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TODAY: (cw for police brutality if you choose to click the link) police attacked and arrested an econ professor who came across them brutalizing a protester at emory this morning. it cannot be understated how horrifying the rapid escalation of police violence on us college campuses is.

#us politics

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Columbia is a fucking joke

#columbia university

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Johnny nooooo be careful Art Donaldson is gonna smack you noooo!!!!

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Thanks for tagging me <3. I couldn't decide on a favorite playlist so I'm just going with my liked songs

Tagging @finch-connor @scentedinksandwhackedseals @between-myself-and-me @emergingghost @morbidgf @must-be-mythtaken if you want to <3

shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals <3

@booksbluegurl here

omg Tanishka hiiii! thank you sm for the ask <3 I have a lot of fav playlists so i just picked the spotify on-repeat one and put it on shuffle xD

I hope you don't mind me turning this into a tag game rather than sending in asks? np tags: @pianistbynight @zzzzzestforlife @winryrockbellwannabe @momoxstudies @gajina @socksgrowssocks @chaoticstudyprincess @rain-is-studying @anime-academia @valiantcoffeelove @solarsapphic @iwillsurvivecollege @dearestkong

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PHOEBE BRIDGERS “Making of the Met Gala”  |  May 1st 2023

#phoebe bridgers

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Columbia student flashes the peace sign after being beaten by riot police at an antiwar demonstration, April 1968

via reddit

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im not a very patriotic woman but i nonetheless whole-heartedly support every drive-through employee’s constitutional right to be blazed out of their fuckin gourd

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This is quite literally textbook fascism

#palestine #us politics

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So what would actually require the exercise of power? If providing arms to continue the ongoing genocide doesn't fit the bill then what does?

And the "reminder to follow international law" while yet again failing to hold anyone accountable for violating it is just pathetic

#palestine #icj #nicaragua #germany #israel

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a lot of the coverage of the Palestinian genocide is focusing on the US student protests and the narrative is constantly in danger of shifting away from what the protests are actually about and a lot of the language is now speaking in terms of police brutality, silencing of free speech, etc. It's not a radical thing to say that this isn't exactly helpful to the Palestinian cause if the actual reasons for the protests aren't constantly front and center. A lot of people have already made this point. I do not think the genie can necessarily be put back in the bottle with how the protests and the police reaction to them are entering the public consciousness of the USian people. A lot of people are or will become aware of these protests through the lense of these simply being instances of police brutality, and police brutality is a critical issue that many USamericans are very passionate about thus making it difficult to reframe the context of these images of police slamming white professors into pavement towards awareness of Israels decades long illegal occupation and systematic and indiscriminate displacement and murder of Palestinians. What I feel needs to be done is try to reframe these images flooding the internet not *away* from issues of police brutality and homesoil fascism, but in the wider context of imperialist governments taking the lessons they learn oppressing "foreign peoples" and turning them inwards. That police brutality is not disconnected from imperialist mass murder. That the one thing connecting the assaulted USian protester and the trans israeli denied gender affirming care for refusing to serve in the fascist Israeli military and the Palestinian child buried alive for the crime of being Palestinian... the one thing connecting them is that, sooner or later, they are all victims of power. Our rights are granted to us inequitably, unevenly, and are just as quickly stripped away when we do not serve the interests of fascist power. We are either a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian, not the innocent or the guilty but the human being Palestinian, is murdered because she can not be useful to the state while she is still breathing. She can never have the "privilege" of being a tool. I'll say it again: We outside of Palestine who can go to protests, who have families, who are able bodied, who can work, who can keep their head down or speak without immediate retaliation have the "honor" of choosing to be a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian has no choice.

There will always be an armed cop ready to arrest you and kill your brother as long as there is a bomb ready to drop on the heads of Palestinian children. Fascism trickles up and inward.

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we need to go back to dvds guys. we need to all agree on this and make it happen. we need video stores back NOW

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Dea Matrona is finally getting (tho very slowly) more popular I'm so happy for them

#2 more days till the album drops #dea matrona

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I don't actually know very much about Taylor Swift so take all of this with a grain of salt and also keep in mind I'm not claiming to be correct this is just what I think based on what I do know. Anyway

I really do think taylor swift has a level of insecurity about her vocals which you can kind of hear in the progression of her music; how she tried incorporating more complex ad libs into her final choruses on like reputation or whatever and she isn't doing that anymore which of course is down to the styles she's playing with lately and it becomes kind of a chicken-egg thing (is she doing that less because she's using different styles or is she using different styles so she can do that less) but I also think this is reflected in her emphasis on herself as a writer/storyteller and her pivot into less vocally-demanding genres. (Inhale) I also think you can hear this in her commitment to style over technique, leaning into diphthongs, making no effort to alleviate the tension she holds in her throat; it's a genius business strategy because there isn't anything generic about her voice. Her sound is distinctive and that helped her build and maintain her recognizability. I also think she has spent her career being scrutinized and criticized by people who are looking for her weak points, which of course her raw vocal ability IS a weak point (LET ME BE CLEAR I'm not saying she's a BAD singer I just think she doesn't have enough raw vocal talent to have built a career on pure vocals and I think she knows that. She has a lot of vocal strengths but that isn't what this post is about), and the feedback loop this eventually created is that she thought she had to look to her writing and lyricism to stand out as an artist, which has also been important to her success but I think recently she's pivoted wayyyy too far and is trying to completely rely on what she and other people think is her greatest strength when really it's not her greatest strength at all. Her greatest strength is in the ability to make a tight pop song with accessible progressions, concise hard-hitting lyrics that make no attempt at being overly poetic, and a STRONG MELODIC HOOK. She has abandoned even trying to compose an earworm and I think that's one of her biggest problems. We need to ban her from streaming platforms and make her reliant on getting on the radio again

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everyone's got that one homie who zealously adheres to his inflexible code of honor even though it has long since become a burden to him

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I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

#us politics

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Look at that thats pretty cool

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