Opinion | The Way They Were

The Way They Were www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

YouTube video by IamYOUareMEtoo Neil Young - Big Crime (Live Debut) + Like A Hurricane - 08/27/2025 - Chicago, IL

Here’s the performance in Chicago:

youtu.be/Fql4JKFvbkg

YouTube video by neilyoungchannel Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts - Big Crime (chicago sound check) - (Official Video)

Neil Young debuted “Big Crime,” his new tune in Chicago on the lakefront, Wednesday, August 27, 2025:

youtu.be/8B9ATiGpbl8

Sponsor @ddev on GitHub Sponsors Making local web development reliable and fast for PHP, JavaScript, and HTML developers everywhere

github.com/sponsors/dde...

How To Beat A Jackass - Legal Planet Sam Rayburn served nearly a half-century as a Congressmember, and still holds the record for the longest tenure as Speaker of the House. So he knew a thing or two about government. One of his aphorism...

How To Beat A Jackass legal-planet.org/2025/07/18/h...

Tom Dunne: Moisturizer from Wet Leg already feels like my album of the year Wet Leg have blown me away with their latest record, and Rhian Teasdale is quickly emerging as one of popular music's great front-women

I may agree with Mr Dunne…

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Happy Juneteenth!

The Illinois town of Plano made history in its celebration of Juneteenth, but now the party's getting moved to Yorkville

'We're all people': Chicago 'No Kings' demonstration sees giant crowd march peacefully around Loop

“Chicago serves it neat — no ICE.”

Anti-Trump 'No Kings' protest draws large, peaceful crowd in Geneva: 'People are mad'

Shredding the Postwar Order | Fintan O’Toole Donald Trump is reshaping relations between Europe and the US more dramatically than at any time since World War II.

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad Trump hopes to deport and imprison U.S. citizens abroad. Critics say the concept is unconstitutional and dangerous.

Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad

www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...

In 2017, historian Timothy Snyder wrote the concise book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, which went on to become a New York Times bestsel…

Donald Trump’s Ego Melts the Global Economy On a chilly Wednesday afternoon, the President announced he would single-handedly blow up a century’s worth of globalization.

“Trump 1.0 fulminated about government waste, the evils of the “deep state,” and the need to take legally questionable actions against illegal immigration; Trump 2.0 has shown a striking willingness to act on his most disruptive ideas.” — Susan Glasser

www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Photos: See demonstrators around the country rally in 'Hands Off!' protests NPR member station photographers documented what they saw at the demonstrations against the Trump administration, from cuts and layoffs to federal departments, to mass deportations.

Photos: See demonstrators around the country rally in 'Hands Off!' protests : The Picture Show

www.npr.org/sections/the...

Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

www.wired.com/story/michae...

We miss you Joe!! It was so nice having a real man with morals as our President 💙💙 #fyp #biden #joe TikTok video by Panda Ray

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP82kUpuX/

YouTube video by WillieNelsonVEVO Willie Nelson - Don't Give Up (Official Video)

In this proud land we grew up strong
We were wanted all along
I was taught to fight, taught to win
I never thought I could fail
No fight left or so it seems
Don't give up
'Cause you have friends
Don't give up
You're not beaten yet
Don't give up
I know you can make it good
youtube.com/watch?v=gO6f...

America is Trapped in a Burning Tesla Surprise! The madman stuff wasn’t an act

I don’t know who first came up with this metaphor, but it seems to me that America is now trapped in a burning Tesla…
Well, large parts of the U.S. economy and government appear to be on the verge of self-immolation.

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Lech Wałęsa expresses ‘horror and distaste’ at Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy Ex-Polish leader, who won Nobel prize for pro-democracy efforts, compares meeting to a communist interrogation

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Polish Cold War hero Walesa writes to Trump expressing 'horror' at Zelenskiy spat Lech Walesa, the former Polish president and Solidarity trade union leader who played a leading role in the fall of Communism, signed a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump expressing "horror" at his argument with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

www.reuters.com/world/polish...

Polish democracy hero Wałęsa says Trump's treatment of Zelenskyy filled him with 'horror' Poland’s democracy hero Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners in Poland have told President Donald Trump that his treatment of Ukraine’s president at the Oval Office last week filled the...

apnews.com/article/pola...

Lech Walesa and Polish Political Prisoners Voice ‘Horror’ at Trump’s Scolding of Zelensky He and former Polish political prisoners voiced “horror and disgust” at President Trump’s scolding of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last week, saying it reminded them of encounters with bull...

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...

To President Zelenskyy, From Embarrassed Americans Please help the voices of the American people reach President Zelenskyy, the people of Ukraine, the US Government, and the world.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...

Thanks to everyone who participated nationwide!

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Soul Patch turns 10 today!