Magnetofunky: WWT

A laid back (and proudly explicit - you bet your ass) personal journal of extremely eclectic music and progressive politics, with a focus on active resistance to the fascist regime.

Texas Two-Step 08/15/2025

Texas Two-Step The calculated combo of gerrymandering and a bogus census, reported as just another political spectacle and not a heinous crime... The Front Line - Multipurpose Voting Chaos Resistance Spotlight - Eleanor Holmes Norton Music: Dog Day Afternoon Set Baby's Got Rabies - Bimbo Gush - Dog Lips Maybe Later - DÄÄCHT Nevermore - Whipping Boy Envy - MOTHS /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/37831865

An Unending Game of Pigeon Chess 08/08/2025

An Unending Game of Pigeon Chess The criminally incompetent orange autocrat rules with predictable destructive abandon... The Front Line - The Obvious Beneficiaries of American Erosion Resistance Spotlight - George Soros, Boogeyman For the Fascists Music: Summer Beach Party III Recognize Me - Maiya Blaney Bite Your Tongue - Umlaut Don't Die In Your Sleep - Peak Flow Hide (In The Night Remix) - Magic Wands Bad Wind - On The Water Mask Of Illusion - Dark Sky Burial /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/37726045

The Threat to Obama is Real 08/01/2025

The Threat to Obama is Real Barack Obama never stopped being threatened by the Groper in Chief... The Front Line - Diaper Donald's Desperate Distraction Resistance Spotlight - Rage Against the Regime Protests Aug. 2nd Music: Cooling Summer Flow Enter The Dragon - SEOI NAGE Zoo Friend - AUNCE Tender - Kaela Lovesong (The Cure Cover) - Wyldest Can We Melt Down Florida and Use it As Ink To Print New Cities - CLOUDWARMER /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/37629395

Elon's Killer Colossus 07/25/2025

Elon's Killer Colossus Elon's latest endeavor is helping to poison black people in Memphis... The Front Line - Musk's Environmental Racism in Memphis Resistance Spotlight - Follow up on SF Mayor Daniel Lurie Music: Eclectic Summer Thumpers Heat Seeking Missile - forever ☆ desperate flower - Welcome Strawberry I Thought You Liked Me! - Sour Tongue Spiral Out - Brittany Bindrim Lights, Camera, Ham! - We Used to Cut the Grass /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/37542755

The 7-2 Scenario 07/18/2025

The 7-2 Scenario The swamp is already lapping up the steps of the Supreme Court... The Front Line - A Scheme Waiting in the Wings Resistance Spotlight - Doing Without FEMA Music: Hard, Hot and Heavy Daughters - To Bloom Watch Me - Rotersand Soul Crusher - Jesus on Extasy New Economy Symptoms - TRAINER Dog Tramadol - Iran Iran Can We Just Not? - We Contain Multitudes /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/37452160

Silver Lining Anyone? 07/11/2025

Silver Lining Anyone? There has to be a positive thread to grasp within this latest insult to civil injury. It's still only the first year of misrule... The Front Line - The Rainbow Beyond The Shitstorm Resistance Spotlight - ICE Apps - Available For Now Music: Summer Beach Party II Ciudad El Encierro - Gangrena Surf Higher - Scrounge WAS Mode - TH da Freak Pesada - Las Nubes Nobody Shouts Sir Real's Passive Remix - AK/DK & Thick Richard /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/37370015

Constitution Be Damned II 07/04/2025

Constitution Be Damned II I don't smell hot dogs and rib tips on the grill this year - more like the Stars and Stripes and the Constitution slathered in sauce... The Front Line - A Long Train of Abuses and Usurpations Resistance Spotlight - USC Agents of Change Music: Nothing Star Spangled Here What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? - Democracy Now! All Humans Must Be Destroyed - Skold Guillotine - Back Teeth I seem to be an adjective - Emma Goldman Where Angels Go To Die - Flesh Field Over You - Norma /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/37280145

Intended Consequences 06/27/2025

Intended Consequences The ongoing Middle Eastern clusterf*ck, made worse by Yambo, is just waiting for some drunken idiot to try a 'Gulf of Tonkin' move in the Strait of Hormuz with the Nimitz Carrier Group... The Front Line - Wag The Kennel Resistance Spotlight - Malikah Music: Early Summer Spread White Noise - 16volt Liquid Power - Stone Sober The Sister Of - ĠENN Disco Elysium - Alexei Shishkin Twos - The Noisy Anemia - Mari Kattman Base Case - Aversions /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/37171455

WWIII Is Just Another Doomscroll 06/20/2025

WWIII Is Just Another Doomscroll With a week chock full of infotainment kibble to chew on, Bibi's escalating his Forever War to capture the news cycle... The Front Line - ...Because It's Profitable Resistance Spotlight - Human Rights Watch Music: Summer Beach Party I Give It All - Atlantic Thrills Duvar - Zack Zack Zack Don't Mess Me 'Round - LOOSE LIPS Shimmer - Drypoint Bone Rattle - Atlantic Thrills Cover - A firefighter stands in front of a building in northern Tehran hit by one of the Israeli attacks on the morning of June 13. Photo: Vahid Salemi/AP. /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/37085280

Impersonators Committing Extremism 06/13/2025

Impersonators Committing Extremism On top of abuses committed by ICE agents, crimes perpetrated by assholes in fake gear is a going concern... The Front Line - Incels Cosplayers & Extortionists Resistance Spotlight - No Kings Protests Nationwide 6/14 Music: Eclectic Sounds on the Verge of Summer BABA - Feaster Down - KUMO 99 Harmo - Spano. Shallow - The Giraffe Told Me in My Dream Feel Safe - YASS Hollow Tree - A Dog Called Ego Stream - Janko Rašeta, Leander Widmoser, Janko vs. Leander Cover: Replica ICE Special Agent US Department of Homeland Security Badge, on sale at eBay, altered for display /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/36975265

Campaign Consultants Are The Effing Problem 06/06/2025

Campaign Consultants Are The Effing Problem You can almost set your watch to when Kamala's campaign started to flounder... The Front Line - The Road to Hell is Paved with Centrist Intentions Resistance Spotlight - Adalah Justice Project Music: This Set Has Sharp Edges Resistance, Refusal, Ridicule - Fold Heaven, Even Farther Away - Church Of Decay Wisdom - 16Volt Flood II - Motherhood Unknown Caller - gabby fluke-mogul and Lily Finnegan Ouroboros - Goat /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/36885365

Saving The Midterms 05/30/2025

Saving The Midterms Now's the time to fix vulnerabilities in election infrastructure, and head off new threats from AI... The Front Line - Election Infrastructure Vs Cyber Cold War Resistance Spotlight - Avoiding The Astroturf Music: Beautiful Sounds For Spring Jaundice - amiright? Blest Age! - T. Gowdy Silence - Black Mynah IN II - Violeta García Be Reasonable - somesurprises /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/36783150

Tactic 23 05/23/2025

Tactic 23 The entitled arrogance of these tin-pot autocrats and braggarts is practically radioactive, but the base is worse... The Front Line - Boneheaded Hypocrisy's Body Count Increases Resistance Spotlight - Free Speech TV Music: Sonic Spring Flow Christof Waltz - GOBLYNS Animaru - Mei Semones The Babalon Working - Joe Harvey-Whyte & Bobby Lee Days After Days - Soot Sprite We Need Fewer Gardens and More Shipwrecks - CLOUDWARMER /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/36684845

Provocation Tango 05/16/2025

Provocation Tango Mango Mussolini desperately needs a domestic enemy to declare martial law, but the usual suspects aren't cooperating... The Front Line - The Missing Dance Partner Resistance Spotlight - ProPublica Music: Meist aus Deutschland (Mostly from Germany) Bain de Soleil - ZAHN memory cube - Welcome Strawberry Race To Ruin - A Dog Called Ego Gaslight Blues - Joe Armstrong Punching Bag - SEX BEAT NoBot - Yass See That Girl - Chapterhouse /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/36595630

The 25th Amendment Won't Save Us 05/09/2025

The 25th Amendment Won't Save Us This administration is actually an Impeachment-Proof Syndicate - something Big Cheeto could never orchestrate on his own... The Front Line - Section 4 Resistance Spotlight - Democratic Socialists of America Music: Cranked Up Spring Gin Shot - 95 Bulls Chemical Bath - TURIAN A VOODOO THAT ACTUALLY WORKS - BACON WAGON Future Ghost - Cosmic Seed Blood Memory - Sun Blood Stories NEW AMERICAN CENTURY - KMFDM /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/36505435

Fall Harvest Havoc 05/02/2025

Fall Harvest Havoc Instead of assessing the past 100 days of Der PumpkinFurher's chaotic misrule, I look at the farm crisis from six months out... The Front Line - Farmer Forecast Resistance Spotlight - Fighting Measles Misinformation Music: Mid-Spring Eclectic American Boy II - Dead Stilettos Reward - 22° Halo The Drowning - This Eternal Decay Footprints - K Gizzle Brutal Excursion - Skeletonized Photo by John Walker/The Fresno Bee. From CalMatters 3/5/2020 story /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/36415185

Democratic Inertia and Fascist Momentum 04/25/2025

Democratic Inertia and Fascist Momentum No matter how badly Mango Mussolini's plans have been hampered, the fascist agenda is still moving forward, step by step... The Front Line - Apathy and Expediency Resistance Spotlight - SF May Day March & Rally for Immigrant & Workers Rights Music: Spring Punk Pulser - Riki Crack - SEX BEAT out of the loop - man on tv The Mattress - Lung Verity - OSNOVA Falling Apart - Undergone /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/36304050

The Moron Factor 04/18/2025

The Moron Factor Nectarine Nero's toxic cocktail of malice, idiocy and recklessness proves that smug allusions to white supremacy is the most obvious oxymoron in this country's history... The Front Line - We Need A Vote Of No Confidence Resistance Spotlight - Nationwide Day of Action: 4/19 Local Events Music: Road House Pop Dixon - Midnight Rodeo Angel Falls - Persica 3 Let It All Fly - Club 8 New Thing - Avery Friedman /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/36225620

Tariff Hat Trick 04/11/2025

Tariff Hat Trick Yambo's tariff tantrum for sure isn't ideological - it's transactional, as recent events have proven... The Front Line - So Who Shorted the Market This Time? Resistance Spotlight - Public Citizen Music: Inbox Redux Cebo (Spanish Version) - Then Comes Silence I Want You - Shake Some Action! This Not Circus - Girobabies All of You - The Birthday Massacre Former Worlds - Kid Acne Operation Overkill - Skeletonized Do You Ever Think About Dying I Think of it All the Time - CLOUDWARMER A Distant Figure In The Fog - Tumbleweed Dealer /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/36093035

Martial Law Countdown 04/04/2025

Martial Law Countdown 16 days and counting - will Yambo force the National Guard to follow an unconstitutional order... The Front Line - Gestapo Season Resistance Spotlight - People's March for Democracy Music: Spring Stack Dangerous - Surprise Chef Fading - Steel Wool Hegemony - Möney What It Takes - K Gizzle Down the Spine - Goat Farm Dnipro Reservoir Cascade - ummsbiaus /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/36000870

Imperial Idiocy 03/28/2025

Imperial Idiocy Remember this Republicans - you will never wash the Orange One's stink off your party. Never... The Front Line - Incompetent Nazis Are Still Deadly Resistance Spotlight - 50501 Movement Music: It's All Rock 'n Roll Living In The Summer LP Mix - The Laissez Fairs task force diane - marcel Gemma - Pleasure Victim Dunno - Lone Striker Dark Green - Tumbleweed Dealer Indelible - Pelican Cover: The Course of Empire - Destruction, by Thomas Cole, 1836 /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/35893640

Amerikan Occupation 03/21/2025

Amerikan Occupation Yambo, Elon and the GQP moving fast and breaking things is yet another way to mount an occupation... The Front Line - Third Way Surrender Monkeys Resistance Spotlight - Palestine Children's Relief Fund - Podcasthon 2025 Music: A Spring Sampler of eclectic music No Rhythm - Kay Seeyen Center Stage - Spring Sampler Keep Quiet - RayGun myheadisbleeding - Sorry, Peach What Did Your Last Savant Die Of? - Baker Island Acqua - CAMBIO CURA Postcolonial Blues - Second Idol Calamity of Beauty - CYRNAI /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/35796585

Vichy Democrats Protesting Politely 03/14/2025

Vichy Democrats Protesting Politely Too many House and Senate Dems put decorum above playing hardball, as the coming Social Security and Medicare crisis has me contemplating triage... The Front Line - Anticipating Triage Resistance Spotlight - Bay Resistance Music: Eclectic Tunes for the coming Hard Spring All My Friends Are Depressed - SOOT SPRITE Unraveling - Vague Lanes Interboro - Backyard Ritual Her Fancy Man - Girobabies LUXX - Black Angel Swallowed by the Ground - Sister Envy Into The Sun - Turtle Skull /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/35679290

Reichstag Fire 2.0 03/07/2025

Reichstag Fire 2.0 With Coppertone Caligula, a trumped up national emergency is entirely thinkable, and we must stand alert... The Front Line - Stand Up and Stand By Resistance Spotlight - Electronic Frontier Foundation Music: A Pre-Spring Spread of Eclectic Tunes Damage Tool - Abdomen The Siren - MatAre Human Error - Loveworms Cracking the Jaw - Eli Winter Desire In The Other - Big Other Sleep Tonight - The Birthday Massacre King Robot - Skeletonized /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/35570365

Golden State Resistance 02/28/2025

Golden State Resistance Considering the official resistance being mounted from Sacramento and San Francisco... The Front Line - Gavin Et Al vs King Krasnov Resistance Spotlight - EarthJustice Music: Headphone Crankers Bait Shop - Throttlerod The Beginning - Ben Chatwin National Hero - Televised Mind Silhouettes - Project Overload Nobody Knows - SPC ECO Indigo - REZN /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/35474925

Inglorious Dems Where Are You? 02/21/2025

Inglorious Dems Where Are You? We need the Democratic Party to make a mass citizen's protest worthwhile... The Front Line - Who's Rocking The Boat? Resistance Spotlight - The Repro Legal Helpline Music: Epic Alt Waves Gimme The String - Tala Vala Wish Defense - FACS Tangles - Rituals The Book of Tequila - PIG Taciturn - Moon Orchids Endless Joy (feat. Per Stålberg & Johannes Björk) - Novarupta /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/35373710

A Triple Dose of Revenge 02/14/2025

A Triple Dose of Revenge The motives for revenge are obvious, and for Musk, Yambo, and the GQP, the grudges have marinated for years... The Front Line - The Pecking Order of Grudges Resistance Spotlight - SF Mayor Daniel Lurie Music: Big Sound Baby Chaos - Redeye Black Tears We Only Have So Long (Outtake) - Then Comes Silence He And Sleep Were Brothers - Bill Nelson DEEP BLUE - Brendon Moeller Big Rock - Dos-Ovni Piece of Meat - PALES /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/35277295

3.5M Stolen Votes 02/07/2025

3.5M Stolen Votes Thoughts on the bombshell 2024 Election story that pretty much no mainstream media outlet will touch with sincerity... The Front Line - Suffocated Scandal Resistance Spotlight - Greg Palast Music: Eclectic From The Inbox Everything Is Wunderbar - Eisbrecher Hey, Christian God (2024 Remaster) - Snog Sharing Skin - Night Ritualz Shower Song - Magana After Me - K Gizzle Rainy Megacity 7 Precinct - deepspace El Jinete - Whale Fall Image from KATU / The Hill, story by Julia Mueller - 10/28/24 /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/35185325

Time Bombs and F-Bombs 01/31/2025

Time Bombs and F-Bombs A few words about those Executive Orders on the whole - a series of insidious time bombs ticking down and going off since day one... The Front Line - Reactions vs Context Resistance Spotlight - Planned Parenthood Music: Eclectic with a harder edge Preachers - Petrol Girls Enredados - Las Nubes Glow - Paste Retail Therapy - Aquaplane Vacancy - Pit Pony L'Orso - The Messthetics Steady/Sugarless - Products Band /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/35093405

Mangled Manifest Destiny 01/24/2025

Mangled Manifest Destiny Well, the sh*tshow has officially begun, in more ways than one. Can I get a Seig Heil? The Front Line - Imperial Distraction, Fight Back Rally... Resistance Spotlight - Code Pink... Music: An eclectic mix of Post-Punk Gila - Outro Overtryer - Aggressive Swans What A Time - EGGENBERG Wish Me Away - GIFT I'm Afraid Of Americans - The Amatory Murder HWYGO - Mins /episode/index/show/b34438fd-45d8-4760-b395-f2da0e72dcc0/id/34984395

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