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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 12h

It's been 200 days since masked government goons abducted Rümeysa Öztürk for writing an op-ed they didn't like.

She's no longer behind bars, but they're still trying to deport her, and they still don't want the public to know why.

The U.S. government is hiding Öztürk records. Its rationale is insulting

If the government was really concerned about protecting privacy, it wouldn’t have abducted and detained Öztürk for writing an op-ed

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 12h

this is the kind of thing that usually leads to international alerts from press advocacy orgs

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 9d

Leave the military or accept that you will be on the wrong side of history.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/leave-the-...

Leave the Military Now

What does courage demand?

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 1d

So fucked that this has to exist

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 3d

Gif from Succession of Kendall Roy saying “So, I just wanted to get the gang together early in my tenure to say… ‘Yo.’"

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 6d

Seriously. The body that conducted the Nuremberg trials didn’t have “jurisdiction” when the Nazis were committing atrocities bc it didn’t really exist yet. Big whoop, two can play at Calvinball

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 7d

A correct opinion that would be the consensus in a reasonable world

The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 7d

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 7d

I really fell in love with sci-fi through the absolutely unreal amount of great contemporary writers rather than thru trying to chew thru the roughage of the earlier guys and you know what I don’t feel bad about it (Delany and PKD exempt from this statement)

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 7d

I honestly would not have thought of that angle!

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 7d

I get wanting to have the big music industry presence involved but like, this is a company that our state is currently suing as part of a federal antitrust lawsuit. Live Nation’s acquisition of Frank is SPECIFICALLY mentioned in the lawsuit! Sheesh

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 7d

Spending public money for Live Nation’s benefit is *particularly* obscene given the crisis in public arts funding at federal, state, and local levels. Our local governments have historically *sucked* at allocating direct funds for artists (link from 2021) tonemadison.com/articles/in-...

In Madison arts funding, $1 million should not be a big deal – Tone Madison

Putting the newly announced Dane Arts grant program in context.

tonemadison.com

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 7d

This is particularly troubling. (Again, not picking on the person quoted, who is trying to do important work in a flawed system.) Frank Productions/FPC Live is Madison’s Live Nation subsidiary. Spending public money for Live Nation’s benefit is obscene

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 7d

Side note: Thanks to Wisconsin state law, the taxes local governments collect from hotel stays essentially go right back into a system of legalized self-dealing for the tourism industry. Another wonderful thing we can thank Scott Walker for (link from 2024)

Finally, more details on Madison's largest arts subsidy

How the Overture Center uses its annual chunk of City money.

tonemadison.com

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 7d

Pairing these goals is awkward. A City-funded program that puts money directly in local musicians’ pockets? Room Tax Commission doesn’t care about that goal. It cares about “more people come to Madison and stay in hotel and line go up" (link from 2017) tonemadison.com/articles/mus...

Music, money, and "butts in beds" – Tone Madison

How should the City of Madison pay for its music initiatives?

tonemadison.com

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 7d

The people working on this project understand this and absolutely want local musicians to get paid fairly for their work, more opportunity, more support. They are up against a funding model that requires things to be justified in terms of tourism (link from 2022) tonemadison.com/articles/mad...

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 7d

Right… I mean if the city created a branding thing, sure, anyone would be entitled to use it, but yuck

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 7d

Bigger picture: A “music city” needs to be a city that isn’t economically wretched for musicians. And that isn’t necessarily the same as having *a music industry* per se. And it’s not the same as creating a perception. No place illustrates the gap between lip service and reality like Madison

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 7d

Everyone quoted in the story comes to this from a place of genuine commitment. Karen Reece and Rob Dz have fought uphill battles for YEARS to carve out more space for hip-hop and artists of color. They get how music intertwines with policy (link from 2020) tonemadison.com/articles/mad...

Madison's hip-hop community already gave us 31 ideas for addressing racism and policing – Tone Madison

A June 22 livestream event continues the work of the City of Madison's Task Force on Equity in Music and Entertainment.

tonemadison.com

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 7d

I’m glad another journalist has discovered the l̵i̵v̵i̵n̵g̵ ̵h̵e̵l̵l̵ rewarding challenge of covering the City of Madison’s primary arts funding mechanism, the Room Tax Commission. I have uh mixed feelings about the city spending $14,060 on a music marketing contract

Liam Beran @liamberan.bsky.social · 7d

Why is the city of Madison spending $14,000 on a ‘regional music brand?’

@isthmusmadison.bsky.social

isthmus.com/arts/music/w...

Why is the city of Madison spending $14,000 on a ‘regional music brand?’

A local marketing firm will develop a ‘music brand’ for Madison under a proposal the city council passed on Sept. 16.

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 7d

Threadmaker, the all-improv band I play in, has a new album out today. Title courtesy of a woman who saw us play at Mickey’s Tavern last year and told us, through drunken sobs, “YOUR BAND IS SO LOUD! IT MAKES ME SO SAD!” (She was OK and had a friend to get her home safe)

So Loud, It Makes Me So Sad, by Threadmaker

3 track album

threadmaker.bandcamp.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

State police assisted ICE in the performative brutalization and arrest of protesters today. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must answer for this.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

A protester tackled and arrested by state police for trying to block an ICE vehicle.

A protester tackled and arrested for trying to block an ICE vehicle.

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 7d

Wrote about the dire necessity of it all

Tone Madison @tonemadison.bsky.social · 7d

"...Start by taking cues from your constituents, from people who already have experience organizing on the front lines of social movements, from people who need help right now."

@scottgordonwi.bsky.social has an urgent message for Wisconsin's elected officials in this week's Microtones.

Wisconsin's elected officials need to put themselves on the line

Get disruptive, get arrested, get creative, but don't play along with fascism.

tonemadison.com

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 8d

Gritty reboot of THE FOG

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 8d

One of the better Wisconsin professor threads, though of course @donmoyn.bsky.social’s “tantalizing top of human heads” and @nickfleisher.bsky.social’s Robin Vos ones remain eternally at the top

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