Chris Andersen

Music. Culture. History. Dad. Optimistic Curmudgeon. He/Him.

[Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @CJPME]

In Montreal outside of the English federal debate, we are here again to remind party leaders that they can’t hide from Israel’s genocide in Gaza. By arming Israel, Canada is complicit. https://t.co/NfyxhskoXd

[Chris Andersen @Bodhidrop]

@Mivasair Do you know of any other sitting NDP MPs to endorse this? Ones seeking reelection that is.

[Rabbi David Mivasair🔥 @Mivasair]

My candidate, MP Matthew Green, is the only candidate in all four #HamOnt ridings to sign the #VotePalestine pledge.

["Lou"ReedTyranny @nakedfoul]

Speaking of the Beatles, their best song is this 13-minute version of "Helter Skelter" that sounds like Faust.
https://t.co/ohqNZSPEv7

[Chris Andersen @Bodhidrop]

@nakedfoul Hey cool ! This is interesting and a very fun listen . Thanks !

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated on this day in 1983.

He became a target of right-wing violence for his courageous struggle against poverty and US-backed right-wing repression: https://t.co/pXdUWAPYFC

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Fixed it.

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 23 Mar 1953 singer, songwriter & former Black Panther Yvette Marie Stevens, better known as Chaka Khan, was born in Chicago. Joined the BPP aged 14, spoke at rallies and worked on their free breakfast for schools program. Learn more about the BPP: https://t.co/TRj1F5wPUU

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

White feminists won’t shut up about Handmaids Tale, while remaining silent about a far worse dystopia in Gaza

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Black Saturday: The Day the United States Ceased to Be a Constitutional Democracy

The Moment Democracy Ceased to Function

🧵1/10: Saturday, March 15, 2025, may have seemed unremarkable to most Americans. But in time, history will remember it as Black Saturday—the moment the United States ceased to function as a constitutional democracy.

For the first time in modern American history, a sitting president openly defied a direct federal court order—and nothing happened. No intervention. No enforcement. No consequences.

A legal ruling was issued, and the White House simply ignored it.

The White House’s Decision: Power Over Law

Inside the White House, the decision was not about law—it was about power.

A federal judge ruled against the administration. The debate inside Trump’s team was not whether the ruling was legal, but whether they could get away with ignoring it. They decided they could. And they were right.

This was not a clash between equal branches of government. It was the moment the judiciary was exposed as powerless. The courts do not have an army. They rely on compliance.

But a court that cannot enforce its rulings is not a court—it is a suggestion box.

And a presidency that can ignore the courts without consequence is no longer constrained by law—it is an untouchable executive.

Trump did not declare the end of judicial authority in a speech.

He demonstrated it in practice.

This is how democratic systems collapse—not with a single act, but with the normalization of defiance, the expectation that a ruling can simply be brushed aside.
https://t.co/h8GGvIhtQV

[Chris Andersen @Bodhidrop]

@DonBreithaupt @turnitup211off I understand.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Assembly line electrician, trade union activist, and socialist-feminist theorist Clara Fraser was born on this day in 1923.

[Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe]

Jimmy Carter set the stage for student deportations over 50 years ago when he threatened to deport Iranians over their campus activism in the 1970s.

Will Teague and I discuss it here:
https://t.co/i8SsCqPUdo

[Chris Andersen @Bodhidrop]

@DonBreithaupt @turnitup211off Thanks ! Really liked this one ! (Well, have enjoyed all the 33 1/3rd series, but this one had a bit of a differnt style to it.) Much appreciated.

[Claudio Skydog @CPapasergio]

March 11, 1968 that time the GRATEFUL DEAD opened for CREAM at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, CA and it was also the first time Tom Constanten sat in with the Dead
🎨 Jim Ford

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

New York city rises up for Mahmoud Khalil, leader of the pro-Palestine student rallies on Columbia university campus wrongly abducted by ICE

[Martin's Music @XMartinsMusicX]

Celebrating Mark E. Smith on his Birthday 🖤

Drop Your Favourite The Fall tracks ⬇️

i'll start with 'Big New Prinz' (1988)

[Chris Andersen @Bodhidrop]

@SVG__Collection Both great , but, in my heart and personal cosmology, Maggot Brain !