Tom Sparks

We live in the Interregnum between Corporate Overlords and the Populist Demigods.

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

My parents sent me to America alone at 16 because they believed in what this country promised.

That promise wasn't about where you were born. It was about what you were willing to build.

Immigrants have been building this country since before it was a country. And for 250 years, every generation has had to fight to keep that door open.

This administration wants to slam it shut. Ban pregnant women. Strip birthright citizenship. Criminalize the very legal pathways that brought people like me here.

We will fight that xenophobia.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Two protestors have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building with a flag that reads:

"When the power of love beats the love of power, the world will know peace."

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Pressure works.

[Save Our Citizenships 🔻 @LetsStopC9]

⁨Asking The Oppressed To Be Peaceful Is An Act Of Violence In Itself

Angela Davis exposed the violence, ripped the mask off white innocence, and reminded the world that asking the oppressed to be peaceful while they’re hunted is itself an act of violence.

This iconic interview was recorded in the spring of 1972 inside a California state prison cell, where Angela Davis was being held during her high-profile trial.

When Polite Questions Ignore Bloody Reality…⁩

[Hiroaki Goto 後藤博亮🇨🇿🎻 @HiroakiGoto1]

ピアソラ本人が弾くリベルタンゴの鬼気迫るグルーヴで1日を始めようぜ

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

On this day in 2016, Muhammad Ali, the greatest boxer to ever live, passed away. He was not only a boxing champion, but also a champion of the oppressed. Here he is explaining why he refused to fight in the US’ imperial war on Vietnam🇻🇳:

‘My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother…some poor hungry people in the mud, for big, powerful America…they never called me n*****, they never lynched me.’

[Jeff Weiss @Passionweiss]

One of the two known videos of Jimi Hendrix playing acoustic (1967) - allegedly, the video was made after a photoshoot where the photographer brought him a special 12-string guitar, strung upside down to adapt to Jimi's left-handed playing.

[Tom Sparks @tsparks]

https://t.co/GqqYTLFIgs

[Love Classical Music and Movies 🎺🎻💖🎥🎬 @AlexTran677026]

Ennio Morricone recorded this masterpiece in Rome. The soundtrack of a lifetime.
For A Few Dollars More | Ennio Morricone | 1965

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.”

James Baldwin

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

In Italy, Charlotte de Witte threw a free 20,000-people rave in Genova. Organized by the City of Genoa supported by Mayor Silvia Salis, who was also dancing backstage, the event is part of a wider campaign to bring music back into urban spaces. This is what your government could do for you.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Thelonious Monk dancing is peak jazz

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity.”

— William S. Burroughs

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“A person afflicted with nationalism believes that his own country is the most civilised and humane country in the world while its enemies are guilty of every imaginable atrocity and vileness. Since they are so vile and atrocious, while we are so civilised and humane, there is no degree of vileness and atrocity which we may not legitimately practise towards them. This is the underlying creed of nationalism.”

― Bertrand Russell

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

I love that David Bowie's and Brian May's reactions were captured when Annie Lennox gives it everything, and that George Michael singing along in the back!

Fantastic video and the very best music.

[Huey K. Bridgeforth(@huey-bridgeforth.bsky.social) @hkb73]

Norman Rockwell painting "Southern Justice (Murder in Mississippi)." It depicts the final moments in the lives of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights workers killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan over 50 years ago for registering people to vote.

[Tom Sparks @tsparks]

Francis Bacon: Great Art Explained: Study after Velázquez https://t.co/vCwzp9dfF3 via @YouTube

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they wanted, then they wouldn’t be the audience, they’d be the artist.”

— Alan Moore

[Saganism @Saganismm]

When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave an answer that redefined what it means to be a civilized society.

It wasn’t about politics or ideology.

[ana @pelicinema]

i don’t think there has been anyone as mesmerizing as jeanne moreau walking the streets of paris looking for her lover as miles davis’ jazz score guides her along in elevator to the gallows (1958)