“If Not Now, When?” The Nation is in crisis. We need people with courage. Power concedes nothing without a demand.

“Julian Assange is the world’s greatest and most famous journalist and he’s in prison solely for the crime of doing good journalism, but sure, let’s all spend our time shaking our fists at far away “authoritarian regimes” for imprisoning journalists. There really is no other interpretation of the First Amendment that makes this TikTok ban okay. If it goes through then Americans should mark that as the end of their constitution, because their government has made it clear they’ll disregard it in the most brazen way imaginable.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)

“At some point the non-rich in this country are going to realize they are protecting the rich and not the other way around. It’s a totally recent phenomenon that people define themselves by their political party.

It’s just not healthy for individuals or the nation.” (-Erin Brockovich)

Erin Brockovich on Twitter: “It’s an act of activist suppression.” / Twitter

Erin Brockovich on Twitter: “The Brockovich Report: What We Learned From The Forgotten Train Disaster That Sparked FEMA https://t.co/5MNUa95D3I” / Twitter

Mats Nilsson on Twitter: “”You could spend hours of your life just reading through Fair. org’s “NPR” section to see the many, many ways that platform has exhibited wild biases to grease the wheels of the US empire. If NPR is not state-affiliated media, then nobody is.” https://t.co/OSSav6nOFI” / Twitter

For The Record, NPR Absolutely Is US State Propaganda (substack.com)

French woman faces $13,000 fine for Facebook post calling President Macron “fifth” (reclaimthenet.org) WEF puts the mock in democracy

WAITING FOR THE MIRACLE TO COME

Leonard Cohen – Waiting For The Miracle Subtitulado – YouTube

“Somewhere in the bowels of Foggy Bottom, a US official is cheering the indictment of America’s top opposition leader for bookkeeping violations while laying plans to sanction a rogue foreign government for hounding a US-trained opposition leader.” (-Max Blumenthal)

“Most people dislike believing they and their factions are the ones in power. They want power, while claiming the victim mantle.

Left-liberal opinion-makers constantly depict themselves as the enemies of power centers – US Security State, Big Tech, media – as laughable as it is.” (-Glenn Greenwald)

“Of course NPR is US state-affiliated media. It’s funded by the US government, all its reporting advances the information interests of the US government, and its CEO’s last job was running overt propaganda organs of the US government. If it doesn’t deserve that label, no one does.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)

There are too many countries rebelling and declaring their sovereignty for the US to successfully coup all of them. The Empire is dying. The Middle East is looking to make Peace, Africa declaring their sovereignty, OPEC defying orders, Brazil agreeing to ditch the dollar with China, and countries getting in line to join BRICS. Believe American State propaganda if you want, but they know it’s all falling apart. China won and they did it without coups, sanctions, assassinations, invasions and bullying and on top of that they’ve managed to improve life in their country over the past few decades, unlike the United States. You want to know what a dying Empire looks like? If you live in America you have a front row seat.” (-Black In The Empire)

““If I run, my top priority will be to end the corrupt merger between state and corporate power that has ruined our economy, shattered the middle class, polluted our landscapes and waters, poisoned our children, and robbed us of our values and freedoms. Together we can restore America’s democracy.” (-Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)

Erin Brockovich on Twitter: “This was after the all clear. I know you don’t want a panic but people need to be able to trust that the info they are getting is accurate. Best wishes to these folks who walked into harms way to try and help this town. https://t.co/2YVCxsiCvX” / Twitter

Erin Brockovich on Twitter: “It just ain’t worth it people. We must stop playing Russian Roulette with our health and the environment. https://t.co/Pxx2vpnodp” / Twitter

Erin Brockovich on Twitter: “My book Superman’s Not Coming explained how people have take action in their own communities because no one is coming to save you. It’s amazing to see the people getting it done all across America. I believe in you!! https://t.co/UzTzNdp3t3” / Twitter

Erin Brockovich on Twitter: “Seriously is anyone even surprised when this shit happens any more. Is this going to be one more thing we all accept? Toxic water and bull shit “all clear” from the “stay calm and carry on” folks? #Philadelphiawater https://t.co/P5xB3F0nVk” / Twitter

WikiLeaks on Twitter: “Geoffrey Robertson KC and Reporters Without Borders’ Rebecca Vincent on the Julian Assange case and the refusal of prison authorities to allow a visit to the publisher by the NGO today @RSF_inter | Al Jazeera https://t.co/YToyzTQkZB” / Twitter

Australian Labor government’s claim it cannot free Assange is a lie – World Socialist Web Site (wsws.org)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr on Twitter: “”Having blown the statutory deadline written into the JFK Records Act four times in six years, the CIA and other federal agencies are now seeking to eliminate the deadline altogether.” — @BubblecarBuster https://t.co/1uQDgv7WtY” / Twitter

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr to run in 2024 US presidential election (irishcentral.com)

Following Murder of Dr. King: Lessons of the April 1968 Black Rebellions, by Sam Marcy – Dandelion Salad (wordpress.com)

Margaret Kimberley on Twitter: “The Trump indictment doesn’t sit well with me. Read my latest in Black Agenda Report. @blkagendareport https://t.co/CMqA6jn0B1” / Twitter

The Prosecution of Trump Is a Good First Step. Now Do Bush. (theintercept.com)

sarah on Twitter: “Your president dropped bombs on hospitals and weddings in Afghanistan and Yemen.” / Twitter shitlibs don’t care about life n death or right n wrong, to them it’s just a middle school popularity contest forever and they all wanna sit at the jock table

Max Blumenthal on Twitter: “NPR is not state affiliated media. Its US gov’t-sponsored staff reliably transmits US gov’t talking points about foreign governments the US gov’t seek to topple through their own, independent initiative, without any collaboration with the US gov’t.” / Twitter shitlibs, gotmines and Thank Obamas are mainly thinkin about pairing that walnut and bleu cheese dip with some kinda champagne and freshly squeezed non gmo orange juice concoction….

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s SECRET Epstein history EXPOSED in new courtroom leaks | Redacted News – YouTube

sarah on Twitter: “13 years ago today, Julian Assange released a video showing US Forces firing on Iraqi civilians, including children. Now he faces up to 175 years in prison for publishing it. https://t.co/BtgFjgklyu” / Twitter

Robert F. Kennedy Jr on Twitter: “Nearly half of CDC workers doing door-to-door surveys in East Palestine got sick with similar symptoms residents reported after the toxic train derailment even though government officials and representatives from Norfolk Southern declared everything safe.…” / Twitter

The Katie Halper Show on Twitter: “7PM EST Louis DeAngelis @louisd217 joins the Katie Halper Show to talk about a major scoop he uncovered in East Palestine. https://t.co/qb1Tn7ijgl. Then join me on Callin after the stream.” / Twitter

Barbara Marx Hubbard: Godmother of Transhumanism and Synthetic Spirituality (unlimitedhangout.com) Trader Joe’s shoppers love this shit.

TIMES OF GAZA on Twitter: “Palestinian child bursts into tears after the lsraeli occupation forces assaulted him in Jerusalem’s Old City. https://t.co/3J4VkR7y3i” / Twitter

Fauci quietly begins advising mysterious overseas ‘anti-pandemic’ bio lab (substack.com)

WILD WINDS

knocked everything down at the gypsy encampment cowboy ranch we’ve been looking after while the cowboy is out of town, the extreme winds just shake those little R/V’s and cabins and all my dude’s stuff fell off the walls and on the floor, I was just stoppin’ by for a shovel to finish up a fence project, otherwise I’d have tried to box up summa his belongings that are on the floor and secured more stuff on the property, probably gonna head back over there once we get a thumbs up from the owner and see if I can keep some more of his stuff from getting thrashed all the way by the doors slamming and fixtures swinging around and yard furniture getting tossed around by the elements-I never met that man but just seeing his stuff I recognize him as a kindred spririt, older version of myself–it’s still dark out as I have my morning coffee and I see the big full moon still gleaming in the sky over my neighbor’s house-just hope my tomato, lettuce and peppers sproutlings survived the night. I woke myself up snoring and had “Seasons In The Sun” playing in my skull, probably not a good sign. Thinkin’ ’bout my babies out there in the world, dreamt about a long gone golden bartendress and a Detroit songwriter who’ve both already moved on up to honky tonk heaven, I’m surrounded by annoying cats demanding food. Almost wish I hadda cigarette but I’m trying to lay ’em down again to improve my chances of living long enough to see my years absent older kids again someday, hopefully, it’s been so long. Yeah that cowboy has stage 4 badness and I think he wants to come back here and die on that property but the owner wants to convert it into an airbandb naturally cause what else would you ever want to do with land and property, come visit the Haunted Ranch, $200 a night-right? As we age, ya notice how our contemporaries seem to just blindly prefer to go with the flow, they stopped asking real questions back in college cause it jeopardized their GPA and they were going ever deeper into debt to get that good job in navel Studies, they all seem to cling stubbornly to long subverted and corrupted insititutions and carefully curated corporate image McWokeness brand models, ya know? Almost all my ex associates who have jobs in media or adcaemia for instance don’t even wanna know what’s happening in the world unless it involves you know, like praising Beyonce and Taylor for their songwriting talent, or enthusing about Jack Black and Lizzo or Miley Cyrus and Thanking Obama for keepin’ it classy. They don’t want to know. They avoid me like the Covid and if they think of me at all it’s probably as like, their buzzkill Debbie Downer, they just wanna listen to their NPR and get their Venti iced skinny hazelnut macchiato, sugar – free syrup, extra shot, light ice, no whip without having to think about Starbucks’ union busting practices or some oopsy daisy train “accident” the Biden admin already assured them was safe and effective, they’re trying to like. SHOP on their I-Phones, and select some new appliance upgrades for their investment property and don’t need to be hassled by some crazy conspiracy theorists or uptight poor people who don’t even watch Rachel Maddow!!! Unscientific flat Earthers! Man, I wish I had some cigarettes, I’m probably just gonna put my warm coat on and go walk around the yard, that’s the kinda thing I do for kicks now-walk around the yard. I used to take pictures of cactus and clouds and barbed wire fences and old mineshafts and cows but my camera fucking broke, so now it’s just me with the worries, the memories, some photographs in boxes, and all the old songs still throbbing in my old skull. Maybe it’s a good thing I don’t drive or I might be on the highway this morning spending money I don’t have on gas, you know, a man gets restless. There’s alot of food insecurity on my block so I’m trying my best to grow a big enough garden that I can give some vegetables away, I’m a novice farmer though cause the climate and soil are a lot different here in the deadend desert ghost town than they were in my easy to grow, always bountiful, old Kentucky homestead.

Do You Believe In Magyk? (Remastered) – YouTube

New York Dolls – Temptation To Exist – YouTube

Iggy Pop – I Wanna Live – 18 Aug 1996 – YouTube

Ramones – I Wanna Live (Official Music Video) – YouTube

FETCHIN’ BONES

“I’m riding around on ripples of sound”…

I think prior to Hope Nicholls the most captivating entertainers or frontpeople I’d ever seen performing live and in person were probably Gibby Haynes, Peter Zaremba, John Sex, Wendy Wild, and Brian O’Blivion. Ya know you might not guess Hope Nicholls is someone I consider a personal influence, but she really did affect me as a bad teen and altered my way of fronting a band and commanding a room when I first saw her back in the halcyon days of Aqua Net and shiny trousers, smokin’ clove cigarettes and makin’ out with black haired girls with nose rings in cars, and drinking big bottles of vodka stashed in the backseat in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn in Indiana on a Sunday night…Her North Carolina cowpunk meets swampy proto grunge, garage band FETCHIN’ BONES played a kinda fun lovin’ hard partyin’ scuzz rock Americana with guts and soulfulness and kinda helped pave the way for what few good bands came along after postpunk and college rock had gotten buried by the hoax of corporate alternative. They kinda reminded me of the Replacements a little, maybe it was all the crazy clashing thrift store plaid jackets, but they had that same kinda unbridled house party beer drinkin’ and from the heart wild abandon we all used to strive for back in those years before people wanted to just use music as some kinda cheap hustle, vehicle or gravy train, and it became just another bullshit cultural tourist say nothin’ cashcow heavily exploited bandwagon, a tawdry, reduced means of “getting somewhere”. Do you even remember Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper or Flat Duo Jets? You never got the vibe the Bones were in it for the money at all, or even fame or middle school popularity like most middle class indie bands we’ve seen since Sub-Pop, they seemed like they were all genuine friends who used to sit around some fifties style red metal kitchen table smoking cigarettes and drinking hard liquor and cheap beer while listening to old Iggy Pop records together. Maybe cookin’ out, or having a washboard and banjo hillbilly hodown on the front porch. Whatever happened to the teenage dream? I honestly don’t even know any people who still get together in real life to drink and listen to music together anymore, I’m not sure I even see that desire to want to commune, connect, jam, share, collaborate, co create, dance and party and get down in the people’s eyes anymore. Everybody’s just preoccupied with their own divided little compartmentalized niche out for themself me shows, just hoarding their micro empires, the internet and lockdown culture and big boxes and gentrification rents really did kill off alot of ways and places people used to gather and converse and joke and exchange and sometimes even organize and unite-the bookstores are being spied on in Atlanta, the record stores closed, or were replaced with overpriced hipster moneygrubbers, aint no real subculture destinations left, remember when there was a coast to coast left of the dial national highway of local print shop homemade fanzines, college radio stations, punk bars, cable access tv shows, illegal after hours places, band houses that would always let other punks cash on the floor? All that’s gone and replaced with heavily censored social media on expensive surveillance gadgets..that require annual product upgrades. Weird, man! Aint that Murkkka? When I was a kid, we’d always make clubhouses out in the woods or someone’s attic, eventually I had to flee my hick abusers and made it to NYC where I was surprised by how many of us were squatting there in our Hanoi Rocks t shirts on St. Mark’s Place who’d run away from different towns all over hoping to find a place to fit in and make a band like you know–the Deadboys and Ramones and Blondie and the Fleshtones did. You could still almost afford to live in the Bowery back then, if you had some hustle, which I did not, I was riding some older girl’s coattails and couch surfing, but at night, the city came alive and we would go to the Pyramid or the Dive or Danceteria or Save the Robots, my girlfriend and her two girlfriends were all hot foxes so we could get in for free even if our roommate Minkie had to say she was my mom, we wore matching sunglasses, black eyeliner, and orange lipstick, and leopard print so we always got the nod from the wild showgirl doorpeople. Even back in the bigger college towns of the midwest, you gotta understand, there was still a real vibrant undergound within driving distance, we drove to Ft. Wayne every Sunday we could cobble together some gas money to hangout with the other freaks and misfits and castouts and punk rockers. Our band was still not writing any great originals yet, mostly we were still playing some Cramps and Stooges covers. Fetchin’ Bones though, had all the sleaze and fury of an L7 years before Seattle broke, they were like the B-52’s younger heavy metal headbangin’ rockabilly rodeo garage punk siblings, they played a Southern blend of heartfelt, stompin’ CCR swamp rock and heart on her sleeve get down pop gospel. There’s really no honest way to talk about Hope without mentioning Janis Joplin, or Exene, Hope was like a Janis for us smalltown death rockers, she just put it all out there so soulfully, all spontanaiety and raw naked emotionalism. She did have a great sense of humor too and a box of like elementary school music class percussion instruments. She looked her audience in the eyes, that’s what I learned from her, she really got inside us, really connecting with me, made us feel like she was there just for us. Communicating something so honest and deeply felt, like she was communing with us smalltown parking lot weirdos with nowhere to belong, like she was one of us. I still love her. She laid it down and MC5 testified and got all her yaya’s out in such an inclusive and empowering and personal way, she was maybe not as famous but she had the same wild lightning bolt streak of greatness like Iggy or Patti. She went on to play in Snagglepuss, Sugarsmack, Pigface and It’s Snakes. She’s a real special artist in my book. My kinda people. If ya see her, tell her the guy in the red leather jacket and the pink studded flares said hello. If yer ever in the neighborhood, stop by, bring a big bottle.

Fetchin Bones Love Crushing – YouTube

Fetchin’ Bones Deep Blue Video – YouTube

Fetchin Bones – You’re So Much – YouTube

Riding Around – YouTube

Fetchin’ Bones performs at CBGBs – “Flesh and Bones” – YouTube

Charlotte SubCulture with Fetchin’ Bones (Episode 4) – YouTube

Fetchin Bones – Spinning – YouTube

Where the Music Is with Fetchin’ Bones (1989) – YouTube

Fetchin Bones – A Fable – YouTube

Bonework – Fetchin’ Bones – YouTube

Fetchin Bones – Chicken Truck – YouTube

Fetchin’ Bones – The Original Members – YouTube

Fetchin’ Bones “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)” at CBGB’s – YouTube

‘Godmother of Charlotte Rock’ Hope Nicholls | WFAE 90.7 – Charlotte’s NPR News Source

Hope Nicholls and It’s Snakes Prepare New Album, Look to the Future (qcnerve.com)

Kat Bjelland, Hope Nicholls, Chris Vrenna, Lori Barbero – Saraphrenia – YouTube

Dreams Of New Fetchin Bones Songs Becomes Reality | WFAE 90.7 – Charlotte’s NPR News Source

WHO KILLED THE SHERRIF

Man ya know I know everybody’s sick of Bob Marley because of all those Island reissues and annoying white college kids cos-playing as hippie for two years before going to work as supervisors in the saltimines, I used to threaten to do a radio show that was gonna skewer all the fake Jamaican patois white people potsmokers who were always “Jommin’”… but you gotta see this essential documentary about how the CIA was destabilizing Jamaica by Balkanizing it into neighborhood ghetto factions with competing druglord warzones, flooding it with guns and training gangs and turning the youth against the youth, employing dons to keep the neighborhoods down and wanting to prevent socialism from taking root and providing for the long suffering Rasta, Marley was doing his best to stay neutral but was still perceived as a threat for trying to unite the warring factions, slow the killing, and bring all the worldwide black people together, he was biracial ya know said he only served God, wanted to be beneficial to the people, of course armed proxies showed up and tried to kill him, forcing him into exile, when rival gang leaders made peace in prison, they knew they needed Bob to help the people make peace who’d all been under boot of different drugdealers employed by regime change covert operations, same shit they did in the Ukraine and attempted in Venezuela, and even right here in River City, friends, color revolutions, divide and conquer, Cointelpro infiltration, psy ops, false flags, honey traps, panopticon surveillance, astro turf fake protest, manufactured opposition, paying off one side, killin’ off anyone who really wants to help humanity, it’s instructive to see how they used the exact same playbokk all the way back in the Reagan era, spooks masquerading as journalists, drugdealing spooks and gun runners masqurading as soundmen, hired Judas hitman assassins, etc.,etc. When Bob danced his soulful holyman religious dance a big lightning bolt appeared in the sky really seemed like Bob was tuned in to, or with the higher powers. When I hear Leonard Cohen, Bob Marley, Joe Strummer, or Marvin Gaye songs, I can still feel that religious shimmer running up and down my central nervous system. That’s the only kind of music I’d wanna endeavor to make at this point of the ride. I’m sick to death of fake media, fake muzak, false movements, false gawds. Some oldsters might remember how the Church Committee revealed way back in the 70’s how U.S. intel had developed a heart attack gun, I suspect they got all kindsa different ways to kill motherfuckers now, like all those Global South and Latin American socialist democracies, all their leaders get sick and die young-notice that? Hugo Chavez? All the street soldiers from Ferguson and Baltimore uprisings, already dead and gone, but here’s Kamala. Joe Strummer died young, John Lennon, Bill Hicks, Bob Marley, lotta coincidences, ya know?

bob marley revolution – YouTube

Bob Marley Them Belly Full Live – YouTube

Bob Marley “Rat Race” – YouTube

Ambush In The Night (1979) – Bob Marley & The Wailers – YouTube

Concrete Jungle – BOB MARLEY – CONCERT -SANTA BARBARA 1979 – YouTube

Bob Marley’s 30 greatest songs – ranked! | Bob Marley | The Guardian

Yothu Yindi – Treaty (Original Version) – YouTube

Mark Ames on Twitter: “Fighting inflation by raiding low-income Americans of whatever cash they might have if they want to stay alive. Biden’s bait-and-switch from “most progressive since FDR” two years ago, to “fuck you for believing me” New Democrat austerian is complete. https://t.co/stgjxLLegr” / Twitter

Black Alliance for Peace on Twitter: “@ajamubaraka @freedomrideblog @BAYAN_USA @renacientes @friendsatc @HaitiMoleghaf @UNAC1 @All4GlobalJust @afro_resistance @APSPusa BAP member organization MOLEGHAF, a grassroots anti-imperialist organization in #Haiti, held a day of activities today to launch the #ZoneOfPeace campaign. It featured graffiti, a welcoming speech, testimonies and performances. Learn more: https://t.co/x9HxNQ1Vzv https://t.co/jrJ4f5Pdcr” / Twitter

MintPress News on Twitter: “Thirteen years ago today, Wikileaks released a leaked video titled “Collateral Damage,” which showed a US Apache helicopter killing 12 people, including two Reuters journalists. Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange is currently facing a sentence of 175 years as he waits to be… https://t.co/QugAHxVncx” / Twitter

Whitney Webb on Twitter: “New from @EBBerger – As he tried to build a New York business empire, Robert Maxwell attempted to capitalize on the American savings & loans crisis, calling upon a dense web of arms dealers, money launderers, financial criminals & intelligence agents. https://t.co/JDrhoS14HH” / Twitter

Whitney Webb on Twitter: “NEW – @llspacejellyll joins me to discuss FDA Commissioner Robert Califf & his role in removing regulatory obstacles for the “healthcare” related wearable, implantable devices & other emerging technologies seen as crucial to the advance of 4IR. https://t.co/whCj2laFgz https://t.co/YrnSebBTAx” / Twitter

Max Blumenthal on Twitter: “A propaganda visit to Israel used to be the prerequisite for presidential hopefuls from the DC Uniparty. Now it’s Ukraine, and a pledge to fuel the drive toward WWIII.” / Twitter

Michael Tracey on Twitter: “December 2013: John McCain, live from Kyiv, tells CNN the US delegation in Ukraine is seeking to “bring about” a “transition” in the country (i.e., remove the government). Declares how “pleased” he is that Victoria Nuland is with him on the scene, attempting to achieve this goal https://t.co/QGrhS2wQCx” / Twitter

Aaron Maté on Twitter: “New: Burying key evidence, new OPCW report covers up Douma’s unsolved deaths After censoring experts who found that the victims in Douma could not have been killed by chlorine gas, the OPCW’s IIT report continues the cover-up and baselessly accuses Syria. https://t.co/v695mHPimx” / Twitter

Aaron Maté on Twitter: “Sy Hersh: “Within weeks of my report that Joe Biden ordered the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, the CIA produced a cover story and found willing takers in the New York Times and two major German publications.” https://t.co/UxW6YkhBD9″ / Twitter

Scott Hechinger on Twitter: “While you’re all paying attention to Donald Trump’s arraignment today in NY, I want you all to know that today, right now, NY’s Dem. Gov. Kathy Hochul, is working w/ Trump’s GOP to give judges more power than they ever have had to jail Black, brown, & poor New Yorkers pretrial. https://t.co/8w7i3N7Zmx” / Twitter

Mark Ames on Twitter: “trump obsessing is the bipartisan glue that holds this depressing shithole together” / Twitter

Margaret Kimberley on Twitter: “All true but Russia and China could have saved Libya with a UN Security Council veto of the no fly zone resolution. At the time both nations were placating the bully when they should have seen that they would be next on the list.” / Twitter

“Confusion is the Message” (substack.com)

johndissed on Twitter: “Trump Coverage Has The Media Ignoring That Living In US Is Likely To Reduce Your Life Expectancy https://t.co/P1mqandFha” / Twitter

How long, Lord, will the wicked,

    how long will the wicked be jubilant?

They pour out arrogant words;
    all the evildoers are full of boasting.
They crush your people, Lord;
    they oppress your inheritance.
They slay the widow and the foreigner;
    they murder the fatherless.” (-Bible)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr on Twitter: “The Fed just announced it will introduce its “FedNow” Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in July. CBDCs grease the slippery slope to financial slavery and political tyranny. While cash transactions are anonymous, a #CBDC will allow the government to surveil all our private…” / Twitter

“Republican Party war propaganda claims “China is preparing to kill Americans and we have to defend ourselves”… over Taiwan

The US is not “defending” itself by supporting Taiwanese separatists Beijing wants a peaceful resolution to the Taiwan issue. It’s the US that wants war.” (-Ben Norton)

Against late capitalism 🪶 on Twitter: “This could be us but you think voting works https://t.co/SFlZ6aMXJ3” / Twitter

Glenn Greenwald on Twitter: “Every major press freedom and civil liberties group in the West has urged the Biden DOJ to cease its prosecution of Assange on the ground it gravely imperils press freedom. Glad to see @RSF_inter trying to supervise his care: they should be allowed in: https://t.co/k5rkMYGFpY” / Twitter

Glenn Greenwald on Twitter: “How can the same person who spent years mocking the GOP for being puppets of the Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson – claiming they support Israel only to get Adelson’s cash – now claim it’s anti-Semitic to even discuss George Soros’ massive donations to liberal candidates? https://t.co/iW7L5XUS56” / Twitter

“Sheldon Adelson, like George Soros, are both Jewish billionaires who donated massive amount of money to causes and candidates they support. Why is it permissible to talk about the former but anti-Semitic to talk about the latter?” (-Glenn Greenwald)

Nayib Bukele on Twitter: “Think what you want about former President Trump and the reasons he’s being indicted. But just imagine if this happened in any other country, where a government arrested the main opposition candidate. The United States ability to use “democracy” as foreign policy is gone.” / Twitter

RFK Jr Podcast on Twitter: “share and subscribe: https://t.co/L0xp1d9vsD https://t.co/pf0hKqCzHI” / Twitter

CIA Replaced RFK w Gillibrand; told kids “Vote!” on Twitter: “CIA. They assassinated some folks.” / Twitter

Casey Austin Sheehan – Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Newsletter (substack.com)

Erin Brockovich on Twitter: “I care about the health of my friends, family and community. I care about fairness and justice. I care about maintaining and improving my community, country and planet. I DON’T care how others live their lives only that they are free to do so.” / Twitter

Erin Brockovich on Twitter: “The Brockovich Report: Two Truths & A Lie In East Palestine, Ohio https://t.co/z4YvYFrtqV” / Twitter
NO LIVES MATTER TO THE EMPIRE, NOT REALLY…FEELGOOD COMMERCIAL CORPORATE EXPLOITATION OF MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES SAME OLD LIPSTICK OF DICTATORSHIPS! I said before I thought it was exceptionally sleazy how all the fraud-squad people and evil, racist corporations and do nothing shitlib sellout corporate Democrats all jumped on the Black Lives Matter bandwagon for five minutes of tweeting “defund the police”, disgracefully, disingenuously, condescendingly performative Kenta cloth clad crass photo-ops of Wall Street honchos and whores for war “taking a knee” like a twisted, perverse parody of legit civil rights hero Colin Kirkpatrick who sacrificed a million dollar career for the people’s movement, just exploiting the people’s outrage and righteous indignation over kkkops killing about 7 citizens a day, overwhelmingly, people of color. I thought it was really gross how all those slimeballs pantomimed some kinda sympathy for victims of state violence, but then promptly superfunding thevery same racist thugs and giving them more military grade weapons and Bill Gates surveillance tech facial recognition software and more spy tech, and building more prisons and helping the ruling class corporate donors fund a big urban warfare training complex in the Atlanta forest, against the wishes of Georgians, to repress future people’s movements and demonstrations. The problem with censorship, and I’ve been saying this since I learned about Lenny Bruce as a kid, is it is foolish to cheer when the government or techlords silence, shutdown, demonetize, cancel some rightwinger you don’t like, you know all the shitlibs obeyed the studio audience applause sign when it was Alex Jones the rightwing vitamins pitchman being censored, but the state/corporations immediately pivoted to also censoring leftists and progressives like Chris Hedges, Abby Martin, Lee Camp, Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink, Black Agenda Report, Paul Jay, every antiwar voice on the Real Left. Julian Assange is still being tortured in Belmarsh and Chelsea Manning was kidnapped and similarly punished for years. Facebook memorably “FB-jailed” O.G. culture creator punk legend Jayne County for self referencing as a tranny at some point and she has been a punk as fuck Bowie influencer and tastemaker and protopunk heroine and Stonewall riotor since before me or Zuckerborg were fucking born, so who the fuck is that guy to tell her what kinda speech to use? Fuck off billionaire spookbot! I think the soldout Democrats also exploit the Transgender community, cause all they have to run on is rainbow flag tolerance since they are in bed with the Republikkkans on every other issue, what are they gonna talk about if not Transacceptance and Orange Man Bad. My suspicion is they are using that discussion primarily as a single issue distraction from every other important topic that adversely affects gay people, black people, people being bombed by our military or beaten by the cops, or mass incarcerated for bullshit victimless crimes, or dying young cause they have no access to real medical assistance, or being kicked out into the cold cause they can’t pay the rent, or they got sores on their bodies and their kids are throwing up cause their community’s been poisoned by all these unexplained sudden train accidents, just happening accidentally, or they are being intimidated by facsists for demonstrating againt kkkops assassinating a tee sitter for sitting indian style with his hands up in a tent…while they perform these empty gestures or pummel strawmen authors or comedians who someone claims are off script usually without even hearing what the person originally said, it’s all just an endless TikTok echo chamber of vanity brand celebrities famous for unboxing products, breaking plates, inheriting money, or makeup tutorials on youtube. I shoulda got into that earlier, mighta been a good hustle. I can’t afford contacts anymore and I never thought makeup with glasses or facial hair was a good look, sorry Roy Wood and Turbonegro. Don’t you think it’s obscenely fuckedup how like almost every grassroots activist from the Ferguson, and Baltimore uprisings just died young suddenly by accidental coincidences? This country’s so bamboozled, I’m not sure there’s much chance of turnin’ them horses round, but like Hedges sez, we don’t fight fascists cause we think we’ll win, we fight fascists cause they are fascists. So today, is some kinda big media Trans Visibility Day and hello to all our brothers and sisters of the revolution and comrades all over the spectrum, everyone should protect and support all victims of oppression, bullying and abuse, solidarity with all persceuted peoples. Also, free speech is our only hope at really co creating a legit egalitarian community beyond our bedrooms or hipster lunch clubs, we all gotta stand together to fight AI censorbots and corrupt politicians and deep state platform owners who are controlling all the people’s discourse on these train accidents and assassinated people of color defending our forrests and rights to protest, censoring all discourse on medicine and war and any topic that contradicts their official story profit motives. I don’t believe the capitalist billionaires love black people, or gay people, or trans people, or poor people, I think they exploit us all sometimes for their own gains. One thing they never seem to teach in those posh schools in the honky zipcodes anymore is Martin Niemoller’s famous quote:

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
(—Martin Niemöller)

This is happening again right now but nobody’s paying attention cause all they do is empty virtue signaling with no real action behind it, or parroting simpleminded narratives assigned to us from the secretive Davos billionaire one world government oligarchy, handed down via the spook media and the college whitewashings. We can’t just care about our own tiny culture bubble, our special interest focus groups, but every people’s movement, they’ll greenwash or pinkwash or cheapen and advertising squash any of us, cause it’s only in unity that any of us stands a chance against our common oppressors. It’s easy to get sucked in to culture war bullshit, especially if you spend all your time in some cyber makebelieve Meta echoverse, but please do be weary of the rich politicians and liars and capitalists who only wanna suck the lifeblood from any populist movement and divert and channel that energy back into politics as usual partisan ping-pong. I had an LGBT activist friend so invested in the idea that ya’all’s forever prez Thank Obama was an LGBT ally supposedly, therefore, none of us should ever mention his droning of teenagers or imprisoning of journalists, or the poor black people whose water was poisoned in Flint, Michigan where he did a fake photo op, pretended to drink the water, then went back to his plantation estate on Marth’a Vineyard and did not reappear except to help stop athletes from striking over police brutality and murder, so….We disagreed. The pinkwashing is real. I think you can be pro gay rights and also anti war. So that former friend wielded their celebrity influence and got me deplatformed from a famous, long running underground publication I contributed to. I’m still here fighting for free speech and advocating for all repressed and marginalized peoples, not just white college educated Murkkkan members of this or that pie wedge Preference Group. Any Real People’s Movements that make any strides have to look beyond our own navels and care about downtrodden and persecuted voices and human rights, everywhere. Oh yeah…Organize! Educate! Make your own podcast or fanzine, be your own media! Write some protest songs! Grow a community garden, get to know your neighborhood. You’re gonna need those people, yep, even “the others” when the whole shithouse goes up in flames. It’s fuckedup what they did to Palestine and it keeps happening. Type in train derailments. Oops, whoopsy daisy, another coincidental coincidence. Everybody learned in school whenever there is a crumbling infrastructure incident, the responsible thing to do is set all the toxic chemicals on fire and kill off all the wildlife and farmland so the locals have to sell their property cheap and the train’s parent company can then mine for cobalt without all those pesky organic farmers and Amish people in their way.

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Happiness of Others (consortiumnews.com)

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