Frank Gehry’s Experience Music Project building, Seattle. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions
+ Trump and Rubio would have deported Tom Paine for writing seditious pamphlets as a “citizen of the world” and not the US. As it was, Paine died a pariah in the country he did so much to liberate, condemned as a heretic and Jacobin. Only six people attended his funeral in New York City, and the great radical essayist William Cobbett felt compelled to sail over to the States, dig up his bones, and take them back to the UK because the US had betrayed Paine’s vision for the country and its own revolution.
+ If you wanted to know what the US was like under Jim Crow and the Red Scare, you’re getting a glimpse of it right now.
+ Kilmar Abrego Garcia came to the US in 2012 to escape being recruited into a Salvadoran gang that had terrorized his family for more than two years. In 2016, he met his future wife, Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura, a US citizen living in Maryland. They eventually moved in together and Kilmar helped raise her two children. They later had a child together. Each of the three kids had some form of disability. Kilmar, according to Jennifer, was an attentive and devoted father to all of the children. He held a steady job, he stayed out of trouble, and then he was busted in 2019 while waiting to apply for a job at Home Depot and accused of being a member of the M-13 gang in Long Island, where he’d never been. During his hearing, Abrega adamantly denied any gang ties. The cops said they arrested him because “he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie and that a confidential informant advised that he was an active member of MS-13 with the Westerns clique.”
Jennifer Vasquez Sura wrote in a deposition that she was so fearful Kilmar would be deported that she arranged for them to get married while he was in jail: “I coordinated with the detention center and a local pastor to officiate our wedding. We were separated by glass and were not allowed physical contact. The officers had to pass our rings to each other. It was heartbreaking not to be able to hug him.”
Relying on the bogus testimony from a confidential informant, the immigration judge issued a removal order but barred his deportation to El Salvador, agreeing that there was a serious threat to Abrego Garcia’s life if he was returned home. The judge ordered his release and required him to regularly check-ins with ICE, which Abrego Garcia faithfully did.
So things stood until March 12, 2025, when ICE agents stopped Abrego Garcia’s car as he was driving his 5-year-old son home from school. He was cuffed, told his immigration status had been revoked and that he would be deported. The agents took him to a detention center in Baltimore. When Kilmar was finally able to talk with Jennifer on the phone, he told her the ICE agents once again accused him of being a member of M-13, saying bizarrely they’d watched the family frequently visit a certain restaurant and that they had photos of Kilmar playing basketball.
On the morning of March 15, Kilmar called Jennifer again to let her know he’d been transferred to Louisiana. “That call was short and Kilmar’s tone was different,” Jennifer wrote in her deposition. “He was scared. He was told he was being deported to El Salvador. He was told he was being deported to El Salvador to a super-max prison called ‘CECOT.’” Jennifer hasn’t heard from him since.
Then, on Monday of this week, the Trump administration admitted in a court filing that Abrego Garcia had been deported to El Salvador in violation of a court order. By accident, they claimed, the result of an “administrative error:” (Which sounds like the excuse for everything that happened in the last two months.) “On March 15, although ICE was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error.” Even so, the Trump administration argued the court had no power to order the return of Kilmar from the custody of the nation that he had fled 13 years ago in fear for his life.
The entire case against Kilmar, dating back to 2019, has the smell of a frame-up. When Kilmar’s lawyers attempted to contact the detective who filled out a form in 2019 accusing him of links to MS-13, they discovered that the police department had no record of his arrest. Even more damning, the detective who filled out the fatal form had been suspended.
Despite the outrageous facts of the case, instead of admitting their grotesque error, the Trump administration went on the offensive, sending JD Vance out to smear Kilmar on FoxNews, where he called him “a convicted MS-13 gang member with no legal right to be here. He had also committed some traffic violations; he had not shown up for some court dates. This is not exactly ‘father of the year’ here.” Trump’s Jesus-worshipping press spokesperson Kathline Leavitt threw even more toxic slime at Kilmar, calling him a “criminal,” a “foreign terrorist,” and a “heinous individual.”
All lies.
Abrega Garcia has no criminal record and his wife and kids miss him and worry about his fate in Naghib Bukele’s lethal dungeon.
+ In 2024, José Gregorio González came to the US from Venezuela to donate a kidney needed to save the life of his brother José Alfred Pacheco, who suffers from late-stage renal failure. But before the operation could take place, González was swept up by an ICE raid in Chicago that a neighbor described as “an ambush.” González’s request for asylum had been denied, but an immigration judge had allowed him to stay in the US for the time being because Venezuela was refusing to accept any deportation flights from the US. González hadn’t any criminal history in the US and wasn’t served with a warrant at the time of his arrest. After public outrage over his detention, Gonzalez was temporarily released until after the operation could take place, at which time he would be deported.
+ The Washington Post explains that this is far from the only case where noncitizen relatives have been deported while caring for relatives with terminal illnesses, though not as terminal as the sickness of the country that is deporting them:
Last month, a child brain cancer patient in Texas and her four siblings — all U.S. citizens — were deported to Mexico along with their undocumented parents who had removal orders as the family was en route to a Houston hospital for her treatment. An undocumented Mexican woman in the Los Angeles area fared better — ICE arrested her in February, but an immigration judge allowed her to post bond as she was the caregiver for an American daughter with bone cancer.
+ According to a report in Pro Publica on deportation flights, “flight attendants received training in how to evacuate passengers but said they weren’t told how to usher out detainees whose hands and legs were bound by shackles.”
+ Here’s a continually updating map tracking the people who have been disappeared by ICE…
+ The Internal Affairs Department for Customs and Border Patrol found that a Chinese woman who Border Patrol had arrested for overstaying her visa hung herself in a cell and was not found for nearly two hours, even though written records noted there had been multiple welfare checks on her. Were the records falsified? Will there be an Internal Affairs Department at CBP next week?
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+ CNBC’s Jim Cramer on the eve of Liberation Day, making the right (if obvious) call for once: “I can’t think of a dumber day to buy stocks than today.”
+ Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs…
+ James Surowiecki, author The Wisdom of Crowds:
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn’t actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country’s exports to us. So, we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is. It’s also important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us are just made-up numbers. South Korea, with which we have a trade agreement, is not charging a 50% tariff on U.S. exports. Nor is the EU charging a 39% tariff.”
+ Trump hit the Falkland Islands, a British territory in the Atlantic off the coast of Argentina, with tariffs of 41 percent, 31 percent more than for Britain itself. This is slightly less surreal than the tariffs he slapped on two islands in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica uninhabited by humans. No matter how objectionable they might be to the islands’s avian community of Rockhopper Penguins, Wandering Albatrosses, Storm Petrels, and Subantarctic Skua, the tariffs Trump imposed on Heard and Macdonald Islands may be viewed as a kind of victory for animal rights: “I’m taxed. Therefore, I am.”
+ We go live to the Macdonald Islands for reaction from the local population to the imposition of 20% tariffs by the Trump administration…
+ Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada: “The relationship Canada had with the United States is over.”
+ A piece in the Financial Times calculated the expected inflationary impact of Trump’s tariffs and the measures taken in retaliation…
USA: +5.5%
Canada: +2%
Mexico: +0.8%
Netherlands: +0.3%
Belgium: +0.1%
Brazil: 0%
UK: -0,1%
Spain: -0.1%
France: -0.2%
Poland: -0.4%
Germany: -0.4%
South Korea: -0.4%
Italy: -0.4%
Ireland: -0.5%
Japan: -0.6%
India: -0.7%
China: -0.7%
+ I don’t know if this means China and India will emerge as the big winners in the World Trade War Trump instigated, but it sure seems clear who the biggest loser will be. Over to you, Beck. Uh, Beck, you’re up. C’mon, man…
+ There’s broad support across Europe for retaliatory tariffs against the US, with Denmark, not surprisingly, leading the way.
Denmark: 79%
Sweden: 72%
Spain: 70%
Germany: 69%
UK: 71%
France: 68%
Italy: 60%
+ Gold hit a new record high at $3,160 an ounce after Trump’s tariff announcement. Somebody should check his and Elon’s pockets on their way out of Fort Knox.
+ The Nasdaq just experienced its worst-performing quarter since Q2 2022. It was down 11% from January through March.
+ Goldman Sachs said it sees Trump tariffs spiking inflation, stunting growth and raising recession risks.
+ The seven largest single-day Dow Jones point drops in American history
1. Trump, March 16, 2020: -2,997.10
2. Trump, March 12, 2020: -2,352.60
3. Trump, March 9, 2020: -2,013.76
4. Trump, June 11, 2020: -1,861.82
5. Trump, April 3, 2025: -1,679.39
6. Trump, March 11, 2020: -1,464.94
7. Trump, March 18, 2020: -1,338.46
+ The Financial Times should revisit these two financial parasites to see how they feel about their “liberation” after the bloodbath on Wall Street…
+ Laleh Khalili: “They are probably hedging against the market and making money from the volatility.”
+ As usual, Laleh is correct.
+ Todd Vasos, CEO of Dollar General, said that consumers “only have enough money for basic essentials.” Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports that only 62% of Americans could come up with $2,000 in case of an emergency, the lowest on record,
+ At least 70 percent of retirees in the US reported having credit card debt, an increase of thirty percent from four years ago.
+ A Redfin analysis found that the top one percent of Americans have enough money in the bank to buy 99% of the homes in the US and that the top 0.1% could afford to acquire every single home across the nation’s 25 largest metro areas, from San Antonio to New York City.
+ According to Gallup, at least 81% of Americans view foreign trade as an opportunity for economic growth, jumping 20 percentage points since last year. Those seeing it as more of a threat to the U.S. economy have fallen by half, down to 14%.
+ Here’s some economic news to celebrate: Shares of Nike Sweatshops, Inc. are down 12% post-Liberation Day and down 28% in the last month!
+ Following Trump’s after-hours tariff announcement, the price of gold shot up to $3,200 an ounce, the highest in history. Somebody better pat down the pockets of Trump and Musk on their way out of Fort Knox…
+ According to Barchart, the top one percent of US earners have now amassed more wealth than the entire American middle class combined.
+ Pro Publica: Last year, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen went on Joe Rogan’s podcast and accused the Consumer Fin Protection Bureau of terrorizing tech firms. It turns out a firm he backed—Greenlight, a debit card company for kids!—was being investigated by the CFPB for not allowing kids to immediately access funds.
+ OK, I know what you’re thinking: Bill Kristol is almost always wrong about everything, but perhaps not about this thing…?
+ Kristol now occupies a position to the Left of 93% of the elected Democrats on Capitol Hill.
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+ In his new book on the 2024 election, Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History, Chris Whipple gets Ron Klain, Biden’s former chief of staff, to paint Biden as physically spent, mentally confused and out of touch throughout the campaign, and at one point seemed to believe himself to be the head of NATO instead of the US.
+ Here’s Whipple’s account of the preparation for Biden’s debate with Trump:
At his first meeting with Biden in Aspen Lodge, the president’s cabin, Klain was startled. He’d never seen him so exhausted and out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, the president excused himself and went off to sit by the pool.
That evening Biden met again with Klain and his team, [Biden aides] Mike Donilon, Steve Richetti, and Bruce Reed. ‘We sat around the table,’ said Klain. ‘[Biden] had answers on cards, and he was just extremely exhausted. And I was struck by how out of touch with American politics he was. He was just very, very focused on his interactions with NATO leaders.’
Klain wondered half-seriously if Biden thought he was president of NATO instead of the US. ‘He just became very enraptured with being the head of Nato,’ he said. That wouldn’t help him on Capitol Hill because, as Klain noted, ‘domestic political leaders don’t really care what [Emmanuel] Macron and [Olaf] Scholz think.’
…
25 minutes into the second mock debate, the president was done for the day. ‘I’m just too tired to continue and I’m afraid of losing my voice here and I feel bad,’ he said. ‘I just need some sleep. I’ll be fine tomorrow.’ He went off to bed.
The president was fatigued, befuddled, and disengaged. Klain feared the debate with Trump would be a nationally televised disaster.
+ Musk spent millions in an attempt to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. He lost badly and Susan Crawford ended up not only defeating her Musk-financed opponent but trouncing Kamala Harris’ 2024 numbers across every political kind of county in the state:
Counties Harris Won by More Than 15 Points
Harris 70%
Crawford 77%Counties Harris Won by More 5- 15 Points
Harris: 53%
Crawford: 62%Counties Harris Won Within 5 Points
Harris: 48%
Crawford: 56%Counties Trump Won by 5-15 Points
Harris 46%
Crawford 52%Counties Trump Won by More than 15 Points
Harris: 38%
Crawford: 43%
+ In the 34 special Congressional elections during the Trump era, the Democrats’ 22-point over-performance in Florida’s 1st district is their best yet, and their 16-point over-performance in the 6th District of Florida was tied for 6th-best. Still, they lost both elections.
+ Trump on Andrew Cuomo and the NYC mayoral race: “I’ve always gotten along with him.” Of course, he has.
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+ The Washington Post on the mass firings at HHS: “Some government health employees laid off Tuesday were told to contact Anita Pinder with discrimination complaints. But Pinder, the director at the Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, died last year.”
+ CNN’s Kayla Tausch: “At the HHS building in Rockville, employees describe learning they were laid off when their badge doesn’t work – and then having to do a “walk of shame” by others in line. “Could they have picked another day other than April Fool’s Day?” one tells me.”
Screengrab from X of workers being turned away from the HHS building in Rockville, Maryland.
+ Carol Miller, public health nurse, El Partido Verde activist, and CP contributor: “I worked in that building for two years and with programs based in that building for decades. This is the location of the Public Health Service providing nearly all the government programs for the people; Indian Health Service, Community Health Centers (care for more than 30 million people a year), Maternal and Child Health, National Health Service Corps (places health care providers in communities), Office of Rural Health, HIV/AIDS, and others.”
It’s quite a price the country’s going to pay for the kicks some people get out of “owning the libs.”
WIRED: “A senior scientist at NIH tells WIRED the impact of Tuesday’s layoffs was sheer “chaos,” with the firings of the lead investigators projected to widely impair and impede diverse ongoing research ranging from mechanisms within cells in the brain to human patients with neurologic conditions.”
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+ A Gallup survey reports that nearly every American uses products that involve artificial intelligence (AI) features, but two-thirds (64%) don’t realize it.
+ This kind of ignorance makes it that much easier for people like Sam Altman and Elon Mush who want to replace workers and, eventually, humans themselves with AI and robotics.
+ Welcome to the machine…
+ A couple of Sundays ago, Saahil Desai, an editor at The Atlantic, drove a Tesla Cybertruck around Washington, DC and was given the finger at least 17 times.
+ The Tesla board’s response to the Take Tesla Down campaign to a move to Take Musk Down From Tesla…
+ Just 45% of tech workers got a raise last year, according to the job site Dice–that’s a decline of 10 percent from 55 percent of tech workers who got raises in 2023.
+ A movement of Jah people…
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+ The Trump administration is seeking to reduce the amount of congressional oversight of weapons exports, assuming there’s any oversight at all, after the Biden year. The plan is to increase to $23 million from $14 million for arms transfers and rise to $83 million from $50 million for the sale of military equipment, upgrades, training, and other services.
+ One of the schemes Trump is exploring to annex Greenland involves the US somehow paying Greenlanders more than the $600 million a year subsidy that Denmark pays. “This is a lot higher than that,” a Trump official told the Washington Post. “The point is, ‘We’ll pay you more than Denmark does.’”
+ Trump has succeeded in convincing more Republicans (and quite a few Democrats) than ever before that Canada and the EU are no longer allies of the US but “enemies.” According to a piece in The Economist, nearly 25% of Republicans (and 7% of Democrats) now view Canada as an “enemy” nation, compared to 3% of Republicans and Democrats in 2016. Meanwhile, close to 30% of Republicans (and 5% of Democrats) now see the EU as an “enemy”, up from 17% of Republicans and 3% of Democrats last year.
+ The Economist: “Trump repeatedly claims that the European Union was ‘formed in order to screw the United States.’ Canada, America’s northern neighbor and second-largest trading partner, is “one of the nastiest countries.” Russia was “doing what anyone would do” when it bombed Ukraine’s energy infrastructure during a pause in American intelligence sharing.”
+ No country in Europe currently holds a positive view of the US…
Denmark: 10%
Sweden: 28%
Germany: 30%
France: 32%
+ The genius of French provincial cooking is its ability to make the best food out of whatever’s available, including the worst cuts of beef, offal even…But the French would never raise their cattle in industrial feedlots where the animals stand nearly motionless in their own piss and shit for a year, shot up with hormones…
+ Benedicte de Perthuis, the French judge who ruled French neo-fascist Marine Le Pen ineligible for the 2027 elections after her conviction on embezzlement charges, is now under police protection following a wave of death threats and online doxxing.
+ Finnish President Alexander Stubb, after golfing with Trump: “The half-ceasefire has been broken by Russia, and I think America and my sense is also the president of the United States, is running out of patience with Russia.”
+ The construction of private bunkers in Spain has increased by 200%, as fears of a European war spread.
+ It took Nixon to go to China and Trump to unite three longtime enemies–China, Japan and South Korea–against the US. Bravo, genius!
+ The Washington Post on the lax security of Trump’s National Security team: “Members of President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts. The use of Gmail, a far less secure method of communication than the encrypted messaging app Signal, is the latest example of questionable data security practices by top national security officials already under fire for the mistaken inclusion of a journalist in a group chat about high-level planning for military operations in Yemen.”
+ There’s been what’s described as a “bloodbath” of firings at Trump’s National Security Council. But not over the fallout from Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz’s security breaches. Instead, the dismissals seem to be at the behest of the conspiracy-mongering Trump intimate Laura Loomer, who met with Trump in the Oval Office earlier in the week and presented the president with her “research” that several members of Waltz’s staff were “neocons” who had slipped through the vetting process.
+ Jeet Heer: “I’m sorry, but an administration where people get fired because Laura Loomer doesn’t like them is not going to be a stable government.”
+ Hypocrisy, arrogance and ineptitude are virtues in this administration not fireable offenses…”Members of Trump’s National Security Council, including national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials.”
+ Mike Waltz may unwittingly become the Daniel Ellsberg of the Trump administration. Politico reported this week that Waltz had set up at least 20 Signal chat groups to “respond to crises across the world”…many of them he and Trump provoked, presumably.
+ Last week, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche sent a memo to his staff describing how the DOJ is, in the spirit of DOGE, considering closing the Antitrust Division’s field offices in San Francisco and Chicago…”In the spirit of DOGE”… i.e., “At the behest of our Tech Overlords.”
+ Here’s a more critical “leak” than the one to Goldberg…
(The pervasive episodes of parapraxis among the leaders of the GOP may end up being what saves the country from complete and utter ruin…)
+ David French, who’s about as far to the right as you could have gotten, pre-MAGA: “In some parts of American Christianity, the theology is so flawed, and the culture is so broken, that evangelicals don’t see Trump contradicting their values at all — he’s exactly like the men and women who lead their church.”
+ On St. Patrick’s Day, Trump invited fellow convict, MMA fighter and failed boxer Conor MacGregor to the White House to promote his “Make Ireland Great Again” campaign for president. It wasn’t received well by the Irish…
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Jefferson Morley and Oliver Stone at House hearing on JFK assassination.
+ If I was this stupid, I wouldn’t want to broadcast it during live coverage of Congressional hearings on JFK’s assassination…
Lauren Boebert: Mr. Stone, you wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of President Kennedy. Do these recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge?
Oliver Stone looking befuddled by the question, whispers in the ear of [my] former Washington Post editor and JFK assassination expert, Jefferson Morley.
Stone: No, I didn’t.
Boebert: Yes, sir you did…
Stone: “If you look closely at the FILM, it accuses President Johnson…”
Boerbert, excited to the point of giddiness now that she’s finally stumbled on to something profound: “Ok, ok…”
Stone: “Of being part of and complicit in a cover-up of the case. But not in the assassination itself, which I don’t know.”
Boerert, a little unsteady now: “What do you think he was complicit with?”
Stone: The cover-up. How about, for starters, appointing Allen Dulles, the head of the CIA who was fired by Kennedy, to the Commission itself, the Warren Commission. And he goes to almost every meeting, and is pretty much in charge of the Warren Commission from the beginning. Allen Dulles, that’s part of the evidence that pointed to President Johnson, as either incompetent or involved.
Boebert, adjusting her Sarah Palin “sexy librarian” glasses: “Mr. Morley, I think you had something to add to that?
Morely: “I think you’re confusing…
Boebert: “I may have mis—
Morley: “ROGER STONE with Oliver Stone. It’s Roger Stone who implicated LBJ in the assassination of the president. Not my friend Oliver Stone.”
Boebert: “I may have misinterpreted that.”
+ Rutgers, which has an endowment of more than $2 billion and pays the coach of its mediocre football team $6.5 million a year, is shuttering Raritan, one of the best remaining literary magazines, as part of the University’s “Austerity Agenda.” Raritan’s excellent editor, Jackson Lears, explains…
+ Nick Estes: “Yesterday [Monday], the U of Minnesota deleted the American Indian Studies’ statement on Palestine. (Also deleted was a story about Leonard Peltier’s return home and five other dept statements on Palestine.)” Here’s the now-elided original statement, as preserved by the Wayback Machine…
+ And now we take you live to the Oval Office…
+ Frank Zappa: “Some scientists claim that hydrogen because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.”
+ Here’s Neil Young, writing on his Times Contrarian blog about what it’s like to be a Canadian artist living in the states now:
What’s happening in our America right now: Our rights to free speech are being taken away and buried by our government.
Reporters who do not agree with our government have been banned from interviewing our President. Canadian / Americans like me have had their freedom threatened by activities such as taking private info from their devices and using it to block them from entering our country – ie: If you don’t agree with our government, you are barred from entering or sent to jail. There are many stories in the Contrarian that make this information very clear.
Corporate controlled newspapers and TV are mostly bought and paid for now, to a great degree. The information found there is not complete anymore. Thats why you need to read the Contrarian. Articles published here are not controlled by Corporations, they are supported by the public – you.
Just because you love music, don’t allow your children to lose their freedom. Read here and learn what our government is doing to you. That’s right – our government.
Music is my love and my life. I want that for my children and theirs. That’s why I’m here doing this today instead of just selling you records.
There is plenty of music associated news in The Times Contrarian and you can easily find it here. Choose the Music News section or the World News section at the top of the page. Check out your music and the rest too. Don’t let your knowledge be limited by today’s politics and the controlling Trump agenda that challenges your basic American freedoms. You elected this president. He is your President. Elon Musk? Really? Think about it. He is a threat to America, enabled by our president because of the millions he spent supporting our president’s election.
All Their Ammunition, All Their Money Lost, All Their Bold Invasions, All Their Running Dogs…
Booked Up
What I’m reading this week…
Homeland: the War on Terror in American Life
Richard Beck
(Verso)
The Class Struggle and Welfare: Social Policy Under Capitalism
David Matthews
(Monthly Review)
On Book Banning: or How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy
Ira Wells
(Biblioasis)
Sound Grammar
What I’m listening to this week…
That’s the Price of Loving Me
Dean Wareham
(Car Park)
Letters From the Atlantic
Butcher Brown
(Concord Jazz)
After the Last Sky
Anouar Brahem
(ECM)
Those Who Cannot Dance
“Dance is the universal art, the common joy of expression. Those who cannot dance are imprisoned in their own ego and cannot live well with other people and the world. They have lost the tune of life. They only live in cold thinking. Their feelings are deeply repressed while they attach themselves forlornly to the earth.” – Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo
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