More books. The top and bottom ones were presents from my family.

CDs that have been on a shelf for a while… just shoved there randomly… But damn, some great records!

Searching a reporter’s home and seizing reporting materials is an extreme form of press intimidation. EFF joins press freedom groups in condemning the FBI’s search of a Washington Post reporter’s home.

“It’s a reminder to people that email should be treated almost not quite public,” EFF’s Thorin Klosowski told The New York Times. Consider the company that runs it and law enforcement's access to it: "The more you put it in it, the more they’ll have access to.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/...

Some light reading, AKA sorting through dad's books.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender”

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities This is exactly the opposite. Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.

This … from La Times and Seth Abramson. Don’t defend Ross

The Department of Labor has just posted its second Nazi slogan (in the original, "Germany for Germans") in the last two days. No one believes this is a coincidence. They are telling America exactly who they are and what they intend.

Detroit jazz: Bennie Maupin reflecting on Alice Coltrane being a PERCUSSIONIST in high school concert band!

Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested. It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

The Iconic Photography of Gordon Parks: An Introduction to the Renaissance American Artist

Chris Murphy: "Let's talk about what's at stake here. The president is spending every single day thinking about invading Greenland, managing the Venezuelan economy, building a ballroom. He's not thinking about the American people at all."

Auchincloss: "When you have a badge & gun and you are interacting with a citizen who has committed no crime, the onus of responsibility is on you to exercise good judgment. Nobody watching that video will buy the argument that he had no other resort other than to shoot her in the face 3 times."

A lawsuit filed by a group of New York City employees against their health insurer cites ProPublica's reporting on ghost networks, where health plans list providers who supposedly accept that insurance but who are not actually available to patients. By @maxblau.bsky.social

We wanted to understand what's going on in Iran. So we talked to three unvaccinated Joe Rogan listeners at an Arby's in Scranton.

So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...

FFS. ICE is targeting Native Americans!

Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.

🚨BREAKING: A federal court blocked core provisions of President Donald Trump’s anti-voting executive order Friday, ruling that the president had no authority to impose new election rules that threatened to disenfranchise voters and override state law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

Nice Orwell reference….

JUST IN: Reps. Massie and Khanna say "DOJ cannot be trusted" to release all of the Epstein files, urge a federal judge to appoint an independent overseer to make it happen. khanna.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Masked government agents are killing people in the streets, abducting people from their homes in the middle of the night, and arresting those who speak out. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

We don’t have a complete account of Donald Trump and his family’s finances. But a clear picture has emerged: enrichment of the First Family on a scale that is unprecedented in American history. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wKHd1v

Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?

My mother drew in clubs and concerts for decades, sometimes adding watercolor later. Here’s Miles

Remembering one of my musical heroes, Charles #Mingus, who passed way 47 years ago yesterday. This groundbreaking 1956 LP "Pithecanthropus Erectus" was out of print for decades. 1of2 #musicsky #jazzsky #music #jazz

So Capitol Police officers were assaulted and injured on Jan 6th, the White House today is blaming them for the violence, and the people who attacked them have been pardoned and are back to mock and abuse them on the 5th anniversary. And the GOP is the party of the police? Really? REALLY??

Great start. Now rename it for Sonny Rollins! (cc: @jazyjef.bsky.social)

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

he’s off the chain and on a rampage

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Top 10 guitarists? Charlie Christian John McLaughlin Jimi Hendrix Eddie Hazel Paco de Lucia John Lee Hooker Sister Rosetta Tharpe Django Reinhardt Dave Fiuzcynski Carlos Santana

Jazz radio from Japan… radio.garden/visit/ashiya...

Dizzy Gillespie with Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins - Sonny Side Up. #Jazzsky

oh man

We published hundreds of stories on global health and development each year. Some are ... alas ... a bit underappreciated by readers. We've asked our staff for their favorite overlooked posts of 2025.

Daniel Carter was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania on this day in 1945. He turns 80 today. 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, NYC, 10.27.19

Nice little write up on the Prestige design book WAIL www.jazzwax.com/p/wail-the-v...

Prestige label phases on cd artwork, nice 🔵🟣 ⚪🟡 #PrestigeRecords #CDFriday

In this homestretch of 2025, please consider streaming The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit on Prime Video. Management knows you'll dig it for the musical fireworks provided by some of the greatest jazz musicians America has produced and the cultural history of the country's most soulful city.

Annual reminder: You can tell the history of jazz in 5 recordings made on 12/24. 1. 1939: Spirituals to Swing Concert, Carnegie Hall 2. 1948: Charlie Parker, Royal Roost* 3. 1954: Miles Davis & the Modern Jazz Giants 4. 1964: Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil 5. 1965: Don Cherry, Complete Communion

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

🟡 NEW: The Washington Post’s top standards editor decried “frustrating” errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts, whose launch has been met with distress by its journalists. www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

Tonight you will be visited by three spirits.

LISTEN: Those “year-in-review” insights from your apps might seem fun to see and share, but they’re a symptom of the surveillance culture that permeates the internet and threatens your privacy, EFF’s @irmck.bsky.social told @KCBSRadio.bsky.social. www.audacy.com/podcast/kcb...