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D’Angelo, Groundbreaking R&B Artist, Dies at 51

Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 16h

I am quite emotional and sad right now. The news has just been released that D'Angelo, one of my favorite music artists for three decades, a modern master of songwriting, producing and performing, has passed away from cancer. I listen to him all the time.
pitchfork.com/news/dangelo...

From his 1995 debut Brown Sugar to his 2014 comeback Black Messiah, he helped define the neo-soul movement

pitchfork.com

Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 16h

Starting this week, over 2.25 million hard-working government workers will not be getting their paychecks because of the shutdown, and the GOP couldn’t give a toss; in addition, they keep trying to get millions of Americans and their families to lose their health care. Lovely. Satanic. 👿

Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 16h

Trump, RFK Jr and the Lemming GOP think that if you place your head deep in sand, get rid of all experts, info & news about pandemics, the problem will disappear, no vaccines will be needed & the saved money can go to a tax cut for the rich. Is this the gov’t you want protecting you?
(@nytimes.com)

Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 1d

I do wonder what she's thinking...MAGA realpolitik?

YouTube video by David Ackles - Topic

Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 1d

Here is one of the more neglected 70s singer-songwriters David Ackles,with his bittersweetly orchestrated 1972 song “One Night Stand,” probably the most romantic cinematic song about that topic ever written. And gorgeous. Can imagine the scenes in my mind...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XDw...

One Night Stand

‘A coup is happening’: A new warning against Trump’s authoritarian slide

Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 1d

“Forty academics were dismissed over their posts about Charlie Kirk. I’m not aware of such mass firing of academics in the McCarthy era…this is much worse [today]. We’ve had countless people fired across countless industries [for this].”
--scholar Jason Stanley
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk3D...

‘A coup is happening’: A new warning against Trump’s authoritarian slide

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Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 1d

Scholar Jason Stanley and Ali Velshi present a compelling case about how Trump and his aides are repeatedly casting “all political opposition as terrorists” and setting up a coup for themselves, as their political ideas are becoming more and more unpopular.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk3D...

Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 1d

The New Testament October 2025:

Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 1d

Obama on a podcast today: orgs that conceded to Trump should be able to say: “We’re not going to be bullied into saying we can only hire and promote people based on some criteria cooked up by Stephen Miller...it’s important, because of what this country is, to hire people from different backgrounds”

Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 1d

Obama on a podcast today: orgs that conceded to Trump should be able to say: “We’re not going to be bullied into saying we can only hire and promote people based on some criteria cooked up by Stephen Miller...it’s important, because of what this country is, to hire people from different backgrounds”

Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 1d

@nicollewallace.bsky.social just began her program by showing Joe Rogan, Marjorie Greene and their discomfort with how ICE is violently treating innocent Hispanic Americans: “Plenty to dislike about Joe and Marjorie. But if we could have done this on our own, we wouldn’t be here.” Amen, sis.

Dangerous new MAGA lie: Republicans SMEAR peaceful protesters as ‘terrorists’

Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 1d

The reality is: Trump & GOP can’t handle criticism, and they know their recent rip-off budget plans deserve to be protested passionately by working Americans and families.

Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 1d

Trump administration & @GOP are spreading startling dangerous lies about the 2nd *PEACEFUL* “No Kings” protest this year occurring next weekend. They’re “painting patriotic [free speech] protesters as literal terrorists,” “evil,” “violent,” “pro-Hamas.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRC8...

Dangerous new MAGA lie: Republicans SMEAR peaceful protesters as ‘terrorists’

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Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 1d

Trump administration & @GOP are spreading startling dangerous lies about the 2nd *PEACEFUL* “No Kings” protest this year occurring next weekend. They’re “painting patriotic [free speech] protesters as literal terrorists,” “evil,” “violent,” “pro-Hamas.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRC8...

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

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Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 1d

I too celebrate the return of 20 living Israeli hostages, but Trump as usual is massively ignorant and mean. It's no "dawn" for majority of Palestinians who have nothing to come home to, or for Israelis who are now, thanks to Netanyahu, forever associated with massive war crimes.
(@WashingtonPost)

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Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 2d

"Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future...At least 10% of Gaza’s population has been either killed or injured and that is a conservative estimate."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 2d

October 2025 Garry Trudeau

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Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 2d

…and at 4:10 in the video below, look at the FACTS economist @StevenRattner gathers on the MANY rural hospitals that will cruelly be forced to close if the @GOP budget plans on health care are passed. Let your Republican pals know.

Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 2d

Since 2022, biggest increase in Obamacare/ACA sign-ups was in red states by far--they take advantage of that federal aid much more than blue states. Most Americans, most MAGAs support the ACA credits. Which makes GOP's budget look like dumb self-sabotage.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnn8...

Steve Rattner: Red states use Obamacare more; health care cuts hit red states hardest

Steve Rattner: Red states use Obamacare more; health care cuts hit red states hardest

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Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 2d

Since 2022, biggest increase in Obamacare/ACA sign-ups was in red states by far--they take advantage of that federal aid much more than blue states. Most Americans, most MAGAs support the ACA credits. Which makes GOP's budget look like dumb self-sabotage.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnn8...