ALA Releases Preliminary 2023 Book Ban Data. Look for more info here.
Extreme Heat Is Threatening Entire Marine Ecosystems in Florida
Summer Heat Is Killing Incarcerated People — It’s Cruel and Unusual Punishment
US sets record for billion-dollar disasters in a single year, with months to go
If there’s no federal budget on October 1, blame the House Republicans
Don’t just connect the dots
About the polls (JRB vs. djt)
Legal Experts Have A Field Day With djt’s Megyn Kelly Interview
Colorado Lawsuit’s Strategy for Keeping djt Off Ballot Is Starting to Spread – The lawsuits cite the 14th Amendment, which says former officials who engage in insurrection may not serve as president. But it may not work.
How GOP pressured Texas senators over Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial
Arthur: The fourth horrible anniversary
Travis: Screw Cancer!
FDA OKs Updated COVID Shots — New single-strain vaccines will exclusively target the XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant
John Green attends the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis and gets to give a speech.
Actor David McCallum died at age 90. I noted here that my sister Marcia and I used to play The Man from U.N.C.L.E. together. My daughter watched NCIS regularly for a few years.
Brooks Robinson, Hall of Fame third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles, died at the age of 86
El Monte Thai garment workers were inducted into the Labor Hall of Honor. They helped expose their employer’s abusive labor practices and spurred changes in legal protections for the nation’s workers.
US senators can wear workout clothes to work under new rules. In response, pearls will be clutched.
In TV’s Wild West, Which Channels Will Be Dropped Next?
Oakland vs. the A’s: The inside story of how it all went south (to Las Vegas)
Jann Wenner [weakly] Apologizes for Saying Black and Female Musicians Aren’t “Articulate” Enough for His New Book
A metamorphosis, completed
Someone’s nice backyard train
Artist Imagines What Would Happen If Disney Princesses Visited A Psychotherapist (10 Pics)
Now I Know: When Being From France Isn’t French Enough and The Fugitive Who Was Put Out to Pasture and The Counterintuitive Problem of Dry Counties and The Town That Fled a Fake Earthquake and The Mystery of the Exploding Toads and How to Sell* a Lot of Carrots
MUSIC
Perfect Day– Al Green
When You Wish Upon A Star – Sara Bareilles
So You Are Tired – Sufjan Stevens
Ballad Of A Homeschooled Girl – Olivio Rodrigo
I remember everything – Zach Bryan, feat. Kacey Musgraves
Shiny Happy People – Micky Dolenz (Sept. 2023)
Voiceplay, giving the a cappella treatment to a collection of TV theme songs
Start Me Up – The Folksmen (Sept. 2003)
Volcano Girls – Vercuna Salt
Coverville 1457: The Tommy Shaw & Styx Cover Story
I’ll Follow You – The Empty Pockets
Mickey– Toni Basil
Elegy by Mark Camphouse
Romanian Rhapsody #1 by Georges Enescu
Reject All American – Bikini Kill
The Beatles Stowe School Concert Is Unlike Any Other Show in History
Bruce Springsteen Postponing All 2023 Concerts to Next Year as He Recovers From Peptic Ulcer Disease