Pieka Albrecht

This brightened my day amidst the world’s gloom and doom. It brings me pure joy.

"The Nook" 2025
Oil on canvas 24x24"
Artist: Richard Ahnert
Toronto, Canada
#Art

Black Music Sunday: Ella Jenkins, 'the first lady of children’s music' � Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 285 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope ...

Black Music Sunday: Ella Jenkins, 'the first lady of children’s music'
by Denise Oliver-Velez @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

So many childhood memories of her concerts! What a blessing to children!

Black Music Sunday: Ella Jenkins, 'the first lady of children’s music' � Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 285 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope ...

Black Music Sunday: Ella Jenkins, 'the first lady of children’s music'
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

The Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention

The Senate exists for the same reason that the ACA doesn't have a public option: it was negotiated to placate the necessary votes. Slave states were nervous about being beholden to public will so we massively over-elevated state representation. www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...

Yeah- once again, they forget we’re on to them now. We’re not stupid magats- they will never be that lucky. Widen the protest!

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They seem to forget that they WORK FOR US! They do not get to independently decide whatever they want!

TOTALLY hosed! It’s BS!

Durbin’s office wouldn’t even allow a voicemail!!!

And any of us not on ACA will also see our premiums rise even more and get even less coverage yet AGAIN! because the greedy insurance companies will see this as an opportunity to increase their immoral GREED! Screw this crap.

a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag

A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.

Beautiful!!

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

The two party system is incompatible with democracy.

We must change our electoral system to restore democracy.

Not one of them actually gives a crap about any of US. I’m so tired of their damn charade. We protest and blow our damn whistles and fight like hell, and they roll over like the fat cats they are. Time for a total overhaul- I’m DONE with status quo! It’s a game to them- they don’t rep us.

WTH @durbin.senate.gov !!!

Not very accessible these days 👎🏼!

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
~ Søren Kierkegaard

November Afternoon (1881)
🎨 Alfred Sisley

GitHub - spotify2tidal/spotify_to_tidal: A command line tool for importing your Spotify playlists into Tidal A command line tool for importing your Spotify playlists into Tidal - spotify2tidal/spotify_to_tidal

4 months since I changed to Tidal, very good alternative. Almost identical experience with two exceptions: no podcasts (I'm using another app for those), and offline mode is not good. Otherwise, I'm very happy with the change!

I used a Python script to transfer playlists:
github.com/spotify2tida...

cant leave a VM for @durbin.senate.gov asking him to stand strong - message says must call back during “regular business hours“.

@nytimes.com

Not pro-life.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Sorry for your loss :(

I like them both, esp JB, but I think both were born with silver spoons so they haven’t felt the real X most of us have.

Old Skool #Audio Stack. #Audiophile

You know you want one

In celebration of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we are highlighting some of the Native trailblazers in the legal field and honoring the histories, cultures, and ongoing contributions of Indigenous communities that make our democracy bolder and stronger.