Todd Phipps
@toddtheb3nut.bsky.social
Hammond organ player and Hammond USA artist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, photographer, dog lover, Berlin addict, coffee head, Democrat. Loves being outdoors. Hails from Mount Horeb, Wisconsin.
Noises: https://toddphipps.bandcamp.com
Noises: https://toddphipps.bandcamp.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Reposted by Todd Phipps
If America still had a fully functioning democracy, Donald Trump’s speech Tuesday to the assembled generals would have ended his presidency. Trump treated the event like a political rally and was c...
An Autocracy of Dunces
How stone-faced generals, Wall Street pushback, and a government shutdown may save America’s quickly declining democracy
paulkrugman.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If America still had a fully functioning democracy, Donald Trump’s speech Tuesday to the assembled generals would have ended his presidency. Trump treated the event like a political rally and was c...
Reposted by Todd Phipps
Accounts of Trump's concentration camp in El Salvador: “All of the ex-prisoners recalled days spent in a punishment cell known as 'the island,' a dark room with no water where they slept on the floor. The only light they could see came from a dim lightbulb in the ceiling that illuminated a cross”
No One Was Supposed to Leave Alive
Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration say they were tortured during their four months in CECOT.
www.theatlantic.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Accounts of Trump's concentration camp in El Salvador: “All of the ex-prisoners recalled days spent in a punishment cell known as 'the island,' a dark room with no water where they slept on the floor. The only light they could see came from a dim lightbulb in the ceiling that illuminated a cross”
Shout out to @nufonerick.bsky.social for spinning Deep Purple Made In Japan on WORT 89.9 FM tonight!!! Local radio still matters! We have some cool local radio in Madison Wisconsin... 😀 #radio
July 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Shout out to @nufonerick.bsky.social for spinning Deep Purple Made In Japan on WORT 89.9 FM tonight!!! Local radio still matters! We have some cool local radio in Madison Wisconsin... 😀 #radio
New Single out today! Up now on Bandcamp, will be hitting the usual streaming joints shortly. #NoKings #punk #hammond
toddphipps.bandcamp.com/track/we-hav...
toddphipps.bandcamp.com/track/we-hav...
We Have No Kings, by Todd Phipps
track by Todd Phipps
toddphipps.bandcamp.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
New Single out today! Up now on Bandcamp, will be hitting the usual streaming joints shortly. #NoKings #punk #hammond
toddphipps.bandcamp.com/track/we-hav...
toddphipps.bandcamp.com/track/we-hav...
hic sunt dracones...
May 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
hic sunt dracones...
Damn right.
May 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Damn right.
Es hat mir aufgefallen, ein Wort für die aktuelle Trump-Katastrophe…Unfugsamoklauf. Hab ich recht? 😉😬😳😨
April 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Es hat mir aufgefallen, ein Wort für die aktuelle Trump-Katastrophe…Unfugsamoklauf. Hab ich recht? 😉😬😳😨
PSA:
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
PSA:
New single release! Wrote this during FAWM 2024...finally getting around to getting this one out. Up on Bandcamp now, will be hitting the usual streaming suspects shortly. Enjoy and thank you for listening! 😀
toddphipps.bandcamp.com/track/squirr...
toddphipps.bandcamp.com/track/squirr...
Squirrels!, by Todd Phipps
track by Todd Phipps
toddphipps.bandcamp.com
March 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
New single release! Wrote this during FAWM 2024...finally getting around to getting this one out. Up on Bandcamp now, will be hitting the usual streaming suspects shortly. Enjoy and thank you for listening! 😀
toddphipps.bandcamp.com/track/squirr...
toddphipps.bandcamp.com/track/squirr...
Though @fawmchallenge.bsky.social is over for the year, I'm still writing and recording...I'm working on an album that I've decided to title "Widerstand" (resistance.) This cut is a kind of sci-fi nightmare with a dash of astrophysics...first draft here:
soundcloud.com/b3nut/albtraum
soundcloud.com/b3nut/albtraum
Albtraum
A darkwave science fiction nightmare metaphorically referencing...things and stuff.
Todd - drum programming, bass, guitars, synthesizers, vocals.
soundcloud.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Though @fawmchallenge.bsky.social is over for the year, I'm still writing and recording...I'm working on an album that I've decided to title "Widerstand" (resistance.) This cut is a kind of sci-fi nightmare with a dash of astrophysics...first draft here:
soundcloud.com/b3nut/albtraum
soundcloud.com/b3nut/albtraum
This. Is great. Watch to the end...
March 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
This. Is great. Watch to the end...
Reposted by Todd Phipps
Cartoon by Kevin Necessary www.kevinnecessary.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Cartoon by Kevin Necessary www.kevinnecessary.com
Also good idea for US citizens returning from happier places…this is why I fly Aer Lingus to Berlin…I come back through Dublin. Stay safe out there…we’re off our damned national rocker at present.
If you are a foreigner, you probably should not visit the U.S., but if you absolutely have to, you should “enter” at a pre-clearance site (like Ireland or Canada) so that you’re denied entry in a place where the U.S. government won’t detain you or confiscate your property.
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Also good idea for US citizens returning from happier places…this is why I fly Aer Lingus to Berlin…I come back through Dublin. Stay safe out there…we’re off our damned national rocker at present.
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#GVerse via @captmarkkelly.bsky.social #Hooyah 🇺🇸⚓
"Let's cut the crap: If Ukraine falls, American safety is at risk.
If Elon thinks standing with Ukraine makes me a traitor, then he knows nothing about keeping America safe."
"Let's cut the crap: If Ukraine falls, American safety is at risk.
If Elon thinks standing with Ukraine makes me a traitor, then he knows nothing about keeping America safe."
March 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
#GVerse via @captmarkkelly.bsky.social #Hooyah 🇺🇸⚓
"Let's cut the crap: If Ukraine falls, American safety is at risk.
If Elon thinks standing with Ukraine makes me a traitor, then he knows nothing about keeping America safe."
"Let's cut the crap: If Ukraine falls, American safety is at risk.
If Elon thinks standing with Ukraine makes me a traitor, then he knows nothing about keeping America safe."
That's what makes me so damned mad...they already have more than we can fathom...why do they want to make us regular folk miserable? We just want to live our goddamn lives, leave us the fuck alone already!
The Billionaires have decided, that people with nothing, have too much.
I’m not going to stop posting it.
I’m not going to stop posting it.
March 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
That's what makes me so damned mad...they already have more than we can fathom...why do they want to make us regular folk miserable? We just want to live our goddamn lives, leave us the fuck alone already!
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
― Thomas Paine
Let him have his day in court and let a judge decide. As it sits, nobody is safe. Who will be next?
#RuleOfLaw
― Thomas Paine
Let him have his day in court and let a judge decide. As it sits, nobody is safe. Who will be next?
#RuleOfLaw
The disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, a person with permanent legal status in the US, should be a red line that everyone should recognize.
They knocked on his door and vanished him into an authoritarian system without a trace.
Your door could be next.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/so-it-begi...
They knocked on his door and vanished him into an authoritarian system without a trace.
Your door could be next.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/so-it-begi...
So It Begins: The Disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil and Authoritarian Capture
The Trump Administration kidnapped a legal permanent resident and shuffled him through an authoritarian maze. We're witnessing the beginnings of something terrifying
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
― Thomas Paine
Let him have his day in court and let a judge decide. As it sits, nobody is safe. Who will be next?
#RuleOfLaw
― Thomas Paine
Let him have his day in court and let a judge decide. As it sits, nobody is safe. Who will be next?
#RuleOfLaw
It's goddamn infuriating.
how come other countries get to have their shithole presidents carted off to The Hague, but not ours. so fucking unfair
March 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
It's goddamn infuriating.
From happier times. June 2024 at @tempelhoferfeld100.bsky.social ...one of my favorite spots on this bonkers planet...feeling free and alive. Really missing it now. #THFbleibt
Nikon D700, 20mm f/2.8D AF Nikkor
Nikon D700, 20mm f/2.8D AF Nikkor
March 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
From happier times. June 2024 at @tempelhoferfeld100.bsky.social ...one of my favorite spots on this bonkers planet...feeling free and alive. Really missing it now. #THFbleibt
Nikon D700, 20mm f/2.8D AF Nikkor
Nikon D700, 20mm f/2.8D AF Nikkor
Senator Kelly is a hero. Elongated Muskrat is a zero. Money doesn’t buy class, grace, or wisdom…
March 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Senator Kelly is a hero. Elongated Muskrat is a zero. Money doesn’t buy class, grace, or wisdom…
Remember: Art is resistance. Music is resistance. Creating beauty is resistance. Play. Sing. Create. Make photographs. Whatever...it all helps, no matter how small....the effects are, in the final calculus, cumulative. Keep at it. It's what makes and keeps us human. Never lose empathy. #Art #Resist
March 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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+++Aufpassen+++
Es sind 3 Fragen.
1: Sind Sie für die Bebauung des Tempelhofer Felds?
2:Sind Sie der Meinung, dass die Berliner Bevölkerung erneut über die Bebauung des Tempelhofer Felds abstimmen sollte?
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3: Sind Sie der Meinung, dass das Tempelhofer Feld eine Freizeitfläche bleiben sollte?
Es sind 3 Fragen.
1: Sind Sie für die Bebauung des Tempelhofer Felds?
2:Sind Sie der Meinung, dass die Berliner Bevölkerung erneut über die Bebauung des Tempelhofer Felds abstimmen sollte?
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3: Sind Sie der Meinung, dass das Tempelhofer Feld eine Freizeitfläche bleiben sollte?
Seid ihr für oder gegen eine Bebauung des Tempelhofer Feldes?
Nehmen Sie jetzt an der Umfrage teil : Sind Sie für die Bebauung des Tempelhofer Felds?
Immer wieder wird über die Zukunft des Feldes diskutiert – trotz Volksentscheid. Verraten Sie uns Ihre Meinung dazu und lesen Sie als Dankeschön Tagesspiegel Plus 42 Tage für nur 1 Euro.
www.tagesspiegel.de
March 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
+++Aufpassen+++
Es sind 3 Fragen.
1: Sind Sie für die Bebauung des Tempelhofer Felds?
2:Sind Sie der Meinung, dass die Berliner Bevölkerung erneut über die Bebauung des Tempelhofer Felds abstimmen sollte?
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3: Sind Sie der Meinung, dass das Tempelhofer Feld eine Freizeitfläche bleiben sollte?
Es sind 3 Fragen.
1: Sind Sie für die Bebauung des Tempelhofer Felds?
2:Sind Sie der Meinung, dass die Berliner Bevölkerung erneut über die Bebauung des Tempelhofer Felds abstimmen sollte?
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3: Sind Sie der Meinung, dass das Tempelhofer Feld eine Freizeitfläche bleiben sollte?
Hopefully uplifting. We need to all raise our voices against this disgustingly-evil and bottomlessly-stupid regime in Washington and defend the values of the real free world. Be loud. (Rough first draft, I'll be redoing some parts before I put my next record together.) soundcloud.com/b3nut/12-int...
12 - Into The Light
12th tune I've written for FAWM...
EZ Drummer, bass, guitars, B-3, Rhodes, synthesizers, vox humana
soundcloud.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Hopefully uplifting. We need to all raise our voices against this disgustingly-evil and bottomlessly-stupid regime in Washington and defend the values of the real free world. Be loud. (Rough first draft, I'll be redoing some parts before I put my next record together.) soundcloud.com/b3nut/12-int...
WE. HAVE. NO. KINGS. We don't bow the knee to kings or tyrants or tinpot dictatortots around here. First draft little rough in spots, but hey...
soundcloud.com/b3nut/09-we-...
soundcloud.com/b3nut/09-we-...
FAWM 2025 #09 - We Have No Kings
What it says on the tin.
Todd: drum programming, bass, guitars, cakehole racket
soundcloud.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
WE. HAVE. NO. KINGS. We don't bow the knee to kings or tyrants or tinpot dictatortots around here. First draft little rough in spots, but hey...
soundcloud.com/b3nut/09-we-...
soundcloud.com/b3nut/09-we-...
Reposted by Todd Phipps
The WH Drama Queen has spoken…heir ye⚔️
February 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The WH Drama Queen has spoken…heir ye⚔️