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Host of JB's Wild Ride, WHIV 102.3 New Orleans, 7-9 PM Mondays at whivfm.org. Host of the upcoming podcast Tales From the Riverbank - Great Stories of New Orleans Musical History. I also do kidlit stuff.
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Public schools in Utah banned a best-selling Jodi Picoult novel and ordered all copies destroyed. So ... Picoult arrived at a Salt Lake City high school this weekend with 600 copies of the book. And she gave them all away, for free. "Applause and cheers erupted." www.sltrib.com/news/educati...
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God Bless the United States of America. www.the-sun.com/news/1659084...
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Well worth your support: Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers chuffed.org/project/1865...
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Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
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Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
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This is more than legislation. This work is personal to me. theonion.com/illinois-bec...
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Heartless thugs preying on frightened people and their pets. Accountability will come for these cretins.
EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified. kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...
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Schedule for "Festing in Place" from WWOZ's recording archives -- October 2-5, 2025 -- Tune in at 90.7 FM or stream worldwide at wwoz.org - #wwoz #festinginplace #nolasky
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A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.
Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...
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