Magnetofunky: WWT

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...

SCOTUS gutting the Voting Rights Act is just another transition point in the de-evolution of democratic legitimacy and voter power... The Front Line - The New Gilded Order Resistance Spotlight - Jessie Gender Music: Spring Social III - Tough Tunes For A Tough Spring The Wrong End Of Your Rifle - The Joy Thieves Red Red Red Red Red - The Dharma Chain Property - Scorie  Me-Mania - Sour Tongue   Razo...

The undecided vote is larger than any single candidate's base. What was a sleeping giant becomes restless and hyper-focused... The Front Line - The Convergence Paradox Resistance Spotlight - Southern Coalition for Social Justice Music: Industrial Inbox Mass Murder Appeal - Tinder Youth Center Stage - Industrial Inbox YOÜ (INHALT Kunst '93 Remix) -  KMFDM Tread Lightly On The Planet/Girl Taken - Sh...

Hopefully this rant will kick indifferent progressive and liberal voters in their stubborn complacency, and/or cut through the cutthroat nature of intraparty politics before the Primary Election... The Front Line - Fractures and Gridlock Resistance Spotlight - Tom Joseph and America's Main Street Party - An Objective View Music: May Day Head Space Deep End:  The Benevolent Override All the Bastard...

Eric Swalwell's exit has shaken up - but not sorted - the pack of remaining Dems running for Governor... The Front Line - Still Spinning Out of the Turn Resistance Spotlight - Comparative Analysis of Metin Pekin's Breaking Democracy's Chains Music: Spring Social II - Gritty, Gnarly, Grungy Hot Head - Orcutt Shelley Miller To Live Deliciously - Bronson Arm You're gonna hear about me again - MONT LO...

Cheeto's increasingly disturbing rhetoric is only getting worse - the pattern recognition is long overdue... The Front Line - Moving the Red Line Resistance Spotlight - Center for Humane Technology Music: Strictly Shoegaze and Dreampop The Deadpan Break - T. G. Shand ESO - The Bernadette Maries Intrusive Thots - The Library is On Fire For Lack of Trying - Lozenge Blue as Blood - mango dreamgir cer...

Walking myself back from the political precipice of a MAGA Governor... The Front Line - Counting to Two Is Harder Than It Looks Resistance Spotlight - League of Women Voters of California Music: Pop Rock WOW - Club Magic Give In To Love - Vegas With Randolph Game Of Pricks - Career Woman  Pretty - Honey I'm Home NEW SERMON - Deerest    I Am Gonna Fight - The Junior League

A 'jungle primary' system with multiple Dem candidates for Governor could, under the wrong conditions, let a unified GOP minority outmaneuver a divided majority - and put a MAGA Chud in control of California... The Front Line - Too Many Democrats, Not Enough Math Resistance Spotlight - Matt Campbell Music: Vernal Medley Look Up - Dream Fatigue Cute - Asara Mary - Sauvageoness  We Got To Get Moist...

Right now the world teeters between an incoherent tyrant's callous Middle Eastern conflict, and a mad AI arms race that may end in a real-world 'Skynet'... The Front Line - Clear Cognitive Decline vs. AI Apotheosis Resistance Spotlight - No Kings Day 3 - 03/28 Music: Spring Social I: Electronica Etc. MY BODY - DJ Phil The Dive - Jet Cemetery  Bowed Clusters (with The Leaf Library) - Xylitol   ECHO...

This week's rant concerns two related problems: paywalled access to public-interest information and reporters saving major revelations for books instead of publishing them immediately. What can we do about it besides boycott? The Front Line - Breaking News, Coming Soon in Hardcover Resistance Spotlight - Palestine Children's Relief Fund (Podcasthon) Music: Eclectic Spring Inbox Don't Take My Baby...

Calling out Cheero's callous incompetence of the Iran War that paints a target on the country for power and profit... The Front Line - A Target-Rich Game Board Resistance Spotlight - Alan Govenar's New Documentary "Quiet Voices in a Noisy World: The Struggle for Change in Jasper, Texas" Music: Winter Smoker Party IV Action Painting - Perennial Be Like You - Bruise Control  Frog - Viscula Ghost - B...

The continued secrecy around Cheeto's health only fuels speculation that he's swirling the drain, and wants to take us down with him... The Front Line - Operation Epstein Fury Isn't Working Resistance Spotlight - Stand Up for Science 03/07 Rally Music: In A Psychedelic Dream Pop Shoegaze Mood for DST Dragging The Rain Down - Dreamwave  Want - Deerest  Thread - Darkswoon A Death in London - Ladytro...

Cheeto's DEI is more than racist placement of unqualified loyal cronies in positions of power - it's also strategic sabotage... The Front Line - Jim Crow Perspectives Resistance Spotlight - Free Software Foundation Music: Feb. Keyword Set Black chicken/White donkeys - Attempt to somebody's life  Art History - Perennial  Black Widow - Bugseed Take Back Culture - BADLUCK Under a Black Sun - Miss Lav...

Considering an alternative internet so Cheeto can't cut our access to each other and the outside world... The Front Line - Only in Theory Resistance Spotlight - Algorithmic Justice League Music: Late Winter Drops Rhododendron - Terror Terror  Mindsucker -  Harvey Rushmore & the Octopus Ich Verbrenne Mich [I Burn Myself] - Latex  Urn Burial - Bonner Kramer/Thurston Moore Wishing Well - Magic Wands...

Misc. feelings around my PC, AI, social media, and politics all blurring together... The Front Line - Combatting the Doom-Scroll Resistance Spotlight - Open Technology Fund Music: This Year V. Day is Complicated Lover's Rock - Blue Earth Sound You Never Have to Love Me - Tombstones In Their Eyes Chocolate - Sunna Margrét  Sex to Go - Mona Mur  We Can't Be Lovers With These Guns On Each Other - Rae...

Sending a carrier strike group close to Iran is just one of the many distractions Commander Bone Spurs needs to salve his butt-hurt ego over this latest insufficient Epstein Files drop... The Front Line - Imminent Distractions Resistance Spotlight - Mobile Fortify Music: Winter Smoker Party III Bring Me Down (feat. Patrón) - Electric Jaguar Baby Came Back Kicking - The Pretty Flowers Get A Life -...

Too many citizens are falling for this 'cancelled election' BS - we need to beat it down... The Front Line - Putting This Dumpster Fire Out Resistance Spotlight - American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota Music: Winter Smoker Party II When you cross the border - TIGERLEECH  The King and the Clown - Tendinite Even Our Closest Friends Are Distant - The James Rocket The Silver Key - And Also The Tr...

It's time to stop debating the merits of Velveeta Voldemort's threats (whether or not they're bluffs) and take back the initiative... The Front Line - Strategic Reaction Resistance Spotlight - Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) Music: Hip Hop, Etc The Hypnotists (Album Version) - Timezone Lafontaine Isle - Vilde Yearning (feat. Yoni Wolf of WHY?) - Atmosphere Legal Tender (Sanction...