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I’m having a hard time figuring out why people would be pro-authoritarianism in 2025 The historical record shows that doesn’t work out well - and often implodes on the rulers So why are people choosing it?

Sicily & Thailand are also in there So all the food I eat on a regular basis is covered (and I’m fine with trading red rice/jollof rice for biryani)

I’ve been talking about the 4 chan to Nazi pipeline for a decade now. The so-called grownups have little to no understanding of it Here’s some good insight

Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic. Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956

Excuse me? What is “traditional political violence”?? Oh, it’s when Lindsey’s people in South Carolina kill black folks, isn’t it?

like I said disingenuous

the current handwringing seems disingenuous. people got arrested for protesting hospitals being bombed & starvation warfare somebody shot hundreds of bullets at a govt building, politicians were murdered & had their houses firebombed… that all happened but NOW you care about political violence

brought to you by the people who said that Kilmar Abrego Garcia had gang tattoos

this is Not Good

the right is going to tell everyone else to turn down the rhetoric but they are going to turn up their own

a fragment of my upcoming album I’m in my sound design bag here ably assisted by Chris Williams on trumpet & effects

the obvious example is Laraaji my fave wtf example is the CroMags - the violent Hari Krishnas

“16 Dimensions of Underwater Light” the 2nd single from Amasia is out today It’s the yin to the 1st single’s yang I’m in my sound design bag w the drums fuzz bass beatboxing & keys Chris Williams gets lyrical w trumpet & effects while Alex Harding comments melvin-gibbs.bandcamp.com/album/amasia...

the stronger species is the one that doesn’t do stupid s#it

Trust is the operative word here Who do YOU trust?

On the next episode Braxton, Sweatshirt, Gibbs, more Sat. Aug 30, 7-10pm(ET) @wfmu.bsky.social STREAM ▶️ wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

"Interactions on Bluesky were an order of magnitude higher than on X, the researchers said. Quotes — whereby users share posts and add their own text — and replies were nearly two orders of magnitude greater on Bluesky than on X"

there are obvious differences (not the least of which being the instruments we play) but I see congruence between how Pat Thomas approaches music and the projects I decide to make happen daily.bandcamp.com/lists/pat-th...

when you're talking about the power of prayer, Frederick Douglass' statement about praying for freedom is the definitive one “I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

"we never said that we could do the thing we said we can do"

not gonna say I'll be glad when this era is over today cause things could get worse it's on us

"nonconsensual invasion for profit" is a pretty accurate description of what a large percentage of the tech industry both has done and currently does to make money

when kids are shot at Mass it's obvious that thoughts and prayers aren't enough

I'm a big fan of Klein's guitar music I might try to convince Tubman to cover the song she's streaming now on some 4AD meets Sonny Sharrock s#it klein1997.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-...

yeah, but when it gets to the point that Central Americans don't need to cross the border the anymore the US might invade the country out of spite (see the Tulsa Massacre for context)

I went there in 2006 with my then 6 year old son & his mother when I was in LA rehearsing for the final Rollins Band tour. Participating in a satsang with her was magical. A few months later I bumped into her & her sister at JFK. They were heading to India to see Satya Sai Baba.

music goes through weird phases right now "yacht rock" - aka wimpy late 70s/early '80s r&b made by yt ppl that would've been slotted into the "quiet storm" format back in the day is some hipster s#it

4 decades later and still takes an uninitiated camera person a couple minutes to figure out that I'm the person soloing (the bass player's not slapping - so it must be a guitar solo) smh

she's part of that Leimert Park (LA) crew that came up under Horace Tapscott that includes Kamasi Washington, Keyon Harrold, Terrace Martin, Thundercat, among others her incredible skills as a beatmaker are one part of her muilt-facted talent

we might need to put the Philly/NY rivalry aside and import some hoagie masters

the next Harriet Tubman release Electrical Field of Love is a collaboration with Georgia Anne Muldrow who came up in Alice Coltrane's ashram that continuity of spirit is important to us

it's hard to believe now but when we started Harriet Tubman back in the '90s it was kind of uncool to claim Alice Coltrane as an influence

n addition to Sonny Sharrock it is also Alice Coltrane/Swami Turiyasangitanada's birthday here's the Harriet Tubman song inspired by her www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjpM...

today is Sonny Sharrock's 85th birthday this is the song I wrote for him harriettubman.bandcamp.com/track/the-te...

In 2025, you can use DJ Screw's technique for something other than irony or as an easy way to create a brand. On my upcoming album, I applied it to my own music (on "O.G. Dreams of Lost Love") to invoke a liminal mental state and highlight the ideas of reverie and nostalgia

"A decade after Screw’s untimely death in 2000, early vaporwave producers rebranded his chopped & screwed technique to eccojams or plunderphonics, applying it to other genres of music...sugary 1980s R&B, boring lounge music, soulless mall muzak, esoteric new age" www.zensounds.de/p/barber-beats

a small win - but a win nonetheless www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/f...

he took them away from their real jobs to have them come and pick up garbage in DC?

"state managed capitalism" gtfoh wit dat bs

Thinking about how the Times would have covered Joe Biden doing this and feeling calm, serene, like I'm floating in a vast warm ocean

anyone that thinks that "gangsta" rappers outing themselves as Republicans/Conservatives is a plot twist doesn't really understand what that style of music stands for or why it even exists

the only thing that Cuomo saying "I'm afraid of the subway" will do is help set the stage for Orange Julius to send in the troops the day after Mamdani wins

the "I'm afraid of the subway" gambit might work on out-of-towners but NYC voters ride the subway every damn day + the city is majority non-white we know what you really mean when you say that so Cuomo might win Staten Island & Hasidic voters (if Sliwa doesn't) but he's gonna lose the race badly

ah damn-that sucks note he pops up in my book related note my proposal included a chapter on the Black influence in country- but I didn't feel like writing it, so I handed the 1st draft in w/o it. My editor made me go back & knock it out. In 2026 it might end up being the book's most timely chapter.

I'm old enough to remember that we couldn't have universal health care or Bernie as President because it would've been COMMUNISM

no but I can see why you guess that...

No idea, but I listened and watched the video for Luigi Takes A Walk and pre-ordered it. It kills, first impulse buy in a long time.

I reverse the right to withdraw this offer if too many people figure it out

For The Record: The image that's on the cover of my "Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2" album is NOT created or altered using AI It's an image of something that exists on Earth if you tell me what it is I'll give you a download code for the album (one of the song titles is a hint)