Not in a MAGA-Spangled Mood

Not in a MAGA-Spangled Mood

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

Fixing the Invisible Machinery

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

The Cost of Looking Away

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

Historical Études

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

The Sunrise We Eventually Will See

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