There’s a reason Goldman Sachs, not known for being a liberal bastion, has gone on the record of preferring the democrat party’s 2024 presidential …

Why The GOP MAGA Ex-President’s Tariffs Are Bad News for the US Economy

Kavitha Surana of ProPublica wrote the story of what happened to Amber Nicole Thurman. She died because it was illegal in Georgia to give her the …

ProPublica: Georgia GOP Legislators Killed Amber Nicole Thurman

I had just finished listening to Clive’s post featuring songs about Peace, when this suddenly popped into my head.  I couldn’t remember the name of …

♫ Lonely People ♫

Must be a coincidence, but I also found some pink chrysanthemum. FOTD 25th September 2024: Chrysanthemum

FOTD 25th September 2024: Chrysanthemum

विकल्पों के जंजाल में बहुत,  हो चली है कठिन सी जिंदगी… गर कोई विकल्प ही न रहता,  तो आसान हो जाती जिंदगी… 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 A multitude of choices, a …

विकल्प / Options

Burgers to eat, and open-carry guns on display. The dream combination from these fine examples of manhood.

The American Dream Made Flesh

Source: BlütenSteine zur Wochenmitte | Steinegarten

For most musicians, a long-lost song written in their teenage years would be of interest only to serious fans — and even then, probably more for biographical reasons than as a standalone piece of work. But that’s hardly the case for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was composing advanced music at the age of five, and indeed completed the first act of his short life by adolescence. Hence the guaranteed appreciative audience for Serenade in C, a hitherto unknown piece recently discovered in the holdings of Germany’s Leipzig Municipal Libraries and first performed for the public just last week.

“Library researchers were compiling an edition of the Köchel catalog, a comprehensive archive of Mozart’s work, when they stumbled across a mysterious bound manuscript containing a handwritten composition in brown ink,” writes Smithsonian.com’s Sonja Anderson.

Source: Watch the Performance of a Mozart Composition That Had Been Lost for Centuries | Open Culture

As midnight nears, the lights of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, fill the sky on the silent banks of the Rio Grande. A few months ago, hundreds of asylum-seeking families, including crying toddlers, waited for an opening to crawl through razor wire from Juarez into El Paso.

No one is waiting there now.

Nearly 500 miles away, in the border city of Eagle Pass, large groups of migrants that were once commonplace are rarely seen on the riverbanks these days.

In McAllen, at the other end of the Texas border, two Border Patrol agents scan fields for five hours without encountering a single migrant.

Source: 24 hours on the border finds quiet, not chaos. Will it last? | The Texas Tribune

Source: U.S. foes Russia, China and Iran using AI to accelerate influence operations on US elections, intel officials say – The Washington Post