Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

I'm assuming P. Phil woke up after ICE set off a flash bang before yanking him out of his warm comfy home, so I guess it's six more weeks of fascism.

Wellllll shiiiiit. There's going to be a Blue Note Tone Poet pressing of Sinatra's Songs for Swinging Lovers. But I've already got the cd, so I guess I can save that $40.

Just finished building new record shelves, which holds my entire collection, a mere 650ish records. That's after I purged about 20%. I could probably get rid of another 10% and not even miss them.

The siren of the fire truck that just went by is in the same key as Bill Evans Spring is Here w/LaFaro and Motian.

She played an in-store set at the record shop I worked in about 02 or 03. Not knowing more than a couple of her songs, I was really surprised and amazed at her musicianship. At one point she took out a dulcimer and played the shit out of it.

If I was a betting man, I'd put my money on Christian McBride being the next Jazz at Lincoln Center director.

I can't wait until mine shows up.

I thought I saw some people saying that Geese sucked on SNL. I mean if you don't like them to start with you wouldn't have liked it, but they rocked the shit. And actually played live. And they really enjoyed playing. If you like Geese, how could that have sucked?

Wynton retired from being the Jazz at Lincoln Center director. I'll take the gig, and I will do it for 1/4 of what he made. I'd still be pulling down $500k a year. What a bargain for them!

American Masters - Sun Ra: Do the Impossible on @pbs.org February 20 www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

Maybe the worst vibe ever. But good on them for choosing to have a shitty life.

They may be united, but they really are is fucking useless. What's the point in calling my GOP senators when their opposition is made up of these clowns?

Mine: running an animal sanctuary. End of list.

I haven't looked, but surely there's got to be at least one ECM record out there by Ralph Towner/Richie Beirach/Jack DeJohnette.

Hamiet Bluiett from his 1992 Blindfold Test: "Duke had two bands---he had his band, and he had Harry Carney." Damn straight.

Dunno why, but I've had Mogwai's EP+2 on repeat the last week or so.

Duke University Press is turning 100 in 2026!  We invite you to engage with us throughout the year, as we reflect on and celebrate the first 100 years of the Press and look ahead to our second century. Learn more on our blog: buff.ly/cOchIZD #DUP100

Victor Bailey's Blindfold Test from 1989 is one of the very few from the decade with some shit talking. Here he is giving one star to a record featuring Jamaaladeen Tacuma.

How do they get masks? Since it's Minnesota, I assume they went to Menards, where they naturally saved big money. It's amazing what you can buy at the store when you're not a fucking idiot or a patsy for a regime that's killing it's own citizens.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

From now on I want all weather related statistics to be rendered in relation to "What does this add up to in number of golden retrievers"

Our new cat. He is an absolute terror. Don't let his hands up surrender motion fool you, he will never be taken alive.

Great post that details the MASSIVE amounts of invisible labor that goes into publishing a book.

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

Looked at Bluesky. Everything sucks. Except this baby cow. Good night.

What's a guy gotta do to get the USA kicked out of the Olympics?

Art Blakey in Notes and Tones: " The only way the Caucasian musician can swing is from a rope."

A thread of things you can do to help folks in MN. If you've got funds to throw our way, the below website is a great place to start. I also repost fundraisers regularly as do other people on the ground. 🧵 www.standwithminnesota.com

A lot of moments in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year really got to me, but this page especially about how he wants to "bury the new condo developments instead of my people" and wash away the violence that is baked into American society hit hard.

One of the many reasons I stopped watching the NFL. If you need 8 paragraphs and 13 subsections and 17 dependent clauses to know what constitutes a catch, I'm not interested.

Does anybody know if the new Plugged Nickel reissue has been remastered? All I've seen is that it's from the original Mosaic set. I know it's live, but I always thought the sound was just kind of meh. Of course the music transcends the sound quality.

The lovely folks at Anishinaabe-owned Heart Berry made an ICE OUT shirt, from which 100% of the profits will go to the Immigrant Defense Network, a statewide coalition of many orgs. www.heartberry.com/search?q=ICE...

The We Rate Dogs guy telling ICE agents to quit their jobs because historically dudes like them have usually been strung up on lamp posts is maybe the most punk rock thing Ive seen in quite a while.

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

Eddie Daniels, 1989 Blindfold Test, after giving Pee Wee Russell 5 stars: "I've always hated Pee Wee Russell. He always sounded too drunk to me, always discombobulated."

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car" "His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

I appreciate that when the NYT front page shit all over the newfangled "telephone" in 1877, they took the time to absolutely cook people from Philadelphia

Note to future self: when engaging the Ron Fucking Swanson Super Fuzz on my pedal steel guitar, even if the amp vol is only at 1 (the amp doesnt even have a gain knob), put in some earplugs cause that shit rips and rattles the walls.

"I think Lulu is into it"

Best thing you'll see all week.

Greg Osby 1990 Blindfold Test (conducted by my man Kevin Whitehead), on Gene Ammons: "People who play in the altissimo register aren't dealing with the meat of the horn the way Ammons does. If you want to play high, get a soprano."

I didn't realize that Rahsaan Roland Kirk was only 42 when he died. Damn.

Monsignor Waffles has had a busy day playing and needs to recharge his kitten batteries.

Anything by King Sunny Ade. Especially from the 70s/early 80s.

check out the contrast in congressional responses to the situation sitting right next to each other on the skyline

My wife was driving and boxed in by Border Patrol, told to leave but couldn't because one of their trucks was backing up into her car. It's a miracle she wasn't shot.