Blake
@blakerj.bsky.social
Sorting records and posting through it.
Photo guy. Fan of the physical.
Perpetually gettin’ real tired of it.
Photo guy. Fan of the physical.
Perpetually gettin’ real tired of it.
Another stellar outing on this late 70s session with a Chet Baker Quartet featuring Duke Jordan, whose compositions are featured, as well as Danish bass-master Niels-Henning Ørsted Peterson and Norman Fearrington on drums. So much under appreciated Steeplechase gold.
December 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Another stellar outing on this late 70s session with a Chet Baker Quartet featuring Duke Jordan, whose compositions are featured, as well as Danish bass-master Niels-Henning Ørsted Peterson and Norman Fearrington on drums. So much under appreciated Steeplechase gold.
Steeplechase has also been repressing select titles like this beautiful set from the duo of Archie Shepp and Horace Parlan taking on some traditional blues numbers. A follow-up to their magnificent “Goin’ Home” album, also a Steeplechase release.
December 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Steeplechase has also been repressing select titles like this beautiful set from the duo of Archie Shepp and Horace Parlan taking on some traditional blues numbers. A follow-up to their magnificent “Goin’ Home” album, also a Steeplechase release.
Johnny Griffin’s Blues for Harvey is inarguably one of the highlights of Steeplechases catalogue. Scorching lineup
December 13, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Johnny Griffin’s Blues for Harvey is inarguably one of the highlights of Steeplechases catalogue. Scorching lineup
Sorting through the Steeplechase section, which is full of interesting nuggets like this pairing of powerhouses.
December 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Sorting through the Steeplechase section, which is full of interesting nuggets like this pairing of powerhouses.
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the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
Amtrak reports Mardi Gras service among most successful ever https://mynbc15.com/news/local/amtrak-provides-boost-to-mobile-businesses
Amtrak's Mardi Gras service boosts Mobile tourism with higher than expected ridership
Amtrak says the new Mardi Gras service that connects Mobile to New Orleans is one of the most successful services ever launched and it's on track to double the
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December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
Didn’t know anything about this but the J Jazz Masterclass label was clue enough it would be essential. Yasuhiro Kohno Trio + One - Song of Island
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Didn’t know anything about this but the J Jazz Masterclass label was clue enough it would be essential. Yasuhiro Kohno Trio + One - Song of Island
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Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud.
Read our full investigation here 👇
Read our full investigation here 👇
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud.
Read our full investigation here 👇
Read our full investigation here 👇
Master of the soprano Steve Lacy tackling some Monk (and a couple Ellington’s) on his fourth album featuring a hella tight crew: Don Cherry, Billy Higgins, & Carl Brown.
December 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Master of the soprano Steve Lacy tackling some Monk (and a couple Ellington’s) on his fourth album featuring a hella tight crew: Don Cherry, Billy Higgins, & Carl Brown.
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#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
(Published Oct. 2025)
(Published Oct. 2025)
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
(Published Oct. 2025)
(Published Oct. 2025)
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@castlesinspace.bsky.social has a nice X-mass sale for you, and you can find beautiful vinyl on discounted prices, so you are able to give beautiful music to your loved ones.
Check out Bandcamp!
andreacichecki.bandcamp.com/album/drawn-...
Check out Bandcamp!
andreacichecki.bandcamp.com/album/drawn-...
Drawn Into The Edge Effect, by Andrea Cichecki
9 track album
andreacichecki.bandcamp.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
@castlesinspace.bsky.social has a nice X-mass sale for you, and you can find beautiful vinyl on discounted prices, so you are able to give beautiful music to your loved ones.
Check out Bandcamp!
andreacichecki.bandcamp.com/album/drawn-...
Check out Bandcamp!
andreacichecki.bandcamp.com/album/drawn-...
This era, and album in particular, from Sun Ra is the most meaningful to me. While I gravitate towards the experimental free jazz, the hard bop/big band tunes remind me of listening to jazz with my grandpa when I was a teen. Much beloved ABC/Impulse reissue of Supersonic Sounds on tap.
December 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This era, and album in particular, from Sun Ra is the most meaningful to me. While I gravitate towards the experimental free jazz, the hard bop/big band tunes remind me of listening to jazz with my grandpa when I was a teen. Much beloved ABC/Impulse reissue of Supersonic Sounds on tap.
RIP Martin Parr, documentarian of the earnest quirkiness of humanity.
December 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
RIP Martin Parr, documentarian of the earnest quirkiness of humanity.
Gettin freaky this evening with a little Free LSD from John “Inzane Johnny” Olson’s psycho jazz outfit Crazy Doberman. 2017 via the Radical Documents label.
December 7, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Gettin freaky this evening with a little Free LSD from John “Inzane Johnny” Olson’s psycho jazz outfit Crazy Doberman. 2017 via the Radical Documents label.
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I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
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Happy Bandcamp Friday! Everything at SPINSTER, including my albums broken things (2024) and ruby glass (2019), is on sale 20% with code BCFRIDAY25.
December 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Happy Bandcamp Friday! Everything at SPINSTER, including my albums broken things (2024) and ruby glass (2019), is on sale 20% with code BCFRIDAY25.
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Happy Bandcamp Friday! My album 'See-Through' on Balmat from 2022 just got repressed! It's available on transparent red/orange vinyl and on standard black.
patriciawolf.bandcamp.com/album/see-th...
patriciawolf.bandcamp.com/album/see-th...
December 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Happy Bandcamp Friday! My album 'See-Through' on Balmat from 2022 just got repressed! It's available on transparent red/orange vinyl and on standard black.
patriciawolf.bandcamp.com/album/see-th...
patriciawolf.bandcamp.com/album/see-th...
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The Lewis Chessmen
These 12th-century chess pieces are packed with personality, and have such charmingly expressive eyes! ♟️ 👀
From a large gaming hoard discovered on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831.
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
These 12th-century chess pieces are packed with personality, and have such charmingly expressive eyes! ♟️ 👀
From a large gaming hoard discovered on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831.
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The Lewis Chessmen
These 12th-century chess pieces are packed with personality, and have such charmingly expressive eyes! ♟️ 👀
From a large gaming hoard discovered on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831.
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
These 12th-century chess pieces are packed with personality, and have such charmingly expressive eyes! ♟️ 👀
From a large gaming hoard discovered on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831.
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
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The Supreme Court sided with this dissent:
Um.... This is an actual judicial opinion (dissenting in the TX gerrymandering case)
December 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Supreme Court sided with this dissent:
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This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
Goat
Chuck Close, Self-Portrait, 1991
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136924
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136924
December 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Goat
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I want us to hang on to the fact that the people who were murdered were just civilians out in boats, most likely fishermen, who had never even heard the sketchy conclusions of American officials for which they were executed, much less had a chance to defend themselves.
Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I want us to hang on to the fact that the people who were murdered were just civilians out in boats, most likely fishermen, who had never even heard the sketchy conclusions of American officials for which they were executed, much less had a chance to defend themselves.
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Don't be like Liam, the miserable old bore sat counting his dynamically-price-gouged Oasis tour coin like Smaug the dragon on his mountain of gold – get stuck into the joy of the new in tQ's albums of 2025:
thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
December 2, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Don't be like Liam, the miserable old bore sat counting his dynamically-price-gouged Oasis tour coin like Smaug the dragon on his mountain of gold – get stuck into the joy of the new in tQ's albums of 2025:
thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
A recent scoop for Sun Ra Sunday, a rare session with Sonny as a side man in the Walt Dickerson Quartet. Wonderfully chill keys and vibes combo with Ra on piano and harpsichord. Immaculate vibes both literally and figuratively.
November 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
A recent scoop for Sun Ra Sunday, a rare session with Sonny as a side man in the Walt Dickerson Quartet. Wonderfully chill keys and vibes combo with Ra on piano and harpsichord. Immaculate vibes both literally and figuratively.
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
Caught Alex G live this year, and it turned me into an Alex G guy. Can’t say I’d have been into this album had I not seen the songs live first, but it’s a pretty great spin.
November 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Caught Alex G live this year, and it turned me into an Alex G guy. Can’t say I’d have been into this album had I not seen the songs live first, but it’s a pretty great spin.