Jason Guthartz
@restructures.bsky.social
#FreePalestine #DismantleWhiteness abolition, reparations, archives, music, film, art, Chicago Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1kmY3 discographies: https://shorturl.at/qDFiQ
"ICE detainee reveals video of drinking water apparently contaminated with worm-like creatures" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detainee reveals video of drinking water apparently contaminated with worm-like creatures
‘Disturbing’ footage shared by California detainee surfaces amid wider complaints about conditions in ICE detention
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Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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A journalist covering events was severely beaten by Israeli soldiers, while locals were also attacked.
Israeli forces detain Palestinians during raid in occupied West Bank
A journalist covering events was severely beaten by Israeli soldiers, while locals were also attacked.
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Odd that the article doesn't mention how sound quality rapidly deteriorates when you try to put more than 20-22 minutes of music on a side of vinyl, which may explain why many of these songs are edited down 🤷
Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · yesterdayYou’re telling me major labels are selling shoddy product
Bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal: DHS has been tracking down Americans at work and on the road who are critical of immigration policies, spending millions on contractors to surveil First Amendment protected speech and create political dossiers. Outrageous. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics
The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas. A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians. bookriot.com/arkansas-act...
Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas
A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.
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Librarians, Archivists, & Archives that collect/manage popular culture materials-I've started a Discord server to discuss collections, materials, repositories, etc. to share info and build community. Comics, games, movies/tv, etc #popularculture #archives #archivists #librarians discord.gg/xvhWAhhkw
Join the Popular Culture Archives & Archivists Discord Server!
Popular culture archives and archivists to share best practices, build community, and better understand the landscape of popular culture preservation. [Icon Image: Old Dutch advertisement, c.1965, Pos...
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Here's Lindup & Miller 10 years earlier covering one of Level 42's earliest singles - not only with Mike singing Mark King's lead vocal, but with Dominic covering MK's bass part! "Love Meeting Love" (live in Berlin 2015) www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAA5...
DOMINIC MILLER ON THE BASS!!! - Love Meeting Love (live in Berlin 2015)
YouTube video by Barańczak
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Jason Guthartz@restructures.bsky.social · 2d agoA gorgeous version with just Mike Lindup on piano & vocal after a full band intro Fun to hear Mike singing the verses. Also fun to see Mike & Dominic Miller still playing together 45+ years after they were proto-Level 42 bandmates. "Something About You" (2025) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6a9...
#AbolishICE #DefundPolice #DismantleWhiteness
Gwynne Hogan@gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 2d agoA 39-year-old El Salvadoran man, who was being held at Delaney Hall, has died, the man's family says. He's the father of a 12-year-old US citizen daughter and has lived in the country for nearly 20 years. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...
its such a bleak, violent, dark vision for the future. Of course, not restricted to the US or to Trump.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Michigan health officials are reporting the first two deaths caused by the current cyclosporiasis outbreak, the worst ever on record.
10 years already since I first heard this album & it's still astonishing 🥰
Jason Guthartz@restructures.bsky.social · last yr.One of the best tracks of this century. Nao, "DYWM" (2016) youtu.be/poYFcvQ9bq4
STAND (1969) THERE'S A RIOT GOIN' ON (1971) FRESH (1973) Sly & the Family Stone
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
I think most people see this & think, That was terrible back in ’21 & ‘22 when anti-vaxxers wouldn’t follow the science & spurned masks, etc. But a much smaller group knows COVID is still here causing dangerous long term health issues & that you should still mask indoors. Which group are you in?
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 4d agoWhat I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.
You know what helps fuel the reactionary environment, @chrislhayes.bsky.social? Referring to Covid in the past tense 💩 #CovidIsNotOver #CovidProtectionsNOW #AbolishRacialCapitalism #DismantleWhiteness bsky.app/profile/chri...
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2y agoI don’t blame people for this feeling! Covid really did suck and being forced to constantly encounter and negotiate our collective interconnectedness was exhausting and at times enraging. The backlash made a lot of sense. But it absolutely created a reactionary cultural and political environment.
When cops quit, crime goes down. Pass it on. #DefundCPD #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice #DismantleWhiteness news.wttw.com/2025/07/11/s...
Alt text: Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve standing on the sideline during a game versus Indiana Fever in a white suit jacket and blue t-shirt with the trans pride flag and text “Trans Kids Belong”
Dan🌹🔵🌊🇺🇸@arepublic86.bsky.social · 3d agoCheryl Reeve today with the Lynx vs Fever game ❤️🏳️⚧️
Pritzker celebrating the fact that his pet project will help the U.S. military generate more death & destruction throughout the Majority World 💩 Liberalism fuels fascism. #AbolishWhiteSupremacistOligarchy #DismantleWhiteness bsky.app/profile/govp...
Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2w agoHuge news to help Illinois become the global quantum capital. PsiQuantum has signed a $125M agreement with DARPA — helping our state and nation build the world’s first utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers.
Read my July 18 story for the original reporting that the New York Times didn’t link to... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · last wk.GOP House member--and fmr Trump advance man--allegedly -threw boiling water on his then-wife -held a gun to her head -broke his daughter's collarbone. She's 2 -abused abuse a fmr Trump WHer too When a reporter asked him about it , he threatened to block their # www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
Not enough attention is being directed to the fact that not only did it mislabel every country, the outlines of the countries it labeled are for countries that don't actually exist
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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"Her case echoes a similar one a week earlier in Buffalo, New York, where a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee with significant vision impairment and limited English was found dead after the US border patrol dropped him off alone at a closed Tim Hortons coffee shop."
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d agoFamily to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes. She froze to death. Another ICE homicide. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death
Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes
theguardian.com
Apropos of nothing... "Part One: The RFK Jr. Episodes | BEHIND THE BASTARDS Robert sits down with Cody Johnston to discuss the origins of the Kennedy Family Curse, and how it trapped RFK Jr on the path to ruin. (4 Part Series)" youtu.be/PdnEINZurCw
Part One: The RFK Jr. Episodes | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
YouTube video by Behind the Bastards
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It's at least as urgent that RFK & the whole MAHA crew be removed from office ASAP. Their anti-vaccine, anti-health crusade is going to harm & kill millions of people over the coming years & decades. #RemoveRFK #DismantleWhiteness bsky.app/profile/rest...
Jason Guthartz@restructures.bsky.social · 11mo agoThis will kill more children than all of the mass shootings in schools in the history of the planet. #RemoveTrumpNOW #DismantleWhiteness #CovidIsNotOver #CovidProtectionsNOW
Feel how you will about his work as a music producer, #musicsky, but know that Rick Rubin is a scourge who uses his podcast to give a platform to white supremacist propaganda from the likes of RFK Jr., Andrew Huberman, Jack Kruse, Joe Dispenza, et al.
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2y agoI wrote about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s various weird ideas about HIV/AIDS, and why they could soon become the rest of the world's problem if he becomes HHS secretary. In the words of one expert I spoke to, "I can't believe we're having this conversation." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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Israel has no right to exist as the genocidal apartheid state that Zionism requires it to be. #BDS #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine #AbolishZionism #DismantleWhiteness
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 4d agoStrikes hit Gaza homes after the US unveiled plan for Hamas disarmament and Israeli withdrawal.
![Bodies of Hassayna and Abu Sharia family members, killed in a 2023 Israeli strike and recently recovered from the rubble, are draped in Palestinian flags during their funeral in Gaza City. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreieulsvjxz6dyewhwq6tqtw5f54hbkz7gstn6u2gjtt3lzkwp2wfna)
![Mourners carry bodies wrapped in Palestinian flags during a mass funeral for members of the Hassayna and Abu Sharia families, whose remains were recovered from rubble nearly three years after an Israeli air raid in Gaza City. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreidsgalx5772xt5knbigc7cnoxfih7l5cjltzda7xxmrj3lmhofqcy)
![Thousands of Palestinians attend the funeral in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood, where bodies are draped in Palestinian flags and laid near the ruins of destroyed homes. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreih6ditz3jownjqmbnm4yb35cpwbzsqr4wgm42lwtaokmc6sh4lxvy)
![The victims are set to be buried at the Baptist Cemetery in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood after the funeral procession. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreiho2t2zqfrmeeg4byoimrs7myixkmfg3fh42erhrdx5qw6eywvioq)