Soundtracks were a great way to discover bands before the Internet took over. We would hear a track or two in a movie, go buy the album, and share/copy with friends. Then we'd get curious about a particular band and set out to find more of their music. Sharing and enjoying music was a more tactile social experience compared to today's passive playlist sharing. That said, care to share a soundtrack or two that you really enjoy(ed)? Read more
Vice President JD Vance and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine both raised concerns about escalating the war in Iran as President Donald Trump weighed the possibility during a White House meeting on Friday, a source familiar with the matter and a US official told CNN. On Friday night, the US appeared to pause its bombing campaign on Iran after nearly two weeks of consecutive nights of strikes. Operations are "on a hold," a Department of Defense source told CNN on Saturday. On Friday, Caine specifically raised concerns about the US munitions stockpile and other potential negative implications, according to the sources.
More than a million children across the US have lost access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) food benefits since Congress approved the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July 2025, according to a new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). The analysis found that more than 4 millions Americans were removed from Snap from July 2025 to March 2026, marking a significant decline in participation in the federal food assistance program. Read more
The ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is demanding that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement explain why it has purchased commercial spyware capable of covertly taking control of phones as well as collecting messages, photographs, location information and other personal data.
Maine Democrats choose the replacement. fairvote.org He wasn't the people second choice. The people don't get to pick who they want. Read more
Brazil has reportedly rejected visa applications from two officials associated with the Trump administration, who had intended to travel to the South American nation with the stated aim of casting doubt on the integrity of its electoral system. Two Brazilian officials with direct knowledge of the matter informed Reuters on Saturday. These officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity given the delicate nature of the situation, indicated that the US initiative was perceived as an attempt to influence Brazil's forthcoming October presidential election.
As water shot into an open stock tank atop a high country mesa, a trickle soaked the dusty earth below. Scott Snyder rose from the shade to fasten a hose and stop the spillage. "It's just so much work. I hate dropping any of it," said Snyder, who operates Mex and Sons Ranch near Montrose, Colorado, with his family. It took eight trips in three vehicles over nine hours in sweltering heat before the 800 cow-calf pairs finally had enough water to make it through to the next day -- maybe two.
Approximately 10% of the world's nitrogen based fertilizer comes through the Persian Gulf That supply line has been severed. We have already lost a crop yield. We have already lost a growing season with reduced fertilizer. This damaged to this growing season was slightly prevented by use of alternative fertilizers and the limited stockpiles The next growing season-September to November will see a major reduction in output. It is inevitable. The world lives on a "just in time" model of razor thin margins for food supply to the most vulnerable places on earth. Countries that were food poor even before this war relied heavily on donated food. The coming crop yield will be significantly lower meaning famine. This damage is unavoidable at this point. But the real harm comes in 2027 when these losses multiply. Keep in mind that the alternative fertilizer processes say for phosphorus based fertilizer uses sulfur which comes from LNG processing.
ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, a sadist responsible for the deaths of 75,000 Palestinians in Gaza, over 1,000 in the West Bank since 7 Oct 2023, the desecration of Christian sites in Israel and Lebanon, and blundering America into a super-costly quagmire war against Iran, will be again despoiling America with his sulfuric presence. Next week the rakshasa leading the Pariah nation will confer with Dummkopf Trumpf at the White House and pretend to pay his respects to the late Islamophobe Lindsey Graham (R) -- a vicious warmonger who should be lying in state at the Washington Zoo -- not the US Capitol rotunda.
"Genocide Joe" and AIPAC didn't like this ICC indictment against "Bibi." Tough.Read more
South African-born mega-oligarch Felon Musk sniveled in an interview that the "far right" he supports are "normal people." The world's worst person puled: "No, I support the normal people. What you call the far right, falsely. Literally, you could go back 10 or 15 years and these policies were completely normal."
Felon Musk is instrumental in causing race riots in the UK
Colt Gray (16) pleaded guilty to all 55 counts of murder and aggravated assault for killing two people and wounding two in September 2024. Like an Israeli soldier shooting defenseless Palestinians in Gaza, so too did Colt Gray when he opened fire on defenseless students and teachers at Apalachee High School with an AR-15 assault rifle. At sentencing, this malpariso faces life imprisonment.
Colin Gray was found guilty of murder and faces 100 years in prison for idiotically giving his son the AR-15
For the title link I chose some earlier Pink Floyd. After their soundtrack excursions of the late 60's and very early 70's ..
... Any Colour You Like / Video taken from Set The Control For The Heart Of The Sun and Careful With That Axe, Eugene at Brighton Live at Brighton Dome, 29-06-1972 ...So ... what tunes are popping up on your playlists this evening?
President Donald Trump's criticism of Senate Majority Leader John Thune over the stalled SAVE America Act escalated Thursday, with the White House warning that the president's "patience is running out" as Republican leaders struggle to advance the controversial voting legislation before lawmakers leave in August for recess. Read more
On May 30, 1990, New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio signed a ban on assault weapons into law, making good on one of his campaign promises and giving New Jersey some of the strictest gun regulations in the country. Thirty-six years later, that law has been left in tatters by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled last week that the Second Amendment disallows the state's prohibitions on semi-automatic rifles and magazines with over 10 rounds of ammunition.
