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More tweets on bad efforts by red states to control blue cities

Trump and his cult need to be quiet on the issue of indicting a president

Library of Congress: A conversation with Randy Newman (2013)

from the description:

Mark Horowitz talks with award-winning composer and performer Randy Newman about the creative process. Speaker Biography: The composer of a long list of notable film scores — “The Natural,” “Awakenings,” “Ragtime,” all three “Toy Story” pictures, “Seabiscuit,” “James and the Giant Peach,” “A Bug’s Life” and many others — Newman’s many accolades include two Oscars, three Emmys, and six Grammys. His unforgettable songs include “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today,” “Louisiana 1927,” “Short People,” “Sail Away,” and “You’ve Got a Friend in Me.” Speaker Biography: Mark Eden Horowitz is a specialist in the Library’s Music Division. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feat…

Pathetic take by the New York Times on the Trump indictments

It’s not victor’s justice, it’s holding a lawbreaker accountable. The Times was wrong to even bring this up.

Tweets by Nate Silver and Matt Glassman on the GOP

The GOP has turned to using the courts,voter suppression, and state legislatures to enact their extremist policies on issues such as abortion which are opposed by the majority.

Wins based on the electoral college rather than the popular vote will undermine faith in elections. All 25 presidential elections in the 1900s had the same result in the popular vote and electoral college. Two of the six elections in the 2000s have been won by the popular vote loser. Trump lost the popular vote by an unprecedented almost three million votes.

Look at the Glassman tweet thread

White Christian Nationalism was a main cause of the 1/6 insurrection

Let’s call it what it is.

The Compact Disc turns 40

I bought my firsr CD player and discs in 1984. There was no US disc manufacturing plant yet so my copy of Born in the USA was made in Japan. I like CDs and am not nostalgic for records – I scratched too many and there were some that were defective which you rarely have with CDs.

A 90-year-old tortoise became a father

The CNN video compared him to Larry King but I think Tony Randall became a father at an even older age. I’m sure neither of them had to get up in the night to change diapers.

AI pictures of what an arrest of Trump would look like

I wish these were real but they were made by AI. It shows the potential for AI to be used to spread false information.