#MusicChallenge #THETENX5 No Way Out – Warpaint 📍Los Angeles, CA 🇺🇸 2015 I enjoy how this one cycles through expansion and contraction. youtu.be/9391iIlcYKs

democracy dies when you are actively trying to kill it!!

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries know there’s a comfortable role for “opposition” in an autocratic regime. As long as they’re never too persuasive, they can put up tepid opposition to give the impression of choice. They continue to profit from their positions, and can avoid the hard stuff.

This is a commission I did. He asked me to create a cartoon for his wife who was deconstructing from religion and finding her own freedom. They love it. By the way, I've written tons on this urgent topic. Comment with "STAGES" and I'll send you a free PDF on the stages of deconstruction.

#MusicChallenge #THETENX5 🏅11 points I Am Here – Savages 📍London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 2013 It’s all about how they ratchet up the intensity. youtu.be/95MEmuHJfW0

This is the way. #subgenius #slack #civilization

It's kind of wild that the French foreign ministry has an official shitposting account.

I don’t like this

Y’all didn’t realize they were using “Democracy dies in darkness” as a mission statement, not a salutary motto

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

#MusicChallenge #THETENX5 High Ball Stepper – Jack White 📍Detroit, MI 🇺🇸 2014 The only instrumental among my picks. This one ranks for its inventiveness. youtu.be/sRbnAxrS3EM

A Russian Zircon hypersonic missile was intercepted overnight using a Patriot air defense system, according to the Air Force. The interception took place during the latest Russian attack. #Ukraine

Wallops 2.2 is out today: jcs.org/wallops It can now send @pushover.net notifications when you are mentioned and a screen saver is running

#MusicChallenge #THETENX5 16 Psyche – Chelsea Wolfe 📍Sacramento, CA 🇺🇸 2017 Keeping things dark for the first part of my list. This track manages to be heavy, sludgy and ethereal all at once. youtu.be/2sb5TszDqYE

If a felony can prevent someone from voting, why doesn’t it prevent someone from being president?

I wish we could move beyond "this isn't who we are". to "this is what it is. Now how can we change it?"

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#MusicChallenge #THETENX5 Heathen Child – Grinderman 📍London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇦🇺🇺🇸 2010 Would have loved more output from this Nick Cave side project. This one’s gritty and filthy…in all the ways that matter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKzn...

#MusicChallenge #THETENX5 Sugar – Editors 📍Birmingham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 2013 Not exactly a huge international success, but this track did hit #18 in Poland. I vibe with its dark, mid-tempo relentlessness, until it just…stops. youtu.be/ZWcc5VJiRVA

#MusicChallenge #THETENX5 Time to start posting favorite singles (or prominent songs) from the 2010s. This was a pretty solid decade for music. I’ll be posting my selections shooting from the hip in a more or less random order, although I am working from a list. Now, onto the first pick...

Morning.

Mobile carriers can get your GPS location an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss... 💬 You can, however, temporarily hide yourself by putting your phone/watch/whatever in an RFID / Faraday pouch for however long you need to be cloaked.

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic day 31 A song that feels like a long journey Paradise By The Dashboard Light – Meat Loaf 📍Los Angeles, CA 🇺🇸 1978 Not just a long one, but an exhausting one. No doubt for Meat Loaf and Ellen Foley as well, who are absolutely belting it. youtu.be/C11MzbEcHlw

Man, it’s wild that normal people just go to work every day while the people who run everything meticulously document their sex crimes

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

Losing Catherine O'Hara is a blow, but it's a good reason to appreciate just how good she was. She's got many, many, many wonderful performances, but you won't go amiss if you go and watch Best In Show because she's fantastic in it and the cast is *stacked*

I have a few problems with people wanting to “reinstate the Constitution” if there ever is a chance to do so. It boils down to ambiguity, math, structure and timing. The Constitution is the document that enabled everything we’re seeing now, along with many horrific things we saw in the past. 🧵

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic day 30 A song with a memorable bridge Mental Hopscotch – Missing Persons 📍Los Angeles, CA 🇺🇸 1982 I paid attention to some bridges for this prompt while listening, and the bridge in this B-side absolutely rocks. Plus: Terry Bozzio! 🥁 youtu.be/m17rt_xo9x0

Heating homes with the world’s largest particle accelerator Now operational, a new heat exchange system is reusing hot water from part of the Large Hadron Collider’s cooling system to heat homes and businesses in the local area. Read more: home.cern/news/news/ce...

Terrific new video! "How a Small Canadian City Tripled Cycling Rates in Just 11 Years" Oh the Urbanity!: Victoria, British Columbia has rapidly become "the strongest cycling city in North America that isn't widely known for it." (nextcity.org/urbanist-new...) Everybody benefits!

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic day 29 A song that sounds best loud The Pot – Tool 📍Los Angeles, CA 🇺🇸 2006 It basically can’t get loud enough. youtu.be/civuoU_NE38

Democrats like their fascism to be quiet Republicans like their fascism to be out and proud

I hate the "we sent you an email; here’s the code” login pattern. First, you have to sit and wait for some email rather than logging in immediately. Second, if the login needs to be shared amongst, say, family…now we need to go set up a special email address for this. User-hostile UX. #security

Julilus Erving at Rucker Park

It did indeed. I was in class, and they brought in a TV so we could watch the news. Christa McAuliffe’s death cast a huge black cloud. People in the local region were especially excited about her participation in the mission as a civilian.

Scott and I talk about Mel Brooks producing David Lynch and David Cronenberg in the new HBOMax documentary “Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man”

Art by Lar DeSouza…

More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic day 28 A song driven by rhythm Drive And Reflex – Models 📍Melbourne, VIC 🇦🇺 1981 Every element in this sorta trance-like track is basically percussion. youtu.be/CLoQBT1Pvt4

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The slightly more conciliatory tone from the White House and conservative pundits vis-à-vis DHS should be seen as a tactic to get more funding. 🧵

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic day 27 A song you understood only later in life On The Turning Away – Pink Floyd 📍London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 2016 Still not a favorite, but I did appreciate Floyd a bit more with age. I always liked Gilmour’s expressive guitar playing, regardless. youtu.be/xEMy34qhQe4

NEW: There are 2,400+ elections for DA & sheriff this year. These matter hugely to criminal justice & policing—including: *these are often officials who decide ICE collaboration.* So I took a dive into these 2,400+ races to identify early hotspots and battlegrounds. Read, & check out our maps:

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic day 26 A song that led you to an artist’s entire catalog The Stall – Warpaint 📍Los Angeles, CA 🇺🇸 2016 The mighty algorithm threw them into my listening sessions for years. Eventually I noticed Stella Mozgawa’s clever drum part. youtu.be/8kZkLeT7z2o

People think the Federal government’s demand for voter rolls is about the election, and maybe that’s part of it, but I think it’s about building the list of who they put in the camps, based on party affiliation.

This right here 👉

Drop an alien not from Star Wars or Star Trek

I don’t understand the argument they’re incompetent. They won the presidency twice, almost overturned a third, and are carrying out an extreme agenda with efficiency. Example: they gutted American science in a few months, just as they wanted. Project 2025 wasn’t written by incompetents.

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic day 25 A song that changed your opinion on an artist Outlaw Shit – Waylon Jennings and the .357’s 📍Littlefield, TX 🇺🇸 1998/2008 Great reworking of his old tune with his son’s band. Screen shot is from a software project I’m working on. 🤫 youtu.be/tUQT39NB5n8