Mixing my media here, but my brother-in-law Rick Galusha has been doing a radio show in Omaha, Nebraska for forty years on Americana and roots music. He and I just recorded a show on Bruce Springsteen's new song, Streets of Minneapolis.
You can give the show a listen here.
Regime violence in Minnesota is moving fast. DHS' deployment of ICE to the Twin Cities was aimed, it claimed, at capturing and removing Somali criminals. There's no evidence of widespread criminality, no apparent success in arresting and imprisoning and deporting genuine bad guys. You can be sure
Here's some of what's happened so far this year: A masked agent of the Federal government shot an unarmed mother, a citizen, in the head in Minneapolis. She and her family are being investigated, but the shooter isn't. The US invaded, then expropriated lots
An unusual story broke this week: Donald Trump's social media company is merging with a 27-year-old business that is working on technology to generate energy using nuclear fusion. The investor presentation is – interesting? On its face, the combination makes no sense. The two businesses work on completely different
It's been a month and a day since the US federal government crossed from its 2025 into its 2026 fiscal year. Because there was no statutory authority to keep spending money on October 1, the government shut down. I wrote about the legislative and budgetary details back then.