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Despite having a multi-billion-dollar net worth, you decided to stop paying artists for songs with less than 1,000 streams (months before giving Joe Rogan $250,000,000). So I made a playlist of 300+ great songs with less than 1,000 streams to give them more visibility and plays.
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Democrats fail to call for a recorded vote and GOP passes its bill that cuts veteran disability benefits and forces veterans to pay more to use VA home loan benefits … on Veterans Day
This is the type of thing that would ideally be paid attention to and handled by party leadership. In this case, that would be Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Whip Katherine Clark.
This is less than 24 hours after they failed to whip members on a vote to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, which failed by a 210-204 vote margin with 11 absent Dem members.
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DC isn’t even big enough for yall to lie like this 😂😂
Like Rep. Stansbury, I was stuck behind the same police escort blocking the Capitol when Republicans closed the vote. I would have voted no and believe strongly that Pete Hegseth should be impeached.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
415 members voted on the motion. Reporting indicates the police-escorted bus incident occurred 3.9 miles from the Capitol with no blockage preventing access to the building. The schedule was known since November 9.
clerk.house.gov/FloorSummary/V… hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-… npr.org/2026/11/11/nx-…
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Still processing music titan Sly Stone's passing. An undeniable pioneer who changed the musical and social fabric for the ages, Stone's legacy is felt everywhere. My latest for @discogs explores nine full-lengths that outline his enduring genius.
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Album of the day. If John and Alice Coltrane were the first couple of spiritual jazz, then Doug and Jean Carn definitely ranks second in that caliber. The beauty, urgency, and intensity of the music they created together across the three albums they cut in the early '70s for Gene Russell's pioneering Black Jazz label more than confirms it. Pianist/organist/composer Doug Carn is often overlooked by many except jazz enthusiasts and record collectors, which is truly criminal because he's a force of nature who brings so much depth and conscious power to everything he does. Then there's Jean Carn, another force of nature with an earth shattering voice that soars high. Perhaps she's better known for her later sophisticated R&B hits at Philadelphia International, but the improvisatory, nation-building approach on these early recordings provides a bold contrast. Their third and last offering as a collective, 1973's Revelation is my favorite. Like the previous works, there's so much to this one: their renditions of John Coltrane's "Naima" and McCoy Tyner's "Contemplation" are beyond spellbinding. Then Doug's own originals, like "Revelation," "Power and Glory," "Feel Free," and "Time is Running Out" are right up there, straddling between subtlety and fire within its musical textures and lyrics. Just beautiful through and through.
If you aren’t following @brandonousley yet you need to change that. Always thoughtful and insightful with deep knowledge across many genres, always dropping gems with his ongoing album of the day shares. Such a great presence on this app.
Album of the day. If John and Alice Coltrane were the first couple of spiritual jazz, then Doug and Jean Carn definitely ranks second in that caliber. The beauty, urgency, and intensity of the music they created together across the three albums they cut in the early '70s for Gene Russell's pioneering Black Jazz label more than confirms it. Pianist/organist/composer Doug Carn is often overlooked by many except jazz enthusiasts and record collectors, which is truly criminal because he's a force of nature who brings so much depth and conscious power to everything he does. Then there's Jean Carn, another force of nature with an earth shattering voice that soars high. Perhaps she's better known for her later sophisticated R&B hits at Philadelphia International, but the improvisatory, nation-building approach on these early recordings provides a bold contrast. Their third and last offering as a collective, 1973's Revelation is my favorite. Like the previous works, there's so much to this one: their renditions of John Coltrane's "Naima" and McCoy Tyner's "Contemplation" are beyond spellbinding. Then Doug's own originals, like "Revelation," "Power and Glory," "Feel Free," and "Time is Running Out" are right up there, straddling between subtlety and fire within its musical textures and lyrics. Just beautiful through and through.
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"We got it from Here" remains as one of the best mainstream rap albums of the 2010s, simultaneously an experimental Tribe record that calls upon their best artistic instincts of sampling and verse structure from the ‘90s.
But also in the way it succeeds in presenting a utopic vision for growing old as a rapper, even when the natural course of one’s life decides otherwise.
There’s a grace in handling the memory of Phife, and Tribe’s legacy as a whole, that acts as a guiding light for the album’s brilliance; one that’s often been missing across music when dealing with matters of artistic remembrance."
@mkrwrt poignantly reflects on A Tribe Called Quest's last album on its 10th anniversary. powmag.net/p/a-tribe-called-…
To all the people screaming wait until January.
Asked whether House Democrats will pursue Hegseth impeachment in a majority, Hakeem Jeffries told reporters:
“We'll have that conversation at the appropriate time, and that'll be led by Adam Smith, soon to be chair of the Armed Services Committee, and Jamie Raskin, the next chair of the judiciary.”
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Katherine Clark is the Democratic Whip in the House, and it is thus her responsibility to ensure members are there to vote.
Clark is also a founding member of EDW, which hosted an event tonight from 4:30pm to 6:30pm, overlapping with the 5:30pm vote on the Hegseth impeachment.
Of the 11 members who missed the Hegseth vote, 8 have received support from EDW or its AIPAC-tied super PAC EDW Action. Of those 8, two are sitting board members.
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Pelosi couldn’t be at the vote because she has an award to receive for being an advocate for veterans in Congress. She didn’t need to still be in CA. The taxpayers pay her to represent them in Congress.
Traffic! Did you not know there was a vote? You did. Most people know to leave early enough they can make it in time even if they encounter obstacles.
Only one had a real excuse (medical).
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STOP RUNNING COVER FOR THIS IM LOSING MY MIND OH MY GOD BRO
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If impeaching Hegseth is a priority as Jeffries indicated it was last Sunday, does Jeffries have a plan to discipline those whose conspicuous absence was dispositive in Hegseth avoiding accountability? What’s the plan there?
I asked Hakeem Jeffries about attendance appearing decisive in the Pete Hegseth vote. (11 House Dems did not vote tonight.)
He told me and reporters: "I haven't had a conversation with anyone on the floor team about what may or may not have happened in terms of the Hegseth resolution, but this is not the end of it. It's just the beginning."
“Abandon Ship” goes ridiculously hard and Busta singing on the hook is just immaculate.
“The beat was an accident, but we saved it.” Rampage takes it back to making “Abandon Ship” with Busta Rhymes and the beat-tape story behind “Woo Hah!!” on @Drinkchamps
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You just flipped all these fucking seats and acted like you were going to do something and you couldn’t even be bothered to impeach Pete Hegseth.
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Split screen at Capitol Hill today:
Hakeem Jeffries is arguing that he should be the leader of the Democrats — and then, as the current leader, he couldn’t get enough Democrats to show up to impeach Pete Hegseth
