Minneapolis rap group Atmosphere are playing Columbus, 1-27-2026 with Kool Keith, Sage Francis, RA The Ruggedman, and Mr. Dibbs at Kemba Live. Kool Keith is performing with Ced Gee? Is this an UltraMagnetic MC’s concert? We know Atmosphere is rapper Slug and producer ANT. Atmosphere released an album called Jestures last year via their label Rhymesayers Ent. Atmosphere toured last year with Lupe Fiasco, Pharcyde, and Cypress Hill. Atmosphere is known for their live shows which showcases Slug’s penchant for humanity within humor, and an informed Hip Hop perspective.

Atmosphere’s production by ANT is either hard drums or ballads. Atmosphere are considered amongst the best underground live rap shows. Atmosphere are KRS and The Roots status live. Atmosphere are owners of a label called Rhymesayers. Rhymesayers releases music by MF Doom, Kurious, Black Starr, and Soul Position. Soul Position are Blueprint and RJD2 from Columbus, Ohio.

I’ve known Slug from Rhymesayers for decades. Is this interview about the UltraMagnetic MC’s? ICE invaded Minneapolis.  ICE killed Renee Good.

WES: What is it like in Minneapolis?

For years, I assumed the hate I received was personal. I thought it was an attempt to intimidate me simply because I am a woman. It’s the internet, it’s a cesspool, we know this. But then I started to really look at it. I tracked the repetition in my inbox. I analyzed the recurring attacks on 'liberal women.'

I asked myself why the insults felt so uniform, and why my male counterparts never received this degree of vitriol. Yes, everyone gets hate, but between myself and other leftist women we’ve had our lives threatened, rape threats, and even our families threatened on a regular basis. I needed to know, so I looked deeper.

What I discovered shattered my initial assumption. This wasn't just misogyny; it was strategy. I had stumbled onto a years-long, coordinated alt-right movement designed to break us, and I was looking right at the heart of it. I wasn't being bullied by a few angry guys in their basements. I was being targeted by a marketing campaign.

These are psuedo-clinical terms weaponized to describe a very specific condition that makes a woman a threat to society. And do you know what the symptoms of that condition are? Caring about others.

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Trump aims to drop oil to $50 a barrel; Chavez offered that years ago.

The US press is confused. Nothing new there. They are confused about the Acting President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez.

The New York Times says Rodriguez “Went From Revolutionary to Trump’s Orbit”

Oh no, she didn’t.

Rodriguez still attacks Trump as an outlaw kidnapper and imperialist invader. But, at the same time, she says she’s seeking the restoration of diplomatic relations with the US and offers tens of millions of barrels of oil to Trump.

I’ve known Rodriguez for years. Is she a militant Leftist or a moderate pragmatist?

The answer is, “Yes.” I’d call Rodriguez a “radical pragmatist.”

In the trailer for All That’s Left of You, there is a brief image of orange trees and heavy machinery. For many, it may pass unnoticed. For me, it opened a wound that has never fully closed.

My great-grandfather Ahmad Sulieman Qutiefan owned an orange grove in Beit Nabala (Bayt Nabala), a Palestinian village just nine miles from Yaffa. Those oranges were not inherited wealth. He planted them himself, beginning as a child, after his own father passed away. Knowing his family depended on him, he stepped into responsibility early, planting tree after tree, tending the land with care and pride. The grove became his life’s work. He nurtured it daily, believing it would one day sustain his children and his children’s children.

He never imagined that it could simply be taken.