How are you supposed to do guided sleep meditation apps when not sleeping alone?

I’m so grateful the beach boys love me

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

It’s been a Sun Ship sort of week; ready to ascend for the weekend 🎧🎷☀️🚀 #NowPlaying #JazzSky #ColtraneSky

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

CATS THINK KITCHENS ARE AIRPORTS

I wrote about Senate Dems’ proposed “reforms,” which range from superficial to likely unenforceable to actively harmful; the grip billionaire-backed anti-“abolish” Groups have over Washington and the conspicuous absence of any attempt to touch DHS’s obscene budget.

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Administration says ‘yeah’

I've lived in Minnesota my whole life and have experienced some major cold snaps but this is the first time I've heard about exploding trees.

i would happily stage a hostile takeover of the board of peace

Went for a walk in feels like -18 degree weather this morning but had to pay my respects to the bean

This was so much fun, so glad I made the trip

Ok I saw it

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Every now and then I remember wynton Marsalis exists and I get upset

if you try to focus on Trump’s authoritarianism, Schumer will deflect and say people want us to focus on affordability. but when Zohran Mamdani made affordability the heart of his campaign Schumer refused to endorse him because they disagree about Israel. it’s all mealy mouthed bullshit.

My latest newsletter: Revisiting David Bowie's final album Blackstar on the tenth anniversary of its release

Blackstar remains a hell of a life mic drop

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The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

I know this gives folks big feelings & I want to make space for that, but we’re in “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will” territory here. What we are experiencing now are the inevitable & historical consequences of the system we have. A new one is simply what is required.

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Rubber Soul is a relentless record

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

The Massachusetts version of this bill raised more billions of dollars than it expected and no one actually left. California should do it and be legends.

My sister knows how to buy my Xmas gifts (that I tell her to get me). 🎧 #NowPlaying #VinylSky #DylanSky #WiggleWiggle

Making sure everyone knows that Kate Bush's 1979 Christmas special is available to stream on YouTube and it's VERY worth your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6BP...

A reasonably eclectic/eccentric Xmas book haul

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Merry Christmas #VinylSky 🎧🎄

I mean, yes Total Wine, true but

I’m satisfied—tickled too—that this record sounds so blue (complementary) 🎧 #NowPlaying #VinylSky #BluesSky #CandyMan

I find myself out walking around Union Square this morning, and I’m thinking about the vacancy rate in our ground floor commercial space. Let’s just see what’s available. First up, the former home of the SMC and MAPS. Just sitting there. 1/?

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just too much things.

Still the best Christmas ornament I’ve ever had

Success!

"As a core member of Booker T. & the MG’s, the 'Memphis Group' that backed up the soulful voices of the Stax-Volt Records roster throughout the 1960s, Cropper was a quintessential, self-effacing team player." Steve Cropper — 9 Essential Songs (gift link):

This is so funny to me

This tracks 🎧 #NowPlaying

Picked up an almost flawless 1963 OG mono copy of this for $8 today. The exact price this sort of stuff should be (but never is). 🎧 🏄‍♂️ 🏁 #NowPlaying #VinylSky #CarClub #BeachBoySky

Moody judgmental blue note is my favorite blue note I think. Tailor made for me. 🎧🎹😎 #NowPlaying #VinylSky #BlueNote #JazzSky #JudgementalJazz

This is the result of the CIA using children to kill people and yet a whole lot of people don’t want to recognize *American* culture, and in particular the culture of the War on Terror, at work here.

No flaws detected 🎧🌹 #NowPlaying #VinylSky #GuitarSky

They line up perfectly.

Back on my Jack Rose BS 🎧🌹 #VinylSky #GuitarSky