Alan Lomax was best known for his field recordings of American music and musicians from all over the world.
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Tweets on the potential for political violence
I worry mostly about the MAGA cult members.
Trump would politicize the civil service
This is just one of the bad things that would happen and another anti-government Republican may do it if it’s them instead of Trump. I am a retired federal employee (almost 38 years) and can tell you that non-political appointees (which is all but a few thousand) do their job regardless of who is president. Unlike Trump and his gang, civil servants respect the Hatch Act and don’t let politics affect their job. Trump has damaged IRS, the Secret Service, and the Post Office. I think he (or another Republican) would harm the whole government (and the services it provides to the public).
Biden undid the harm Trump caused at the end by eliminating Schedule F but it could come back in the future. There are a series of articles on Axios.
Covers: One Way or Another
The Museum of Failure
195 House Republicans vote against the guarantee of right to contraception
You don’t think the extremist Supreme Court (R) won’t try to eliminate rights like contraception and gay marriage? This is clearly the Republican agenda.
Great Twitter thread on crime in East Hampton
Nothing will convince Big Lie believers of the truth
It has been over a year and a half since the 2020 election. There has been no evidence of significant fraud. Yet, 28% still think Trump won. This isn’t going to change. Nothing will convince the Trump cult that he lost. At least the majority knows what happened.
VHS tapes are going for high prices
I picked the wrong side of the Beta-VHS video war. In 1983, I paid about $750 for the first Beta hi-fi VCR. It weighed 32 pounds and basically was an old VCR retrofitted with hi-fi design. In 1986, my house was broken into and the bad guys took the VCR from the third floor to the first floor and left it. Was that because it was too heavy or because it was a Beta? I did eventually buy a VHS VCR.
Covers: The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game
“The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game” (1966) is a great Smokey Robinson song recorded by The Marvelettes. Jerry Garcia, Grace Jones, and Blondie are among the artists who covered it.
Sad! 