โBelieve in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.โ
#FoxLied
Happy birthday to Buddy Rich, born on this day in 1917!
A jazz drumming legend whose love for rhythm, sparked as a toddler tap-dancing in Brooklynโs vaudeville scene, made him a child prodigy by age four.
Leading his own big band and dazzling with lightning-fast technique, he powered swing for Tommy Dorsey and later his own ensembles, with virtuosic solos on albums like Swinginโ New Big Band (1966), redefining jazz drumming and inspiring generations with his unmatched showmanship.
A brinicle, also known as an ice stalactite, is an underwater icicle formed in polar regions when supercooled, saline water seeps from sea ice, creating a downward flow that freezes surrounding seawater and anything in its path.
๐ฝ: BBC, Frozen Planet
Blues masters arrive in Europe for the American Folk Blues Festival tour. Memphis Slim, Otis Spann, Muddy Waters, Bill Stepney, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Matt Guitar Murphy; Big Joe Williams, Len Kunstadt, Victoria Spivey, Willie Dixon.
Photo courtesy AFBF program
Bernie Sanders is right.
Kamala Harris didnโt even talk about a public option, let alone a plan for achieving universal health care.
It was an awful campaign focused on the wrong issues.
Say what you like about Banksy, but with these two pictures, he's managed to sum up the attitude of 'British democracy' to free speech when it comes to Israel and the genocide in Gaza.
Trotsky once said that art must tell the truth. I'd say he's met that standard.