Bob McWilliams

In the 10 pm CST hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson from 1968. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org

Emu had some advice on packing back of the car.

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:

Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

So we can betray them again?

Despite Promises, Veterans Affairs Department Cut Thousands of Roles for Doctors and Nurses

Got it. There's plenty of funding to send troops into harm’s way, but not to take care of their health afterwards. This is shameful.

She personifies evil.

One was a clerk at a Ford Auto Parts store (he was retired well before I knew him, my parents were mid 40s in age when I showed up). The other died in 1917 of TB when my Mom was 6. his wife died a few months before. He did manual labor.

The authority that Trump has asserted in taking America to war against Iran is, like many of his other power grabs, an expression of the very tyranny the Framers were seeking to prevent. “Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young congressman named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.

The design of the Constitution divided warmaking authority between Congress and the executive to prevent a president to take the country to war by themselves for any petty or self-serving reason. You know, like a king would. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

But profits (aka loot) for Trump personally or the regime he heads.

Curious as to if and how they voted in 2024

Amen. Two excellent candidates. I hope they make a strong and sincere unity pact right away. This shit of “my candidate lost so I’m not going to vote “ is a big reason we got Bush and Trump.

I am going to enthusiastically support whichever Democrat wins the US Senate primary in Texas and hope for the sake of the country that all Democrats do the same.

Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico were BOTH incredible candidates yesterday. They are BOTH great candidates tomorrow. Lot of understandable emotions tonight.

BOTH Democratic U.S. Senate candidates should be furious about how this is being handled in Texas.

It benefits one candidate today. But the same chaos that helped them in the primary can absolutely burn them the general.

This is some 'Black Mirror' shit.

If you're not sure what this is about, repubs changed the rules in early January. Instead of being able to vote at any voting location in those counties, voters had to go to their local polling station on election day.
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/09/d...

Good but quite late

In the 9 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, flugelhorn player Art Farmer from 1987. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org

A Directionless War Meets a Constitutional Crisis Welcome to the new era of Trumpism.

Hegseth: “We didn’t start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it.”

The truth: We did start this war two days ago. And now, apparently, we're not going to finish it in a way that will make it worth fighting. And we have a constitutional crisis.

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I told those people until I was blue on the face that electing Hilary was crucial if, for no other reason than the courts. Just like I told the Nader people that Gore was needed to protect the courts.

a man in a suit and tie asks what could possibly go wrong ALT: a man in a suit and tie asks what could possibly go wrong

Reminder:

A drunk from Fox News is heading the DOD. An ex-heroin addict who snorted cocaine off of toilet seats is running the HHS . A puppy killer who’s having an affair on her private sex-jet is running DHS. And they all report to a 34count convicted felon who’s accused of raping children.
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In the 10 pm CST hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, trumpeter Roy Hargrove live in 1993, released for the first time in 2024. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org

In the 9 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, singer Dee Dee Bridgewater in a recent reissue of a 1974 lp recorded in Tokyo. #bluesky My first jazz show in 3 weeks due to hip surgery recovery. Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org

Normalizing crackpot fascism is just their thing.

This shows he, his handlers, or both are afraid he’s incapable of explaining or justifying his war in a live address. At least without totally screwing up.

He has zero understanding of this issue. As with everything else.

From an ex-Hungarian MP @dailytelegraphnews.bsky.social, on April elections:

"The question is whether those who write the rules, distribute the money, count the votes, and announce the results will be willing to tolerate a world where they are no longer in power"
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

Appalling. One doctor “sent Mr. Epstein’s sexual partners elsewhere for gonorrhea treatment so that when their cases were reported to public health authorities, they wouldn’t be tied to Mr. Epstein. Some doctors also shared patients’ private health information with him”

Don’t worry everybody, Thomas is on the job

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