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It’s A Cancel in the USA, Trump Shoots Again, and more.

🕑 Added 2026-01-24 23:30:40 +0000 UTC

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Anna Kitty 😸

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Marcus

Dear American friends, please, if you can and while you still can, resist this regime with all you've got! It is heartbreaking to watch this fascist takeover of your beautiful country. 😢 I don't know about any artists cancelling visits to the U.S., but literally everybody I talked to said that they will not travel to the U.S. while this administration is in power. Also, colleagues who used to do it regularly in the past now resist against being sent on business trips to the U.S. Same for me, sorry, but the "hand over all your passwords at the gate" policy alone is already unacceptable. Not to mention all the other scary stuff... 😬

LAHM 75

My husband and I went to a mini concert and dinner at a local playhouse. It was difficult to sit there feeling comfortable and enjoying the show knowing how afraid so many are to leave their home just to go to the doctors or work. How different for those of the right skin color and lacking accents

LAHM 75

"Trump fed agents" ! He is spoon feeding shit to America, and expects us to say, "More, please" Fuck that !

Gregory Goldstein

Bob Vylan had their visas revoked before their tour for speaking out against the genocide. They were supposed to play a venue I work at. So now I, a Jew, make less money to… protect Jews?

Robert Hays

We're Jewish so its very scary in the states; we had our run in with ICE in LA before the murder squads started. Now the government is murdering people. Its sad and scary. We're also in retirement so that adds to our fears - the economy is a mess and we're afraid that some day ICE will come for us. Such a far cry from when Obama was elected and I hoped we'd turned a corner - we didn't.

John Contarino

Our decomcracy and our freedom are under assault, not by foreign forces, but from within. This assault is led by a demagogue with malevolent and selfish intents, but who has manipulated the masses under the guise of being a savior. Our Founding Fathers feared this exact scenario. America needs to wake up and restore itself before things get much worse.

Katharina Kwaschik

Hello from Berlin, with a collection of contradictions. It’s deeply unsettling, absolutely terrifying. The shootings, the ongoing violence in the U.S. The horror is hard to put into words. The fear it creates. The brutal images. The future visions that flood in and feel almost unbearable to hold. As an artist, it changes everything. Canceling shows and projects becomes not just a statement, but an emergency. A response to something too heavy to continue performing inside. So much respect for anyone forced into that decision. Still, something else rises. A deep, almost desperate urge to rebel. To answer the darkness with as much life, joy, and fierce togetherness as possible. Art. Bodies in rooms together. Music. Laughter. Presence. Defiance. The contradiction is almost unbearable. Terror and grief on one side. On the other, this unstoppable no. This insistence on living. On opening rather than closing. On choosing connection over fear. Another layer: the political development, the isolation, the normalization of cruelty. It feels uncomfortably familiar. Growing up in the GDR, political terror wasn’t abstract. The patterns of threat, silence, suspicion, escalation. Hauntingly close. Parallels to the 1930s. Impossible to ignore. The way language shifts. How fear becomes policy. How violence becomes normalized, arbitrary. When art and culture don’t take place, spaces go dark. Still, art doesn’t disappear. It mutates. It finds other ways. New forms of subculture may emerge, in resistance, underground, quieter at first, but alive. Thank you, dear Amanda, and you all dear people here, for holding space for all of this at once. 🖤

Steve Devitt

what a disgrace these people are. Bevino on cnn. that will come to light in the investigation. You also said his intent was on mass murder of the officers. does that look like that. Well because of men are well trained that didnt happed.

irina

Panicked and looking at the world as you would at an explosion in slow motion. Band wise i just know of a punk band here in Antwerpen who didn't get visas to tour in the US last year, zero explanation and all their travel money lost. That will have worked as a cautionary tale, but no new names that explicitly refuse to tour there