Steve miller & milt Jackson – born to be blue (mel torme)

Some folks were meant to live in clover But they are such a chosen few And clovers being green Is something I've never seen 'Cause I was born to be blue

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MIMIMI

AROEIRA

 

 

BRUNO AZIZ

 

 

 

  

NANDO MOTTA

 

 

Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia / Scarlet Begonias / Fire On The Mountain...

IN MEMORIAM BOB WEIR

Sugar Magnolia blossoms blooming
Head's all empty and I don't care
Saw my baby down by the river
Knew she'd have to come up soon for air

Pra Quem Sabe Dar Valor - Carmen Miranda e Carlos Galhardo 1933

- Amor, representa uma riqueza
P'rá quem sabe dar valor
o amor é a nobreza!

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Códigos de conduta

LAERTE

 

Elie Mystal

 In News Unrelated to the Current Chaos

Earth’s oceans once again shattered heat records last year. It’s difficult to understand just how much extra heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. Here’s how Hawaii-based reporter Jeremy Yurow put it: “The amount of heat the oceans soaked up last year is difficult to comprehend: 23 zettajoules more than 2024. That’s roughly the same amount of energy the entire world uses in 37 years.”

That’s 37 years of Earth’s total energy output being sunk into our oceans in one year.

People will die: Hotter oceans lead to worse storms.

People will starve: Hotter oceans kill coral reefs, which devastates coastal fishing.

People will drown: Hotter oceans lead to more ice melting and rising sea levels.

Oh, and at some unknown tipping point, desalinated ice water will interrupt the Gulf Coast current and turn coastal North America, which is heated by warm water coming up from the Gulf OF MEXICO, into an icebox.

But none of this will bother Elon Musk or any of the tech bros who are consuming as much power as possible to produce AI-generated child porn. None of this will bother Joe Manchin or any of the coal bros who make billions off of greenhouse gas–producing power. None of this will bother Donald Trump, who can’t blame rising sea temperatures on Somali immigrants in Minnesota.

This should be urgent news, but nobody in power in our country is doing a damn thing to stop it. That’s why I’ve classed this unmitigated existential horror as  “unrelated to the current chaos.” It’s not even a real issue to the people with the political power to do anything about it.

Like I said, I’m pretty gripped by despair right now. I’m part of a failed party, a failed country, and a failed species. No matter how wide I open the aperture of the lens to let the light in, everything appears bleak.

I won’t give up, though. I have children. I have to properly model “fighting despite unwinnable odds,” because that is going to be their whole life.

Worst Argument of the Week

ELIE MYSTAL

Donald Trump gave an interview to The New York Times in which he talked about the 1964 Civil Rights Act. I’ll just quote him: “White people were very badly treated, where they did extremely well and they were not invited to go into a university to college.… So I would say in that way, I think it was unfair in certain cases.”

And, there’s more: “I think it was also, at the same time, it accomplished some very wonderful things, but it also hurt a lot of people—people that deserve to go to a college or deserve to get a job were unable to get a job. So it was, it was a reverse discrimination.”

You don’t have to be an expert in white supremacy to understand the core animus Trump is expressing here: White people “deserve” jobs, opportunities, and anything else they want. Non-white people do not. Any non-white person who holds a position holds it at the expense of some more deserving white person, and that is “unfair” to the white person.

Folks, that’s MAGA. That’s Trumpism. That’s the whole freaking reason Trump has been part of our lives for a decade, right there. Any explanation or analysis that seeks to explain Trump without understanding his core racial beliefs, and how popular those racial beliefs are with his racist fans, fails its first contact with reality.

White folks like Trump will never accept equality. They will always see a non-white person as less deserving than a similarly situated white person. All Trump has done is expose that there are more white people who are like Trump than white people would have you believe.

Most white Democrats are still struggling with what to do with this information. But I’ve had 10 years to process it, and I’ve come to one overarching conclusion: fuck ’em. If a majority of whites will not accept equality, then the majority of whites must be defeated by everybody else.

It’s that simple. It’s always been that simple. A majority of whites have never accepted equality. They’ll never like it. But they can be forced to deal with it. NATION

In ICE Cold Blood

Jeffrey St. Clair

Many of the people who have spent the last five years denouncing the killing of Ashli Babbitt for raiding the Capitol in an attempt to overturn an election are celebrating the murder of Renee Nichole Good, a terrified mother killed by masked men from unmarked cars who chased her down a neighborhood street and shot her in the face.

At 9:30 on Wednesday morning, Renee Good was sitting in her Honda Pilot, with her life partner and dog, on Portland Avenue in the Central neighborhood of Minneapolis, when two unmarked cars approached her. Good waved her hand, signaling for the unmarked cars to go around her. Instead, they stopped.  Masked men got out. Good told them: “I’m pulling out.”

As two of the men advanced near her maroon Pilot, one of them told her to “Move, move, move,” while the other shouted, “Get out of the fucking car.” These contradictory instructions are a frequent tactic, since, however you respond, you violate one of the orders, and offer an excuse for escalation.

One of the masked men tried to open the passenger door and reach through the window toward Good. Another of the agents walked casually around Renee’s SUV holding his cellphone above his shoulders, filming the encounter, as many ICEmen have been ordered to do by DHS so the agency and the White House can use the footage for social media propaganda. This is the man who would moments later shoot Good. Good put her car in reverse, backed up a little, then pulled forward slowly, turning away from the masked ICE agent who was slightly in front of her. He moves out of the way, almost casually. As the officer who would kill her seconds later stood outside the window of her Honda, Good said, “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you. Then the officer dropped his cellphone, grabbed his gun, fired three shots into Good’s car, hitting her in the face, and grunted, “Fuckin’ bitch.”

As she slumped forward, her foot reflexively pressed down on the accelerator and the car lurched forward, hitting a parked car and a light pole a few yards down the street, where it came to a rest. Her partner was heard screaming, “They’ve killed my wife! “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do. They shot her in the head.”

A bystander who witnessed the shooting rushed forward to help, but was stopped by an ICE agent. The man said he was a doctor and could render medical aid to the woman who was shot. The ICE agent responded brusquely: “I don’t care,” and ordered him to stay back. Fifteen minutes passed until an ambulance pulled onto Portland Avenue. But it was blocked from coming to Good’s aid by ICE vehicles. Finally, two paramedics trekked through the snow to the scene of the shooting, where they tried to treat Good’s fatal wounds. She was later pronounced dead at Hennepin Hospital.

Before her blood was even dry, the President and his henchmen had smeared this bright young woman, this mother and poet, as a domestic terrorist, as an attempted assassin, as a leftist thug. They smeared her before knowing anything about her, what she’d done that day, how she lived her life, who she loved and cared for, what her friends and neighbors and colleagues thought of her. To Trump and his minions, she was an obstacle, someone standing in the way and, therefore, someone who deserved whatever she got, even if it was a bullet in the face.

Now the FBI is blocking Minnesota law enforcement officials from analyzing evidence from the shooting. You wonder why they bother. What is there to hide? 

The murder of Renee Good happened in plain sight. We’ve all seen it from various angles. There was no one in front of Good’s car when she pulled out. No one was run over. The shots were fired from the side, not the front of her Honda. The ICE agent shot her and he walked away. He didn’t limp. He didn’t flinch in pain. He simply walked away. He didn’t seek treatment from the paramedics on the scene. Or show any wounds to his fellow agents. He just walked away.  He walked around the scene for three minutes. Then he got in a car and left. (The Intercept identified the alleged shooter as Jonathan Ross, an ICE agent based in St. Paul.) Renee Good was denied medical care and left to bleed out in her car. There’s nothing left to cover up.

Renee Nicole Good. Photo: Old Dominion University English Department/Facebook.

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PERIFÉRICA l AVA ROCHA l TRANÇA ( 2018 )

Me vi dormindo do lado de fora

Me vi dormindo do lado de fora de mim

A minha trança balança na velocidade de um trem

A minha trança balança na velocidade de um trem

Masterpiece - Temptations

Where I was born, everything was dull and dingy (I ain't got none, job)
I lived in a place they called "The Inner City" (can't find one)
Getting ahead, huh, was strictly a no-no (the streets raised me from a baby)
'Cause nobody cares what happens to folks that live in the ghetto

Rich Fag Jew

MARIO BAGG

 

TRUMPZILLA

JBOSCO

 

 

 

 

A Venezuela e a continuidade de uma ‘era perversa’

 

 

"Aqui começa a explicação da pressa. Como reconheceu artigo do Financial Times (edição de 7/1/2026, de John Paul Rathbone), Cuba não tem onde comprar óleo com as sanções americanas, fora da Venezuela. E usa óleo para gerar energia como for possível. Na maioria dos dias, os cortes de energia são de 18 horas, mesmo em Havana. Nos cálculos de Trump, sem uma gota de petróleo venezuelano, o regime cubano “está com os dias contados”, como garantiu o senador republicano Lindsay Graham, ao lado de sorridente Trump

Uma debacle do regime cubano fará uma reviravolta eleitoral nos EUA, não só nas eleições de novembro. Nos estados pêndulos, especialmente a Florida, o voto latino terá um viés trumpista, mesmo com inflação. Poderá ser decisivo. E mais, poderá construir uma opção “fortíssima” da candidatura do filho de imigrante cubano, de extrema direita, Marco Rubio. Trump parece inclinado, nessa direção, para seu legado.""

LEIA O ARTIGO DE LEONARDO TREVISAN  

A Venezuela e a continuidade de uma ‘era perversa’ – Revista Liberta

If you ever wondered how Germans became Nazis, you’re seeing it firsthand with Renee Good’s murder

"I had rejected comparing ICE to the Gestapo, but we are at the point if you don’t do that, you are gaslighting people into not grasping how dangerous Trump’s ICE forces really are. They have now become Trump’s personal militia who will do what he wants regardless of law--including assaults and killing."

read the stack by DEAN OBEIDALAH

If you ever wondered how Germans became Nazis, you’re seeing it firsthand with Renee Good’s murder

Bem-vindos ao colonialismo 3.0

 

"entre 1884 e 1885, as principais potências ocidentais se reuniram em Berlim para decidir como elas partilhariam o território africano entre si. O evento foi conhecido como “Conferência do Congo”. Não faltaram discursos edificantes sobre tirar tais países da servidão, do atraso a fim de trazer o progresso e a liberdade. O resultado foi a consolidação de uma segunda fase do processo colonial europeu, que durou até os anos setenta do século passado, quando as coloniais portuguesas na África, as últimas pertencentes a uma potência europeia, enfim se libertaram.

Durante esse quase um século, os africanos e asiáticos conheceram bem o que o “progresso e a liberdade” europeus efetivamente significavam: saques de suas riquezas, genocídios, massacres administrativos, humilhação colonial. Nada muito diferente do que eles haviam feito séculos antes nas Américas, neste momento em que, pela primeira vez, o direito europeu se impôs como direito global.

Para quem imaginava que essa lógica abertamente colonialista e imperial havia ficado para os livros de história, o dia 3 de janeiro de 2026 está aí para desmentir."

mais no artigo de VLADIMIR SAFATLE  

Bem-vindos ao colonialismo 3.0 – CartaCapital

Grateful Dead - Truckin' (Live at Lyceum, London, England 5/24/1972)

Truckin', like the doo-dah man
Once told me, "You got to play your hand"
Sometimes the cards ain't worth a dime
If you don't lay 'em down

IN MEMORIAM BOB WEIR 

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O molho do baiano

CAU GOMEZ

 

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We really shouldn’t buy Greenland, either.

JIM LEWIS

Feeling his imperialist oats after having kidnapped a head of state so that he could take the country’s natural resources, Trump has once again turned his attention to Greenland, a large ice sheet controlled by the Kingdom of Denmark that Trump wants to annex because it looks really big on a distorted map. Trump reiterated early in the week that “we need Greenland” and his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, observed that “utilizing the U.S. military is always an option” that Trump could use to secure it. Our good friend Stephen Miller, meanwhile, gave a characteristically unhinged interview, saying that the U.S. has a right to take Greenland because “we live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Buddy, this is CNN, not an Xbox headset.

At least there’s been reasonable pushback, with European leaders formally condemning the saber-rattling and observing that an attack on Greenland would mean the end of NATO (perhaps a feature, for elements of Trump’s administration). Senate Republicans, by Senate Republican standards, have also been forceful in their rejection of the idea. One possible defense of what Trump’s doing, though, is making threats as a means of getting Denmark to put Greenland up for sale. Can we observe, before the savvy negotiator spin takes hold, that purchasing Greenland would also be absurd? It could cost in the trillions at a time when the federal budget is calamitous, higher interest rates and inflation have returned, and there are better things—really, anything else—to spend trillions of dollars on. There are real national security interests and economic interests involved in Greenland. The way to manage that is not to conquer the island but to reach an agreement with Denmark, which was our friend up until about 10 minutes ago.

THE SURGE 

 

Wagner Moura

 

 

HIPPERT

 

Glen Matlock

MARIO BAGG:

 

 

 

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Tres anos a Justiça caminhando

NANDO MOTTA

 

Bettye LaVette - Things Have Changed

Some folks would just go and jump in the lake
I ain't so eager to make that kinda mistake

People are crazy and times are strange
I'm locked in tight but I'm way out of range
I used to care but things have changed

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David Bowie: 10 anos após a morte, o camaleão ainda fascina o mundo

 

 

 "Mais do que conseguir orquestrar como arte a sua saída de cena, David Bowie foi uma das maiores forças criativas do que, a partir da segunda metade do século XX, ficou conhecido como cultura pop. Nascido em 1947, David Jones viu de perto a revolução do rock e logo percebeu que ela não estava calcada somente na música. Ainda em 1969, produziu “Love you till Tuesday”, uma coletânea de filmes promocionais de suas canções — algo que antecipou em pelo menos 12 anos a MTV. E mudou de personagem como quem muda de roupa ou cabelo."

LEIA OBIT POR SILVIO ESSINGER 

 

 

 

 

 

Wagner Moura's moment is now. He wants to bring all of Brazil with him

 

 

"“I don’t want to be the Che Guevara of film,” Moura says, aware of the connective tissue of a career still in ascent. “I gravitate towards things that are political but I like being an actor more than anything else.”"

 read interview with WAGNER MOURA
done by CARLOS AGUILLAR 

 

 

Sair nesse calor

RUCKE

 

A soma de todos os medos

 

Como a democracia chilena foi parar no colo do ultradireitista José Antonio Kast

 "A dinâmica da corrida eleitoral e o medo da criminalidade e da imigração ajudam a explicar o triunfo da ultradireita nas eleições presidenciais chilenas. Mas há ainda uma outra camada, mais profunda, relativa ao experimento institucional pelo qual o país passou nos últimos anos."

leia a reportagem de Roberto Simon, de Santiago 

Cassidy - Bob Weir (in memoriam)

I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream
I can tell by the mark he left you were in his dream
Ah, child of countless trees
Ah, child of boundless seas