Jason Neal
@jase313.bsky.social
We are for certain reaching (and some would argue we are at) a point that, in whatever ways we can, we need to counter The Regime for true freedom and true justice and true democracy to prevail.
February 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We are for certain reaching (and some would argue we are at) a point that, in whatever ways we can, we need to counter The Regime for true freedom and true justice and true democracy to prevail.
They're words we should all heed... especially as our executive branch continues on its unhinged power and money grab, and brazenly acts above the law, topped off with threats against those who have called out their large-scale criminality.
February 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
They're words we should all heed... especially as our executive branch continues on its unhinged power and money grab, and brazenly acts above the law, topped off with threats against those who have called out their large-scale criminality.
Even with apparent legal progress, systemic racism continued under more covert guises. And now, under a regime that doesn't respect true rule of law (and certainly not justice), the proverbial hoods that more or less went underground have come back on in earnest.
February 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Even with apparent legal progress, systemic racism continued under more covert guises. And now, under a regime that doesn't respect true rule of law (and certainly not justice), the proverbial hoods that more or less went underground have come back on in earnest.
If you know enough history, systemic racism that has continued worming its way further into our culture and has become somehow "acceptable" overtly by too many people in recent years, it's easy to understand where Malcolm X was coming from.
February 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If you know enough history, systemic racism that has continued worming its way further into our culture and has become somehow "acceptable" overtly by too many people in recent years, it's easy to understand where Malcolm X was coming from.
Contrary to what Dear Leader tells us "officially," we are once again in the midst of Black History Month. And it needs to be amplified more than ever, not with what can seem like rote genuflection, but as a reminder of its underlying power.
February 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Contrary to what Dear Leader tells us "officially," we are once again in the midst of Black History Month. And it needs to be amplified more than ever, not with what can seem like rote genuflection, but as a reminder of its underlying power.
I guess this isn't the only one...
"Moore credited non-profit literary activist group Pen America for bringing the ban to her attention. Pen America’s own Instagram post noted Kathleen Krull’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg picture book No Truth Without Ruth and Ellis Nutt’s Becoming Nicole were embargoed..."
"Moore credited non-profit literary activist group Pen America for bringing the ban to her attention. Pen America’s own Instagram post noted Kathleen Krull’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg picture book No Truth Without Ruth and Ellis Nutt’s Becoming Nicole were embargoed..."
February 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I guess this isn't the only one...
"Moore credited non-profit literary activist group Pen America for bringing the ban to her attention. Pen America’s own Instagram post noted Kathleen Krull’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg picture book No Truth Without Ruth and Ellis Nutt’s Becoming Nicole were embargoed..."
"Moore credited non-profit literary activist group Pen America for bringing the ban to her attention. Pen America’s own Instagram post noted Kathleen Krull’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg picture book No Truth Without Ruth and Ellis Nutt’s Becoming Nicole were embargoed..."
And I'm sure that as always, The Cult is perfectly fine with this as well, and claiming it's "not a real ban" since it "only" applies to DoD schools (never minding that it is nonetheless A FREAKING BAN).
February 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
And I'm sure that as always, The Cult is perfectly fine with this as well, and claiming it's "not a real ban" since it "only" applies to DoD schools (never minding that it is nonetheless A FREAKING BAN).
I guess the Bond villain similarities have careened into the parody already...
February 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I guess the Bond villain similarities have careened into the parody already...
Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" (1989 or 2020, which needs a third 2025 version) and Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" (or Bernstein's "Ode to Freedom" version, played after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989).
February 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" (1989 or 2020, which needs a third 2025 version) and Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" (or Bernstein's "Ode to Freedom" version, played after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989).
No shit, Sherlock. And what do US income taxes pay for? Fewer of those kinds of benefits plus a bloated military, along with supporting the genocide in Gaza.
February 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
No shit, Sherlock. And what do US income taxes pay for? Fewer of those kinds of benefits plus a bloated military, along with supporting the genocide in Gaza.
Can Denmark buy Michigan please? We're also a peninsula and have a smaller population (although still larger in both respects). Furthermore, we're more north than California and even closer to Canada than Greenland.
February 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Can Denmark buy Michigan please? We're also a peninsula and have a smaller population (although still larger in both respects). Furthermore, we're more north than California and even closer to Canada than Greenland.
I'm in Detroit within walking distance of the river.
February 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I'm in Detroit within walking distance of the river.
I'm a little surprised, given Crockett's other stances. But yeah, definitely not a time to worry about the perfect over the good. We need all the allies we can get, even if it is more centrist liberals. Way better than the "good enough leftists" bending the knee to appease right-wing "populists."
February 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I'm a little surprised, given Crockett's other stances. But yeah, definitely not a time to worry about the perfect over the good. We need all the allies we can get, even if it is more centrist liberals. Way better than the "good enough leftists" bending the knee to appease right-wing "populists."
I guess he conveniently forgot that Mexico took up basically the whole current southwestern US 200 years ago...
February 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I guess he conveniently forgot that Mexico took up basically the whole current southwestern US 200 years ago...
HOLY FUCK!!!
I know it sounds paranoid, but here's the story of the inauguration of the Kennedy Center in 1971, and the premiere and its significance and who worried about the implications...
leonardbernstein.com/works/view/1...
I know it sounds paranoid, but here's the story of the inauguration of the Kennedy Center in 1971, and the premiere and its significance and who worried about the implications...
leonardbernstein.com/works/view/1...
Works | Works | Leonard Bernstein
The eclecticism of MASS's music reflects the multifaceted nature of Bernstein's career, with blues, rock, gospel, folk, Broadway and jazz idioms appearing side by side with 12-tone serialism, symphon...
leonardbernstein.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
HOLY FUCK!!!
I know it sounds paranoid, but here's the story of the inauguration of the Kennedy Center in 1971, and the premiere and its significance and who worried about the implications...
leonardbernstein.com/works/view/1...
I know it sounds paranoid, but here's the story of the inauguration of the Kennedy Center in 1971, and the premiere and its significance and who worried about the implications...
leonardbernstein.com/works/view/1...
Speaking of Wagner, can we talk about how the "unofficial ban" has become sheer hypocrisy at this point?
danielbarenboim.com/wagner-israe...
danielbarenboim.com/wagner-israe...
Wagner, Israel and the Palestinians
There is perhaps no other composer in history who sought to combine such obviously incompatible elements in his works. The qualities that make his supporters so enthusiastic are often the same ones th...
danielbarenboim.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Speaking of Wagner, can we talk about how the "unofficial ban" has become sheer hypocrisy at this point?
danielbarenboim.com/wagner-israe...
danielbarenboim.com/wagner-israe...
I guess that means no more performances of Wagner, which is cold comfort to Wagner fans such as myself, given that there's at least one less authoritarian association...
www.therestisnoise.com/2017/12/trum...
www.therestisnoise.com/2017/12/trum...
Trump on Wagner
Admirers of the perpetually beleaguered art of Richard Wagner will be relieved to know that Donald Trump evidently has a low opinion of the composer. The passage above, dated Sept. 25, 1987, appears i...
www.therestisnoise.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I guess that means no more performances of Wagner, which is cold comfort to Wagner fans such as myself, given that there's at least one less authoritarian association...
www.therestisnoise.com/2017/12/trum...
www.therestisnoise.com/2017/12/trum...
He's a genius on par with this one...
a cartoon of coyote and bugs bunny with the words permit me to introduce myself below them
ALT: a cartoon of coyote and bugs bunny with the words permit me to introduce myself below them
media.tenor.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
He's a genius on par with this one...
At this point, given how much crime they have committed with minimal consequence, I think the original scheme Ian Fleming had in mind for Goldfinger might have worked out after all.
February 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
At this point, given how much crime they have committed with minimal consequence, I think the original scheme Ian Fleming had in mind for Goldfinger might have worked out after all.
And for anyone who thinks I'm exaggerating and trying to find a way to cope, that's only partly true. At the very least, we have elements of grand schemers like Goldfinger and Drax, aided and abetted over the years by Carver types, and all with the banality of Dominic Greene.
February 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
And for anyone who thinks I'm exaggerating and trying to find a way to cope, that's only partly true. At the very least, we have elements of grand schemers like Goldfinger and Drax, aided and abetted over the years by Carver types, and all with the banality of Dominic Greene.