, but later dumps it in the toilet behind Howard’s back.

Result: Terrance Howard takes Ludacris’ gun and beats him with it.

Empire “Without a Country” (2015)

Ludacris, a corrections officer, confiscates a laptop from Terrance Howard, an imprisoned record label owner, that contains the masters to a track he recorded while serving time. Finally, a situation where Terrance Howard can’t lay a finger on Ludacris or his gun without some serious repercussions.

Result: Terrance Howard’s lawyer has his men on the outside pistol whip Ludacris into submission.

When will you learn Luda? When will you learn?

I worry about lichen. I worry about the stuff that grows on your roof. They basically eat rock and they breathe sunlight. And there’s rocks and sunlight on Mars.

Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at NASA Is to Keep It That Way. - The New York Times

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