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SiriusXM Progress @siriusxmprog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
‼️On Today's @msignorile.bsky.social Show‼️ @nicholsuprising.bsky.social of @thenation.com US Congressional Candidate Fred Wellman @wellmanformo.bsky.social Author @davidcorn.bsky.social of @motherjones.com 🔊Listen Here: Signorile.com 📞Join the Conversation: (866) 997-4748
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Even before her state botched another execution, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerri Green was telling Tennesseans “the death penalty has always been inhumane, expensive, and biased.” Green is running a smart, courageous campaign that brings realism and moral clarity to Tennessee politics.
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The Moral Clarity of Tennessee Gubernatorial Candidate Jerri Green
Even before her state botched another execution, gubernatorial candidate Jerri Green was telling Tennesseans that “the death penalty has always been inhumane, expensive, and biased.”
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Even before her state botched another execution, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerri Green was telling Tennesseans “the death penalty has always been inhumane, expensive, and biased.” Green is running a smart, courageous campaign that brings realism and moral clarity to Tennessee politics.
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The Moral Clarity of Tennessee Gubernatorial Candidate Jerri Green
Even before her state botched another execution, gubernatorial candidate Jerri Green was telling Tennesseans that “the death penalty has always been inhumane, expensive, and biased.”
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As the Republican nominee for governor of Wisconsin, US Rep. Tom Tiffany says he wants the war with Iran to end. But, the Journal Sentinel reports, “Tiffany voted against 5 US House resolutions directing President Trump to remove US forces from hostilities Iran.” Is Tiffany lying? 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As the Republican nominee for governor of Wisconsin, US Rep. Tom Tiffany says he wants the war with Iran to end. But, the Journal Sentinel reports, “Tiffany voted against 5 US House resolutions directing President Trump to remove US forces from hostilities Iran.” Is Tiffany lying? 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍
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Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Q: Would you say that Trump's media ban is a textbook case of viewpoint discrimination, banning people who criticize him from covering the White House? A: "He explicitly acknowledges it." John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4y5ZN24
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump Took Over the Kennedy Center. Artists Fled, Revenue Fell, and Its Main Building Is Closed. After Trump remade the Kennedy Center’s board, artists withdrew, revenue fell, legal fights mounted and the main building closed. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-took...
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Trump Took Over the Kennedy Center. Artists Fled, Revenue Fell, and Its Main Building Is Closed.
After Trump remade the Kennedy Center’s board, artists withdrew, revenue fell, legal fights mounted and the main building closed.
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No argument here. Mike Johnson Is the Most Dangerous House Speaker in American History by @nicholsuprising.bsky.social @thenation.com His decision to shut the House down at a moment of crisis around AI is the act of a reckless charlatan. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Dennice The Menace's Surprised 'Yep'
ALT: Dennice The Menace's Surprised 'Yep'
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The whole country is focused on the need for AI regulation and accountability. Except Congress. Speaker Mike Johnson gaveled the people’s House out of session to avoid Epstein/Hegseth votes. Johnson’s move blocks necessary action on AI safety/oversight. That’s wildly irresponsible—and dangerous
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Mike Johnson Is the Most Dangerous House Speaker in American History
His decision to shut the House down at a moment of crisis around AI is the act of a reckless charlatan.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The whole country is focused on the need for AI regulation and accountability. Except Congress. Speaker Mike Johnson gaveled the people’s House out of session to avoid Epstein/Hegseth votes. Johnson’s move blocks necessary action on AI safety/oversight. That’s wildly irresponsible—and dangerous
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Mike Johnson Is the Most Dangerous House Speaker in American History
His decision to shut the House down at a moment of crisis around AI is the act of a reckless charlatan.
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CNN @cnn.com · 19/09/2026
MS NOW denied access to White House after Trump said he's banning the network, CNN and Politico. cnn.it/3T8R687
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Enten: "Trump is breaking records. Yesterday the Marquette Law School poll came out -- Trump's worst net approval rating on inflation. Minus 61! That's the worst Trump has ever polled on inflation, & not only that, it's the worst any president EVER has polled on inflation. Worse than Jimmy Carter!"
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The president’s moves to mess with the 2026 election represent “a desperate attempt to maintain power at a time when the American people clearly don’t like what they’re seeing from the Trump administration,” says Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov @vanhollenformd.bsky.social
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Opinion | This senator won’t let Trump take over our elections
John Nichols: Chris Van Hollen has emerged as a key figure demanding accountability from the White House, federal agencies and Republican leaders in Congress.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The president’s moves to mess with the 2026 election represent “a desperate attempt to maintain power at a time when the American people clearly don’t like what they’re seeing from the Trump administration,” says Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov @vanhollenformd.bsky.social
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Opinion | This senator won’t let Trump take over our elections
John Nichols: Chris Van Hollen has emerged as a key figure demanding accountability from the White House, federal agencies and Republican leaders in Congress.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Speaker Johnson plans to gavel the House of Representatives out of session until November—with no real action on AI threats. That’s irresponsible, anti-democratic and dangerous. Congress should stay in session until it implements robust AI oversight—and approves strong regulation of the industry.
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Editorial | Congress must pump the brakes on AI
Editorial: U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna is right to demand that Congress remain in session until immediate and meaningful oversight action is taken.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Running on a tough-on-crime platform, Solis was elected Kenosha County's district attorney in Nov. 2024, becoming THE COUNTY’S FIRST REPUBLICAN DA IN MORE THAN A CENTURY.” AND… Solis’ law license has now been suspended for failing to cooperate with ongoing investigations into alleged misconduct.
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Kenosha County DA Xavier Solis' law license suspended
Xavier Solis, a defense attorney with no prior prosecutorial experience, became Kenosha County's first Republican DA in more than a century in 2025.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Running on a tough-on-crime platform, Solis was elected Kenosha County's district attorney in Nov. 2024, becoming THE COUNTY’S FIRST REPUBLICAN DA IN MORE THAN A CENTURY.” AND… Solis’ law license has now been suspended for failing to cooperate with ongoing investigations into alleged misconduct.
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Kenosha County DA Xavier Solis' law license suspended
Xavier Solis, a defense attorney with no prior prosecutorial experience, became Kenosha County's first Republican DA in more than a century in 2025.
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Adrian Egli @adrian7745.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
H/T @nicholsuprising.bsky.social & @thenation.com
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The Right-Wing Attacks on Abdul El-Sayed Keep Faltering
With energetic campaigning and savvy responses to the media’s Hasan Piker obsession, the Michigan Democrat is maintaining solid poll numbers.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
No one illustrates the worst-case scenario quite like Ted Cruz.
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POLITICO (@politico) on X
Ted Cruz on AI: “I'd rather they be American killer robots and not Chinese killer robots.” He told our @DashaBurns that there needs to be “rules and guardrails” around AI but said that slowing down i...
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Political insiders and media pundits keep claiming Abdul El-Sayed has all these political liabilities. Yet, he’s led in six of eight major polls conducted in Michigan since Democratic primary voters nominated him. One recent poll has him over 50%. Another has him +7 over hapless GOPer Mike Rogers.
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The Right-Wing Attacks on Abdul El-Sayed Keep Faltering
With energetic campaigning and savvy responses to the media’s Hasan Piker obsession, the Michigan Democrat is maintaining solid poll numbers.
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Mother Justice @deedeegiese.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Opinion | Honor Gloria Steinem by making the ERA the law of the land
John Nichols: Russ Feingold and other constitutional scholars have identified a strategy to do just that.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Political insiders and media pundits keep claiming Abdul El-Sayed has all these political liabilities. Yet, he’s led in six of eight major polls conducted in Michigan since Democratic primary voters nominated him. One recent poll has him over 50%. Another has him +7 over hapless GOPer Mike Rogers.
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The Right-Wing Attacks on Abdul El-Sayed Keep Faltering
With energetic campaigning and savvy responses to the media’s Hasan Piker obsession, the Michigan Democrat is maintaining solid poll numbers.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
On a 10-point scale of democratic erosion, the NYT meekly gives the US a 4. @kimlanelaw.bsky.social and I give it a 7. presswatchers.org/2026/09/new-...
A 10 in democratic erosion in the U.S. would, to me, indicate that the leader:

Controls elections
Controls the economy
Controls much of the media
Intimidates the media he doesn’t control
Prosecutes his political opponents
Treats dissenters like terrorists
Uses a loyal, masked army to terrorize minorities and opposition territory
Enriches himself with vast corruption
Communicates almost entirely in lies and propaganda
Ignores or controls Congress and the Supreme Court
Asserts and enforces white Christian supremacist values
Leads a personality cult
Surrounds himself with sycophants
Demands curricular changes and paybacks from universities.
When you think of it that way, a 10 is not so far away.

Is it?
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Angie Nixon is amazing! When Ron DeSantis and his cronies started coming up with schemes to ban books, Nixon opened a bookstore that puts the banned books on display up front. The store places an emphasis on Black History and telling the whole story of America. Nixon fights for the right to read!
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Angie Nixon Is Fighting for the Right to Read
The Florida Senate candidate responded to Republican book-banning schemes by opening a bookstore.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Angie Nixon is amazing! When Ron DeSantis and his cronies started coming up with schemes to ban books, Nixon opened a bookstore that puts the banned books on display up front. The store places an emphasis on Black History and telling the whole story of America. Nixon fights for the right to read!
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Angie Nixon Is Fighting for the Right to Read
The Florida Senate candidate responded to Republican book-banning schemes by opening a bookstore.
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LiberalClipper @liberalclipper.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“There once was a union maid…”🎵🎵🎵 youtu.be/S1g4ddaXRs0?...
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YouTube video by Arlo Guthrie - Topic
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“I think what we have right now is a level of corporate capture of our politics, in every single part of American society, that is loading more on and running the system in reverse (of the interests of the people).” — Abdul El-Sayed No one is speaking more clearly about the politics of 2026! 👇
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Abdul El-Sayed Diagnoses American Politics
A conversation with Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee about public health, outside money, and a new kind of politics.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dolly Parton logged a combined total of 115 years of union membership. Throughout her working life, the “9 to 5” singer/songwriter carried the union cards of two major unions: The American Federation of Musicians Local 257 in Nashville — for 58 years. SAG-AFTRA — for 57 years. HAPPY LABOR DAY!
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Opinion | Celebrate Dolly Parton's working-class solidarity
John Nichols: She carried two union cards, sang Woody Guthrie songs and mocked the bosses in "9 to 5."
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dolly Parton logged a combined total of 115 years of union membership. Throughout her working life, the “9 to 5” singer/songwriter carried the union cards of two major unions: The American Federation of Musicians Local 257 in Nashville — for 58 years. SAG-AFTRA — for 57 years. HAPPY LABOR DAY!
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Opinion | Celebrate Dolly Parton's working-class solidarity
John Nichols: She carried two union cards, sang Woody Guthrie songs and mocked the bosses in "9 to 5."
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I think this is true. I also think its something that free-market-advocates-formerly-known-as-conservatives should NOT be happy about.
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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Excellent conversation with Abdul El-Sayed. I especially liked his explanation of public goods like infrastructure and healthcare and why the market won't support them.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“I think what we have right now is a level of corporate capture of our politics, in every single part of American society, that is loading more on and running the system in reverse (of the interests of the people).” — Abdul El-Sayed No one is speaking more clearly about the politics of 2026! 👇
thenation.com
Abdul El-Sayed Diagnoses American Politics
A conversation with Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee about public health, outside money, and a new kind of politics.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Read Victor Pickard! Read Victor Pickard! Read Victor Pickard!
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Big news out of MO: Rs gerrymandered D US Rep. Cleaver out of his seat. Cleaver ran anyway in a new R district. He had no chance… UNTIL the MO Supreme Court allowed a referendum on the gerrymandered maps. MO now reverts to old maps. Cleaver will win by a landslide AND Ds are up 1 House seat!
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Women have a special opportunity to live the revolution. By refusing to play their traditional role, they upset and displace the social structure around them…” — Gloria Steinem 1934-2026
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Our political system was always supposed to be able to act as a check on the richest and most powerful. Now it acts as a handmaiden to the richest and most powerful.” From a new interview with The Nation. Read more here:
thenation.com
Abdul El-Sayed Diagnoses American Politics
A conversation with Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee about public health, outside money, and a new kind of politics.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Our political system was always supposed to be able to act as a check on the richest and most powerful. Now it acts as a handmaiden to the richest and most powerful.” From a new interview with The Nation. Read more here:
thenation.com
Abdul El-Sayed Diagnoses American Politics
A conversation with Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee about public health, outside money, and a new kind of politics.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Her death is a reminder to KEEP PUSHING FORWARD.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Women have a special opportunity to live the revolution. By refusing to play their traditional role, they upset and displace the social structure around them…” — Gloria Steinem 1934-2026
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Let's normalize calling Trump the least popular president who hasn't resigned—yet.
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Why Gas Price Lies Are Trump’s Kryptonite
We finally found something that can fact-check Donald’s lies at scale
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Paul Newman March On Washington for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 1963
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Chris @helichris.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Not that I needed another reason to miss Dolly Parton
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Unions matter.
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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The fundamental essence of “good politics” isn’t messaging or tactics or the “correct” theory. It’s what Dolly embodied: Empathy in action.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton was a union member for five decades, proudly carrying the cards of American Federation of Musicians Local 257 (Nashville) and SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists). And, of course, “9 to 5,” has become a global anthem of the working class.
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Dolly Parton Was a Proud Union Sister
Organized labor is celebrating the life and legacy of an artist who championed working women and carried a union card for almost 60 years.
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SiriusXM Progress @siriusxmprog.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
‼️On Today's @msignorile.bsky.social Show‼️ @nicholsuprising.bsky.social of @thenation.com Michael Price of @science.org @hunterw.bsky.social of @talkingpointsmemo.com 🔊Listen Here: Signorile.com 📞Join the Conversation: (866) 997-4748
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What Fox News thinks is an argument against Angie Nixon is actually an exceptional argument for Angie Nixon.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There never was—and there never will be—a greater rock critic than Dave Marsh. He understood that great rock-and-roll started with the music. But it didn’t stop there. It was about justice, and revolution and the transformation of our world into something so much better than it has ever been.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There never was—and there never will be—a greater rock critic than Dave Marsh. He understood that great rock-and-roll started with the music. But it didn’t stop there. It was about justice, and revolution and the transformation of our world into something so much better than it has ever been.
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