Podcasts about BBM

@ChessLiam joins the show to discuss all things BBM wth Davis! The audio podcast feed for Davis Mattek's DFS, fantasy football, and best ball streams.

Chief Operating Officer (COO) Danantara Indonesia, Dony Oskaria, menyatakan bahwa kenaikan harga bahan bakar minyak (BBM) non-subsidi jenis Pertamax dilakukan sesuai mekanisme harga pasar. Kenaikan tersebut seiring dengan melonjaknya harga minyak dunia.

Best Ball Breakfast roars into the month of June with 4 more drafts in the Best Ball Mania 7 contest on Underdog. Pete drafts a solo team, brings on pinch hitter Neil Orfield of the Flannelverse, and BBM champions Sam Sherman and Pat Kerrane. Sam famously drafted his BBM winner on June 1st one year ago, will he and Pete take down the $2m 1st place prize in 2026? Watch the new episode of SYTCT here⁠⁠⁠.

Pemerintah Bangladesh kembali menaikkan harga bahan bakar minyak (BBM) menjadi 145 taka atau sekitar Rp20.200 per liter. Kenaikan ini memicu kekecewaan warga yang sebelumnya sudah menghadapi lonjakan harga kebutuhan pokok. Antrean panjang kendaraan terlihat di sejumlah SPBU di ibu kota Dhaka, sementara pengemudi mengeluhkan meningkatnya biaya transportasi dan beban ekonomi yang semakin berat.

Pete returns from Amsterdam and reunites with the Badge Bros (Jon and Nez) for two BBM drafts. Topics include: Rashee Rice situation, Zero RB late-round RB targets, and the recent Bucky Irving news. Hope's kidney donor request.⁠☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Become a "Best Ball Value Hounds" Youtube member⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for access to weekly DFS After Dark shows & a private DFS Discord channel

This week on @betches, the gang is back together! They're diving into the frozen yogurt comeback nobody saw coming, why Stanford students think college has become anti-fun, and the very real nostalgia of BBM, Facebook albums, and peak 2010s culture. Plus, they unpack the rise of “looksmaxing,” why every trend feels recycled, and Bethenny Frankel's latest internet feud that somehow got even weirder. Go to the Betches Podcast YouTube page to watch full length episodes every Friday: Youtube.com/@betchespod   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beta menemukan solusi untuk penghematan BBM berdasarkan pengamatan di jalanan. Sambil menunggu bioetanol-nya jadi (kalau jadi ya), hal ini bisa menjadi solusi jangka pendek hehe

Pete runs three final BBM drafts before the NFL schedule drops, spinning the wheel to bring on three very different YouTube members. Chris Riley, a cash game grinder and eliminated SYTYCT contestant, kicks things off with a submission debrief and an impassioned Sixers rant. Willis, a four-screen content omnivore, joins for Draft 2 and locks in the double Elite QB build. Josh, an Eagles fan somehow living in Kansas City, closes it out...and Christian McCaffrey ends up on all three teams.

Kecelakaan maut kembali mengguncang jalur transportasi darat Indonesia. Sebuah bus Antar Lintas Sumatera (ALS) bertabrakan dengan truk tangki BBM di Jalan Lintas Sumatera, Musi Rawas Utara, Sumatera Selatan. Benturan keras memicu kebakaran hebat yang menewaskan sedikitnya 16 orang.Polisi menduga kecelakaan terjadi saat bus mencoba menghindari lubang di jalan sebelum akhirnya bertabrakan dengan kendaraan dari arah berlawanan. Bagaimana hasil sementara olah TKP? Apa saja temuan polisi di lokasi kejadian, dan bagaimana proses identifikasi korban berlangsung?Simak penjelasan Plt Kasubbid Penmas Bidhumas Polda Sumsel, Kompol I Putu Suryawan

Pete, Jon , and Nez officially enter the Superflex streets as hot best ball summer gets underway. Before the draft, they break down how Superflex strategy differs from traditional best ball, walk through QB tier pricing, and debate the viability of Zero RB in the contest. Then they hop into a live Field General draft to put the strategy to the test.⁠☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Become a "Best Ball Value Hounds" Youtube member⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for access to weekly DFS After Dark shows & a private DFS Discord channel

Di tengah ketegangan geopolitik yang mengguncang pasokan minyak dunia, Menteri ESDM Bahlil Lahadalia bergerak cepat: menjamin stok energi di atas standar minimum, menahan harga BBM subsidi hingga akhir 2026, mendiversifikasi sumber impor minyak, dan meluncurkan program B50 mulai Juli 2026 untuk memutus ketergantungan pada solar impor. Langkah-langkah ini menjadikannya panglima di garis depan ketahanan energi Indonesia dan wujud dari kecerdasan seorang pemimpin yang oleh Bahlil pernah ia sebut sebagai “street smart”. Apa itu?

The Best Ball Bash returns for its first BBM edition of 2026 with Pete drafting two teams live alongside YouTube members — starting with Hoohames, an Underdog streamer, and Ralisch, who had a chaotic path to get on stream.

Pete and Jon bring in Mark Dankenberg from ETR to break down how the sushi actually gets made. He walks through the methodology behind their 2026 best ball projections, the specific player spots that sparked the most internal debate, and how they're handling uncertainty around 22 new play callers, and post-draft landing spot chaos. The crew then puts the Solver to work and drafts a BBM team live with Mark.⁠☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Become a "Best Ball Value Hounds" Youtube member⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for access to weekly DFS After Dark shows & a private DFS Discord channel

Welcome to BBM VII Launch Day! With the completion of the NFL Draft, Hot Best Ball Summer is offcially underway. Today's kickoff edition of Best Ball Breakfast starts with a solo draft, then we are joined by Adam Levitan from Establish the Run and two BBM champions, Sam Sherman and Pat Kerrane.

We are talking streaks on today's FYB. Ohtani's 53-game on base streak has come to an end. So has the Mets 12=game losing streak. Murakami now has a 5-game home run streak. And speaking of home runs, Black players, American-born Black players contributed 5 home runs and 8 RBIs in a BBM instant classic in DC last night. All of that and more on Finish Your Breakfast.

MetroTV, Sedikitnya dua orang dilaporkan tewas dan 11 lainnya luka-luka dalam kebakaran besar yang dipicu oleh ledakan sebuah kapal nelayan pengangkut BBM di pelabuhan sungai, Distrik Homalin, Myanmar.Rekaman video yang diambil pada hari Selasa menunjukkan kobaran api terus membesar, lantaran petugas pemadam kebakaran setempat kesulitan memadamkan api akibat luasnya wilayah yang terbakar.Kebakaran dilaporkan bermula ketika sebuah ledakan terjadi di kapal nelayan yang mengangkut BBM, hingga mengakibatkan kapal tersebut hangus terbakar. Kobaran api kemudian merembet dan turut membakar kendaraan di sekitar pelabuhan.Serentetan ledakan susulan terjadi hingga menghancurkan sejumlah infrastruktur pelabuhan. Sejauh ini, pihak pemadam kebakaran mengonfirmasi dua orang tewas dan 11 orang lainnya mengalami luka-luka.Namun, jumlah korban tewas diperkirakan akan meningkat segera setelah tim penyelamat dapat mengakses lokasi kejadian.Myanmar sendiri sebenarnya tengah memperketat pengawasan keselamatan kapal, setelah sebelumnya pada 29 Maret lalu, ledakan serupa juga menimpa tiga perahu pembawa BBM di Distrik Homalin yang menewaskan enam orang.

Finish Your Breakfast: 4.21.2026 (Election Day). Make sure you exercise your right to vote. I can't speak for all communities, but for me and mine, voting is a right that cannot be taken for granted. It may seem small and insignificant, but these local and state elections often have more impact than many federal ones. Shout-out to friend of the Mixtape Josiah Gray for encouraging people to vote today. On the field, I'm locked in to the Braves v. Nats. This is a big series for Washington at home. The Rays and Reds are my BBM Extra Innings series to watch right now. If you're not following the BBM audio podcast, make sure to download it. A new episode is out right now. Finish Your Breakfast…then go vote.

Kenaikan harga BBM nonsubsidi kembali terjadi di tengah memanasnya geopolitik global. PT Pertamina (Persero) resmi menyesuaikan harga sejumlah produk seperti Pertamax Turbo, Dexlite, hingga Pertamina Dex dengan lonjakan signifikan per 18 April. Sementara itu, BBM subsidi seperti Pertalite dan Solar tetap dipertahankan, begitu juga harga Pertamax yang tidak berubah.Lalu, apa dampak kenaikan ini terhadap biaya logistik, harga kebutuhan pokok, dan daya beli masyarakat? Apa saja yang perlu diantisipasi pemerintah dan publik di tengah potensi efek berantai dari sektor energi ke ekonomi nasional?Dalam episode ini, kami membahas secara tajam dan berimbang bersama Pengamat Migas dari Universitas Krisna Dwipayana sekaligus mantan Operation Director PT Pertamina Trans Continental, Dr. Win Puji Pamularso.

Ditengah krisis minyak dunia karena ditutupnya Selat Hormuz oleh Iran, ternyata di Indonesia, sampai saat ini harga BBM masih dapat dikontrol. Pada episode kali ini saya sudah mengundang Bapak Arcandra Tahar, Mantan Menteri ESDM (2016-2019) untuk mendengarkan pendapat beliau mengenai fenomena ini. Kita juga akan bahas mengenai ketahanan energi yang pastinya daging semua!

Makin panjang perang Iran berlangsung, makin besar ongkos yang harus dibayar. Upaya-upaya seperti kebijakan WFH, efisiensi, dan pembatasan bahan bakar sulit diyakini bisa menambal kantong negara yang jebol karena harus menambah anggaran subsidi energi. Menaikkan harga BBM dan memotong program berbiaya besar adalah satu-satunya jalan menyelamatkan APBN. - - - Kunjungi⁠ s.id/bacatempo untuk mendapatkan diskon berlangganan Tempo Digital. Unduh aplikasi⁠⁠ Tempo⁠⁠ untuk membaca berbagai liputan mendalam Tempo. Powered by Firstory Hosting

On this episode of the podcast, we dive into why men need to prioritize themselves first and the growing burden of responsibilities placed on men. We also discuss the risks of BBM for women, the reality of street begging culture in Lagos and Nigeria, and the duties and expectations of men on a first date.It's a real, honest, and thought-provoking conversation — enjoy, and let us know your thoughts!

Sundays in Seattle are for Steelheads! Before the season began, it was announced that the Seattle Mariners would wear Seattle Steelheads uniforms on every home Sunday. The Steelheads were a Negro League baseball team in the brief West Coast Negro Baseball Association in 1946. They are part of Pacific Northwest Black history, though the league folded after two months.Building on this announcement, seeing the uniforms in action produced unexpected emotion and tremendous pride. The Mariners' media team did an excellent job telling the story of the Steelheads and included members from the community in their inaugural presentation. The uniforms look amazing, and this proactive action by the Mariners, who do not have a storied history in Negro League folklore, should afford the opportunity for teams like the Royals (Kansas City Monarchs), Cubs and White Sox (Chicago American Giants), Nationals (Homestead/Washington Grays), Phillies (Hilldale), Pirates (Grays & Crawford's), Orioles (Elite Giants and Black Sox), and many more MLB teams to honor their past in an exciting way. And, let's be honest, new uniforms bring in new revenue for the club too. It's a great business move.Turning to game action, the Dodgers, Blue Jays, Yankees, and Brewers are still undefeated. That may not come as a surprise to most; those teams all were in the playoffs last year, with stacked rosters. But, there is another team that is undefeated that is a surprise: Shout out to the Marlins. The Miami Marlins are 3-0 after sweeping the Rockies. Yes, I know the Rockies are trash, but live it up, MIA.Looking more closely at the 2-1 teams, the Nationals were impressive, taking two wins in Chicago against the Cubs. The Rangers took two wins in Philly, and Andrew McCutchen hit extremely well. The Reds taking two off the Red Sox was unexpected. Most pundits have labeled the Red Sox the team to watch. I know it's early, but the MLB season is off to a hot start. To wrap things up, thank you for sharing part of your morning with BBM. A new podcast will be recorded live tonight at 9 PM EST. You can watch on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook, or you can wait for the audio on Tuesday morning. See you tomorrow.

We Are Back! Opening Day is here, and so is the best Black baseball highlights and news recap in the game. From now until the final pitch of the World Series, Cheats and the BBM crew will be providing recaps and breaking news every day. Before we get too far, please consider a paid subscription to this platform. It's the best way to support the Mixtape and keep the community growing.As of this morning, twelve MLB regular-season games have been played, and we've learned a few things. The Dodgers are on pace to go 162-0 (again). The quest for a three-peat is on. And Dodgers' skipper Dave Roberts says the 2026 team is his best roster. It's hard to think Mookie Betts is on a revenge tour, but the 2025 Gold Glove finalist is hoping to bounce back from a down year. He is fully recovered from a stomach virus that really hampered the start of his 2025 season. He went 1-4 last night in a game shown on NBC, called by the legend Bob Costas.The Nats surprised the Cubs, beating them 10-4. The story of the game will center on CJ Abrams. The 2024 All-Star crushed a bases-loaded sure double, but got thrown out as he thought the ball was a sure home run, and it was not. He got thrown out at second, and that is really a microcosm of Abrams right now. Let's hope ‘26 brings more on-field maturity, because I think he is going to have a breakthrough year.Victor Scott II stole two bases in the Cards come-from-behind victory against the Rays. Mike Trout hit his fifth Opening Day homer to lead the Angels over the Astros. Tarik Skubal struck out six Padres in six innings for the Tigers 8-2 win. The Yankees, Mets, Phillies, Brewers, Red Sox, Guardians, and even the O's also picked up impressive Opening Day wins.And Tommy Pham signed a minor league contract with the Mets.See you tomorrow. FINISH YOUR BREAKFAST

Stephanie first trained with me from 2009 to 2013, then spent years in endurance running and triathlon, completing 18 marathons and an Ironman.Her training required 3 hours a day of cardio, high mileage, pace, and performance.After becoming a mom and continuing her demanding career, that approach no longer fit her life.In this episode, we talk about how she returned to training with me and transitioned into strength training with BBM, rebuilding her routine into one focused hour a day along with the mindset shift that came with it.Her previous training was built around doing more, going faster, and constantly pushing, while the running team reinforced comparison and competition.Now she trains with a different focus, paying attention to how her body moves, building strength, and staying present during her workouts instead of chasing exhaustion. The community dynamic also changed from competition to support, where women train alongside each other without comparison and focus on their own execution. That's BBM for you! We cover how her approach to training and nutrition changed once long cardio was removed, and how she integrates workouts into a full schedule, including training with her son nearby.If you're still training like you have unlimited time, this will make you look at your routine differently.If you want help restructuring it, DM me or book a Coffee & Goals session:

On Today's Podcast: Ellen talks about hove nervous she is for her being a Bridesmaide in her sisters weding, Another listeners asks the guy for advice in the BBM. We also give you an ALL NEW Love trap.

Flobo, April, and Malik preview the upcoming World Baseball Classic and recap the Bruce Bolt College Classic. The BBM podcast is in partnership with the Players Alliance, Minority Prospects, and Numbers Game Scorecards.

We are honored to have Jake Mintz join the Mixtape this week. Jake is the co-founder of the Baseball Bar-B-Cast podcast and an MLB writer for Yahoo Sports. He absolutely loves the game of baseball, and he talks about his love of the game with the BBM crew.Cheats, Flobo, April, and Malik are all on hand for this fantastic conversation. McCutchen and the Pirates — Castellanos and the Phillies, even Bregman and the Sox, nothing is off limits on this episode. Please like and subscribe. And follow the Mixtape on Substack.The Black Baseball Mixtape is in partnership with the Players Alliance, Minority Prospects, and Numbers Game.

Cheats and Flobo visit with former first-round draft pick and eleven-year MLB pro Denard Span, who joins the BBM podcast. He talks about his journey through baseball from Little League to the MLB. The Black Baseball Mixtape is brought to you in partnership with the Players Alliance, Minority Prospects, and Numbers Game Scorebooks. Please subscribe to the Black Baseball Mixtape on Substack.

Darlene spent months watching BBM before joining. She was already active with yoga and barre, but strength training felt intimidating and lifting heavy weights felt like something meant for other people. She also felt pressure to have everything perfectly lined up before starting, including her schedule, her nutrition, and her confidence.We sit down and talk about what changed once she committed to a structured home setup and a clear plan. Instead of commuting to a gym, she built consistency in her basement. Instead of vague healthy eating, she followed a simple nutrition structure that includes foods she actually eats, including bread and potatoes. The result was more strength, steady energy, and sleep that finally improved.We talk about:* Moving from yoga and barre into progressive strength training at 49* Setting up and using a cold basement home gym consistently* Rebuilding nutrition after years of restriction by bringing carbs back in* Why live Zoom training gives her better form feedback than in-person sessions* Eliminating the late-day energy crash and improving sleep quality* Training around family schedules while keeping her hour non-negotiableIf you see yourself in Darlene's story and you're ready to stop waiting for perfect conditions, DM me or book your Coffee & Goals consultation here:

In this episode of Chloe vs The World, Chloe Burrows sits down with Shelen to expose the biggest dating red flags we all ignore, the truth about gaslighting in relationships, and why your Zodiac sign might be ruining your love life.We spill the tea on everything from ‘what would you do?' Scenarios and "Get Off My Man" energy to the chaos of dating Leos and Libras. Shelen also gets real about being underestimated, "playing dumb" to , and the savage comebacks you need in your back pocket.Plus, we take a trip down memory lane with BBM, Bebo and MSM nostalgia, Gen Z nightlife comparisons, and our obsessive Sims 2 phases (and the Motherlode cheats that defined our childhoods).Listen to the FULL PODCAST and follow us on:Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4UjhcQP...Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@chloevsthewor...Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/chloevsthew...Chloe: https://www.instagram.com/chloeburrows/?hl=enDilemmas: chloevstheworldsubmissions@gmail.com

Is there a strong basis to remove BBM via impeachment?

A little-talked-about ripple effect in the declining numbers of major league Black baseball players is the decline in Black baseball fans. The players on the field notice it (at every level). The fans notice it. But it is not front and center to those covering the game. Since I've founded the Mixtape, I've been exploring the questions surrounding Black baseball fandom. And I must admit that my opinion has evolved over the last four years. Check out some of my recent thoughts on this solo podcast. This conversation will carry forward as a BBM theme throughout the 2026 baseball season and year. The Black Baseball Mixtape is now on Substack. Please subcribe for free and, if you feel called, support with a yearly subscription. We need it. The Black Baseball Mixtape partners with the Players Alliance, Minority Prospects, and Numbers Game Scorebooks.

Christian Esguerra sits with Barry Gutierrez to break down the prospects of BBM being impeached.

Welcome to the first Black Baseball Mixtape episode of the year. Cheats is joined by Flobo (In the Booth with Flobo Boyce), April (10th Inning Talk), and Malik (Buttamane Baseball) to discuss their outlook on the new year and upcoming baseball season. The BBM crew is joined by legendary baseball writer Bill Ladson (MLB.com, MLBbro.com), together they discuss a variety of subjects from the lack of American-born Black catchers, to Aaron Judge's crossover star potential, to his love for Reggie Jackson, and the excitement of the 2025 World Series. This episode is a great way to jump-start your baseball-loving year. Dig deep with the BBM crew and truly nerd out talking about the greatest game ever played: baseball. The Black Baseball Mixtape is now on Substack. Please visit the Substack and support BBM with a paid subscription. The Black Baseball Mixtape is in partnership with the Players Alliance, Minority Prospects, and Numbers Game Scorecards. Please support these wonderful partners. Order your very own Black Baseball Mixtape Scorecard here: https://www.numbersgame.co/products/black-baseball-mixtape-single-game-scorecard

A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. Tonight's show features Asian Refugees United and Lavender Phoenix in conversation about art, culture, and organizing, and how artists help us imagine and build liberation. Important Links: Lavender Phoenix: Website | Instagram Asian Refugees United: Website | Instagram | QTViệt Cafe Collective Transcript: Cheryl: Hey everyone. Good evening. You tuned in to APEX Express. I'm your host, Cheryl, and tonight is an AACRE Night. AACRE, which is short for Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality is a network made up of 11 Asian American social justice organizations who work together to build long-term movements for justice. Across the AACRE network, our groups are organizing against deportations, confronting anti-blackness, xenophobia, advancing language justice, developing trans and queer leaders, and imagine new systems of safety and care. It's all very good, very important stuff. And all of this from the campaigns to the Organizing to Movement building raises a question that I keep coming back to, which is, where does art live In all of this, Acts of resistance do not only take place in courtrooms or city halls. It takes place wherever people are still able to imagine. It is part of how movements survive and and grow. Art is not adjacent to revolution, but rather it is one of its most enduring forms, and tonight's show sits in that very spirit, and I hope that by the end of this episode, maybe you'll see what I mean. I;d like to bring in my friends from Lavender Phoenix, a trans queer API organization, building people power in the Bay Area, who are also a part of the AACRE Network. This summer, Lavender Phoenix held a workshop that got right to the heart of this very question that we're sitting with tonight, which is what is the role of the artist in social movements? As they were planning the workshop, they were really inspired by a quote from Toni Cade Bambara, who in an interview from 1982 said, as a cultural worker who belongs to an oppressed people, my job is to make the revolution irresistible. So that raises a few questions worth slowing down for, which are, who was Toni Cade Bambara? What does it mean to be a cultural organizer and why does that matter? Especially in this political moment? Lavender Phoenix has been grappling with these questions in practice, and I think they have some powerful answers to share. So without further ado, I'd like to introduce you to angel who is a member of Lavender Phoenix. Angel: My name is Angel. I use he and she pronouns, and I'm part of the communications committee at LavNix. So, let's explore what exactly is the meaning of cultural work.  Cultural workers are the creators of narratives through various forms of artistic expression, and we literally drive the production of culture. Cultural work reflects the perspectives and attitudes of artists and therefore the people and communities that they belong to. Art does not exist in a vacuum. You may have heard the phrase before. Art is always political. It serves a purpose to tell a story, to document the times to perpetuate and give longevity to ideas. It may conform to the status quo or choose to resist it. I wanted to share a little bit about one cultural worker who's made a really big impact and paved the way for how we think about cultural work and this framework. Toni Cade Bambara was a black feminist, cultural worker, writer, and organizer whose literary work celebrated black art, culture and life, and radically supported a movement for collective liberation. She believed that it's the artist's role to serve the community they belong to, and that an artist is of no higher status than a factory worker, social worker, or teacher. Is the idea of even reframing art making as cultural work. Reclaimed the arts from the elite capitalist class and made clear that it is work, it does not have more value than or take precedence over any other type of movement work. This is a quote from an interview from 1982 when Toni Cade Bambara said, as a cultural worker who belongs to an oppressed people, my job is to make revolution irresistible. But in this country, we're not encouraged and equipped at any particular time to view things that way. And so the artwork or the art practice that sells that capitalist ideology is considered art. And anything that deviates from that is considered political, propagandist, polemical, or didactic, strange, weird, subversive or ugly. Cheryl: After reading that quote, angel then invited the workshop participants to think about what that means for them. What does it mean to make the revolution irresistible? After giving people a bit of time to reflect, angel then reads some of the things that were shared in the chat. Angel: I want my art to point out the inconsistencies within our society to surprised, enraged, elicit a strong enough reaction that they feel they must do something. Cheryl: Another person said, Angel: I love that art can be a way of bridging relationships. Connecting people together, building community. Cheryl: And someone else said. Angel: I want people to feel connected to my art, find themselves in it, and have it make them think and realize that they have the ability to do something themselves. Cheryl: I think what is rather striking in these responses that Angel has read aloud to what it means to make art that makes the revolution irresistible isn't just aesthetics alone, but rather its ability to help us connect and communicate and find one another to enact feelings and responses in each other. It's about the way it makes people feel implicated and connected and also capable of acting. Tony Cade Bambara when she poses that the role of cultural workers is to make the revolution irresistible is posing to us a challenge to tap into our creativity and create art that makes people unable to return comfortably to the world as is, and it makes revolution necessary, desirable not as an abstract idea, but as something people can want and move towards  now I'm going to invite Jenica, who is the cultural organizer at Lavender Phoenix to break down for us why we need cultural work in this political moment. . Speaker: Jenica: So many of us as artists have really internalized the power of art and are really eager to connect it to the movement.  This section is about answering this question of why is cultural work important.  Cultural work plays a really vital role in organizing and achieving our political goals, right? So if our goal is to advance radical solutions to everyday people, we also have to ask ourselves how are we going to reach those peoples? Ideas of revolution and liberation are majorly inaccessible to the masses, to everyday people. Families are being separated. Attacks on the working class are getting worse and worse. How are we really propping up these ideas of revolution, especially right in America, where propaganda for the state, for policing, for a corrupt government runs really high. Therefore our messaging in political organizing works to combat that propaganda. So in a sense we have to make our own propaganda. So let's look at this term together. Propaganda is art that we make that accurately reflects and makes people aware of the true nature of the conditions of their oppression and inspires them to take control of transforming this condition. We really want to make art that seeks to make the broader society aware of its implications in the daily violences, facilitated in the name of capitalism, imperialism, and shows that error of maintaining or ignoring the status quo. So it's really our goal to arm people with the tools to better struggle against their own points of views, their ways of thinking, because not everyone is already aligned with like revolution already, right? No one's born an organizer. No one's born 100% willing to be in this cause. So, we really focus on the creative and cultural processes, as artists build that revolutionary culture. Propaganda is really a means of liberation. It's an instrument to help clarify information education and a way to mobilize our people. And not only that, our cultural work can really model to others what it's like to envision a better world for ourselves, right? Our imagination can be so expansive when it comes to creating art. As organizers and activists when we create communication, zines, et cetera, we're also asking ourselves, how does this bring us one step closer to revolution? How are we challenging the status quo? So this is exactly what our role as artists is in this movement. It's to create propaganda that serves two different purposes. One, subvert the enemy and cultivate a culture that constantly challenges the status quo. And also awaken and mobilize the people. How can we, through our art, really uplift the genuine interests of the most exploited of people of the working class, of everyday people who are targets of the state and really empower those whose stories are often kept outside of this master narrative. Because when they are talked about, people in power will often misrepresent marginalized communities. An example of this, Lavender Phoenix, a couple years ago took up this campaign called Justice for Jaxon Sales. Trigger warning here, hate crime, violence against queer people and death. Um, so Jaxon Sales was a young, queer, Korean adoptee living in the Bay Area who went on a blind like dating app date and was found dead the next morning in a high-rise apartment in San Francisco. Lavender Phoenix worked really closely and is still connected really closely with Jaxon's parents, Jim and Angie Solas to really fight, and organize for justice for Jaxon and demand investigation into what happened to him and his death, and have answers for his family. I bring that up, this campaign because when his parents spoke to the chief medical examiner in San Francisco, they had told his family Jaxon died of an accidental overdose he was gay. Like gay people just these kinds of drugs. So that was the narrative that was being presented to us from the state. Like literally, their own words: he's dead because he's gay. And our narrative, as we continue to organize and support his family, was to really address the stigma surrounding drug use. Also reiterating the fact that justice was deserved for Jaxon, and that no one should ever have to go through this. We all deserve to be safe, that a better world is possible. So that's an example of combating the status quo and then uplifting the genuine interest of our people and his family. One of our key values at Lavender Phoenix is honoring our histories, because the propaganda against our own people is so intense. I just think about the everyday people, the working class, our immigrant communities and ancestors, other queer and trans people of color that really fought so hard to have their story told. So when we do this work and think about honoring our histories, let's also ask ourselves what will we do to keep those stories alive? Cheryl: We're going to take a quick music break and listen to some music by Namgar, an international ethno music collective that fuses traditional Buryat and Mongolian music with pop, jazz, funk, ambient soundscapes, and art- pop. We'll be back in just a moment with more after we listen to “part two” by Namgar.    Cheryl: Welcome back.  You are tuned in to APEX express on 94.1 KPFA and 89.3 KPFB B in Berkeley and online at kpfa.org.  That song you just heard was “part two” by Namgar, an incredible four- piece Buryat- Mongolian ensemble that is revitalizing and preserving the Buryat language and culture through music. For those just tuning in tonight's episode of APEX Express is all about the role of the artist in social movements. We're joined by members of Lavender Phoenix, often referred to as LavNix, which is a grassroots organization in the Bay Area building Trans and queer API Power. You can learn more about their work in our show notes. We talked about why cultural work is a core part of organizing. We grounded that conversation in the words of Toni Cade Bambara, who said in a 1982 interview, as a cultural worker who belongs to an oppressed people, my job is to make revolution irresistible. We unpacked what that looks like in practice and lifted up Lavender Phoenix's Justice for Jaxon Sales campaign as a powerful example of cultural organizing, which really demonstrates how art and narrative work and cultural work are essential to building power Now Jenica from Levner Phoenix is going to walk us through some powerful examples of cultural organizing that have occurred in social movements across time and across the world. Speaker: Jenica: Now we're going to look at some really specific examples of powerful cultural work in our movements. For our framework today, we'll start with an international example, then a national one, a local example, and then finally one from LavNix. As we go through them, we ask that you take notes on what makes these examples, impactful forms of cultural work. How does it subvert the status quo? How is it uplifting the genuine interest of the people? Our international example is actually from the Philippines. Every year, the Corrupt Philippines president delivers a state of the nation address to share the current conditions of the country. However, on a day that the people are meant to hear about the genuine concrete needs of the Filipino masses, they're met instead with lies and deceit that's broadcasted and also built upon like years of disinformation and really just feeds the selfish interests of the ruling class and the imperialist powers. In response to this, every year, BAYAN, which is an alliance in the Philippines with overseas chapters here in the US as well. Their purpose is to fight for the national sovereignty and genuine democracy in the Philippines, they hold a Peoples' State of the Nation Address , or PSONA, to protest and deliver the genuine concerns and demands of the masses. So part of PSONA are effigies. Effigies have been regular fixtures in protest rallies, including PSONA. So for those of you who don't know, an effigy is a sculptural representation, often life size of a hated person or group. These makeshift dummies are used for symbolic punishment in political protests, and the figures are often burned. In the case of PSONA, these effigies are set on fire by protestors criticizing government neglect, especially of the poor. Lisa Ito, who is a progressive artists explained that the effigy is constructed not only as a mockery of the person represented, but also of the larger system that his or her likeness embodies. Ito pointed out that effigies have evolved considerably as a form of popular protest art in the Philippines, used by progressive people's movements, not only to entertain, but also to agitate, mobilize and capture the sentiments of the people. This year, organizers created this effigy that they titled ‘ZomBBM,' ‘Sara-nanggal' . This is a play on words calling the corrupt president of the Philippines, Bongbong Marcos, or BBM, a zombie. And the vice president Sara Duterte a Manananggal, which is a, Filipino vampire to put it in short, brief words. Organizers burnt this effigy as a symbol of DK and preservation of the current ruling class. I love this effigy so much. You can see BBM who's depicted like his head is taken off and inside of his head is Trump because he's considered like a puppet president of the Philippines just serving US interests. Awesome. I'm gonna pass it to Angel for our national perspective. Angel: Our next piece is from the national perspective and it was in response to the AIDS crisis. The global pandemic of HIV AIDS began in 1981 and continues today. AIDS is the late stage of HIV infection, human immunodeficiency virus, and this crisis has been marked largely by government indifference, widespread stigma against gay people, and virtually no federal funding towards research or services for everyday people impacted. There was a really devastating lack of public attention about the seriousness of HIV. The Ronald Reagan administration treated the crisis as a joke because of its association with gay men, and Reagan didn't even publicly acknowledge AIDS until 19 85, 4 years into the pandemic. Thousands of HIV positive people across backgrounds and their supporters organize one of the most influential patient advocacy groups in history. They called themselves the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power or ACT up. They ultimately organize and force the government and the scientific community to fundamentally change the way medical research is conducted. Paving the way for the discovery of a treatment that today keeps alive, an estimated half million HIV positive Americans and millions more worldwide. Sarah Schulman, a writer and former member of ACT Up, wrote a list of ACT UPS achievements, including changing the CDC C'S definition of aids to include women legalizing needle exchange in New York City and establishing housing services for HIV positive unhoused people. To highlight some cultural work within ACT Up, the AIDS activist artist Collective Grand Fury formed out of ACT Up and CR and created works for the public sphere that drew attention to the medical, moral and public issues related to the AIDS crisis. Essentially, the government was fine with the mass deaths and had a large role in the active killing off of people who are not just queer, but people who are poor working class and of color. We still see parallels in these roadblocks. Today, Trump is cutting public healthcare ongoing, and in recent memory, the COVID crisis, the political situation of LGBTQ people then and now is not divorced from this class analysis. So in response, we have the AIDS Memorial Quilt, this collective installation memorializes people who died in the US from the AIDS crisis and from government neglect. Each panel is dedicated to a life lost and created by hand by their friends, family, loved ones, and community. This artwork was originally conceived by Cleve Jones in SF for the 1985 candlelight March, and later it was expanded upon and displayed in Washington DC in 1987. Its enormity demonstrated the sheer number at which queer folk were killed in the hiv aids crisis, as well as created a space in the public for dialogue about the health disparities that harm and silence our community. Today, it's returned home to San Francisco and can be accessed through an interactive online archive. 50,000 individual panels and around a hundred thousand names make up the patchwork quilt, which is insane, and it's one of the largest pieces of grassroots community art in the world. Moving on to a more local perspective. In the Bay Area, we're talking about the Black Panther Party. So in October of 1966 in Oakland, California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for self-defense. The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of black communities against the US government and fought to establish socialism through organizing and community-based programs. The Black Panthers began by organizing arm patrols of black people to monitor the Oakland Police Department and challenge rampant rampant police brutality. At its peak, the party had offices in 68 cities and thousands of members. The party's 10 point program was a set of demands, guidelines, and values, calling for self-determination, full employment of black people, and the end of exploitation of black workers housing for all black people, and so much more. The party's money programs directly addressed their platform as they instituted a free B Breakfast for Children program to address food scarcity Founded community health clinics to address the lack of adequate, adequate healthcare for black people and treat sickle cell anemia, tuberculosis, and HIV aids and more. The cultural work created by the Black Panther Party included the Black Panther Party newspaper known as the Black Panther. It was a four page newsletter in Oakland, California in 1967. It was the main publication of the party and was soon sold in several large cities across the US as well as having an international readership. The Black Panther issue number two. The newspaper, distributed information about the party's activities and expressed through articles, the ideology of the Black Panther Party, focusing on both international revolutions as inspiration and contemporary racial struggles of African Americans across the United States. Solidarity with other resistance movements was a major draw for readers. The paper's international section reported on liberation struggles across the world. Under Editor-in-Chief, David Du Bois, the stepson of WEB Du Bois, the section deepened party support for revolutionary efforts in South Africa and Cuba. Copies of the paper traveled abroad with students and activists and were tra translated into Hebrew and Japanese. It reflected that the idea of resistance to police oppression had spread like wildfire. Judy Juanita, a former editor in Chief Ads, it shows that this pattern of oppression was systemic. End quote. Paper regularly featured fiery rhetoric called out racist organizations and was unabashed in its disdain for the existing political system. Its first cover story reported on the police killing of Denzel Doel, a 22-year-old black man in Richmond, California. In all caps, the paper stated, brothers and sisters, these racist murders are happening every day. They could happen to any one of us. And it became well known for its bold cover art, woodcut style images of protestors, armed panthers, and police depicted as bloodied pigs. Speaker: Jenica: I'm gonna go into the LavNix example of cultural work that we've done. For some context, we had mentioned that we are taking up this campaign called Care Not Cops. Just to give some brief background to LavNix, as systems have continued to fail us, lavender Phoenix's work has always been about the safety of our communities. We've trained people in deescalation crisis intervention set up counseling networks, right? Then in 2022, we had joined the Sales family to fight for justice for Jaxon Sales. And with them we demanded answers for untimely death from the sheriff's department and the medical examiner. Something we noticed during that campaign is that every year we watch as people in power vote on another city budget that funds the same institutions that hurt our people and steal money from our communities. Do people know what the budget is for the San Francisco Police Department? Every year, we see that city services and programs are gutted. Meanwhile, this year, SFPD has $849 million, and the sheriff has $345 million. So, honestly, policing in general in the city is over $1 billion. And they will not experience any cuts. Their bloated budgets will remain largely intact. We've really been watching, Mayor Lurie , his first months and like, honestly like first more than half a year, with a lot of concern. We've seen him declare the unlawful fentanyl state of emergency, which he can't really do, and continue to increase police presence downtown. Ultimately we know that mayor Lurie and our supervisors need to hear from us everyday people who demand care, not cops. So that leads me into our cultural work. In March of this year, lavender Phoenix had collaborated with youth organizations across the city, youth groups from Chinese Progressive Association, PODER, CYC, to host a bilingual care, not cops, zine making workshop for youth. Our organizers engaged with the youth with agitating statistics on the egregious SFPD budget, and facilitated a space for them to warm up their brains and hearts to imagine a world without prisons and policing. And to really further envision one that centers on care healing for our people, all through art. What I really learned is that working class San Francisco youth are the ones who really know the city's fascist conditions the most intimately. It's clear through their zine contributions that they've really internalized these intense forms of policing in the schools on the streets with the unhoused, witnessing ice raids and fearing for their families. The zine was really a collective practice with working class youth where they connected their own personal experiences to the material facts of policing in the city, the budget, and put those experiences to paper.   Cheryl: Hey everyone. Cheryl here. So we've heard about Effigies in the Philippines, the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the Black Panther Party's newspaper, the Black Panther and Lavender Phoenix's Care Cop zine. Through these examples, we've learned about cultural work and art and narrative work on different scales internationally, nationally, locally and organizationally. With lavender Phoenix. What we're seeing is across movements across time. Cultural work has always been central to organizing. We're going to take another music break, but when we return, I'll introduce you to our next speaker. Hai, from Asian Refugees United, who will walk us through, their creative practice, which is food, as a form of cultural resistance, and we'll learn about how food ways can function as acts of survival, resistance, and also decolonization. So stay with us more soon when we return.   Cheryl: And we're back!!. You're listening to APEX express on 94.1 KPFA, 89.3 KPFB in Berkeley. 88.1. KFCF in Fresno and online@kpfa.org. That was “Juniper” by Minjoona, a project led by Korean American musician, Jackson Wright.  huge thanks to Jackson and the whole crew behind that track.  I am here with Hai from Asian Refugees United, who is a member QTViet Cafe Collective. A project under Asian Refugees United. QTViet Viet Cafe is a creative cultural hub that is dedicated to queer and trans viet Liberation through ancestral practices, the arts and intergenerational connection. This is a clip from what was a much longer conversation. This episode is all about the role of the artist in social movements and I think Hai brings a very interesting take to the conversation. Hai (ARU): I think that what is helping me is one, just building the muscle. So when we're so true to our vision and heart meets mind and body. So much of what QTViet Cafe is, and by extension Asian refugees and like, we're really using our cultural arts and in many ways, whether that's movement or poetry or written word or song or dance. And in many ways I've had a lot of experience in our food ways, and reclaiming those food ways. That's a very embodied experience. We're really trying to restore wholeness and health and healing in our communities, in our bodies and our minds and our families and our communities that have been displaced because of colonization, imperialism, capitalism. And so how do we restore, how do we have a different relationship and how do we restore? I think that from moving from hurt to healing is life and art. And so we need to take risk and trying to define life through art and whatever means that we can to make meaning and purpose and intention. I feel like so much of what art is, is trying to make meaning of the hurt in order to bring in more healing in our lives. For so long, I think I've been wanting a different relationship to food. For example, because I grew up section eight, food stamps, food bank. My mom and my parents doing the best they could, but also, yeah, grew up with Viet food, grew up with ingredients for my parents making food, mostly my mom that weren't necessarily all the best. And I think compared to Vietnam, where it's easier access. And there's a different kind of system around, needs around food and just easier access, more people are involved around the food system in Vietnam I think growing up in Turtle Island and seeing my parents struggle not just with food, but just with money and jobs it's just all connected. And I think that impacted my journey and. My own imbalance around health and I became a byproduct of diabetes and high cholesterol and noticed that in my family. So when I noticed, when I had type two diabetes when I was 18, made the conscious choice to, I knew I needed to have some type of, uh, I need to have a different relationship to my life and food included and just like cut soda, started kind of what I knew at the time, exercising as ways to take care of my body. And then it's honestly been now a 20 year journey of having a different relationship to not just food, but health and connection to mind, body, spirit. For me, choosing to have a different relationship in my life, like that is a risk. Choosing to eat something different like that is both a risk and an opportunity. For me that's like part of movement building like you have to. Be so in tune with my body to notice and the changes that are needed in order to live again. When I noticed, you know, , hearing other Viet folks experiencing diet related stuff and I think knowing what I know also, like politically around what's happening around our food system, both for the vie community here and also in Vietnam, how do we, how can this regular act of nourishing ourselves both be not just in art, something that should actually just honestly be an everyday need and an everyday symbol of caregiving and caretaking and care that can just be part of our everyday lives. I want a world where, it's not just one night where we're tasting the best and eating the best and being nourished, just in one Saturday night, but that it's just happening all the time because we're in right relationship with ourselves and each other and the earth that everything is beauty and we don't have to take so many risks because things are already in its natural divine. I think it takes being very conscious of our circumstances and our surroundings and our relationships with each other for that to happen. I remember reading in my early twenties, reading the role of, bring Coke basically to Vietnam during the war. I was always fascinated like, why are, why is Coke like on Viet altars all the time? And I always see them in different places. Whenever I would go back to Vietnam, I remember when I was seven and 12. Going to a family party and the classic shiny vinyl plastic, floral like sheet on a round table and the stools, and then these beautiful platters of food. But I'm always like, why are we drinking soda or coke and whatever else? My dad and the men and then my family, like drinking beer. And I was like, why? I've had periods in my life when I've gotten sick, physically and mentally sick. Those moments open up doors to take the risk and then also the opportunity to try different truth or different path. When I was 23 and I had just like crazy eczema and psoriasis and went back home to my parents for a while and I just started to learn about nourishing traditions, movement. I was Very critical of the us traditional nutrition ideas of what good nutrition is and very adamantly like opposing the food pyramid. And then in that kind of research, I was one thinking well, they're talking about the science of broths and like soups and talking about hard boiling and straining the broth and getting the gunk on the top. And I'm like, wait, my mom did that. And I was starting to connect what has my mom known culturally that now like science is catching up, you know? And then I started just reading, you know, like I think that my mom didn't know the sign mom. I was like, asked my mom like, did you know about this? And she's like, I mean, I just, this is, is like what ba ngoai said, you know? And so I'm like, okay, so culturally this, this is happening scientifically. This is what's being shared. And then I started reading about the politics of US-centric upheaval of monocultural agriculture essentially. When the US started to do the industrial Revolution and started to basically grow wheat and soy and just basically make sugar to feed lots of cows and create sugar to be put in products like Coke was one of them. And, and then, yeah, that was basically a way for the US government to make money from Vietnam to bring that over, to Vietnam. And that was introduced to our culture. It's just another wave of imperialism and colonization. And sadly, we know what, overprocessed, like refined sugars can do to our health. And sadly, I can't help but make the connections with what happened. In many ways, food and sugar are introduced through these systems of colonization and imperialism are so far removed from what we ate pre colonization. And so, so much of my journey around food has been, you know, it's not even art, it's just like trying to understand, how do we survive and we thrive even before so many. And you know, in some ways it is art. 'cause I making 40 pounds of cha ga for event, , the fish cake, like, that's something that, that our people have been doing for a long time and hand making all that. And people love the dish and I'm really glad that people enjoyed it and mm, it's like, oh yeah, it's art. But it's what people have been doing to survive and thrive for long, for so long, you know? , We have the right to be able to practice our traditional food ways and we have the right for food sovereignty and food justice. And we have the right to, by extension, like have clean waters and hospitable places to live and for our animal kin to live and for our plant kin to be able to thrive. bun cha ga, I think like it's an artful hopeful symbol of what is seasonal and relevant and culturally symbolic of our time. I think that, yes, the imminent, violent, traumatic war that are happening between people, in Vietnam and Palestine and Sudan. Honestly, like here in America. That is important. And I think we need to show, honestly, not just to a direct violence, but also very indirect violence on our bodies through the food that we're eating. Our land and waters are living through indirect violence with just like everyday pollutants and top soil being removed and industrialization. And so I think I'm just very cognizant of the kind of everyday art ways, life ways, ways of being that I think that are important to be aware of and both practice as resistance against the forces that are trying to strip away our livelihood every day. Cheryl: We just heard from Hai of Asian refugees United who shared about how food ways function as an embodied form of cultural work that is rooted in memory and also survival and healing. Hai talked about food as a practice and art that is lived in the body and is also shaped by displacement and colonization and capitalism and imperialism. I shared that through their journey with QTV at Cafe and Asian Refugees United. High was able to reflect on reclaiming traditional food ways as a way to restore health and wholeness and relationship to our bodies and to our families, to our communities, and to the earth. High. Also, traced out illness and imbalance as deeply connected to political systems that have disrupted ancestral knowledge and instead introduced extractive food systems and normalized everyday forms of soft violence through what we consume and the impact it has on our land. And I think the most important thing I got from our conversation was that high reminded us that nourishing ourselves can be both an act of care, an art form, and an act of resistance. And what we call art is often what people have always done to survive and thrive Food. For them is a practice of memory, and it's also a refusal of erasure and also a very radical vision of food sovereignty and healing and collective life outside of colonial violence and harm. As we close out tonight's episode, I want to return to the question that has guided us from the beginning, which is, what is the role of the artist in social movements? What we've heard tonight from Tony Cade Bambara call to make revolution irresistible to lavender Phoenix's cultural organizing here, internationally to Hai, reflections on food ways, and nourishing ourselves as resistance. It is Really clear to me. Art is not separate from struggle. It is how people make sense of systems of violence and carry memory and also practice healing and reimagining new worlds in the middle of ongoing violence. Cultural work helps our movements. Endure and gives us language when words fail, or ritual when grief is heavy, and practices that connect us, that reconnect us to our bodies and our histories and to each other. So whether that's through zines, or songs or murals, newspapers, or shared meals, art is a way of liberation again and again. I wanna thank all of our speakers today, Jenica, Angel. From Lavender Phoenix. Hi, from QTV Cafe, Asian Refugees United, And I also wanna thank you, our listeners for staying with us. You've been listening to Apex Express on KPFA. Take care of yourselves, take care of each other, and keep imagining the world that we're trying to build. That's important stuff. Cheryl Truong (she/they): Apex express is produced by Miko Lee, Paige Chung, Jalena Keane-Lee, Preeti Mangala Shekar. Shekar, Anuj Vaidya, Kiki Rivera, Swati Rayasam, Nate Tan, Hien Nguyen, Nikki Chan, and Cheryl Truong  Cheryl Truong: Tonight's show was produced by me, cheryl. Thanks to the team at KPFA for all of their support. And thank you for listening!  The post APEX Express – January 1, 2026 – The Role of the Artist in Social Movements appeared first on KPFA.

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In our 121st episode, Mike Couillard and Jeremy Brewer cover a handful of MLB transactions, including a three-team deal, before selecting cards to place in the pod PC for the 2025 MLB Awards winners.You can find us on bluesky at @cardscategories.bsky.social, @mcouill7.bsky.social, and @jbrewer17.bsky.social. Email the pod at cardscategories@gmail.com.We have Cards & Categories swag for purchase here!Links to things discussed in the pod:Cardinals ship Willson Contreras up to BostonRays, Pirates, and Astros link up on a three-team swap involving Brandon Lowe, Jake Mangum, Mike Burrows, and Jacob MeltonShane Baz dealt to BaltimoreMets continue overhaul, send Jeff McNeil to A'sMichael King re-joins the PadresMunetaka Murakami lands with White SoxWhite Sox also sign Sean NewcombSung-Mun Song inks deal with PadresPirates bring aboard Ryan O'HearnBaseball card legend Wade Meckler designated for assignmentUpcoming baseball card release schedule:12/23: 2025 Topps Black & White Baseball12/23: 2025 Panini Flawless12/29: 2025 Topps Five Star1/14: 2025 Panini Select1/16: 2025 Topps Museum CollectionJan: 2025 Topps Chrome Update Sapphire Edition2/11: 2025 Topps MLB MVP CollectionTBD: 2025 Bowman Draft2025 Awards Winners PC (55:40) (link to related Razzball post)Link to full listing of all 2025 MLB Award WinnersLink to the Cards & Categories pod PCAaron JudgeJ: 2015 Leaf Trinity Patch Auto /25 M: 2023 Topps Chrome Titans #CT11 gold refractor #/50Shohei OhtaniJ: 2013 BBM 1st Version #183 PSA 10M: 2025 Topps Chrome Gold Logoman Patch Auto #GOLDA-SOTarik SkubalJ: 2021 Immaculate Auto /10 Game Used Glove AutoM: 2021 Topps Stadium Club Chrome #SCCABA-TS on-card autoPaul SkenesJ: 2023 Sports Illustrated for Kids PSA 10 (Pop 1)  M: 2025 Topps Allen & Gitner #MA-LDU Livvy Dunne framed mini autoNick KurtzJ: 2025 Topps Chrome Sapphire Rookie Auto Green Refractor /99M: 2025 Topps Archives Stand Up #64SU-25Drake BaldwinJ: 2025 Topps Chrome Update Red Refractor #USC96 /5M: 2025 Topps Heritage High Number #561 rookie image variationJeff KentJ: Jeff Kent 2004 Donruss Limited Threads Game Worn Patch 1/1 M: 2000 MLB Showdown #379 1st Edition

The Week 16 edition of Pete's Pourtfolio Review takes a look at the results in the DFS contests and Underdog Battle Royales before locking in on Best Ball Finals sweats for Monday Night Football.

Pete, Nez, and Jon get you prepped for the Week 16 DFS slate on Underdog, share their favorite sleepers, discuss strategy for both small-field and 12-person contests, and build some spicy pick 'ems.

What if pregnancy wasn't a reason to pause your training but a reason to get more structured?In this episode, I sit down with Dawn. After three years away from consistent training following the birth of her first daughter, she committed to a structured BBM plan. Four weeks later, she found out she was pregnant.Instead of pulling back, she protected the routine she had just built. She upgraded to unlimited training and continued lifting. Now at 33 weeks pregnant, she is training consistently and feeling more capable than she did during her first pregnancy, when her movement was limited to yoga.We talk about what changes when pregnancy is approached with structure instead of fragility, and how strength training supported both her physical capacity and mental steadiness.We cover:– Why she upgraded to unlimited training immediately after finding out she was pregnant– Training through pregnancy without defaulting to fear or excessive restriction– The difference between feeling limited in yoga versus supported by strength work– Adjusting nutrition from vegan to animal protein to support recovery and energy– Navigating modifications while maintaining intensity– Modeling strength and consistency for her daughterIf you're pregnant or navigating any season that feels like it requires you to slow down- this conversation offers a grounded alternative.DM me if this resonates, or book a Coffee & Goals consultation here:

I'm a woman trapped in a man's body analysing dating advice for women given by a man. In #505 of 'Meanderings', Juan and I discuss: three dating and relationships books (The New Rules, Get the Guy by Matthew Hussey and Attached), how prescriptive “rules” aimed at women can backfire, why some advice feels outdated (Facebook walls and BBM), how scarcity games tend to attract the very players you might want to avoid, why attachment styles are useful as a lens but less so as a to‑do list, a focus on authenticity over mere effectiveness, watch the influence of your friend circle, understand how strong male sexual drive can shape dating dynamics, apply Pareto principles to health and appearance first, build an interesting life (travel, skills, community) and learning to read yourself so you don't try to fill loneliness with just anyone.No boostagrams this week, very sad puppy.Stan Link: https://stan.store/meremortalsTimeline:(00:00:00) Intro(00:00:47) The books: The New Rules, Get the Guy & Attached(00:04:21) Lot's of Don'ts(00:07:12) Perfectionism and the hunt for Mr Right(00:11:09) Who this attracts: playing games gets game players(00:16:21) What men reportedly dislike(00:20:25) Quick verdict on The New Rules & Switch To Matt Hussey(00:25:48) Practical prompts: compliments, conversations, and friendly vibes(00:30:15) Brief detour to Attached: anxious, avoidant, secure(00:39:24) Boostagram Lounge(00:41:15) Effectiveness vs authenticity: advice for daughters(00:45:00) Masks, faking confidence and why acts won't last(00:48:00) Be interesting: travel, stories and easy conversation openers(00:55:14) Broad advice: the male mind, sex drive, and expectations(01:02:26) Pareto squared: health and appearance(01:07:09) A raw moment: walking through Brisbane and feeling loneliness(01:11:24) Closing reflections Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcasts.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUTwitter/X: https://twitter.com/meremortalspodsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcasts/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@meremortalspodcastsValue 4 Value Support:Boostagram: https://www.meremortalspodcasts.com/supportPaypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/meremortalspodcast

What you say has impact. *Note for those wanting to jam with the live song - the chords are C#, F#, Ab, with a Bbm, F#, C# turn around, (Not D, G, A, Bm, G, A as I said on the episode).Share your thoughts on this episode in the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Write Songs You Love Facebook Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group.To join the Write Songs You Love Member calls, visit ⁠⁠⁠https://writesongsyoulove.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠ to expand and nurture your creativity!

Graham Goodwin is back from Germany and Porsche's Night of Champions and he's fearful for where the biggest name in sports car racing could be headed in the next two years. He also paid a visit to BBM to see some wild Peugeot prototypes... Every episode is graciously supported by the Justice Brothers, the Sports Car Championship Canada, and TorontoMotorsports.com.  NEW show stickers and memorabilia: ThePruettStore.com If you'd like to join the PrueDay podcast listener group, send an email to pruedayrocks@gmail.com and you'll be invited to participate in the Discord chat that takes place every day and meet up with your new family at events. Play on Podbean.com: https://marshallpruett.podbean.com/ Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast [WSC]

The crew looks at the strategy involved with middling dynasty teams after week 5. They look at their combined  BBM teamsm discuss their Week 6 Cats and Dogs, and have a Road Trip draft

In this episode, I sit down with Mindy, a mom of two girls who joined BBM just before turning 40, after years of a sporadic, “all or nothing” fitness cycle. She came in determined to build strength the right way and set a powerful example for her daughters. Now? She's a completely new woman.We talk about:* What it took to move past the “all or nothing” pattern and finally show up consistently.* How around month 5–6 the internal “nag” to train became a habit-identity shift.* Why “less avoiding” tasks turned out to be the biggest surprise in her transformation.* How fitness became the vehicle for modeling “doing hard things” for her girls and redefining how she shows up and dresses.* What helped her overcome the initial fear of starting when she didn't know where to begin.If you've ever stalled at the starting line … or you're tired of extremes and ready for steady strength that seeps into every part of your life, reach out if this resonates or book your complimentary Coffee & Goals consultation here:

The BBM crew is back to review the first two games of the World Series and preview games 3, 4, and 5. We talk about the Jonas Brothers, Drake, and the presentation in Toronto. We also talk about just how crazy is Mad Max? Who has more pressure now: the Dodgers or the Jays? Did the Giants and O's get their managerial hires correct? All of that and more. The Black Baseball Mixtape is in partnership with the Players Alliance, Numbers Game Scorecards, Rebellion Harvest (Sunflower Seeds), and Minority Prospects. Want to join the BBM Discord? Message the show at BlackBaseballMixtape@gmail.com.

The BBM crew previews the World Series between the Dodgers and Blue Jays. We also discuss what went wrong for the Brewers and Marines. Cheats, Flobo, April, and Malik are joined by special guests Don Dishes and Santos from The Baseball Aficionado. We also make our final World Series predictions. Please follow the Black Baseball Mixtape podcast everywhere podcasts are streaming. The Black Baseball Mixtape is in partnership with the Players Alliance, Numbers Game Scorecards, Rebellion Harvest (Sunflower Seeds), and Minority Prospects. Want to join the BBM Discord? Message the show at BlackBaseballMixtape@gmail.com.

Back when text messages cost 10 cents each, BlackBerry came up with a better way: BlackBerry Messenger, commonly known as BBM. It was the first new idea about messaging in a long time, and it was a huge hit… for a while. Nilay Patel and Joanna Stern join David Pierce to talk about a messaging service that was years ahead of WhatsApp and iMessage, but ultimately fizzled. If you like the show, ⁠subscribe to the Version History feed⁠ to make sure you get every new episode. Let us know what you think: 866-VERGE-11 or vergecast@theverge.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices