“We Are Watching the Deliberate Dismantling of American Democracy” – Heather Cox Richardson with Katie Couric
Mark Evanier has posted nearly daily a series of Fact Checks over the last month that suggest members of the regime LIE regularly, especially FOTUS.
The regime seeks to starve libraries and museums of funding. Fight back with ALA.
The executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution will “eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” from the institute’s museums, centers, and the National Zoo in Washington.
“A reminder that various administration officials lied under oath in the Senate.”
Millions face delays as administration ends Social Security phone verification. A new policy eliminating phone verification for Social Security benefits threatens to overwhelm field offices, cut off vulnerable recipients, and accelerate efforts to privatize the system.
Pentagon restores some webpages honoring minority service members but defends DEI purge.
Rights, Privileges, and Mahmoud Khalil
Decades ago, Columbia refused to pay him $400 million. The university was looking to expand. It considered and rejected property owned by djt. He did not forget it.
People named in JFK assassination documents are not happy their personal information was released.
FOTUS has big dreams for the Kennedy Center but doesn’t seem to know what it does. His hostile takeover of the Washington, D.C., cultural institution will probably chase away the very people who like to attend shows there
Here’s What RFK Jr. Got Wrong About H5N1 Bird Flu— “This is Hollywood science, not real science,” one expert said
FCC Chair Brendan Carr, FOTUS’ Media Pit Bull Is “Off the Leash”
Cory Doctorow: Twinkump Linkdump (22 Mar 2025)
How DOGE is making government almost comically inefficient
Musk tells his biggest lie yet: ‘I’ve never done anything harmful’
From Catherine Rampell – WaPo:
At the IRS, employees spend Mondays queued up at shared computers to submit their DOGE-mandated “five things I did last week” emails. Meanwhile, taxpayer customer service calls go unanswered.
At the Bureau of Land Management, federal surveyors are no longer permitted to buy replacement equipment. So, when a shovel breaks at a field site, they can’t just drive to the nearest town or hardware store. Instead, work stops as employees track down one of the few managers nationwide authorized to file an official procurement form and order new parts.
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The Strange, Post-Partisan Popularity of the Unabomber: When Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto appeared 30 years ago, the internet was brand-new. Now, his dark vision is finding fans who don’t remember life before the iPhone. Paragraph 173: “If the machines are permitted to make all their own decisions, we can’t make any conjectures as to the results, because it is impossible to guess how such machines might behave.”
Researchers find thriving, never-before-seen ecosystem under Antarctic ice shelf: “This is unprecedented”
Author John Green on why he wrote “Everything is Tuberculosis.”
Do Adults Need a Measles Booster? A single-dose inactivated measles vaccine used from 1963 to 1967 was later found to not be as effective or long-lasting as the currently used live-attenuated vaccine, experts said.
George Foreman, Boxing Champion and Grill Spokesperson, Dies at 76
Richard Chamberlain, King of the Melodramatic Miniseries, Dies at 90. One of my sisters had a massive crush when he played ‘Dr. Kildare’
Goodbye Park City: Sundance Film Festival Heading to Colorado
My Quest to Find the Owner of a Mysterious WWII Japanese Sword. “When I was a kid, I was fascinated by a traditional katana my grandfather had brought home from Japan in 1945. Years later, I decided it was time to find the heirloom’s rightful owner.”
Rita Braver will retire from ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ after 50 years at the network
The 51 Best Canadian Films of All Time
How Charles Dickens Shaped Our Vocabulary
Magnet fishing is supposed to be a wholesome hobby. Why all the beef?
In 2012, when NBC had the Super Bowl, they shot a little video to precede it and promote all their shows and stars.
In 1969, Jim Henson produced several commercials for a new potato crisp called Munchos.
Now I Know: The Supreme Court Told Me I Was Wrong and Forcing Beer into Star Wars and A Miner Revolt
MUSIC
Jesse Colin Young, Youngbloods’ Frontman, Dies at 83. Get Together was one of the very few singles I ever purchased.
Herb Alpert turns 90 today. He’s still performing. I had half of his early albums, including his first, The Lonely Bull. Here’s Herb and the Tijuana Brass on that title track.
Signal Leak – Jesse Welles
You Were Not Supposed to Message It Through – Marsh Family Parody of the Bee Gees on #Signalgate
I Put Up Tariffs – Marsh Family adaptation of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ I Shot the Sheriff
Vivaldi’s Summer/Mozart’s Semplice/Mack The Knife
Get Away and three other songs – Jimi Somewhere
Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique
Please Please Please – Sabrina Carpenter, feat. Dolly Parton
On A Clear Day, You Can See Forever – Voctave
The Song (Love Is All) – Sadie Sink from the movie O’DESSA
Two of Hearts – Stacey Q
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) – Marvin Gaye
Under African Skies – Paul Simon
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway – Genesis
Can’t Fight This Feeling – REO Speedwagon
The Most ‘Beatles’ Beatle Song The Beatles Ever Beatled; btw, I disagree with the conclusion
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Here are the #1 hits of 1925. But before that, I want to quote something from Joel Whitburn Presents A Century of Pop Music. “For popular music, the most historic event of the 1920s was a switch from acoustic to electric coal recordings, which followed a year of experiments by engineers of Bell Laboratories in 1924-25. Instead of the acoustic process of singers and musicians performing directly into a recording horn, they were now able to record with a condenser microphone in a spacious studio. 
The Oscar-nominated Best Documentary Short films I saw, naturally, at the Spectrum Theatre in Albany just before the Academy Awards.