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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Why should I watch something that a director didn't even bother to make?
January 29, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Why should I watch something that a director didn't even bother to make?
Delroy Lindo has got the most South London name ever. He sounds like someone who owns a hi-fi repair shop in Reliance Arcade.
Delroy Lindo is an innit???
January 29, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Delroy Lindo has got the most South London name ever. He sounds like someone who owns a hi-fi repair shop in Reliance Arcade.
It's the "Babywoman" of celebrity documentaries.
January 29, 2026 at 6:55 PM
It's the "Babywoman" of celebrity documentaries.
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So the homicide was premeditated. Planned in advance. Agents knew they wanted to kill him, so they prepared for the opportunity and took it.
Thanks for helping NYT.
Thanks for helping NYT.
More than a week before federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, different agents pushed him to the ground after he spit at them and broke a taillight on their SUV, according to newly unearthed videos. Watch here.
Videos Show Alex Pretti in Confrontation With Agents 11 Days Before His Death
More than a week before federal agents killed Mr. Pretti, a Minneapolis nurse, different agents pushed him to the ground after he spit at them and broke a taillight on their S.U.V.
nyti.ms
January 29, 2026 at 3:11 PM
So the homicide was premeditated. Planned in advance. Agents knew they wanted to kill him, so they prepared for the opportunity and took it.
Thanks for helping NYT.
Thanks for helping NYT.
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Retroactively pushing the narrative that a police brutality victim somehow deserved to die is one of the most disgusting traditions in American journalism
More than a week before federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, different agents pushed him to the ground after he spit at them and broke a taillight on their SUV, according to newly unearthed videos. Watch here.
Videos Show Alex Pretti in Confrontation With Agents 11 Days Before His Death
More than a week before federal agents killed Mr. Pretti, a Minneapolis nurse, different agents pushed him to the ground after he spit at them and broke a taillight on their S.U.V.
nyti.ms
January 29, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Retroactively pushing the narrative that a police brutality victim somehow deserved to die is one of the most disgusting traditions in American journalism
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mfw i’m amy klobuchar declaring my run for governor at this particular moment in history
January 29, 2026 at 4:24 PM
mfw i’m amy klobuchar declaring my run for governor at this particular moment in history
Suuuuurrre, it's all the fault of the "rhetoric".
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Suuuuurrre, it's all the fault of the "rhetoric".
I can think of several dozen stand-ups who need it.
Just finished @gralefrit.bsky.social's superb 'Be Funny or Die', a guide to the art, craft, music, science and point of comedy that's smart, useful, unafraid of the dark and actually funny.
It desperately needs a new publisher so it can reach more of the people who need it and Joel can make money.
It desperately needs a new publisher so it can reach more of the people who need it and Joel can make money.
January 29, 2026 at 10:24 AM
I can think of several dozen stand-ups who need it.
The "legitimate concerns to political violence" pipeline working as its architects intended.
A fifth man has been arrested in relation to the fires that targeted a vehicle and properties linked to Keir Starmer last May
The Metropolitan Police said the 19-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday in Harlow, Essex, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson. Three men have been charged so far
The Metropolitan Police said the 19-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday in Harlow, Essex, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson. Three men have been charged so far
January 29, 2026 at 10:21 AM
The "legitimate concerns to political violence" pipeline working as its architects intended.
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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.
trib.al
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
youtube.com
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
www.youtube.com
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...