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
Sleepy piggy
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Sleepy piggy
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“Real scientist are delighted when they find out they wrong... There are too many people in this world who want to be right. And too few who just want to know.”
― Brian Cox
― Brian Cox
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“Real scientist are delighted when they find out they wrong... There are too many people in this world who want to be right. And too few who just want to know.”
― Brian Cox
― Brian Cox
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That cancelled show you’ll never stop thinking about
November 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
That cancelled show you’ll never stop thinking about
Ellington Sundays continue over here.
This record, “Live at the Blue Note, 1959” is new to me. Super-classic lineup of this band.
tidal.com/browse/album...
This record, “Live at the Blue Note, 1959” is new to me. Super-classic lineup of this band.
tidal.com/browse/album...
Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington Live At The Blue Note
Listen to Duke Ellington Live At The Blue Note on TIDAL
tidal.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Ellington Sundays continue over here.
This record, “Live at the Blue Note, 1959” is new to me. Super-classic lineup of this band.
tidal.com/browse/album...
This record, “Live at the Blue Note, 1959” is new to me. Super-classic lineup of this band.
tidal.com/browse/album...
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For 5 days we’re saying #WeAintBuyingIt to Target, Amazon and Home Depot. Instead we’re shopping local. Today redirect money you’ve saved from the boycott and give it to charity. Remember, when they go low, we go local! Invest in your communities by supporting local businesses.
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
For 5 days we’re saying #WeAintBuyingIt to Target, Amazon and Home Depot. Instead we’re shopping local. Today redirect money you’ve saved from the boycott and give it to charity. Remember, when they go low, we go local! Invest in your communities by supporting local businesses.
Not at all happy to be vindicated for feeling creeped out by the name “Homeland Security” since the day it was founded.
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Not at all happy to be vindicated for feeling creeped out by the name “Homeland Security” since the day it was founded.
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Today is a great day to spend time with your friends and family, do something good for your community, or shop at local, Black and immigrant-owned small businesses.
Skip the Target run, Home Depot christmas tree, or Amazon binge. Tell Trump enablers that #WeAintBuyingIt
Skip the Target run, Home Depot christmas tree, or Amazon binge. Tell Trump enablers that #WeAintBuyingIt
We have to use every tool available to us - including our dollars. This Black Friday and weekend @blackvotersmatterfund.org asks you to join “We Ain’t Buyin’ It!” to send a message to Trump’s corporate enablers. Learn more about the companies targeted in this campaign here: weaintbuyingit.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Today is a great day to spend time with your friends and family, do something good for your community, or shop at local, Black and immigrant-owned small businesses.
Skip the Target run, Home Depot christmas tree, or Amazon binge. Tell Trump enablers that #WeAintBuyingIt
Skip the Target run, Home Depot christmas tree, or Amazon binge. Tell Trump enablers that #WeAintBuyingIt
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This is it in plain english. The racism is what they voted for. A big fuck you to anyone who voted for this man, or ever supported any of his hateful ideals. This was always going to be the playbook. This man can go straight to hell.
President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status. https://to.pbs.org/3KpA3Kx
Trump says he wants to 'permanently pause' migration to the U.S. from poorer countries
President Donald Trump’s threat to stop immigration would be a serious blow to a nation that has long defined itself as welcoming immigrants.
www.pbs.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is it in plain english. The racism is what they voted for. A big fuck you to anyone who voted for this man, or ever supported any of his hateful ideals. This was always going to be the playbook. This man can go straight to hell.
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The boycott is today
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The boycott is today
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Charles Stanish surmised indentations were rudimentary market place and later adapted as accounting and storage system. A Florida archaeologist’s decades-long persistence has helped solve the origin and purpose of the so-called Band of Holes in the country’s mountainous Pisco Valley.
Florida professor may have solved mystery of Peru’s Band of Holes
Charles Stanish surmised indentations were rudimentary market place and later adapted as accounting and storage system
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Charles Stanish surmised indentations were rudimentary market place and later adapted as accounting and storage system. A Florida archaeologist’s decades-long persistence has helped solve the origin and purpose of the so-called Band of Holes in the country’s mountainous Pisco Valley.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
-Pharaoh Sander w Percussion Masters of India (Zakir Hussein et al)
- Rolling Stones, Steel Wheels Tour
- Dizzy Gillespie 75th birthday at Blue Note (w/Elvin Jones, Kenny Barron, James Moody, Jimmy Heath)
-Pharaoh Sander w Percussion Masters of India (Zakir Hussein et al)
- Rolling Stones, Steel Wheels Tour
- Dizzy Gillespie 75th birthday at Blue Note (w/Elvin Jones, Kenny Barron, James Moody, Jimmy Heath)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
• James Taylor, Hourglass
• Ben Folds, Supersunnyspeedgraphic
• Motion City Soundtrack, Commit This to Memory
• Sara Bareilles, Kaleidoscope Heart
• John Mayer, Sob Rock
• James Taylor, Hourglass
• Ben Folds, Supersunnyspeedgraphic
• Motion City Soundtrack, Commit This to Memory
• Sara Bareilles, Kaleidoscope Heart
• John Mayer, Sob Rock
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
-Pharaoh Sander w Percussion Masters of India (Zakir Hussein et al)
- Rolling Stones, Steel Wheels Tour
- Dizzy Gillespie 75th birthday at Blue Note (w/Elvin Jones, Kenny Barron, James Moody, Jimmy Heath)
-Pharaoh Sander w Percussion Masters of India (Zakir Hussein et al)
- Rolling Stones, Steel Wheels Tour
- Dizzy Gillespie 75th birthday at Blue Note (w/Elvin Jones, Kenny Barron, James Moody, Jimmy Heath)
Pure, uncut evil
Rejon Taylor was granted clemency by President Biden and taken off of federal death row last year. Trump officials are now sending him to a notoriously harsh supermax prison and Taylor says he wishes he was never granted clemency to begin with.
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for “Living Hell” Under Trump
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Pure, uncut evil
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Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle on this day in 1942. My gateway to improvisational music.
📸 Daniel Teheney, Maui, 1970
📸 Daniel Teheney, Maui, 1970
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle on this day in 1942. My gateway to improvisational music.
📸 Daniel Teheney, Maui, 1970
📸 Daniel Teheney, Maui, 1970
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National Guard members should never have been deployed in Washington, DC.
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
National Guard members should never have been deployed in Washington, DC.
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It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
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New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
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Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
Kakistocracy in action.
Feels like a deep state conspiracy
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Kakistocracy in action.
Every. Accusation. Is. A. Confession.
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Every. Accusation. Is. A. Confession.
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RIP, Jimmy Cliff
so as sure as the sun will shine
i'm gonna get my share of what's mine
and then they harder they come,
the harder they fall
one and all
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpQr...
so as sure as the sun will shine
i'm gonna get my share of what's mine
and then they harder they come,
the harder they fall
one and all
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpQr...
The Harder They Come
YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
RIP, Jimmy Cliff
so as sure as the sun will shine
i'm gonna get my share of what's mine
and then they harder they come,
the harder they fall
one and all
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpQr...
so as sure as the sun will shine
i'm gonna get my share of what's mine
and then they harder they come,
the harder they fall
one and all
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpQr...
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November 24th -⌛️
Guess what else occurred? 🤔💭
The Pharcyde released their debut album Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde November 24, 1992. Happy to call them my brothers. 👊🏽
#vinyl #nowspinning #music #vinylcollection #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #hiphop #rap #boombap
Guess what else occurred? 🤔💭
The Pharcyde released their debut album Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde November 24, 1992. Happy to call them my brothers. 👊🏽
#vinyl #nowspinning #music #vinylcollection #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #hiphop #rap #boombap
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
November 24th -⌛️
Guess what else occurred? 🤔💭
The Pharcyde released their debut album Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde November 24, 1992. Happy to call them my brothers. 👊🏽
#vinyl #nowspinning #music #vinylcollection #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #hiphop #rap #boombap
Guess what else occurred? 🤔💭
The Pharcyde released their debut album Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde November 24, 1992. Happy to call them my brothers. 👊🏽
#vinyl #nowspinning #music #vinylcollection #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #hiphop #rap #boombap
What a giant loser
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
What a giant loser