Todd Penland
@toddpenland.bsky.social
Air Force veteran. Software engineer. Musician. Civil rights activist. I build systems, write songs, and speak up when power goes unchecked.
The removal of the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument by the Trump administration is not an isolated act. Read more...
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Eternal Vigilance Is Not Optional
The removal of the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument by the Trump administration is not an isolated act. This flag was not decoration. It was a symbol of our history and our struggle.…
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February 13, 2026 at 9:42 PM
The removal of the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument by the Trump administration is not an isolated act. Read more...
todd.penland.net/2026/02/13/e...
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Just me geeking out over another chance to combine my love of history and musical theater. Have a listen. Learn something new maybe? And enjoy the music!
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1787: An Imperfect Union todd.penland.net/albums/1787-...
1787: An Imperfect Union
1787: An Imperfect Union is a 14-song concept album about how the United States Constitution was actually formed: through secrecy, bargaining, leverage, exclusion, and conditional consent. Rather t…
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February 11, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Just me geeking out over another chance to combine my love of history and musical theater. Have a listen. Learn something new maybe? And enjoy the music!
1787: An Imperfect Union todd.penland.net/albums/1787-...
1787: An Imperfect Union todd.penland.net/albums/1787-...
This song has really taken off on SoundCloud. I wonder who it's about? ;-)
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I'm Not Shy
[Verse 1]
I’m quiet in rooms that don’t go anywhere
I listen longer than I speak
I don’t jump in just to prove I’m here
I wait until there’s something for me
Some people think that means I’m hiding
Or
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February 9, 2026 at 5:27 AM
This song has really taken off on SoundCloud. I wonder who it's about? ;-)
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Graven Images is a five album series documenting #evangelical #Christianity choosing power over faith. Scripture was known. The contradiction was clear. The damage and aftermath are recorded.
on.soundcloud.com/kP94KlAuIRzX...
on.soundcloud.com/kP94KlAuIRzX...
February 7, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Graven Images is a five album series documenting #evangelical #Christianity choosing power over faith. Scripture was known. The contradiction was clear. The damage and aftermath are recorded.
on.soundcloud.com/kP94KlAuIRzX...
on.soundcloud.com/kP94KlAuIRzX...
The #evangelical #Christian movement embraced the most vile leader in US history for one reason: #CultureWar wins. Winning mattered more than character, truth, or their claimed values.
They sold their souls for political power, choosing the illusion of control over persuasion.
They sold their souls for political power, choosing the illusion of control over persuasion.
February 7, 2026 at 4:52 AM
The #evangelical #Christian movement embraced the most vile leader in US history for one reason: #CultureWar wins. Winning mattered more than character, truth, or their claimed values.
They sold their souls for political power, choosing the illusion of control over persuasion.
They sold their souls for political power, choosing the illusion of control over persuasion.
The Cost of Caring is a new autobiographical album about a day in the life of an animal #rescuer (in my case #parrots). It could easily apply to anyone in a caring profession. It documents the ups and downs, the happiness and the heartbreak of this type of work.
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The Cost of Caring
The Cost of Caring is an autobiographical album about a single day and the emotional terrain that comes with choosing to care in a world that never stops asking for more. It traces the quiet decisions
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February 5, 2026 at 1:23 AM
The Cost of Caring is a new autobiographical album about a day in the life of an animal #rescuer (in my case #parrots). It could easily apply to anyone in a caring profession. It documents the ups and downs, the happiness and the heartbreak of this type of work.
soundcloud.com/todd-penland...
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Companies that run #ICE detention facilities:
CoreCivic, 5501 Virginia Way, Suite 110, Brentwood, TN 37027
601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 720 South, Washington DC
GEO Group Inc., 4955 Technology Way, Boca Raton, FL 33431
One Park Place, Suite 700, 621 Northwest 53rd Street, Boca Raton, FL 33487
CoreCivic, 5501 Virginia Way, Suite 110, Brentwood, TN 37027
601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 720 South, Washington DC
GEO Group Inc., 4955 Technology Way, Boca Raton, FL 33431
One Park Place, Suite 700, 621 Northwest 53rd Street, Boca Raton, FL 33487
February 4, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Companies that run #ICE detention facilities:
CoreCivic, 5501 Virginia Way, Suite 110, Brentwood, TN 37027
601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 720 South, Washington DC
GEO Group Inc., 4955 Technology Way, Boca Raton, FL 33431
One Park Place, Suite 700, 621 Northwest 53rd Street, Boca Raton, FL 33487
CoreCivic, 5501 Virginia Way, Suite 110, Brentwood, TN 37027
601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 720 South, Washington DC
GEO Group Inc., 4955 Technology Way, Boca Raton, FL 33431
One Park Place, Suite 700, 621 Northwest 53rd Street, Boca Raton, FL 33487
This is the company that contracts #ICE flights. Feel free to share
LOCATIONS
CSI Aviation, Inc.
3700 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107
2503 Clark Carr Loop SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106
6006 Reese Creek Rd, Killeen, TX 76549
9615 Wright Dr, Midland, TX 79706
www.csiaviation.com
LOCATIONS
CSI Aviation, Inc.
3700 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107
2503 Clark Carr Loop SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106
6006 Reese Creek Rd, Killeen, TX 76549
9615 Wright Dr, Midland, TX 79706
www.csiaviation.com
Medical Flight Services - Air Charter Services - CSI Aviation
Medical Flight Services & Air Charter Services by CSI Aviation in Albuquerque New Mexico. Specialists in Charter Jet Rentals, Executive Jet Charters, Private Jet Charter, Corporate Jet Charter, Cargo ...
www.csiaviation.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:36 AM
This is the company that contracts #ICE flights. Feel free to share
LOCATIONS
CSI Aviation, Inc.
3700 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107
2503 Clark Carr Loop SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106
6006 Reese Creek Rd, Killeen, TX 76549
9615 Wright Dr, Midland, TX 79706
www.csiaviation.com
LOCATIONS
CSI Aviation, Inc.
3700 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107
2503 Clark Carr Loop SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106
6006 Reese Creek Rd, Killeen, TX 76549
9615 Wright Dr, Midland, TX 79706
www.csiaviation.com
By far the most "personal" album I've recorded so far. But I think there's something in here that will touch others who are also going through major, unexpected, untimely life transitions. I hope listening helps as much as making it did.
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open.spotify.com/album/1MjpoM...
Holding the Middle
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February 3, 2026 at 1:07 AM
By far the most "personal" album I've recorded so far. But I think there's something in here that will touch others who are also going through major, unexpected, untimely life transitions. I hope listening helps as much as making it did.
open.spotify.com/album/1MjpoM...
open.spotify.com/album/1MjpoM...
#Breaking news: the @kennedycenter.bsky.social is going dark for “renovations.”
Naturally, I wrote a song about it.
Intermission 🎭
on.soundcloud.com/wpQdpVbX1Ul2...
Naturally, I wrote a song about it.
Intermission 🎭
on.soundcloud.com/wpQdpVbX1Ul2...
Intermission
[Verse 1]
He slapped his name in gold across the header of the door
Then wondered why the silence came a-pacing 'round the floor
The dressing rooms are haunted by the songs they won't be singing
The
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February 2, 2026 at 2:15 AM
#Breaking news: the @kennedycenter.bsky.social is going dark for “renovations.”
Naturally, I wrote a song about it.
Intermission 🎭
on.soundcloud.com/wpQdpVbX1Ul2...
Naturally, I wrote a song about it.
Intermission 🎭
on.soundcloud.com/wpQdpVbX1Ul2...
Thank you to everyone who has been sharing my music online. I just topped 70,000 plays in less than 30 days! I'm pretty damned excited about that, and you helped me do it. Thank you again!
February 1, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Thank you to everyone who has been sharing my music online. I just topped 70,000 plays in less than 30 days! I'm pretty damned excited about that, and you helped me do it. Thank you again!
Hope everyone is feeling powerful today and joining in the shutdown. I wrote this one specifically to honor the day.
on.soundcloud.com/YjQdHMjZWQDz...
on.soundcloud.com/YjQdHMjZWQDz...
We Lift Our Voices
[Verse 1]
We came in early, before the light,
with words we couldn’t leave behind,
no script to read, no easy way,
just breath and names and borrowed time.
The room was holding something back,
the ai
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January 31, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Hope everyone is feeling powerful today and joining in the shutdown. I wrote this one specifically to honor the day.
on.soundcloud.com/YjQdHMjZWQDz...
on.soundcloud.com/YjQdHMjZWQDz...
#PROTEST MUSIC FOR 2026
I used to complain about the lack of new protest music for the insane times we're living in. Instead of complaining, I wrote some. I wrote a lot! Listening to this helps keep me in the fight. Maybe it will help someone else too.
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I used to complain about the lack of new protest music for the insane times we're living in. Instead of complaining, I wrote some. I wrote a lot! Listening to this helps keep me in the fight. Maybe it will help someone else too.
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Protest Music 2026
One of the ways I stay sane in these insane times is to write music about it.
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January 30, 2026 at 4:03 AM
#PROTEST MUSIC FOR 2026
I used to complain about the lack of new protest music for the insane times we're living in. Instead of complaining, I wrote some. I wrote a lot! Listening to this helps keep me in the fight. Maybe it will help someone else too.
soundcloud.com/todd-penland...
I used to complain about the lack of new protest music for the insane times we're living in. Instead of complaining, I wrote some. I wrote a lot! Listening to this helps keep me in the fight. Maybe it will help someone else too.
soundcloud.com/todd-penland...
A vacation from seriousness. Minor Victories & Major Delusions treats domestic mishaps like Greek tragedies. From Industrial Metal bread rants to Bossa Nova nap crises, it’s 10 tracks of mundane mayhem.
on.soundcloud.com/EDXrk5gnNyq2...
Also on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon, Apple & more!
on.soundcloud.com/EDXrk5gnNyq2...
Also on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon, Apple & more!
Minor Victories & Major Delusions
A much-needed vacation from seriousness.
Welcome to a world where everyday frustrations are treated like Greek tragedies, and minor domestic triumphs become high-stakes rock operas.
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January 28, 2026 at 9:00 PM
A vacation from seriousness. Minor Victories & Major Delusions treats domestic mishaps like Greek tragedies. From Industrial Metal bread rants to Bossa Nova nap crises, it’s 10 tracks of mundane mayhem.
on.soundcloud.com/EDXrk5gnNyq2...
Also on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon, Apple & more!
on.soundcloud.com/EDXrk5gnNyq2...
Also on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon, Apple & more!
Out of My Mind is about taking what loops endlessly in our heads - fear, anger, doubt, responsibility- putting it outside ourselves, to look at it and decide what to do with it.
on.soundcloud.com/GO2LAbPkA3u2...
Also available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and many other platforms
on.soundcloud.com/GO2LAbPkA3u2...
Also available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and many other platforms
Out of My Mind
Out of My Mind is an album about externalization.
It starts from the premise that the most dangerous place for fear, anger, grief, responsibility, and moral conflict is inside our heads, where everyt
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January 28, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Out of My Mind is about taking what loops endlessly in our heads - fear, anger, doubt, responsibility- putting it outside ourselves, to look at it and decide what to do with it.
on.soundcloud.com/GO2LAbPkA3u2...
Also available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and many other platforms
on.soundcloud.com/GO2LAbPkA3u2...
Also available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and many other platforms
Reposted by Todd Penland
January 26, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Just five of the nearly 40 people who have died or were killed during Trump's murderous #ICE enforcement actions in 2025 and 2026. This has got to stop.
on.soundcloud.com/RUi6oRBwBvup...
on.soundcloud.com/RUi6oRBwBvup...
Still With You
[Verse 1]
There are rooms that still remember
How a voice once filled the air
There are mornings that arrive
And find the silence waiting there
Keys still rest where they were left
Jackets hang like
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January 26, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Just five of the nearly 40 people who have died or were killed during Trump's murderous #ICE enforcement actions in 2025 and 2026. This has got to stop.
on.soundcloud.com/RUi6oRBwBvup...
on.soundcloud.com/RUi6oRBwBvup...
Hands That Held The Light (in memory of Alex Pretti)
on.soundcloud.com/2M1fR529HSxo...
Also available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and many other platforms.
#AlexPretti #Minneapolis
on.soundcloud.com/2M1fR529HSxo...
Also available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and many other platforms.
#AlexPretti #Minneapolis
Hands That Held the Light
Responsibility is an album about power, permission, and consequence. It traces how harm becomes possible, how authority overreaches, and how violence moves from rhetoric to routine. Some songs focus o
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January 26, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Hands That Held The Light (in memory of Alex Pretti)
on.soundcloud.com/2M1fR529HSxo...
Also available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and many other platforms.
#AlexPretti #Minneapolis
on.soundcloud.com/2M1fR529HSxo...
Also available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and many other platforms.
#AlexPretti #Minneapolis
on.soundcloud.com/UO8Bw9Ax6dW4...
We Haven't Forgotten - #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
Also available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and many other platforms.
We Haven't Forgotten - #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
Also available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and many other platforms.
We Haven't Forgotten
Responsibility is an album about power, permission, and consequence. It traces how harm becomes possible, how authority overreaches, and how violence moves from rhetoric to routine. Some songs focus o
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January 26, 2026 at 5:41 PM
on.soundcloud.com/UO8Bw9Ax6dW4...
We Haven't Forgotten - #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
Also available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and many other platforms.
We Haven't Forgotten - #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
Also available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and many other platforms.
Responsibility is my 12th album. It documents how power is used and enabled, what follows when restraint fails, and the part we play after the damage is done.
on.soundcloud.com/uWJAJR1rB8QI...
Also available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and many other platforms.
on.soundcloud.com/uWJAJR1rB8QI...
Also available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and many other platforms.
Responsibility
Responsibility is an album about power, permission, and consequence. It traces how harm becomes possible, how authority overreaches, and how violence moves from rhetoric to routine. Some songs focus o
soundcloud.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Responsibility is my 12th album. It documents how power is used and enabled, what follows when restraint fails, and the part we play after the damage is done.
on.soundcloud.com/uWJAJR1rB8QI...
Also available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and many other platforms.
on.soundcloud.com/uWJAJR1rB8QI...
Also available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and many other platforms.
The Death of a Nation is not a warning. It is a receipt. Ten songs documenting the slow fulfillment of ideas celebrated as strength, carried faithfully to their conclusion. Not collapse as chaos, but completion.
on.soundcloud.com/oc984XCscTUZ...
on.soundcloud.com/oc984XCscTUZ...
The Death of a Nation
The Death of a Nation is not a warning.
It is a receipt.
This album documents what happens when cruelty is normalized, accountability is optional, and power learns it can act without consequence. It
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January 24, 2026 at 11:04 PM
The Death of a Nation is not a warning. It is a receipt. Ten songs documenting the slow fulfillment of ideas celebrated as strength, carried faithfully to their conclusion. Not collapse as chaos, but completion.
on.soundcloud.com/oc984XCscTUZ...
on.soundcloud.com/oc984XCscTUZ...
A paired release about living through sustained state violence. One song sits in the numbness. The other records a city standing together in the cold. Not resolution, not victory—just witness, endurance, and refusal to disappear.
on.soundcloud.com/hVmq1CmB7o3m...
on.soundcloud.com/hVmq1CmB7o3m...
Routine Killing / Minneapolis
These two songs were written within the same month, shaped by the same air, the same streets, the same accumulating weight. They belong together.
Routine Killing sits inside the numbness that comes f
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January 24, 2026 at 6:23 PM
A paired release about living through sustained state violence. One song sits in the numbness. The other records a city standing together in the cold. Not resolution, not victory—just witness, endurance, and refusal to disappear.
on.soundcloud.com/hVmq1CmB7o3m...
on.soundcloud.com/hVmq1CmB7o3m...
Today is all about this I guess: a song that I wrote on the day my discharge upgrade notice arrived, and another that I wrote today after the dust had settled.
on.soundcloud.com/AOUACCN2CTvh...
on.soundcloud.com/AOUACCN2CTvh...
The Room I'm In / The Shape It Left
This is a song pair. Neither song is a response to the other. They’re two views of the same terrain.
The Room I’m In is about delayed recognition and emotional dislocation. Something arrives that is
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January 22, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Today is all about this I guess: a song that I wrote on the day my discharge upgrade notice arrived, and another that I wrote today after the dust had settled.
on.soundcloud.com/AOUACCN2CTvh...
on.soundcloud.com/AOUACCN2CTvh...