Player Piano is Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s 1952 debut dystopian novel, set in a future America where machines and a supercomputer have automated most jobs, creating a society divided between a small elite of engineers and managers, and a large, purposeless populace living on basic income in "Homestead".

Looking at you Democratic leadership. Stand for something.

"Within weeks ... major artificial-intelligence systems began repeating the invented condition ... The fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature. Osmanovic Thunström says this suggests that some researchers are relying on AI-generated references without reading the underlying papers."

John Kent Tarwater, 55, a Cedarville University in Ohio Christian professor and anti-LGBTQ+ author has been indicted in Ohio on 2 counts of r*pe and 4 other child s*x crime charges. Victims were ages 10 and 13.

Amy Juravich had some heavy-hitters on her WOSU All Sides show yesterday. And the guests didn't pull any punches. --David Enrich, Deputy Investigations Editor, The New York Times --Holly Peterson, Wall Street Journal "Earn Your Luck" columnist

I'm liking this new gritty reporting from PBS. Russian troops are being forced to pay commanders for survival and gear as massive corruption plagues the front lines.

With Russia's help, North Korea is currently developing submarine-launched ballistic missiles, improving its ICBMs, and openly planning to expand its nuclear arsenal. North Korea poses a much larger threat than Iran.

No Kings 3 in New Albany, Ohio!

"Trump is installing what scholars call patrimonialism. Understanding patrimonialism is essential to defeating it. In particular, it has a fatal weakness that Democrats and Trump’s other opponents should make their primary and relentless line of attack."

The Story of $4.3 Trillion

"I feel terrified" - Inventor of "Glock switch" (auto-sear) technology, a $20 device that enables machine gun-style fully automatic rapid fire, says he regrets creation. Meanwhile, 31 states exempt private gun sales from background checks. #GunOwnerForGunReform abcnews.go.com/US/feel-terr...

The Daily Caller's former editor-in-chief, Geoffrey Ingersoll, is advocating for conservatives to respond with violence to the current political climate. Ingersoll was the Daily Caller’s top editor from 2017 to January 2025. Currently, he is an editor at large.

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. This video was taken by the student interrupting the professor to say that course content is "not legal" is chilling.

This isn’t Moscow or Beijing. It’s Chicago. Masked federal agents grabbed U.S. citizens protesting ICE and threw them into an unmarked van. “Who are you? Where are you taking them?” people shouted. “You are kidnapping them!”

This study measured the causal impact of generative AI on creativity --- comparing short story writers who were given AI-generated plot ideas. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If the SCOTUS contorts itself to side with Trump and the tariffs remain in place, Trump will have to own the economy he wrecked. If SCOTUS sides with the small businesses, then this will be a blow to Trump's emergency power grab. Seems like a win either way. But only if liberals stay on-message.

I'll know the Democratic Party has transformed itself when they bring George Soros on stage at the DNC convention to a 10 minute standing ovation to talk about his life surviving the Holocaust and his lifelong mission to promote and protect open societies.

A retired US special forces officer: "I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians." He has never witnessed such a level of "brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population".

Full testimony from Katie Johnson, Trump's 13 year-old rape victim. Katie describes the Epstein party and Trump perfectly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib...

1. A French court convicted Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s right wing, of embezzlement. --> Trump: “The Witch Hunt against Marine Le Pen is another example of European Leftists using Lawfare to silence Free Speech, and censor their Political Opponent." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-fore...

Powell told Senators that doesn't mean he'll have the power to do anything about it. "The Fed doesn't have the tools to address the social issues and the labor market issues that will arise from this. We just have interest rates."

- Congo has some of the largest mineral deposits on Earth. - Congo's President wants to sell them & wants the U.S. to help him win a decades-long war against Rwanda. - U.S. tech companies want Congo's minerals so badly, that Trump is signing us up for another foreign war -- and calling it peace.

A graph of how unsuccessful Trump withdrawing from the Iranian Nuclear deal worked out. Now Israel wants the U.S. to attack Iran.

This Trump voter says he has “a little buyer’s remorse” after ICE detained a third of the workers at his small roofing company. He thought the Trump administration would only deport criminals.

Amy Walter: Individual aspects of Trump’s deportation policy are mostly unpopular, even among his base. Yet, his overall job approval rating on immigration has been positive. Why the disconnect? Per CBS poll: 53%, including 47% of Latinos, think violent criminals are ones getting deported.

Over 100 undocumented workers were arrested in Nebraska. ICE says many used stolen identities just to clock in at Glenn Valley Foods. This isn’t about borders. It’s a system so broken that people are risking prison to pack America’s chicken wings, while billion-dollar companies look the other way.

ICE set a trap to deport Ohio HS soccer star—just after graduation. His soccer coach said agents were lying in wait for him. Emerson Colindres arrived in Cinci, Ohio with his family as an 8 year old. He is now facing the consequences of an immigration decision he was too young to make himself.

For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.

Two months after the Trump administration all but shut down its foreign news services in Asia, China is gaining significant ground in the information war, building toward a regional propaganda monopoly.

The blatant graft and open corruption of this administration is beyond belief. Gifting the NYTimes editorial that lays it out: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...

Tell the truth, get fired. "I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was," Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers. Shortly after the interview was published online, Lavingia got an email. Just 55 days into his work at DOGE, his access had been revoked.

Not too long ago, Republicans believed in the rule of law, limiting the power of government, and protecting individual liberty. Then came Donald Trump.

Elon Musk’s goons at DOGE transmitted a large amount of data—all of it undetected—using a Starlink Wi-Fi terminal they installed on top of the White House. “Starlink doesn’t require anything. It allows you to transmit data without any kind of record or tracking,” this person told The Post.

With Republican radicalization, there's a huge opportunity for Dems. "Musk and Trump Still Agree on One Thing" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Kharkiv, Ukraine high school graduation photo taken in the ruins of her high school.

From Heather Cox Richardson: The bill increases ICE's detention budget from $3.4 billion to $45 billion, a staggering 365% increase that would permit ICE to detain at least 100,000 people at a time."

Scientific American: When any one [battery] cell is punctured or overheated—or set aflame with an incendiary device—chemical reactions generate more heat than the cell can shed, and neighboring cells follow in a chain reaction. This positive-feedback loop is called “thermal runaway.”

Sen. Patty Murray: "An outspoken vaccine conspiracy theorist just fired every last member of CDC's vaccine advisory committee. RFK Jr. is paving the way to reshape vaccine policy based not on decades of science, but on his own unhinged fanaticism. This is unprecedented, and unthinkably dangerous."

Tom Nichols' latest piece is spot on. Gifting. Trump isn’t waiting for chaos—he’s engineering it. This National Guard move in LA isn’t about order. It’s bait. He wants a flashpoint big enough to justify invoking the Insurrection Act. This is how power grabs start.

"Sending in the Marines," as drawn by Michael Ramirez

Mrs. Betty Bowers: Southern Baptists should get their own house in order before those busybody scolds judge others. Their clergy has a child molestation problem. And Jesus told them not to divorce. But they divorce at higher rates than atheists, so atheists are better Christians than Baptists.

Governor Newsom delivers a powerful and urgent address to the people of California and the nation in direct response to President Trump’s illegal militarization of Los Angeles and his broader assault on our democracy. A must watch till the end.

Two weeks ago, 60 Minutes found that the Saudi government provided crucial assistance to the hijackers during the 9/11 terror attacks. Looks like that quote, “Never forget 9/11” didn’t hold up well. 15 of 19 terrorists from 9/11 were citizens from Saudi Arabia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaQy...

This is Bernie Sanders in 08/2022 after his amendment to cut Medicare drug prices by 50% fails 1-99. Every Democrat voted against it. From that same day: $30b for climate resilience & starting a Civilian Climate Corps. Rejected, 1-98. Expand Medicare for hearing, dental and vision, rejected 3-97

“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory www.cato.org/sites/cato.o...

The success sequence, trustworthy as it may sound, is a bumper sticker that conveniently frames structural inequalities as matters of individual choice. Zip code is a strong predictor of academic performance. For more kids to graduate HS, we have to address the effects of generational poverty.

An idea for Dems. Here's how to squeeze Russian oil income, hit its war machine, and aid the US all at the same time. And it’s not complicated. The US could easily meet India’s oil needs replacing Russia. Is Trump willing to hit Putin where it hurts to benefit the US? cepa.org/article/wean...

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Two scholars who since 2016 have been consistently correct in anticipating Trump's effect on our political system. Everyone should read it.