Detroit-based accessibility worker and musician. Guitarist/co-songwriter for Vultures of Culture. https://www.vulturesofculturedetroit.com
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Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
I wouldn’t pigeonhole our whole entire state as moderate. I’m definitely not. Michigan, like other midwestern states, has become an avatar for “normie white voters”, when in fact these states are very diverse.
Half the country voted for this shit show. 🤦♂️
"How Silicon Valley Groomed JD Vance to Replace Trump and Usher in the Broligarchy" Vance has been groomed by Silicon Valley oligarchs to replace Trump and establish a techo-fascist utopia for the world's wealthiest men who want to conquer space and live forever. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
We live in some dark times. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
The President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa called the orange felon a Russian asset in a live televised speech. Well done, this is how you do it. 👏
True, but Rebel News sounds very rednecky and pro-confederacy. 😆
Shouldn’t the fact that it’s called Rebel News be a dead giveaway? 😆
I really hope The Italians have English brain rot.
New in PN: Making Slavery Great Again "Without irony or shame — and to absolve their followers of any guilt or responsibility — Trump wants to whitewash America’s original sin."
Time to submit comments to oppose a republic plan to rollback rules that help people with #disabilities get hired by federal contractors. Comments (they can be short!) due this Tuesday Sept. 2. All the info you need is here: www.lflegal.com/2025/08/comm... Thx @dredf.bsky.social
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
SMITE!
Me, waiting for all the Epstein files MAGA promised on day 1.
Fixed it.
Moore: "The thing that gets me most about this is how deeply disrespectful this is to members of the National Guard who signed up for this job as I did when I deployed overseas & led paratroopers in combat where we signed up w/the expectation the commander in chief was actually taking it seriously"
No one is saying this except Trump.
Because the people behind the algorithm don’t want ICE agents at their doors.
FUTURE HISTORY TEACHERS: “It was 2025 and the nation looked ready to become a dictatorship. But thankfully at the last minute, the insane president had a sudden dissecting aortic aneurysm and died. He was replaced with a guy who was quickly defeated because everyone kept calling him ‘couch-fucker.’”
It's almost like Republicans never really cared about free speech, states rights, or free markets.
Or Communism.
Is Trump's Declining Health Driving the MAGA Rush to Autocracy? Donald Trump is an aging, criminal vulgarian with cankles and a troublesome wound he's trying to hide on his right forehand. The MAGA ramp-up on fascism could be a sign their King is ailing. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
I concur. 🥳🎉
Beautiful guitar.
A rainbow rising off of Lake Huron.
Bummer. 😢 loudwire.com/mastodon-bre...
The 2024 election reminds me of that scene in Ghostbusters where the guy from The EPA wants to release all the ghosts from their traps, and Venkman keeps telling him exactly what would happen if he does. The “undecided” voters were the guy from The EPA, and we were Venkman telling them the outcome.
Nancy Mace: "In my time in Congress, I actually helped secure the largest infrastructure grant in state history, in South Carolina history. So I've worked very hard on the policies that matter to voters here." (Mace is taking credit for legislation she voted against!)
“The right response to Trump’s authoritarianism isn’t to say “maybe he has a point.” It’s to attack him and his allies for their dishonesty, their thuggishness, and their failures. That’s how Democrats avoid looking weak.” @paulwaldman.bsky.social @atrupar.com open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
It's been a show of farce, so far. But Trump's descent on DC gets more serious as red state National Guards get involved. Is this moving to a slow-motion Civil War? www.thenation.com/article/poli...
I found yet another Peavey Predator Strat. This one is from 1994. It’s nice, but definitely needs a setup. #Guitar #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Peavey #Stratocaster
The military needs to understand that if it goes along with Trump’s plans, it will lose the goodwill it has worked so hard to rebuild with the U.S. public since Vietnam.
Trump rambled. He grieved. He promoted Putin's talking points. He said he was asked for his LICENSE PLATE while voting. But what was most concerning was him admitting he's open to going full fascist and martial law. @muellershewrote.com discuss this now, live, 635 pm ET thelefthook.substack.com
Militarized police states aren’t “tough on crime”—they’re a test run for authoritarian rule. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
How Putin is Playing Trump and America Donald Trump is comfortable partnering with war criminals and authoritarians like Putin, who reminded the world yet again that he still controls his obedient pet in the White House. thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-putin-...
Auditing PDFs is the worst.
There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.
Democratic Governors, you have to play hardball. Red states can't function without your economies. They clearly want to F around. It's find out time.
If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:
Secret documents left behind in the hotel by Trump's moron underlings. What a clown show.
It’s unbelievable we are being asked to believe this outrageous bullshit.
It’s almost as if Republicans actually *liked* the idea of Communism the whole time and have been using red scare tactics to dupe their own voters into it. 🤔
Vispero's Chief Accessibility Officer, David Sloan, explains how ADA Title II applies to kiosks, apps, and websites and what public entities and vendors must do to meet WCAG 2.1 AA by 2026. Read the full article: www.tpgi.com/ada-kiosk-so... #Accessibility #A11y #ADA #Kiosk
My band played at The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor the other night, and I kept thinking about how cool it was to be on the same stage Nirvana once played. #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Music youtu.be/qZ08Il0dqt0?...
new Zoom background, old book "The true reason to design for accessibility is greed. Quite simply, I want it all, and so should you. Give us everything you’ve got. Give us everything there is to give." - Joe Clark joeclark.org/book/
Questions my future grandkids will ask me: “Didn’t, like, a million people die when he was president the first time?” “People voted for him even though there was a 900+ page book on how he was going to enact a fascist coup on the country?”
The “rise up against tyranny” crowd has been awfully quiet this year. 🤔 It’s almost as if it’s not *really* about tyranny, but about how they can maximize their own power.
"Republicans Aren’t Gunning for 5 House Seats. They’re Aiming to Steal 42" Texas is just the start, writes Peter Rothpletz for Zeteo. The MAGA right’s newest scheme involves a three-pronged strategy to lock Democrats out of political power, perhaps forever. Read/share/subscribe:
I was telling my wife about Prager U and how fucking terrible they are. They try to come off as normal and innocuous, but it’s very real white nationalist indoctrination. I see their shit in my kids’ YouTube feeds and it pisses me off.
The Trump administration is now seeking to replace PBS with “Prager University,” a far-right propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university. One of their “kids videos” has Christopher Columbus telling them that slavery was “no big deal” and “better than being killed.”
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I traveled there, as well as San Diego from Michigan a few weeks ago and had an amazing time. SoCal is diverse, inclusive, beautiful and a real melting pot.
Sure. But there are populations that were here much longer than the colonialists that took what we now know as The United States.
Not really sure where this is coming from.
They conveniently overlook the fact that we live on stolen native land.
Jordy: Not to put on my conspiratorial hat here, but you don’t just build a $200 million ballroom if you’re planning on moving out of the White House in three years.
There you have it.
Trump is calling in The National Guard because he’s in The Epstein Files.
“The visuals of him driving to his golf course and seeing those homeless encampments” 🤔 What even is @politico at this point? Carrying water for this authoritarian kleptocracy is ugly work. Sheesh.
NEW: Facing increasingly dire polls, President Donald Trump recently launched a gerrymandering war in the hopes of staving off Democratic control of the U.S. House of Representatives after the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/mor...
Use the words fascist and authoritarian, Democrats. Stop being weak deer in headlights. Lord. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
We never had many options to begin with. The biggest obstacle we have is elites, institutions and the media capitulating to Trump. They didn’t have to. They could have stood their ground, but they didn’t. It’s always been up to us to be the ones to do the dirty work of fighting back.
Here’s a great article on the racist, fascist, anti-American madness and violence Trump is about to unleash in a city with *plummeting* crime rates and *no* epidemic of unhoused persons. This is thinly veiled martial law, and we Americans will not accept it.
Some pictures from my trip to LA and San Diego a few weeks back. ❤️ I love SoCal.
More beautiful Lake Michigan.
The most interesting thing about this story is that Trump is in The Epstein Files.
Trump on DC: "The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY ... There will be no 'MR. NICE GUY.' We want our Capital BACK."
That is not how democracy works, Jesse.
This is the best time of year to be in Michigan, and the best time to be near Lake Michigan.
Do we still have to take their abortion shit seriously
If you’re in Ann Arbor August 13th, you should come and check out my band at The Blind Pig.
Accurate.
Deaf guy tried to show ICE his ID. An agent grabbed it and didn't return it. So he tried to type a message about his disability but an agent grabbed his phone. He was left w/ no way to communicate w/ the men seizing him. He was a DACA recipient (a "dreamer"). He spent nearly a month in detention.
Does this really surprise anyone? Trump voters only care about one thing: Power. Even at the expense of children. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
"Epstein & Trump are, in so many ways, the same person...here are these 2 guys joined at the hip for nearly 15 years, doing the same thing, pursuing the same goals, two guys who are functionally partners, partners in crime if you will" - Michael Wolff (16:33 mark) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdJ-...
Russia news had a segment a few months back where they openly discussed that Trump and Putin would carve up certain territories. Putin would get Ukraine and Poland, and US would get Greenland. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Me literally every day.
The wildest thing about the whole Sydney Sweeney jeans ad issue is that Trump is in The Epstein Files.
That would be cool. Just hoping just my company is down for me doing back-to-back conferences in a single year. 😊
I’m going to a conference in Denver, Colorado next month. I’m hoping that I can somehow get out to this conference in Toronto this year as well. The nice thing is that I can drive there. 😊
Republicans sure are pulling out all the stops to wield the government against Texas Democrats. Warrants, FBI, court processes. Not a second wasted. Goes to show that if they *wanted* to bring Epstein's clients to justice, they could. They just don't want to.
Trump firing the labor statistics commissioner and bringing back confederate statues are both part of his “fascist impulse to rewrite history” When they tell you who they are, believe them. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-conf...
It would be fitting for these dark times for The Dead Kennedys to reunite, re-record Police Truck, change the lyrics up a little bit and call it ICE Truck. #PunkRock #MusicSky #ScaryTimes
I’m listening to “Man in The Mirror” by Michael Jackson and remembering that I used to think this song was creepy as a little kid. Because I thought he meant there was a literal man in the mirror. 😳 #Music #MusicSky
For sure! I actually got offered an old Echoplex by a radio DJ in my area years ago at his birthday party because he didn’t want it anymore (he was also really drunk). I passed on it because I didn’t want him to get on the radio the next day and talk about “some guy taking his Echoplex”. 😆
Right. Or “uses internal cables that literally don’t exist anymore and are a pain to replace”.
The Republicans are replacing all voting machines with new ones approved solely by Trump.
It’s wild that some guitar gear from the 90s is considered “vintage” now. When I was a teenager back then, older players would call anything made at the time “garbage compared to vintage stuff from the 60s and 70s”. 😆 It’s also wild that the 90s were that long ago. #Guitar #MusicianSky #Music
The Voting Rights Act, the watershed Civil Rights era law that has prevented attempts to dilute minority votes through racially gerrymandered electoral maps hundreds of times, turns 60 Wednesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
It’s a tool of The Broligarchy.