Magnetofunky: WWT

How our democracy became accustomed to behavior that once was totally unacceptable... The Front Line - The Beltway as Augean Stable Resistance Spotlight - Campaign Legal Center Center Stage - Psychedelic Borders The Yeti's Eyes - The Odyssey Cult  Would've Happened by Now - Monarch Joker Street - Stonegrass COMING - Kalamata Cavalier Seul - Bleu Reine Altar - Irata Departure - Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree

America's 250th birthday should be joyful and meaningful, not a grim acknowledgement of the desecration being committed against the nation's soul. It's like watching assholes put their cigarettes out on the Lincoln Memorial... The Front Line - Still Our Country Resistance Spotlight - Flock Cameras - Do's & Don'ts Center Stage - Shades of Darkwave BREATHE IN SILENCE - This Eternal Decay  From a Different Place - The Black Drumset  Stormbreaker - Thalie Némésis Playing with the Orbits - Velatine Say Goodbye - Winter Sect See Feel Touch Die - SCAM

When the post-crisis era eventually arrives, if we actually hold the many treasonous grifters accountable this time, we'll also have to simultaneously focus on repairing the broken institutions that hold everything together... The Front Line - The Boring Things We Forget We Need Resistance Spotlight - Poll Workers Center Stage - Summer Stage I: Garage Punk Plus Settle Down - IRKED  Permanent Reputation - Retired Boxer Secret Handshake - Taxi Girls Bug Doctor - Wax Head Hateful - Liquid Cross Don't Burn The House Down - American Cream Band

It's one thing to not learn from history. It's a whole other thing to just burn the damn history books... The Front Line - And then we were told to move on... Resistance Spotlight - Common Cause Center Stage - Another Shoegaze Set Lights Come Down - Azure Rose  Heaven - Phosphene Sacred Mirrors - Magic Wands Raindrops - Päfgens A Torinói Ló - kokomo Deep End - Humanity: Threat Assessment Unknown

History shows that a society's recovery after a crisis is not about a single sunrise after a storm, but the long, often uncomfortable process of learning how to live in daylight again... The Front Line - Proof of Concept Resistance Spotlight - CalMatters Center Stage - Alternative Takes With Love - Asara I've Been Cursed - 3 A.M. Again My Buick - honeybee Camera Obscura - Cancer House Missing Bernadette - The Bernadette Maries Wait For Dark - Paerish End of the Line - Mildreda

How do democracies talk about rebuilding while the fire is still burning? The Front Line - The Taboo of Hope Resistance Spotlight - The Mechanics of Holding the Line Center Stage - Spring Social IV: School's Out Criminal - Cammy Cautious and the Wrestlers Singin' With My Tongue Cut Out - Drakulas John Travolta - The Frēqs Be Cool - snüff Culo Rotto - Poo Poo Talks I am the monster - BAZAAR Emerson And Henry David Thoreau - A View of Earth from the Moon Make Your Own Kind Of Music - Merel & Andrea

In obnoxious horse-race terms, second place is the focus of this dumpster fire jungle primary... The Front Line - The Photo Finish Nobody Wants Resistance Spotlight - Power Coalition for Equity and Justice + California Calls Center Stage - Spring Omnibus The Future You Planned For Is No Longer An Option - CLOUDWARMER Sixteen - Skip Danko B-Movie Road Club The Burden - ODDFELLOWS Widow - Tracy Bryant The Witness - Josaleigh Pollett Stillness Gyrating - Balderdasch Dark - DJ Phil The Gonzo Futurist Manifesto - Velcro Dog Rip It! - Electric Six  Heavy Metal Armour - Makes My Blood Dance Dream Boy - Lords Of Acid THE OCEANS ARE CRYING - Bonner Kramer/Thurston Moore

As June 2nd approaches, the most irritating reality of this Democratic primary is that none of these candidates inspires enough authentic enthusiasm to clear the field... The Front Line - Choosing Without Believing Resistance Spotlight - Xnet Music: Primarily Punk Jackpot - Lip Critic Pachinko Wizard - Zilch Patrol  ADHD - CorMae   That's the Reason - Cable TV pills - Youth Valley Time is Wasting Me - Crocodiles

SCOTUS gutting the Voting Rights Act is just another transition point in the de-evolution of democratic legitimacy and voter power... The Front Line - The New Gilded Order Resistance Spotlight - Jessie Gender Music: Spring Social III - Tough Tunes For A Tough Spring The Wrong End Of Your Rifle - The Joy Thieves Red Red Red Red Red - The Dharma Chain Property - Scorie  Me-Mania - Sour Tongue   Razors - Scimitar CIA - MONT LOSER Miami Memory - FELT

The undecided vote is larger than any single candidate's base. What was a sleeping giant becomes restless and hyper-focused... The Front Line - The Convergence Paradox Resistance Spotlight - Southern Coalition for Social Justice Music: Industrial Inbox Mass Murder Appeal - Tinder Youth Center Stage - Industrial Inbox YOÜ (INHALT Kunst '93 Remix) -  KMFDM Tread Lightly On The Planet/Girl Taken - Shape Navigator  Oblivion  - Damage Control with Leaether Strip   Paradise Lost - Hunter As a Horse

Hopefully this rant will kick indifferent progressive and liberal voters in their stubborn complacency, and/or cut through the cutthroat nature of intraparty politics before the Primary Election... The Front Line - Fractures and Gridlock Resistance Spotlight - Tom Joseph and America's Main Street Party - An Objective View Music: May Day Head Space Deep End:  The Benevolent Override All the Bastards - Los Sara Fontan The Land - the FVL. Limited Exposure - Van Pool  Burned House - This House Ringhals 7 - Kungens Män   Hill Forms - The Early

Eric Swalwell's exit has shaken up - but not sorted - the pack of remaining Dems running for Governor... The Front Line - Still Spinning Out of the Turn Resistance Spotlight - Comparative Analysis of Metin Pekin's Breaking Democracy's Chains Music: Spring Social II - Gritty, Gnarly, Grungy Hot Head - Orcutt Shelley Miller To Live Deliciously - Bronson Arm You're gonna hear about me again - MONT LOSER When You're The Worst You're The Best - A.N.J.A.   Rose du désert - The Prestige

Cheeto's increasingly disturbing rhetoric is only getting worse - the pattern recognition is long overdue... The Front Line - Moving the Red Line Resistance Spotlight - Center for Humane Technology Music: Strictly Shoegaze and Dreampop The Deadpan Break - T. G. Shand ESO - The Bernadette Maries Intrusive Thots - The Library is On Fire For Lack of Trying - Lozenge Blue as Blood - mango dreamgir cerberus - Youth Valley 1000 Years - The Suncharms Cradle - Worm School

Walking myself back from the political precipice of a MAGA Governor... The Front Line - Counting to Two Is Harder Than It Looks Resistance Spotlight - League of Women Voters of California Music: Pop Rock WOW - Club Magic Give In To Love - Vegas With Randolph Game Of Pricks - Career Woman  Pretty - Honey I'm Home NEW SERMON - Deerest    I Am Gonna Fight - The Junior League

A 'jungle primary' system with multiple Dem candidates for Governor could, under the wrong conditions, let a unified GOP minority outmaneuver a divided majority - and put a MAGA Chud in control of California... The Front Line - Too Many Democrats, Not Enough Math Resistance Spotlight - Matt Campbell Music: Vernal Medley Look Up - Dream Fatigue Cute - Asara Mary - Sauvageoness  We Got To Get Moist - Mickle Muckle Half Gods - Fields Ohio   Scour - The 113     Inside A New - The Dharma Chain

Right now the world teeters between an incoherent tyrant's callous Middle Eastern conflict, and a mad AI arms race that may end in a real-world 'Skynet'... The Front Line - Clear Cognitive Decline vs. AI Apotheosis Resistance Spotlight - No Kings Day 3 - 03/28 Music: Spring Social I: Electronica Etc. MY BODY - DJ Phil The Dive - Jet Cemetery  Bowed Clusters (with The Leaf Library) - Xylitol   ECHO LANGUAGE Remix One - CYRNAI     Norham Sunrise - Shape Navigator

This week's rant concerns two related problems: paywalled access to public-interest information and reporters saving major revelations for books instead of publishing them immediately. What can we do about it besides boycott? The Front Line - Breaking News, Coming Soon in Hardcover Resistance Spotlight - Palestine Children's Relief Fund (Podcasthon) Music: Eclectic Spring Inbox Don't Take My Baby Away - Big Boss Man Revolution Evolution - Love Ghost  No Burn - Skip Danko B-Movie Road Club  Tosca's Kiss - Pig Impending - Coal & Crayon Wicked Wicked Ways - DELREI Feat. Collin Hegna

Calling out Cheero's callous incompetence of the Iran War that paints a target on the country for power and profit... The Front Line - A Target-Rich Game Board Resistance Spotlight - Alan Govenar's New Documentary "Quiet Voices in a Noisy World: The Struggle for Change in Jasper, Texas" Music: Winter Smoker Party IV Action Painting - Perennial Be Like You - Bruise Control  Frog - Viscula Ghost - Boy Witch Insight - Bonner Kramer/Thurston Moore Inconsolable - Holder Midnight Creep - The Darts (US) The Leaves Of Autumn Symmetry - Perennial

The continued secrecy around Cheeto's health only fuels speculation that he's swirling the drain, and wants to take us down with him... The Front Line - Operation Epstein Fury Isn't Working Resistance Spotlight - Stand Up for Science 03/07 Rally Music: In A Psychedelic Dream Pop Shoegaze Mood for DST Dragging The Rain Down - Dreamwave  Want - Deerest  Thread - Darkswoon A Death in London - Ladytron Like a Chump - mute swan Ship of Eternity - Lamp of the Universe

Cheeto's DEI is more than racist placement of unqualified loyal cronies in positions of power - it's also strategic sabotage... The Front Line - Jim Crow Perspectives Resistance Spotlight - Free Software Foundation Music: Feb. Keyword Set Black chicken/White donkeys - Attempt to somebody's life  Art History - Perennial  Black Widow - Bugseed Take Back Culture - BADLUCK Under a Black Sun - Miss Lava

Considering an alternative internet so Cheeto can't cut our access to each other and the outside world... The Front Line - Only in Theory Resistance Spotlight - Algorithmic Justice League Music: Late Winter Drops Rhododendron - Terror Terror  Mindsucker -  Harvey Rushmore & the Octopus Ich Verbrenne Mich [I Burn Myself] - Latex  Urn Burial - Bonner Kramer/Thurston Moore Wishing Well - Magic Wands New Imposition - Abronia Onward Transmission - BRUECKEN

Misc. feelings around my PC, AI, social media, and politics all blurring together... The Front Line - Combatting the Doom-Scroll Resistance Spotlight - Open Technology Fund Music: This Year V. Day is Complicated Lover's Rock - Blue Earth Sound You Never Have to Love Me - Tombstones In Their Eyes Chocolate - Sunna Margrét  Sex to Go - Mona Mur  We Can't Be Lovers With These Guns On Each Other - Rae Spoon Blue Dawn - Emily Jeanne 

Sending a carrier strike group close to Iran is just one of the many distractions Commander Bone Spurs needs to salve his butt-hurt ego over this latest insufficient Epstein Files drop... The Front Line - Imminent Distractions Resistance Spotlight - Mobile Fortify Music: Winter Smoker Party III Bring Me Down (feat. Patrón) - Electric Jaguar Baby Came Back Kicking - The Pretty Flowers Get A Life - Molly Nilsson Après la pluie [After the Rain] - Buzzkill Phantom Castle Warning - Slomatics Don't Blame Me -  The Freak Accident Supplication - Flesh Field 

Too many citizens are falling for this 'cancelled election' BS - we need to beat it down... The Front Line - Putting This Dumpster Fire Out Resistance Spotlight - American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota Music: Winter Smoker Party II When you cross the border - TIGERLEECH  The King and the Clown - Tendinite Even Our Closest Friends Are Distant - The James Rocket The Silver Key - And Also The Trees Vengeance - Love Ghost Levee Lament - clâm 

It's time to stop debating the merits of Velveeta Voldemort's threats (whether or not they're bluffs) and take back the initiative... The Front Line - Strategic Reaction Resistance Spotlight - Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) Music: Hip Hop, Etc The Hypnotists (Album Version) - Timezone Lafontaine Isle - Vilde Yearning (feat. Yoni Wolf of WHY?) - Atmosphere Legal Tender (Sanction What Is Soft) - Rhys Langston Home - K Gizzle ZENXOW-DISTOR SHADOWS (VIP) - SKULLZ & BONEZ Slapped In The Old Country - Tha Silent Partner

This bit of political daydreaming has a year of context and consequences to float on - cause she effing told ya... The Front Line - An Orders of Magnitude Difference Resistance Spotlight - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Music: January Grab Bag Atashi No Motto Mo Toi Mono (The furthest thing from me) - Love-Ghost-Lab!  Eyes On Us (It's The Sound Of A Drone) - TRASH PILLOW Sacred Mirrors - Magic Wands with John Ashton Pinkish Hue - We Are Imaginary Questions We Raise - BRUECKEN

The one thing Ghengis Don shares with autocrats throughout history is the racking up of bodies - what's his 2nd term tally so far? The Front Line - Multifaceted Malfeasance, Deadly Distraction Resistance Spotlight - NorCal MLK March Music: Sharp Tunes For Miasma News Split Scene - Nevada Hardware Immortal Lovers - ghostbells Taste me - disanorak Evid(off)ence - Tendinite UBI - Horse MacGyver

The Founding Fathers feared tribal governance, assuming leaders would act from civic virtue. They were wrong. A zero-party solution is even less feasible today... The Front Line - A Fair Assessment Resistance Spotlight - Council on American-Islamic Relations Music: Straight Curated Surge - PHWOAR The Dinosaur King - Ten Cent Club Phantoms (Part II) - ghost orange Al'Ether - Dééfait Come & Go - CS Cleaners A Star Is Born - Orcutt Shelley Miller

The usually purported causes of inflation is a smokescreen for deceptive corporate practices, tariff effects, and lazy media repeating the official blather.. The Front Line - Shrinkflation, Tariffs and Lax Oversight Equals Scam Resistance Spotlight - More Perfect Union Music: Winter Smoker Party I Snowman - Blonde Redhead I Am The Storm (Cesar Soto Remix) - DIE KRUPPS Los Cobardes Mueren Varias Veces - PERRA BRAVA Restless Nights - Izzy and the Black Trees Pile Driver - Red Mecca Obsolete - SOWA OUBLIETTE - KMFDM

Considering the hard task of bringing about a multi-party system in the US, and the benefit it could bring... The Front Line - The Many Party Solution Resistance Spotlight - Civicus Music: Xmas With A Bite Well, if Die Hard is a Christmas film, then this is definitely a Christmas song - Get The Fuck Outta Dodge Christmas In The Tenderloin - the 1981 Crying Over Christmas - Songs From Big Blue Xmas on Drugs - Glow & The Dark Xmas Carol - HAMELL ON TRIAL

It's not illegal to call this President a sick, murderous and demented SOB - do your job, press corps! The Front Line - The Dozens Is A Two-Way Street Resistance Spotlight - Amnesty International Music: Globe-Hopping Political Mix Bombs Make Her LOL - TRASH PILLOW Something Whole - A Projection Political Solution - Jeff Tobias common sense - elbowsway Here And Now - clâm Let The Flowers Grow (Juno Reactor Remix) - Peter Murphy and Boy George

Democrats and Republicans don't just tolerate third-parties — they quietly rely on them... The Front Line - Sometimes A Gadfly, Sometimes A Stalking Horse Resistance Spotlight - The Arc of the United States Music: Pre-Winter Smoker Party Vis meg alt (feat. Michael Wilbur) - Agabas Excess Baggage - SOWA Dance The Crisis - Perio Still Here - Brutalligators Scattered Conversation - False Tracks Crushed Under Something Gentle - Town Portal Demon Slither - Mellowdeath Periapsis - BRUECKEN

The Founding Fathers called opposing factions 'the greatest political evil under our Constitution', yet they were practically baked in... The Front Line - A Revolutionary Lack of Imagination Resistance Spotlight - Property of the People Music: Tunes For Cutting Through The Tryptophan Ineffable - Telly Blue Wet Rabbit - Harvey Rushmore & the Octopus Insane - K Gizzle Blue Moon - wavepool Flying to Nowhere - SOME PILLS FOR AYALA Croak - Stonebirds

With some Dems, benefit of the doubt is a massive con job... The Front Line - Bastard Poindexters Resistance Spotlight - Flock Safety Cameras - The Public Panopticon Music: Very Eclectic Beat and Flow Komm Schon - Schimmel über Berlin Hush Hush Baby - NINA, Johan Agebjörn Sag - Tiberius Can't Stand Up - The Morning Stars echoes of a sunny smile - trillion

Epstein Island attracted a variety of high-profile guests, including celebrities, politicians, and members of royal families... The Front Line - Strategic Speculation Resistance Spotlight - COP30 Climate Summit - Spitting Into The Wind? Music: Uncommonly Eclectic Go Quietly - Cristina Lord I Don't Know - Dead Distance Carré d'as - Maudits Atoll - ZAHN

The Big Blue Tsunami of 2025 wouldn't have been possible without the massive overreach of Cheeto Mussolini... The Front Line - A Pause in the Struggle Resistance Spotlight - California State Election Monitors Music: Math Rock Plus... Hums - Drill For Absentee Not What - Kev Hopper going nowhere - mel denisse Stop, Drop, Roll - tummyache St. Catherine - The Arms of Someone New Context Collapse - Wax Teeth

With the federal US health system decimated, another epidemic/pandemic is almost inevitable... The Front Line - The Night's Watch Pulled Off The Wall Resistance Spotlight - Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy Music: Eclectic Inbox Harvest Yom Kippur (feat. Palestinian Children's Choir) - Laibach Neckline (Deluxe Version) - The Noisy ON - ASHES AND DIAMONDS ICE Too Cold To Thaw - David J & The Resistance MÅLA - SANDŌKAÏ  Return of the Energy Vampire - AUA Pyramid Shape (JKS Remix) - Oslo Tapes

Classic movie monsters and modern villains have more, well, class, than any of these assholes currently inhabiting the seats of power, and with the government shutdown, a virtually empty Capitol building is a fitting haunted house of civic horror... The Front Line - It's Been Halloween Season All Year Resistance Spotlight - Andrew Verkamp Music: Eclectic Halloween Set Demon Possesed - Dirty Cheetah Black Witch Mountain - Supernaughty haunted house - silk daisys I got stood up by the creature from the black lagoon  and all I got was this lousy t-shirt - Cootie Cuties feat. Jordan Marsom The Thing From Voodoo Island - Monster Wave Creature in My House - Vamberator Spooky Creek - Devils Gate Outfit

Chicago has become an ongoing flashpoint in Yambo's desperate attempt to spark a justification to invoke The Insurrection Act... The Front Line - Police State Escalation Resistance Spotlight - The Next No Kings Day Protest Music: Shoegaze, More or Less Ambient Light - The Stargazer Lilies  second spring - total wife Analemma - Oslo Tapes Paloma - Flatwaves Virgo Moon - Christian Science Reading Room Halloween (Does it Make You Sad) - Activity Get Ready - NYOS

My solution to Windows 10 End of Support - a Linux OS and a backup laptop, courtesy of Joe Biden's stimulus... The Front Line - A Few Frustrating Baby Steps Resistance Spotlight - The Southern Poverty Law Center Music: Hardcore, Punk, Post-Punk Etc. The Bad Days of Blonde, Black Nails - Drill For Absentee   Viral - K Gizzle Echoes Within - Still Machine Panacea - Nape Neck Khaki - DROID Some Wolves - TORPEDO Deep End - The Granddaughter Effect?

The Epstein Scandal, like the statue of Trump and Epstein that didn't last two days on the National Mall in DC, is proving impossible to stay buried under desperate distractions... The Front Line - Is the Other Shoe Dropping? Resistance Spotlight - The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza Music: Alternative, Etc Brainrot - G.I. Jinx   Cut - Leilani Patao holding tension - Sophie Sirota Armour (River Remix by Lost Signal) - Magic Wands The Derelict - Barrens

The fascist cancelling of Jimmy Kimmel & Stephen Colbert for jokes and truth is just another page from the Project 2025 playbook, and it's ongoing... The Front Line - The Fight Is Far From Over Resistance Spotlight - Minn. Rep. Ilhan Omar Music: Kinda Epic Let's Go - Psychlona  N.A.A.B.O - The Bonnevilles Tolerate - Assemblage 23 Inhuman Witch - Oslo Tapes Fall Over - Maudits

The often internicine warfare between Alt-Right factions is the political violence that dares not speak its name... The Front Line - Trolls and True Believers Resistance Spotlight - The Brazilian Supreme Court Music: Dreamy Jangle Psychedelia In Your Pocket - Packaging  Where Are You? - Chameleons Raspberry Lime - Powder Pink & Sweet Love and War - REVOLUTION ABOVE DISORDER Glitter Room - SANDŌKAÏ Solace (feat. Juho Vanhanen) - Sum Of R

Not a fervent wish on Cheeto Mussolini, just an observation on nature taking its sweet time to balance the universe... The Front Line - Running On Cankles Resistance Spotlight - Zohran Mamdani Music: Summer Beach Party IV Radio Wam Bam Boom - The Peppermint Kicks Catch-Up - DETECTS Dru (Single Version) - Tijuana Taxi Content Creator - Paper Castles Stone Vultures - Vexations

Time to lay out a process for a better global system to move on from 1945-style great power dominance... The Front Line - A Necessary Journey Resistance Spotlight - Globe Aware Music: Late Summer Eclectic Sweetness Of Things - Sisters Fun - DANCEHALL Felt - Tiberius Play Artful - The Double Headed Seagulls Holus Bolus - Lord Buffalo Einstein-Rosen Bridge - MAITLAND

With the cowardly MAGA-run Congress in recess, let's run down a few suggestions to fix the hot mess... The Front Line - A Few Simple Rules Resistance Spotlight - Middle Collegiate Church Music: Sweaty Club Mix TERMINAL STAGE - SARIN Neuromotive (Sehr Geil Two) Rhys Fulber Remix - Bill Leeb Left Eye Lunar - Frau Knotz Endorphines - POTOCHKINE How Can It Be - Run Level Zero Vulgar Sequence - Paradox Obscur Bog Bodies - Autumns Somewhat Happy - Jesus on Extasy

The UN seems paralyzed and powerless, dominated by its biggest bullies, but can it be fixed? The Front Line - Failing Ukraine and Gaza Isn't Surprising Resistance Spotlight - Human Rights First Music: Noise, Rock, Etc. Garage Frock - Oral Habit Fall Dawn - NAMPARA Thinking About It - Slung Wolf (Live) - Pixiepunk Nids Niteca - Junk Drawer VOICES - WE ONLY SAID Who's Gonna Keep Me Holding On - Midnight Housework Cover - Boy sitting in the rubble of a destroyed UNRWA school in Nuseirat, Middle Areas, Gaza 2024. Credit: UNRWA  

The calculated combo of gerrymandering and a bogus census, reported as just another political spectacle and not a heinous crime... The Front Line - Multipurpose Voting Chaos Resistance Spotlight - Eleanor Holmes Norton Music: Dog Day Afternoon Set Baby's Got Rabies - Bimbo Gush - Dog Lips Maybe Later - DÄÄCHT Nevermore - Whipping Boy Envy - MOTHS

The criminally incompetent orange autocrat rules with predictable destructive abandon... The Front Line - The Obvious Beneficiaries of American Erosion Resistance Spotlight - George Soros, Boogeyman For the Fascists Music: Summer Beach Party III Recognize Me - Maiya Blaney Bite Your Tongue - Umlaut Don't Die In Your Sleep - Peak Flow  Hide (In The Night Remix) - Magic Wands Bad Wind - On The Water Mask Of Illusion - Dark Sky Burial

Barack Obama never stopped being threatened by the Groper in Chief... The Front Line - Diaper Donald's Desperate Distraction Resistance Spotlight - Rage Against the Regime Protests Aug. 2nd Music: Cooling Summer Flow Enter The Dragon - SEOI NAGE Zoo Friend - AUNCE Tender - Kaela Lovesong (The Cure Cover) - Wyldest Can We Melt Down Florida and Use it As Ink To Print New Cities - CLOUDWARMER