Latibulate: To retreat and lie hidden; to hide in a corner, which I’m trying very hard not to do.
Feb 28 Economic Blackout
A Paul Tonko Town Hall in Albany
As Suppression of Dissent Increases, Know Your Rights If the FBI Comes Knocking
TIME Women of the Year
Facebook & Content Moderation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver; the 60 Minutes interview with John Oliver
EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS, Chapter 1, read by John Green
Two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman, 95, was found dead alongside his wife Betsy Arakawa,64, and their dog, at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I only saw him in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Antz (1998-voice), The Birdcage (1996), Crimson Tide (1995), The Firm (1993), Unforgiven (1992), Postcards from the Edge (1990), Mississippi Burning (1988), Hoosiers (1986), Reds (1981), Superman II (1980), Superman (1978), Young Frankenstein (1974), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The French Connection (1971), and very likely some episodic television in the 1960s. I’ve been to Poughkeepsie but never picked my toes there.
HELLO! MY NAME IS BLOTTO THE MOVIE trailer.
The Birth of a Community: Early Black Churches, Schools, and Organizations that Built Binghamton, NY
Are You Lonely? Adopt a New Family on Facebook Today
The State of American History: Lincoln and Immigrants
Now I Know: Dead People, Supporting Each Other and The Loophole That Gets You Paid for Riding a Bike and How To Plant Nearly 1,000 Trees an Hour
If You Ever Stacked Cups In Gym Class, Blame My Dad
Them. Again.
2.0: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Muskrat’s Billionaire Welfare: How the world’s richest man built his empire on government funds while attacking public workers
FOTUS Says He’s Above the Law in Social Media Post Invoking Napoleon: If you haven’t started worrying yet about his plan to destroy democracy and crown himself king, start now.
Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump (2019) – Rick Reilly: “If you’ll cheat to win at golf, is it that much further to cheat to win an election? To turn a Congressional vote? To stop an investigation? If you’ll lie about every aspect of the game, is it that much further to lie about your taxes, your relationship with Russians, your groping of women?”
The Presidency and the Constitution: Mike Pence, Vice President of the United States (2010). “Those who are entrusted with [power] must educate themselves in self-restraint. A republic is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal, and our actions are imperfect.”
Can Ethical People Work in the Administration?
The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours | The Ezra Klein Show
DOGE’s Illegal Takeover Pulls From Fascist Playbooks. When we see a parallel government taking shape, we should not refrain from calling fascism what it is.
FOTUS Puts America in the Axis of Evil
And. More.
Plus, a bunch of other stuff, including his now-confirmed, terrible Cabinet. But I highlight this because I had read it in only one place, the hardly liberal Foreign Affairs:
U.S. government escalates feud with Pretoria by cutting aid and offering refugee status to Afrikaners. “Few would have foreseen an executive order awarding refugee status to Afrikaners—the white South Africans descended mainly from Dutch settlers who dominated the country’s politics and led the apartheid regime from 1948 to 1994. South African media queried whether he was even aware that Afrikaners differed from English-speaking whites like his South African-born billionaire advisor Elon Musk, whose criticisms of the South African government appear to be the source of the idea. It is ironic that the executive order makes provision for refugee status in the US for a group in South Africa that remains amongst the most economically privileged, while vulnerable people in the US from other parts of the world are being deported and denied asylum despite real hardship,” South Africa’s foreign ministry responded in a statement.”
Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter, R-Ga., proposed a measure that would empower FOTUS to begin negotiations with the Danish Government to acquire Greenland. The bill would also rename the territory “Red, White, and Blueland.”
MUSIC
Hello, It’s Me – Evan Marks & Rebecca Jade. Vote in this year’s San Diego Music Awards for this song in Category 21 every day through March 27!
Hostile Government Takeover (EDM Remix)
Black Bottom by Nkieru Okoye
He Will Break Your Heart – Jerry Butler, who died at the age of 85
The Message -Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
I Put My Ring Back On – Mary Chapin Carpenter
Cabo Frio – Peter Sprague
Starburst by Jessie Montgomery
Coverville 1522: The Peter Gabriel Cover Story III and 1523: Cover Stories for Howard Jones, Steely Dan, and Smokey Robinson
Another Day In Paradise – JOYNER (from the Hulu Original Show “Paradise”)
Careless Whisper – Wham
American Eagle Waltz by Jacques Offenbach
Why Wasn’t I More Grateful (When Life Was Sweet) – Maria McKee
Suite from The Wind and the Lion by Jerry Goldsmith
Green Grass Grew All Around – Pete Seeger
Creep – [fan edit] I’m not a robot
Everybody Wants To Rule The World -SOFTBARDCORE (cover in Classical Latin)
You Make My Dreams (Come True) · Daryl Hall & John Oates
I Want To Know What Love Is – Foreigner
Henry Louis Gates Jr. On The 
Singer Marianne Faithfull Dies at 78; 
In case I haven’t mentioned her often enough in this blog, my 
Here’s my dad’s cousin Ruth (R) with two of her children. My sister Leslie and I saw her in October 2022 at the church we all grew up in, Trinity AME Zion in Binghamton, NY. She pointed out a room that used to be a Sunday school classroom where my paternal grandmother Agatha Green used to teach Sunday school to me and a bunch of other kids. It is now a room of noted members of the Trinity family, and she asked us for large photos of our parents for the wall, which we still need to get for her.
In July 2024, sister Leslie was in Binghamton for her high school reunion. She went to see Cousin Ruth. Ruth gave her a whole bunch of information about the genealogy of the Walker clan. Ruth’s father was Earl; Earl was my paternal grandmother’s brother, so Ruth was my father’s first cousin. She was over a dozen years younger than him, so she didn’t know all the early stories about my father, but she knew him like a big brother.
After seeing the first niece at the Elmira Jazz Festival, I realized that the connections made became a reunion of Rebecca Jade and the Walkers, her ancestors on her mother’s side. But it wasn’t easy.
