Department of truth, fight the takeover and give up Crimea + this day in history w/Hillary has brain damage and our song of the day by Nodega on your #MorningMonarchy for August 18, 2025.
Notes/Links:
Drake Wants to See Kendrick’s Record Deal & UMG CEO’s Emails in ‘Not Like Us’ Lawsuit (UPDATED); A series of new legal filings claim Universal Music Group has withheld key evidence from Drake’s team
https://archive.is/RLADe
Ye vs Lucian Grainge – How Universal Music Group’s CEO Became the Rapper’s Most Formidable Foe (Mar. 20, 2025)
https://www.xxlmag.com/kanye-west-lucian-grainge-biggest-enemy/
#MorningMonarchy: August 23, 2024 – #raydaniels Its nepotism that Elliot Grainge keeps 10k & is the CEO of Atlantic🎥@joebuddentv
https://mediamonarchy.com/20240823morningmonarchy/
BUT HIS EMAILS // BUSTA LAWSUIT // CAN’T PAY THIS // IRON MIC? // CARTEL TUNES // COUNTERFEIT CASE // CARTEL TUNES
https://view.email.billboard.com/?qs=b001971aec6e4abeef91ba7e33cf88077e288ef0dd8a954d12790338f6ca354efe240d775a5b095c6cdf065cef42dff0d108dd4f5df601f9659033226d5eab451024d9c72a4aa977986b91079ef4128a
Del Records CEO Ángel del Villar Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison After Cartel Ties Conviction; The exec, who built Del Records into a top label for regional Mexican music, is facing a prison stint for planning concerts with a promoter linked to drug cartels
https://archive.is/dlEn6
Browns Rookie RB Quinshon Judkins Won’t Face Formal Charges; Judkins was facing a misdemeanor battery and domestic violence charge involving his girlfriend
https://nfltraderumors.co/browns-rookie-rb-quinshon-judkins-wont-face-formal-charges/
ESPN will not air Spike Lee’s docuseries on quarterback Colin Kaepernick; Multi-part series on ex-NFL player who protested racial injustice will not continue over ‘creative differences’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/espn-spike-lee-colin-kaepernick-docuseries
Let’s Talk Comics Episode 20: James Tynion IV on 5 Years of The Department of Truth (Audio)
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-20-james-tynion-iv-on-5-years-of-the-department-of-truth
#MorningMonarchy: November 19, 2021 – #MediaMemes/#BookSmarts: Department of Truth – Is this the real life, or is it just fantasy?
https://mediamonarchy.com/20211119morningmonarchy/
James Tynion IV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tynion_IV
Idlewild – “Listen To What You’ve Got” (Audio)
‘100 Broken Windows’
Capitol/Odeon/Food – Apr. 10, 2000
*Idlewild – “Listen To What You’ve Got” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-D8ukwr3kg // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Broken_Windows // ‘100 Broken Windows’ is the second studio album by Scottish rock band Idlewild, released on 9 May 2000. Initial recording with Bob Weston resulted in unremarkable material, by which point they switched to working with producer Dave Eringa. Described as an indie punk album, 100 Broken Windows has been compared to R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü. The staff at NME said melody is “now paramount over velocity, the rough edges of reckless spontaneity smoothed by the high-gloss patina of responsible coherence”.*
‘God Will Pull the Plug on Us’ if We Don’t Support Israel, Warns Lindsey Graham
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/god-will-pull-the-plug-on-us-if-we-dont-support-israel-warns-lindsey-graham/
Video: Lindsey Graham threatens the APOCALYPSE if US stops giving Netanyahu bombs; We couldn’t find that passage in the Bible…
https://x.com/RT_com/status/1955735128208228820
Video: Lindsey Graham’s SHOCK Warning – “If America Pulls Plug on Israel, GOD Will Pull Plug on Us!” (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ2fz-hT4fY
Columbia University to aid Trump policing of foreign students under deal
https://www.thedailynewsonline.com/news/columbia-university-to-aid-trump-policing-of-foreign-students-under-deal/article_cefe157c-004d-437f-929a-a7bde0823132.html
Judge: D.C. police chief remains in command, but Trump can likely demand help on immigration
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bondi-orders-d-c-mayor-to-recognize-dea-head-as-emergency-police-commissioner/ar-AA1KywZi
Three Republican-led states to deploy National Guard troops to US capital
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/three-republican-led-states-deploy-national-guard-troops-us-capital-2025-08-16/
Demonstrators protest Trump-backed redistricting plans at over 200 events across the country
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/demonstrators-protest-trump-backed-redistricting-plans-at-over-200-events-across-the-country/ar-AA1KCtKK
Video: Chicagoan “Hey Trump! Trump, you need to bring the National Guard to Chicago, man. You got kids kiIIing kids, man. Thats not good.” (Audio)
https://x.com/dom_lucre/status/1956874663981629564
Fight the Trump Takeover: Hundreds protest recent Trump administration actions in SF; “We’re watching our country be destroyed right in front of us.”
https://abc7news.com/post/fight-trump-takeover-200-rallies-held-34-states-including-san-francisco-protest-administration-actions/17567598/
Video: “Fight the Trump Takeover” protests held across U.S. (Audio)
https://youtu.be/RCHkRrBUOfM
Local H – “Creature Comforted” (Audio)
‘Here Comes The Zoo’
Palm – Mar. 5, 2002
*Local H – “Creature Comforted” https://open.spotify.com/track/6dhwbH8qZIKxyAvX8l5YiO // https://localh.bandcamp.com/album/here-comes-the-zoo-20th-anniversary-remaster // ‘Here Comes the Zoo’ is the fourth studio album by American rock band Local H, released on March 5, 2002, through Palm Pictures. This was their first album not released on Island Records. (LOL It’s on the other label by the guy that founded Island.) The album was originally to be released in late 2001 but it got delayed to 2002 due to the effects of the 9/11 attacks. WUT THERES A REISSUE?! AND A VHS TAPE TOO?!*
Trump tells Zelensky to give up Crimea and agree to never join NATO
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-putin-zelensky-ukraine-news-08-17-25
Video: Zelenskyy ready to give up Crimea: Trump; US President Donald Trump says he thinks Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy is ready to give up Crimea, in direct contradiction to the Ukrainian leader’s statements on the peninsula annexed by Russia. (Apr. 28, 2025 // Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yMZUY8diLLk
Shame – “Spartak”
‘Cutthroat’
Dead Oceans – September 5, 2025
*Shame – “Spartak” https://soundcloud.com/shamebanduk/spartak-1 // https://shame-uk.myshopify.com // The new single to preview ‘Cutthroat,’ the upcoming album by British alternative rock band, Shame. Due on September 5th via Dead Oceans.*
#ThisDayInHistory/#MorningMonarchy: August 18, 2016 – Dr. Drew: “Hillary Has Brain Damage” (Audio)
https://mediamonarchy.com/20160818morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: August 18, 2016 ♬ BDAY BOYS Christian Slater 56 & Antonio Salieri 275
https://mediamonarchy.com/20160818pumpupthavolume/
#NewWorldNextWeek: Soros Got Hacked. Can You Guess What We Found? + NSA Hacked & Dems Hacked
https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw280-video/ // https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw280-audio/
#MorningMonarchy: August 18, 2017 – A pro-Trump rally is now scheduled at the same time and place as the Juggalo March on Washington
https://mediamonarchy.com/20170818morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: August 18, 2017 ♬ Ariel Pink – “Time To Live” & Human Heat – “I Need My Space”
https://mediamonarchy.com/20170818pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: August 18, 2021 – New York Jews Embrace Nazism – Partner with IBM to “Show Your Papers”
https://mediamonarchy.com/20210818morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: August 18, 2021 ♬ Ben Colder & Brothers Osborne
https://mediamonarchy.com/20210818pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: August 18, 2022 – If that’s Heche there on the stretcher, she was definitely more than “kind of Alive-O” WTF
https://mediamonarchy.com/20220818morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: August 18, 2022 ♬ Asie Payton & John Coltrane
https://mediamonarchy.com/20220818pumpupthavolume/
#NewWorldNextWeek: Conspiratainment Bingo! Automated Censorship, Banning Berenson, How Many Moonies
https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw493-video/ // https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw493-audio/
#MorningMonarchy: August 18, 2023 – Disney Begins To Wind Down Physical Media, Starting In Australia
https://mediamonarchy.com/20230818morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: August 18, 2023 ♬ Mediabear & RecycleBinLadin
https://mediamonarchy.com/20230818pumpupthavolume/
Nodega – “Quantify” (Audio)
‘Rot In Helvetica’
Chrysalis – July 18, 2025
*#PumpUpThaVolume/#TruthMusic: Nodega – “Quantify” https://nodegabk.bandcamp.com/track/quantify // https://nodega.lnk.to/RIHID // https://mediamonarchy.com/20250804morningmonarchy/ // Please rate, and appraise, quantify your information, minds that disagree can be persuaded! From ‘Rot In Helvetica,’ the just-released EP by NYC quintet, Bodega (last heard #MorningMonarchy: Aug. 4, 2025) – under their alter-ego name, Nodega! Available now via Chrysalis.*