Eric Beaumont (Eric Blowtorch)
@ericblowtorch.bsky.social
Musician/DJ/writer/paralegal
In 2007, when Chrysler fired 12,000 workers, we wrote this because it felt more than ominous. We all know what happened the following year. And the people responsible called themselves the proper stewards of our tax dollars. And here we are. Again.
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12,000 Criminals, by Eric Blowtorch and the Welders
from the album The Alphabet
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November 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
In 2007, when Chrysler fired 12,000 workers, we wrote this because it felt more than ominous. We all know what happened the following year. And the people responsible called themselves the proper stewards of our tax dollars. And here we are. Again.
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“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians,” says Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi. “Only about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime."
The Forgotten Captives: Israel Still Imprisoning 9,000 Palestinians Even After Hostage Deal
“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians, in what it calls security prisoners or detainees,” says Sari Bashi, an Israel...
www.democracynow.org
October 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians,” says Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi. “Only about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime."
Got Your Back, by Lincoln Arcade Singers
3 track album
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October 6, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Trump’s regime is deploying unaccountable masked men into the hearts of our communities to spread fear.
We must stand together against fascist ICE raids. Join an event near you for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
We must stand together against fascist ICE raids. Join an event near you for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls
Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...
people.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Trump’s regime is deploying unaccountable masked men into the hearts of our communities to spread fear.
We must stand together against fascist ICE raids. Join an event near you for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
We must stand together against fascist ICE raids. Join an event near you for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "He's a wartime president. He's the head of a war party. War on women. War on voting rights. War on Hispanics. A war on this state. War on institutions. Now he wants war on history."
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
August 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "He's a wartime president. He's the head of a war party. War on women. War on voting rights. War on Hispanics. A war on this state. War on institutions. Now he wants war on history."
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1/ "We’re on the edge of the most far-reaching technological & economic transition in 250 yrs—since we began burning the coal + gas + oil that’s killing us now. Energy from the sun (& from the wind, just another form of solar power) is now cheaper than any other power."
Free link.
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Free link.
archive.ph/kYEn5
July 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
1/ "We’re on the edge of the most far-reaching technological & economic transition in 250 yrs—since we began burning the coal + gas + oil that’s killing us now. Energy from the sun (& from the wind, just another form of solar power) is now cheaper than any other power."
Free link.
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Free link.
archive.ph/kYEn5
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Isaiah has been dragged to the ground and arrested inside of the Texas State Capitol for speaking out against Greg Abbott and Donald Trump’s illegal gerrymandering. We are waiting for more information as it develops.
July 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Isaiah has been dragged to the ground and arrested inside of the Texas State Capitol for speaking out against Greg Abbott and Donald Trump’s illegal gerrymandering. We are waiting for more information as it develops.
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The speech Republicans are still seething over
July 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The speech Republicans are still seething over
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WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
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July 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Republicans have given up on governing for the American people and are all-in on serving their wealthy masters. That’s why we’re focused on training one million Americans — this is how we move forward as a movement in the face of Trump’s GOP that does not care about rules, laws, or the courts.
One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
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July 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Republicans have given up on governing for the American people and are all-in on serving their wealthy masters. That’s why we’re focused on training one million Americans — this is how we move forward as a movement in the face of Trump’s GOP that does not care about rules, laws, or the courts.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
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Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
June 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
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"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege."
-- Tommy Douglas
-- Tommy Douglas
June 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege."
-- Tommy Douglas
-- Tommy Douglas
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Black americans, for the millionth time, THIS IS OUR BUSINESS. some of our family members don’t have complete birth certificates, if any. should someone seek your ancestry before 1900 as proof of citizenship, you very well may be fucked.
If the Supreme Court makes *any* changes to birthright citizenship, it's a free pass to literally declare anyone a non-citizen and detain them indefinitely.
Like how would I "prove" my citizenship? It's not like I have the Ellis Island records from when my ancestors came over 130 years ago.
Like how would I "prove" my citizenship? It's not like I have the Ellis Island records from when my ancestors came over 130 years ago.
June 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Black americans, for the millionth time, THIS IS OUR BUSINESS. some of our family members don’t have complete birth certificates, if any. should someone seek your ancestry before 1900 as proof of citizenship, you very well may be fucked.
The only ICE we need.
June 27, 2025 at 5:45 AM
The only ICE we need.
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"Constitutional Sheriff" of Brevard County, FL, Wayne Ivey, threatens to kill anti-ICE demonstrators.
Brevard County, FL Sheriff Wayne Ivey warns what will happen to anti-ICE protesters
What he gets fundamentally wrong, is that the very Gestapo he’s “protecting” are NOT following rule & order by kidnapping immigrants
He is a propagandist shrouded in a LE costume
@btnewsroom.bsky.social on IG
What he gets fundamentally wrong, is that the very Gestapo he’s “protecting” are NOT following rule & order by kidnapping immigrants
He is a propagandist shrouded in a LE costume
@btnewsroom.bsky.social on IG
June 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"Constitutional Sheriff" of Brevard County, FL, Wayne Ivey, threatens to kill anti-ICE demonstrators.
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Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics.
Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.
Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.
June 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics.
Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.
Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.
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The way @padilla.senate.gov was treated today was unnecessary and outrageous.
It's an abuse of power and it must stop.
Now.
It's an abuse of power and it must stop.
Now.
Democratic Sen. Padilla forcibly removed from DHS press conference in Los Angeles
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed and handcuffed at a Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday.
www.npr.org
June 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The way @padilla.senate.gov was treated today was unnecessary and outrageous.
It's an abuse of power and it must stop.
Now.
It's an abuse of power and it must stop.
Now.
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If America makes it through, this great woman will someday be its president
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday that she signed an executive order seeking greater transparency from federal immigration officials. She said the city will submit regular Freedom of Information Act requests to find out who ICE is detaining and on what grounds.
June 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
If America makes it through, this great woman will someday be its president
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Incredibly chaotic scene here in downtown Los Angeles where LAPD have just charged protesters with horses while others fire munitions.
June 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Incredibly chaotic scene here in downtown Los Angeles where LAPD have just charged protesters with horses while others fire munitions.
“Every Mother’s Child” (E.Beaumont) for Sly.
The first two lines, verbatim, and the paraphrased line about every record being a spiral are from his book.
The first two lines, verbatim, and the paraphrased line about every record being a spiral are from his book.
June 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
“Every Mother’s Child” (E.Beaumont) for Sly.
The first two lines, verbatim, and the paraphrased line about every record being a spiral are from his book.
The first two lines, verbatim, and the paraphrased line about every record being a spiral are from his book.
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Minneapolis… San Diego… Folks are pushing back.
This is only going to get worse.
This is only going to get worse.
June 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Minneapolis… San Diego… Folks are pushing back.
This is only going to get worse.
This is only going to get worse.
I guess you can vote in this thing once a day.
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Vote for Eric Blowtorch to perform LIVE at the 2025 Global Citizen Festival, appear in Rolling Stone, and win $50,000!
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May 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I guess you can vote in this thing once a day.
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