This Is What Joe Strummer Trained You For

This is not a time to be dismayed. This is time to go. So says Henry Rollins. It is fucking on. Especially in a pandemic. Especially in the face of police brutality and violence. Especially in a fascist America. Fuck those fascists trying to bury you in mass graves. Do not waiver. Do not give in. Do not let up. Brand Trump must be destroyed. The GOP must be destroyed. We will destroy them. Destroy them for good. And we will rebuild America. Rebuild it for everyone. Rebuild it for all. We will finally make good on all that folklore we were raised with.

Why?

Because there is no other way.

This is time to go.

Now.

The Time Is Now

Daily reminder Donald Trump is the worst America has to offer, as are his enablers who prefer fascism over democracy. They are all cowards and cheats and we will run them out in November (while in masks). Mark my words, their days are numbered.

GOP Death Metal Song Titles

If today’s Republican Party was a metal band, it would have these songs:

  1. Total Carnage

  2. Curve of Torment

  3. Virus Spread Nation Eater

  4. Future Death Present Death

  5. American Hellscape

  6. Infect the Essential Living Dead

  7. Left to Die

  8. Exhume the Living to Die in Lines Long

  9. Reagan’s Corpse Future Breather

  10. Eagle Claws Eyes Out Forever

  11. Death Cult on Madness March

  12. No Mask Suicide

  13. Torment Stimulus

With an encore of:

  1. Bootstraps Apocalypse

  2. Embalmed Wicked Elderly Voters

  3. O Nightmare Liberty

See Change

New project launch for Film Streams:

In 2018, just 4.3% of major new releases were directed by women. In independent films, that number was 28%. At Film Streams, 34% of the films we screened were women-led. But that isn’t enough. See Change is our initiative to do better.

As a filmgoer, you play the biggest part of all. Our initiative can send a signal. You have the power to amplify it with your presence and with your voice.

Victory for #NoKXL at Supreme Court

via Bold Nebraska:

The U.S. Supreme Court just denied the last-ditch emergency appeal from TransCanada / TC Energy and the Trump administration — meaning construction of the Keystone XL pipeline across waterways remains prohibited! 

The case, which Bold Alliance is a co-plaintiff, now moves forward on the merits and our challenge to the rubber-stamp, fast-track “Nationwide Permit 12” system will go on while TransCanada lacks a crucial permit that puts the future of the KXL project in serious doubt.

Gould’s Book of Advertising

When I was set to become an official college graduate, many years ago, I tried to begin my creative career at the hippest shop in town. I knew my actual portfolio wasn’t all that good. It couldn’t compete with the other portfolios coming out of design schools and ad centers. Hence, I tried to double down on the one thing I thought I had going for me: weirdness.

I had just finished reading Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan. So I went with a fish theme. That’s really the only reason. The book itself was printed in many different ink colors that aligned with the story told. It was brilliant.

Dissent, power, progress

For love of country, for love of our communities and the people who live in them, we stand up and speak out. We talk back to nonsense. We hold the line against hate. We thoughtfully, and with reason, refute lies and other falsehoods by people who hold personal distain for truth. 

After 9/11, as the country entered a dumb war, leftists and peace activists were labeled as cowards and unpatriotic. We weren’t then, we aren’t now. Dissent is a pillar of how America has progressed. Despite the American flaws so evident now under the current president, we can, of course, still correct. 

Take a knee to protest racial inequality and systemic oppression. Take the streets to demand rights for all. We aren’t taking back anything, we’re taking the time to push forward. Dissent for the needs of others, dissent to defend truth, and dissent for the love of country.