People talk and talk and talk to their Reps and Senators but when it comes time for Reps and Senators to vote they always follow their donor class monies over all that talk. youtu.be/OklSZmIx9-o?...

@nedraggett.bsky.social @room40.bsky.social @hallowground.bsky.social @opaltapes.bsky.social @flamingpines.bsky.social

I've just received good news from the Turkish border— the stellar Iranian composer and musician Siavash Amini @capgrasman.bsky.social is alive and safe. While we mourn our fellow Iranian artists and musicians that are lost to us, we also celebrate those that are still here.

It's been a month since I've heard from Siavash Amini, the amazing composer and musician, a trusted producer, and my best friend. I'm so worried about him. Fuck the war-mongering US/Israeli political machines. Fuck all the opportunistic Evangelical Christo-fascist parasitic wastes of human flesh.

Per the quote below, it has now been three weeks since the great drone/noise musician Siavash Amini posted from Tehran. He could just be caught in a general Internet shutdown there. It could be much worse. Again, we just don't know. Consider exploring his music: siavashamini.bandcamp.com

Dear Brussels, Even though you're a city of over 2MM people, you have the public infrastructure of a city of 500K. Your public transport is not accessibility-compliant, and your road works tangle the city in seeming infinite knots. On Wednesday, I will bid you good riddance, never to return again.

very excited to announce the release of @steve4s.bsky.social's it's nothing, but still: japan/us tour 2023 DVDR. amazing audio, video, and packaging. ballastnvp.blogspot.com/2025/07/now-...

So excited this project has been released out into the world! Limited edition (32 copies) "it's nothing, but still" Japan/US tour DVD with custom packaging on ballast in Chicago. Check it out! ballastnvp.blogspot.com/2025/07/now-...

Four finished pieces in the Dominion series. Giclee prints with interventions, antique frames burnished with dry graphite lubricant.. All around 55 x 45 cm. Original illustrations were featured in The Royal Natural History, a six-volume survey of the animal kingdom, by Richard Lydekker, 1893-96.

New work in progress DOMINION: Glace Found object, industrial graphite powder 7 x 6 x 30 cm

Finished up the last piece of this puzzle—the DVD label. The a/v set from last year's tour to Japan and the US. Limited edition of 32, released this summer on ballast in Chicago. @bedwards314159.bsky.social

DOMINION:The Eurasian Jay is finished and installed at the gallery. Time to start on some new pieces!

Siavash (@capgrasman.bsky.social) is an AMAZING producer; his ear is second-to-none. He supported me, challenged me—no one has taught me more about the practice of making sound than he has.

Christian fascism is alive and well. chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-empire...

any us citizen supporting israel supports apartheid and slavery. this is the palestinians land

How is it being enforced and who by, is what I'd like to hear reported. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/n...

It's amazing how people can have such blind, unwavering faith in broken institutions that Nazis like Musk have shown that they don't respect and won't listen to. How do you stop the richest man in the world from doing whatever he wants? 🤔

Some new works in progress...

The key concept that Marxists need to communicate to liberals is that political and economic power cannot be separated. The idea that you can change the social and economic reality for the better by voting for someone is absurd when EVERYTHING is owned by oligarchs. We have owners, not rulers.

leftfootforward.org/2025/02/melt... Oh dear… what a shame!!

We've updated our tracker below with these 3 additions. If you have information about any of the people on this list, or know of other Musk associates who have entered the federal government, reach out on Signal at 917-512-0201.

The choice is socialism, or barbarism. Fearing systemic change and holding onto the neoliberal order will only push us deeper into fascism. Liberals need to come to terms with the fact that their ideology has led us directly to Trump, and that there will be no future under capitalism.

Did we learn nothing from his first term?

Neo-Nazi’s showed up to Lincoln Heights, Cincinnati, Ohio and were chased away by locals who stole and burned their swastika flag in the street : www.instagram.com/reel/DFy9N5e...

Ethel Rosenberg got the chair for doing a lot less damage to U.S. national security than Elon Musk has done this week

Neo-Nazis appeared in Lincoln Heights (metro Cincinnati) Ohio and got ran out of dodge… but not before locals stole and burned their swastika flag in the street.

This is how the world views the US. Australia calling out fascism, then adding that "Trump is a disaster for humanity and he belongs behind bars, not the oval office."

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

Should the DOGE boys have their lives ruined over this? Yes. But should we feel bad for it? No.

THIS arrived in the post yesterday...

Winterized.

This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

Exactly this. 👇