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Alex Sturbaum
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Folk dance music and chorus songs to bolster the revolution. (they/them)
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Introducing myself since I've just joined this platform! I'm a contra dance musician, folk singer, songwriter, and performer based in Olympia, WA. Member of Countercurrent and The Engine Room. Proudly queer and nonbinary. Here to rip some good tunes and to fight for a better world.
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Elect a Republican, start a war. Every Republican president since i was a child has started a new war.
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Regardless of how one feels about the Catholic Church or about Pope Francis, now is a time to come together to claim that JD Vance killed him
TransTrad registration is open today!
Countercurrent spring tour, let's go!
hey, that's cruel and mean. That boa did nothing to deserve such treatment.
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governments should spend money, literally all their fucking money. on taking care of the people from whom they got the money. on building cool shit for the people from whom they got the money to use, like highways and public works. this is real easy

how can these people be so bad at this
We should reject outright the framing that the answer is to cut spending, that it needs to be cut. Even giving in to that is playing into conservatives’ hands, letting them set the edges of the debate.
Welker to Slotkin: "Democrats were in charge for four years. You were in Congress at the time. Why didn't Democrats do more to cut government spending when they were in charge?"
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once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!
New Countercurrent Album out today! Get it on bandcamp, or streaming if that's your thing!
Flow, by Countercurrent
15 track album
countercurrentmusic.bandcamp.com
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Today's the day — economic boycott. If you can manage it, try to only buy essentials for a while, & avoid buying from big companies...
"other than that, mrs. lincoln, how are you enjoying the play?"
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Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
flattered and also feeling old :P
@haydenstern.bsky.social is one of the best artists in the biz!
My band, Countercurrent, has a brand new record up for pre-order! You can find it at www.countercurrentmusic.bandcamp.com/album/flow
Stay tuned for some Very Exciting Countercurrent News
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This tweet cracked me the fuck up until 5 minutes later when I found out it was factual
Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing
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There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.
oh no! I was counting on those 52 cents
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I keep getting texts and messages asking me why most Democrats have rolled over and played dead.

I’m as baffled as everyone else.

They’re not going to gain anything by being quiet or becoming MAGA Lite.

All they’re doing is making sure they share the blame when this all goes south.
Anxious Nation Waits For Democratic Party To Do Something, Anything In Face of Republican Assault On Life And Liberty
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you are living through the collapse of the system of government that has governed the united states for the entirety of its existence. that collapse appears to be happening literally tonight. react accordingly