Richard Johnson

Independent artist musician Improviser & Director/Creative Producer/Curator of the annual SoundOut Festivals since 2009. Part of the Psithurism wind trio.

[Richard Johnson @RichardSoundOut]

The SoundOut festival coming to you on the 2 - 4 February 2024 @Canberra Drill Hall Gallery ANU. It is support by the Australian government through Creative Australia its arts funding and advisory body…. #freeimprovisation #freejazz #experimentalmusician #sounddrawing

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: President Biden gives a hilariously brutal response when asked in an interview what he thinks Donald Trump could possibly do well if he gets a second term.

This has MAGA world howling with rage...

"I ask this question in an effort to show the younger generation that we have to coexist so in the event that former President Trump wins this election, what is something you feel he will do well?" asked interviewer Speedy Morman.

Biden paused to carefully consider the question, then gave his blunt response—

"I’m not being facetious. I can’t think of a single thing," replied Biden. "I'm serious! Look at what his objective is. It is totally anti-democratic. He says that he wants to be a dictator on day one, he means it."

"He says he will not recognize the outcome of the next election," Biden continued. "I beat him by seven million votes and he went to I think twenty appeals to the courts, all the way to the Supreme Court.

"Not one court said there was a single scintilla of evidence that he had. And what did he do then?" asked Biden. "January 6th and he encouraged people to go up and riot. Policemen were killed. People were wounded. People were hurt. Place was smashed up."

"What did he do? He sat there in the dining room off of the Oval Office, watched it for three hours, didn't say a damned thing!" Biden said. "And now he says if he loses there'll be a bloodbath? Name me a president in American history who said anything like that. One, in all of American history, name me one."

Well said Mr. President! A second Trump term would be a historic disaster for America, one our democracy might not survive.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you think that Biden nailed it — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: https://t.co/HnJzSKjCwX

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[The Jazz Estate @thejazzestate]

Thelonious Monk performing “Blue Monk” with Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums live in Norway, 1966.

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

Support the @NoThanksBoycott app. Zi0nistz are trying to destroy it. 💚👊

[Richard Johnson @RichardSoundOut]

Please Help & Stop the Execution of Toomaj Salehi in Iran! https://t.co/Jxaas24dqS via @ChangeGER

[Richard Johnson @RichardSoundOut]

Reunite Peggy and Molly: Don't Break Their 4-Year Bond - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/h8JfneIqHv via @ChangeAUS

[Richard Johnson @RichardSoundOut]

Demand Harsher Sentencing for Sexual Assault Offenders - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/Xkh1DLSaL1 via @ChangeAUS

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Donald Trump’s son-in-law is embroiled in scandal as it’s revealed that his shady investment firm is financed almost entirely by foreign investors.

And it gets so much worse…

The investors in question are largely individuals that Kushner dealt with while in Trump’s administration. In other words, it looks very much like he traded favors for money.

Of the $3 billion that Kushner’s investment firm “Affinity Partners” controls, almost 99% of it is from foreign sources according to an SEC filing.

To date, Infinity has made 10 investments worth roughly $1.2 billion, many of them in foreign companies.

It’s time for a full investigation. The corruption is right out in the open.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you demand a full federal probe into Kushner’s business — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: https://t.co/HnJzSKjCwX

[The Jazz Estate @thejazzestate]

Remembering the great Billie Holiday who was born this week in 1915. Nicknamed “Lady Day”, she is considered one of the best jazz vocalists of all time.

With an instinctive sense of musical structure and a deep knowledge of jazz and blues, Holiday developed a singing style that was deeply moving and individual. She was known for her dramatic intensity, which could render the most banal lyric profound. Among the songs identified with her were “Strange Fruit,” “Fine and Mellow,” “The Man I Love,” “Billie’s Blues,” “God Bless the Child,” and “I Wished on the Moon.

Here, she is performing “Now or Never” with the Count Basie Sextet.

[Richard Johnson @RichardSoundOut]

At Sydney’s fruit and veg market, buying in bulk costs barely 30% of supermarket prices https://t.co/UBG2oyIAOR

[The Jazz Estate @thejazzestate]

John Coltrane performing “Naima” with McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums live in France, 1965.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Wow.

Here’s Robert De Niro’s full statement about how Donald Trump should NEVER be president again:

“I’ve spent a lot of time studying bad men.  I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty.

Yet there’s something different about Donald Trump. When I look at him, I don’t see a bad man. Truly.

I see an evil one.

Over the years, I’ve met gangsters here and there. This guy tries to be one, but he can’t quite pull it off. There’s such a thing as “honor among thieves.” Yes, even criminals usually have a sense of right and wrong. 

Whether they do the right thing or not is a different story — but — they have a moral code, however warped.

Donald Trump does not. He’s a wannabe tough guy with no morals or ethics. No sense of right or wrong. No regard for anyone but himself — not the people he was supposed to lead and protect, not the people he does business with, not the people who follow him, blindly and loyally, not even the people who consider themselves his “friends.” He has contempt for all of them.

We New Yorkers got to know him over the years that he poisoned the atmosphere and littered our city with monuments to his ego.  We knew first hand that this was someone who should never be considered for leadership.  We tried to warn the world in 2016.

The repercussions of his turbulent presidency divided America and rattled New York City beyond imagination.  Remember how we were jolted by crisis in early 2020, as a virus swept the world.

We lived with Donald Trump’s bombastic behavior every day on the national stage, and we suffered as we saw our neighbors piling up in body bags.

The man who was supposed to protect this country put it in peril, because of his recklessness and impulsiveness. It was like an abusive father ruling the family by fear and violent behavior.  That was the consequence of New York’s warning getting ignored. Next time, we know it will be worse.

Make no mistake: the twice-impeached, 4-time indicted Donald Trump is still a fool. But we can’t let our fellow Americans write him off like one. Evil thrives in the shadow of dismissive mockery, which is why we must take the danger of Donald Trump very seriously.

So today we issue another warning. From this place where Abraham Lincoln spoke — right here in the beating heart of New York — to the rest of America:
This is our last chance.

Democracy won’t survive the return of a wannabe dictator.

And it won’t overcome evil if we are divided.

So what do we do about it?  I know I’m preaching to the choir here.  What we’re doing today is valuable, but we have to take today into tomorrow – take it outside these walls.   We have to reach out to the half of our country who have ignored the hazards of Trump and, for whatever reason, support elevating him back into the White House. 

They’re not stupid, and we must not condemn them for making a stupid choice.  Our future doesn’t just depend on us. It depends on them.

Let’s reach out to Trump’s followers with respect.  Let’s not talk about “democracy.”  “Democracy” may be our holy grail, but to others it is just a word, a concept, and in their embrace of Trump, they’ve already turned their backs on it. 

Let’s talk about right and wrong.  Let’s talk about humanity. 

Let’s talk about kindness.  Security for our world. 

Safety for our families. 

Decency. 

Let’s welcome them back. 

We won’t get them all, but we can get enough to end the nightmare of Trump, and fulfill the mission of this “Stop Trump Summit.”

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

How incredible is this?

“The famous Italian diver Enzo Maiorca dove into the sea of ​​Syracuse and was talking to his daughter Rossana who was aboard the boat. Ready to go in, he felt something slightly hit his back.

He turned and saw a dolphin. Then he realized that the dolphin did not want to play but to express something. The animal dove and Enzo followed.

At a depth of about 12 meters, trapped in an abandoned net, there was another dolphin. Enzo quickly asked his daughter to grab the diving knives.

Soon, the two of them managed to free the dolphin, which, at the end of the ordeal, emerged, issued an "almost human cry" (describes Enzo). (A dolphin can stay under water for up to 10 minutes, then it drowns.)

The released dolphin was helped to the surface by Enzo, Rosana and the other dolphin. That’s when the surprise came: she was pregnant!

The male circled them, and then stopped in front of Enzo, touched his cheek (like a kiss), in a gesture of gratitude and then they both swam off.

Enzo Maiorca ended his speech by saying: “Until man learns to respect and speak to the animal world, he can never know his true role on Earth.”

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🚨 Gaza: “A Genocide in the Making?” South Africa sues Israel at the ICJ over alleged genocide. Over 23,000 Palestinians dead. The world must act NOW! Sign the petition to urge global leaders to support an end to the bloodshed. #Gaza https://t.co/YqjeSYcu8S

[Dr. Jennifer Cassidy @OxfordDiplomat]

The IDF attacking journalist Mustafa Kharouf. He is now suffering from a brain injury.

The number of journalists killed during Israel’s war with Hamas, is more than any other conflict in more than 30 years.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

“A window onto Hell.” Remarkable reporting of Israel’s war on children.

[Bob Brown Foundation @BobBrownFndn]

BBF’s court action halts logging of Swift Parrot forest - The logging should never have been authorised and should have stopped when the critically-endangered Swift Parrots were recorded in the coup. We say this logging was, and is, unlawful #politas

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[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Oh my God. A student just called out a Moms for Liberty founder and school board member after it was revealed she had a threesome while slandering LGBTQ people for “sexual immorality.” https://t.co/VWsgvYLDuG