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Thinking Jazz. Genre-breaking jazz by the leading light of our present era. Hiromi possesses both technique and chops, representing a generational talent. With Jackson and Phillips, the interplay stretches the music to ecstasy. #JazzSky #MusicSky

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Books that I would recommend to others. This powerful novel explores the impositions of class and sexuality in the American south in the 1950s. We root for the narrator “Bone” and follow her bravery and resilience in overcoming the casual and violent cruelties of her circumstances. #BookSky

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Thinking Jazz. Transcendent jazz, fusing cultures and passions into an exciting tableau of aural colors. Listen and be transported. #JazzSky #MusicSky

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Back from a short hiatus. Books that I would recommend to others. Over her prodigious body of work, she has dissected the fault lines of American society, class, and family. The Falls is just one of a dozen that could have bee chosen. But start here: gripping, insightful, and tragic. #BookSky

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open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... The latest from Krugman. Now pair this with the stealth attack on Social Security and healthcare.

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Books that I would recommend to others. 1/2 A book that is history and suspense wrapped together. This was John Marshall's most challenging case, given Florida's hidden history of KKK activity, railroading black men, and of the racist sheriff Willis McCall. Marshall later remarked... #BookSky

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Thinking Jazz. I first heard Cassandra Wilson on Steve Coleman's "Motherland Pulse." Modern vocal jazz by the most mesmerizing alto today. Her bridging avant-garde and jazz standards was a revelation. Her approach is deep and intuitive. A living American treasure. #JazzSky #MusicSky

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My friends, acquaintances, and family still in denial in taking responsibility for this disaster are doing their best to explain away the indefensible. I call it MAGAsplaining. #MAGAsplaining

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Nothing like advocating regime change of an ally engaged in an existential battle defending its freedom and sovereignty. The shit-heal Graham gaslights this as a business deal and now media lapdogs like Thiessen amplify the lies and the framing. Zelenskyy is the legitimate elected leader of Ukraine.

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Books that I would recommend to others. 1/2. We live in a singular moment in defending liberal democracy. Here is an essential source to identify the threat and war against it. Dawisha writes that Putin established “an oligarchy independent of, and more powerful than, the state into… #BookSky

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Thinking Jazz. After years of looking back, the prodigy found his voice with this powerful album. He has developed further, but here is the place to start. #JazzSky #MusicSky

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Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

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As we travel back in time, I'll be trying to use archaic words more. My word of the day is Abydocomist…

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After liberating myself from Amazon, I decided to do the same with the WaPost, Google, and Facebook. Liberty is a heady thing.

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I guess being a vet or disabled vet is not a basis for merit.

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“One of the unacknowledged advantages of the horrendous era we’ve entered is that it has revealed for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power.” —Robert Reich today at Substack

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Thinking Jazz. A new century, a new vision. The Epic: almost three hours of music that sends its listener into the stratosphere, off to other worlds, and back. This is what a musical seismic shift sounds like. He is still evolving and we can only wait to see what is in store. #JazzSky #MusicSky

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Books that I would recommend to others. A reimagining of Huckleberry Finn, but from the perspective of the enslaved Jim. Simply breathtaking writing from an author who extends and gives life to the Huck Finn cannon, fully humanizing a character who was poorly understood, even by Twain. #BookSky

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Shows that these guys waited and then sprung Trump 2 on us for their own purposes. I've cancelled my Amazon Prime subscription and deleted the app on the phone. If we had "free markets" we wouldn't have economic concentration and billionaires. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

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Huh, turns out you can't have private UNIDENTIFIED security assault and kidnap people because you don't like what they say at city hall Weird.

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🚨Trump & Musk are coming for Veterans’ care and the benefits millions rely on—VA, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. They think no one will fight back. They’re wrong. If you’re impacted, we need your story. Speak out now: votevets.org/doge-tipline

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Thinking Jazz. Hargrove’s music was the bridge between the new bop revival and modern jazz. This essential album introduced at least two new modern classics. His versatility and muscular improvisations plowed new ground. He is missed. #JazzSky #MusicSky

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Books that I would recommend to others. I took a trip to historic sites in Virginia with my son and one of my grandsons after reading this book. We live with the legacy of slavery all around us. This book is wisdom: presenting a new way for us to see the familiar. #BookSky

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“Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters.” —Justice Robert H. Jackson

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Prepare, prepare the iron helm of war, Bring forth the lots, cast in the spacious orb; Th' Angel of Fate turns them with mighty hands, And casts them out upon the darken'd earth! Prepare, prepare! #poetry #PoetrySky #WilliamBlake

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Thinking Jazz. Morgan was an acolyte of Bird and a bop mainstay. His career stalled early and it wasn’t until the 1980s and ‘90s that he received his due. I last saw him at Blues Alley in D.C. blowing fresh improvisations and wowing the club. #JazzSky #MusicSky

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Books that I would recommend to others. There are many candidates for the Great American Novel. This is one of them. Its impact is like a shock to the system by exposing deep truths about America’s complicated and tragic history of race from the perspective of a black man. A masterpiece. #BookSky

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Musk took over the US government with graft and is using it—in combination with his space launch firm—to exploit an allied country that’s suffering under Russian invasion for its mineral rights. The scheme is so imperiously evil I feel like audiences wouldn’t find it believable in a Bond villain.

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I have gone through many of the same emotions and feeling of helplessness as everyone here has. Whether Trump is a Russian asset or run-of-the-mill tyrant, he and his enablers are destroying our government and principles from the inside. The whole world and all of history is watching us.

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Thinking Jazz. The age old question has been whether artistry requires conflict to be great. Here is an example in favor of that proposition. Ellington, America’s Beethoven, Mingus the visionary, and Roach the bop maestro, fought, strained, and tussled. The music won. #JazzSky #MusicSky

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Books that I would recommend to others. Jesse B. Semple, nicknamed “Simple” is one of literature’s most famous black characters. He is an "ordinary man… who may not always know, but who often lives, those lines from the blues: When you see me laughing, I'm laughing to keep from crying" #BookSky

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