In November, Patti Smith & her Band went on tour to commemorate the 50th anniversary of her first album, HORSES. I went to five of those shows and decided I'd write a "mega-zine" (to quote a friend) about it & you can order it here:

It’s insane that news outlets are covering an illicit gift as a real award

all of the teeth gnashing over anti Semitism on campus is bullshit. This is what’s actually terrifying.

Just @ me next time

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Amazing video (French TV) of the Last Poets from 1971. youtu.be/FzulAKSwZmU?...

Pretty striking how much braver ordinary people are than any of our elected leaders, isn’t it.

I don’t pretend to speak for all Jewish people but making your sharp yellow star jokes and references aren’t clever and in fact are pretty fucking triggering for a lot of us

I normally don't break my schedule for newsletters because breaking news isn't my thing. But things are escalating quickly, so I made an exception. Please read and share these remarks from @governorwalz.mn.gov. www.altrightdelete.news/p/you-need-t...

One gets a sense that the leaders of MAGA hate academia because deep down, they know the truest antifa supersoldiers look like this.

@marthabayne.bsky.social book sighting at Olivia Books in NOLA

@nikostratis.com look what I saw at Octavia books in NOLA

if you're a fan of Patti Smith & saw one of her most recent shows to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Horses, you might be interested in my new mini-book/mega-zine about seeing a week of shows on that tour:

Minneapolis, avoid the green gas. archive.is/qKlnw

consensus

When brutal fascists descend on your town, you cannot stand between them and your residents and demand that everyone remain calm and peaceful. Rather, when brutal fascists descend on your town, you have to pick a side and commit fully.

Everyone arguing for the "please stop yelling at ICE and show them how peaceful we can be" approach is misguided and it's eventually going to get a lot more people killed than aggressive protest

Gentleman on the scene who talked to this Dad said that he asked ICE officers if he could vacate his family and they said that's fine. He loaded up the car and as soon as he put it in drive, they lit the car up with flashbangs and tear gas. The 6mo old stopped breathing and EMS had to be sent in

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

Footage for those curious.

Look at that cheerful subversive shayna punim.

Props to the lady giving an interview in her pink UFFDA hat and saying, "well, gosh, I've never had tear gas and flashbangs shot at me, but I'm happy to take it so my neighbors are safe."

Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? 48 years ago tonight. January 14 in San Francisco (stood on a wobbly folding chair and my focusing ring broke; but we carry on)

if you saw Patti Smith's Horses 50th tour in Chicago or New York or Boston you may be interested in my new more than a zine/less than a book about seeing a week of shows on that tour!

I can’t describe it but this photo is Pure Michigan.

Just the White House referencing “which way, western man” by William gayley Simpson (published by the National Alliance, the Neo Nazi group led by white nationalist William Luther Pierce of Turner Diaries fame) AND threatening Greenland in the same tweet.

These fascists have no fucking idea of what the Somalis mean to Lewiston. Somali kids helped the Blue Devils win THREE Maine State high school soccer championships (2015, 2017, and 2023), turning a decaying mill town into a city of champions: www.si.com/soccer/2018/...

This is very, very good.

Sabi-chan is a big-eyed wasabi fairy from Shizuoka, Japan.

“You might get shot if you do not obey”. We live in usa. We can get shot at the grocery store, school, the sidewalk. These threats change nothing.

Want to help folks being terrorized by ICE in Minnesota? Well look at this google doc someone made. Lots of GoFundMe's that haven't met their goals yet. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This morning the FBI raided the home of a journalist reporting on the Trump administration. Pissant dictator shit. archive.is/C4wIA

if you saw Patti Smith's Horses 50th tour in Chicago or New York or Boston you may be interested in my new more than a zine/less than a book about seeing a week of shows on that tour! independently produced, printed locally, shipping starts next week:

This is such a specific sort of Southeastern Michigan Niche man. And I think being in a union is a vital ingredient to their ideological composition. It’s also why he’s suspended and not fired.

When I was in the UAW, we got a guy his job back after he shot and wounded his foreman in the parking lot. He'll be back.

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Protesters say vehicles used by immigration enforcement officers have been spotted at the hotel. A representative for Hilton Hotels, which manages the Graduate Hotels brand, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

From the always prescient @davidneiwert.bsky.social: "This is what the opening stages of a civil war look like. And Americans are deluding themselves if they don’t want to believe that this is what is befalling them."

really hope @metrotimes.com gets a cover story with the Ford heckler

“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” said TJ Sabula, the UAW worker who heckled President Trump and who Trump flipped off and cursed at. “And today I think I did that.” Gift link: wapo.st/4sG38CD

I know it’s technically Dearborn, but still… WELCOME TO DETROIT, MOTHERFUCKER. Get the whole fuck out of *MY* city, you brainless, hopeless, spineless, dickless, worthless, gutless, mouthbreathing, ferret wearing shitgibbon-and stay the fuck out!

maybe this will get slotkin to realize that her whole 'i will work with anyone i think can help me' bipartisan bullshit does not work (although I still think she's a DINO)

This union dude has more courage than 99% of elected Democrats. He’s been suspended and they’ll find a way to fire him.

if you saw Patti Smith's Horses 50th tour in Chicago or New York or Boston you may be interested in my new more than a zine/less than a book about seeing a week of shows on that tour! independently produced, printed locally, shipping starts next week:

Scenes from the Anti-Trump / Anti-ICE protest in Detroit for @wdet.bsky.social . DPD was oddly aggressive in pushing protesters on Grand River Ave. to a less-visible spot on Trumbull Ave. I was threatened with arrest which was funny.

this fucking headline and the lede is that she *served on a fucking school board*

Another reason to dismantle the electoral college, as if any more were needed. If national elections were by simple plurality, then there wouldn't be "blue states" for a wannabe dictator to punish. If he harmed the minority of voters who would otherwise support him, it would change outcomes.

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

if you saw Patti Smith's Horses 50th tour in Chicago or New York or Boston you may be interested in my new more than a zine/less than a book about seeing a week of shows on that tour!