A federal scholarship aimed at boosting students from underserved and rural areas attending historically Black colleges and universities has been put on hold. The U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended the 1890 Scholars Program, which provided recipients with full tuition and fees for students studying agriculture, food or natural resource sciences at one of 19 universities, known as the 1890 land grant institutions. It's not clear exactly when the program was suspended, but some members of Congress first issued statements criticizing the suspension of the program on Thursday. A message seeking more detail was left Saturday with the Department of Agriculture. read more
Elon Musk has publicly accused Congressman Adam Schiff of being a criminal in a social media post. The accusation followed a heated exchange between Schiff and new FBI director Kash Patel, with both sides criticizing each other's integrity and actions, particularly related to Trump's impeachment. read more
JD Vance was mocked Thursday for offering "cringe" advice to young men he says mainstream U.S. culture now opposes: Crack a beer, tell jokes, and embrace your masculinity. The vice president suggested he and Donald Trump (who does not drink alcohol) won over the demographic by embracing these things and not telling men what to do or how to think. "I think our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge," Vance said. "You should you should try to cast aside your family. You should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place." read more
A Mississippi judge ordered a newspaper to remove an editorial criticizing the mayor and city leaders after the officials sued ... read more
Just weeks after the Trump Administration claimed book bans were a "hoax," the same administration is purging books from schools run by the Department of Defense Educational Activity, serving 67,000 children of U.S. service members around the world. In addition to Freckleface Strawberry, books flagged for "compliance review" include Vice President JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy according to reporting by Task and Purpose, and a packet of materials about Black History Month for sixth-graders, according to the Washington Post.
Jefferson Airplane, "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil"
[in honor of Fred Neil]
I'm out.
For now.
Well . . . one more, then back to work.
I've never tried to figure it all out -- and after five or six decades I've not been curious enough to look up the lyrics -- but I don't believe the words "murder mystery" are uttered here, among the four different voices.
Mo Tucker sounding intriguing as always.
Velvet Underground, "The Murder Mystery":
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