Barack and Michelle reminded us today of what leadership in this nation truly looks like.
What an incredible day for Chicago and for Illinois as we celebrate the opening of the Obama Presidential Center.
Tom Morello says "when people say that musicians should not be involved in politics, it means they are people that disagree with your politics."
"The second that you write a song that agrees with their politics, all of a sudden they're all for it. So, one, it's very hypocritical, but two, I also think that, why should you give away your free speech rights in the job that you do? Because it offends someone? I think the converse is what is actually true.
"I think that you do yourself and your times a disservice by censoring who you are in your work. Not just musicians. I think, one, it's sort of weirdly sort of selfish to kind of ghettoize musicians as, like, 'Oh, they shouldn't say anything.' I think in your work as a music journalist or in your work as a tour manager or as your work as a bus driver, whatever, you should not leave behind who you are and what you believe.. There's an extra hot layer of hell for people in times of great injustice who censor themselves and remain quiet when they should have spoken out because they're afraid of some Internet troll."
(via @metalhammer_de)
📸: Rob DeMartin
“And unlike Ken, I believe to my core that James Talarico believes in unity over division and that he knows how to assemble not only Democrats, but Independents and Republicans, and we need that right now,” Cogdell said.
Ken Paxton’s own lawyer just endorsed our campaign for the US Senate.
We’re building a big tent to take on this corrupt system that Ken Paxton embodies.