Crucial Track for March 8, 2026: "This Is Me" by New Found Glory
One of my favorite covers!
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Crucial Track for March 8, 2026: "This Is Me" by New Found Glory
One of my favorite covers!
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I don't mean to brag but I won a gold medal this weekend in the 48 hour Couch Sitting While Eating Popcorn.
Crucial Track for February 13, 2026: "Lost It" by Talking Points
I remember when I found this band. Best indie rock band since Turnover.
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The problem with them choosing this as their primary talking point is that nearly every in Minnesota personally knows someone who has been taken by ICE. And they all had either a spotless criminal record or an entirely non-violent one.
These are lies. They are going to lose. MN will not quit.
Hours after Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez five times, Gregory Bovino emailed him to ask he continue working past retirement:Β
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much yet left to do!!" he wrote.
Watters: I was walking in my street, a car drives by and I give him a wave. He rolls down the window and says, βF U fascist.β He doesnβt know Iβm a fascist!
Jessica: Yes, he does. Youβre on TV.
Crucial Track for February 10, 2026: "Saturn" by SZA
This song has inaccurate vibes. π
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Crucial Track for February 7, 2026: "End of You" by Poppy, Amy Lee & Courtney LaPlante
Today's prompt: Whatβs your favorite collaboration between artists? #CrucialTracks
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Crucial Track for February 6, 2026: "TWICE" by Bilmuri
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Martinez is recounting her harrowing experience: after being shot by CBP agents, she drove a mile to the safety of an auto shop where she called 911, got treatment at a hospital for 7 bullet wounds, then was immediately taken into custody by federal agents.
Idk man if youβre a journalist working for a news outlet right now and you are echoing words like βprotestorβ or using the power of your organization to repeat the govtβs explanation as true I think youβre bad at your job and you should quit
Another thing I learned in the town hall is that the events in Minneapolis are being well-documented because of the thousands of people who trained to become legal observers after the murder of George Floyd
Letβs be clear: anyone defending the Trump Administration after watching masked, anonymous agents assault a man, pepper spray him, then fire 5+ rounds into his back is irretrievably complicit in political terrorism.
They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence.
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.
βEveryone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gunβ is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie
Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"
The second most disturbing thing about today's ICE murder is that ICE rounded up and removed the witnesses. I just pray that woman in pink (and anyone else) texted her video to a friend first.
They are transporting people to an immigration processing facility for the crime of having witnessed a fucking murder.
So I watched the shooting video frame by frame and it looks like:
1) They were beating a struggling man with batons
2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back
3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away
4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back
An NYT headline reads βFederal Officers Shoot Person in Minneapolisβ
It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.
Great job American Voters. Fucking Idiots.
So you didn't like Kamala's laugh.
Now you live in North Korea.
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Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara: "The video speaks for itself. We have identified this person - 37-year-old, white male, resident of the city. The only interaction that we are aware of with law enforcement has been for traffic tickets and we believe he is a lawfully gun owner with a permit to carry"
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.β¨β¨ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
Crucial Track for January 17, 2026: "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Today's prompt: Share a song that captures the feeling of being completely content. #CrucialTracks
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