the imbroglio 2.0

Bruce Springsteen wrote and released a great song this week that everyone needs to hear: The Streets of Minneapolis (YT link, but it’s also available on Apple Music, and probably elsewhere). It would be fantastic if this became the number one song in the country with wall to wall play everywhere, but that seems like too much to hope for. Still, let’s do our part — play and share!

 In a similar vein, though apparently largely produced via AI(?) is ICE, F**K You by scaredketchup. It definitely captures the moment. 

Finally, everyone’s favorite singers, the Marsh Family, has released Minnesota, an adaptation of “San Francisco (Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair).” Also great. 

Josh Marshall has a great piece today about the insanity of the argument for the ICE military invasion forces wearing masks. He likens it to the same upside down logic of anti-accountability that says that the superrich oligarchs who give millions of dollars to buy elections need to be able to do so in secret or anonymously so they won’t have to face any negative repercussions that might come from their exercise of such extreme power: 

ICE masking and the need for billionaire anonymity certainly aren’t the same argument. But I don’t think I’m far out on a limb in thinking that they share a common DNA. The people with all the power need to be insulated from the effects of wielding that kind of power. It’s a whole framework of anti-accountability that has infiltrated our civic discourse. The people with all the power need to have even more power to protect them from the effects of being so powerful in the first place. Or with ICE, you can hardly expect people to abuse their policing authority quite so aggressively if you’re not going to allow them to do it anonymously.

We have alwasy been at war with Eastasia….