ISOMATAalum
@isomataalum.bsky.social
Music matters. Fight fascism. Support the marginalized. Go see live music.
I have been (occasionally) running Stupid Internet Music Argument Friday on multiple platforms for over a decade.
Let there be songs to fill the air!
I have been (occasionally) running Stupid Internet Music Argument Friday on multiple platforms for over a decade.
Let there be songs to fill the air!
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You know things are going well, comrade, when government officials get on TV to give people austerity tips.
Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."
January 14, 2026 at 11:54 PM
You know things are going well, comrade, when government officials get on TV to give people austerity tips.
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Salsa is fruit salad.
January 14, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Salsa is fruit salad.
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Taking native hostages to secure cooperation from their tribes is a time honored Anglo American tradition
January 14, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Taking native hostages to secure cooperation from their tribes is a time honored Anglo American tradition
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With Kristi Noem at the Department of Homeland Security, agents are terrorizing immigrant children and families across the country and violating civil rights and human rights. I have signed onto articles of impeachment against her.
January 14, 2026 at 11:03 PM
With Kristi Noem at the Department of Homeland Security, agents are terrorizing immigrant children and families across the country and violating civil rights and human rights. I have signed onto articles of impeachment against her.
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Interesting timing for a nationwide mobile network outage impacting Minnesota and Portland is all I can say
January 14, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Interesting timing for a nationwide mobile network outage impacting Minnesota and Portland is all I can say
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Minnesota: Masked ICE goons employed a “Box-In” maneuver during a high-stakes arrest on Minneapolis’s Lake Street, resulting in multiple car crashes. This incident was captured on video by Jon Farina of Status Coup.
January 14, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Minnesota: Masked ICE goons employed a “Box-In” maneuver during a high-stakes arrest on Minneapolis’s Lake Street, resulting in multiple car crashes. This incident was captured on video by Jon Farina of Status Coup.
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8th Cir.: because officer was trying to shoot a 9-pound Pomeranian mix when he missed and shot the dog's owner instead, he did not intend to restrain owner, he intended to restrain the dog, which means there was no seizure so no 4A violation.
QI for officer.
ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/01...
QI for officer.
ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/01...
![The undisputed facts in this case all point to the absence of a seizure. See UnitedHealth Grp. Inc. v. Wilmington Tr. Co., 548 F.3d 1124, 1127–28 (8th Cir. 2008) (reviewing de novo the “purely legal questions” left by the “undisputed” facts). Perhaps the most important one is that, as Hight concedes, “Deputy Williams fired his county[-]issued service weapon at [the] Pomeranian.” His words matched his actions, given that each of his statements was about getting the dogs under control, including ordering them to “get back!” And finally, the bodycam video shows that he fired downward toward the dog as it approached, which supports the conclusion that it was his target, not Hight. Hitting her was an unfortunate accident. See Brower v. County of Inyo, 489 U.S. 593, 596 (1989) (explaining that the Fourth Amendment does not address “the accidental effects of . . . government conduct”).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreihl3vieqx3pwzqtiivrlqqxkngbahqnx4n3i2mbcmp5ouwvdonkom@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
8th Cir.: because officer was trying to shoot a 9-pound Pomeranian mix when he missed and shot the dog's owner instead, he did not intend to restrain owner, he intended to restrain the dog, which means there was no seizure so no 4A violation.
QI for officer.
ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/01...
QI for officer.
ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/01...
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2 + 2 = jesus
January 14, 2026 at 7:17 PM
2 + 2 = jesus
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Erik Satie “took up pieties and profaned them. He took up blasphemy and somehow blasphemed against that. His music is ingeniously confounding.” —@jeremydenk.bsky.social
Satie’s Spell | Jeremy Denk
Erik Satie took down the arrogance of late Romantic classical music, gently but ruthlessly taking up its vocabulary and removing all the excess, including authorship.
www.nybooks.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Erik Satie “took up pieties and profaned them. He took up blasphemy and somehow blasphemed against that. His music is ingeniously confounding.” —@jeremydenk.bsky.social
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i really enjoyed writing this one
Erik Satie “took up pieties and profaned them. He took up blasphemy and somehow blasphemed against that. His music is ingeniously confounding.” —@jeremydenk.bsky.social
Satie’s Spell | Jeremy Denk
Erik Satie took down the arrogance of late Romantic classical music, gently but ruthlessly taking up its vocabulary and removing all the excess, including authorship.
www.nybooks.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:29 PM
i really enjoyed writing this one
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Good morning, Portland! ICYMI: we’re still voting on our next Council President and VP. Council recessed after tying 6-6 in nine rounds of voting on the 1st day, and the 2nd day was cut short because of the shooting in East Portland. Follow along here while I post #LiveFromPDXCouncil26
Portland City Council AM Session 01/14/26
YouTube video by eGov PDX
www.youtube.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Good morning, Portland! ICYMI: we’re still voting on our next Council President and VP. Council recessed after tying 6-6 in nine rounds of voting on the 1st day, and the 2nd day was cut short because of the shooting in East Portland. Follow along here while I post #LiveFromPDXCouncil26
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No one in power did a goddamn thing. Tim and Frey left the brave parents and dedicated members of the community and Will Stancil alone to fight ICE
It has now been one week since a masked man shot and killed an American mother of three in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
And for all intents and purposes, the shooter, and his accomplices, remain at large.
And for all intents and purposes, the shooter, and his accomplices, remain at large.
January 14, 2026 at 4:42 PM
No one in power did a goddamn thing. Tim and Frey left the brave parents and dedicated members of the community and Will Stancil alone to fight ICE
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🗞 In the new issue of Street Roots: Oregon's major delays in payments owed to people wrongfully imprisoned in the state, art infused with histories of Black Portlanders forced from their homes, vendor poetry and more.
Purchase this week's issue: streetroots.org/vendors#locate
Purchase this week's issue: streetroots.org/vendors#locate
January 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
🗞 In the new issue of Street Roots: Oregon's major delays in payments owed to people wrongfully imprisoned in the state, art infused with histories of Black Portlanders forced from their homes, vendor poetry and more.
Purchase this week's issue: streetroots.org/vendors#locate
Purchase this week's issue: streetroots.org/vendors#locate
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boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider
January 14, 2026 at 3:35 PM
boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider
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bitchassedness
Mayor Jacob Frey Says ‘I Do Not Support Abolishing ICE’ After Telling Agents to ‘Get the F*ck Out of Minneapolis’
Mayor Jacob Frey Says ‘I Do Not Support Abolishing ICE’ After Telling Agents to ‘Get the F*ck Out of Minneapolis’
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) declared he does not support abolishing ICE in a preview of a Fox News interview set to air on Wednesday morning.
The post Mayor Jacob Frey Says ‘I Do Not Support Abolishing ICE’ After Telling Agents to ‘Get the F*ck Out of Minneapolis’ first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
January 14, 2026 at 2:32 PM
bitchassedness
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Let's stage a social media Sports Blackout on Tuesday, January 20th from 2 PM to 6 PM in solidarity with the Free America Walkout.
➡️ No sports posts
➡️ Raise awareness of the protest instead
➡️ Encourage folks to get off line and take action!
www.freeameri.ca
➡️ No sports posts
➡️ Raise awareness of the protest instead
➡️ Encourage folks to get off line and take action!
www.freeameri.ca
FREE AMERICA WALKOUT Jan 20, 2026
On Jan 20, 2026 we will walk out because a Free America is the only America worth calling great.
www.freeameri.ca
January 14, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Let's stage a social media Sports Blackout on Tuesday, January 20th from 2 PM to 6 PM in solidarity with the Free America Walkout.
➡️ No sports posts
➡️ Raise awareness of the protest instead
➡️ Encourage folks to get off line and take action!
www.freeameri.ca
➡️ No sports posts
➡️ Raise awareness of the protest instead
➡️ Encourage folks to get off line and take action!
www.freeameri.ca
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here we go again
“Last year, more than a week before the US launched air strikes on Iran, some personnel and families were moved off US bases in the Middle East. After the US attacks in June, Iran launched a missile attack on the base in Qatar.”
“Last year, more than a week before the US launched air strikes on Iran, some personnel and families were moved off US bases in the Middle East. After the US attacks in June, Iran launched a missile attack on the base in Qatar.”
US attack imminent, in other words
This is a breaking news story.
January 14, 2026 at 2:59 PM
here we go again
“Last year, more than a week before the US launched air strikes on Iran, some personnel and families were moved off US bases in the Middle East. After the US attacks in June, Iran launched a missile attack on the base in Qatar.”
“Last year, more than a week before the US launched air strikes on Iran, some personnel and families were moved off US bases in the Middle East. After the US attacks in June, Iran launched a missile attack on the base in Qatar.”
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'Cause folks always say
You got to make a revolution
You got to help me win my cause
You got to burn down all the buildings
You got to rub out all the laws
You got to make a revolution
You got to help me win my cause
You got to burn down all the buildings
You got to rub out all the laws
January 14, 2026 at 4:20 AM
'Cause folks always say
You got to make a revolution
You got to help me win my cause
You got to burn down all the buildings
You got to rub out all the laws
You got to make a revolution
You got to help me win my cause
You got to burn down all the buildings
You got to rub out all the laws
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They want to make people scared to protest, scared to resist ICE terrorism, scared to fight fascism. That’s why the charges are so horrific.
January 14, 2026 at 2:01 AM
They want to make people scared to protest, scared to resist ICE terrorism, scared to fight fascism. That’s why the charges are so horrific.
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Roving gangs of violent heavily armed kidnappers active in your community? The way to tell that they might be hunting close to a school is that local LE disappears. Another way is spotting speeding vehicles weaving thru the neighborhood. Parents are on our own & damn right we have ICE watch.
January 14, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Roving gangs of violent heavily armed kidnappers active in your community? The way to tell that they might be hunting close to a school is that local LE disappears. Another way is spotting speeding vehicles weaving thru the neighborhood. Parents are on our own & damn right we have ICE watch.
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President Trump announced today that he'll stop all federal funding to Oregon on February 1st.
That's illegal, cruel, and un-American.
That's illegal, cruel, and un-American.
January 14, 2026 at 1:46 AM
President Trump announced today that he'll stop all federal funding to Oregon on February 1st.
That's illegal, cruel, and un-American.
That's illegal, cruel, and un-American.
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And not just home care. Assisted living, too
January 14, 2026 at 2:11 AM
And not just home care. Assisted living, too
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MANIFESTING SO HARD
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January 14, 2026 at 2:13 AM
MANIFESTING SO HARD
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It must be said again: Renée Good should still be here today. My heart goes out to her family and loved ones, including those who have recently spoken out in Oregon.
Oregon family of Minnesota woman killed by ICE releases statement
"Our family is grieving deeply," Renée Good’s family wrote.
www.oregonlive.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:33 AM
It must be said again: Renée Good should still be here today. My heart goes out to her family and loved ones, including those who have recently spoken out in Oregon.