Madison-area friends: If you get healthcare through GHC, that generally means you’re a member of the cooperative and can raise your voice against union-busting

Tbh it’s scandalous that media folks talk so much about *how* to use AI and less about “why would we trust this shit and the goons pushing it in the first place”

From all I can tell, Youngblood Brass Band’s EU tour has continued without a hitch and wraps up tomorrow with an educational workshop

The grating irony is that we already have so much music software that, for all its flaws, can actually help people tap into their creativity. The AI freaks envision something very different: making every person into a bored king calling for his sickly jester to prance

One thing I love about Madison is that you have pretty good odds of bumping into Rob Dz on any given night. A delightful person who has also fought some long uphill battles in our local cultural scenes. Rob had a heart attack last week. Please help him out if you can.

Pretty sure “drawn by Eli Valley but without looking like the aftermath of a skin landslide” is the highest honor any politician can hope to receive

I mean three of these guys were in the republican majority of the Wisconsin legislature, which is basically elite training in drawing a salary to do fuck-all

Four years after a dozen women went public with allegations of grooming, the former drum corps instructor says he’s tried to make amends. But his accusers don’t see it that way, @scottgordonwi.bsky.social tells @fayeparks.bsky.social. www.wortfm.org/david-henzie...

The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact

"The women interviewed for this story all pointed out that accountability and making amends are crucial concepts in the world of recovery, and yet they’ve seen little in the way of [that]." Four years after grooming allegations, David Henzie-Skogen has reemerged. @scottgordonwi.bsky.social reports.

Back in 2021, musician David Henzie-Skogen was fired from a high-school drum-corps program after former students accused him of grooming them. He is now back out on the road with Youngblood Brass Band. My story today takes a fuller look at the allegations and his accusers’ response to his comeback

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On top of the study’s flaws in both design and implementation, OIM data analyst Greg Gelembiuk tells @fayeparks.bsky.social, it also disregarded multiple directives from the city council. www.wortfm.org/independent-...

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

For any kind of decent or salvageable society to emerge from this, the general public consensus needs to be that austerity is murder, manicured Dem neoliberalism is murder, voting Republican is murder, anything less than doing our utmost to ensure that everyone has their needs met is murder

1. The political right manufactures distrust in media because it deems this politically advantageous, and many in media have played along 2. Oppressed people have actual good reasons to distrust media, but media folks are more dismissive if you lack proximity to power 3. Go home and whack off

Finally watched Roger Corman’s HOUSE OF USHER and my god they bleached Vincent Price

If you are going to a No Kings protest this weekend, be sure to review our Surveillance Self Defense guide for attending a protest and bring Rayhunter along for the ride! ssd.eff.org/module/atte.... eff.org/rayhunter.

I saw this advice going around a while and it’s the most stunningly naive shit I’ve ever seen. Like giving the cops a nice set of pre-perforated lines for dismantling protest movements

Another great @racheldl.bsky.social work of comics journalism about housing and disability—with a sharp swerve into BARBARIAN territory

Every ICE agent is a monstrous goon familiar to all of history and every neighbor protecting neighbors from ICE is braver than the troops chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

I am a secular-to-the-bone person, raised in a kind of starchy American Catholicism that might as well have been fundamentalism lite, and I despised it, and I find this deeply moving

It's been 200 days since masked government goons abducted Rümeysa Öztürk for writing an op-ed they didn't like. She's no longer behind bars, but they're still trying to deport her, and they still don't want the public to know why.

this is the kind of thing that usually leads to international alerts from press advocacy orgs

Leave the military or accept that you will be on the wrong side of history. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/leave-the-...

So fucked that this has to exist

A correct opinion that would be the consensus in a reasonable world

I’m glad another journalist has discovered the l̵i̵v̵i̵n̵g̵ ̵h̵e̵l̵l̵ rewarding challenge of covering the City of Madison’s primary arts funding mechanism, the Room Tax Commission. I have uh mixed feelings about the city spending $14,060 on a music marketing contract

Threadmaker, the all-improv band I play in, has a new album out today. Title courtesy of a woman who saw us play at Mickey’s Tavern last year and told us, through drunken sobs, “YOUR BAND IS SO LOUD! IT MAKES ME SO SAD!” (She was OK and had a friend to get her home safe)

State police assisted ICE in the performative brutalization and arrest of protesters today. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must answer for this.

Wrote about the dire necessity of it all

ACA is a flawed policy built atop an unconscionable system. It has helped people and I know because I am one of them. Republicans have been lying/screaming bloody murder about it for 15 fucking years but have no answers beyond that. This would be a fatal weakness if they had an effective opposition

you know what’s a great idea is giving ice designated target areas to shoot pepper balls and “less lethal” rounds into

Fuck you to everyone who has minimized and enabled the right’s generational war on press freedom, to every middle-management piggy in media who scolds journalists about political advocacy, to anyone who denies that the US owes people from the countries in which it murderously interferes

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

This isn’t a “striking about-face” so much as the usual two-step cop discipline process. Lip service followed by “yeah he still works here and has a gun lol”

Madison folks: I’m looking to sell a great and simple loop pedal, the EHX Nano 360. In good shape, cheap at $65! www.facebook.com/share/1BMWbK...

rupaul: taz, you’re born naked and the rest is drag. now sashay away! taz (spinning in a tornado): GUUAANDHDNEMDHDHEBJK

There’s a certain honesty here in that the “campus free speech” thing has always been a demand that everyone actively facilitate, not just tolerate, right-wing speech. You must admire at least one speaker in this specific category of people who want to kill you, if you are a sporting sort of chap

Hi, just a note— The local ICE/ERO agent directing his team to fire at reporters' faces in Chicago this morning has been threatening press since we showed up at immigration court in June. His agents shot us both at close range last week, too. None of this started today!

Someone in Madison media needed to call out Minocqua Brewing's annoying jackassery and "alarming display of how progressive discourse can dissolve into vapid signifiers" is putting it gracefully

Most people who disagree with me aren't Nazis. They're just people who don't share my opinions or fundamental convictions. But some people have fascist politics. I will call those people Nazis, because fascist politics should be named, stigmatized, and shamed.

“These anti-fascist types keep calling the very substrate of American fascism fascist” has always been the central complaint of right-wing bootlickers so yeah that tracks

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Every journalist and professional org in media should be screaming about this 24/7

I mean, “People on whom free concert tickets are wasted” is exactly who the Kennedy Center wants to serve under Trump. Anyway, Yasamin Williams is a great guitarist. In 50 years people will still be listening to her music and laughing about what losers the Log Cabin Republicans were