Paul McGee
@paulmcgee.bsky.social
Semi-pro loudmouth. No break greater than 4hrs yesterday.
"My mind ain't so open that anything could crawl right in..."
"My mind ain't so open that anything could crawl right in..."
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Paul McGee
@paulmcgee.bsky.social
· Nov 9
Moodier Blues IV
Soft music with hard corners
www.mixcloud.com
Something to listen to, should you be so inclined. www.mixcloud.com/Paul_McGee/m...
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You can just be silent
From the Editorial Board: You don’t need to share the Vances’ political views to be happy for them.
Editorial: A baby at 1 Observatory Circle
A new life is a reason for hope, a moment that invites optimism about the future. We wish Usha and the Vance family well.
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January 27, 2026 at 3:57 PM
You can just be silent
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
MAGA's Napoleon gets a "retreat from Moscow" of his own.
This is the Trump administration equivalent of sending someone to the gulag.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
DHS suspends Bovino's access to his social media accounts, source says
Tom Homan is headed to Minnesota after the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in an encounter Saturday with federal agents deepened outrage over the Trump administration’s surge, part of its nati...
www.cnn.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:55 AM
MAGA's Napoleon gets a "retreat from Moscow" of his own.
When the desire to sustain the grift and embed oneself firmly in the right-wing media ecosystem outweighs the fear of dying alone and friendless.
Mocking someone's addiction relapse because they happen to be a Jewish person who treated Palestinians with a basic level of humanity is really really low. I honestly don't know how you can do that and still see yourself as a good person fighting the good fight.
January 27, 2026 at 9:27 AM
When the desire to sustain the grift and embed oneself firmly in the right-wing media ecosystem outweighs the fear of dying alone and friendless.
It's a real pity we never got a documentary about the Compass Point All-Stars like the ones about The Wrecking Crew or The Funk Brothers. It may not have seemed obvious at the time, but those guys changed the direction of music just by doing their everyday thing, and they're almost all gone now.
Good Night From The Drummer, My Friends. Sly Dunbar RIP.
My Jamaican Guy
YouTube video by Grace Jones - Topic
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January 27, 2026 at 8:49 AM
It's a real pity we never got a documentary about the Compass Point All-Stars like the ones about The Wrecking Crew or The Funk Brothers. It may not have seemed obvious at the time, but those guys changed the direction of music just by doing their everyday thing, and they're almost all gone now.
Isn't it funny how all the Tories who'd gradually begun to sound more & more as if they'd be right at home in the National Front of the 1970s have all joined Reform?
Suella Braverman, "There is a very strong case to increase the powers of any immigration enforcement officers that we deploy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
January 27, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Isn't it funny how all the Tories who'd gradually begun to sound more & more as if they'd be right at home in the National Front of the 1970s have all joined Reform?
Some of the greatest records ever made, and a huge influence on the music I was trying to make as a 21-y-o post-punk legend in his own mind.
I would so love to have witnessed those Island recording sessions with Grace Jones, where dub and new wave intersected
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_zu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_zu...
Grace Jones - Private Life (Sly & Robbie Dub)
YouTube video by stratis 844
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January 26, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Some of the greatest records ever made, and a huge influence on the music I was trying to make as a 21-y-o post-punk legend in his own mind.
Blatter here looking like he chose...poorly.
January 26, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Blatter here looking like he chose...poorly.
Aw, fuck, no. Sly Dunbar gone.
January 26, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Aw, fuck, no. Sly Dunbar gone.
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“Hey y’all, I’m sorry, but most importantly broke. Buy my album!”
January 26, 2026 at 3:40 PM
“Hey y’all, I’m sorry, but most importantly broke. Buy my album!”
Public mea culpas from both the Atlantic and Kanye on the same day? The ship is sinking.
January 26, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Public mea culpas from both the Atlantic and Kanye on the same day? The ship is sinking.
This Sherrelle mix is well good if, like me, you enjoy hearing club-oriented selectors doing a complete stylistic 180. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDcd...
SHERELLE | Deep Listening Set: Soul, Jazz-Funk & R&B | Grounded 027
YouTube video by Shai Space
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:38 AM
This Sherrelle mix is well good if, like me, you enjoy hearing club-oriented selectors doing a complete stylistic 180. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDcd...
Not sure why this is on my TL once again, and I'm not sure I want to know either.
January 26, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Not sure why this is on my TL once again, and I'm not sure I want to know either.
Liberation Theology coming to mainstream America at a time like this is such a weird & unexpected plot twist. Not that the 20-something "neither Washington nor Moscow" Trotskyite me could've foreseen America taking the path it's now on either, but the signs were there. This has come out of nowhere.
This is brilliant but two killer lines in it:
“Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don’t want to be interrupted.”
“The scriptures you love weren’t written to keep things calm. They were written to set things right.”
Liberation Theology.
“Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don’t want to be interrupted.”
“The scriptures you love weren’t written to keep things calm. They were written to set things right.”
Liberation Theology.
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 26, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Liberation Theology coming to mainstream America at a time like this is such a weird & unexpected plot twist. Not that the 20-something "neither Washington nor Moscow" Trotskyite me could've foreseen America taking the path it's now on either, but the signs were there. This has come out of nowhere.
Timeline cleanse in the form of some Indonesian blues. The algorithm threw this at me a month or so ago and I keep going back to it. I haven't a clue what she's singing about, but she sounds like she's had her heart broken a few times and my God, what a voice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba6x...
Diah Iskandar - Seruling Bambu (1969)
YouTube video by Eternas Ondas Musicales
www.youtube.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Timeline cleanse in the form of some Indonesian blues. The algorithm threw this at me a month or so ago and I keep going back to it. I haven't a clue what she's singing about, but she sounds like she's had her heart broken a few times and my God, what a voice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba6x...
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I thought “guns don’t kill people, people do”?
They’re really ruining their greatest hits this weekend
They’re really ruining their greatest hits this weekend
From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
January 25, 2026 at 4:40 PM
I thought “guns don’t kill people, people do”?
They’re really ruining their greatest hits this weekend
They’re really ruining their greatest hits this weekend
I too remember how the clever kids laughed at anyone who said it mightn't be a great idea to continue funnelling $$$billions into agencies filled with individuals who'd joined up precisely because of the latitude it granted them to brutalise & murder others.
Not so fucking funny now, though, eh?
Not so fucking funny now, though, eh?
Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.
January 25, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I too remember how the clever kids laughed at anyone who said it mightn't be a great idea to continue funnelling $$$billions into agencies filled with individuals who'd joined up precisely because of the latitude it granted them to brutalise & murder others.
Not so fucking funny now, though, eh?
Not so fucking funny now, though, eh?
Bondi's announcement of a criminal investigation into Cruz's possible connections with the Zodiac killer incoming in 10...9...8...
In secret recordings, Sen. Ted Cruz trashes Trump, Vance
"You're going to lose the House, you're going to lose the Senate, you're going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week."
www.axios.com/2026/01/25/c...
"You're going to lose the House, you're going to lose the Senate, you're going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week."
www.axios.com/2026/01/25/c...
Exclusive: In secret recordings, Cruz trashes Trump, Vance
The comments to donors last year are some of the harshest criticisms of Trump and Vance by a fellow Republican.
www.axios.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Bondi's announcement of a criminal investigation into Cruz's possible connections with the Zodiac killer incoming in 10...9...8...
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I think about Philando Castille often. He did everything right, he was driving with his family, he was a good man who did food nutrition work for schools. It was a clear cut racist stop and use of his owning of a firearm as a posthoc justification to murder him, and the NRA said nothing about it.
ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.
January 25, 2026 at 9:40 AM
I think about Philando Castille often. He did everything right, he was driving with his family, he was a good man who did food nutrition work for schools. It was a clear cut racist stop and use of his owning of a firearm as a posthoc justification to murder him, and the NRA said nothing about it.
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We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it
January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it
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The task for political leadership now is not just to tell the truth, but to make people care about what is true and what is not.
January 24, 2026 at 11:28 PM
The task for political leadership now is not just to tell the truth, but to make people care about what is true and what is not.
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This is the memes-to-murder pipeline in action.
A far-right influencer reignited a years-long scandal over welfare fraud, which led to Tim Walz to abandon a third term and to Trump to send in ICE. It all stems from that.
The stuff happening online has consequences. And it’s getting worse, fast.
A far-right influencer reignited a years-long scandal over welfare fraud, which led to Tim Walz to abandon a third term and to Trump to send in ICE. It all stems from that.
The stuff happening online has consequences. And it’s getting worse, fast.
All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
January 24, 2026 at 5:28 PM
This is the memes-to-murder pipeline in action.
A far-right influencer reignited a years-long scandal over welfare fraud, which led to Tim Walz to abandon a third term and to Trump to send in ICE. It all stems from that.
The stuff happening online has consequences. And it’s getting worse, fast.
A far-right influencer reignited a years-long scandal over welfare fraud, which led to Tim Walz to abandon a third term and to Trump to send in ICE. It all stems from that.
The stuff happening online has consequences. And it’s getting worse, fast.
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the line that you can spend and body cam and qr code your fucken way out of the public gettin shot up and gassed on its own dime by cops and feds must confront the reality that 2014 looks like 2020 looks like 2024 looks like 2026 after the billions continuously sunk in
January 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM
the line that you can spend and body cam and qr code your fucken way out of the public gettin shot up and gassed on its own dime by cops and feds must confront the reality that 2014 looks like 2020 looks like 2024 looks like 2026 after the billions continuously sunk in
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The illiberal snake is now swallowing its own tail.
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
The illiberal snake is now swallowing its own tail.