Magnetofunky: WWT

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