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  1. @christosilvia @streetsblogmass High-speed rail from #Boston to #Springfield, where it would connect with the Hartford Line and the Vermonter (or even to Albany to connect to the Adirondack), would be nice. An additional alternative is a new high-speed rail route to #Hartford running along I-84 at 200MPH. From there, a connection to the Vermonter could be made, and this could also significantly speed up travel time to NYC via #NewHaven #NHV. Image is Figure 10 of the #Amtrak NEC Future report.

  2. Elizabeth Blackadder, Cat and Irises, 2001, watercolor

    Good Afternoon!!

    It’s a long weekend here in Massachusetts (Indigenous Peoples Day), and I’m planning to try to relax and read something other than politics news. Lately I can’t tolerate watching cable news, but I’ve been obsessed with keeping up with everything that is happening in the presidential campaigns. I spend too much time on social media, but it’s the only way to find out what Trump is really up to, because of the legacy media’s compulsive sanewashing of Trump’s demented behavior and speech patterns. 

    If you use social media, you may have seen Trump’s bizarre behavior during his speech at the Detroit Economic Club. The speech was supposed to be about economics but, since Trump has no comprehension of economics, he did his usual nonsensical rambling act. The New Republic: Watch: Trump Completely Loses Train of Thought in Awkward Speech.

    Donald Trump drifted in and out of coherency during an awkward, weaving speech Thursday at the Detroit Economics Club, where he ranted about tariffs and railed against government mandates on electric vehicles….

    But while explaining his fears that Kamala Harris’s policies would cause domestic manufacturing to leave the United States, Trump seemingly got carried away by the tide of his own weave and swept out into a sea of complete nonsense.

    “And, it’s so simple, I mean, you know. This isn’t like Elon with his rocket ships that land within 12 inches on the moon where they wanted to land,” Trump said. “Or, he gets the … engines back—that was the first I realized, I said, ‘Who the hell did that?’ I saw engines about three, four years ago. These things were coming—cylinders, no wings, no nothing—and they’re coming down very slowly, landing on a raft in the middle of the ocean someplace, with a circle, boom!”

    “Reminded me of the Biden circles that he used to have, right?” Trump said, seemingly referring to President Joe Biden’s campaign events that took precautions for Covid-19, in an awkward non sequitur.

    “He’d have eight circles, and he couldn’t fill ’em up. But then I heard he beat us with the popular vote. He couldn’t fill up the eight circles, I always loved those circles, they were so beautiful, so beautiful to look at,” Trump continued.

    Trump claimed that Biden “used to have the press stand in those circles, cause they couldn’t get the people. And then I heard we lost, no we’re never gonna let that happen again.”

    “But—” he continued. “We’ve been abused by other countries, we’ve been abused by our own politicians, really, more than other countries.”

    There are more examples of Trump’s insane rambling at the TNR link. But it’s not just rambling–it’s dementia; and it seems to be getting worse all the time. He flits from tangent to tangent, because his executive functioning is failing, likely from damage to his frontal lobes. You can watch the video clip at the TNR link.

    This is disgusting, but I’m going to post it anyway. Trump appeared to either break wind (or foul his diaper) at least twice during his speech in Detroit. This is something that was happening even when he was in the White House. Reporters also noticed it happening during his fraud trial. WTF?!

    Trump also slammed the city of Detroit during the same speech. The Guardian: Trump insults Detroit during speech … in Detroit.

    Donald Trump attacked the city of Detroit in a speech he was giving while stumping for votes in Detroit.

    The former US president and Republican nominee was speaking on Thursday at the Detroit Economic Club in the city, which is the biggest city in Michigan – one of the most crucial swing states in the 2024 US election.

    But Trump, whose speeches are frequently rambling and lengthy discourses rather than set piece deliveries, could not stop himself from lambasting the city in which he was speaking by pointing to Detroit’s recent history of economic decline from its heyday as the home of American car production.

    As he was speaking about China being a developing nation, Trump said: “Well, we’re a developing nation too, just take a look at Detroit. Detroit’s a developing area more than most places in China.”

    He later returned to the theme, warning of an economic disaster if his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, wins in November’s election.

    “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president. You’re going to have a mess on your hands,” Trump said….

    Democrats in the state reacted angrily to the insults and saw a chance to score political points.

    Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer posted on Twitter/X: “Detroit is the epitome of ‘grit,’ defined by winners willing to get their hands dirty to build up their city and create their communities – something Donald Trump could never understand. So keep Detroit out of your mouth. And you better believe Detroiters won’t forget this in November.”

    More frightening Trump news:

    Alternet reports that Trump is planning to continue and perhaps escalate his violent, racist attacks on immigration and immigrants: ‘That’s how you lose’: Trump refusing aides’ requests to tone down anti-immigrant attacks.

    Former President Donald Trump is aware his rhetoric about migrants has become increasingly toxic, yet he has decided to double down on that strategy in the final weeks of the campaign cycle.

    According to Rolling Stone’s Naomi Lachance and Asawin Suebsaeng, the ex-president is even rebuffing advice from his campaign team to “play it safe” as voters prepare to head to the polls on November 5. Lachance and Suebsaeng cited two unnamed sources close to Trump in their report, writing that Trump intended to “slam his foot on the gas” rather than pull back on his anti-immigrant message.

    Agnes Miller Parker, Siamese Cat and Butterfly, 1950, wood engraving

    “That’s how you lose,” Trump reportedly said in response to one of his aides.

    The publication’s other unnamed source said the ex-president paid close attention to which lines at his rallies garnered the biggest reactions from his audiences. This includes not only his false claim that there are 13,000 undocumented immigrants freely roaming the United States who have been convicted of murder elsewhere (most of those 13,000 are currently incarcerated), but also his call to be a “dictator” on “day one” of a second term….

    The former president recently demonstrated his willingness to take his condemnation of migrants to a new low on Friday night, posting a lengthy screed to X (formerly Twitter) in which he promised to use an 18th century law to round up, detain and deport immigrants. That law — the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 — would allow for the detainment of migrants without trial based solely on their country of birth. The last time that law was used was to force Japanese-Americans into detention camps during World War II.

    “November 5th, 2024 will be LIBERATION DAY in America,” Trump tweeted. [W]e will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail or kick them the hell OUT OF OUR COUNTRY.”

    And you’re not safe if you’re a legal immigrant, as Trump and Vance have both made clear in their attacks on Haitians in Springfield, Ohio. 

    The Guardian has another excerpt from Bob Woodward’s new book: Mark Milley fears being court-martialed if Trump wins, Woodward book says.

    Mark Milley, a retired US army general who was chair of the joint chiefs of staff under Donald Trump and Joe Biden, fears being recalled to uniform and court-martialed should Trump defeat Kamala Harris next month and return to power.

    “He is a walking, talking advertisement of what he’s going to try to do,” Milley recently “warned former colleagues”, the veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward writes in an upcoming book. “He’s saying it and it’s not just him, it’s the people around him.”

    By Elizabeth Blackadder

    Woodward cites Steve Bannon, Trump’s former campaign chair and White House strategist now jailed for contempt of Congress, as saying of Milley: “We’re gonna hold him accountable.”

    Trump’s wish to recall and court-martial retired senior officers who criticized him in print has been reported before, including by Mark Esper, Trump’s second secretary of defense. In Woodward’s telling, in a 2020 Oval Office meeting with Milley and Esper, Trump “yelled” and “shouted” about William McRaven, a former admiral who led the 2011 raid in Pakistan in which US special forces killed Osama bin Laden, and Stanley McChrystal, the retired special forces general whose men killed another al-Qaida leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in Iraq in 2006.

    Milley was able to persuade Trump to back down, Woodward writes, but fears no such guardrails will be in place if Trump is re-elected.

    Woodward also describes Milley receiving “a non-stop barrage of death threats” since his retirement last year, and quotes the former general as telling him, of Trump: “No one has ever been as dangerous to this country.”

    More threats of violence are coming from Trump pal Roger Stone. The Guardian: Roger Stone calls for ‘armed guards’ at polling spots in leaked video.

    The longtime Donald Trump ally and friend Roger Stone said Republicans should send “armed guards” to the polls

     in November to ensure a Trump victory, according to video footage by an undercover journalist.

    The video, first published by Rolling Stone, shows an embittered Stone, still angry about the 2020 election and ready to fight in 2024. Stone described the former US president’s legal strategy of constant litigation to purge voter rolls in swing states.

    “We gotta fight it out on a state-by-state basis,” said Stone. “We’re already in court in Wisconsin, we’re already in court in Florida.”

    When the journalist, posing as a member of a rightwing voter turnout organization, pressed Stone for details on efforts to make sure Trump wins in 2024, Stone told him that the campaign has to “be ready”.

    Mary Feddon, Tabby

    “When they throw us out of Detroit, you go get a court order, you come in with your own armed guards, and you dispute it,” said Stone. In Detroit in 2020, there was a chaotic scene at a ballot counting center when GOP vote challengers pounded on the walls of the center and demanded to be let in.

    Filmed at an August event in Jacksonville, Florida, called A Night with Roger Stone, the footage also reveals Stone’s lasting anger toward former attorney general Bill Barr, who he calls “a traitorous piece of human garbage”.

    While in office, Barr acted as a staunch Trump ally, even pushing for a lighter sentence for Stone, when the operative was found guilty of witness tampering and obstruction of justice in connection with a congressional inquiry into Russian interference during the 2016 election. Barr lost favor with the former president when he declined to publicly back Trump’s false claims of a stolen election, drawing outrage from Trump’s closest allies.

    “Once we get back in, he has to go to prison,” Stone exclaimed. “He has to go to prison, he’s a criminal.”

    This is from the usual suspects at The New York Times (Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, and Shane Goldmacher): A Frustrated Trump Lashes Out Behind Closed Doors Over Money.

    Donald J. Trump took his seat at the dining table in his triplex penthouse apartment atop Trump Tower on the last Sunday in September, alongside some of the most sought-after and wealthiest figures in the Republican Party.

    There was Paul Singer, the billionaire hedge fund manager who finances Republican campaigns and pro-Israel causes, and Warren Stephens, the billionaire investment banker. Joining them were Betsy DeVos, the billionaire former education secretary under Mr. Trump, and her husband, Dick, as well as the billionaire Joe Ricketts and his son Todd.

    Some politicians might have taken the moment to be charming and ingratiating with the donors.

    Not Mr. Trump. Over steak and baked potatoes, the former president tore through a bitter list of grievances.

    He made it clear that people, including donors, needed to do more, appreciate him more and help him more.

    By Miroco Machiko

    He disparaged Vice President Kamala Harris as “retarded.” He complained about the number of Jews still backing Ms. Harris, saying they needed their heads examined for not supporting him despite everything he had done for the state of Israel.

    At one point, Mr. Trump seemed to suggest that these donors had plenty to be grateful to him for. He boasted about how great he had been for their taxes, something that some privately noted wasn’t true for everyone in the room.

    The rant, described by seven people with knowledge of the meal who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations, underscored a reality three weeks before Election Day: Mr. Trump’s often cantankerous mood in the final stretch. And one of the reasons for his frustration is money. He’s trailing his Democratic rival in the race for cash and has had to hustle to keep raising it.

    Not only does Ms. Harris have far more money to buy ads and pay for staff after raising $1 billion in less than three months as a candidate — a sum greater than the total Mr. Trump raised all year — but she has also been freed from having to plead directly to donors anymore. She raised more than twice as much as Mr. Trump in July, August and September.

    Good! Let him keep wallowing in self-pity, driving away people who could donate to his campaign.

    I’ll end with something truly unbelievable: On October 16, Fox News and Trump are planning a town hall on women’s issues! From the press release: 

    FOX News Channel’s (FNC) Harris Faulkner will present a town hall with Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump focusing on issues impacting women ahead of the election and news of the day at Reid Barn in Cumming, Georgia. The event, which will be held with an audience entirely composed of women, will pre-tape on October 15th and air on October 16th on The Faulkner Focus (11 AM-12 PM/ET). FOX News has a standing invitation to Vice President Harris for a townhall event of equal stature which has been extended to her campaign multiple times since she became a candidate for president in August.

    In commenting on the town hall, Faulkner said, “Women constitute the largest group of registered and active voters in the United States, so it is paramount that female voters understand where the presidential candidates stand on the issues that matter to them most. I am looking forward to providing our viewers with an opportunity to learn more about where former President Trump stands on these topics.”

    Orovida Pissarro, Cat and Mouse, 1966

    Faulkner joined FNC in 2005 and currently serves as the anchor of The Faulkner Focus and a founding co-host of Outnumbered. At 11 AM/ET, The Faulkner Focus features interviews with top newsmakers and analysts and is cable news’ most-watched program in the timeslot, averaging nearly 2 million viewers. Outnumbered features an ensemble of four female panelists and one male breaking down the day’s headlines from all perspectives and dominates the competition at 12 PM/ET with 1.8 million viewers. Both programs outpace broadcast program’s NBC’s TODAY Third Hour, TODAY with Hoda & Jenna, The Kelly Clarkson Show, NBC News Daily, ABC’s GMA3, CBS’ The Talk and The Drew Barrymore Show.

    As the first Black woman to helm back-to-back weekday cable news programs, Faulkner has also played integral roles in FNC’s election coverage over the last several cycles. She is the lead of the network’s “Voter’s Voices” segments and recently presented a series titled, ”Families in Focus,” where she interviewed the family members of the then-presidential candidates during the 2024 primaries. Additionally, Faulkner has hosted a variety of primetime specials and townhalls focused on current events, including forums focused on policing in America, the ongoing conversation of justice in the country and education during the COVID-19 pandemic, among other topics.

    That should be good for a laugh.

    Have a nice weekend everyone!!

    https://skydancingblog.com/2024/10/12/lazy-caturday-reads-trump-horrors/

    #dementia #executiveFunctioning #frontalLobeDamage #immigration #incontinence #MarkMilley #Racism #RogerStone

  3. If you've ever wanted to know what it's like to drive through #Springfield, #Illinois, we are being added to the video game "American #Truck Simulator". This must be what it feels like to be in the big leagues #MovingOnUp

  4. Bay #Island in #Lake #Springfield, #Illinois--this spot was always so mysterious and enchanting when I was a kid

  5. How Casa Del Sabor and Casa Centro redefined Springfield dining | News

    The story of two Casas begins with the story of two brothers. Armando and Isaac Soto, the young restaurateurs behind Spr…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Dining #dcom-homepage #dcom-hp-top #snsfeaturedhome #snshomepage #snshptop #snsnewsletter #Springfield #verticals-entertainment #verticals-food #verticals-lifestyles
    diningandcooking.com/2588018/h

  6. Tonight, in about 9 hours at 8:19 PM CDT (UTC-5) a transit of the International Space Station will be coinciding with the start of a Star Party at the University of #Illinois #Springfield Campus Observatory.

    I, N9KWK, will be activating the ISS repeater from grid square EM59. See if you can hear me and respond! I will have an audience, so it would be nice to get some activity.

  7. “The First Amendment protects your right to take photos and videos of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public. This applies to ICE agents, police, FBI, National Guard troops, and any other government officials.”

    #ACLU #DocumentingICE #SALUTEProtocol #EyesOnICE #KansasCity #StLouis #Springfield #Columbia #Independence #Missouri #ICE

    aclu.org/know-your-rights/reco

  8. If you witness ICE activity, use the S.A.L.U.T.E. protocol when reporting.

    Share any immigration‑related photos or videos at:
    * iceinmyarea.org
    * iceout.org

    #SALUTEProtocol #EyesOnICE #KansasCity #StLouis #Springfield #Columbia #Independence #Missouri #ICE

  9. CW: politics, USPol, US Politics

    Today's newsletter from a writer I follow has a large section on the current situation with Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.

    He covers the recent history, the increased scrutiny on the Haitain members of the community, as well as how the community is organizing resistance against #Trump, DHS, and ICE with links to local organizational resources and opportunies to donate. Worth the read.

    Craig Calcaterra is, primarily, a baseball blogger that I've followed for over a decade plus. However, he has always mixed his coverage of baseball with contemporary American politics, and "Gen X" pop culture among other topice. He's a bit goofy, self-effacing, and usually a fun read even if you have zero interest in baseball.

    Check it out.

    cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-cof

    #USPol #Politics #ICE #DHS #Immigration #SpringfieldOH #Ohio #Baseball

  10. Sharing this letter I sent to the ethics folks at the #CCAR (the body that credentials rabbis in the #Reform movement of #Judaism

    ---------------------------
    To whom it may concern:
    cc: #RabbiCaryKozberg, Temple Sholom, Springfield, OH

    I am writing to inquire if I can file a complaint against Rabbi Cary Kozberg for the racist remarks he made to the JTA, which were reported by them in this story:

    jta.org/2024/09/19/united-stat

    Please take a moment and read the story and read what Rabbi Kozberg said. It is appalling and shameful, absolutely contrary to Jewish values that teach us to love the ger (stranger) in our midst.

    I will admit that in reviewing the CCAR's ethics code (online at ccarnet.org/about-us/ccar-ethi ), it does not appear that Rabbi Kozberg violated those policies, but surely in this day and age it would be a serious ethical violation for a rabbi to besmirch an entire immigrant community in the way that he has. If hate speech by rabbis is not an ethical violation, then the CCAR needs to revise its ethics code to make it a violation.

    I am a proud member of both a Reform synagogue and a humanistic havurah. Part of the reason I'm part of my reform temple is the movement's strong emphasis on social justice and its commitment to fighting racism. This is very personal to me, and I know many others who feel the same way.

    In anger and sadness,
    James

    #Mazeldon #Racism #Immigrant #Springfield #SpringfieldOH #haiti #Haitian #Haitians

  11. 〝Lee said she never imagined her post would become fodder for conspiracy theories and hate. […] “I didn’t think it would ever get past Springfield," she said.〞
    😑
    nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-just

    #disinfo #rumors #Haitians #America #SpringfieldOH

  12. So the origins of the grotesque lies about Haitian immigrants come directly from the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe.

    Blood Tribe, founded by esoteric Hitlerist loser Christopher Pohlhaus, is the group that's been marching around Ohio and other parts of the country with Swastikas and screaming "Sieg Hiel" and waving guns at immigrants while shouting at them to "go the fuck back to Africa".

    So apparently Laura Loomer, JD Vance, and great replacement bandwagoner Charlie Kirk are the least racist players in this situation.

    Blood Tribe member Drake Berentz, giving a racist pseudonym, even testified to the Springfield city council before being ejected.

    It is noteworthy how much the dehumanizing, visceral elements of this edge on the ancient antisemitic trope of blood libel (beloved by neo-Nazis). Vance knows this. And these vicious lies about Haitian immigrants spread from Nazis on Telegram and Gab to Donald Trump on the presidential stage in about a week or so. The extent to which the MAGA dominant right is picking up what Nazis are putting down... let's just say the need for proper antifascist research and action is not becoming any less urgent.

    References: The Guardian (Stephen Starr), NBC News (Brandy Zadrozny), @rebeccawatson, etc

    #BloodTribe #ChristopherPohlhaus #DrakeBerentz #SpringfieldOH

  13. MH//Antipode
    Postkarte Mail Art Arte Postale
    Postkarte 15 × 10 cm

    Collab mit Antipode
    MH//Antipode, Weissdorf, Deutschland

    El Barto ist Bart Simpsons Graffiti-Tagging-Alter-Ego und ist einer der berüchtigtsten Outlaws in Springfield. El Bartos Schriften, die als Graffiti bekannt sind, sind überall in Springfield.
    #bart #simpsons #thesimpsons #bartsimpson #homer #beard #marge #homersimpson #lisa #simpson #lossimpsons #margesimpson #lisasimpson #beards #simpsonscollection #instabeard

  14. MH//Antipode
    Postkarte Mail Art Arte Postale
    Postkarte 15 × 10 cm

    Collab mit Antipode
    MH//Antipode, Weissdorf, Deutschland

    El Barto ist Bart Simpsons Graffiti-Tagging-Alter-Ego und ist einer der berüchtigtsten Outlaws in Springfield. El Bartos Schriften, die als Graffiti bekannt sind, sind überall in Springfield.
    #bart #simpsons #thesimpsons #bartsimpson #homer #beard #marge #homersimpson #lisa #simpson #lossimpsons #margesimpson #lisasimpson #beards #simpsonscollection #instabeard

  15. MH//Antipode
    Postkarte Mail Art Arte Postale
    Postkarte 15 × 10 cm

    Collab mit Antipode
    MH//Antipode, Weissdorf, Deutschland

    El Barto ist Bart Simpsons Graffiti-Tagging-Alter-Ego und ist einer der berüchtigtsten Outlaws in Springfield. El Bartos Schriften, die als Graffiti bekannt sind, sind überall in Springfield.
    #bart #simpsons #thesimpsons #bartsimpson #homer #beard #marge #homersimpson #lisa #simpson #lossimpsons #margesimpson #lisasimpson #beards #simpsonscollection #instabeard

  16. Hype for the Future 184U: Ozark Mountains of Southwest Missouri

    Overview Within the southwestern portion of the State of Missouri are notable communities in the counties representative of the Interior Highlands of the United States around Springfield, Missouri. Such counties include McDonald, Newton, Jasper, Lawrence, Greene, and Webster, with a common Ozark heritage interlinking the region home to Missouri State University in the City of Springfield. Unlike other cities, even at relatively similar sizes, the City of Springfield cares for nature at a […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  17. Hype for the Future 184U: Ozark Mountains of Southwest Missouri

    Overview Within the southwestern portion of the State of Missouri are notable communities in the counties representative of the Interior Highlands of the United States around Springfield, Missouri. Such counties include McDonald, Newton, Jasper, Lawrence, Greene, and Webster, with a common Ozark heritage interlinking the region home to Missouri State University in the City of Springfield. Unlike other cities, even at relatively similar sizes, the City of Springfield cares for nature at a […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  18. Hype for the Future 184U: Ozark Mountains of Southwest Missouri

    Overview Within the southwestern portion of the State of Missouri are notable communities in the counties representative of the Interior Highlands of the United States around Springfield, Missouri. Such counties include McDonald, Newton, Jasper, Lawrence, Greene, and Webster, with a common Ozark heritage interlinking the region home to Missouri State University in the City of Springfield. Unlike other cities, even at relatively similar sizes, the City of Springfield cares for nature at a […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  19. Hype for the Future 184U: Ozark Mountains of Southwest Missouri

    Overview Within the southwestern portion of the State of Missouri are notable communities in the counties representative of the Interior Highlands of the United States around Springfield, Missouri. Such counties include McDonald, Newton, Jasper, Lawrence, Greene, and Webster, with a common Ozark heritage interlinking the region home to Missouri State University in the City of Springfield. Unlike other cities, even at relatively similar sizes, the City of Springfield cares for nature at a […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  20. Hype for the Future 184U: Ozark Mountains of Southwest Missouri

    Overview Within the southwestern portion of the State of Missouri are notable communities in the counties representative of the Interior Highlands of the United States around Springfield, Missouri. Such counties include McDonald, Newton, Jasper, Lawrence, Greene, and Webster, with a common Ozark heritage interlinking the region home to Missouri State University in the City of Springfield. Unlike other cities, even at relatively similar sizes, the City of Springfield cares for nature at a […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  21. When the the melody truly starts in Beyoncé’s “American Requiem”, it strongly reminded me of another song, but I couldn’t place it, and nobody seemed to be mentioning it. There are plenty of other homages people mention, but not this one. I knew it was late 60’s / early 70’s; the whole song feels a bit like a protest song from that era.

    I finally figured it out.

    It’s Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth”

    Listen to the first 20 seconds of this: youtu.be/80_39eAx3z8?si=72-NtO

    And compare it to the first 15 seconds of American Requiem starting at this point: youtu.be/vp3BSjJdyow?si=9cHOHm

    Am I imagining it?

    #Beyhive #Beyoncè

  22. When the the melody truly starts in Beyoncé’s “American Requiem”, it strongly reminded me of another song, but I couldn’t place it, and nobody seemed to be mentioning it. There are plenty of other homages people mention, but not this one. I knew it was late 60’s / early 70’s; the whole song feels a bit like a protest song from that era.

    I finally figured it out.

    It’s Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth”

    Listen to the first 20 seconds of this: youtu.be/80_39eAx3z8?si=72-NtO

    And compare it to the first 15 seconds of American Requiem starting at this point: youtu.be/vp3BSjJdyow?si=9cHOHm

    Am I imagining it?

    #Beyhive #Beyoncè

  23. When the the melody truly starts in Beyoncé’s “American Requiem”, it strongly reminded me of another song, but I couldn’t place it, and nobody seemed to be mentioning it. There are plenty of other homages people mention, but not this one. I knew it was late 60’s / early 70’s; the whole song feels a bit like a protest song from that era.

    I finally figured it out.

    It’s Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth”

    Listen to the first 20 seconds of this: youtu.be/80_39eAx3z8?si=72-NtO

    And compare it to the first 15 seconds of American Requiem starting at this point: youtu.be/vp3BSjJdyow?si=9cHOHm

    Am I imagining it?

    #Beyhive #Beyoncè