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Jason Guthartz@restructures· Jul 12

Whiteness does not see itself.

Senator Dick Durbun posting on Facebook:

I was with Lindsey last week at the NATO Summit in Türkiye. At a private dinner at the Ambassador’s residence, he was working every Senator on a strategy to end the war in Ukraine. Typical Lindsey.

Lindsey was part of every important policy issue and an indispensable player in every Senate ‘gang’. He was a fierce Republican partisan one day and a key bipartisan ally the next.

When I was Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was the Ranking Republican. His word was good—no cheap shots.

He knew the Dream Act was my most important bill. He was the only Republican who would cosponsor it for years. I will never forget it.

Loretta and I send our condolences to Lindsey’s family and legion of friends in South Carolina and around the world.

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Jul 11

“What is the reality of women in creative music (?)—or at least, what observations can be made with regard to the participation of women in creative music? Based on my experiences, the present planet situation is designed to make it practically impossible for a woman to pursue creativity for a life’s commitment—or at least in the same context as men. It is almost impossible for a woman to secure a strong enough position in society to make a living from her work—this is true even though, in spite of the odds, there are many women who have succeeded in making their activity known and “ised.” Still, the situation women are faced with in this and previous time zones cannot be looked at as fair in comparison to the composite culture—by any means. To understand the collective factors that have produced this reality posture is to gain insight into what is really happening with the male creative community, as well as the sophistication of the controlling forces surrounding the music. This is so because the defining and controlling community that determines and regulates perception dynamics (and interpretations and/or focuses) has always dealt with women unfairly. To[…]”

excerpt from TRI-AXIUM WRITINGS 3 by Anthony Braxton

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Jun 30

Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the first concert I ever attended (IIRC). Value for money!

A ticket stub (not mine) for a Robert Palmer/Chaka Khan concert on June 28, 1986, at Jones Beach Theater (NY/USA). Price: $14.75

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Jun 27

of course my mind first went to the record collection, and this may be the oldest item among those objects (though certainly not the oldest recording)

Front cover of the 10" record MUSIC OF THE ARAB PEOPLE, VOLUME ONE (1952, Esoteric Records ES 2002) by the Toraia Orchestra of Algiers

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Jun 20

one that has to be in the discussion is Sun Ra's debut album, recorded when he was 42 years old

JAZZ BY SUN RA VOL. 1 (Transition, rec. 1956, rel. 1957)

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Jun 19

#NeverForget: "Before the end of his first term in office, the Obama administration expanded a small program by about 3,600 percent." #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS #DefundPolice #DismantleWhiteness www.thenation.com/article/arch...

"The Deportation Machine Obama Built for President Trump"
June 27, 2016
Marisa Franco & Carlos Garcia
The Nation

When Barack Obama took office after his 2008 election, he inherited a budding deportation apparatus with its roots in the imagination of the “War on Terror” reactionaries who created the Office of Homeland Security in 2001 (later the Department of Homeland Security). When he leaves office he will leave behind to his successor the most sophisticated and well-funded human-expulsion machine in the history of the country.

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Jun 18

#FreePalestine #AbolishZionism #DismantleWhiteness bsky.app/profile/benc...

White supremacists Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton shaking hands and laughing it up

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Jun 3

Some nice finds at $3-5 each at the Memphis Listening Lab's Record Exchange over the weekend:

CD covers of
Djemal Saparova, Rustam Bairamov et al, SONGS OF TURKMENISTAN
Peter Brötzmann, DARE DEVIL
Roscoe Mitchell, BELLS FOR THE SOUTH SIDE
Akua Dixon, AKUA'S DANCE

Jason Guthartz@restructures· May 27

A wonderful story in recognition of Henry Kissinger's birthday #May27 😆 tedpanken.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/i...

JIM HALL: Did I tell you about Lorraine Gordon [owner of The Village Vanguard] and Henry Kissinger? Jed told me that Havel was there, and a few minutes into the set Henry Kissinger came down the stairs and Lorraine wouldn’t let him in! She said, “You can’t come in; the set’s already started.”
. . . He says, “Perhaps you don’t know who I am.” She said, ”Oh, I know all about you; that’s part of the problem.”

Jason Guthartz@restructures· May 24

"What white nonsense is this?" in embroidery

Jason Guthartz@restructures· May 21

LET THEM KNOW #FuckEliaKazan

Jason Guthartz@restructures· May 20

Quote with a fictional band that isn't Spinal Tap

The Leningrad Cowboys as featured in LENINGRAD COWBOYS GO AMERICA (1989, directed by Aki Kaurismäki): A group of men standing in row, all wearing suits, sunglasses, exaggerated pompadour hairstyles & matching shoes with long pointy tips. The band then became non-fictional and now perform as the LC Cowboys.

Jason Guthartz@restructures· May 15

I don't wanna be buried (or mummified for that matter), but if I had to choose a book to accompany me... deuceofclubs.com/books/148_ri...

Cover to the book O HOLY COW! THE SELECTED VERSE OF PHIL RIZZUTO (1997)

Jason Guthartz@restructures· May 15

As Anjali Vats explains, authorship rights/protections under intellectual property law regimes identify who is deemed (un)worthy of recognition as human. The ruling class would sooner try to credit machines with a capacity for authorship before recognizing the full humanity of the Majority World.

Cover of Anjali Vats' book "The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans" (2020)

Jason Guthartz@restructures· May 12

it was obvious at the time

My Twitter post of January 6, 2021:
Today was a beginning, not an end.
We continue to be in deep trouble.
#StopTheCoup #DestroyTheGOP #DismantleWhiteness
commenting on this post by Liliana Segura:
Many are calling this a failed coup but I'm certain the fascist mob doesn't see it thay way. They invaded the Capitol, terrorized lawmakers, gleefully posed for photos & walked out the door. No doubt it's being toasted as a success, a display of raw power cheered by their leader.

Jason Guthartz@restructures· May 9

Ignore this previous skeet. The content is 4k.

My mistaken earlier skeet saying that the UHD Blu-ray of BJÖRK: CORNUCOPIA LIVE only had 1080p content and not 4k. After checking again, the program is 4k. (The menu isn't, but that wasn't what I had initially checked, so I don't know what happened other than my own misreading.)
A must-see in any format.

Jason Guthartz@restructures· May 6

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Joe Biden tells activist, 'You should vote for Trump,' over criticism of Obama deportations

Jeanine Santucci
USA TODAY
Nov. 22, 2019

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Apr 29

The Criterion Closet is great, but wait until you see the Criterion Attic 🤓

Covers to the Criterion Collection laserdiscs of BREATHLESS (1960) & MON ONCLE (1958)

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Apr 29

Others refused to ignore how whiteness was central to John Roberts' agenda: civilrights.org/2005/09/15/l...

Testifying today before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on the nomination of John Roberts to the position of chief justice of the United States, Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the nation’s premier civil and human rights coalition, will announce the coalition’s opposition to Roberts’ confirmation.

Stating that Roberts “failed to distance himself from the anti-civil rights positions he has advocated,” Henderson will tell the Committee that “all evidence indicates that Judge Roberts would use his undeniably impressive legal skills to bring us back to a country that most of us wouldn’t recognize: where states’ rights trump civil rights; where the federal courts or Congress can see discrimination, but are powerless to remedy it. This is not the America in which most Americans want to live.”

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Apr 26

#IndependentBookstoreDay Mission accomplished

Book covers to:
- "Stan Brakhage the realm buster" (2018) edited by Marco Lori and Esther Leslie
- "How Black Music Took Over the World" (2026) by Melvin Gibbs

Book covers to:
- "Sound Fragments: From Field Recording to African Electronic Stories" (2022) by Noel Lobley
- "This Is Not a Small Voice: Selected Poems" (2026) by Sonia Sanchez

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Apr 16

Memories of 200 guitarists playing a Rhys Chatham piece in Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park in 2009:

Rhys Chatham conducting his "A Crimson Grail" for 200 guitarists in Damrosch Park, NYC, August 8, 2009.
Photo by me.

Some of the 200 guitarists performing Rhys Chatham's "A Crimson Grail" in Damrosch Park, NYC, August 8, 2009.
Photo by me.

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Apr 14

👑

Sade Adu on guitar & Paul Denman on bass, during Sade's appearance on The Tonight Show in 1993.

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Apr 7

Chomsky is rightfully shunned for some of his deeds, but this analysis remains tragically accurate: chomsky.info/20090119/ #NoWarOnIran #RemoveTrumpNOW #DismantleWhiteness

The claim that “our side” never targets civilians is familiar doctrine in violent states. And there is some truth to it. Powerful states, like the United States, do not generally try to kill particular civilians. Rather, they carry out murderous actions that they and their educated classes know will slaughter many civilians, but without specific intent to kill particular ones. In law, the routine practices might fall under the category of depraved indifference, but that is not an adequate designation for standard imperial practice and doctrine. It is more similar to walking down a street knowing that we might kill ants, but without intent to do so, because they rank so low that it just doesn’t matter. Thus

Clinton’s bombing of the main pharmaceutical plant in a poor African country (Sudan) might be expected to lead to the deaths of tens of thousands of people, as it apparently did. But since we did not aim at particular ones, there is no guilt, Western moralists assure us. And the same holds in much more extreme cases, which are all too easy to enumerate. The same is true when Israel carries out actions that it knows will kill the “grasshoppers” and “drugged roaches” who happen to infest the lands it “liberates.” There is no good term for this form of moral depravity, arguably worse than deliberate slaughter, and all too familiar.

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Apr 7

The 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act that enabled this passed the Senate 96-2. Today's fascist horrors were enabled by the bipartisan ruling class consensus to expand all forms of police/military violence in service of whiteness/capitalism. bsky.app/profile/reut...

The 31,000 traveler records were gathered by TSA's Secure Flight Program, which was created in 2007 to allow the agency to review passenger information for people who may be on U.S. government watchlists. The program was intended as a counter-terrorism measure, not to track down immigration offenders, according to the regulation outlining, opens new tab its purpose.

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Apr 6

A photo of Kenny G. and Miles Davis in which Kenny is smiling at the camera while pointing to Miles, as Miles shoots a side-eyed stare through Kenny's soul (or its nearest equivalent).

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Apr 5

While in Tulsa... 😍

Boston Avenue United Methodist Church (Tulsa, Oklahoma) designed by Bruce Goff

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Apr 2

#AbolishMilitarism #DismantleWhiteness

Congress passes $24.4 billion NASA budget, rejecting Trump's deep cuts

By Mike Wall
January 16, 2026

Defense appropriations bill for 2026 funds Space Force at $26 billion, presses Pentagon on Golden Dome

by Sandra Erwin
January 20, 2026

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Apr 1

Another good one:

The LP cover of Ashish Khan, SAROD (Polydor 2392 900, released 1979)

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Mar 31

"The United States spends more on defense than the next 9 countries combined" www.pgpf.org/article/the-... #NoWarOnIran #RemoveTrumpNOW #AbolishMilitarism #DismantleWhiteness bsky.app/profile/kenk...

The United States spends more on defense than the next 9 countries combined

Defense Spending (Billions of $)

$997: U.S.

$984: China, Russia, Germany, India , United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, France, Japan combined

Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Jason Guthartz@restructures· Mar 30

While Trump continues to threaten Iranians with more crimes against humanity, @nytimes.com uses the same racist "unreasonable Muslims" framing we see in US media coverage of Israel-Palestine: jacobin.com/2014/07/a-pl... #NoWarOnIran #RemoveTrumpNOW #DismantleWhiteness bsky.app/profile/nyti...