An essay on A. R. Moxon’s blog, The Reframe, connects how our system works to the stories we tell in our mass media. Make a hero out of Tony Stark, he claims, and you’ll wind up with an Elon Musk.
Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid
In Gaza, Fathers Can’t Promise Their Children Food, Safety, or Even Survival
Medicare Advantage Organizations Overturned Nearly All Appealed Prior Authorization Denials for Skilled Nursing Facility Admission, Raising Concerns About Initial Denials
JD Vance says Nixon’s Watergate scandal would be ‘12-hour news story’ today
Feral Hogs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
American Zoo – a frightening documentary on the Catskill Game Farm
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine calls on lawmakers to get rid of the state’s death penalty
Tell Publishers: Don’t Block the Wayback Machine!
Videos from the 250 to 250 Project that Heather Cox Richardson and others are producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. “We designed the videos to emphasize the agency of Americans—mostly everyday Americans—to change the country. Each falls into a category that defines what it means to be an American, including community, democracy, innovation, mobility, civil rights, education, conservation, and creativity.”
The Knicks Just Gave Us a Teaching Moment. Let’s Not Waste It
Amer
Amer Barlow Liberatore/Sharp Little Pencil: NYC, July 3, 1981
Cheers creator James Burrows dies at 85. He also directed episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Taxi, and Frasier, all of which I watched religiously, plus Friends, The Big Bang Theory, Will and Grace, Rhoda, Phyllis, and Laverne & Shirley, which I saw occasionally.
Archaeologists Unearth Hundreds of Artifacts at Fort Ticonderoga, the Site of America’s First Offensive Victory of the Revolutionary War
Older, not better
Disenfranchisement machine is besieging the courts; he demands control of state elections—or else; Steve Bannon calls for ICE and others to be at “every precinct” for the midterms: “If you’re armed or not, that depends upon what your state laws are.” These 19 election deniers and vote suppressors are on the ballot in the midterms.
Court allows regime to end removal protections for Syrian and Haitian nationals. Know that, per the Kagan dissent, the decision was racially motivated based on comments such as suggestions that Haitians in Ohio were “eating the dogs . . . [and] cats.” Yes, immigration is about race.
Seeking to Use “Domestic Terrorism” to Target Nonprofits and Activists
Moving forward with a State Department plan to strip the CDC of its oversight on global health programs.
American emergency podcast: The movement to kill FEMA
Raving about vandalism even though he’s responsible for the pool’s issues.
Did we finally learn something about his health
MUSIC
Blackbird -New York Vocal Collective
Ode to Birds and Rainbow by Takashi Yoshimatsu
Mother Nature – Angélique Kidjo
Beginnings – Chicago
Rebel – Songs in the Key Of Resistance
Whiter Shade of Pale – Johnny Blue Skies & The Dark Clouds
Human Mind – Mavis Staples
Resurrection – Robbie Robertson
Coverville 1583: The Alison Moyet/Yaz/Yazoo Cover Story
Sweet Dreams – Eurythmics
The Pines of Rome by Ottorino Respighi
Criminal — Fiona Apple
Vertigo – Billy Eckstine
Peter Sprague Plays Valse Warm and Hanalei Town
Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
Marnie – Nat King Cole
Rubberband Man – Spinners
I’m A Man – Chicago
Mississippi Queen – Mountain
Bohemian Rhapsody – The Muppets
On My Own – Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald
Old Lady Grey: Dee Palmer (1937-2026)
TED Recommends for Black Music Month: How Black girls can reclaim their voice in music by Kyra Gaunt
Clive Davis, Hitmaking Titan of the Music Industry, Dies at 94