1 |
Crimson Sun |
"The Flame" |
single |
"The critical question is whether the Constitution, properly understood...", |
2 |
Memoremains |
"We Are One" |
Pop Metal |
begins a document that defines a nominally modern democracy's supposed Supreme Court |
3 |
Onyria |
"Be Yourself" |
single |
as an intentionally obtuse tribunal of literally religious doctrine. |
4 |
Chaos Magic |
"Hearts Gone Dark" |
Emerge |
The "properly" there, and probably everywhere, |
5 |
Secret Rule |
"The Illusion" |
single |
is not a rational basis, but an assertion of unjustified power, |
6 |
Beyond The Black |
"Reincarnation" |
single |
and an arbitrary and unapologetically immoral claim of immunity to justice. |
7 |
Seven Kingdoms |
"A Silent Remedy" |
Zenith |
Invoking originalism on a historical document of contingent rebellion is a preposterous act of |
8 |
Empire of Giants |
"The Rain" |
Troposphere |
remote myopia, deliberately trying to see nothing but what you claim to imagine |
9 |
Tigersclaw |
"Titan's Dawn" |
single |
some dudes were concerned about in 1787. |
10 |
ADHARMA |
"Divide and Conquer" |
Mirror Mirror |
You might as well revoke the rest of the Constitution |
11 |
Rioghan |
"Sight" |
Sight +2 |
by pointing out how it contradicts both Magna Carta |
12 |
Morpheus' Dreams |
"When Galatea Rode North" |
single |
and the rules of Uno. |
13 |
Corte di Lunas |
"Shine" |
single |
Remanding the right to legislate abortion "back to the states", |
14 |
April Art |
"See The Light" |
P.O.K.E.R.F.A.C.E. |
even without knowing as stated fact that some of them will as an immediate consequence |
15 |
Blame Me! |
"Musket Fire" |
single |
enact laws that declare a life to begin earlier than a pregnancy, |
16 |
Oceans of Slumber |
"The Lighthouse" |
single |
is of exactly the same moral standing |
17 |
A Sound of Thunder |
"Grave Troopers" |
single |
as revoking the Geneva Convention to restore individual nations' |
18 |
Jorn |
"Dead London" |
Over the Horizon Radar |
proper right to torture and genocide, |
19 |
Nordic Union |
"In Every Waking Hour" |
single |
or unmaking any other law in order to protect the free will |
20 |
Kaledon |
"The Dawn of Dawns" |
single |
of its declared and future disobedients. |
21 |
Civil War |
"Carry On" |
Invaders |
The whole point of law is to express a collective will and clarity |
22 |
Noumena |
"Ihmisen tie" |
single |
better than our inevitable lowest ebbs of individual weakness and ignorance. |
23 |
Mantar |
"Odysseus" |
single |
The appeal to legalism isn't wrong, per se. |
24 |
Inexorum |
"Creation Myth" |
Equinox Vigil |
States are permitted to pass progressive laws. |
25 |
616 |
"Blood and Silver and Gold" |
single |
Thieves are permitted to leave behind affidavits for tax purposes. |
26 |
Mono Inc. |
"The Raven's Back" |
single |
Congress, most obviously, is permitted to raise our national standards. |
27 |
Herknungr |
"Fólcvíg" |
Langlífr |
This has been necessary before, |
28 |
Sowulo |
"Æt wega gelætan" |
single |
and should never have been necessary, |
29 |
Feigur |
"I Déchirements: No. 3, Immobilisme" |
III, Ascension |
and will keep being necessary until those standards specifically acknowledge |
30 |
Fleur du Mal |
"Grâce" |
Spleen III |
that there is no such thing as states' rights, |
31 |
Blissful Euphoria |
"A Feast with The Naiads" |
single |
because humans do not consent to inhumanity |
32 |
miraie |
"Yor" |
single |
by collecting where they happen to have been born. |
33 |
Hugo Pooe |
"Dissatisfied" |
single |
The right response to the overturning of a humane Supreme Court decision |
34 |
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows |
"What's the Code for Heaven's Gate?" |
Destroy Rebuild |
is simply transferring its interpretive humanity into explicit law. |
35 |
Sleep Torture |
"Praying to God Just to Lose" |
Carrying Water for Rats 5 |
The Court, of course, knows that this is currently unlikely. |
36 |
They Live | We Sleep |
"Hellspeak" |
single |
That knowledge isn't coincident. |
37 |
Nerver |
"Deepest Bluest" |
Cash |
The makeup of the current Court, |
38 |
Snow Strippers |
"Genocide" |
single |
like its current slate of cases, |
39 |
DIR EN GREY |
"御伽 (Otogi)" |
PHALARIS |
was made, by deliberate kleptocratic action, |
40 |
Sigh |
"Mayonaka No Kaii" |
single |
to bring this specific case in front of this specific configuration of tenuous power. |
41 |
Stellarleap |
"Thunderous" |
single |
Not only was the decision not made independently of the reverently atavistic pending laws, |
42 |
MIYAVI |
"Futurism" |
Futurism +1 |
but the two are tightly coordinated steps of a unified effort to undo social progress |
43 |
Sick2 |
"聖葬" |
聖葬【TYPE-B】 3 |
for the imagined and deeply dubious benefit of its demonstrably least-deserving |
44 |
without |
"Sundown" |
Be Corny |
and least thoughtful. |
45 |
Nerd Magnet |
"Your New Favorite Band" |
single |
The Court doesn't just happen to know what will happen next, |
46 |
Four Get Me A Nots |
"The soundtrack of glory" |
SUN 4 |
they act to cause it. |
47 |
Four Get Me A Nots |
"Dahlia" |
MOON 4 |
We know this. |
48 |
Atomic Skipper |
"tender" |
single |
Deliberately removing an active protection in full awareness of declared intents to violate it |
49 |
Aimi |
"スターリア" |
AIMI SOUND 2 |
is like bragging about volunteering to do maintenance work on Sonderzüge. |
50 |
Beverly |
"One Vision" |
from JPN |
We will remember. |
51 |
Regal Lily |
"蛍狩り" |
single |
To stand for Louisiana's right to ban all abortions |
52 |
For Tracy Hyde |
"フランボワーズ・パルフェのために - For Tracy Hyde ver." |
フランボワーズ・パルフェのために 2 |
is to stand for Alabama's right to own slaves |
53 |
Kaneyorimasaru |
"Futari" |
single |
or Putin's right to invade Ukraine. |
54 |
Lucie,Too |
"heartless" |
single |
It is walking away from a lynching. |
55 |
ネクライトーキー |
"魔法電車とキライちゃん" |
MEMORIES2 |
It is marching away from a lynching, past a line of other waiting lynchings, in uniform. |
56 |
Österreich |
"Luxurious Bones - Arranged" |
single |
If you stand along this parade route waving flags, |
57 |
Sabina Ddumba |
"RIDE" |
single |
you are failing at being human. |
58 |
Dotter |
"Only Good Die Young" |
Only Good Die Young +1 |
The question of when life begins cannot be answered by states, |
59 |
Emilia Pantic |
"DÖD" |
single |
and thus must not be debated or resolved by them. |
60 |
Celest |
"Revelación" |
Revelación +3 |
Arguably it can't be answered by individuals, either, |
61 |
Bely Basarte |
"Si llega el final" |
nostalgia. |
and maybe it feels, for now, in our emotional barbarity, |
62 |
Monica Naranjo |
"Aire" |
MIMÉTIKA |
like it inherently defies science. |
63 |
Kapsula |
"Ya No Más" |
single |
History suggests that when we have believed things transcend science, |
64 |
Mhelyssa |
"Romperte El Corazón No Es Suficiente" |
single |
we have been consistently and abjectly wrong, |
65 |
División Minúscula |
"Laberintos" |
single |
but we're not that good at history, either. |
66 |
Larrikins |
"Gib nie auf" |
single |
This grim fight is grimmest because it is a misleading fight between |
67 |
Wikus Botma |
"Bittersoet" |
single |
bad alternatives. |
68 |
Eat Your Heart Out |
"Down" |
single |
There are no victory conditions. |
69 |
Heather Sommer |
"ONE SIZE FITS ALL" |
ONE SIZE FITS ALL 6 |
Bad family planning and a lack of contraceptive education |
70 |
Maddie Zahm |
"You Might Not Like Her" |
single |
can't be redeemed by enforcing consequences for which the victims are unprepared, |
71 |
Lorelei |
"Night" |
single |
any more than you can unlearn mistakes by unmaking them one at a time. |
72 |
beabadoobee |
"10:36" |
single |
This is why abortion as a political issue is a fight, not a component of a set of public-health outcomes |
73 |
Petrol Girls |
"Preachers" |
Preachers +2 |
we're trying to improve. |
74 |
The Beths |
"Silence Is Golden" |
single |
I learned about this Court decision from its opponents' fund-raising emails faster than from the news. |
75 |
KOLI |
"Damn Good Show" |
single |
Fighting is always about momentary power, not better futures. |
76 |
Pollyanna |
"Pixie" |
Slime |
Better futures start with a shared idea |
77 |
FKA twigs |
"killer" |
single |
of what "better" would be like. |
78 |
Nova Twins |
"Choose Your Fighter" |
Supernova |
Making it harder for a traumatized teenager in Texas to get an abortion |
79 |
Rico Nasty |
"Black Punk" |
Black Punk +1 |
doesn't improve her situation or her child's potential any more effectively |
80 |
Santigold |
"Ain’t Ready" |
Ain’t Ready +1 |
than firing Iskanders into Kharkiv apartment buildings |
81 |
Perfume Genius |
"Hellbent" |
Ugly Season |
makes it easier for Russians to eat Big Macs |
82 |
Tom Vek |
"Fountains Spit Your New Name" |
single |
or Ukrainians to eat. |
83 |
Maraton |
"Contranym" |
Contranym +2 |
A better future has better healthcare, |
84 |
Young Guv |
"Nervous Around U" |
Nervous Around U +3 |
better education, |
85 |
Bartees Strange |
"Mulholland Dr." |
Farm to Table |
better contraception, |
86 |
Tom Walker |
"Number 10" |
single |
more consent, |
87 |
The Wedding Present |
"Once Bitten" |
Once Bitten +1 |
better social support. |
88 |
The Alarm |
"Protect and Survive - 2022" |
Omega |
A better future allows people to make less catastrophic decisions |
89 |
Together Pangea |
"Cigarette" |
Cigarette +2 |
by reducing the precarious lurking probability of catastrophe, |
90 |
Hamish Hawk |
"Angel Numbers" |
single |
or the pressures that increase the possibility of decisions |
91 |
Gwilym |
"cynbohir" |
single |
that will need to be unmade. |
92 |
Emmit Fenn |
"Amman" |
single |
If you sincerely want fewer abortions, |
93 |
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith |
"Is it Me or is it You?" |
single |
it should be no meaningful comfort that they take place somewhere else. |
94 |
Alanis Morissette |
"awakening—in between thoughts" |
the storm before the calm |
A story of how we make a world where abortions are |
95 |
Caterina Barbieri |
"Terminal Clock" |
single |
an exceptional recourse |
96 |
Vladislav Delay |
"Isotv" |
single |
does not begin with arguing over what anybody meant |
97 |
Lil Ugly Mane |
"i believe the world would be a better place without you" |
single |
by wording they bickered over |
98 |
Igcokama elisha |
"Iskhova sikazwelonke" |
Mthandeni Sk -Iskhova sikazwelonke |
for a summer before we had spell-check |
99 |
BlaQRhythm |
"Ngimnyama" |
Isintu 4 |
or ultrasounds |
100 |
AMA-AK47 |
"Ulala kwagogo" |
single |
or stethoscopes. |
101 |
Navigator Gcwensa |
"Intwenhle" |
Noma Liduma 3 |
It begins with love and joy, |
102 |
Kabza De Small |
"Liyangishonela (feat. Nobuhle)" |
KOA II Part 1 |
and a compassionate willingness to diligently work backwards |
103 |
Prince Kaybee |
"Sibemunye" |
Gemini |
from eventual utopia |
104 |
BlaQRhythm |
"Inhliziyo Yeskhova" |
Isintu 4 |
to this summer, |
105 |
David Jones David |
"Go Sidon For Gutter" |
single |
and these people gathered here |
106 |
Lorraine Thobile Mbhele |
"Sizoyinqoba I-Corona" |
single |
amongst what we know now, |
107 |
Igcokama elisha |
"eSanlam center" |
Mthandeni Sk -Iskhova sikazwelonke |
rather than forwards from how you imagine things used to be until, |
108 |
Sørgmodig |
"Catastrophic Melancholy" |
single |
and not a second further than, |
109 |
Kuggur |
"بعلة" |
single |
this moment when you temporarily stopped anybody else from |
110 |
The Dark Atom |
"The Dark Knight" |
Stargate Synchronicity |
continuing to make things better. |
111 |
Andromida |
"Flight" |
single |
If you care about people and the lives they are leading right now, |
112 |
Johari |
"Head Mounted Sideways" |
single |
you don't tell them "We give you this darkness |
113 |
Rings of Saturn |
"Shinigami" |
Rings of Saturn |
because it is somebody else's job to sell you light", |
114 |
Atomic Symphony |
"Chimera" |
single |
even if you believe it is somebody else's job to sell them light. |
115 |
Charlie Griffiths |
"In Alluvium" |
Tiktaalika |
We don't tell racists in coal towns that they can go fuck themselves in silence until they build a wind farm. |
116 |
Porcupine Tree |
"Rats Return" |
Rats Return +2 |
We didn't keep trying to cure lung cancer in smokers |
117 |
Tim Bowness |
"Only a Fool" |
single |
because we like cancer, or because smokers got their cigarettes from God. |
118 |
The Soft Moon |
"Him" |
single |
We forgive, as a way of stalling for time, |
119 |
Animal Ghosts |
"Blue" |
Wallow |
until we can think how to restore. |
120 |
Mice Parade |
"Eyes See Stars" |
single |
But tragically, almost unforgivably, |
121 |
The Catalina |
"Believe in Something" |
Believe in Something +1 |
we also gerrymander as a way of rationing out hoarded power, |
122 |
SelloRekt / LA Dreams |
"Body Work" |
single |
knowing that it was never earned, |
123 |
Manga Saint Hilare |
"OWT" |
single |
and that every time you wield unearned power |
124 |
Harry Shotta |
"Floyd Mayweather" |
single |
it sucks the missing life-force it needs from your own soul. |
125 |
Alanis Morissette |
"mania—resting in the fire" |
the storm before the calm |
You can't threaten people out of their fear or their mistakes, |
126 |
umru |
"honest (Himera Remix)" |
single |
or lead them to peace with a trail of wanted guns and unwanted children; |
127 |
Lunatica |
"Sons of the Wind (Back to the 80's Remix)" |
single |
you can't heal yourself with gold, |
128 |
The Dollyrots |
"Alone Again (Naturally)" |
Alone Again (Naturally) +1 |
and you can't buy yourself immunity with other people's suffering, nor from it. |
129 |
Violet Orlandi |
"I Will Survive" |
single |
You can't even necessarily live through this. It may pass, but it won't pass on its own. |
130 |
The Animal In Me |
"As It Was" |
single |
You're no good alone. |
131 |
8-Bit Arcade |
"Running up That Hill (8-Bit Placebo Emulation)" |
By Request, Vol. 180 |
So much hate, |
132 |
Rick Springfield |
"Love is Alright Tonite - Live" |
Working Class Dog |
but with each defeat comes a feeling of incredible power. The future is not written, only the past. |
133 |
Talk Talk |
"It's So Serious - David Jensen Show BBC Radio Session 18/11/1981" |
Today 4 |
It reaches after us with necrotic tentacles, like it will only be satiated if time, and thus progress, stops completely. But it doesn't. The future keeps coming. Our world is empty without us, and ever fuller. |