Today is known as Juneteenth here in the U.S., the day that slavery was finally outlawed in this country. We've come a long way from our original sin, and we've still got a long way to go. The delusion of white supremacy now has the bully pulpit from which the sickness has spread. A fraud entrusted with great power but takes zero responsibility has empowered racists to dig out from hiding their torches and swastikas and hateful chants and the flag of slavery and bring them out into the streets. That recurring stain is ugly, but also instructive. Photos and videos of red hats and gun festishists will live on, forever shaming those we know as #Cult45, just as public fealty to this lawless demagogue cult leader will forever tar the elected officials who have bent the knee. 

This week the campaign of the said conman, who took out a full-page ad in the New York Times demanding the execution of a bunch of teenagers wrongfully arrested and convicted for a murder in Central Park, put out an ad suggesting he is the victim of wrongful accusations. Besides Dunning Kruger, pathological narcissism, sociopathy, and daddy issues, there's going to be a photo of him in the dictionary next to the word projection. The candidate himself also shared bogus video about CNN using manipulated media (including changing the on-screen chyron, and Facebook removed a set of Trump campaign ads for violating the company’s rules against hate symbols. We are being pelted with a steady stream of bullshit so thick it's almost self-defeating...and they are just getting started!

This was a slightly better week for music submissions thanks to the arrival of the Coriky album. The band features Ian McKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi), Joe Lally (Fugazi), and Amy Farina (The Evens), and we will be debuting several songs from that one.

Today's show will be live-hosted from 9am-5pm Eastern U.S. Time and feature new music by  Built To Spill (Boise, Idaho, @built_2_spill), Coriky (Washington, DC), Disheveled Cuss (Los Angeles, CA, @bbqdbrains), The Golden Dregs (London, England, @TheGoldenDregs),  Nana Grizol (Athens, GA, @NGrizol), and a couple of songs from the tribute album to Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Ivy who died from complications due to COVID-19 in April.

The marathon 8-hour show is followed by 2 hours of uninterrupted music and is then rebroadcast in its entirety beginning at 7 p.m. Friday,  5 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday, and one final time at 1 a.m. on Sunday. That is followed by a rebroadcast of a  Fuzzy Road radio show at 11 a.m. and then a couple of old  480 Minutes episodes from this week in past years, making for hosted shows all weekend long.

Tune in and chat with fellow listeners on  Slack. Hanging out and yakking it up with real humans in a virtual conference room is (usually, and especially these isolating times) better than not hanging out and yakking it up with other humans.

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