Rebecca Jade sings the Beatles
Mark Carney Warns “American Hegemony” Is Destroying World Order in Candid Speech
World to exceed 1.5°C heating threshold by 2030
FBI puts the final nail in the coffin of free speech
Philadelphia is suing the regime over the decision to remove an exhibit at Independence National Historical Park depicting the factual history of slavery in the United States.
FOTUS’s second term delivers massive gains for billionaires as working Americans face cuts and rising costs
Study Reveals Who Is Paying 96% of Regime Tariffs
New CDC guidance could revive childhood meningococcal disease, a rare but deadly disease
Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Year-End 2025 Update from tCouncil on Criminal Justice (CCJ)
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The Dangerous Power of Predictive Markets
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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Releases 2026 Child Vax Schedule, No Longer Endorses CDC’s Version
Dealing with a sudden death or loss
Bruce Bilson Obituary: Director on The Patty Duke Show, Get Smart, Hogan’s HeroesPlease Don’t Eat the Daisies, The Doris Day Show, The Odd Couple, Love, American Style, B.J. and the Bear, Barney Miller, The Fall Guy, Hotel, Dinosaurs, The Sentinel and Viper, among others
Forty years ago, they slipped the surly bond of earth
Baseball HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2026: Center fielders Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones, and second baseman Jeff Kent.
The Trial of the Century: On the hundredth anniversary of Tennessee v. Scopes.
New York’s Grand Central Terminal Helped Provide the Blueprint for American Cities. It Happened by Accident
Now I Know: Why Does Toothpaste Make Orange Juice Taste So Awful? and Why Isn’t This Tennis Ball Bouncing? and The Meal That Makes You See Tiny People? and The Panhandle That Failed and Not The Frisco Kids and The $3 Grocery Bag That Became a Global Status Symbol and Every Rose Has Its … Jalen?
Video Contradicts DHS Claims About Killing of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Heather Cox Richardson: “Video from the scene shows Pretti directing traffic on a street out of an area with agents around, then trying to help another person get up after she had been pushed to the ground by the agents. The agents then surround Pretti and shoot pepper spray into his face, then pull him to the ground from behind and hit him as he appears to be trying to keep his head off the ground. An agent appears to take a gun out of Pretti’s waistband during the struggle, then turns and leaves with it. A shot then stops Pretti’s movements, appearing to kill him, before nine more shots ring out, apparently as agents continued to fire into his body.It looked like an execution.”
As William J. Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hargrove noted: “Alex Pretti was killed by people who celebrated his death. They do not need better training. They demand a moral movement to disarm them and reconstruct democracy.”
Legal scholars and political scientists say the regime’s escalating ICE operation, National Guard brinkmanship, and Insurrection Act threats in Minnesota closely resemble conditions identified in civil war simulations, raising alarms about constitutional collapse and violent state-federal conflict. “We don’t need no stinkin’ warrants.”
A photo taken during a protest in south Minneapolis after federal agents killed Alex Pretti encapsulates a story unfolding on America’s streets.
Nurse Alex Pretti’s Death and the Symbolism of the Human Body
Fact Checks
“…when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.” — Audre Lorde
Legal Eagle: Unbelievable ICE Memo Just Leaked
ICE, F**K You – A Protest Song for Minneapolis – Scared Ketchup
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent
— often attributed to Thomas Jefferson
MUSIC
Got To Get You Into My Life and Roll Over Beethoven -Peter Sprague, featuring Rebecca Jade from the All You Need is Love album, which you can buy individual tracks or the album here
For No One – MonaLisa Twins
Coverville 1564: The New Order Cover Story IV and 1565: The Flaming Lips Cover Story and 1566: The Bob Weir Tribute
From the CBS Sunday Morning archives: The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir
K-Chuck Radio: A moment of Midnight Oil memory (Rob Hirst)
J. Eric Smith on Bob Weir and Rob Hirst
She’s Not Blind – Roberta Flack
It Ain’t Necessarily So – Ella Fitzgerald · Louis Armstrong
Piece of Denmark – Marsh Family parody of “Piece of My Heart” by Erma Franklin re Greenland/FOTUS
John Fogerty: Tiny Desk Concert 16 Jan 2026
Poseidon and Amphirite: An Ocean Fantasy by John Knowles Paine
Third movement from Bach’s Partita No. 3 for solo violin
More music
Da Doo Ron Ron – the Crystals
Jeux d’eau by Maurice Ravel
The Man I’m Supposed To Be – Bill Callahan
Popular – Lemon Squeezy with a song from Wicked
Mercedes Benz – Mari Gazen (Janis Joplin cover)
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da – The Police
I Just Might – Bruno Mars
That’s What Friends Are For by Dionne and Friends (Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder)
J. Eric Smith’s Genre Delve #9: Hip-Hop/Rap and #10: Reggae
My old blogger buddy J. Eric Smith invited me to fill out a March Madness men’s college basketball tournament, and I picked Gonzaga (3rd seed in their draw) to win the whole thing. Of course, they were eliminated in the third round by Purdue (2nd seed). 
Empathy is the new Christian 
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