History is Cool

Post 35 & still fangirling #DCUniverse #StarTrek #StarWar #HungerGames #LOTR #Musicals & B&W films r what I talk about. #BTS 💜

[History is Cool @KnownGoodGeek]

Break it down:
Scooby doo was a show where teenagers/adolescents went around to small towns & exposed the greed & corruption of old white men & women
Make THAT the story
Don’t have supernatural involved have them ACTUALLY EXPOSING AND UNMASKING THE CORRUPT OF THIS COUNTRY!!

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1970, rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix died at 27 years old.

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix ,was a musician, singer, and songwriter. Despite a relatively brief mainstream career spanning four years, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music."

Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the US Army; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the chitlin' circuit, eventually earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later finding work with Little Richard, with whom he continued to play through mid-1965. He then joined Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after having been discovered by bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals.

Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the US after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the US. The double LP was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. He headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 as the world's highest-paid performer before dying from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.

Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored over driven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in developing the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began."

Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously.

In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year and in 1968, Billboard named him the Artist of the Year and Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005.

Rolling Stone ranked their three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Every cable channel should be talking about the fact that Wisconsin Republicans just OUSTED the duly-appointed top election administration official in the state without any justification for doing so. This is how our democracy dies & everyone should be alarmed by this fascism.

[Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner2]

Trump: ‘I don’t care that there was no election fraud, just say there was & leave the rest up to me & the R’s in Congress.’

McCarthy: ‘I don’t care if Biden committed no high crimes/misdemeanors. We’ll just open an impeachment inquiry & leave the rest to the R’s in Congress.’

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

As is the age issue. Let’s be clear, even if Biden was 90 (he isn’t) & even if he got money from Hunter Biden’s pals (no evidence he did), he still would be more mentally competent, less corrupt, & indicted for fewer crimes than the GOP frontrunner. There’s no ‘both sides’ here.

[Mike Scollins @mikescollins]

Streaming services are raising prices right now *hoping* you'll switch to the ad-supported tier. This lets them collect ad revenue like traditional TV without having to pay residuals to writers and actors like traditional TV.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Good job, Merrick Garland. Your weakness has orchestrated the indictment of a private citizen trying to overcome drug addiction so Republicans can try to hit a bank shot off of him to his loving father, all because you were afraid of looking "political" to Fox News viewers.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

I get Romney is retiring & doing his tell all book but—
1. We already knew all this. Him affirming it makes zero difference.
2. He's still in power. He can vote w/Dems & pass BBB, child tax credit, abolish filibuster, etc—but won't.

Talk is cheap. Let's see action for justice.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Marvel Studios’ visual effects workers have unanimously voted in favor of unionizing.

This is the first time a unit of VFX workers has ever unionized with IATSE.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Fun fact: Every government shutdown in the last 30 years occurred when Republicans had control of the House of Representatives.

Last time it happened, it drove people to food pantries and forced an $8b hit to the economy. They treat people missing paychecks like it’s no big deal

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Holy shit. Mitt Romney sent a text to "Leader" Mitch McConnell before January 6th, saying, Trump supporters would "storm the Capitol" & urged Mitch to ensure "sufficient security plans are in place." Mitch McConnell NEVER responded. Nothing screams more Mitch McConnell than this.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A senator, and former leader of his party, announces he is retiring and reveals he was paying 5,000 dollars a month for security to protect his own family from his party’s own voters.

Totally normal. No fascism here.

America and the GOP in 2023.

[Daniel Richtman @DanielRPK]

The studios are so fucking stupid. Just give the writers and actors what they want It will cost you a lot less than what you'll lose (and already lost) if you let the strikes go on

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

NBC News confirms: The FBI agent who oversaw the agency's investigation into Hunter Biden disputed, in an interview with House committees, key portions of an IRS whistleblower's claim that the Justice Department gave preferential treatment to President Biden's son. @MSNBC

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Three white male columnists who have never run for any office or run a campaign for any office or managed any staff want you to know that Vice President Kamala Harris should be dropped from the 2024 ticket and just happen to be publishing their takes at the same time.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

BIDEN PUNCHES BACK: The White House has issued a memo to leaders of the U.S. media:

"It’s time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies. Impeachment is grave, rare, and historic. The Constitution requires ‘treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.’ But House Republicans are publicly stating they have uncovered none of these things.

"After nearly 9 months of investigating, House Republicans haven’t been able to turn up any evidence of the President doing anything wrong."

The memo goes on to quote numerous Republicans who have stated that there is NO evidence to impeach. It also includes a 14-page appendix that "comprehensively addresses the 7 key lies House Republicans are suggesting they are basing an impeachment on.”

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