Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – #creativity and #community
The UK's Channel 4 purchases a majority stake in a production company, Firecrest Films, for the first time; it will now be able to own British IP (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/channel-4-buys-firecrest-films-first-majorit…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Flying Mojito Bros:
🎵 Catch Me
#FlyingMojitoBros
https://flyingmojitobros.bandcamp.com/album/catch-me-ft-will-worden
https://open.spotify.com/track/7ajCawrPZVPSdxgQ8GlRhT
Failing to Make America Healthy Again
In the face of the worst outbreak of measles this century - due to vaccine mistrust he himself sowed - US Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr is gaslighting America.
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/failing-to-mak…
#Minnesota Pubic Radio (MPR) parent company cuts 30 jobs following federal funding cuts | MPR News (h/t akuzee@bsky.social)
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/08/15/m
No ceasefire, possible land swaps, vague security guarantees: Everything we know following Trump’s meeting with Putin: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/no-ceasefire-possible-land-swaps.html
Today in "please stop saying 'environmentalism' when you mean 'being a snob'":
Caltrans ranked hydrogen trains, a fossil-fuel derived vaporware technology, as more environmentally friendly than electrification, because they think overhead wires look bad. That's the actual reason. htt…