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From their debut 1980 album
⭐️I Just Can't Stop It,
the wonderful Birmingham
ska-reggae outfit,
best known for their hit
⭐️Mirror In The Bathroom,
was among the 2 Tone label's finest bands
(alongside ❤️The Specials).
They released this upbeat and unambiguous protest against the Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher after her first year in office.
Although she stayed in power for more than a decade,
changing the pol…

The Beat – Stand Down Margaret — Song Bar
Song of the Day:  A political, but prescient number from their debut 1980 album I Just Can't Stop It, this wonderful Birmingham ska-reggae outfit, best known for their hit Mirror In The Bathroom, was among the 2 Tone label's finest

Woah. I just found out that Sanae Takaichi wrote a book in 1994 about Hitler's electoral strategy as a blueprint for winning elections in the modern age, with *citations from Mein Kampf*. She also posed with a Holocaust denier in 2014.
https://www.france…

Sanae Takaichi, l'ultraconservatrice qui se rêve en "Dame de fer” du Japon
La cheffe de file du Parti libéral-démocrate Sanae Takaichi est devenue mardi la première femme à accéder à la tête du gouvernement au Japon. Cette figure de la droite dure nippone, admiratrice de Margaret Thatcher et ex-batteuse dans un groupe de métal, est parvenue à s’imposer sur une scène politique très masculine, non sans choquer par ses positions ultraconservatrices et ses accointances révisionnistes.

Just finished "Dreams from Many Rivers" by Margarita Engle. It's a Latin-American history of the United States, written in poems that take on the points of view of a number of both fictional and actual people. It starts with the arrival of Spanish colonists in Puerto Rico, which was in fact the first part of the present-day States to experience European colonialism.
Its super informative and a great read to appreciate the complexities of history that ICE and the US white supremacist movement are trying to sweep under the rug. Like how the fuck do you deport a person whose indigenous and then Mexican ancestors lived in Arizona for centuries but now that it's claimed by the US since they speak Spanish they're "foreign."
It's a pretty quick read since it's a lot of short poems, and it's got lovely illustrations by Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez.
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