Listening to the Band, while unpacking in our new/old coop apartment in the Bronx. Thinking how much I would have loved to see them live. Great musicians, three lead singers, and one great song writer. I saw Levon in his later musical iteration at his barn in Woodstock – The Midnight Ramble – and what a treat that was.

Trump and his MAGA base are co-created and co-dependant. To assign all agency for this odious and dangerous phenomenon to Trump is not only mistaken, but potentially disarming.

It’s a year since the Afghanistan withdrawl and we hear that if the U.S. had left a residual force of 2500, plus Nato and contractors, all would be well there. I’m no expert, but it strikes me as a case of magical thinking.