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🎵On the Jukebox…🎵 ‘Wonderwall’ by Oasis, Live in Dublin
Looking Back On Katrina 20 Years Later… Matt Labash pens a love letter to New Orleans, the importance of inspirations and agitations, and how to get your readers sticky.
Our House Divided, &c… Jay Nordlinger on Trumpism and anti-Trumpism; the formidable J. K. Rowling; an open congressional seat (pour moi?); and more.
AI is killing jobs right now. It's going to get worse… We don't need to wait to see if AI will kill jobs. It's happening right now, argues Thor Benson.
Trump Can’t Wait to Make Life Hell for the NFL Again… Roger Goodell’s job just got harder, but then again, under Trump, whose hasn’t? Will Leitch in Intelligencer.
Trump’s military crackdowns have put America at a tipping point… The president’s use of the military as law enforcement in Los Angeles was ruled illegal — but he’s not done assaulting America, Anthony L. Fisher argues at MSNBC.
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Lt. Gen Hertling’s piece is sobering. Unfortunately, we have Pete Hegseth trashing our own military and our politics continue to divide our citizenry. I feel even more OTT about our decline than JVL.
Also, to follow up last week’s question: the pears are already ready to be picked because it has been so warm this summer. I remember wearing flannels and jacket doing it when I was a youngster and now I am in tee shirt and shorts since it has been 80 degrees pretty much all week. The wild fire smoke also covers the sky and smells horrible. The fruit will be sweet but everything else looks bleak.
I would like to politely point out to Jay Nordlinger and J.K. Rowling that there really are transgender people. I happen to know two. I shouldn't have to write this, but they are good, funny, caring people.
I will agree with Rowling about providing safe spaces for sexual assault and violence victims.
I also agree that competent, supportive mental health care ought to be the first step in treating adolescents who are on the autism spectrum, or who have other mental health issues. The European nations who once backed more aggressive treatments have reconsidered and changed their treatment protocols.
Progressives and liberals handled this very poorly. See the expanding LGTBQ+
abbreviation for one example, and the Skrmetti case that went to SCOTUS.