Rosa Parks

  

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks  

(February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005)  

was an American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.  

The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks 

'Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation 

 but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 

 believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge 

 after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws 

, and she helped inspire the black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year".

"Although widely honored in later years, she also suffered for her act; she was fired from her job 

 and received death threats for years afterwards. 

 Shortly after the boycott, she moved to Detroit, where she briefly found similar work. From 1965 to 1988, she served as secretary and receptionist to John Conyers, 

 an African-American US Representative.  

She was also active in the black power movement and the support of political prisoners in the US." 

"In addition to African ancestry, one of Parks's great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish, and one of her great-grandmothers was a part–Native American slave." 

"Repeatedly bullied by white children in her neighborhood, Parks often fought back physically. 

 She later said: "As far back as I remember, I could never think in terms of accepting physical abuse without some form of retaliation if possible."  

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Ride the bus for free, it's Rosa Park day 

The driver explains, I put away 

My monthly pass, sit in front 

With the other handicapped elderly 

Get to my destination in one peace 

Go back a bit later slightly more clean 

I forget and try to swipe my pass 

Oh no need it's Rosa day 

The I noticed all the men in blue 

The white men in blue black some orange vests 

Six keeping the ride safe 

They exit the next stop, one by one walk out 

The front door 

Goodbye Gurl one of Them

Says to the Driver 

They look like a full grown Woman to me addressing the Driver 

She looks back at me in rearview mirror 

As the bus cops linger, stare at me 

Thru the windows 

I've never heard a Driver called Boy, but similarly 

Worse, never thought I'd see the day 

Boys in badges would group  diminish a co worker

Couldn't pick their mugs out in a line shot 

All dressed spiffy in uniforms 

On a ride back to 1950 

Forest pints

  

"It had seemed like the perfect promotion to get a few more punters through the door on a Saturday afternoon – give away a free pint for every goal scored by Nottingham Forest that day.

But seven goals and £1,500 worth of pints later, Nottinghamshire pub landlady Beccy Webster realised she might have scored a spectacular own goal.

“It got to half-time and I thought: ‘Oh my gosh, I don’t know if I can carry this on.’  

But I decided I was sticking to my word,” she said. 

 “This is what I’ve said I’m going to do.  

Whether it’s four, five, six, seven, 10 goals, I’m seeing it through now.  

We ended up giving away 300 pints" 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/03/free-pint-when-forest-score-pub-loses-1500-after-seven-goal-rampage 

(And then added 600 to their next padded tab)

Fashion battle ready

  

Dumbfuck bigots

  

"Songer is part of the “constitutional sheriff” movement and asserts that he and other sheriffs have the authority to decide which state or federal laws to enforce. " 

"Other sheriff’s posses in the state include the Benton Franklin Sheriff Posse, where volunteers participate in training and meetings;  

the Mounted Posse Unit in Grand County, where posse members must be at least 21, have a valid driver’s license, and own a horse; 

 and the Asotin County Sheriff’s Posse, where members largely assist in search and rescue and do outreach related to outdoor safety." 

'some sheriffs across the state have already vowed to collaborate with ICE efforts to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans. 

 Songer posted a video on Facebook on Dec. 11 telling federal ICE officials to “put me on speed dial.” 

Pat Arnold, executive director of Friends of the White Salmon River, an environmental organization based in Klickitat County, echoed Nijhuis’ concerns."

“Posse members with handguns and handcuffs at their belts at public meetings 

 and events are scary,” she told lawmakers. 

 “We also fear that posse members will be involved in immigration actions in our county, and 

 uncertified volunteers should not conduct 

 hound pursuits, which are frequent in Klickitat County.” 

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/02/02/washington-state-bill-sheriff-posse/ 

'In addition to putting parameters around law enforcement volunteers, the bill also seeks to standardize expectations around eligibility and background checks for law enforcement leaders.

The bill, if passed into law, will ensure that all law enforcement officers in the state, no matter their rank, meet the same basic eligibility requirements such as  

having a high school diploma,  

being a certain minimum age, 

passing a background check,  

and being clear of serious misconduct, felonies, or  

convictions relating to dishonesty, fraud, or corruption. (Unlike POTUS Drumpf guilty of 34 Felonies)

McMahon, with the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs,  

expressed concerns about the constitutionality 

 of requiring a sheriff to pass a background check"  

before being placed on an election ballot 

 and the process for filling a vacancy if a sheriff is decertified and removed from office." 

Church Abuse Confluence Saints

  'Crisis communications’: emails show how NFL’s Saints and NBA’s Pelicans helped New Orleans church spin abuse scandal 

____

"initial allegations about the emails led to local and national media investigations, including by Sports Illustrated and the Associated Press,.

 that highlighted a fierce closeness  

between the sports franchises and the Catholic church in New Orleans.

Perhaps the strongest manifestation of that closeness was New Orleans archbishop Gregory Aymond’s serving as a signing witness  

on the testamentary will that positioned 

 Gayle Benson to inherit ownership of the Saints and Pelicans 

 from her late billionaire husband," 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/feb/03/new-orleans-clergy-abuse-investigation 

 

"The Saints’ proximity to the church spurred protests by clergy-abuse survivors 

 in front of the team’s headquarters and at the offices of one of the oldest Catholic archdioceses in the US." 

"Bensel also sought to convince media outlets to limit their scrutiny of a list that turned out to be so incomplete 

 it eventually precipitated a joint federal and state law enforcement investigation  

into whether the archdiocese spent decades 

 operating a child sex-trafficking ring 

 whose crimes were illegally covered up."  

 

They expose how extensively the sports teams’ leaders intervened in their local church’s most unyielding scandal.

In the most blatant example of that, 

 Bensel – the teams’ vice-president for communications –  

wrote an email to Lauscha on 1 November 2018, the day before the clergy-abuse list was released.  

Using common abbreviations for “conference call” and “with”, Bensel wrote:  

“Had a cc w [New Orleans’ then district attorney] Leon Cannizzaro 

 last night that allowed us to take certain people off the list.”  

"famously devout Catholic, prominent church donor and philanthropist 

 who recently won an NFL humanitarian award,  

Benson inherited the Saints and Pelicans after her husband, Tom Benson,  

died at age 90 in March 2018. He bought the Saints in 1985 and the Pelicans in 2012. " 

Benson, Zainey and Vitter – who is married to a former Republican US senator  

and had already been nominated to a federal judgeship  

by Donald Trump in 2018 and was confirmed to the post the following year – .

were among those sent copies of correspondence about that meeting. “Excellent!” Benson remarked. “Many thanks!” 

 

"The Guardian asked Cannizzaro about a 29 October 2018 typed message informing him of a call from Vitter.  

Vitter was “following up on conversation you had with Archbishop Aymond”, said the message left for Cannizzaro 

 just four days before the list’s release.

“If I was in a conversation with him, I would’ve been looking for any records he would have had relative to complaints made against priests so we could reach out to those victims to see if there was a prosecutable case,” Cannizzaro " .

One incident is too many 

One incident is too many 

One incident is too many 

One incident is too many 

One incident is too many 

One incident is too many  

One incident is too many 

One touchdown is too many 

One hotdog spill is too many 

One waterboy is too many 

One cheerleader is too many 

One tackle is too many 

One tithing is too few

One hail mary is too many, go long on two

One nun referee is too many 

One ad break is too many 

One priest coach is too many 

One team orgy is too many  

"Do any of you see an issue with this???” Bensel wrote.

General counsel Vicky Neumeyer replied: “I have to chime in that I don’t really like it.  

 I don’t want [Benson] to appear to be a puppet for the archdiocese  

because we have way too many constituents from all walks of life.” 

We are proud’

The Saints and archdiocese’s decision to coordinate their messaging  

created a headache for the organizations after it became clear that Aymond’s list had raised more questions than it answered.  

Numerous clergy molestation survivors came forward 

 complaining that their abusers were omitted from the list, 

 even in cases in which the church said it believed their allegations 

 and had paid them substantial financial settlements." 

The deluge of claims eventually drove the archdiocese to file for bankruptcy protection in the spring of 2020.

"That proceeding – which remained ongoing as of the publication of this report – led to more than 500 abuse claims against more than 300 clergymen, religious brothers and sisters, and lay staffers. 

 The archdiocese does not consider most of those as being credibly accused, saying it only has the authority to include clergymen – priests and deacons – on its sanctioned list.  

And it could cost the archdiocese hundreds of millions of dollars in payments to clergy-abuse victims to settle the bankruptcy, if the church even manages to do so successfully "

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/feb/03/new-orleans-clergy-abuse-investigation 

*** 

David Bruce Vitter 

 (born May 3, 1961) is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Louisiana from 2005 to 2017.  

A member of the Republican Party, Vitter served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1992 to 1999 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005. 

Vitter was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004. He was the first Republican to represent Louisiana in the Senate since the Reconstruction Era, and the first ever Republican to be popularly elected. 

 In 2007, Vitter admitted to and apologized for past involvement with prostitution 

 as part of a Washington, D.C. escort service which gained much notoriety 

 and while not affecting his 2010 election, is believed to have played a part in his loss of the 2015 gubernatorial election." 

Messaging "help"   

In early July 2007, Vitter's phone number was included in a published list of phone records of Pamela Martin and Associates, a company owned and run by Deborah Jeane Palfrey, also known as the "D.C. Madam", who was convicted by the U.S. government for running a prostitution service. Hustler identified the phone number and contacted Vitter's office to ask about his connection to Palfrey. 

The following day, Vitter issued a written statement in which he took responsibility for his "sin" 

 and asked for forgiveness 

 On July 16, 2007, after a week of self-imposed seclusion, Vitter emerged and called a news conference. .

As his wife stood next to him, Vitter asked the public for forgiveness. Following Vitter's remarks, his wife Wendy Vitter spoke, but both refused to answer any questions. 

In 2004, Vitter gloated brazenly and sanctimoniously that he had patronized church  prostitutes when front row seats and pews in the billionaire aerie were drunk on money and low, low hits. " 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Vitter 

"Wendy Vitter worked as the General Counsel of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans from 2012 to 2019, representing the body in all legal matters" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Vitter

Rufty tufty playing

  

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/02/soft-spaces-out-stick-fighting-in-dutch-call-for-the-return-of-risky-play 

'a new policy from the D66 liberal democrats proposes giving all children in the Dutch capital 

 access to outdoor play areas to climb,  

play with water and fire, 

 sword-fight with sticks,  

build with hammers, rope or knives, wrestle and fall. 

 “Rufty-tufty playing  

means that children might get a bump or a cut,” according to the policy – but it’s an acceptable risk, they say" 

"The inspiration, and it really is a huge problem, is that children are hardly moving,” said Rob Hofland, head of the local D66 and proud uncle of tree-climbing children. 

 “All kinds of problems stem from just sitting behind a screen.  

We see increasing numbers of burnouts and we are learning ever more about how unhealthy it is"

motor skills have declined so much that many children can no longer catch a ball. 

motor skills have declined so much that many children can no longer catch a ball. 

Challenging activity is vital for cognitive capacity,  

according to Erik Scherder, professor in clinical neuro­psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a member of the Netherlands Sports Council, which has called for 

 more government focus on playing outside.  

“What you can do outside involves motor function but also cognitive functions: the interplay between the two is challenging – and challenge is exactly what you need when you have a developing brain,” he said. 

 “Neurons should be stimulated each time in a different way, not just repeating the same thing.” 

"If you are always saying: ‘Don’t do that, be careful, watch out!’, you are taking away a lot of chances for development.”

Back at the play forest, Jackie recalled landing fully clothed in the water, to her brother’s delight"  

_______ 

"The sole purpose of the Saturday school was to help Black children who were underachieving or being failed by the education system.  

At that time, I didn’t know that these facilities were organised throughout the United Kingdom by Black parents, teachers and academics.  

In 1971, a London schoolteacher, Bernard Coard, wrote a pamphlet called  

How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System: The Scandal of the Black Child in Schools in Britain. " 

"By constantly campaigning and organising and demonstrating and resisting a system that failed their children,  

Black parents and teachers helped to eradicate subnormal schools, which undoubtedly I would have attended if this had not occurred.  

They liberated all children, Black and white, from being tainted with this ugly brush." 

"My second introduction to resistance was from my neighbour, Milton, who would always post various newspaper cuttings in an envelope with my name on it through our door.  

These clippings included articles about the miners’ strike and Maurice Bishop, the prime minister of Grenada who had overthrown the previous government in a revolution in 1979" 

My first demonstration was marching in central London against the introduction of student loans in 1988. 

 I remember the exhilaration of being in the crowd and chanting EDUCATION IS A RIGHT, IS A RIGHT, IS A RIGHT, IS A RIGHT, EDUCATION IS A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE!  

I was fortunate enough to grow up at a time when education was free for everyone" 

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/feb/02/steve-mcqueen-resistance-turner-contemporary 

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"We are getting the dirtbags off the streets.”  says Noem, pet killer 

 

Trump has mobilized officers from nearly every federal law enforcement agency and the US military to help carry out his long-promised mass deportation campaign.  

But he is also relying on his vast army of rightwing media personalities and influencers to make sure Americans tune in for the crackdown.

Immigration advocates and activists say the Cops TV-style content is a scare tactic.

“This is a publicity stunt to them,”  

Donald Trump’s secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem, well coiffed and clad in tactical lipstick.

Being in the US without legal documentation is considered a civil offense, not a crime 

 and advocates argue that people have the right to ask for asylum 

 regardless of how they enter the country. 

"It was a silver lining: the community began to organize.  

They chased Arpaio from office and then started to build their own political clout in the battleground state. Trump controversially pardoned the sheriff but he has failed to make a political comeback.

“It puts fear,” he said, “but it also forces us to take matters into our own hands and make the change that is needed for us to have a better community.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/trump-immigration-raids-propaganda

Normandale Park killing, political police lie, Wheeler

  

"The shooting victims were part of a community of antifascist volunteers that formed spontaneously in 2020 to 

 keep the racial justice protesters 

 who filled Portland’s streets day after day safe 

 by redirecting traffic away from marchers, a role known as “corking”, 

 providing them with emergency medical aid and using principles of de-escalation 

 to talk down aggrieved bystanders.

As the Guardian reported last year, public records obtained by Forensic Architecture revealed that 

 police officers responding to the mass shooting had been told 

 that it was an “anti-police protest”.  

Officers then treated the gravely wounded survivors of the attack  

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/01/portland-police-chief-apologizes

 more like suspects than victims 

 of a mass shooting.  

*** 

"survivors of the attack also fault the mayor at the time,  

Ted Wheeler, for public comments he made before the shooting, 

 in which he urged Portland residents to take their city back 

 from the racial justice demonstrators, and suggested it was time to  

“make it hurt them a little bit”. 

*** 

Portland police chief apologizes to mass shooting victims falsely said to be armed

Investigation first published by the Guardian proved volunteers at 2022 Black Lives Matter protest were unarmed 

"Following the shooting, PPB issued a news release calling  

the perpetrator of this violent act a 

 homeowner, when in fact he was not,” Day said. 

 “Additionally, the victims were mischaracterized as  

armed protesters when, in fact, they were unarmed traffic-safety volunteers”. 

 Day acknowledged that, 

 even after police detectives and prosecutors had viewed video of the assault, 

 recorded on the helmet-camera of one victim, and used it in court against  

the attacker, 43-year-old Ben Smith, 

 the false statement about a “confrontation” .

with “armed protesters”  

remained uncorrected on the police website"  

 

'One gunshot victim, June Knightly, 60, died that night; a second, who used the nickname Deg, was left quadriplegic.  

In July 2024, Deg, 32, exercised her right to die 

 by choosing to stop using the ventilator she needed to breath.'  

____ 

"FBI confirmed, for the first time Thursday, agents contacted Benjamin Smith in 2021 prior to a February shooting that left one dead and others injured. Now, a family member says they tried to report a death threat Smith made to police." 

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/06/16/fbi-confirms-agents-knew-of-alleged-normandale-park-shooter-cousin-tried-to-warn-portland-police/ 

 

'On Feb. 19, Benjamin Smith, 43, allegedly came out of his apartment and started yelling 

 misogynist slurs at a small group of people  

who were holding back traffic for a racial justice march. According to witnesses, attempts to de-escalate failed and Smith drew a handgun, firing at the group" 

 'Phone records confirm he made a three-minute call to Portland’s non-emergency line on May 10, 2021,  

nine months before the Normandale shooting.

R.J. Smith said he wasn’t surprised by the shooting because his cousin had recently threatened his life.

“His usual expectation was when he calls you an idiot you back down and when I didn’t that’s when he completely went off,” R.J. Smith told OPB. 

 “The specific death threat was, he said I was a fascist and that people like him were going to put a fascist like me up against a wall one of these days. 

 He’s like ‘I got the time for a road trip and you’ve got one incoming.’”

R.J. Smith said he believed his cousin meant that 

 he wanted to execute people he disagreed with."

"For years, people reported the alleged shooter’s violent behavior and racist outbursts to the FBI, which contacted him in 2021. " 

"Anti-fascist researchers discovered Smith was well known in the furry community for praising Nazis, the Proud Boys, and Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old from Illinois who traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin, and fatally shot two protesters " 

  

"Giant, looming figures stride across a wall covered with allusions to the life of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition and the Ku Klux Klan, alongside Nazi and Communist symbols, and tools of torture."

 

"long-neglected 1930s mural in Mexico that warns about the rise of fascism 

 has been revealed and restored – just as some historians say the world faces that threat once more.

The mural, which is titled The Struggle Against Terrorism, 

 covers a 40ft wall in a colonial courtyard in Morelia, Michoacán,  

and depicts a history of persecution and resistance from biblical times to the modern day." 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/31/philip-guston-mural-mexico  

"Painted in 1934, it was the first major commission for Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish, two artists born to Jewish immigrants in the US and living in Los Angeles at a time of political tumult." 

 "Fascism was coming in; the Ku Klux Klan was in Los Angeles.”

Just how two 21-year-old Americans – both of whom went on to become renowned artists – ended up painting a mural in a small Mexican city 

 is unclear, though it seems they were encouraged to go to Mexico by David Alfaro Siqueiros, a pioneer of Mexican muralism.

After the Mexican revolution (1910-20), artists such as Siqueiros and Diego Rivera, who was married to Frida Kahlo, 

 sought to tell the national story to a largely illiterate population "

 by painting it in an epic form on public walls and buildings. 

Anti choice Fascist RFK

 "RFK Jr says he would hire 'pro-life' people in his office 

Tim Scott, the Republican senator from South Carolina, said that he and Robert F Kennedy Jr had some “serious conversations about the importance of life”.

“You assured me that your deputies were going to be pro life.  

Is that still the case?” Scott asked Kennedy. Kennedy replied:

I will implement President Trump’s policies. I serve at his pleasure, but I share President Trump’s [belief] that every abortion is a tragedy.

Pressed on whether he will hire deputies  

within his Department of Health and Human Services 

 who will be pro-life,  

Kennedy said: “I am.” 

Not I Will?

Multitasking obfuscation fascism made super

  

Take the severance or a black hawk

Is guided into your flight path 

3 million federal workers 

Might start thinking of relocating 

What's a few ice skaters 

Executive blunders and criminal cabinets 

Deporting millions 

Prisoners make good free labor fighting fires, 

Building rebuilding homes 

A week in 

The tick goes for the bloody heart 

Take the buyout 

Busiest runway in America one way back to Wichita

My cousin Vinny makes a great 

Air traffic controller, see 

No hands musk 

Fire, rehire 

Or just play the market with the freed up dividends 

Want a visa 

Can you lay bricks and sheetrock while guiding air traffic  

You're hired, now go make me a hamburger 

After putting down that union sacred cow 

_____ 

Trump continued to turn what might have been a sombre briefing into a baseless rant against DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) despite no evidence of a link with the plane crash.

The president was backed to the hilt by transportation secretary Sean Duffy, who said “we can only accept the best and the brightest” in positions affecting passenger safety, and defence secretary Pete Hegseth, who echoed: “The era of DEI is gone at the defence department and we need the best and brightest.”

Then came vice-president JD Vance, who claimed “we want to hire the best people” who are “actually competent enough to do the job”.

Trump returned to the lectern to claim that “very powerful tests” for competence in air traffic control were “terminated” by Joe Biden.

CNN’s Kaitlin Collins asked: “Aren’t you getting ahead of the investigation?” Trump replied: “No, I don’t think so at all... I don’t think that’s a smart question. I’m surprised, coming from you.”

Another reporter asked why Trump believes DEI is responsible. He said: “Because I have common sense and unfortunately a lot of people don’t. We want brilliant people doing this. This is a major chess game at the highest level.”

____ 

We had a situation where you had a helicopter that had the ability to stop … You can stop a helicopter very quickly.  

It had the ability to go up or down, it had the ability to turn. 

 And the turn it made was not the correct turn, obviously, and did somewhat the opposite of what it was told,” Donald Trump said.

“They shouldn’t have been at the same height, 

 because if it was at the same height, 

 you could have gone under it or over it,  

and nobody realized,  

or they didn’t say, 

 that it’s at the same height … 

 It could have been 1000ft higher,  

it could have been 200ft lower,  

but it was exactly at the same height and   

somebody should have been able to point that out,” he added. 

___ 

"All six people aboard were from Mexico, according to reports, and the plane was registered there. Police said it was on medical assignment.

It was the second fatal crash in 15 months for Jet Rescue. In 2023 five crew members were killed when their plane overran a runway in the central Mexican state of Morelos and crashed into a hillside.

The Philadelphia 

 crash happened less than 3 miles (4.8km) from Northeast Philadelphia airport, which primarily serves business jets and charter flights. It came two days after a commercial airliner collided with a military helicopter near Reagan Washington National airport outside of Washington DC, killing all 67 aboard both aircraft."  

___ 

 " the helicopter was performing a “continuity of government” drill designed to help pilots “rehearse in ways that would reflect a real world scenario" 

The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter’s unit, the 12th aviation battalion, is assigned a mission to 

 evacuate top US officials from Washington DC 

 to secure locations in the event of an emergency.

Those locations include Raven Rock Mountain, a facility in Pennsylvania  

constructed in the 1950s for use as a command center in the event of a nuclear war."  

The FAA preliminary safety report found that staffing at the airport was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic”, 

 

April 2024

  

When you're houseless, everywhere is home. When you're heartless, every touch revives. I'm neither less nor more than a sum of my losses, without you. Gold sinks, water dances still. There are no strangers in our open morning, no friends bearing a true compass other than the baby sun and harbor moon. Silence can't be broken like a horse. Rope and saddle and wishes stay selfish in the pecking orders of mountains. My glacier thirsts for the ocean floor, shaggy with salt. When we're helpless, we help ourselves to suffer. When the polis eats us, we're political. A routine checkup checks all the Pandora boxes, unpostmarked by design. Everything done comes undun, washing the tomorrow clean of whence. Worn out thread becomes a nest, with effort feathers. I bark another tree, spin a yarn, and tumble in my bagworm skin. When rebooted, our toes map the cavernous naps and spatial tuck. When pulling oneself out of the tarpit, the tar comes along to the dino museum. It's free.  

 

April 2024

Escher drawing (1986-87)

  

like an escher drawing, a step

forward sometimes equals

three spits in the ocean

progress is metamorphic

checkerboards becoming fish that feather and fly into sharp

cubist angles

college is like eating antimatter,

books whiff and mix

with billing notices and when you need to move on,

the ground before one is a mime's ladder

1986, lawrence ks

Mineral men (2006)

 

i feel like a sack of shit slung to plug a levee

(emotions ain't real but they sure are heavy)

boil us down to carbon zinc iron copper

world market rates dollar eighty scooped from a hopper

in a warehouse built of fractals by god

illusions determine our form of sod

unplowed due to steep rocky terrain

fortify with obstacles the living brain

make thyself undigestible, monkey wrench

the stench associated with the bench

marks proving where turds skidded logs to float

milljobs to japan in islandsized boats

count yer blessings by the ounce and the gram

mineral vegetable mre spam

 

the dalles, spring 2006

Atlanta Cop City

  

"about 110 officers from five agencies 

 took part in the raid, 50 from Atlanta, together with a helicopter equipped with an infrared camera, ATV vehicles, and a K9 officer –  

to clear the forest of about 20 people.

Officers were told they were clearing the future site of Cop City, but the operation took place in a 140-acre public park about a mile away. .

The activists in the forest were labelled “domestic terrorists” 

 in the operation’s planning document – but only a handful had been arrested and charged with that crime, a month earlier. None have been found guilty, two years later.

Although the operation’s planning document repeatedly calls the activists who were camped in the forest “domestic terrorists”, the only notation under the planning document’s 

 “History of violence/ weapons” category is “[p]reviously attacked officers with fireworks and slingshots”.

Importantly, the document also authorizes officers to shoot pepper balls if they find a protester in a tree house, and that “[t]he pepper ball will not be targeted at the suspect, but at the area around them”. 

 It says nothing about shooting pepper balls into tents. Pepper balls can result in permanent injury, according to research. 

During the early-morning briefing nearby, they were told to allow any protesters they came across to leave, after checking their IDs. But an unnamed official changed the orders, telling officers to arrest everyone they came across,   

______ 

Reflecting on the activists, Shaer, the journalist, said: 

 “I’m not sure I’ve ever believed in anything as much as them. 

 The energy and life it gave them, the resolve they showed … People came to the forest and built a miniature city – it didn’t work forever; but it worked for a while. There’s something to admire ' 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/georgia-cop-city-killing.

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"I have known Bobby my whole life; we grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps bi ds of prey as pets because he himself is a predator,” she wrote, 

 before going on to say that his victims have included family members and the parents of sick children." 

"Caroline alleges that his “crusade against vaccination” has served to benefit him financially, and that his actions are hypocritical to what he publicly states.

She said that he had discouraged parents from vaccinating their children  

while in fact vaccinating his own children..

 He also influenced other members of the Kennedy family 

 “down the path of drug addiction” 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/caroline-kennedy-rfk-letter 

Hegseth Satan Wannabe Strangelove

  

"HegsethIn the recordings, Hegseth rails against “cultural Marxism”, feminism, “critical race theory”, and  

even democracy itself, which he says “our founders blatantly rejected as being completely dangerous”.

For much of the over five hours of recordings, which were published over February and March 2024, Hegseth also castigates  

public schools, which he characterizes as implementing an “egalitarian, dystopian LGBT nightmare”,  

and which the podcast host Joshua Haymes describes as  

“one of Satan’s greatest tools 

 for excising Christ from not just our classrooms but our country”.

Elsewhere in the recordings, Hegseth expresses agreement with the principle of sphere sovereignty,  

which, in CR doctrine, envisions a  

subordination of “civil government” to Old Testament law,  

capital punishment  

for infringements of that law such as homosexuality,  

and rigidly patriarchal families and churches."  

'In a discussion of sexuality, Wilson once wrote: “The sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party”, adding:  

“A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. 

 A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.” 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/24/trump-pete-hegseth-extremism

The church, Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship, is in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, the same community where Hegseth in 2022 acquired a more than 8,800 sq ft house standing on over 76 acres for some $3.4m,  

Their process of becoming a member of a church isn’t just showing up,” Ingersoll added. “You have to go before the board of elders, you get grilled on your theology and your conversion experience, and if the elders of the church agree to accept you as a church member, 

 you have to sign a covenant submitting to the authority of the congregation .

and through the elders.

“So if he didn’t agree with Wilson, he couldn’t be part of that church. They would kick him out,” she said. 

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William Gerald "Jerry" Boykin (born April 19, 1948) is a retired American lieutenant general who was the United States Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence under President George W. Bush from 2002 to 2007.  

During his 36-year career in the military he spent 13 years in the Delta Force and was involved in numerous high-profile missions, including 

 the 1980 Iran hostage rescue attempt,  

the 1992 hunt for Pablo Escobar in Colombia,  

and the Black Hawk Down incident in Mogadishu, Somalia. 

He is an author and visiting professor at Hampden–Sydney College, Virginia. 

He is currently Executive Vice-President at the Family Research Council." 

* 

 

"In February 2014, Boykin said in a speech that he believed that Jesus will return to Earth carrying an AR-15 assault rifle.  

Alluding to a biblical passage in which Jesus says, "I came not to bring peace but to bring a sword", 

Boykin said, "I believe now that the sword he'll be carrying when he comes back is an AR-15."

In another 2014 speech, Boykin said Jews are the "cause of all the problems in the world",  

which the Southern Poverty Law Center characterized as "an awkward attempt at humor". 

 During that speech, he also asserted President Barack Obama had sent "subliminal messages" to Muslims during his 2009 A New Beginning speech in Cairo.

During the 2016 presidential election campaign, Boykin first advised Sen. Ted Cruz. 

 Then, on September 6, 2016, he endorsed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump." 

Luca bible

  

'Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that  

women are not naturally inferior to men but appear to be only because they lack education. 

 She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.

After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay (by whom she had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement.  

Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38 leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts.  

She died 11 days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley,  

who became an accomplished writer and the author of Frankenstein." 

*** 

"That would make Luca a chemoautotroph: an organism able to make the chemicals it needs from simple ones formed in geological processes. But it could also have been a heterotroph, dependent on chemicals made in metabolic reactions by other organisms in the ecosystem. At any rate, the new study shows that Luca had quite a complex set of metabolic enzyme machinery: it wasn’t a rough first draft of life, but already a pretty sophisticated and refined piece of work, suggesting that it had already been evolving for ages. " 

Check, check, check, check, check, check ok more Chapelle

   

"Methods to address the needs of groups at a higher risk of suicide attempts. 

 These groups at a higher risk include youth who are  

grieving a death by suicide;  

youth with disabilities,  

mental health diagnoses,  

or substance use disorders;  

youth experiencing houselessness  

or out-of-home settings like foster care;  

and lesbian, gay, transgender, queer, or other minority gender identities and sexual orientation."   

https://oregonalliancetopreventsuicide.org/sb-52/

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"Searing city report recommends  

denial of PGE’s Forest Park transmission proposal" 

 

Searing flames 

Buried plans 

Good city  

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"The Restroom Access Act, also known as Ally's Law, is legislation passed by several U.S. states 

 that requires retail establishments that have toilet facilities for their employees  

to also allow customers to use the facilities if the customer has a medical condition 

 requiring immediate access to a toilet,  

such as inflammatory bowel disease or Crohn’s disease." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restroom_Access_Act 

 

"Before Adi’s Act passed in 2019, Oregon was one of only three states in the country that did not require schools to have a suicide prevention and intervention plan in place." 

"This bill requires each school district to adopt a policy that requires a comprehensive district plan on student suicide prevention for students in grades K – 12."  

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NO 8 

Member Party City Dist.  

https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2021/SB52/ 

B. Boquist I Dallas 12

L. Findley R Ontario 30

F. Girod R Stayton 9

D. Heard R Roseburg 1

D. Linthicum R Klamath Falls 28

A. Robinson R Grants Pass 2

K. Thatcher R Keizer 13

C. Thomsen R Hood River 26

White River Power Ruins, River yawns

  

Tourist on a business trip

  

 

Waiting to get my re-haired violin bow. 

FLB 

NE PDX 2025 

KKK GOP Nazi Musk Wall Street Accused

   

'The CEO of the Anti-Defamation League blasted Elon Musk on Thursday for a series of Holocaust-related jokes he posted on X,  

the social media platform he owns, just days after the nonprofit defended an “awkward gesture”  

he made that others have said closely resembles a Nazi salute.'

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"The flyers show a cartoon of Uncle GOP 

kicking at a family of five, including a baby and two young children. Uncle GOP 

is holding a document which says “Proclamation” and states: “We need your help. Monitor and track all immigrants. Report them all.” 

'We do not support or condone this type of behavior and if you feel that you are being harassed or threatened DO NOT HESITATE in calling and filing a police report " 

"I’ve never seen anything like this,” McKlain said. “It fresh Corporate." 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/22/kkk-immigrants-flyers-kentucky 

"Republican Trump signs order 

 to ‘repel, repatriate, and remove’ migrants amid wave of immigration action –  "   

The House has passed a bill to require the detainment of unauthorized migrants  

accused of theft and violent crimes. 

 It marks the first legislation that President Donald Trump can sign as Congress, with some 

 bipartisan support, swiftly moved in line with his plans to crackdown on illegal immigration. " 

"Documents from a Utah offshoot of the rightwing  

Oath Keepers militia  

show that two 2023 leadership meetings of the extremist group were attended by  

former law enforcement officers,.

 a serving prosecutor  

and a former elected official.

The meetings – whose minutes record discussions on “Helicopter Landing Zone (HLZ) Bird Training”, “Hand to Hand Training” and the “role of an armed responder” – 

 show how deeply intertwined the organization had become with  

conservative politics,  

law enforcement  

and the legal establishment 

 in the cities of Utah’s metropolitan Wasatch Front region and America."  

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/oath-keepers-utah 

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL, responded to a series of puns Musk posted  

evoking the names of famous Nazi party members 

 Rudolf Hess, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, 

 tweeting at the billionaire,   

"the Holocaust is not a joke "  

"After Musk touched the left side of his chest with his right hand and extended his arm upward, repeating the motion to the crowd behind him,  

the ADL defended Musk, saying in an X post he made an  

“awkward gesture in a moment of Fascism not a Nazi salute,” and urging “all sides” to “give one another a bit of grace and a large donation bandaid." 

Not a joke? Does that need to be said?

Neither Greenblatt nor the ADL commented further on whether they were rethinking their initial statement. 

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'Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations!

Some people will Goebbels anything down!

Stop Gőring your enemies!

His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler!

Bet you did nazi that coming " 

---Fascist Musk

49 five parody

  

"In 2016, he signed a $20-million-per-release comedy-special deal with Netflix and released six stand-up specials under the deal" 

In December 2021, Chappelle told the Yellow Springs, Ohio, village council that he would cancel his planned business investments, including his restaurant and comedy club, if it approved a zoning change to allow a multifamily affordable housing project.  

The affordable housing had been negotiated between the village and the developer as a condition of approval for its plan to build 143 single-unit homes. 

 Chapelle stated that he is not against affordable housing; he is against  

"the poorly vetted,  

cookie-cutter,  

sprawl-style development deal  

which has little regard for the community,

 culture and infrastructure of the village" 

 On February 7, 2022, he again spoke up against the zoning change at the council meeting held to vote on the approval, calling the council "clowns" and 

 reminding them that  

his business was worth $65 million a year " 

"Chappelle was offered the role of Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in Forrest Gump. Concerned the character was demeaning and the movie would bomb, he turned down the part. 

He parodied the film in the 1997 short Bowl of Pork, where 

 a dim-witted black man 

 is responsible for the Rodney King beating,  

the LA riots  

and O. J. Simpson's being accused of murder." 

"you don't need $50 million to live around these parts, just a nice smile and a kind way about you." 

 And 49 five.  

gypo logger

  

"Gyppo loggers were originally condemned by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) as strikebreakers.  

After the founding of a government-sponsored company union, the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, weakened the influence of the IWW on the logging industry, 

 attitudes towards gyppos changed, and they came to be seen by the victorious bosses and scabs  

as a normal component of the timber business in a  

less ideologically charged context." 

 

"A gyppo or gypo logger is a logger who runs or works for a small-scale logging operation that is independent from an established sawmill or lumber company.  

The gyppo system is one of two main patterns 

 of historical organization of logging labor.

 in the Pacific Northwest United States, the other being the "company logger" 

'The term "gyppo" is specific to the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada. 

 The word was introduced by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)  

to disparage strikebreakers and other loggers who thwarted their organizing efforts. 

 The IWW currently uses the term to refer to "Any piece-work system; a job where the worker is paid by the volume they produce, rather than by their time." 

"The gyppo is a man who 'gyps' his fellow workers and finally himself, out of the fruits of all our organized victories in the class war"  

By the early 21st century, gyppo loggers were described as "an endangered species." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyppo_logger

Giants, Hostages, basic food trade (progress

  

"Israeli forces have received the three female hostages who are now being escorted back to Israel under protection from security forces and  

an “elite” unit 

 from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). 

 They are the first returned in this first phase of the ceasefire deal, which should last for 42 days.  

Hamas said in a statement earlier that Doron Steinbrecher, 31, Emily Damari, 28, and Romi Gonen, 24 would be the first hostages to be returned as part of the deal." 

 "Joe Biden said that he was pleased to have his and Donald Trump’s teams 

 “speak as one voice 

 in the final days”  of Democracy.

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"US aviation giant Boeing has told BBC News it is donating $1m (£812,600) to an inauguration fund for President-elect Donald Trump.

Google and Microsoft have also confirmed they have made similar donations as the firms join a growing list of major American companies contributing to the fund.

The list also includes oil producer Chevron and technology  

giants  

Meta, Amazon and Uber. "  

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"after Peltier’s commutation was announced, he said: “It’s finally over – I’m going home. 

 I want to show the world I’m a good person with a good heart. 

 I want to help the people, just like my grandmother taught me.”

Peltier has maintained his innocence since he was arrested in connection with the deaths 

 and had for decades been supported by advocates for his release by  

Coretta Scott King, Nelson Mandela and Pope Francis." 

Skatepark versus general public

  

"That includes shutting down beloved Portland Parks & Recreation programs, community centers, and pools, and reducing park maintenance and trash clean-up to close a $23 million budget hole. 

 These cuts could be more severe if Portlanders choose not to renew a parks levy expected to go to voters later this year." 

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/01/17/portland-city-budget-shortfall-department-funding/ 

https://www.portland.gov/parks/construction/creston-park-skatepark-project 

https://www.portland.gov/parks/construction/berrydale-park-improvement-project 

 

"As WW has previously reported, the owner of the Ross Island Sand & Gravel, Dr. Robert Pamplin, leased the headquarters property, which closed in 2019,  

 to Portland Parks & Recreation. Parks is using the property as a storage and maintenance facility.Oct 19, 2024"  

"Ross Island Sand & Gravel leased the headquarters site to Portland Parks & Recreation beginning last September. 

 The lease runs for 10 years beginning at $48,000 per month and escalating annually. " 

"Portland Commissioner Dan Ryan recently announced that $15 million will be spent to build the Steel Bridge Skatepark. The 35,000-square-foot skate park will be fully funded through fees the city assesses on new development." 

In 2008, Weiner worked with Portland Parks and Recreation to create the Skatepark Systems Plan which would become the blueprint for the Steel Bridge Skatepark.

But as city funds dried up Howard Weiner, owner of Cal Skate Skateboards, helped lead those early efforts. He worked with community leaders to get city funds to conduct a feasibility study in 2001.   

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/01/15/portland-old-town-neighbothood-skatepark-skateboarding-skateboarding-recreation/

  

I love Portland

  

 On the same bus.

Water, water, gravity

  How climate-friendly waterwheels are coming around again 

 

"Waterwheels have been around for thousands of years.  

Formerly used to drive mechanical processes such as milling or hammering, they were a crucial component in the industrial revolution.  

Today, waterwheels connected to generators can produce zero-carbon electricity as they spin."  

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/17/how-climate-friendly-waterwheels-are-coming-around-again

 

'Decentralised microgrids connected to a mix of renewables including solar and waterwheel devices could, in theory, help remote communities to become energy self-sufficient.

The generating capacity of such wheels ranges from about 300W to 1kW, according to Erhart, depending on the flow of water. 

 During flooding, it is possible to set up the wheel so that torrents of water can bypass it, meaning electricity generation may continue uninterrupted."  

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"Cheonggyecheon, a stream that runs for about 3.5 miles (nearly 6km) through Seoul, was one of the earliest experiments in an increasing trend in cities globally: turning spaces where there was once car or rail infrastructure into spaces for pedestrians and cyclists.  

It’s a powerful example of the way that these spaces can become loved and popular, along with projects such as the High Line in New York,  

where an old railway track has been turned into a raised park, or the city moat in Utrecht, 

 where a multi-lane road (nicknamed the “motorway from nothing to nowhere”) was converted back into a canal,  

in part of a huge continuing push to allow pedestrians and cyclists to dominate the city’s centre."

"For more than 600 years, it served as the city’s vital waterway, managing floods and supporting daily life since the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). 

 But by the Japanese colonial period in the 1930s, it had become known as “the city’s cancer”, an open sewer that threatened public health.

After the Korean war, desperate refugees built shantytowns along its banks. In the 1960s, Seoul covered it and built an elevated highway" 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/17/seoul-cheonggyecheon-motorway-turned-into-a-stream 

"According to studies by the Seoul Institute, the area around the stream is now 3.6C cooler than nearby streets, creating a cool corridor through Seoul’s dense centre.  

The removal of the elevated highway created new wind paths through the city, improving air circulation. Air pollution dropped significantly, with nitrogen dioxide levels falling by 35%.

Wildlife has returned, too: a 2022 survey by the Seoul Institute showed the area now hosted 666 species, including 174 animal species and 492 plant species." 

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"The American Bar Association (ABA) has recognized that the Equal Rights Amendment has cleared all necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution as the 28th Amendment” Biden said.  

“I agree with the ABA and with leading legal constitutional scholars that the Equal Rights Amendment has become part of our Constitution.” 

Biden says Equal Rights Amendment should be seen as part of US constitution 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/17/joe-biden-equal-rights-amendment 

 

Crack lung, crack head, crack mind

  

"In crack users, acute respiratory symptoms have been reported, sometimes termed "crack lung". Symptoms include fever,  

coughing up blood 

 and difficulty breathing. 

In the 48-hour period after use, people with these symptoms have also had associated radiographic findings on chest X-ray of fluid in the lungs (pulmonary edema), interstitial pneumonia, diffuse alveolar hemorrhage, and eosinophil infiltration"  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_cocaine

Paranoia and anxiety  

are among the most common psychological symptoms of crack cocaine use. Psychosis is more closely associated with smoking crack cocaine than intranasal and intravenous use.". 

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'In March 2020, the city and county of Honolulu and the Honolulu board of water supply sued oil companies for violations of state law, including for creating a public nuisance and failing to warn the public of the risks posed by their products.

Defendants Sunoco and Shell, along with 15 other energy companies, have sought to move the litigation to federal court, arguing that state courts cannot rule on interstate pollution." 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/13/supreme-court-hawaii-fossil-fuel-lawsuit

Beaver dams, 12-2020

  

 

Dec 22, 2020 

Path 65 pt ii.

  

"The fire-prone areas of Malibu, he noted, might have been a publicly owned and managed park, had Frederick Law Olmsted Jr had his way. The architect had proposed turning much of the Santa Monica Mountains into public land. Instead the area remained privatized and isolationist, a playground for developers and homeowners’ associations.  

And each new house built higher into the hills further socialized the risks and privatized the area’s gorgeous benefits. The one morsel tossed to the broader public – typical for the region – was the Pacific Coast Highway, which 

 “gave Angelenos their first view of the magnificent Malibu coast”.  

As Davis noted, it also “introduced a potent new fire-fuse – the automobile – into the landscape”. 

,"his essay pairs Malibu – “the wildfire capital of North America and, possibly, the world”, as Davis remarks – with Westlake, which led the rest of America in “urban fire incidence”. 

 In an essay called Dead Cities: A Natural History, Davis pointed to the role that arson played in remaking many of the urban centers further east. 

 But LA didn’t need arsonists. It had lax fire codes, 

 homeowners’ associations constitutively hostile to apartments and apartment dwellers – and the Santa Ana winds." 

"This week, nearly 800 incarcerated firefighters battle the deadly flames for a daily rate ranging from  

$5.80 to $10.24 (plus $1 for active emergencies, apparently).  

All this while billionaires use social media to angrily demand why their water is running out and where their tax dollars have been going.  

Private firefighters have been protecting their clients’ houses using public hydrants. 

 Other services are sent out by the large insurance companies. " 

"What do you do with a region that has long fixated on the apocalypticism that slumbers in its everyday, at a moment when the apocalypse becomes normalized the world over?" 

"Joan Didion and Mike Davis understood LA through its fires. Even they couldn’t predict this week" 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/11/joan-didion-mike-davis-los-angeles-fires

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https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/11479099/9223322547978034463 

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/11479099/9223322547978034463 

Path 65  

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In the 1950s, blacklisted actor Will Geer had to sell his large Santa Monica home and move his family to a small plot in the canyon where they could grow their own produce. 

 Geer's friend Woody Guthrie had a small shack on the property. 

 They unintentionally founded what became an artists' colony. Since its founding in 1973, the Geer family has continued to operate the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.  

It has grown into an Equity theater, and occupies a natural outdoor amphitheater. It features Shakespearean plays, modern classics, and original productions, as well as musical concerts. Performers have included 

Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Della Reese, and Burl Ives. Odetta was part of the early music scene in the 1960s." 

'Topanga is the name given to the area by the Native American indigenous Tongva tribe and may mean "where the mountain meets the sea" 

 or "a place above."  

The name in the Tongva language, Topaa'nga, has a root topaa'- that likely comes from the Chumash language. 

It was the western border of their territory, abutting the Chumash tribe that occupied the coast from Malibu northwards. " 

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“I’m going to give you more water than almost anyone has,” he said. 

 There would be plenty of water for lawns at big houses in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, for farmers and to dampen the hills where forest fires burn, he said." 

 

https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article292941189.html

Uomo sex al Apache

  https://youtu.be/d3JE9zO0pg0?si=oR6SCZ12YHHyUhoz 

Bow Wow Wow 

1982 

"Uomo sex al Apache" translates literally to "man sex with an Apache" in Italian, essentially referring to a sexual encounter between a man and a Native American woman from the Apache tribe; however, it's important to note that this phrase is likely used in a derogatory or stereotypical manner, potentially implying a sexual fantasy based on outdated and inaccurate portrayals of Native American culture." 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/11/white-people-shouldnt-mess-with-it-native-american-church-laments-psychedelic-cactus-shortage 

Sex with fire looks like Malibu .