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

A 'jungle primary' system with multiple Dem candidates for Governor could, under the wrong conditions, let a unified GOP minority outmaneuver a divided majority - and put a MAGA Chud in control of California...

The Front Line - Too Many Democrats, Not Enough Math

Resistance Spotlight - Matt Campbell

Music: Vernal Medley

Look Up - Dream Fatigue
Cute - Asara
Mary - Sauvageoness
We Got To Get Moist - Mickle Muckle
Half Gods - Fields Ohio
Scour - The 113
Inside A New - The Dharma Chain

Right now the world teeters between an incoherent tyrant's callous Middle Eastern conflict, and a mad AI arms race that may end in a real-world 'Skynet'...

The Front Line - Clear Cognitive Decline vs. AI Apotheosis

Resistance Spotlight - No Kings Day 3 - 03/28

Music: Spring Social I: Electronica Etc.

MY BODY - DJ Phil
The Dive - Jet Cemetery
Bowed Clusters (with The Leaf Library) - Xylitol
ECHO LANGUAGE Remix One - CYRNAI
Norham Sunrise - Shape Navigator

This week's rant concerns two related problems: paywalled access to public-interest information and reporters saving major revelations for books instead of publishing them immediately. What can we do about it besides boycott?

The Front Line - Breaking News, Coming Soon in Hardcover

Resistance Spotlight - Palestine Children's Relief Fund (Podcasthon)

Music: Eclectic Spring Inbox

Don't Take My Baby Away - Big Boss Man
Revolution Evolution - Love Ghost
No Burn - Skip Danko B-Movie Road Club
Tosca's Kiss - Pig
Impending - Coal & Crayon
Wicked Wicked Ways - DELREI Feat. Collin Hegna

Calling out Cheero's callous incompetence of the Iran War that paints a target on the country for power and profit...

The Front Line - A Target-Rich Game Board

Resistance Spotlight - Alan Govenar's New Documentary "Quiet Voices in a Noisy World: The Struggle for Change in Jasper, Texas"

Music: Winter Smoker Party IV

Action Painting - Perennial
Be Like You - Bruise Control
Frog - Viscula
Ghost - Boy Witch
Insight - Bonner Kramer/Thurston Moore
Inconsolable - Holder
Midnight Creep - The Darts (US)
The Leaves Of Autumn Symmetry - Perennial