Alex Sturbaum
@alexsturbaum.com
Folk dance music and chorus songs to bolster the revolution. (they/them)
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Alex Sturbaum
@alexsturbaum.com
· Nov 14
Introducing myself since I've just joined this platform! I'm a contra dance musician, folk singer, songwriter, and performer based in Olympia, WA. Member of Countercurrent and The Engine Room. Proudly queer and nonbinary. Here to rip some good tunes and to fight for a better world.
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Elect a Republican, start a war. Every Republican president since i was a child has started a new war.
June 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Elect a Republican, start a war. Every Republican president since i was a child has started a new war.
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Regardless of how one feels about the Catholic Church or about Pope Francis, now is a time to come together to claim that JD Vance killed him
April 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Regardless of how one feels about the Catholic Church or about Pope Francis, now is a time to come together to claim that JD Vance killed him
TransTrad registration is open today!
March 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
TransTrad registration is open today!
Countercurrent spring tour, let's go!
March 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Countercurrent spring tour, let's go!
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governments should spend money, literally all their fucking money. on taking care of the people from whom they got the money. on building cool shit for the people from whom they got the money to use, like highways and public works. this is real easy
how can these people be so bad at this
how can these people be so bad at this
We should reject outright the framing that the answer is to cut spending, that it needs to be cut. Even giving in to that is playing into conservatives’ hands, letting them set the edges of the debate.
Welker to Slotkin: "Democrats were in charge for four years. You were in Congress at the time. Why didn't Democrats do more to cut government spending when they were in charge?"
March 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
governments should spend money, literally all their fucking money. on taking care of the people from whom they got the money. on building cool shit for the people from whom they got the money to use, like highways and public works. this is real easy
how can these people be so bad at this
how can these people be so bad at this
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once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!
March 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!
New Countercurrent Album out today! Get it on bandcamp, or streaming if that's your thing!
Flow, by Countercurrent
15 track album
countercurrentmusic.bandcamp.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
New Countercurrent Album out today! Get it on bandcamp, or streaming if that's your thing!
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Today's the day — economic boycott. If you can manage it, try to only buy essentials for a while, & avoid buying from big companies...
February 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Today's the day — economic boycott. If you can manage it, try to only buy essentials for a while, & avoid buying from big companies...
New song out today!
Alex Sturbaum // Turning of the Year
YouTube video by Alex Sturbaum
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February 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
New song out today!
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Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
February 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
My band, Countercurrent, has a brand new record up for pre-order! You can find it at www.countercurrentmusic.bandcamp.com/album/flow
February 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
My band, Countercurrent, has a brand new record up for pre-order! You can find it at www.countercurrentmusic.bandcamp.com/album/flow
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February 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Stay tuned for some Very Exciting Countercurrent News
February 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Stay tuned for some Very Exciting Countercurrent News
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This tweet cracked me the fuck up until 5 minutes later when I found out it was factual
Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing
February 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This tweet cracked me the fuck up until 5 minutes later when I found out it was factual
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There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.
February 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.
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I keep getting texts and messages asking me why most Democrats have rolled over and played dead.
I’m as baffled as everyone else.
They’re not going to gain anything by being quiet or becoming MAGA Lite.
All they’re doing is making sure they share the blame when this all goes south.
I’m as baffled as everyone else.
They’re not going to gain anything by being quiet or becoming MAGA Lite.
All they’re doing is making sure they share the blame when this all goes south.
Anxious Nation Waits For Democratic Party To Do Something, Anything In Face of Republican Assault On Life And Liberty
January 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I keep getting texts and messages asking me why most Democrats have rolled over and played dead.
I’m as baffled as everyone else.
They’re not going to gain anything by being quiet or becoming MAGA Lite.
All they’re doing is making sure they share the blame when this all goes south.
I’m as baffled as everyone else.
They’re not going to gain anything by being quiet or becoming MAGA Lite.
All they’re doing is making sure they share the blame when this all goes south.
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you are living through the collapse of the system of government that has governed the united states for the entirety of its existence. that collapse appears to be happening literally tonight. react accordingly
January 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM
you are living through the collapse of the system of government that has governed the united states for the entirety of its existence. that collapse appears to be happening literally tonight. react accordingly
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@alexsturbaum.com and I have been dreaming up a folk music festival, welcoming to all, that’s designed to uplift trans and gender non-conforming talent in traditional music. We have a venue, we have a lineup (TBA soon!), and now we want to spread the word! Our website is transtradfest.org
January 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
@alexsturbaum.com and I have been dreaming up a folk music festival, welcoming to all, that’s designed to uplift trans and gender non-conforming talent in traditional music. We have a venue, we have a lineup (TBA soon!), and now we want to spread the word! Our website is transtradfest.org
hot take: the mariner's revenge song is wagon wheel for accordion players
December 6, 2024 at 3:27 AM
hot take: the mariner's revenge song is wagon wheel for accordion players
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I came onto Bluesky an hour ago, and the first two things I saw were posts providing useful context for understanding the imposition of martial law in South Korea—the exact kind of thing that Twitter used to be so useful for in a developing crisis.
December 3, 2024 at 3:19 PM
I came onto Bluesky an hour ago, and the first two things I saw were posts providing useful context for understanding the imposition of martial law in South Korea—the exact kind of thing that Twitter used to be so useful for in a developing crisis.
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everyone has to stop doom spiraling, shit is going to be bad enough without preemptively getting so terrified you freeze up
November 28, 2024 at 1:15 AM
everyone has to stop doom spiraling, shit is going to be bad enough without preemptively getting so terrified you freeze up
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"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
November 21, 2024 at 2:44 AM
"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
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Sure playing Irish Trad tunes is fun but accompanying? Hooo boy. Loved this one by @alexsturbaum.com so much I had to jump in on it!
November 20, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Sure playing Irish Trad tunes is fun but accompanying? Hooo boy. Loved this one by @alexsturbaum.com so much I had to jump in on it!
Here's a little reel I wrote last year called Expect Resistance (as in, respect my existence or expect my resistance). Felt timely to share it with the world; hope y'all like it.
November 19, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Here's a little reel I wrote last year called Expect Resistance (as in, respect my existence or expect my resistance). Felt timely to share it with the world; hope y'all like it.