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S Soriano

@ssoriano.bsky.social
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Writer Editor Publisher. Record Time magazine. Soriano’s Circus (substack)

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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Fighting back: ICE protests and Bob Weir open.substack.com/pub/scottsor...
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Fighting ICE, Fighting Back, and Bob
As they did when police murdered George Floyd, the people of Minneapolis are out in the street battling Trump’s attack on freedom and hostility towards life, this time in protest of ICE’s execution of...
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Civic space or worker pods is the choice the billionaire class is presenting us, metaphorically and IRL. open.substack.com/pub/scottsor...
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You Can Have This or You Can Have That: Civic Space vs Worker Pods
This morning, I found myself in south Berkeley with an hour to kill.
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Trump has a new crush, Madge preps for the future, and the contenders for the GOP throne start to uh something open.substack.com/pub/scottsor...
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Read the Room, My Friends, Not Your Fears...
The Republican crack-up is happening right now. How it plays out, I dunno, but it is something to watch!
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Dear Leader dumps the same amount of cash on a failed vanity parade as the GOP Congress cut from research on military veterans’ spinal injuries. And Americans responded by giving him a big beautiful buttfull of FU. open.substack.com/pub/scottsor...
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A Parade to Poop On...and Marches Across the Land!
Well, last weekend’s “parades” went as good as they could, considering that the “big” one “celebrating” Donald Trump’s birthday shouldn’t have happened at all.
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
A couple thousand people marching down Valencia in San Francisco’s Mission District.
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The stack of Record Time No 3 is getting smaller by the day. Down to 350 copies after just two weeks. Get yours now! record-time.org #records #recordtime #recordcollecting #nowplaying #musicmagazine #zines
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RECORD TIME
is a print magazine that covers obscure, unusual, forgotten and neglected records. It’s not selling anything other than used records get passed over a hundred times, but should have bought for a ba…
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Record Time No 3 is now available at Dog Eared Books in San Francisco, the only store in the world where it is available (until Wednesday).
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Record Time News: It shipped from St Louis today, should be in San Francisco this week. With no delays I should be shipping it out next week. record-time.org #recordtime #zines #musicmags #recordcollecting
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RECORD TIME
is a print magazine that covers obscure, unusual, forgotten and neglected records. It’s not selling anything other than used records get passed over a hundred times, but should have bought for a ba…
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
If Dem leadership has failed to protect us from Trump’s rampage because they are feeble & out of touch, we desperately need new blood. @davidhogg.bsky.social is right in challenging Dems to get their shit right scottsoriano.substack.com/p/time-to-pl...
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Time to Play Hardball with Democrats Who Won't
"Don't change generals during war" is bullshit not successful military leader has ever believed and more...
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The final bound proof of Record Time No 3 just arrived! Should be a bit more than a week before the pallet lands. Order yours today! record-time.org
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
At the printer, the new issue of Record Time. Preorders coming soon. record-time.org
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Trump’s attack on culture will fail, because right wing attacks on culture don’t just fail, they inspire us to resist & build our own things outside their control. See punk hip hop raves etc Here’s some history scottsoriano.substack.com/p/attack-cul...
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Attack Culture? Go for it, Don! I'll Watch You Lose!
Downbeat, the legendary jazz magazine, reports that the White Citizens Council (WCC) told New Orleans radio station WNOE that they were targeting rock & roll, specifically that “radio stations and juk...
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
From the Super Bowl to England’s Poll Tax Riots, covering a lot of ground today scottsoriano.substack.com/p/time-for-a...
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Time for a Super Bowl of Dissent
Today, sports is the jumping off point to something more important, so please read through...
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Orifice flow is what makes the man: the insanity of Trump’s water stunt in California. Bad bad stuff scottsoriano.substack.com/p/moronic-ma...
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Moronic Madman Makes Water
Time to lean about Donald Trump and orifice flow...trust me, I just threw up in my mouth after writing those words...
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Monday’s new darling was DeepSeek a Chinese AI firm who tanked Wall Street Big Tech by revealing it can do things far cheaper than the big boys, deflating a lot of Big Tech hype & PR BS, duking the AI scam. More scottsoriano.substack.com/p/ai-blows-u...
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AI Blows Up the Bullshit Around AI
Big Tech hype is a huge problem...until it is exposed...
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I read a ton of history so it gets frustrating when I read people claiming that this is the worst of times. Yeah things aren’t good but that’s average for the world. What’s also average is the people fight back to make for a better world & mostly succeed. scottsoriano.substack.com/p/just-ask-m...
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Just Ask Moses: We've Been Fighting This Fight for a Very Long Time
The Black Death, Peasant Revolts, Bullies vs Rebels and much more...
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Yesterday was a fucker & a pompous one. The extravagance makes it difficult to get perspective, like what we saw was largely BIG ceremony. To counter, I have a story of a small action that made a significant difference, activism any of us can pull off. scottsoriano.substack.com/p/making-cha...
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Making Change, That's You & Me, Baby, And It Can Be Done
On this disconcerting day, we put MLK into (human) context with a story about a small but significant victory that anyone could have pulled off...
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The dog & I were wandering around the neighborhood & we came upon a guy sitting on the stoop of the unmarked Institute of Illegal Images, the world’s largest collection of LSD blotter art. We were invited down the rabbit hole so of course we went. scottsoriano.substack.com/p/tripping-o...
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Oh fuck Musk & Trump. LA Wildfires can’t be blamed on any single person. This was more than a century in making, born of decisions based on greed & implemented through corruption (which both men would have engaged in back when) scottsoriano.substack.com/p/fire-a-bit...
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FIRE! A bit about the age-old origin of the Los Angeles Wildfires
To get to Amy F.’s parents’ house, we’d hop on Business 80 in Sacramento, segue onto 80 East.
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Trump is an endless source of nonsensical bullshit & always has been and yet even when he rambles about renaming stuff he can’t rename and taking over countries that no one will let him attack, people panic. Why react to him with anything more than a yawn? scottsoriano.substack.com/p/time-to-st...
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Time to Strap on Your Bullshit Detector
Do it now or the next four years are going to hurt much more than they have to...
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The Big Tech “great capitulation” to Trump narrative is fucking absurd. Trump is extremely transactional. Same with the Tech Lords. All of them are extremely greedy. None of them are naive or frightened. This is the Grand Negotiation! My lord. scottsoriano.substack.com/p/the-great-...
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The Great Capitulation? No! The Grand Negotiation: Big Tech, Donald Trump, & the Art of the Deal
John Kenneth Galbraith defined the conventional wisdom as “ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability.
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Luigi is the sexy story but the fate of our postal service is more important. The GOP & BIg Biz have been after it for decades & now they are going in for the kill. open.substack.com/pub/scottsor...
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Blink & You Lose It: The Ongoing War Against the Postal Service
Ultimately this is more important than Luigi Mangione, who I will get to in time...
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Look over there! It’s a dancing monkey! His name is Elon and he has a friend named Vivek, who is also playing ape. They have a shiny new toy that they want you to scare you with. It’s called DOGE & it exists in name only. Let’s get real about this crap. open.substack.com/pub/scottsor...
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Elon Musk is a Dancing Monkey and DOGE is a Mirage
Don’t get fooled again…
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Listen: We can do this. Yesterday, South Korean President Yoon declared martial law, in what seems to be an attempted coup setting himself up to be dictator. He had the backing of the military. He suspended parliament and sent troops to the assembly to prevent parliament from meeting. 1/4
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
While I am opposed to the death penalty… www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Vietnamese tycoon faces scramble to raise billions to avoid death sentence
Truong My Lan must repay three-quarters of $12bn she embezzled from bank in a case that shocked the country
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
There’s nothing not good about this, especially the cameo. youtu.be/JOAzuqngOYo?...
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Cindy & Bert - Der Hund Von Baskerville
YouTube video by dionnewarpig
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Absolutely nothing wrong with tuning Trump out. You don’t need to hear his voice or look at him. You can always look at transcripts of his speeches or pressers. You can & should pay attention to policy, w/o his presence. Ignore reporting on his trolling. Don’t consume nonsense. Same w/ Musk etc
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The ideal role of US Border Control is to keep the worst of the worst from coming into the country, as they did here. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/u...
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U.S. Border Agents Seize 3,000 Fake Gibson Guitars
They would have been worth nearly $18 million if they were genuine, making it the largest counterfeit instrument seizure in history, officials said.
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The liberal-left is great at analysis but lousy at comms. We suck at framing, an essential political tactic that the right has mastered. hell, we struggle to identify and nullify frames. Today’s Soriano’s Circus dives into that. Free read, share, subscribe scottsoriano.substack.com/p/how-we-tal...
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How We Talk About Politics (and Life) Matters
What we talk about when we talk about politics is important, but how we talk about politics and political ideas is the key to whether we are being persuasive or not, or even understood.
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Headline: Grumpy man yells at sky! scottsoriano.substack.com/p/a-bunch-of...
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A Bunch of Pissing on Stuff that Needs to be Pissed On
I’ve spent the past week fighting off some mystery bug and I’m a bit cranky.
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A week before the election, leaving Sacramento, I ran into a Trump vehicle caravan. My snark went to annoyance and, as I thought about it, my annoyance spread to a very worthy candidate and it wasn't Trump. More on my reaction. Plus the Modern Lovers. open.substack.com/pub/scottsor...
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Let's Drive!
A cruise through the election wreckage of 2024
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S Soriano @ssoriano.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
We’ve met the enemy and it’s not us but we certainly fuck ourselves over a bunch, with the help of others and in ways we don’t realize scottsoriano.substack.com/p/trump-is-a...
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Trump is Already Trying to Crush Us. His Success Depends on Us.
Let's talk about tactics and power...
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