I believe today’s earworm is appropriate for our times. Our times being two days after Jeff Bezos and his ex-Murdoch stooge publisher Bill Lewis completely eviscerated The Washington Post because reasons, but also because of the ongoing federal police riot in Minneapolis and other US cities. It’s Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On?”.
Gaye wrote this with Renaldo “Obie” Benson and Al Cleveland
in 1969/70, after Benson (a member of the Four Tops) witnessed police brutality
at an anti-war protest in Berkeley’s People’s Park. Gaye released it in 1971.
I rather feel like judges all over the country have been
asking Gaye’s question for the past 12 months. They’re getting testier and
testier about the lack of response from the DOJ and DHS clowns. Viz: this
ruling from District Judge Fred Biery, releasing the 5-year-old boy who was
abducted by ICE agents, along with his father, in Minneapolis and shipped off
to a Texas concentration camp. The whole thing is quite short and well worth
a read, but the final page is a WTF broadside:
(The Bible citations are Matthew 19:14: “Let the little
children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs
to such as these.” And John 11:35: “Jesus wept.”)
Turn up the volume and listen to Marvin.
©2026 Bas Bleu
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