The @chicagoreader.com's Chicago Record Report for July is out! This month we've rounded up almost 50 releases, including featured music by Matt Jencik & Midwife, Iron Years, Ella St. John, Fuerza Bruta, @directrixband.bsky.social, and Abstract Mindstate.

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Police departments wouldn't spend millions a year on PR if public perception of the job didn't matter—and not only for current officer morale, but also for recruitment.

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This. The narratives or arguments that separate out “criminal” from “innocent” immigrants (this includes when media and politicians emphasize stories of “perfect victims”) are bad—it implies that some people are actually deserving of criminalization and deportation, of cruelty and violence.

our EP is out on bandcamp!!!

diy till we die baby.

and down with parasitic spotify CEO and war profiteering AI military drone company chairman daniel ek 🔻

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there's always money for incarceration imperialism and policing it's the literal reason the state is able to print as much money as the ruling class wants but when it comes to funding life-giving public programs suddenly there's national debt to consider and a budget to balance. fuck the state.

How many times are we going to see the "former Marine gets hired for a job he never should have had" story play out? Maybe training a bunch of men to be racist killing machines isn't working out well for society at large. Usually they just get away with it because they're cops, not lifeguards.