You should read this, and listen to this record when it comes out. This insanely well-connected man has really interesting things to say about jazz, spirituality, Los Angeles and the art of the arranger.

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Update: A NYT editor & reporter offer a defense of their behavior. They pretend publishing is the null state. Bullshit. Publishing and not publishing are both choices, and they own that choice. They pretend they aren’t rendering judgement, but the choice of *what to publish* is itself a judgement.

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And if Prop 40 fails and Prop 41 and 42 pass—which I'm very worried will happen!—it will be that the billionaire backlash to a very modest amount of taxation will have pushed us in the opposite direction we need to be going, with longterm consequences

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Prop 40 is a good policy aimed at a real problem—Trump's cuts to Medicaid—and it if fails, all that happens is we don't solve that problem, and like a million Californians lose health care. That's really bad! But it was already baked in, already "happened" in a sense.

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Really afraid that we're going to see huge gains across the country and especially in red states, and in California we're going to write billionaire oligarchic austerity right into the Constitution

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