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10 Jan 2022
Test kits and masks delivered to my home USPS priority mail please and then we’ll talk about the $40K we’re all still due and need.
11 May 2020
I’m proposing $2,000 monthly payments throughout the pandemic and for 3 months after, because rent and bills are still due during this crisis and people are going hungry. It’s that basic.
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Mark Balletto 😷☮️💜🎼🌈✊𓅃 retweeted
Jun 12
Hey everyone! Check it out! My local bookseller has a page up where you can preorder signed copies of my new book of essays, which comes out on August 4!
I will accept requests for inscriptions and doodles, within reason.
schulerbooks.com/book/979898…
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Mark Balletto 😷☮️💜🎼🌈✊𓅃 retweeted
Tell you what, bring some lawsuits man with all your proof of massive voter fraud. Let’s take these dirty Commies down OK? Come on, start suing unless of course you wanna just pick up a fucking gun like you people did on January 6.
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Mark Balletto 😷☮️💜🎼🌈✊𓅃 retweeted
Jun 4
Hey guess what! My book is available for preorder!
Tell everyone! Don't not tell everyone!
Read more about what to do about this breaking news: the-reframe.com/fighting-in-…
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Mark Balletto 😷☮️💜🎼🌈✊𓅃 retweeted
Jun 1
Not at all surprising given Berry Gordy’s baronial gangsta ways, not to mention Smokey’s. A legend like James Jamerson would be beneath their notice. To them ? He should be thankful there’s a ticket for a peasant like him to buy.
Jun 1
Its rumored that James Jamerson had to buy a ticket to see the show .
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Mark Balletto 😷☮️💜🎼🌈✊𓅃 retweeted
31 May 2024
Naïve protest songs, self-doubt, & a Come Around outtake. #WhatCanIDo #MyRecordPlayer
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Mark Balletto 😷☮️💜🎼🌈✊𓅃 retweeted
Come down Bootlicker, I'll be singing Springsteen to ICE all night!
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Mark Balletto 😷☮️💜🎼🌈✊𓅃 retweeted
May 27
This would have been great to do while Sonny was still here.@RollinsBridge has been dedicated to honoring Mr. Rollins for nearly a decade & deserves kudos and support for this worthy goal. Sonny Rollins elevated ALL of us in his relentless pursuit of excellence, not just himself
In 2017, this project began with the goal of honoring the colossal Sonny Rollins during his lifetime. As we mourn the news of his passing, we find new urgency in the movement to rename the Williamsburg Bridge the
SONNY ROLLINS BRIDGE
Please ✍️ & share
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Mark Balletto 😷☮️💜🎼🌈✊𓅃 retweeted
Say it with me: Disabled people deserve to live even if they can’t work.
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Mark Balletto 😷☮️💜🎼🌈✊𓅃 retweeted
May 21
From The Age Of Extraordinary Bands. EW&F drew inspiration from Ramsey Lewis to Ramses II. As well as from the Chicago Black Arts Movement, which heard Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, & Electric Miles as its vibrational soundtrack, with Eddie Harris & Les McCann's "Compared To What?!" on the side.
The music you know. The story you don’t.
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson tells the story of the Grammy-award winning band chronicling their evolution, highs and lows, spiritual meaning, and lasting legacy. #EarthWindandFireHBO premieres June 7 on @HBOMax.
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Mark Balletto 😷☮️💜🎼🌈✊𓅃 retweeted
May 21
Same reason Amazon echos get handed out for pennies. Stealing and selling your data is far more lucrative than product itself. And also, they’ll get us hooked, integrate into society, then charge. Like streaming had to do to get us away from cable and physical media
May 21
Funny how nobody’s questioning why AI is free.
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Mark Balletto 😷☮️💜🎼🌈✊𓅃 retweeted
May 18
I wrote about the topsy-turvy un-realism of fascism and the ignore-ance of its comfortable enablers—who by their very use of the term "nonviolent" ignore an already violent situation, and demand perpetual sacrificial performances to secure their support. the-reframe.com/are-you-brav…
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Mark Balletto 😷☮️💜🎼🌈✊𓅃 retweeted
May 11
There came a day when the great emperor fell ill with fever, and none of his doctors could revive him. Now the call went out across the empire, promising great reward for any who could find a cure.
the-reframe.com/one-thing-yo…
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Mark Balletto 😷☮️💜🎼🌈✊𓅃 retweeted
May 4
former senior CIA agent John Stockwell: "We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, rapists. We ran fake photographs that made every paper in the country. It was pure raw false propaganda to create the illusion of Communists eating babies for breakfast." Sound familiar?
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hating cats is rooted in misogyny. ironic how dogs are “man’s best friend” but women who love cats are “crazy cat ladies.” Cats teach consent, boundaries, autonomy and love that is earned not entitled.
May 2
hot take:
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RT @pot8um: COVID IS ONCOGENIC.
we’ve been screaming it from the rooftops for SIX YEARS.
when can we finally put down the undue burden of…
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May 2
Archie Shepp on piano - 'Round Midnight, 1973 Live in Châteauvallon Jazz festival, August 1973.
#Jazz #ArchieShepp
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Mark Balletto 😷☮️💜🎼🌈✊𓅃 retweeted
May 4
HBD TO THE GOAT♥️🙏🏿👊🏿
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Mark Balletto 😷☮️💜🎼🌈✊𓅃 retweeted
Apr 30
What I want to know about, are all the little kids in the front. How did being in that picture affect them? Did any of them grow up to be musicians? How did their lives turn out? Did any of them get a print? I betcha nobody thought to keep track.
I’d be happy to be wrong.
Apr 30
“A Great Day in Harlem” is a b&w photograph of 57 Jazz musicians taken in New York City in 1958 by ART KANE for Esquire magazine.
The line up includes Count Basie, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk & Gerry Mulligan & Gene Krupa.
#InternationalJazzDay
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