So cynical how AI music corps are using accessibility in their marketing language, just as streaming platforms use democratization. These corporations are stripping music of value and musicians of our livelihood. Financialization is not punk rock

Focus on the positive change.

And laying down will? C’mon, grow a backbone and fight for what is right.

“The masks are coming off.” Got a nice ring to it.

Dick Cheney’s legacy is that he turned 9/11 from a national tragedy into a global disaster. He did so through a mixture of arrogance, stupidity and greed and blighted the last quarter century.

Indispensable documentation of misconduct by Trump's secret police in Chicago. bsky.app/profile/kolt...

We all need to channel this Chicago man’s utter contempt

Not voting for anyone in 2028 who doesn't promise to tear down this arch, along with every other gilded chunk of Trump's garish gimcrackery.

I've talked before about power struggles within hardening authoritarianism. Usually, regime supporters fight over using rule-of-law in crackdowns (with massive abuses, of course) vs. completely embracing extrajudicial methods. Here, we see the latter dominating. Which is very bad news going forward.

Unfit to serve.

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

Is extortion a “high crime and misdemeanor”? Asking for a nation.

Unbelievable despite its 100% truth.

Like them all, unfit to serve.

On brand.

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained. These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

“the enormous power of the federal government is being deployed [for]establishing loyalty to the leader in Washington. The assault on higher ed is part of a broader campaign against institutions in civil society whose legitimacy has not depended on the White House” www.thebulwark.com/p/colleges-u...

This is what the 25th Amendment is for.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law. A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections. We need to stand up together and speak up.

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

He is breaking the law, not “bucking tradition and legal precedent.”

Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans are blocking the swearing-in of Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. If it wasn’t for them, she’d be the final signature needed on the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

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Called all the military brass into the same room to tell them he was declaring war on their own country.

watched like three seconds of Hegseth and woo call him the Secretary of War cause my boy is bombing hard

added some sound

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

Nailed it.

8am: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? TELL US, GODDAMMIT 9am: Pete Hegseth's Warfighting to the Oldies 10am: K.A.$.H. 11am: Quack Tales with RFK Jr. Noon: A Charlie Kirk Remembrance (no quotes allowed) 4pm: The Most Dangerous Game ft. Brian Kilmeade 5pm: Sean Duffy Cries on the Subway

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

This guy is the greatest enemy of the first amendment in our history (and I say that knowing well that he is far from the first). He's an authoritarian thug. Even Putin handles opposition press more gracefully (until, of course, he has them killed).

The fact he wasn't fired for this shows exactly just how asymmetric everything in the media is right now. He was literally advocating mass murder and said "just kill them."

If you want to understand this moment better, here’s a place to start.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

I teach music industry at the University of New Haven and get my students interested in the business of writing songs, making records, performing live, and figuring out how to make money doing it all of it.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

This on-the-record statement from the Air Force Academy is such clear bullshit, given that lord knows positive statements about Trump won’t result in speakers being canceled. This is clearly unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Gentlemen, what say you? America is being overrun by fascists. What are you doing about it?

RFK Jr. is a danger to this country. He must go. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...