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Jason Guthartz
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#DismantleWhiteness
abolition, reparations, libraries, archives, music, film, art, Chicago
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#CHICAGO: Some serious weather coming our way tonight ⚠️❄️
WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON CST MONDAY WHAT Dangerous to impossible travel conditions due to intense lake effect snow expected. Snow rates in excess of 3 inches per hour, localized total snow accumulations of 12 to 18 inches, and northerly wind gusts in excess of 30 mph are expected WHERE Central Cook, Eastern Will, Northern Cook. and Southern Cook Counties SOURCE: U.S. National Weather Service
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
The front cover of HARD DRIVING JAZZ by the Cecil Taylor Quintet (United Artists Records, recorded 1958, released 1959), featuring a Tom Burnside photograph of a race car on a street, with a blurriness that suggests motion.
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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🍂
Trees with red, green & yellow leaves in a Chicago park
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Today is a nice day.
Colorful leaves on trees in a park in Chicago
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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These ads allow them to fund the "infrastructure investments" in AI & data centers that will continue to generate & escalate the horrific violence inherent in our systems of whiteness/capitalism.
Beware the AI mind virus.
#ResistAI #AIFuelsFascism #AbolishRacialCapitalism #DismantleWhiteness
These three multi-trillion-dollar market cap companies [Google, Meta, Amazon] either wholly, or substantially, derive their profits from advertising. And now they are using some portion of those historically profitable advertising revenues to fuel infrastructure investments at a level the world has not seen outside of War Time spending by governments https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/op-ed-the-fuel-for-the-ai-boom-driving-the-markets-is-advertising-it-is-also-an-existential-risk-.html
November 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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It's been almost a decade since this gem of a debut album arrived:
Cover to WE ARE KING (2016)
November 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam,Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
Cover of BROTHER SISTER (FFRR, 1994) by The Brand New Heavies
October 31, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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recently found in a box of old t-shirts
front of t-shirt: Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music No. 4 [4 illustrations, with the dates underneath] back of t-shirt: CHICAGO 2000 [musicians listed] SOUNDS UNLIMITED
October 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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#NoTechForGenocide
#BDS #FreePalestine
#AbolishZionism #DismantleWhiteness
The strict controls include measures that prohibit the US companies from restricting how an array of Israeli government agencies, security services and military units use their cloud services. According to the deal’s terms, the companies cannot suspend or withdraw Israel’s access to its technology, even if it’s found to have violated their terms of service. Israeli officials inserted the controls to counter a series of anticipated threats. They feared Google or Amazon might bow to employee or shareholder pressure and withdraw Israel’s access to its products and services if linked to human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories. They were also concerned the companies could be vulnerable to overseas legal action, particularly in cases relating to the use of the technology in the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
October 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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That initial Arista cohort was fascinating

www.nytimes.com/1975/09/23/a...
The jazz‐rock afternoon concert included Urszula Dudziak, Anthony Braxton, Harvey Mason, the Brecker Brothers, Larry Coryell and Gil Scott‐Heron. The more diverse evening concert, which last nearly six tightly produced hours, and which this observer attended, presented David Pomeranz, Linda Lewis, Loudon Wainwright, Patti Smith, Mr. ScottHeron again (substituting for Eric Carmen, whose equipment truck reportedly never showed up), Melissa Manchester and Barry Manilow.
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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The endless expansion of the infrastructure of state violence has been a bipartisan project.
Dem elites aren't going to do anything to protect anyone from the MAGA goon squads they helped create.
#AbolishBorderPatrol
#AbolishICE
#AbolishPolice #DismantleWhiteness
truthout.org/articles/bid...
Biden Wants More Border Patrol Than MAGA Republicans The president positioned himself to the right of the GOP and its fear-mongering about fentanyl in a recent tweet. By Molly Rosenzweig, LeftVoice Published March 29, 2023
October 28, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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#JackDeJohnette Jr. was born in Chicago at 604 E 51st St, studied with Muhal Richard Abrams & Pat Patrick, played with Sun Ra at the Wonder Inn, filled in for Elvin Jones in the John Coltrane Quartet, had a trio with Maurice White (of EW&F)...
lots more in this interview:
jazzday.com/media/AC0808...
Cover to the album MADE IN CHICAGO: LIVE AT THE CHICAGO JAZZ FESTIVAL (ECM Records, rec. 2013, rel. 2015) by Jack DeJohnette with Muhal Richard Abrams, Larry Gray, Roscoe Mitchell & Henry Threadgill
October 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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wait - what?
this is a thing?? 🤬
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October 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Frederick Douglass in 1869, on "perfect human equality":
www.workingimmigrants.com/2019/03/fred...
Douglass: I want a home here not only for the negro, the mulatto and the Latin races; but I want the Asiatic to find a home here in the United States, and feel at home here, both for his sake and for ours. Right wrongs no man. If respect is had to majorities, the fact that only one fifth of the population of the globe is white, the other four fifths are colored, ought to have some weight and influence in disposing of this and similar questions. It would be a sad reflection upon the laws of nature and upon the idea of justice, to say nothing of a common Creator, if four fifths of mankind were deprived of the rights of migration to make room for the one fifth.
October 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Whiteness does not see itself.
#FuckTheBern #DismantleWhiteness
A Twitter post dated November 8, 2018, from @justinskolnick: Bernie on Trump: "Today, if he is a racist and a sexist, tomorrow he may be a great civil rights champion — if he thinks it gets him five more votes. He has no core values." [with link to a Rolling Stone article]
October 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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That doesn't qualify!
DEBUT wasn't her debut!
bsky.app/profile/rebe...
Album cover of BJÖRK (Fálkinn, 1977) by Björk Guðmundsdóttir
October 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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(& if you don't)
bsky.app/profile/soph...
Album cover of YVERZUCHT (Konkurrel, 1989) by De Kift
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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(if you rule out The Impressions albums)
Album cover of CURTIS (Curtom, 1970) by Curtis Mayfield
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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#NotTheOnion
At 4:10 p.m., she texted me: “By the way—everything I ever sent you is off record. You’re not a journalist so it’s weird saying that but just letting you know.” I responded: “I’m sorry, but that’s not how this works. You don’t get to say that in retrospect.” Halligan was unpersuaded: “Yes, I do. Off record.” “I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked,” I said. “But you didn’t ask, and I still haven’t agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story? To my surprise, she kept going: “It’s obvious the whole convo is off record. There’s disappearing messages and it’s on signal. What is your story? You never told me about a story.”
October 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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It's clear that Pritzker is helping the fascist MAGA goon squads carry out their ethnic cleansing agenda.
(This is not a surprise to those aware of his support of Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians.)
#AbolishICE #AbolishPolice
#DismantleWhiteness
chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
“It’s clear that ISP is the difference maker in this scenario, and we are grateful for their leadership,” Peter Sukmanowski, assistant director of ICE’s Chicago field office, wrote. “Hopefully, we can keep it up for the long-haul.” The email sent Oct. 5 to a handful of ICE officials and forwarded to Illinois State police, stands in clear contrast to rhetoric from the Trump administration that weekend. It’s among the hundreds of pages of documents U.S. District Judge April Perry relied upon Oct. 9 to temporarily block the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops within Illinois.
October 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Albert Ayler, MUSIC IS THE HEALING FORCE OF THE UNIVERSE (Impulse!, rec. 1969)
October 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Hell of a lineup!
The other side of that large-postcard-sized promo sheet for the 2000 Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival, showing a wide variety of jazz, avant-garde & other musics.
October 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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still have the promo card
A large-postcard-sized promo sheet for "An Evening with Ornette Coleman", part of the 2000 Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival.
October 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Kudos to me of 26 years ago (two years before the Wayback Machine was available) for printing out the entire collection knowing it could disappear at any time 😆
Printouts of a few of the articles & interviews from Resonance magazine posted to the now-defunct London Musicians' Collective website, with the date of May 1999 at the bottom.
October 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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#AbolishICE #DismantleWhiteness
bsky.app/profile/roya...
Claudia Galeno-Sanchez and a few other neighborhood residents lingered in the alley in case federal immigration agents returned. She had a pair of pink goggles tucked under her arm and a small orange whistle hung around her neck. The 48-year-old said she is a U.S. citizen, but she hasn’t felt like one since the Trump administration took over and particularly not since the start of Operation Midway Blitz. “They are not coming to protect us,” she said, craning her neck to see the traffic on 43rd Street. “They are coming to terrorize our communities. This is like an attack against people of color. And we won’t tolerate it.”
October 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM