Magnetofunky: WWT

There's a defined constitutional process between the Midterm election and the new Congress. We're not getting that, even with the overwhelming result. Welcome to 60 days of BS... The Front Line - The Continuing Battleground Resistance Spotlight - AROC Action Center Stage - Emotionally Eclectic  Company Karaoke Party - Sour Tongue Farm House - The Bad Plug Fragile - Silverset goth boy scout - Dad H...

To ensure that I'm not getting high on my Incentive Reference Frame Theory, let's run it through an analytical gauntlet... The Front Line - Applying Falsifiability to the Theory Resistance Spotlight - Elections Simplified Center Stage - Assorted Alternative  Mizantrop - She Past Away Let 'Em Be Wrong - Deniz Tek Run - pilotinthepicture You Move - Avery Friedman Sky Problem - Sky Problem

With AI, reality has become a remarkably aggressive co-author in almost every aspect of our lives. And that's a frightening thought, because the event horizon is now clearly in sight. The Front Line - The Vertigo of Imagination Resistance Spotlight - UCLA Voting Rights Project and CHIRLA Center Stage - Straight Shoegaze  milkweed butterfly - smush cherry - Travelers belle esquive - Proto Gone Alre...

One of the darkest analogies of my Incentive Reference Frame theory - a Ouija board that powerful players can't control, but dare not stop playing... The Front Line - A Spooky IRF Analogy Resistance Spotlight - Pre-Election Resistance - National and Local Deep End - What if dream worlds are alternate realities? Center Stage - Spooky Seasonal Selections  Greetings From Hell - Crocodiles Sunlight Va...

The rabbit hole that starts with the threat of identity theft can lead inexorably to your digital mirror - an avatar you don't control and aren't even aware of... The Front Line - Chasing Your Avatar Resistance Spotlight - Non-Propaganda News from the Strait of Hormuz Center Stage - Appropriately Industrial, Techno, Etc.  Get Up - Mass Minor Believe (INHALT Remix) - Assemblage 23 Vile Train - Nigh...

Before getting cynically weary, let's remember how the normal post-election sequence plays out... The Front Line - It's Not Supposed to be a 60-Day Gauntlet Resistance Spotlight - The Marshall Project Center Stage - Harvest Sessions I  Here Are The Tulips - Hollow Hand The Meek Shall Inherit The Dearth  - ACTIVE SLAUGTHER Looose You - Kedr Livanskiy I'm a Soldier - The Male Pattern The Way We Mour...

The Democratic Party Leadership keeps chasing mythical persuadable swing state Republicans while treating its own coalition with disdain, again... The Front Line - The Electoral College Brass Ring Resistance Spotlight - Freedom House Center Stage - Post-Equinox Inbox Deep End - The Common Cold in the Covid Era and Immunity Debt Electronique - ARCANE ALLIES Darlings - GOBLYNS  Ich Will Nur Dass - L...

It's a familiar rumor that Cheeto is a compromised Russian stooge following orders, but he's more like a self-dealing Russian oligarch... The Front Line - The Distinction Between Compromise And Character Resistance Spotlight - Public Rights Project Center Stage - Summer Stage IV: Beach Bonfire Tunes lit et toi - Yuètù Don't Let Me Drive - Mick Beaulieu Soft - The Bernadette Maries Beat - The Black...

The aftermath of 9/11 hits differently for those who lived through it vs. the 100 million Americans who only know it as history... The Front Line - 25 Years Later Resistance Spotlight - Democracy Defenders Fund Center Stage - Music For An Unsettling Day Chafe (Breaking Our Hands) - Arms & Armour A Voice of Reason - Seabuckthorn Dark Tide - Joachim Spieth, Warmth The Moth - Cancer House Enough - Em...

When 21st Century technology accelerates age-old geopolitics, the game starts playing us... The Front Line - When Emergent Behavior Bites Resistance Spotlight - The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Center Stage - Sonic Summer Stew Not mine, sunshine - SPTW Vapor Cloud - Paerish Blackfish - wwwilson.it The Pain Keeper - Lone Assembly Petrochemisches Gefühl - OCTO Nucleo - MUTO 

The Greenland Energy kerfuffle may be much more complex than geopolitical chess - what if it's part of a very old game of insulated wealth and power, played with updated rules? The Front Line - A Very Old Playground Resistance Spotlight - Demand Progress Center Stage - Summer Stage III: Righteous Noise Our First Trip  - The Odyssey Cult Over and Over Again - Mr. Phylzzz dustdont settle - BLOUS3 Cu...

At first glance it's another ham-fisted geopolitical scenario, but taking a sideways view, there's something else going on here... The Front Line - The Player Is Just Another Piece Resistance Spotlight - Freedom of the Press Foundation Center Stage - Shoegaze Pluse A ring without an end - Rev Rev Rev Diamond Rain - Magic Wands  Moment 8 - Twin Drugs Sideburns - Tidal Wave Tomorrowland - Custard Fl...

The Informed Non-Voter vs The Midterms: When confidently cynical disengagement becomes indistinguishable from political surrender... The Front Line - 'It's Not My Problem': The Fatal Flaw Resistance Spotlight - The Human Rights Campaign Foundation Center Stage - Summer Stage II: Hazy Dog Daze Love Radio Show - The Stargazer Lilies Nothing's Ever Changed - S.U.G.A.R.  Hex Beat - Ancient Channels Be...

This is not a premature celebration - it's an assessment of the political culture the Orange asshole will leave behind... The Front Line - A Historical Autopsy Resistance Spotlight - Democracy Forward Center Stage - Midsummer Misc. Beats An American Ideal of Beauty - PIG Like A Ghost - Carrellee Wearing The Black Crown - Mayfair FM Nowhere Now - Mass Minor  Athiraavile (with Rani Jambak)  - Sunken...

Public health is just one pillar of democracy made progressively less resilient throughout the 2020s by this fascist regime... The Front Line - Exacerbated Crises Resistance Spotlight - Right Wing Watch Center Stage - Mostly Summer Hardcore Watched - Grey Matter CONJURE - Bestial Mouths GOLDEN AXE - CHEMCHAIN Fairless Enough - OCTO Last Words - Serotonin Manifesto - Damage Control x OHMElectronic

The modern panopticon isn't just surveillance cameras and AI algorithms. It's also millions of people voluntarily feeding and maintaining it, one upload at a time... The Front Line - More Ecosystem Than Oppressor Resistance Spotlight - Skydio Surveillance Drones Center Stage - Pounding Punk Deep End - The DST Blind Spot Modernism - Perennial  Rapid Station - THE CARP FUCK NO - Mirabelle. THE ETERN...

The war of competing theories within the Democratic Party is heating up, making the future of the party - and the country - a lot more interesting... The Front Line - The DNC vs the DSA Resistance Spotlight - Braver Angels - An Objective Assessment Center Stage - Summer Inbox what  -  Leilani Patao  Bed of Quiet - Josaleigh Pollett We Are The Scene - The Dwarves Endless Summer - The Morning Stars...

How our democracy became accustomed to behavior that once was totally unacceptable... The Front Line - The Beltway as Augean Stable Resistance Spotlight - Campaign Legal Center Center Stage - Psychedelic Borders The Yeti's Eyes - The Odyssey Cult  Would've Happened by Now - Monarch Joker Street - Stonegrass COMING - Kalamata Cavalier Seul - Bleu Reine Altar - Irata Departure - Bees Made Honey in t...

America's 250th birthday should be joyful and meaningful, not a grim acknowledgement of the desecration being committed against the nation's soul. It's like watching assholes put their cigarettes out on the Lincoln Memorial... The Front Line - Still Our Country Resistance Spotlight - Flock Cameras - Do's & Don'ts Center Stage - Shades of Darkwave BREATHE IN SILENCE - This Eternal Decay  From a Dif...

When the post-crisis era eventually arrives, if we actually hold the many treasonous grifters accountable this time, we'll also have to simultaneously focus on repairing the broken institutions that hold everything together... The Front Line - The Boring Things We Forget We Need Resistance Spotlight - Poll Workers Center Stage - Summer Stage I: Garage Punk Plus Settle Down - IRKED  Permanent Reput...

It's one thing to not learn from history. It's a whole other thing to just burn the damn history books... The Front Line - And then we were told to move on... Resistance Spotlight - Common Cause Center Stage - Another Shoegaze Set Lights Come Down - Azure Rose  Heaven - Phosphene Sacred Mirrors - Magic Wands Raindrops - Päfgens A Torinói Ló - kokomo Deep End - Humanity: Threat Assessment Unknown

History shows that a society's recovery after a crisis is not about a single sunrise after a storm, but the long, often uncomfortable process of learning how to live in daylight again... The Front Line - Proof of Concept Resistance Spotlight - CalMatters Center Stage - Alternative Takes With Love - Asara I've Been Cursed - 3 A.M. Again My Buick - honeybee Camera Obscura - Cancer House Missing Bern...

How do democracies talk about rebuilding while the fire is still burning? The Front Line - The Taboo of Hope Resistance Spotlight - The Mechanics of Holding the Line Center Stage - Spring Social IV: School's Out Criminal - Cammy Cautious and the Wrestlers Singin' With My Tongue Cut Out - Drakulas John Travolta - The Frēqs Be Cool - snüff Culo Rotto - Poo Poo Talks I am the monster - BAZAAR Emerson...

In obnoxious horse-race terms, second place is the focus of this dumpster fire jungle primary... The Front Line - The Photo Finish Nobody Wants Resistance Spotlight - Power Coalition for Equity and Justice + California Calls Center Stage - Spring Omnibus The Future You Planned For Is No Longer An Option - CLOUDWARMER Sixteen - Skip Danko B-Movie Road Club The Burden - ODDFELLOWS Widow - Tracy Brya...

As June 2nd approaches, the most irritating reality of this Democratic primary is that none of these candidates inspires enough authentic enthusiasm to clear the field... The Front Line - Choosing Without Believing Resistance Spotlight - Xnet Music: Primarily Punk Jackpot - Lip Critic Pachinko Wizard - Zilch Patrol  ADHD - CorMae   That's the Reason - Cable TV pills - Youth Valley Time is Wasting...