David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@qoto.org

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Happy Birthday to Christene Lee Cervenka aka Exene Cervenka, American singer, artist, poet, songwriter and singer for the California punkrock band X, born on this day in 1956, Chicago, Illinois

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #exenecervenka #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Apparently, advertisers do not try to sell to Gen X, because Gen X will automatically refuse to buy anything that is targeted to them.

I sort of want to be offended by it ... but not really.

This issue is a deeply personal one for me. I hope you take the time to read this and understand what is really going on: They are fear mongers, creating a wedge issue, and profiting off of it. It has to end.

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/they-say-theyre-protecting-the-children?sd=pf

36 years ago
Warehouse: Songs and Stories is the sixth and final studio album by punk rock band Hüsker Dü, released as a double album on two vinyl LPs, January 1987

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hüskerdü #history #punkrockhistory

#Doonesbury nails insane GOP Congress members:
#comic #House #politics
Entire strip here: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2023/01/29

A HS student to their TX school board, which is banning books:

“I’m not going to sit here and talk about the slippery slope that book banning leads to because I learned from a book, that I checked out from my school’s library, that I don’t need to resort to logical fallacy to make a point. I’m simply going to say that no government – and public school is an extension of government – has ever banned books, and banned information from its public, and been remembered in history as the good guys.”

The price of admission – Dan Savage on the myth of "the one" and the unsettling secret of lasting love https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/08/28/the-price-of-admission-dan-savage/

I get the sense that this man is just not taken seriously enough.

'Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love. We have now organized what are modestly described as super-powers, which include groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together — surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Many of those who run the nations will find this idea unpleasant. They will fear the loss of power. We will hear much about treason and disloyalty. Rich nation-states will have to share their wealth with poor ones. But the choice, as H. G. Wells once said in a different context, is clearly the universe or nothing."

~ Carl Sagan

(Book: Cosmos https://amzn.to/3kGZpGp)

The Onion never misses

The way to honor those murdered in the Holocaust is to stand up to hate everywhere. Don’t be silent. #HolocaustMemorialDay

SCOOP! Many top donors to George Santos' 2020 campaign, uh, don't seem to exist. My colleague Noah Lanard and I tried to contact these donors and found addresses and names that could not be confirmed. Please read/share/boost.

I just love it when the Chief Justice of the United States feels he's exempt from basic legal principles that are followed every day in courts across the country, such as "you have to disclose that this friendly opinion comes from someone you've paid a bunch of money."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/27/politics/supreme-court-chertoff-leak-investigation/index.html

“Just once I'd like to hear a president warn the police not to be violent.” —Renee Graham, Boston Globe opinion columnist/associate editor

#BlackFriday #BlackMastodon #TyreNichols

Musician Clyde Lawrence needed only two minutes to sum up why Ticketmaster's monopoly is bad for everyone except... Ticketmaster.

His video went viral and I see why. Watch it for yourself and prepare to be enraged: https://www.comicsands.com/clyde-lawrence-ticketmaster-senate-testimony-2659311698.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

BREAKING: Democratic congressman Adam Schiff makes it official: he is running for U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s seat in California. #California #politics