Non-Cooperation: When does cooperation become complicity? And what other choice is there?
Everything Is for Sale: Exploiting the 250th Anniversary of US Independence for Yet Another Grift
The EPA repealed the bedrock scientific finding that says greenhouse gases threaten human life and well-being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.
The White House regularly circulates imagery that has been manipulated by A.I. But the photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong was different.
The Hardest Part of Fighting Fascism Comes After the Fascists Have Fallen
Dying in Broad Daylight. “Oligarchs are not the benevolent saviors media have long depicted them to be.”
Was Jeffrey Epstein running a kompromat operation for Russia?
Grid reliability projected to decline as data centers drive demand, watchdog says
A drop in CDC health alerts leaves doctors flying blind.
On Tilt. America’s new gambling epidemic
The World Factbook has sunset. It served the Intelligence Community and the general public as a longstanding, one-stop basic reference about countries and communities around the globe. [As a librarian, I used this source all of the time for info about other countries.]
Wordsmith: read especially the email of the week and limericks
The United States of consumption – Our trash and our lives, here and abroad
U.S. Employee Engagement Declines From 2020 Peak
Once called the “disease of kings,” gout is on the rise
These College Students Ditched Their Phones for a Week. Could You?
My Survivor’s Guilt
These Were the Most Popular Baby Names in 1926
Clowns + Firefighters = Police? and The Video Game System That Ran Up a $500,000 Bill, and Why is Mark Zuckerberg Suing Facebook?and The San Francisco Egg War
O’Hara
Good news
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Doctor Driving Behind Man Saves Him After Heart Attack – Tamron Hall Show
Opportunity of a lifetime’: couple who wed at Bad Bunny Super Bowl half-time show included a registered nurse
The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming
ICE. Cold
ICE Is Watching You. Democracy dies by database.
The day before DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s termination of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, U.S. District Court Judge Ana C. Reyes stopped that termination until a pending court case worked its way through the courts. TPS holders participate in the workforce at an exceptionally high rate of 94.6%. Haitian TPS holders pay $1.3 billion a year in taxes, and through their work in sectors that are desperate for laborers, they add about $3.4 billion to the U.S. economy annually.
Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS Subpoenas
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Illness Is Rampant Among Children Trapped in ICE’s Massive Jail in Texas
House speaker says ICE is allowed to break down your door
Bannon Calls for ICE to Engage in Voter Intimidation During the Midterms
MUSIC
Gershwin First Friday Concert -First Presbyterian Church of Albany, February 6, 2026 (music starts c 9:30)
City of Heroes – Billy Bragg
Lyin’ and Spinnin’ (and Cheatin’ and Hidin’) – A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola, and orchestra, K. 364 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Never Enough – Turnstile
Main theme for the movie The Long Goodbye by John Williams
A Sea Symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Memo – Joker’s Flight
In The Clear – Billy Strings
Medley of Abba songs – Gavin Creel
Bitin’ List – Tyler Childers
Coverville 1567: The Phil Collins Cover Story III and 1568: The Chuck Negron Tribute and Three Dog Night Cover Story
Name that tune! TV theme songs (CBS Sunday Mornings)
These Musical Theatre Songs Made the Billboard Charts
Genre Delve #11: Hardcore vs. Post-Punk J. Eric Smith
“Weird Al” Yankovic Takes The Colbert Questionert