Patriotic Millionaires challenge oligarch power with sweeping economic plan: How to Beat the Broligarchs
EFF’s lawsuit against DOGE will go forward. ”Sweeping and uncontrolled access by DOGE agents who were not properly vetted or trained.”
Did you hear Canadians are wearing MAGA hats? There, they mean Make
America Go Away
Working to Preserve .Gov Websites. “Web archiving is more than just preserving history—it’s about ensuring access to information for future generations. “
Tuberculosis Is Back in the Spotlight. Does the U.S. Even Care?
Buster Keaton made a silent film AND a talkie … in 1965
Lucille Ball – ‘America Alive!’ 1978 [Interview]. from that, a viral clip: When Lucy said, “Take your hands off her, David.”
Val Kilmer, An Unclassifiable Heartthrob Who Always Had an Edge
Does ginger ale really taste better on a plane?
When You’re Better Off Skipping a Court Date and The Cat That Inherited Millions and The Man Who Takes Apostrophes Very Seriously
Until then…
DOGE Is Not Cutting Government Spending
Judd Legum on Popular Information: “Musk has set a goal to cut $1 trillion annually from federal spending through DOGE. But his efforts have largely ignored the DoD, according to data compiled by the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker.”
HHS Job Cuts: Entire CDC Team Focused On Infertility And IVF Is ‘Gone’
Not to mention…
States Challenge Trump’s Effort to Dismantle Library Agency. In a lawsuit, 21 state attorneys general argued that the steep cuts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services violate the Constitution and other federal laws related to spending. Call on Congress to Protect Federal Library Funding
Smithsonian’s Chief in the Hot Seat. The executive order demanding change at the institution presents a perilous test for Lonnie G. Bunch III, its secretary, whom the White House calls a partisan Democrat.
‘It’s a shambles’: DOGE cuts bring chaos, long waits at Social Security for seniors. “Elderly and disabled people — and those who care for them — are encountering a knot of bureaucratic hurdles and service disruptions… ‘The system, it’s broken down,’ Veronica Sanchez, a 52-year-old medical practice manager in Canoga Park, said, after calling a Social Security hotline and waiting on hold for six hours.”
FOTUS Is Trying to Axe Collective Bargaining for 1 Million Federal Employees
Trans Athletes and Tasers & Excited Delirium: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Another rupture: Keystone pipeline shutdown threatens fuel prices and exposes pattern of failure
Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and Trump, Reunited
How Actually Crazy is This Mess?
An Experiment in Recklessness: The global trading system is only one example of the administration tearing something apart, only to reveal that it has no plan for how to replace it.
Tariffs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Jon Stewart on The Botched Tariff Rollout & The Stock Market’s Meltdown | The Daily Show, especially from 15:35 to the end
He’s not very bright; Inside his dumb lifelong obsession with tariffs and trade deficits
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.– Will Rogers
Was Binghamton unavailable?
Rhode Island plays a starring role in the forthcoming Rod Serling documentary:
“The state’s Film & Television Office… touted how the Ocean State is playing a starring role in a forthcoming documentary on the life of Rod Serling, the legendary mastermind and iconic narrator behind the pioneering, 1950s and ‘60s science-fiction television series, ‘The Twilight Zone.’
“The film, authorized by Serling’s two daughters, Jodi Serling and Anne Serling, is being produced by Verdi Productions, an East Greenwich, R.I.-based production company. State officials announced… that Leonardo DiCaprio’s company, Appian Way Productions, has also joined the production…
“Although Serling, who died in 1975 at the age of 50, hailed from upstate New York, the documentarians used locations in East Greenwich, Providence, and Wakefield — the village in South Kingstown, R.I. — to help recreate moments in Serling’s life, ‘mirroring the same cinematic black and white style’ of his signature show, officials said.”
MUSIC
My Spine Is The Bassline: Dave Allen (1955-2025)
Fees, Fees, Fees – A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
Everybody Plays The Fool – The Main Ingredient
Lonely -Justin Bieber & benny blanco
Locust Laced – Sleigh Bells
Manic Monday – Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day feat. Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles
The Lady of Shallot – Loreena McKennitt
Coverville 1528: The AC/DC Cover Story IV and 1529: The Pixies Cover Story III
Girl – Beck
The Parables by Bohuslav Martinů
We Got The Beat – The Go-Go’s
Chuck Mangione’s Land Of Make Believe
Fool In The Rain – Led Zeppelin
Sergei Rachmaninoff Vocalise
The Bank of Harmony with a medley of three Hanna-Barbera theme songs
All Day and All of the Night – The Kinks
One More Night – Phil Collins
What A Fool Believes – The Doobie Brothers
William Tell Overture – Rossini
Trimmer 
The first Roberta Flack album I ever heard was Chapter Two (1970). It belonged to my sister Leslie. The opening track was 
Henry Louis Gates Jr. On The 
Singer Marianne Faithfull Dies at 78;