The GOP used to believe that education should be under "local control."

Jennifer Rubin did a good video with Norm Eisen and Katie Phang this afternoon to explain. I highly recommend it. (Just click "no thanks" on the first screen.) https://open.substack.com/pub/katiephang/p/new-scotus-rulings-live-w-jen-norm?r=n5ktx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Some iconic music. RIP Lalo. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mission-impossible-theme-live-classic-fm/vi-AA1HuZK7#details

Those are great!

The idea that any of those lands will make anybody a dime on timber is laughable. It's a federal boondoggle and will cost taxpayers a ton. Google my piece "The Mismanagement of the National Forests"

@wtg That’s a great story. I’ve read in many places that dementia patients can sometimes sing, even when they can’t talk. The power of music lies so deeply in memory. My MIL is in memory care; they have music therapy/singalong on a regular basis. I don’t know if Mom sings or not, but she seems to enjoy it. I’m planning to go with a small group to sing at a congregation member’s memory care facility in a couple weeks. We’re practicing next week, going the following week. I restrung my guitar in anticipation of this and one other gig in July. (I’m a very rudimentary player; guitar is just meant to keep me singing in key!)

We’ll always need electricians and plumbers!

@wtg Thanks for posting that, wtg. I really needed it after the NYTimes' distasteful decision to run Andrew Sullivan's diatribe against the LGBTQ community today. Why they thought publishing a litany of hyperbole and anecdotes attacking the community under the headline "How The Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way," on the anniversary of Obergefell was a good idea, I can't fathom. Other than the insatiable desire for clicks. It was the last straw for me. Coming on the heels of their couching an endorsement for Cuomo in their "non-endorsing" editorial, and the general descent of their online front page into bland, very "safe" but clickbait headlines, the sum of which leaves one completely unaware of the horrifying situation the US finds itself in, I decided to cancel my subscription.

@Bernard I pretty much do what these guidelines say to, especially the part about smelling the stem end. I buy the Dulcinea cantaloupes at Costco, which are packaged two to a bag. I try to buy a bag with melons at different stages of ripeness so I don't suddenly have more ripe fruit than I can eat in a reasonable time. https://www.southernliving.com/how-to-tell-if-cantaloupe-ripe-7693521

Frankly, I don't care what RFK gets wrong. This is such a stupid non-scientific and ideological bullshit "debate."

@Steve-Miller said in Trump Mobile: I don’t see American made phones happening very soon. They may have figured it out, too, but aren't quite ready to admit it in public. The Trump Organization scrapped a reference that its recently revealed smartphone will be made in the U.S., amid doubts that such a device can be manufactured on American shores at its price tag. A spokesperson for the Trump Organization, which is owned by U.S. President Donald Trump, nevertheless maintained the handset would be made in the U.S. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/trump-phone-website-removes-made-in-the-usa-tag-for-the-device.html

It got to 102F in NYC the last couple of days. We do have an A/C for the bedroom but we put it in storage for the cold months. Drinking plenty of water. The climate control system under the piano does its thing well. I dare not go out to ride my bike till the temperature drops.

Lights tonight. [image: northern-lights.png] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/24/northern-lights-forecast-aurora-borealis/84331298007/?tbref=hp?utm_source%3Djoin1440&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c06e5d78644b3aab4472

@ShiroKuro I think Mik has answered that question.

When my $ watch got saltwater in it, the cost to repair it almost as much as original price. Told them to keep it. Bought a Garmin that is smarter than I am. It counts steps and tells me who is calling plus more than I want to know. Smartwatches and AI could be a scary thing. May have to go back to a Timex. Then again, they are copying some expensive watches, but those look like the cheap copies they are.