Ben Rubin
@houseofchacha.bsky.social
Seeker of Sounds || Maker of Records || 2x-Grammy-nominated Producer/Mixer/Bassist/Composer || Third Way Cultural Alliance Ambassador twca.xyz || linktr.ee/houseofchacha || spotify "best of" playlist: spoti.fi/48FqUFo
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Ben Rubin
@houseofchacha.bsky.social
· Feb 4
Analog Players Society - Home In America (feat. Masta Ace)
YouTube video by Ropeadope
youtu.be
Happy birthday to the video for “Home in America”. Now officially a toddler.
Hats off to the brilliance of Masta Ace. Sadly, this song is very relevant.
Also features Donny McCaslin, Orrin Evans, Dezron Douglas and Eric McPherson.
Give it a watch and share. #hiphopsky
youtu.be/uFJ0e1KxZzE
Hats off to the brilliance of Masta Ace. Sadly, this song is very relevant.
Also features Donny McCaslin, Orrin Evans, Dezron Douglas and Eric McPherson.
Give it a watch and share. #hiphopsky
youtu.be/uFJ0e1KxZzE
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Great list.
As we come to the end of a very difficult year I wanted to say a few words about *some* of the issues that, with your help, I will focus on next year.
At the top of my list:
- Campaign finance reform
- Income & wealth inequality
- The rapid deployment of AI
- Medicare for All
At the top of my list:
- Campaign finance reform
- Income & wealth inequality
- The rapid deployment of AI
- Medicare for All
Our Focus for the New Year 2026 | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Great list.
wow what a loser, geez, adding your name to a memorial
They already added Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center….this is illegal without congressional authorization
Via @stetsonm.bsky.social
Via @stetsonm.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
wow what a loser, geez, adding your name to a memorial
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Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
December 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Dems who are willing to throw communities under the bus, including trans communities, we see you. I won’t forget come election time.
December 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Dems who are willing to throw communities under the bus, including trans communities, we see you. I won’t forget come election time.
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Actor's Mask https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/actors-mask
December 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Actor's Mask https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/actors-mask
Every. Accusation. Is. A. Confession. I mean
December 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Every. Accusation. Is. A. Confession. I mean
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New TT: It is Duke Ellington O'clock
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TT 561: Reverential Gesture
Ellington redux
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December 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
New TT: It is Duke Ellington O'clock
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Every hour of every day is Ellington O’clock.
New TT: It is Duke Ellington O'clock
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TT 561: Reverential Gesture
Ellington redux
iverson.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Every hour of every day is Ellington O’clock.
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It’s my amazing bass playing brother John’s birthday today - HBD to him (& Ludwig Van!)
Read my detailed tribute to him, about our lives together, musical & otherwise, here:
stevecontemusic.com/celebrating-...
Read my detailed tribute to him, about our lives together, musical & otherwise, here:
stevecontemusic.com/celebrating-...
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It’s my amazing bass playing brother John’s birthday today - HBD to him (& Ludwig Van!)
Read my detailed tribute to him, about our lives together, musical & otherwise, here:
stevecontemusic.com/celebrating-...
Read my detailed tribute to him, about our lives together, musical & otherwise, here:
stevecontemusic.com/celebrating-...
Fuck every single one of these people.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Fuck every single one of these people.
Attn: White House kitchen: Time to reorder ketchup. Prob should double it to be safe.
December 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Attn: White House kitchen: Time to reorder ketchup. Prob should double it to be safe.
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It wasn't long ago that women were forced to have a male co-signer to get a credit card or a home loan.
Now, the Trump administration wants to end protections against such discrimination.
Take 45 seconds today to say "No way." nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/ind...
Now, the Trump administration wants to end protections against such discrimination.
Take 45 seconds today to say "No way." nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/ind...
The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking released by the CFPB would eviscerate longstanding fair lending and consumer protections in three dangerous ways:
nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It wasn't long ago that women were forced to have a male co-signer to get a credit card or a home loan.
Now, the Trump administration wants to end protections against such discrimination.
Take 45 seconds today to say "No way." nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/ind...
Now, the Trump administration wants to end protections against such discrimination.
Take 45 seconds today to say "No way." nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/ind...
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Everything about this wockaflocka is small. He makes everyone around his ass small. Ask yourself if he's made you smaller too. It ain't too late to stand.
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Everything about this wockaflocka is small. He makes everyone around his ass small. Ask yourself if he's made you smaller too. It ain't too late to stand.
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"For the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
"For the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."
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When we say “billionaires should not exist,” what we mean is:
Instead of billionaires…
Everyone should have healthcare.
Everyone should have housing.
Everyone should have access to healthy food and clean water.
Billionaires are a policy failure.
Instead of billionaires…
Everyone should have healthcare.
Everyone should have housing.
Everyone should have access to healthy food and clean water.
Billionaires are a policy failure.
December 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
When we say “billionaires should not exist,” what we mean is:
Instead of billionaires…
Everyone should have healthcare.
Everyone should have housing.
Everyone should have access to healthy food and clean water.
Billionaires are a policy failure.
Instead of billionaires…
Everyone should have healthcare.
Everyone should have housing.
Everyone should have access to healthy food and clean water.
Billionaires are a policy failure.
This is just CRUSHING. So much DeJohnette on
this.
this.
Recorded (possibly) December 12 or 13, 1969: This reasonably well recorded audience tape from the Village Gate, with the 'lost quintet', Wayne Shorter- ss, ts; Chick Corea- el-p; Dave Holland- b; Jack De Johnette- d.
#jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis
#jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis
Miles Davis- December 12 - 13, 1969 Village Gate Club, New York City
YouTube video by Milestones: A Miles Davis Archive
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This is just CRUSHING. So much DeJohnette on
this.
this.
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Just a reminder that ICE didn't exist until 2002. It's not some longstanding institution that must be maintained. It was created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, and it could be gotten rid of as easily as it was created.
December 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Another example of this is the spontaneous boat lift in NY harbor on 9/11. Mariners of every strip grabbed their boats and ferried 500k people to safety. Just people doing what they can. All documented in “Saved at the Seawall,” an excellent work of narrative journalism by @jessicadulong.bsky.social
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Another example of this is the spontaneous boat lift in NY harbor on 9/11. Mariners of every strip grabbed their boats and ferried 500k people to safety. Just people doing what they can. All documented in “Saved at the Seawall,” an excellent work of narrative journalism by @jessicadulong.bsky.social
hey @nywfp.bsky.social, who is going to primary Hakeem Jeffries?
Hakeem Jeffries is the worst, most corrupt national leader the Democrats have had in modern history.
This is legitimizing the rest of Trump's pardons as something others should respect and ratify.
Cuellar was convicted by a jury of his peers. His is a felon who gets to have power over our lives.
This is legitimizing the rest of Trump's pardons as something others should respect and ratify.
Cuellar was convicted by a jury of his peers. His is a felon who gets to have power over our lives.
"House Democrats on Thursday voted to return Rep. Henry Cuellar to his leadership role on the House Appropriations Committee following his presidential pardon on federal corruption charges."
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
December 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
hey @nywfp.bsky.social, who is going to primary Hakeem Jeffries?
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Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says
The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Launch Day!
"The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit" is now officially streaming on Prime Video! My co-producers and I hope that this holiday season you, your families and friends enjoy this entertaining, deep dive into a one-of-a-kind jazz legacy and a one-of-a-kind city.
"The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit" is now officially streaming on Prime Video! My co-producers and I hope that this holiday season you, your families and friends enjoy this entertaining, deep dive into a one-of-a-kind jazz legacy and a one-of-a-kind city.
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Launch Day!
"The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit" is now officially streaming on Prime Video! My co-producers and I hope that this holiday season you, your families and friends enjoy this entertaining, deep dive into a one-of-a-kind jazz legacy and a one-of-a-kind city.
"The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit" is now officially streaming on Prime Video! My co-producers and I hope that this holiday season you, your families and friends enjoy this entertaining, deep dive into a one-of-a-kind jazz legacy and a one-of-a-kind city.