The effective way the clarinet player does a musical call and response to the singer is just mesmerizing. "Tu vuo' fa' l'americano" by Renato Carosone: cover by Hetty and the Jazzato Band, an Anglo-Italian jazz quintet.

We keep seeing videos of masked ICE agents with no visible ID doing whatever they want—and we’re supposed to trust women are safe in their custody? If you can’t identify the man who touched you, searched you, or transported you, you can’t report him. That’s not enforcement.

The Constitution and the law are clear: ICE must allow anyone they detain access to legal counsel. But that is not happening—including for at least one detained U.S. citizen. ICE must comply with the law and allow access to attorneys. This is not optional.

Russian intelligence couldn't script it better than for a mentally-ill US president to unilaterally damage our economy, splinter our alliances, destroy our rule of law, and shred our moral standing while those who could stop him meekly step aside. zeteo.com/p/trump-putin-…

If there was ever a moment for libertarians and conservatives to step up and join the rest of us, we’re in it. Americans have to unite and stop this descent from a freedom-loving nation into the kind of place where masked, militarized government agents are sent to politically

Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come.  This is one of them.

In 1951, a 14-year-old Australian boy named James Harrison woke up in a hospital bed with 100 stitches across his chest. Doctors had just removed one of his lungs. To survive, he needed 13 units of donated blood from complete strangers—people whose names he would never know. His

I was ready to cringe, but this is actually quite poignant and really worth a listen.

Jonathan Rauch, one of America's wisest analysts, had resisted using the term "fascism," offering instead "patrimonialism." But recent events from Greenland to Minneapolis changed his mind. He lays it all out in this important essay in The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/…

I can speak only for myself, but I want to assure all Danes that many of us in the United Stats--yes, most of us--yes, a large majority of us--respect and appreciate our friends and allies in Denmark, and are appalled by this as by so many actions of the Trump administration.

"Once a government convinces people that some among them are unworthy of rights or empathy, the rest becomes frighteningly easy," writes Andrew Weinstein time-magazine.visitlink.me/aNz9rq

What were the federal agents doing in Minnesota? They picked up over 100 refugees with no criminal records who had legal status. They took them shackled to Texas. A court said they had to be released, and at least some of them have had to find their own way home. The refugees

Father Thomas J. Reese, S.J. (Thomas Reese, S.J.): “As president, Trump is destroying the United States. He has poisoned our political culture, setting citizen against citizen, celebrating conflict and even violence. He unites his base by stoking hatred of perceived enemies. His

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” ― Malcolm X

“Anyone who is depriving you of freedom, isn’t deserving of a peaceful approach” Malcolm X interview in England

A 26-year-old student sent a message to his teacher to explain that he will be absent from the class because he has not found anyone to take care of his five-month-old daughter... Nathan Alexander, 34, a math professor at Morehouse College (Atlanta) responded to his student by

America has become a racist hateful country.

Every American needs to watch this: