Baltimore Salt Box update 3/30/21

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This one is really cool!! pic.twitter.com/nwG9hBxBsM
— 🧐 (@Priority_Planet) March 28, 2021

This is the third salt box tattoo I’ve seen. What have I done?! (So pleased.) pic.twitter.com/xwKIDtgpnN
— Juliet Ames (@thebrokenplate) March 28, 2021

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Covers: (There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me

“(There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me” was written by Bacharach and David. Dionne Warwick recorded a demo in 1963. There have been multiple versions but the first time it reached the top 20 was in 1983 when it was released by Naked Eyes in a synthpop style very different from earlier versions.

Fanny

A documentary on the pioneering all-female rock group Fanny has been released. I saw them perform in Pittsburgh in the early 1970s.

Covers: I’m a Ram

“I’m a Ram” was cowritten by Al Green and is on his terrific 1971 album Al Green Gets Next to You. Chris Stapleton covered it for a current Dodge Ram commercial. This web page has both versions – Green’s is at the bottom.

also:

Missouri Republicans are blocking Medicaid supported by voters

They don’t care what the majority of voters think. This is disgraceful.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson nixes voter-approved Medicaid expansion plan https://t.co/Neq7Vizaww
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 14, 2021

"Rural Missouri said no,” said GOP Rep. Sara Walsh. Making the quiet part loud: R voters r the 'real Americans" whose opinions deserve to drive policy even if a minority. Urban/diverse are more like an alien force trying to 'cancel' real US. Same impulse behind suppression bills https://t.co/Tn0I5h4rZC
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) March 25, 2021

This is an absurd violation of the constitution and Missouri voters’ will. https://t.co/M1br5j4lvJ
— Tony Messenger (@tonymess) March 25, 2021

Missouri House Budget Committee just voted not to fund Medicaid in Missouri. Voters chose to amend the Mo constitution to protect Medicaid from exactly this. Withholding Mo Medicaid funding is unconstitutional. The Missouri GOP doesn’t make laws, they make lawsuits.
— Genevieve Williams (@RGenevieve) March 25, 2021

With a member or two absent, every single Republican member of the Missouri House Budget Committee just chose to ignore our state Constitution (and Missouri voters) and vote against funding Medicaid expansion. Rejecting billions in state dollars and denying healthcare to 200,000.
— Rep. Peter Merideth (@PeterforMO) March 25, 2021

Pretty sure Kansas City and St. Louis are still part of Missouri. https://t.co/CzBmoEOXKm
— Bryan Lowry (@BryanLowry3) March 25, 2021

The big Republican argument against Medicaid Expansion is that able-bodied Missourians for some reason are less deserving of health care.

Lots of uninsured but employed folks in Missouri would finally have access to health care with Medicaid Expansion.

4/
— Elad Gross 🇺🇸 (@BigElad) March 25, 2021

the ticking time bomb of american politics, imo, is the fact that the electoral college offers a pretty clear path to overturning a presidential election https://t.co/Y06AGcyUpm
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) June 14, 2021

Covers: The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

“The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” is a British music song that was made popular by Charles Coburn. I know it’s in at least two films: Lawrence of Arabia (which I was watching on TV today) and The Magnificent Ambersons.

I have attached clips from both. In the Amberson clip, it is sung near the end. It is also at the end of the much briefer Lawrence clip.

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin was great. When she had her first big hit with “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)”, white rock fans like me had never heard anything like it. I got to see her perform at Artscape in Baltimore.

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Remembering Aretha Franklin, born on this day in 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee. Here she is performing “Rock Steady” on Soul Train in 1972. pic.twitter.com/02uhAaLgn7
— Dust-to-Digital (@dusttodigital) March 25, 2021

stevie wonder and aretha franklin at aretha’s 35th birthday party in 1977. ❣️ pic.twitter.com/XDyH3gnTFT
— maya cade (@mayascade) March 25, 2021

Black farmers only got 0.1% of Trump’s farm relief package

Report from @lreiley that should shut down, "Oh, no, there is no systemic racism." From the new Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack: “We saw 99 percent of the money going to White farmers and 1 percent going to socially disadvantaged black farmers." https://t.co/Bv2ysMKYSb
— Michelle Singletary (@SingletaryM) March 25, 2021

The House is holding a hearing today to examine the state of Black farmers, with new Agriculture Sec. Tom Vilsack in the hot seat.

Before the hearing starts, here’s a lesson you didn’t know you needed: the history of discrimination in the agricultural industry. pic.twitter.com/50GUmDchf2
— The Recount (@therecount) March 25, 2021

John Boyd, the head of the National Association of Black Farmers, calls on Sen. Graham to apologize for referring to relief money from the American Rescue Plan as “reparations.” https://t.co/VPKzZIrA3a
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) March 20, 2021

New: YouTube told me a wildly racist Steven Crowder segment mocking Black farmers didn't violate its hate speech policy.

I wrote about what that says about YouTube's hate speech policy, and its place in the media ecosystem. https://t.co/8P5IiudHXp
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) March 18, 2021

White farmers got 97 percent of last year's ag bailout. Now some are mad Black farmers are getting debt relief. https://t.co/uUARK0NdoQ
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 21, 2021

The #AmericanRescuePlan includes my Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act—aiding farmers whose livelihoods have been disproportionately harmed during this pandemic as a result of decades of discrimination & injustice. https://t.co/uXpkMTPbDP
— Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (@SenatorWarnock) March 23, 2021

After decades of Black farmers losing land and facing financial hardship, the House is holding its first hearing on the unique issues faced by Black farmers. The hearing is welcome but long overdue. Watch the event live at noon EST: https://t.co/gjx86YoP46 #BlackFarmersMatter
— Ben & Jerry's (@benandjerrys) March 25, 2021

Tiffany Cross analyzes the persecution Black farmers have faced in America as they receive relief aid.

“This debt relief will begin to rectify decades of broken promises and discrimination from the USDA that caused Black farmers to lose 90% of their land” https://t.co/VyiL86eDJC
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 19, 2021

Lawsuits from white farmers have blocked $4 billion of pandemic aid that was allocated to Black farmers in the American Rescue Plan. https://t.co/vp4eujN0Ai
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) February 21, 2022

Baltimore Salt Box update 3/25/21

“This exemplifies Baltimore. People call us quirky and I see that as a compliment… And part of the reason is because we'll take opportunities for making art in unusual places. I think that's really a kind of community social activism.” — Joyce J. Scott https://t.co/OUQvvrlJn8
— emily sullivan (@emilyasullivan) March 24, 2021

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New stickers and postcards ordered! #bigfuninBaltimore pic.twitter.com/0hn2syy6L4
— Juliet Ames (@thebrokenplate) March 24, 2021

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Winding down the Salt boxes this week (unless inspiration hits of course.) Just hit this box in front of the Smokestack Hardy Fire Station on McMechen Street. #saltboxart #baltimoresaltbox @BaltimoreFire @baltimorefire @BmoreCityDOT pic.twitter.com/uOIEMiOUR4
— Juliet Ames (@thebrokenplate) March 22, 2021

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The Baltimore Bicentennial Cake Failure

What a fiasco! In 1976, a 35-ton cake succumbed to rain and rats. This is a great history.

This account has a photograph of the cake.

The Baltimore Sun wrote about it in 2011.

Remembering when Baltimore celebrated America’s bicentennial on July 4, 1976 by sending a 35-ton birthday cake into the Inner Harbor on a barge and what the thundershowers didn't wash away—the rats ate.

How can you not love the '70s?https://t.co/07fhqYwKWd
— Ron Cassie (@ron_cassie) July 4, 2023