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The Best Anti-Fascist Films of All Time
Tony Roberts, Woody Allen sidekick, and Broadway stalwart, Dies at 95
Fay Vincent, who served as 8th MLB Commissioner, dies at 86
Olga James, ‘Carmen Jones,’ Actress and Singer, Dies at 95
Dick Button, Icon of Olympic Figure Skating, Dies at 95
9 Fascinating Facts About Food Allergies
Now I Know: A Prankster With a Legacy of Love and When Cardboard Art Goes Sledding and The Life-Saving Power of a … Jump Rope? and Why Do Nigerian Email Scammers Still Claim to Be From Nigeria? and The Place Where You’re Not Allowed to Die
The new normal?
The Path to American Authoritarianism
Is Elon Musk Staging a Coup? Unelected Billionaire Seizes Control at Treasury Dept. & Other Agencies
The Musk-Altman Feud Is Kendrick-Drake But With a Lot More Impact on Our Lives
Elon Musk Is Hacking German Politics, and the Berlin Film Festival May Pay the Price
This is a full-frontal assault on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If the agency can no longer effectively represent the American people, FOTUS’ favorite billionaire will have much to gain personally.
The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children;
They dismiss the national archivist.
CDC Researchers Ordered to Retract Papers Submitted to All Journals — Banned terms must be scrubbed from CDC-authored manuscripts
Rubio skips G20 summit due to South African ‘DEI’
He dismisses the Kennedy Center chair and plans to make himself the head
FOTUS taps televangelist kook to run new White House ‘faith’ office.
Man who loves to build walls demolishes the wall between church and state.
Reactions to the madness
Jamil Smith, the Emancipator: Along with a copy of the 13th Amendment, I typically carry a copy of historian Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny” in my satchel when I’m headed out of the door in the morning… Snyder’s book aims to help citizens of every nation learn from history and it’s filled with needed lessons on how to resist those who seek to exploit those faults for power and profit… Snyder’s first bit of advice in the book has successfully entered the national lexicon: Do not obey in advance.
I Refuse to Be a Good German
We Are All Gazans Now
Just Security keeps a continuously updated litigation tracker to help the rest of us stay current.
The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets
Cartoon: Tom the Dancing Bug implores you not to call them Nazis!
Don’t call that Nazi a Nazi—you’ll hurt his feelings!
Don’t Believe Him| The Ezra Klein Show; What He’s Doing
Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God– Rabbi Morris Panitz | Vaera 5785 / 1.25.2025
Music
Singer Marianne Faithfull Dies at 78; Broken English, The Ballad of Lucy Jordan; As Tears Go By (2018)
The Mynah Birds – It’s My Time w/ Rick James & Neil Young
Elizabeth Mitchell: Little Liza Jane
Wood Notes by William Grant Still
Lucy Dacus – Ankles
Coverville 1520: Billy Ocean Cover Story and Listener-Submitted Set and 1521: The INXS Cover Story III
Teddy Swims: Lose Control
Marcel Tyberg’s Piano Trio in F major
Japanese Breakfast – Orlando In Love
Indiana Jones: The Raiders March by John Williams
A Bar Song (Tipsy) – Postmodern Jukebox ft. Nathan Chester
Hamilton Leithauser – Knockin’ Heart
American Pie – Don McLean.
Frank, Dino, and Bing perform Style from their 1964 movie, Robin and the Seven Hoods
You Can’t Always Get What You Want – Rolling Stones
Khruangbin: May Ninth
This Magic Moment – The Drifters
Dreamgirls title song from Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon (1983)
Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, Sandy Duncan (1980), and Cathy Rigby (2009) performing a number from Peter Pan