Primitive Sounds

Wednesdays, Brass Union in Somerville. DJ night hosted by Easy Ed & Forrest Plassmann with guest DJs. All-vinyl roots music: R&B, rock’n’roll, soul & more!

[Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer]

As Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche fired me for doing my job, then subjected me and my family to months of retaliation. My story is one of many reasons the Senate should not confirm Blanche again. Read and share my letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. https://t.co/g8bFrhZ9Dg

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[Primitive Sounds @Primitive_Sound]

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[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment.

This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Thomas Massie just went nuclear on Trump’s DOJ for bringing zero “charges, arrests, or investigations” over the Epstein files.

“Who should be investigated?”

“I’ll name them right here.”

“Leon Black.”

“Jes Staley, accused of terrible things.”

“Leslie Wexner.”

“Why did the FBI list him as a co-conspirator in their own documents in a child sex trafficking case, and then tell him that they had no questions for him?”

“Over 3 million documents describing horrible things, unspeakable things, much of it redacted.”

“Over two dozen people have resigned, CEOs, members of government worldwide.”

“But I haven’t seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States.”

“Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who has since been stripped of his royal titles due to his affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein, has been arrested.”

“Peter Mandelson, who previously served as UK’s ambassador to the United States, resigned in disgrace from UK’s House of Lords and the Labour Party, and he’s been arrested.”

“Former Prime Minister of Norway, Thorbjørn Jagland, has been charged.”

“But we don’t see any charges, arrests, or investigations in the United States.”

“What do we see?”

“We see our FBI director celebrating in the locker room at the Olympics overseas.”

“We need justice.”

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Can we get this shared 10,000 times?

"War crimes don't hide sex crimes!"

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

With all of the horrors he's unleashing on the world, I know this is not the biggest deal, but he is such an unspeakable disgrace.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Markwayne Mullin could not remember if we were at war THIS WEEK.

His state has one of the highest crime rates in the country — with a murder rate 40% higher than California’s.

He literally tried to fight union workers during a hearing and told them to “shut your mouth.”

And said “I don’t want reality” at a Senate hearing about race.

This erratic, unstable man is now in charge of HOMELAND SECURITY.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: A clip of Donald Trump from 2024 is going mega viral: “I can tell you you’re not going to have a war with Iran with me as president.”

Truly curious if any MAGA voters are willing to admit they were played.

[(((DeanObeidallah))) @DeanObeidallah]

Here is MAGA leader Donald Trump today pivoting from dead soldiers killed in his illegal war to bragging about his new ballroom. This is real. It happened today. This is beyond embarrassing. This is what a sociopath with dementia looks like:

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Trump wins the prize for repugnance.

Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed "wartime president" and master of distraction, has reached a new low in moral depravity with his latest attack on Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the "P.T. Barnum of Ukraine."

This repugnant rhetoric is nothing more than a desperate attempt to mask his own catastrophic incompetence in every area—from foreign policy to military leadership to basic humanity. By shifting the blame for his own failures onto Zelenskyy and Ukraine, which has suffered four years of brutal Russian aggression, Trump exposes himself for what he truly is: a weak, evil, and utterly repugnant individual incapable of taking responsibility.

Trump has unleashed a war against Iran—without congressional approval, based on flimsy justifications that were already refuted by his own Pentagon briefings on the second day.
US soldiers dead, the Gulf region ablaze, Dubai a battlefield—and who's to blame? Not the man who pulled the trigger, but Biden and Zelenskyy, who supposedly "gave away" ammunition. This isn't just ridiculous, it's pathological. Trump, who boasts of having "rebuilt" the military, is implicitly admitting that his armed forces aren't even equipped for a "four- to five-week" conflict.
And instead of acknowledging his failures—such as underfunding ammunition production or chaotic planning—he shifts the blame to a nation fighting a genocide-prone aggressor.
Ukraine has received billions in aid since 2022 to defend itself, not to "cheat." Trump is twisting this to justify his own waste in "Epic Fury"—a war that's swallowing billions while he dismisses Ukraine as a "show."

The comparison to P.T. Barnum is particularly toxic and dehumanizing. Barnum, the charlatan who turned suffering into entertainment—that's Trump's code for: The Ukraine war is fake, the massacres in Bucha, the destroyed cities, the traumatized children? All a staged event to fleece "suckers" like Biden and thus America. This isn't just a lie; it's an insult to every victim of Russian terror.

Trump is dehumanizing an entire people who are heroically resisting in order to sell his own "strength." He, the man who eliminates Khamenei's successor without a plan for the consequences, poses as a "winner" while sending thousands to their deaths.

That's not strength; that's madness disguised as machismo.

People like Trump—incompetent, flawed, and cowardly—are the real charlatans. They build empires on lies, shift the blame onto the weak, and destroy everything they touch.

Zelenskyy is fighting for freedom; Trump is fighting only for his ego.

This rhetoric is not only repugnant, it's dangerous: it undermines alliances, emboldens aggressors like Putin, and betrays American values.

Trump doesn't deserve a platform; he deserves contempt. History will expose him as the ultimate "sucker"—the one who leads a country to ruin just to save himself.

Thanks, Regina @Sunnymica , for the tip and the template!

[Dean Withers @itsdeaann]

I know that the insane has become the normal, but we all need to pay attention to this:

According to members of Congress and independent reporting, Donald Trump illegally hid files alleging that he raped a child.

This is the biggest presidential scandal of your life.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Anne Applebaum: "Steve Witkoff has no experience with Russia or diplomacy. I fear he imagines a US-Russia pact where he, his son, Trump's family or their circle benefit personally.

It's disturbing that American foreign policy conducted not for the US, allies or world peace, but for private interests.

Putin knows Trump is vulnerable to such deals - that's why he keeps suggesting them.

Witkoff and Trump's entourage behave like Russians: capture the state, use it for personal wealth."

[House Judiciary Dems @HouseJudiciary]

Here's a fact check for our GOP colleagues: It was under the Biden Administration that Maxwell was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for her role in Epstein's child sex abuse and sex trafficking ring.

@RepRaskin sought to investigate the crazy plea deal that Trump's former Secretary of Labor gave to Epstein despite his heinous crimes. Democrats have pushed for the full release of the Epstein files.

Our record is clear: Democrats are fighting for transparency, fighting for justice for survivors and victims, and fighting to prevent human trafficking and child sexual abuse.

What are Republicans doing?

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

IMO...

1. Trump is eyeballs deep in Epstein.
2. Israel co-owns Trump along with Russia.
3. We are IN a recession, not entering one.
4. Trump has tanked the US economy.
5. Trump admin is breaking laws daily. Not norms. Laws.
6. We have normalized Trump's insanity since 2012.

[Piyush Mittal 🇺🇸🇺🇦🟧🌊🌈 @piyushmittal]

Things Trump has denied doing:
- having sex with Stormy Daniels
- extorting Zelenskyy
- asking GA for 11,780 votes
- inciting the insurrection
- stealing classified documents
- making a birthday card for Epstein
He was proven a liar every single time

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: A huge crowd has developed outside the Capitol in support of Epstein survivors and to demand the Epstein files receives a full vote in the Congress.

[Beth Fuller 🇺🇦 @Gingersnap195]

Let’s all help Deke help out Kyle, a super-talented young guitarist!

[Primitive Sounds @Primitive_Sound]

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