#lunchbreak #internetgem #obamayears "Home" by "The Magnetic Zeros" was part of the soundtrack of the years after I moved to the USA, which felt full of hope. But I had never watched the band play until today. This recording from #npr #tinydesk is awesome. https://www.npr.org/2009/10/26/113758518/edward-sharpe-and-the-magnetic-zeros-tiny-desk-concert

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> ... in the same America that Beatty mines for “The Sellout.” It’s an America where many have, in Beatty’s words, turned the page and moved on. Consider these works, then, as attempts to wrestle with the paradox of the Obama years, and particularly the false triumphalism of some new, supposedly “post-racial” order.
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#ObamaYears #PostRacial #USARacism

I know I keep harping on this, but if you wonder why everything wasn’t fixed during the #ObamaYears, just look at the timeline. That mythical majority was 59 days, and it took the endless recounts to get Al Franken seated in 2009. They got the ACA passed in that brief time DESPITE Joe “No Labels” Lieberman torpedoing the #PublicOption before losing the House to the GOP in 2010.

You want to vote 3rd Party/No Labels and reward Lieberman who took the Public Option “Off the Table”?

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