Corporate spending on elections has already topped $500 million this year. That's one third of the $1.58 billion in total that corporations have spent since Citizens United in 2010. Hawaii and Montana both have plans to neutralize this disastrous SCOTUS ruling. Other states must get on board.

“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham…” —Frederick Douglass, 1852

Bill Evans... #jazzsky

Miles Davis... Amsterdam, 1957. Photo by Ed Van Der Elsken #jazzsky

Presenting arguably the worst take ever …

Morris Buttermaker Legend

“The first revolution is when you change your mind” — Gil Scott-Heron

Happy birthday to Bill Withers, born on this day in 1938!

Remembering the great Barry White, who passed away 23 years ago today.

Grateful Dead July 4 1989 Buffalo Orchard Park, NY

Grateful Dead July 4 1969 Electric Theater Chicago IL

Grateful Dead July 4 1981 Manor Downs Austin TX

Grateful Dead July 4 1986 Rich Stadium Orchard Park NY

Grateful Dead July 4 1987 Sullivan Stadium Foxboro MA

Grateful Dead July 4 1990 Sandstone Ampitheatre Bonner Springs KS

Pregame: USMNT with the Mariners. Go M’s Go USMNT

Damnit. Go M’s

Respect Hossam Hassan, Egypt’s head coach, carried the Palestinian flag after Egypt advanced to the Round of 16 of the World Cup. He said, “I dedicate this victory to the Egyptian and Palestinian people.” 🇵🇸 🇪🇬

NYC Mayor Mamdani's America 250 speech is excellent & worth a listen! #SheShed www.youtube.com/live/N8JeVN-...

• Im Juli 1969 landete Louis Armstrong auf dem Mond und entdeckte eine wundervolle Welt.

Mariners sweep! Go M’s

Miles Davis... being interviewed by a journalist(?) #jazzsky

Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald... #jazzsky

Nobody partied harder in the 70s than Alice Cooper and Edith Bunker.

Happy birthday to Johnny Hartman, born this day in 1923! #jazzsky

Remembering the great Jim Morrison, who passed away 55 years ago today.

Remembering the great Brian Jones, who passed away 57 years ago today.

Grateful Dead 7/3/66 Fillmore Auditorium San Fransico CA

Grateful Dead 7/3/69 Reed's Ranch Colorado Springs CO

Grateful Dead 7/3/78 St. Paul Civic Center Minneapolis MN

Grateful Dead 7/3/84 Starlight Theater Kansas City MO

Grateful Dead 7/3/88 Oxford Plains Speedway Oxford ME

BB King

Nat King Cole Trio...💥

Earl Hines... #jazzsky

Even after decades of laboratory testing, scientists still have no idea what the fuck was in Topps' gum.

“I Feel Love” by Donna Summer was released as a single 49 years ago today.

Happy birthday to Ahmad Jamal, born on this day in 1930! #jazzsky

“Get Up Offa That Thing” by James Brown was released as a single 50 years ago today.

Four legends. One photo.

Grateful Dead 7/2/71 Fillmore West San Fransisco CA

Grateful Dead 7/2/81 The Summit Manor Downs TX

Grateful Dead 7/2/89 Foxboro MA

Grateful Dead 7/2/88 Oxford Plains Speedway Oxford ME

Grateful Dead 7/2/86 Rubber Bowl, University of Akron Akron OH

Grateful Dead 7/2/87 Silver Stadium Rochester NY

My generation grew up watching stuff like this yet we’re somehow less fucked up than the subsequent generations. I’m just noting it, don’t ask me to explain it.

Julian Cannonball Adderley, jazz master... #jazzsky

Joe Zawinul and Dinah Washington, 1961... #jazzsky