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admireforever · 2 months

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Endless Love (1981)

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guessimdumb · 3 months

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Lou Rawls - I Fell In Love (1964)

Here's Lou Rawls with some swinging, buttshaking R&B for Valentine's Day! That's Earl Palmer on drums.

#Lou Rawls #I Fell in Love #H.B. Barnum #David Axelrod #Earl Palmer

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 7 months

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Dianne Feinstein, the woman who represented California in the US Senate and was the longest-serving female senator in history, “blazed trails for women in politics and found a life’s calling in public service”, Hillary Clinton said.

The former New York Senator and Secretary of State, who in 2016 was the first woman to win the presidential nomination of a major US party, paid tribute to her fellow Democrat shortly after the announcement of her death. At the time of her death, Feinstein was 90 and still in office.

Clinton added: “I’ll miss her greatly as a friend and colleague.”

From the White House, Joe Biden saluted “a pioneering American.”

The President added: “Serving in the Senate together for more than 15 years, I had a front-row seat to what Dianne was able to accomplish. It’s why I recruited her to serve on the Judiciary Committee when I was chairman – I knew what she was made of.”

“… Often the only woman in the room, Dianne was a role model for so many Americans … she had an immense impact on younger female leaders for whom she generously opened doors. Dianne was tough, sharp, always prepared, and never pulled a punch, but she was also a kind and loyal friend.”

Gavin Newsom, the Democratic Governor of California, will select Feinstein’s replacement. Calling Feinstein “a political giant”, he said she “was many things – a powerful, trailblazing US Senator; an early voice for gun control; a leader in times of tragedy and chaos.”

“But to me, she was a dear friend, a lifelong mentor, and a role model not only for me, but to my wife and daughters for what a powerful, effective leader looks like.”

Feinstein’s “tenacity”, Newsom said, “was matched by her grace. She broke down barriers and glass ceilings, but never lost her belief in the spirit of political cooperation. And she was a fighter - for the city [San Francisco, where she was the first woman to be mayor], the state and the country she loved.”

There was some discord among the praise. David Axelrod, formerly a senior adviser to Barack Obama, pointed to recent controversy over whether, given her evidently failing health and absences which affected Democratic Senate business, Feinstein should have retired.

“How sad that the final, painful years will eclipse in the memories of some a long and distinguished career,” Axelrod said⁩. “RIP, Senator Feinstein.”

Many users cited a recent piece in New York magazine by the writer Rebecca Traister, about Feinstein’s declining years, which asked: “She fought for gun control, civil rights and abortion access for half a century. Where did it all go wrong?”

John Flannery, a former federal prosecutor turned commentator, was among those who had a rejoinder: “I hope some of those who hounded her in her dying days will remember her contributions.”

Many tributes highlighted Feinstein’s contributions to attempts to combat the problem of gun violence.

Though Feinstein “made her mark on everything from national security to the environment to protecting civil liberties”, Biden said, “there’s no better example of her skillful legislating and sheer force of will than when she turned passion into purpose, and led the fight to ban assault weapons.”

Chris Murphy, a Democratic Senator from Connecticut and a leading voice for gun control reform, said Feinstein would “go down as a heroic, historic American leader … an early and fearless champion of the gun safety movement as author of the monumental Assault Weapons Ban of 1994.”

“For a long time, between 1994 and the tragedy in Newtown in 2012 [in which 20 young children and six adults were killed], Dianne was often a lonely but unwavering voice on the issue of gun violence.”

“The modern anti-gun violence movement – now more powerful than the gun lobby – simply would not exist without Dianne’s moral leadership.”

From the US House, Maxwell Frost of Florida, one of the youngest congressional progressives, called Feinstein “a champion for gun violence prevention that broke barriers at all levels of government.”

“We wouldn’t have had an assault weapons ban if it wasn’t for Senator Feinstein and due to her tireless work, we will win it back. May her memory be a blessing.”

From outside Congress, Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, a pro-gun control group, pointed out that Feinstein was “one of the first among her colleagues to support gun safety – including Democrats”.

Inside Congress, as a government shutdown loomed, Feinstein’s desk in the Senate was draped in black cloth, a vase of white roses placed to mark her death.

From the other side of the political aisle, the Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins called Feinstein “a strong and effective leader, and a good friend.”

Newsom has pledged to pick a Black woman to replace Feinstein until the midterm elections next year.

On Friday, Barbara Lee, a Black Democratic congresswoman running for the seat, said: “This is a sad day for California and the nation. Senator Feinstein was a champion for our state, and served as the voice of a political revolution for women.”

Among commentators, the MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan highlighted what will to many prove a complicated political legacy.

“The high point and low point of … Feinstein’s long and storied career as a US senator both relate to the ‘War On Terror’,” Hasan said. “Low point: voting for the Iraq invasion. High point: going against the CIA to expose their torture programme.”

In his statement, Newsom said: “Every race [Feinstein] won, she made history, but her story wasn’t just about being the first woman in a particular political office, it was what she did for California, and for America, with that power once she earned it. That’s what she should be remembered for.”

“There is simply nobody who possessed the poise, gravitas, and fierceness of Dianne Feinstein.”

Jennifer Mercieca, a historian of political rhetoric at Texas A&M University, put the case for Feinstein perhaps most simply of all.

“Dianne Feinstein was on the right side of history,” she said.

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plus-low-overthrow · 10 months

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Celebration - Sweet Sunday (T-A)

arr. David Axelrod.

#Celebration #Sweet Sunday #sunday tune #pop #easy listening #david axelrod #45

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sivavakkiyar · 1 year

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#david axelrod #William Blake #poetry #loops #Spotify

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cluboftigerghost · 7 months

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#Hip Hop #Instrumental Hip Hop #Pique Roscoe #boom bap #doobie brothers #Lager beer #hazy jane #Davey Axelz #David Axelrod #Davis Axe and Rod #David Axelrose #IFTTT #SoundCloud #Rap #Instrumental #Beats #samples #doobies

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djhamaradio · 9 months

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Duppy Echoes - 07.30.23

Side A - 00:00 - 01:00

Gonjasufi - Sheep

King Crimson - Court of the crimson king

US69 - A Spaced Oddity

Gaslamp Killer - She's coming

September - Ostavi Trag

David Axelrod - Holy Thursday

Lil Wayne - Dr Carter

Curtis Mayfield - Make Me Believe

Donny Hathaway - I hear voices

Side B - 01:00 - 02:00

Brigitte Fontaine - Moi Aussi

Monk Hughes & The Outer Realm - Keys

Sambo - The Little Things You Say

- A Ver Que Sale

Quarteto Em Cy - Zambi

Shivkumar - Raga Piloo

- Las Flute Des Mornes

Flying Lotus - Putty Boy

Shuggie Otis & Al Kooper - Bury My Body

LivE on WCSB 89.3 FM Cleveland

Pre-recorded Joint link Here

#Gonjasufi #king crimson #US69 #Gaslamp Killer #David Axelrod #Lil Wayne #Curtis Mayfield #donny hathaway #Duppy Echoes #Flying Lotus #Shuggie Otis #Quarteto Em Cy #Monk Hughes & The Outer Realm

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peninsularian · 1 year

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Classy 1974 Quiet Storm ballad from the former Shoop Shoop girl, orchestrated by David Axelrod

#betty everett #wondering #soul #david axelrod #ballad #quiet storm

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yenthari · 10 months

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David Axelrod - Holy Are You (feat. Richard Ashcroft)

#richard ashcroft #david axelrod #Spotify

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strathshepard · 2 years

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David Axelrod: Songs of Experience (1969, Capitol)

#david axelrod #8 Track #tapes #music

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admireforever · 3 months

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Endless Love (1981)

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adscinema · 2 years

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Les B.O. de Quentin Dupieux - Blow Up - ARTE.

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rastronomicals · 2 years

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11:45 AM EDT July 9, 2022:

David Axelrod - "The Mental Traveler" From the album Song Of Innocence (October 1968)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

#David Axelrod #Song Of Innocence #The Mental Traveler

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mixamorphosis · 3 months

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Blog post and linked up tracklist [HERE]

Tracklist

Light - A-side

Good Weather For An Airstrike - Mesopelagic (Self Released) Levi Patel - As She Passes (Nocturne) (Self Released) Hampshire & Foat - The Promise (Athens Of The North) Lani Hall - Sun Down (A&M Records) Aktuala - Dejanira (Bla Bla) Alela Diane - Lady Divine (Rough Trade) Joseppa & Musyl - Follow Me (Eskimo Recordings) Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra (Columbia) Family Four - En Hast Utan Namn (Eskimo Recordings) Master Phil - Waporday (Dreamtime Records) David Axelrod - Fantasy For Ralph (Mo Wax) Alice Clark - Looking At Life (BGP Records)

Dark - B-side

Ralf Hildenbeutel - Promenade (An Unpleasant Dream) (Touched) - Proceeds go to Macmillan Cancer Research The Green Kingdom - Momentary (Rusted Tone Recordings) Kutiman - Line 1 (Siyal Music) Hampshire & Foat - Rain Clouds (Athens Of The North) Mason Proffit - Everybody Was Wrong (Ole Smokey Edit) (Self Released) Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence (T2MM Edit) (Self Released) Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky (Red Axes Remix) (Self Released) Harry Nilsson - One (RCA Victor) A Forest Mighty Black - Everything (Compost Records) Leifur James - Mumma Don’t Tell (Late Night Tales) Moby - Go (Solarno’s Lounge Attack Mix) (Self Released)

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sivavakkiyar · 1 year

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#david axelrod #william blake #poetry #loops #last one just because it’s arguably better #Spotify

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kp777 · 6 months

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By Olivia Rosane

Common Dreams

Nov. 6, 2023

After a poll released Sunday from The New York Times and Siena College showed former President Donald Trump beating current President Joe Biden in five of six important battleground states, Democratic strategist David Axelrod suggested that Biden should consider dropping out of the 2024 election.

Axelrod, who was a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama and helped with his 2008 and 2012 campaigns, shared his thoughts on social media Sunday, retweeting the poll that showed Trump overtaking Biden in Nevada, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, with Biden maintaining a two-point lead in Wisconsin.

"Only Joe Biden can make this decision," Axelrod wrote. "If he continues to run, he will be the nominee of the Democratic Party. What he needs to decide is whether that is wise; whether it's in HIS best interest or the country's?"

The polling shows Trump leading by 4 to 10 points in states that Biden won in 2020. Axelrod said that while the numbers were not "'bed-wetting,'" they would "send tremors of doubt through the party" and were a source of "legitimate concern."

"The president is justly proud of his accomplishments," Axelrod continued. "Trump is a dangerous, unhinged demagogue whose brazen disdain for the rules, norms, laws, and institutions or democracy should be disqualifying. But the stakes of miscalculation here are too dramatic to ignore."

For Axelrod, Biden's "biggest liability" was his age—he will be 86 at the end of a theoretical second term—which is "the one thing he can't change."

"Among all the unpredictables there is one thing that is sure: The age arrow only points in one direction," Axelrod said.

"Biden is risking handing the future of American democracy to Trump by providing [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu's far-right government an unpopular blank check to wage a reckless war."

Seventy-one percent of respondents said that Biden was "just too old to be an effective president" to some degree, yet only 39% felt the same way about Trump. Further, 62% disagreed that Biden has the "mental sharpness to be an effective president."

While Axelrod acknowledged there was also a risk with changing course and running a shortened Democratic primary, "there is a lot of leadership talent in the Democratic Party, poised to emerge."

The poll showed that 57% of respondents said they were more likely to vote on economic issues like jobs, taxes, and cost-of-living than social issues like abortion, gun control, and democracy, and 81% of respondents said that the economy was only fair to poor. What's more, while 51% of respondents felt that Trump's policies had personally helped them, 53% said that Biden's policies had personally hurt them. While the poll did not ask respondents to specify what those policies might be, it's notable that significant portions of the Covid-19 social safety net—such as a pause in student loan repayments and enhanced unemployment benefits—were rolled out under Trump and retracted under Biden.

In response to the numbers, Biden campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz toldThe New York Times that the election was still a year away.

"Gallup predicted an eight-point loss for President Obama only for him to win handily a year later," Munoz said. "We'll win in 2024 by putting our heads down and doing the work, not by fretting about a poll."

Former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile told ABC’s "This Week" that the poll was a "wake-up call once again for Democrats to be reminded that they have to go back out there, pull the coalition that allowed Joe Biden to break new ground in 2020, especially in Arizona and Georgia, but more importantly to bring back that coalition."

Yet there are signs that coalition may be fraying. A Gallup poll released October 26 found that Biden's approval ratings had dropped 11% among Democrats following his support for Israel as it carries out a bombardment of Gaza that United Nations' experts warn risks turning into genocide.

Another survey compiled by Lake Research Partners and shared with NBC News on Monday found that only 16% of Arab and Muslim Democrats in Michigan—where they make up a key voting block—said they would vote for Biden if the election were held today. In 2020, Biden carried 83% of Michigan precincts with the highest numbers of Arab and Muslim voters. The poll also saw Biden lagging with voters under 30, with only 61% saying they would vote for him today and 56% calling his handling of the Israel/Palestine conflict "poor."

"Biden's extremely poor performance among Arab, Muslim, and young voters of his own party is historic and frightening," progressive strategist Waleed Shahid told NBC News. "Biden is risking handing the future of American democracy to Trump by providing [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu's far-right government an unpopular blank check to wage a reckless war."

In the Times/ Siena poll, only 39% of voters said they trusted Biden to do a better job than Trump on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

"If Biden lacks the humanity to call for a cease-fire, or the strategic sensibility to keep the U.S. out of an escalation, then perhaps at least he'll care enough about his own reelection??" Quincy Institute executive vice president Trita Parsi wrote on social media.

#joe biden #david axelrod #2024 presidential election #israel hamas conflict

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