Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 19/05/2025"We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary." My latest drawing, based on a 1964 photo of Malcolm X in Egypt,commemorates the centenary of his birth tomorrow, May 19. 010
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 21/02/2025We are for certain reaching (and some would argue we are at) a point that, in whatever ways we can, we need to counter The Regime for true freedom and true justice and true democracy to prevail. 000
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 21/02/2025They're words we should all heed... especially as our executive branch continues on its unhinged power and money grab, and brazenly acts above the law, topped off with threats against those who have called out their large-scale criminality. 100
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Even with apparent legal progress, systemic racism continued under more covert guises. And now, under a regime that doesn't respect true rule of law (and certainly not justice), the proverbial hoods that more or less went underground have come back on in earnest. 100
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 21/02/2025If you know enough history, systemic racism that has continued worming its way further into our culture and has become somehow "acceptable" overtly by too many people in recent years, it's easy to understand where Malcolm X was coming from. 100
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Contrary to what Dear Leader tells us "officially," we are once again in the midst of Black History Month. And it needs to be amplified more than ever, not with what can seem like rote genuflection, but as a reminder of its underlying power. 100
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Today marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X on February 21, 1965. In commemoration and as a reminder that has become even more timely... www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNhQ...youtube.com"By Any Means Necessary": Watch Malcolm X’s Speech on Racism & Self-Defense at Audubon BallroomYouTube video by Democracy Now! 110
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 17/02/2025I guess this isn't the only one... "Moore credited non-profit literary activist group Pen America for bringing the ban to her attention. Pen America’s own Instagram post noted Kathleen Krull’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg picture book No Truth Without Ruth and Ellis Nutt’s Becoming Nicole were embargoed..." 000
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 17/02/2025And I'm sure that as always, The Cult is perfectly fine with this as well, and claiming it's "not a real ban" since it "only" applies to DoD schools (never minding that it is nonetheless A FREAKING BAN). 100
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Once again, from the "not easily triggered" crowd that values "rugged individualism." Like Moore, I'm not sure why the hell a children's book with a message of self-acceptance would be so controversial as to merit being banned from DoD schools. But I have a few guesses. variety.com/2025/film/ne...variety.comJulianne Moore in ‘Great Shock’ After Donald Trump Bans Her Children’s Book ‘Freckleface Strawberry’ From Schools: ‘I Can’t Help But Wonder What Is So Controversial’The Trump Administration has banned Julianne Moore's 2007 children's book 'Freckleface Strawberry' from schools operated by the Department of Defense. 120
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 15/02/2025As some of you know, I got back into drawing about a year ago. Back in August, some months before joining this platform, I finished this one, which is supposed to portray Taylor Swift with Valhalla burning in the background. Just felt like posting it on here for some reason... 000
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I guess the Bond villain similarities have careened into the parody already... 120
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" (1989 or 2020, which needs a third 2025 version) and Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" (or Bernstein's "Ode to Freedom" version, played after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989). 060
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 11/02/2025No shit, Sherlock. And what do US income taxes pay for? Fewer of those kinds of benefits plus a bloated military, along with supporting the genocide in Gaza. 030
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Can Denmark buy Michigan please? We're also a peninsula and have a smaller population (although still larger in both respects). Furthermore, we're more north than California and even closer to Canada than Greenland. 000
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 11/02/2025I'm a little surprised, given Crockett's other stances. But yeah, definitely not a time to worry about the perfect over the good. We need all the allies we can get, even if it is more centrist liberals. Way better than the "good enough leftists" bending the knee to appease right-wing "populists." 010
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I guess he conveniently forgot that Mexico took up basically the whole current southwestern US 200 years ago... 000
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 08/02/2025HOLY FUCK!!! I know it sounds paranoid, but here's the story of the inauguration of the Kennedy Center in 1971, and the premiere and its significance and who worried about the implications... leonardbernstein.com/works/view/1...leonardbernstein.comWorks | Works | Leonard BernsteinThe eclecticism of MASS's music reflects the multifaceted nature of Bernstein's career, with blues, rock, gospel, folk, Broadway and jazz idioms appearing side by side with 12-tone serialism, symphon... 000
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Speaking of Wagner, can we talk about how the "unofficial ban" has become sheer hypocrisy at this point? danielbarenboim.com/wagner-israe...danielbarenboim.comWagner, Israel and the PalestiniansThere is perhaps no other composer in history who sought to combine such obviously incompatible elements in his works. The qualities that make his supporters so enthusiastic are often the same ones th... 000
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I guess that means no more performances of Wagner, which is cold comfort to Wagner fans such as myself, given that there's at least one less authoritarian association... www.therestisnoise.com/2017/12/trum...therestisnoise.comTrump on WagnerAdmirers of the perpetually beleaguered art of Richard Wagner will be relieved to know that Donald Trump evidently has a low opinion of the composer. The passage above, dated Sept. 25, 1987, appears i... 100
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 08/02/2025OH, HELL NO! As bad as everything else is becoming, an authoritarian government (and especially Trump himself) insinuating itself into our cultural institutions sets off all kinds of alarm bells. Especially remembering how that turned out 90 years ago in Germany... www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...huffpost.comTrump Claims He's Installing Himself As Chairman Of The Kennedy Center 210
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 07/02/2025He's a genius on par with this one...media.tenor.coma cartoon of coyote and bugs bunny with the words permit me to introduce myself below themALT: a cartoon of coyote and bugs bunny with the words permit me to introduce myself below them 030
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 06/02/2025At this point, given how much crime they have committed with minimal consequence, I think the original scheme Ian Fleming had in mind for Goldfinger might have worked out after all. 000
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 06/02/2025And for anyone who thinks I'm exaggerating and trying to find a way to cope, that's only partly true. At the very least, we have elements of grand schemers like Goldfinger and Drax, aided and abetted over the years by Carver types, and all with the banality of Dominic Greene. 100
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 06/02/2025For years, I have believed that Trump, Musk, and their assortment of lackeys are like James Bond villains. And although there aren't exact matches, sadly, it's turning out to be even more true with just enough similarities. 100
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 06/02/2025As long as he (actually) obeys the Constitution and Andrew Olges' proposal doesn't work out... 000
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 06/02/2025So are they still doing the "unofficial" ban on Wagner in Israel? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rlE...youtube.comBlueprint for Ethnic Cleansing: Trump Proposes U.S. Take Over Gaza, Forcibly Remove All PalestiniansYouTube video by Democracy Now! 000
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 05/02/2025This analysis mentions some spoilers, but it provides insights on how we can bring some of those good old American values back again, and then some. 000
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Now that anti-woke is fast becoming the law of the land, it's time to go back to old-fashioned values. And that includes old-fashioned movies, like this classic from 80 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=waEc...youtube.comCasablanca | Cinema AntifaYouTube video by KyleKallgrenBHH 100
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Not to make light of everything that's been happening the past two weeks. But it's hard for me to shake the image of a clown car where they literally are passing around the steering wheel. And said clown car happens to be a Durango 95. 000
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Knowing that he's trolling a bunch of religious whackos who claim to be against any sexual activity outside of marriage and procreation purposes, hopefully he's not overplaying his hand. 010
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 02/02/2025And "hate" isn't "too strong of a word" in this instance. After all, we're just returning their energy. 030
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 02/02/2025In any case, it's tempting to imagine a fully-realized poster, which would fascinate retro-futurists who contemplate predictions about what could have become today... or what has become today with too many people not realizing it... 000
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Cerebral but cheap-looking. Earnest and intellectual. But perhaps a bit naive, despite the implied edginess of the prospective "R" rating (from a still-fresh MPAA after almost four decades of the Hays Code). 100
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Still, given the sketchy imagery and the handful of names attached to (by whatever overreaching and self-aggrandizing "artist" came up with the idea), I can only imagine how it would have ended up rendered onscreen... 100
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 02/02/2025This 1970s SciFi futurist concept, apparently a rough draft of a poster with the enigmatic title "Code Orange," appears to be one of the many prospective dystopian movies of the period that never got past the stage of conception. 100
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 30/01/2025And don't forget the "good enough leftists" who think Trump becoming president will "accelerate the revolution," even if it breaks a few eggs... metaphorically, of course, because they're getting more expensive... 0100
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 23/01/2025And two of those old white men (Magnuson and Long) were born in 1991 and 1994... 010
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 23/01/2025This is awful enough already, but the fact that one of my nieces (whom I've never met, unfortunately) lives in SC makes this personal. I've become more and more convinced right-wingers are psychopaths just itching to find pretenses to harm anyone they hate, up to and including murder. 010
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Speaking of blue skies... www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpO...youtube.comDr. Strangelove • We'll Meet Again • Vera LynnYouTube video by HD Film Tributes 000
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Unlike Elon, at least Dr Strangelove tried to tone it down, despite his "prior associations." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzdd...youtube.comDr. Strangelove (8/8) Movie CLIP - Living Underground (1964) HDYouTube video by Movieclips 100
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 18/01/2025They believe there is no right or wrong, and hide behind religion (in particular Christianity) to "justify" it... 010
Jason Neal @jase313.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Leftists are the theoreticians of postmodernism, but right-wingers are the practitioners. 000
