Joe Arruda

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The Supreme Court just ruled that Trump can deport people to countries they’re not from. He can now deport you to a gulag in Russia or Saudi Arabia if he wants to.

De La Soul - Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa (Official Audio) YouTube video by DeLaSoulVEVO

Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa by @wearedelasoul.com is song that dropped in '91 that was truly ahead of its time. Tackling DV/SA and believing women long before it was mainstream topic. Great example of what hip hop can be a vehicle for 🕊 Thank You Dave 🕊

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This is some real horseshit. If you want to know how bad it gets when sport stadiums go from staging centers to detainment camps look no further back in history than Chile 1973. ☠️ #la #abolishice

The at home assassination of a state lawmaker should be getting a bigger reaction from the President than someone throwing a rock at a Tesla dealership.

How New Bedford is reviving vacant properties - The New Bedford Light Vacant Property Development Manager Jordan Latham works with property owners and heirs to get empty homes back on the market.

New Bedford's Vacant Property Development Manager Jordan Latham works with property owners and heirs to get empty homes back on the market in a city struggling with a severe #housingshortage

Mexican workers arrested in immigration raid in New Bedford’s South End - The New Bedford Light Five to eight Mexican men on their way to work in the building trades were detained Thursday, an immigrants’ advocate says.

BREAKING: In what may be the largest single #immigrationraid in New Bedford since January, federal agents detained five to eight Mexican men Thursday on their way to work in the building trades.
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Opinion: New Bedford urgently needs a Safe Zone Resolution - The New Bedford Light New Bedford has the opportunity to show it is a city of respect, inclusion, and human rights. The community is ready to build bridges and work together, but we need our leaders to take that first step...

OPINION: New Bedford has the opportunity to show it is a city of respect, inclusion, and #humanrights. The community is ready to build bridges and work together, but we need our leaders to take that first step, writes Paulina Fuenzalida-Guzmán. #safezone

Wife of detained New Bedford immigrant says her community helped her - The New Bedford Light The wife of an immigrant arrested in a violent ICE operation at first withdraws from her community, but then finds her voice.

☀️The Families Left Behind: The wife of an immigrant arrested after #ICE agents smashed his car window in New Bedford at first withdraws from her community, but then finds her voice ⤵️
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☀️ See the Light's full five-part report⤵️
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My fortune cookie is mocking me.

Photo: (Dustjacket) Bound For Glory, by Woody Guthrie, E.P. Dutton, NYC, 1943. ©Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. Courtesy of the Woody Guthrie Archives.

“The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine...” – Woody

Text: Collected in “Pastures of Plenty,” ed. Marsh & Leventhal.

Happening at Your Theatre on William St. #newbedfordma #nbma

First Afrikaners arrive in U.S. under radically reshaped refugee program The refugees were admitted to the U.S. after an executive order from President Trump, and under an expedited and unconventional process for the U.S. refugee resettlement program.

The refugees were admitted to the U.S. after an executive order from President Trump, and under an expedited and unconventional process for the U.S. refugee resettlement program.

I went looking through my archive to references (ca. 1970-2000) in the US press to "white genocide" in Africa. With only one exception, every single one I could find appeared in neo-Nazi publications, like this one from December 1975. CB Baker was a protege of GL Rockwell and Willis Carto.

Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

Margaret Atwood says she cannot remember another time ‘when words themselves have felt under such threat’ The Handmaid’s Tale author spoke out as she accepted the freedom to publish prize at the British Book awards Margaret Atwood has said she cannot remember another point in her lifetime “when words themselves have felt under such threat”. “Words are our earliest human technology, like water they appear insubstantial, but like water they can generate tremendous power” the 85-year-old novelist said in her acceptance speech for the freedom to publish prize at the British Book awards. Continue reading...

Margaret Atwood says she cannot remember another time ‘when words themselves have felt under such threat’

Somewhere around $6 of benefit for the economy for every $1 spent on SNAP. It’s one of best ROIs of government spending.

distant transmission YouTube video by observation team

Over the weekend I put together a simple video for this song I made a couple years ago.

youtu.be/CSyxvAonvD8

"I'm convinced that if the world survives these dangerous times it will be tens of millions of small things that do it. Keep on!" ~ old Pete (Seeger) #keepon #peteseeger

"I'm convinced that if the world survives these dangerous times it will be tens of millions of small things that do it. Keep on!" ~ old Pete (Seeger)
#keepon #peteseeger

Or a Pete Seeger...

The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender” Photo by Al Aumuller, via Wikimedia Commons Like another famous Okie from Muskogee, Woody Guthrie came from a part of Oklahoma that the U.S. government sold during the 1889 land rush away from the Qua...

The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo:

“This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender”

I mean, at this point, why does he deny being a Nazi?

if you "broke out" as an artist in 2024, i salute you.

If you started in 2024… wow!

it was the hardest professional year for myself and a number of my colleagues.

but we don't quit, we update the formulas and get back to work!

keep on.

Welcome to post-reality America. I really wish this was the one that actually happened.

Um...ok. Are you just going to name Sage songs/albums and quote lyrics? I guess that's cool.

Am I doing this right?

Wow. Who pissed in your cheerios? 😂