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Why did the Biden White House appoint a defender of murderous war criminals to a public diplomacy commission? I've asked for an explanation. If I get one, I will update this piece. Please read and share. motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

@chrisbriem A favorite of mine.

I was going to say we need a #pittsburghghostsigns hashtag, but apparently I didn’t think of that first. But will be useful going forward.

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Spontaneous song titles: “Second that Emotion” “A Hard Day’s Night” “Hold on, I’m Coming” The first two are based on malapropisms, and the last was based on David Porter’s words to Isaac Hayes as he returned from the bathroom to the studio.

$760 billion in PPP loans were forgiven. That’s $360 billion more than this Administration’s student debt relief program. And, several Republican members of Congress who opposed student debt relief benefited from those PPP loans.

RIP, Alan Arkin, who starred in one of the funniest films ever made.

@WYEP Guy Clark

John Prine was often referred to as your favorite songwriter's favorite songwriter. He was honored as the first honorary poet laureate of Illinois today in 2020, 3 months after his passing in the early days of the pandemic. Who are some great songwriters more people should know?

In 2016, writing a book on skiffle, I became aware that the genre was mostly American railroad songs. Joe Henry and I took a trip on the Texas Eagle, recording such songs at stations along the route from Chicago to Los Angeles for the Shine A Light album

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Let this sink in. Donald Trump is friends with at least FIVE PEDOPHILES. So much that Retrumplicans like accusing President Biden of being a pedophile, their own god Donald Trump knows them all. Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein had a dedicated team of workers on his Little St. James Island who trafficked girls as young as 12 to his clients. To get there, Epstein would fly the underage girls into St. Thomas, and then he would ferry them over to his private island via a boat named Lady Ghislaine. The island has, over the years, gained a handful of sinister nicknames: “Orgy Island,” “Pedophile Island,” and “Island of Sin.” We've all seen the videos and pictures of Trump and Epstein together. They were friends and associates. With a wink and a nod, Trump admitted to New York Magazine in 2002, “I’ve known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” According to Daily Beast, Jeffrey Epstein had 14 private numbers for Trump and his family in his little black book. Epstein would eventually plead guilty to two counts of soliciting prostitution from a minor, thus dodging federal sex-trafficking charges, and serve just 13 months in jail. We all know how that turned out. John Casablancas: Created the Elite Modeling Agency in New York in the 1980's which was used as a child sex trafficking business. John Casablancas was doing this type of thing with young boys, as well as girls, of the same age. He was inviting young teenagers to his private office, having them strip down to near or complete nudity, inspecting their bodies, talking about how he thought they were sexy, sending them off to Europe to get them "broken in," and falling in love with them. The ages of the girls he preyed on is not all that far off from the ages of the boys. Trump being his friend, is when he introduced Ivanka to this agency. And years later, in the 1990's Trump opened up his own modeling agency called Trump Model Management. Which, coincidently, closed after he became president. Tevfik Arif: One of Trump’s partners, Arif is a Kazakh hotel magnate who founded the Bayrock company in 2001 in order to work with Trump to develop the controversial Trump SoHo Hotel. In June 2010, a Turkish SWAT team raided a hotel and boat full of under-age Russian girls working as prostitutes. Arif was accused of setting up sexual trysts between wealthy businessmen and underage models on his $60 million yacht. The group of businessmen are said to have paid up to $10,000 per night to sleep with the women onboard the 450ft yacht. Arif was arrested but later acquitted. George Nader: Nader, who has been described by prosecutors as a “lifelong pedophile,” served Trump during his transition to the presidency as an informal foreign policy adviser. He admitted to possessing child pornography and bringing underage boys to the US for “commercial sex." Explicit videos depicting the sexual abuse of toddlers were discovered on his phone in January 2018, when FBI agents examined his devices since he was a key witness in former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Roy Cohn: Was the mentor and close ally of Donald Trump. What has become increasingly clear by the CIA is that Cohn was the mastermind behind Washington's pedophile blackmail network, which is alive and well today. How do you control a politician? Compromise him. Secretly video-tape him having sex with someone other than his wife - like a prostitute or a child - and use that videotape to blackmail him. It's that simple. The mastermind of such operations in the U.S for more than thirty years was Roy Cohn.