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Live From Minneapolis (3/31/2026) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

For the first time ever, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will stream the two opening songs of the Springsteen & E Street Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour kickoff in Minneapolis — live and free at approximately 7:30 p.m. CT tonight!

After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

The next revolution will not be fueled by anger, but by love. When I say this, I think of bell hooks, who taught that love and conflict are inseparable. She believed we must face conflict through love’s power and not the destructive force of violence. #WomensHistoryMonth

A serious effort to detect fraud against Medicaid would not dump data online with no context.

CMS itself indicates elsewhere on their website that in 22 states the underlying data that was dumped by the Trump Administration was “unusable” or of “high concern”.

Yes it is

Statement on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2026

By Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King, and Yolanda Renee King

The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.

New York will always be a city of immigrants. When we protect the communities who keep this city running and uphold our sanctuary laws, we create a future that’s safer for every New Yorker.

In the richest city on Earth, 40% of NYC families can’t afford weekly food costs, and food prices are up 33% over the past decade.

It’s time for a city government that puts affordability at the top of the agenda.

It’s a sad day when a judge has to order the President of the United States to feed vulnerable families and hungry children with funds already designated for that very purpose.

Ringo at Bourbon & Beyond festival in Louisville last Saturday night. New York Philharmonic rehearsal yesterday morning at Lincoln Center. 🚀

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NOEM v. VASQUEZ PERDOMO SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting this Court decides to take the once-extraordinary step of staying the District Court’s order. That decision is yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.

Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history

BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

Neighboring in Hell’s Kitchen ❤️❤️

post rehearsal room walk

I had a blast in Louisville at the Kentucky State Fair! Got a chance to see and hear my NYC pals Mark Greenberg and Peter Levin performing with The Great Southern Band (featuring Lee Roy Parnell). Smokin’!!

Always greet the elders with enthusiasm and respect.

Good morning to you, Sir!

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david rose grew up in our community. his mom was an icu nurse at emory. his wife is pregnant and he had two kids. please share this & help if you can.

I’ll say hi . . . and thanks!
Thank you for the heads up!

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Throwing it back to music and the moon!

“We're running a multimedia campaign to let everyone know that access to the care they deserve is the law.”🎯

Great to catch up with my pal Wycliffe Gordon at Birdland. What an amazing musician and friend!

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