Ben Rubin

Thanks for all your Spotify wrapped posts, they finally reminded me to get around to cancelling my account there. Been meaning to since they gave Rogan all the money meant for musicians. The CEO investing in war crime technology and running ICE ads logically flowed from that vibe. Wrapped indeed!

Starbucks to Pay $39 Million in Landmark N.Y.C. Labor Law Settlement

Starbucks settles New York City worker scheduling violations. "Fast food employers must give workers regular schedules..., must provide schedules 14 days in advance and cannot reduce hours by more than 15% without ‘just cause or a legitimate business reason’." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...

Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

It’s kind of a buzzkill when “ICE Propaganda” squeezes intro your top genres because Spotify keeps runnings ads for Trump’s brutal secret police force.

Maybe this year let’s skip sharing our Wrapped and urge our followers to Cancel Spotify instead.

indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

Sleepy piggy

“Real scientist are delighted when they find out they wrong... There are too many people in this world who want to be right. And too few who just want to know.”

― Brian Cox

Hegseth has to GO.

Paresh Nath

pretty sure they could!

Yuck

It's a fact

That cancelled show you’ll never stop thinking about

Ray Nance, “Showbiz” himself. Easily my favorite jazz fiddler.

Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington Live At The Blue Note Listen to Duke Ellington Live At The Blue Note on TIDAL

Ellington Sundays continue over here.

This record, “Live at the Blue Note, 1959” is new to me. Super-classic lineup of this band.

tidal.com/browse/album...

Oh hell yes!

For 5 days we’re saying #WeAintBuyingIt to Target, Amazon and Home Depot. Instead we’re shopping local. Today redirect money you’ve saved from the boycott and give it to charity. Remember, when they go low, we go local! Invest in your communities by supporting local businesses.

So worth a visit. Especially if you can make to Galapagos! The 17th century architecture is stunning.

This pic reminds me of my visit a couple of years back to Quito. South American graffiti game is strong!

Not at all happy to be vindicated for feeling creeped out by the name “Homeland Security” since the day it was founded.

It was too short!

Today is a great day to spend time with your friends and family, do something good for your community, or shop at local, Black and immigrant-owned small businesses.

Skip the Target run, Home Depot christmas tree, or Amazon binge. Tell Trump enablers that #WeAintBuyingIt

This is it in plain english. The racism is what they voted for. A big fuck you to anyone who voted for this man, or ever supported any of his hateful ideals. This was always going to be the playbook. This man can go straight to hell.

The boycott is today

Florida professor may have solved mystery of Peru’s Band of Holes Charles Stanish surmised indentations were rudimentary market place and later adapted as accounting and storage system

Charles Stanish surmised indentations were rudimentary market place and later adapted as accounting and storage system. A Florida archaeologist’s decades-long persistence has helped solve the origin and purpose of the so-called Band of Holes in the country’s mountainous Pisco Valley.

Gonna keep going

- Deltron 3030 w horns and strings
- Pink Floyd
- Grateful Dead w Branford Marsalis, 1990
- Sonny Rollins
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse w/Patti Smith opening

- Lollapolooza 1994 w/P-Funk, Tribe Called Quest, Beastie Boys, L7, Nick Cave, Last Poets
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, final tour

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen

-Pharaoh Sander w Percussion Masters of India (Zakir Hussein et al)
- Rolling Stones, Steel Wheels Tour
- Dizzy Gillespie 75th birthday at Blue Note (w/Elvin Jones, Kenny Barron, James Moody, Jimmy Heath)

Pure, uncut evil

Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle on this day in 1942. My gateway to improvisational music.

📸 Daniel Teheney, Maui, 1970

just ordered the wall calendar for the writers in the family!

National Guard members should never have been deployed in Washington, DC.