linkthink #9423: Off the Rock

The Wire’s War on the Drug War — TIME “If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence presented. … No longer can we collaborate with a government that uses nonviolent drug offenses to fill prisons…” (tags: tv thewire […]

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linkthink #4825: Like Food

Happy 15th Birthday, Jungle | Mashit DJ C celebrates jungle’s 15th birthday (tags: djc blogpost jungle mixes UK london 90s rave) Passing Strange – Review – Theater – New York Times congrats to stew on his broadway opening! (tags: theater race rock LA amsterdam review) Battleground States Conference Tellem « UNFASHIONABLY LATE analysis of the […]

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Prison, American Style

1 in 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars, New Study Says — For the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars, according to a new report. Nationwide, the prison population grew by 25,000 last year, bringing it to almost 1.6 million. Another 723,000 people are in local […]

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linkthink#76457864: Pitch Black Pitch Pipe

altmuslim – Our Obama problem “Muslims have found the perfect candidate, but cannot vocally support him for fear that if they do, they may be the reason he loses. How is that for a wake-up call.” (tags: islam US politricks af-am racism election08 obama) Red Bull Music Academy :: Ready D & Shaheen – Can’t […]

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linkthink #565687: Shadows and Acts

Q&A with Tay Zonday | Features | Mpls.St.Paul Magazine + mspmag.com pull quote: “That’s not a problem with the video, that’s a problem with the cul-de-sac.” :: awesome interview w/ the singer of “chocolate rain” :: (via todomundo) (tags: interview music pop culture blackness race representation art commerce media journalism critique video youtube internet narrative) […]

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linkthink #9449340: South American Jive

…My heart’s in Accra » Don’t stop believing filipino journey cover band singer becomes actual journey front man, leads thousands in stadium karaoke sessions :: awesome (tags: rock youtube blogpost awesome) YouTube – VIVA OBAMA 2008 barack obama hired a mariachi band for our wedding (tags: election08 obama texas US mexico latin youtube video) Poisonous […]

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Walk the Vote! Participatory Democracy b/w Civil Disobedience

from The Field :: Texas Republicans have worked overtime to make it harder for key Democratic voting groups to vote and be represented fairly. The redistricting games they’ve played are infamous. And for the Prairie View A&M University precincts, they put the early-polling place more than seven miles from the school. So what did the […]

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linkthink #739053: Hyphy Wifey Harvest

lower end spasm.: mix Thursday some bangin mixes, spanning juke, bmore, bassline, and dubstep :: fun at 140 bpm! (tags: mixes blogpost juke bmore bassline dubstep) lower end spasm.: MAD DECENT niche primer a couple niche/bassline mixes :: get up to speed (tags: mixes blogpost bassline house UK) Middle Eastern Fusions/Crossovers “Middle Eastern Influences in […]

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linkthink #853889: LOLdier Boy Tellem

Spannered | Globalistas Pt. 1 | Wayne Marshall | music | features | artist interview props to spannered for (re)publishing the full interview transcripts from camilo rocha’s piece on “globalista” DJs :: part 1 = me! (tags: interview global ghettotech worldmusic DJ internet) Spannered | Globalistas Pt. 2 | DJ /rupture | music | features […]

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linkthink #526373: It’s Meta, Baby

The Top 10 Rap Songs White People Love | Catsandbeer.com spot on (tags: hip-hop race whiteness pop videos humor) …My heart’s in Accra » Steve Bloomfield breaks new ground in Somalia reporting ethan z on somalia and US proxy wars: “I’m obsessed because I fear that Somalia is how America will fight wars in the […]

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linkthink #18t3965: Ninjabread Man Edition

Just to make things a little extra personalized in the age of linkthink, ‘low me to add, Sasha-style, a (generally) random photo for your imaginative conneckees — Sucker Free » Dr. Dre Drops A Mixtape vintage mid-80s dr.dre mixtape :: i could listen to these for days (tags: 80s hip-hop mixtape mp3s dre LA) Earplug […]

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linkthink #2578578

[::. TECNO RUMBA .::] – Descargas MP3 gratis, Videos variados, Imágenes para Hi5, Juegos, Programas, y más! media-rich spanish-lang social networking site: mucha merengue, reggaeton, remixes, etc. (via unfashionably late) (tags: p2p spanish media mp3s music merengue reggaeton remix) Slavoj Zizek – “Welcome to the Desert of the Real” Zizek’s classic Matrix(/Baudrillard)-quoting post-9/11 essay :: […]

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linkthink #4354626

Sound Taste: Friday Omega Carolina Gonzalez on merengue de la calle, aka mambo (tags: merengue DR blogpost mambo) Merengue de Calle AKA Mambo: The Sound of the Dominican Underground « GAY SOVIET TRON Y’ALL on merengue de calle, aka street merengue, aka mambo: “The tracks are stripped-down merengue rhythms (most sound right off a Casio’s […]

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Ovals for Obama in the Oval Office

A Dem primary that counts in Massachusetts? Featuring the most, yes, inspiring candidate for president I’ve ever had the hope to behold? Count me in. Count my vote. Count em up. Let’s gO! Just adding my voice to the chorus. A chorus which is increasingly musical. I’ve already pointed to some Obamaton, to that Yes […]

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Hordes on Shopping Sprees?

If by “liberal bias,” the NYT is accused of taking pointed liberties with the language they employ, well then, count me as another critic. Take, e.g., a couple recent items demonstrating the Grey Lady’s ongoing implicit prejudice against the plight of Palestinians (via the always astute, and acerbic, angryarab and leninology), dehumanizing and trivializing as […]

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Prodigal Guns and Hip-hop Cops

Mobb Deep’s Prodigy alleges he was set up by the “hip-hop cops.” Listen >>> … Pull quotes — The hip-hop cops, they all over us, son. … When they locked me up, they tried to get me to set up 50 Cent. … They told me to plant stuff in his car and they’d let […]

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