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Ever Since Steve Bannon Was Demoted, And Drama Started Playing Out Between Bannon And Jared Kushner And The Firing Of Comey And "is He Going To Get Impeached?" We Have Been Trapped In A Classic Survivor Reality Tv Show, Like, "who's Going To Get Voted Off The Island?" And This Has Every Single News Show Enjoying Ratings Never Seen Before. And It Physically Pains Them To Talk About The Stakes Of This Administration, Whether It's Health Care Or Climate Change Or The Deregulation Of The Financial Sector Or Social Security. None Of It Can Compete With This Reality Show.

The Task Is Clear: To Create A Culture Of Caretaking In Which No One And Nowhere Is Thrown Away, In Which The Inherent Value Of People And All Life Is Foundational.

There's A Property In Panama Where Trump Has Collected Somewhere Around $30 Million Just From Selling His Name To This Property - It's Somewhere Between $30 Million And $50 Million. It Would Be So Easy For A Developer To Slap On An Extra $6 Million To A Trump Licensing Deal And Have That Be A Backdoor Bribe. Who Are We To Say What That Is Worth? It's So Ephemeral. And This Is The Appeal Of Selling Something As Ephemeral As A Brand Name, Is That It Can Be Inflated Beyond All Reason.

We Live In This Culture Of Endless Extraction And Disposal: Extraction From The Earth, Extraction From People's Bodies, From Communities, As If There's No Limit, As If There's No Consequence To How We're Taking And Disposing, And As If It Can Go On Endlessly. We Are Reaching The Breaking Point On Multiple Levels. Communities Are Breaking, The Planet Is Breaking, People's Bodies Are Breaking. We Are Taking Too Much.

With Most Electronic Music I Hear Now, The Things I Like Will Be The Things That Have Soul. It Has To Have A Feeling In It, Where It Feels Warm, Or Feels Epic. I Like To Play With That In My Music As Well, There Will Always Be A Piano Chord Or Something Underneath It To Make You Feel At Home. I Always Try And Make Sure Even With Vocals And Layering That You Still Feel Like You Know Me, No Matter Whether You're Into Grime Or Hip Hop.