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@LukewSavage Not serious

No denying Obama's popularity, but if his presidency had been a success Donald Trump would never have been elected

@20th_Centurygal MBV

Who’s the loudest band you’ve ever seen live?

@pourfairelevide Bless you

not to be too sincere on x the everything app, but watching my father die in agony in his 50s taught me: (1) you can leave this world at any moment. (2) an education is one of the very few things that nobody can take from you once you’ve got it.

@simongerman600 My college roommate was at that show

It’s 1989. You are a drunk teenager putting out a cigarette before going to a music club in Chicago. As you enter you hear a new kind of raw music that instantly blows you away. It’s Nirvana. You never heard of them. They are still two years away from their Nevermind breakthrough. It’s a concert of a lifetime. You still tell your kids about it frequently. Unfortunately it wasn’t recorded. Or so you thought. Unbeknown to you a Chicago live music enthusiast, Aadam Jacobs, took his tape recorder to the show and recorded the whole thing (as he has done 10,000 over a quarter century). The tape has been digitally cleaned up and is yours to enjoy online now for free. Make sure to share this with every single member of Gen X you know: archive.org/embed/ajc00795…

@WI_RightNow Sure

Been hearing from a lot of younger generation people who say they were tricked into voting for Taylor because they didn't want to lose their right to kill babies. We have to do a better job educating the younger generation about which rights actually matter, and which do not.

@WISupremacist lol sure

If Tiffany can effectively frame the 2026 election has the entire state vs Dane county he will easily win. So much of the state, even more left leaning independents hate how a disproportionate amount of money goes to Dane, which then goes to fraud.

@ScottWalker There’s no comparison dumb ass

Further proof I was right to kill the “high speed” rail line between Milwaukee and Madison.

@SEAS21 @RickEsenberg Once upon a time conservatives romped in Scowis races

@RickEsenberg It’s a turnout issue and always has been. Historically Republicans have had poor turn out in non-presidential elections. Not top of mind to people for some reason. Dem base is more motivated to vote. Money spent also matters to a certain extent.

It is common for the losing side in an election to say that we need to keep doing the same thing - only harder. Here are the facts. Since Trump took office, the GOP or conservative candidate in statewide races for Senator, Governor, AG or Supreme Court has lost 11 of 13 races. Most, if not all, of these races became referenda on the Trump/MAGA brand. Particularly at SCOWIS, the candidates almost don't matter since most voters don't know them or understand how to evaluate them. Populism never lasts and is clearly turning off potential GOP/conservative voters. You should learn from populist frustration, but it's time to move on.

@WI_RightNow lol

Just because the people voted overwhelmingly for the Democrat last night, doesn’t mean she has the support of the people. At heart, we’re a Republican state.

@brunellaism Such a great book

the best part of this was twelve hours ago when matthew texted me like "wow have you read land of desire" and turns out william leach had already written my thesis but a million times better

@EddieTrunk Stupid

It seems my opinion about artists doing covers live has touched off a debate of sorts? Apparently the part about artists with “deep extensive catalogs” was lost? All I am saying is an artist like Bruce has literally hundreds of songs. He does a percentage of covers all the time I’m told. IMO simply as a fan, if I go to see an artist because I love their music and they have an extensive catalog, I’d rather hear their songs. Simple as that. Again I get some have made covers their own, or it serves as a solo spotlight for someone. All good. But using the Bruce example I have a ton of friends that go see him and would much rather hear Jungleland or something he left out of his own catalog, vs a cover. I have seen Kiss, VH and more over the years add covers at the expense of big songs they left out. Just my opinion as a fan going to see an artist I love that has a large catalog. To each their own.

@batcountry1980 Those liner notes were formative, pored over em when Biograph came out.

All this talk of liner notes has got me thinking of Cameron Crowe’s excellent song by song discussion with Dylan for the Biograph boxset. I’ll post one a day for the next 15 days, in no particular order, just whatever stands out that day. 15. Visions of Johanna There is an other worldly quality to this live recording from the same tour. Dylan had begun writing longer songs, stringing the images and characters together for verse upon verse. The unrecorded Visions Of Johanna was performed in the solo set that began these 1966 shows. Audiences were stunned at the intricacy of the new song, not to mention amazed that the young man in the spotlight could remember all the words. Did his mind ever wander? Was he with every word? "Oh yeah, I was probably with every word," said Dylan almost twenty years later, "because it meant so much to me. I could remember a song without writing it down because it was so visual. I still sing that song every once in a while. It still stands up now as it did then, maybe even more in some kind of weird way."

@EddieTrunk You’re a moron

I will never understand why artists with huge deep catalogs do cover songs live. I get it’s cool / different for them. But if I’m going to see an act with a deep big catalog I love I want to hear their songs. Unless they had a hit with that cover. Then I get it. IMO

@Wildcat_USA @DuffMcKagan @EddieTrunk Glad you have an opinion

@DuffMcKagan @EddieTrunk This song isn’t even in Prince’s top ten. Respectfully.

@DanODonnellShow Your buddy is a dipshit. Love these racist cops.

From a buddy with the Milwaukee Police Department:

@ekdouc @isaiah_bb May’s book is wonderful

@isaiah_bb Marc Bloch, who was a French medievalist and resistance member, wrote a book titled “Strange Defeat” about how the French army lost to the Wehrmacht. May wrote a book more recently titled “Strange Victory” from the other perspective.

As I continue to read more about WW2, I have to admit, my opinion of the French Army has only gone down. The Wermacht was such an absolute clown show, it’s insane they beat the French, and in the way they did.

U.S. military attacks on Iran: 61% say they disapprove while 39% approve of the action. Three-quarters of Republicans approve of the attacks, almost all Democrats disapprove, more than 70% of independents disapprove. #mulawpoll

@AmericanGwyn V rocks

Worst Books By Our Greatest Writers: 1. The Orchard Keeper, Cormac McCarthy 2. Requiem for a Nun, William Faulkner 3. Across the River and into the Trees, Ernest Hemingway 4. V., Thomas Pynchon 5. Pierre, Herman Melville 6. Dream of Fair to Middling Women, Samuel Beckett

@SalvadorDafti Listened to that one minimum of twice a day for a stretch, glad for it

The Who - Quadrophenia My album of the day. A spiralling young man wrestling with identity and personality crisis amid a fading Mod scene. The anxieties of a misfit in a world that doesn't understand; for just about any teenager who’s ever lived. 1973. 🎧 The Real Me

@batcountry1980 Brill

“The Birth of…”: A Stream of Consciousness Take on Where Four Genres Began 🧵 Saw a post this morning: “Which guitarist influenced Rock the most?” Interesting question. The guitarist part will always be subjective, but it’s the Rock part that set my mind wandering. Because if we’re talking Rock, we’re not talking Rock n Roll. They’re related, obviously, but they aren’t the same thing. So where does Rock start? And where does anything start, really? That’s the thought that led me down this path. Here’s my off-the-cuff attempt at exploring the birth of Rock n Roll, Rock, Punk, and Heavy Metal. When does each genre of music begin? To answer this, I picture the Thames. You ever see a map of London? North and South are defined by the city’s great river. Simple enough. Except the river isn’t a straight line. It twists and bends. It rises and dips. Because of that, you end up with the odd situation where parts of South London are actually further north than bits of the north, and vice versa. But we still need a line, and the Thames, wavy though it may be, is the line we use. Music is much the same. Genres don’t appear as neat, straight lines. They form out of bits and pieces from all over the place. A snatch of rhythm from here, attitude there, a sound borrowed from somewhere else. It doesn’t always make perfect sense. But eventually we draw a line and say: Now it all comes together. Before this, the genre didn’t exist. After this, it does. Crucially though, we can’t amputate. We can’t take a fragment that hints at a genre, extract it from the past and hold it up as the birth certificate. That’s not how it works. The birth of a genre is the moment things coalesce, when the ingredients finally come together into something recognisable as its own thing. Naming a genre is too important to hang on anything less than that.