4 corporations. $315B in profits. Just 4.9% in federal taxes. Tesla paid $0. With Trump’s billionaire tax cuts Amazon, Alphabet, Meta & Tesla got $51B in cuts in ONE year. At the original 35% rate, they’d owe ~$110B. Free public college costs ~$75B. 45M students drown in debt so 4 corps cash in 🇺🇸

US politics is officially broken there is no way to find middle ground with someone who in the year 2026 tells you they want people to show their documents and those documents need to have yellow stars on them

I had no idea that Marco Rubio & Elon Musk would reiterate the need for the book I've written but a chronic lack of cultural literacy seems to be a defining feature of the U.S. ruling class circa 2026 www.amazon.com/Black-Music-...

and speaking of stuff that's in "How Black Music Took Over The World" I've got a chapter that examines the influx of the Irish into NYC in the 1830s/40s --- into what had up until then been the largest community of free Black Americans in the US (side note: this post is proof Elmo is NOT a genius)

"multicultural economic zone" is a pretty accurate description of post-WW 2 U.S. - and - it's the thing that the soldiers who fought in that war died to create He obviously wasn't raised in the US - otherwise he'd've learned Emma Lazarus' poem & wouldn't've written that last sentence

the Beatles were named after bugs but the Rolling Stones are named after a song by blues icon Muddy Waters I talk about riding on his tour bus in my book www.amazon.com/Black-Music-...

Marco Rubio's out here saying exactly the thing that made me write what's in my book and committing exactly the kind of erasure that motivated its title

these mfs know they lost the battle in Minneapolis b/c of community & mutual aid so now they want to erase their existence the fact that these things are the basis of Christianity - which means that attacking them is also attacking the religion these guys all claim to be guarding - is irrelevant

this was as predictable as the plot of Tyler Perry movie:

I bought this book a while ago. Craig Street (producer: Cassandra Wilson/Norah Jones) is a big fan. He's the one that got me to dig into Tom's work. Tom Wilson's a fascinating figure.

my idea of what's cold has definitely changed lol & now I agree with this

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

Dave's always been edgy back in the day he'd often sit in with Alphonia Tims & the Flying Tigers (google it) and Wadada Leo Smith has record w him, Nels Cline, Adam Rudolph, Pheeroan Ak Laff, Barry Altschul & I in the can

bought one of these a couple years back when I found out I was gonna be in London for a few days - I needed it

It’s great news but it ain’t over until my Signal chats say it is

you can argue about which city is better culture-wise but you Can Not argue about which city is better weather-wise god bless the person who wrote this (but) NYC vs London weather-wise is No Contest an easy win for NYC

these days I'm a two-city citizen: Brooklyn AND Minneapolis so (naturally?) I've been asking myself Creatively, what do we need to get through this? What music meets this moment? this project is my first answer to those combined questions

Black Bliss Krishnananda: Georgia Anne Muldrow Laraaji Surya Botofasina Isaiah Collier Brandon Ross Tcheser Holmes Melvin Gibbs Shapashifter Labs - Saturday Feb. 21st 8:00 PM sponsered by FourOneOne www.fouroneoneprojects.org/events/black...

I know I’m fixating, but “shooting down party balloons and using it as a pretext for war” is literally the “99 Luftballons” story arc. 🎈🤯 (Even “Miami 2017” didn’t map this closely.)

it's worth mention that at 2% this is much higher hit rate than the percentage of guns found during "stop & frisk": 1.25%

check out this short Q&A about some of what's in my upcoming book: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I'm not gonna speak for anyone else but I understand that him going after first Haitians, then Somalis is him laying the foundation for coming after "lawless" Black Americans-which will eventually be ALL of us He'll start with those in positions of power that meme was him taking the temperature

I don’t agree w the selfish part of this quote. I think it’s more like cooking Thanksgiving dinner. If the family’s gonna feast they gotta let you cook.

one of the Decoding Society's first shows was a double bill w Mandingo Griot Society at Soundscape in Manhattan

another milestone - just did my very first block on Bluesky

this is my first back & forth like this on Bluesky...oh well Scandal is a clickbait word...If I cared about clicks I'd be posting elsewhere maybe you don't see remote control from the Philippines as problematic - but obviously Waymo understands it is - which is why they've kept it quiet be well

yes but the fact is that human operators are still a necessary part of component Waymos "self-driving" taxi

soooo they're Not Really Autonomous? they're being by remote control... from the Philippines???

700 is such weird number it sounds to me like they asked "how many agents can we get rid of & still be able to do exactly what we're doing now?" and they came back with "idk, 700?"

if you went to a doctor & they found a tumour, then told you "guess what, we're taking 20% of it out" would your response be "yea"? or would it be "wtf? why aren't you removing the whole f-in thing?"

just so it's clear instead of taxing the mfs whose wealth is so vast that their lifestyles wouldn't change at all these mf's want us to work every day of our lives from 18 until death to fill the gap that not taxing them creates

I feel like the Recording Academy came up with the Best Alternative Jazz Album category mainly to make sure that Robert Glasper would never appear in the R&B category again - so I expect him to win that Grammy this year

I was at this rec center on MLK Day Cornbread Harris (Jimmy Jam's 90+ year old father) played as part of the celebration FUCK ICE

all I have is rumour, so I can't answer that directly I CAN say - the fact the OG AACM/BAG musicians stayed both undeniably creative and prolific late into their careers allowed them to outlast a concerted effort to eject them from the "jazz" canon that he was attempting to construct

I don't have much to say about Wynton stepping down from JALC once it became obvious that his jihad agianst the avant-garde had failed I basically stopped thinking about him credit it where credit is due concerning his political skills

NOT Hyperbole NOT Exaggeration This is LITERALLY what the Nazis did

American far-right influencers are mad at (checks notes) the model Aryan phenotypical people living in the US because they're Too Empathetic

Bovino: "It's our f-cking city" Citizens Of Minneapolis: no it ain't mufukuh

f this dude there is no correlation between how hard you work and how rich you are at one point my Dad had 4 - FOUR - jobs & the mfs who picked the vegetables in the salad plates they ate after that meeting work harder than all of those dudes

it's BEEN obvious to me that Minneapolis is a training run for New York City

they say it's an "exuberant debut" I say "tell your friends about it" www.publishersweekly.com/9781541603240

making their weapons useless Minneapolis style

you can plainly see that she's whupped ass in the past and will do so in the future if necessary

they don't seem to know that pursuits like this put America & Americans in jeopardy switching out Homan for Bovino isn't gonna help when we're dealing with this level of stupid criminality

he's savvy enough not to say "But" but what he said is telling us that we can be sure that the next time a legal gun owner gets shot by one of his people he's gonna blame the victim

a list that includes me And Valerie June is a list I'm gonna share

there is nothing false about this equivalency people are being rounded up & sent to concentration camps the point of remembering The Holocaust is making sure it doesn't Happen Again

they're trading the wanna-be SS officer for the crooked cop y'all are celebrating too soon

like I said Bovino leaving Minneapolis Is Not Enough