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Carlos Vega
Welcome to the album analysis series. This season we take a deep lyrical dive into the 2009 album by Jordaan Mason and The Horse Museum titled, "Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head". For this episode we analyze the tenth track of the album, "(S)mother". Follow along as we analyze the storytelling and social commentary behind this great album. Plus, a message to listeners of my album analysis series.
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Welcome to the album analysis series. This season we take a deep lyrical dive into the 2009 album by Jordaan Mason and The Horse Museum titled, "Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head". For this episode we analyze the ninth track of the album, "_is Water". Follow along as we analyze the storytelling and social commentary behind this great album.
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Welcome to the album analysis series. This season we take a deep lyrical dive into the 2009 album by Jordaan Mason and The Horse Museum titled, "Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head". For this episode we analyze the seventh and eight song of the album, "O Jarhead! O Wife!" and "Hymn/Her". Follow along as we analyze the storytelling and social commentary behind this great album.
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Welcome to the album analysis series. This season we take a deep lyrical dive into the 2009 album by Jordaan Mason and The Horse Museum titled, "Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head". For this episode we analyze the sixth song of the album, "Prayer". Follow along as we analyze the storytelling and social commentary behind this great album.
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Welcome to the album analysis series. This season we take a deep lyrical dive into the 2009 album by Jordaan Mason and The Horse Museum titled, "Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head". For this episode we analyze the fifth song of the album, "Wrong Parts ( Vivian Sister Singing)". Follow along as we analyze the storytelling and social commentary behind this great album.
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Welcome to the album analysis series. This season we take a deep lyrical dive into the 2009 album by Jordaan Mason and The Horse Museum titled, "Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head". For this episode we analyze the fourth song of the album, "Racehorse: Get Married". Follow along as we analyze the storytelling and social commentary behind this great album.
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Welcome to the album analysis series. This season we take a deep lyrical dive into the 2009 album by Jordaan Mason and The Horse Museum titled, "Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head". For this episode we analyze the third song of the album, "Avalanches". Follow along as we analyze the storytelling and social commentary behind this great album.
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You want an informed and nuanced take on Dave Chappelle's newest comedy special. Well hopefully you aren't a sensitive conservative or sensitive liberal as I give you an unapologetic take to the controversy regarding Dave Chappelle and "The Closer".
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Welcome to the album analysis series. This season we take a deep lyrical dive into the 2009 album by Jordaan Mason and The Horse Museum titled, "Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head". For this episode we analyze the second song of the album, "Organs for Oceans". Follow along as we analyze the storytelling and social commentary behind this great album.
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This is an analysis of the opening track in the 2009 album by Jordaan Mason and The Horse Museum, "Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head", titled "Birds Nest".
This season we will completely analyze every song in this album and decipher the social commentary and storytelling which the fans of this album greatly enjoy and appreciate. Tag along and uncover the world behind "Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head".
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One of the best albums I have come across with a deep insight and storytelling. Very progressive and outstanding work for an album that takes on issues about gender dysphoria in 2009.
album link:
Through Spotify
Through Youtube
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Thanks for the support? These are my plans for next season of Ruminate. Hopefully you enjoy
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A Completely Serious and Totally Not Satirical Take On The Alpha Male Culture That Is Being Feed To Young Impressionable Teenage Boys On The Internet.
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Every single person should know the history of Palestine to be able to speak up and stand by Palestinians. Free Palestine.
Sources:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSI1UMlQ9z95cJbsSBoO-u4TBI6RirVDQTcgW-CosQ4FSFHoRtUJl4tNf97VaNQlAlb61fuH48rGElB/pub
https://free-palestine.carrd.co
“Palestine: A Socialist Introduction”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfrujg7qimk
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/5/28/generation-z-will-free-palestine
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ottoman-Empire
https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/palestine#section_1
http://links.org.au/node/2956
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The Citizens of Peru have democratically chosen socialism to help improve their lives. We must stand by their sovereignty and support the working class of Peru.
Sources: https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/cia-gave-at-least-10-million-to-perus-ex-spymaster-montesinos/
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/10/americas/peru-keiko-fujimori-prison-request-vote-intl/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/10/why-perus-next-leader-was-elected-by-less-than-1-percent-margin/
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/06/pedro-castillo-president-peru-libre
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/08/keiko-fujimori-claims-irregularities-peru-presidential-election-pedro-castillo
https://www.marxist.com/castillo-s-election-a-major-political-earthquake.htm
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-19928907
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce7MPpAc2rw
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/fujimori-insists-on-fraud-claims-as-peru-vote-count-nears-end
https://www.dsausa.org/statements/dsa-statement-on-the-elections-in-peru/
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The problems we have with Artificial Intelligence may be too late to resolve.
Sources: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/bias-machine-internet-algorithms-reinforce-harmful-stereotypes
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3gj3v/sexist-ai-is-even-more-sexist-than-we-thought
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05707-8
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/when_good_algorithms_go_sexist_why_and_how_to_advance_ai_gender_equity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/03/what-a-picture-of-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-in-a-bikini-tells-us-about-the-disturbing-future-of-ai
https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing
https://www.vice.com/en/article/nz7798/weve-already-taught-artificial-intelligence-to-be-racist-sexist
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/29/1017065/ai-image-generation-is-racist-sexist/
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Want to know how Sigmund Freud had destroyed the lives of women? You came to the right place
Sources: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2004.tb01275.x
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18331263/
https://www.thecut.com/2014/10/sorry-freud-vaginal-orgasms-might-not-exist.html
“She Comes First” by Ian Kerner
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/sep/02/naomi-wolf-women-orgasm-neural-wiring
https://news.yale.edu/2019/09/30/female-orgasm-evolutions-happy-gift
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3894744/
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/04/weaponization-female-orgasm/618680/
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This "end of women's sports' is just a Trojan horse to implement anti-trans laws and rhetoric. Stop it with the "end of women's sports" bull. It is time people looked at the actual data and research. Trans inclusivity is something we should all strive.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5357259/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15476439/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trans-girls-belong-on-girls-sports-teams/
https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2020/legislation/h0500/
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/08/why-haven-t-there-been-more-tall-sprinters-like-usain-bolt.html
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2021/04/15/florida-house-passes-anti-transgender-bill-that-would-allow-for-genital-examinations-of-high-school-athletes
https://apnews.com/article/543c78d943144874a661f31e88c1f8e6
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This episode will provide a complete explanation and analysis to the question, Is it Transphobic to Refuse to Date Trans People? This is extremely important to know if you are a leftists or progressive.
Sources: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0265407518779139?journalCode=spra
https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/12/14/refusing-date-trans-people-transphobic
https://www.them.us/story/cis-trans-dating
https://risaralda.federaciondecafeteros.org/i-would-never-date-a-trans-person-its-transphobic-4/
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-42652947
https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/rounds/study-transgender-teens-face-unique-challenges-while-dating
https://aninjusticemag.com/no-youre-not-transphobic-for-not-wanting-to-date-a-trans-person-838411278e30
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I stand with women and their fight for pay parity, but the equal pay talking points need to change. This is the blueprint.
Sources: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2020/03/24/482141/quick-facts-gender-wage-gap/
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/may/09/i-thought-the-main-issue-in-womens-sports-was-equal-pay-i-was-wrong
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/03/football/brazil-equal-pay-women-football-spt-intl/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/sports/womens-soccer-team-lawsuit-gender-discrimination.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/02/849492863/federal-judge-dismisses-u-s-womens-soccer-team-s-equal-pay-claim
https://www.espn.com/soccer/united-states-usaw/story/4071258/uswnt-lawsuit-versus-us-soccer-explained-defining-the-pay-gapswhats-at-stake-for-both-sides
https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/article234425642.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/us-soccer-fires-back-lawsuit-womens-team-obligations/story?id=62880911
https://www.marketingweek.com/brands-neglecting-womens-sports-sponsorship/
https://www.sportspromedia.com/opinion/womens-sports-brand-marketing-advertising-axe-nike-bumble
https://www.glamour.com/story/female-athletes-receive-only-4-of-sports-media-coverage-adidas-wants-to-change-that
https://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/do-you-know-the-factors-influencing-girls-participation-in-sports/
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It is time that we change the narrative from leftist being labeled as sensitives to conservatives. Lets call out their fear-mongering and lies. Start calling out their sensitivity and irascible behavior.
Those Conservative snowflakes are trying to cancel everything.
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A Nevada bill proposal is set to be the most dangerous law to worker freedoms.
Sources: https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-governments-nevada-economy-2fa79128a7bf41073c1e9102e8a0e5f0
https://prospect.org/economy/company-towns-still-us/
https://www.history.com/news/5-famous-company-towns
https://www.jstor.org/stable/621766?seq=1
https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/company-towns/
https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-569
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2019/09/10/474336/modern-company-town/
https://www.derrytownship.org
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/housing/company-towns-1890s-to-1935/
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A Progressives Guide for debating the $15 dollar minimum wage.
Sources: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/19/australia-minimum-wage-rise-13-dollars-week-increase-staggered-fair-work-commission
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/08/house-national-minimum-wage-fight-for-15-rashida-tlaib
https://www.epi.org/publication/why-america-needs-a-15-minimum-wage/
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/economics/inequality/the-effects-of-raising-the-minimum-wage/
https://research.upjohn.org/up_press/227/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=524803
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/090516/what-are-pros-and-cons-raising-minimum-wage.asp
https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-inflation-rate-history-by-year-and-forecast-3306093
https://www.rateinflation.com/inflation-rate/australia-historical-inflation-rate/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-economy-wages/australias-minimum-wage-rises-slowly-as-growth-inflation-cool-idUSKCN1T004X
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41445397?seq=1
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/economism-and-the-minimum-wage/513155/
https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=MIN2AVE
https://research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1220&context=empl_research
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Located in Southeast Asia, Myanmar has just experienced another brutal coup, leaving citizens tormented in their fight to restore democracy. Sources:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55902070 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-12992883 https://www.britannica.com/place/Myanmar https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-blocks-facebook-08ce7dd971655e839d6a81e7391d9e4f https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-12990563 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukTraDoVm_k https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/rohingya-crisis https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/08/three-finger-salute-hunger-games-symbol-adopted-by-myanmars-protesters https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/11/us-treasury-sanctions-10-burmese-military-leaders-for-coup-role
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Everything you need to know about UBI https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/ https://theconversation.com/is-basic-income-a-good-idea-heres-what-the-evidence-from-around-the-world-says-132337 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J713MK_B27s https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/ https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown-3305789 https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/why-we-should-all-have-a-basic-income/ https://aflcio.org/what-unions-do/social-economic-justice/minimum-wage https://research.upjohn.org/up_workingpapers/260/ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/19/21112570/universal-basic-income-ubi-map https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042315/what-are-some-examples-value-added-tax.asp
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Friendly guide to everything that occurred with GameStop stocks and a look into day trading
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/technology/robinhood-risky-trading.html
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akdaj5/join-robinhood-class-action-lawsuit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIBuo0Yxz44&t=1173s
gamestop stock price increase
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortselling.asp
https://berniesanders.com/issues/free-college-cancel-debt/
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/robinhood-webull-m1-reopen-gamestop-stock-trading-2021-1-1030019926
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/29/gamestop-stocks-robinhood-reddit/
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/29/robinhood-is-still-severely-limiting-trading-gamestop-holders-can-only-buy-one-additional-share.html
https://www.stockbrokers.com/guides/beginner-investors
https://www.forbes.com/sites/shehanchandrasekera/2021/01/28/exiting-robinhood-could-create-a-tax-nightmare-for-crypto-users/?sh=603c27c34ad6
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Discover America's hidden and incredibly shameful history Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449330/ https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/09/200444613/californias-prison-sterilizations-reportedly-echoes-eugenics-era https://apnews.com/article/georgia-archive-only-on-ap-immigration-f2008d23c5f9087f4214d9722dfb097e https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/no-mas-bebes/ https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/ https://www.history.com/topics/germany/eugenics https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/g-unfit https://www.mic.com/articles/53723/8-shocking-facts-about-sterilization-in-u-s-history https://msmagazine.com/2011/07/21/sterilization-of-women-of-color-does-unforced-mean-freely-chosen/ https://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book-excerpts/health-article/forced-sterilization/ https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/tubal-ligation/about/pac-20388360 “Killing the Black Body” Dorothy Roberts “Risky Mothers and the Normalcy Project” Angela Frederick https://time.com/5737080/native-american-sterilization-history/
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Let's talk about the history and future of Coffee Sources: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Distribution-of-suitability-changes-by-region-and-the-land-use-classes-with-forest-cover_fig5_269419801 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaav3473 https://sprudge.com/starbucks-would-prefer-you-dont-think-too-hard-about-that-20m-relief-fund-151839.html https://www.mashed.com/235657/why-scientists-say-a-global-coffee-crisis-is-imminent/ https://www.ncausa.org/about-coffee/history-of-coffee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IN4ZcZAUbA https://time.com/5318245/coffee-industry-climate-change/ https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17012019/coffee-climate-change-risk-wild-arabica-endanagered-kew-study https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-to-save-coffee-from-climate-change/ https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/01/10/144988133/drink-coffee-off-with-your-head
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A very serious take on one of the deadliest wars on America soil
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What is Mexico's President all about???
Sources :
https://www.worldoil.com/news/2020/9/18/pemex-projects-production-declines-amlo-s-new-refinery-to-slash-oil-export-volumes
https://newrepublic.com/article/152834/lefts-delusions-mexicos-new-president
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/01/31/mexicos-new-minimum-wage-thanks-for-trying/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanielparishflannery/2020/07/01/president-lopez-obrador-is-failing-mexico/?sh=191e693812f0
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andres-Manuel-Lopez-Obrador
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2020/09/22/the-politics-of-insecurity-in-mexico-between-narcissism-and-political-failure/
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/americas/mexico-femicide-coronavirus-lopez-obrador-intl/index.html
https://americasquarterly.org/article/mexican-women-are-angry-amlo-should-start-listening/
https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-mexico-coronavirus-pandemic-mexico-city-5d985937d6fe36262b6dbafa0859fb64
https://www.letraslibres.com/mexico/politica/el-ine-en-la-mira
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-05-13/mexico-poised-to-plunge-into-its-worse-recession-in-recent-memory-moves-to-reopen-parts-of-its-economy
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Let's discuss why the country of Chile has taken the step to draft and entirely new constitution Sources: https://www.vox.com/21534338/chile-constitution-plebiscite-vote-pinochet https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/13/why-is-inequality-booming-in-chile-blame-the-chicago-boys https://www.britannica.com/place/Chile/The-military-dictatorship-from-1973 https://slate.com/business/2016/01/in-chicago-boys-the-story-of-chilean-economists-who-studied-in-america-and-then-remade-their-country.html https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-santiago-constitutions-charters-chile-3691808cddec5195a77e6469b567c838 https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/newly-revealed-documents-show-nixon-kissinger-plotted-allende-overthrow-from-day-one/ https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/chile/#6 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/allende-dies-in-coup https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1X22RK
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Take a look into what California's Proposition 22 is and why its a dangerous precedent for worker rights.
Sources:
https://www.wired.com/story/uber-lyft-flee-california-austin/
https://prospect.org/labor/how-uber-and-lyft-are-buying-labor-laws/
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_22,_App-Based_Drivers_as_Contractors_and_Labor_Policies_Initiative_(2020)
https://cal.streetsblog.org/2020/10/05/op-ed-californias-prop-22-is-not-only-bad-for-drivers-its-bad-for-traffic-and-the-environment/
https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/the-uber-lyft-ballot-initiative-guarantees-only-5-64-an-hour-2/
https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-22-gig-workers-ab-5/
https://www.forworkingfamilies.org/sites/default/files/publications/Rigging%20the%20Gig_Final%2007.07.2020.pdf
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/07/24/a-look-at-the-americans-who-believe-there-is-some-truth-to-the-conspiracy-theory-that-covid-19-was-planned/
https://prospect.org/labor/kamala-harris-uber-test-california-ride-hailing-law/
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