Yo, the space laser lady is suddenly … making sense.

Prince - Sweet Thing (Unplugged) YouTube video by Music Royalty Vault

What Prince remembers from high school. Same show. Little Chaka Khan & Rufus. I mean, come ON youtu.be/vm_-koyxfV8?...

Prince - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (Live At Webster Hall - April 20, 2004) YouTube video by princevevo

Prince at Webster Hall is the one I wish I saw live. The whole set is killer. But this snippet is extra extra. youtu.be/muyaWFQzlsQ?...

BREAKING: Republicans, furious at Democrats for doing thing they wanted to do but couldn’t do, now insist thing they wanted to do is un-American

I’ll say this about Trump: If his metric of success for the Iran War is knocking Epstein out of the news, well, Mission Accomplished.

Evidently, crackerjack journalist Sean Hannity over at the honorable Fox News knows what’s going on inside Iran’s leadership. Has the details.

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The Chavez-DeRemer family … eh … arrangements … make the plots and subplots of HBO’s DTF look like a Hallmark holiday special.

Yes has officially overtaken No after a large drop in Fairfax.

We don't anticipate this No to retake the lead at any point tonight.

In the immortal words of Tupac Amaru Shakur:

"(I made a G today),
but you made it in a sleazy way."

Journalism has just been getting shredded. Over and over, never ending. Journalism and the rule of law. Lose those two things and, welp ... A republic, if you can keep it.

"Condé’s traditional magazine infrastructure certainly hasn’t helped those brands modernize or compete in the influencer age." True. And while the executives have made and make those business decisions, when those decisions don't work out, they rarely layoff themselves.

**Since 2016, Democrats have debated whether or not the fundamental problem is Donald Trump himself or the circumstances that produced him. Mills has become a kind of personification of the first view.**

I’m a Maine Reporter Who Went to High School With Graham Platner. Here’s What Explains His Success. In 2002, my classmate Graham Platner ran for student-body president of John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, Maine. I remember watching him in our auditorium debate his fellow candidates. He was ...

*The Democratic establishment is “still existing in this world where they think that if you know the rules the best, you’re going to win,” he told me. “When the other side is just beating you over the head with the rule book, it doesn’t matter.”*

This is a good piece.

www.notus.org/perspectives...

These Palantir Techno "Republic" 22 points read like something from the script of "Mountainhead 2: The Bros Do Davos." It is soaked with a soulless certitude and more than a bit frightening considering the influence of the authors.

Every word of this, of course, is accurate. The vexing reality-challenge is everyone who will read perspectives like this already recognizes this; reaching those who avoid or do not believe this is where we are is the thing.

Yeah, just wait until families start trying to take summer vacations. Road trips will be nearly as costly as domestic flights. Forget about international trips.

One, 2, 3, 4, 5—dogs spilled from his SUV, tongues out, drooling, tails wagging…6, 7, 8, NINE. Like slap happy clowns. “Sometimes I need to check the car to make sure I have them all.” Doesn’t own a dog, himself. “People keep telling me I need a dog. Really? I mean, look.” Into the hills he went.

There was a time when the president inspired pride instead of exhaustion. I miss that more than I can say.

Thank God the President is a stable genius.

400,000 Arizonans have been kicked off of SNAP since January and the AP is running a story featuring a white woman who thrice voted for Trump and got her feelings hurt by something he said.

But, hey, those pocket squares that will be on display at the White House Correspondents' Dinner are pretty rad, right?

There’s the underlying/overarching reality that Trump and his FCC have “captured” or otherwise cowed much (most?) media, when actual journalism already was consolidating, vaporizing, struggling. So if you’re counting on mainstream media/journalism to report and amplify truth/hold power accountable…

‘He’d gaze at the stars and go: I’m gonna be up there one day’: Prince by those who knew him best, 10 years after his death From lurid pranks and late-night drives, to why playing in the Revolution was like joining the marines – Prince’s friends and collaborators recount their memories of one of the music world’s most maje...

“When he was about 26 he told me he didn’t want to live past 35: we’re all lucky that we had a couple more decades with him.”

The Greatest. Word “genius” gets thrown around a lot. Legit musical genius this dude.

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

Elon Musk basically accused Trump of being a pedophile and then got dinner with him again a few months later. Joe Rogan acted shocked and dismayed about ICE and Iran and now he’s standing behind Trump in the Oval Office. These guys only care about holding onto power through any means necessary

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Pieces like this are a kind of a Rorschach test: Each of us applies our own subjective perspective. For me, yet another example of everything comes down to the personalities involved. It’s not policy, ideology or law—it’s personality. Someone’s agenda born of their own…subjective perspective.

“For the first time in modern American history, the machinery of the federal government — which is meant to serve our democracy — is being turned against our elections.”

A powerfully stark assessment of our Moment in a single sentence. The whole analysis provides context and the way out.

Some journalists, apparently grasping the fact that the dinner will make them look like toadies, will wear “​​pocket squares and pins with the words of the First Amendment …

Pathetic.