Aaron Crozier

YouTube video by Noname Noname - Hundred Acres ft. Devin Morrison (Official Music Video)

on that note - excited to see Noname is dropping a new album...

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads Hits include country songs and a Dutch anti-refugee anthem, both entirely made without human composition

this unsettling article makes me think we all need to do more music recommendations to each other - i do my “best of” list every year but i am frequently extremely late with it and maybe it’s a little overload to hit people with 20-25 albums - anyways, ai music is two thumbs down from me

#nokings

Group behind Project 2025 urges FBI to brand ‘transgender extremists’ a terror threat In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation proposed a broad definition of trans ‘extremism’ that would seemingly cover a wide range of pro-LGBT+ activism

oh sure, they won’t target all trans people, just ones who don’t speak in the precise ways the Heritage Project vaguely alludes to.

news flash - this administration will come for anyone and everyone it deems a problem; your citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, race won't matter in the end.

masked men taking people off the streets, 1st for seeming hispanic, next for...?

doing everything in their power to do away with due process

$45 billion for new detention centers

shutting down criticisms of our pedo-in-chief

equating 1 murderer to the entire left

see you at the gulag friends!

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to resume arresting immigrants in Los Angeles Los Angeles reacts to the Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Trump's immigration raids.

kidnapping legalized by SCOTUS - abominable decision made by 6 supreme dickheads

LA Ice protests spurred US military to identify ‘hotels to avoid’ due to ‘harassment’ Exclusive: Organizers disrupted Trump’s immigration crackdown by targeting hotels where officers were staying, documents show

Spread the word! No justice, no peace!

Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be deported to Uganda, official says The Trump administration may try to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda days after he was released from pre-trial detention, according to a DHS official.

this is so awful

Russian invasion troops spotted flying US flags at the frontline in Ukraine, in honour of Donald Trump and MAGA after the recent Alaska summit.

This is full-on authoritarianism.

Free Nicole Collier. #txlege

Texas Democrat sleeps in chambers after refusing GOP law enforcement escort mandate A trio of Texas Democrats slept overnight Monday in the statehouse instead of traveling home with a mandated law enforcement escort ordered by the Republican leadership.

I’m certainly not an expert in TX law but it sounds a lot like kidnapping what they’re doing to TX State Rep Nicole Collier and other TX Democrats. If confining a person who refuses to sign a waiver isn’t illegal, then it should be. (of course, legality has hardly stopped the kidnappings here in CA)

YouTube video by NBCLA Why federal agents say they opened fire at family truck in San Bernardino

How do these tactics make anyone’s (not counting racist assholes) lives better? Does this make anyone feel safer???

YouTube video by Abramorama OFFICIAL TRAILER | CHECKPOINT ZOO

Checkpoint Zoo is an amazing documentary directed by my buddy @joshzeman.bsky.social - please go see it!

8/15 - Quad Cinema in NYC
8/21 - Laemmle in LA
Additional cities found at checkpointzoo.com

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said that the FBI is “tracking down” Democratic state lawmakers who fled the Lone Star State as the GOP looks to return them to the state Capitol.

Split screen - top image is of Patriot Front members exiting the back of a Penske truck, bottom image is of ICE members exiting the back of a Penske truck at a Home Depot

ICE = white supremacists

A memo obtained by TNR signals top-level DHS discussions about using the military to combat illegal immigration—and not just at the border. It suggests that DHS is anticipating uses of the military in urban centers, noting that L.A.-style operations may be needed “for years to come.”
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I believe the administration is hard at work trying to figure out every way it can compromise our upcoming midterm elections. They're very scared of what working class voters will do. It is going to be crucial to follow what the administration is doing as we head towards election day.

Corporation For Public Broadcasting To Shut Down Operations After Loss Of Federal Funding The CPB will lay off staffers at the end of September following the loss of federal funding.

The war on the first amendment continues - free speech champions sure are quiet these days…

Don't even - it's a privilege to even be included amongst such luminaries - cheers!

well this is a nice surprise - tenth anniversary of @tedgeoghegan.bsky.social's WE ARE STILL HERE

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there's no denying - trump clearly has experience drawing boobies with sharpies #epstein

Bass: I just signed an executive directive that puts all city departments and leadership on notice to protect Angelenos—essentially from the federal government.

We’re also filing a FOIA request because we want to know: Who are these masked men, and why are they masked in the first place?

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025, by Public Enemy 12 track album

a surprise new release from Public Enemy and i am barely seeing anything about it??? great album! give it a whirl!!! it's pay what you want on bandcamp...

Reinforcing my friend @radiofreetom.bsky.social.

We’re required to refused to obey illegal orders. The military is trained on that, starting in basic.

It’s also unfair to National Guard and active Marines to even put them in that circumstance against fellow citizens if not a true emergency.

YouTube video by Netflix Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War | Official Trailer | Netflix

...and, if you haven't seen it, check it out on Netflix - yes, it's 9 hours about the Cold War, but it also gives a lot of context and insight to the invasion of Ukraine - it goes all the way to around the end of 2022 and features an interview with Zelensky himself, as well as others on the ground.