Upcoming shows, and SOME NEWS (a thread)โฆ
First, AUSTIN is next week, at the Mohawk with the amazing Prehuman and Gentlemen Rogues. January 23, tickets at tedleo.com/tour
LEADING UP TO me burying, letโs say โaโ lede, if not THE ledeโฆ
I am now playing guitar with some true heroes of mine, @gangoffour.bsky.social, and I could not be more honored or excited. Tour dates at: gangoffour7781.com/
In my upcoming book, I show that, beginning in the 1980s, attributing homelessness to mental illness and addiction was politically engineered to obscure the socioeconomic roots of the crisis and to justify the removal of homeless people from public space.
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In the US today, more and more people with full-time jobs are being pushed into homelessness.
Low-wage workers can't afford rent.
My book explores the staggering rise of America's working homeless, told through the lives of five families in Atlanta.
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THIS IS YOUR FIRST BANDCAMP FRIDAY SURE THING! Grab it, soak in it, and support the great @rachellichtman.bsky.social, whoโs been making such amazing things for so long, for free!
Programme 4 and New Dimension Records present the Easy AM 66 Promotional Album Vol. 3, brought to you by MagiCleanยฎ Carpet Cleaning Services! This rare promotional album is out TODAY on Bandcamp as a digital download OR as a VERY LIMITED EDITION VINYL LP: programme4.bandcamp.com/albuโฆ
And the foundational myth of Obamaism is that even when Democrats earn majorities and sweeping mandates they are largely powerless to help ordinary people.
Note for the upcoming holiday season,,, some of us are on a sobriety journey and mocktails or non-alcoholic beer options make a big difference ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐๐พ
If youโve already agreed to a ceasefire and you are carpet bombing civilian areas because there are a few hours until the ceasefire kicks inโฆyou are so far gone around the moral bend itโs hard to see how you come back. This is just killing for sport.
Israel is trying to KILL as many Lebanese as it can before hours before the so-called โceasefireโ.
Beirut is being carpet bombed.
This is not the behaviour of a state that can be trusted.
FOLKS- still some tickets left for these NYC dates, and then on to Alexandria, Va., Collingswood, NJ, Bevuhly, Ma., and Norwalk, Ct. Come be among others trying hard to be of good cheer! tickets at tedleo.com/tour or at the venue websites
I have been asked on two different networks and by two different male hosts today whether abortion rights are as important to women as the economy. I can't say it more clearly: reproductive freedom is economic freedom. They are intrinsically intwined, as every woman knows.
To celebrate this Friday's release of Up To Our Hips @beggarsarchive have shared some archival tapes used to create the expanded albumโs C and D sides. Pre-order: thecharlatans.ffm.to/uptoourโฆ