Supporting a CIA propaganda outfit doesn’t turn into a good thing just because Trump happens to be against it.
I always thought the song was a bit of criticism leveled at western Cold War politics, but I was never a Stipeologist so I can’t be sure. I do know that’s how many of us perceived it in real time in 1983 when we first listened to Murmur.
But songs’ meanings (eta: and institutions) can evolve, and I find the support by REM to be good.
Freight Technologies Inc. CEO Javier Selgas said in a Wednesday news release that buying Trump coin would be “an effective way to advocate for fair, balanced and free trade between Mexico and the U.S.”
The release was attached to a filing that same day with the Securities and Exchange Commission explaining why Freight Technologies was issuing bonds. “The company will use the net proceeds from the offering to purchase TRUMP coins,” the company told the SEC.
“I’m going to bribe a public official” is one hell of an SEC filing
Gives new meaning to the phrase “Every accusation is a confession.”
vague sort of itchy political zero-sum phenomenon: we statesians suffer so some of the rest of the world take heed and perform the sensible counter balance (…yer welcome?? nah @#$!)
Australia re-elects Anthony Albanese as Labor rides anti-Trump wave to seal crushing win
Opposition leader Peter Dutton fails to dissociate himself from Trump-like rhetoric and policies – and loses his seat
Australia’s centre-left prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has won a second term with a crushing victory over the opposition, whose rightwing leader, Peter Dutton, failed to brush off comparisons with Donald Trump and ended up losing his own seat.
Albanese’s Labor party scored an unexpectedly comfortable win on Saturday, after a five-week election campaign dominated by the cost of living and global economic uncertainty.
At the turn of the year, Labor was struggling in the polls, but Dutton ran a campaign derided by commentators as one of the worst in Australian political history, and the former police detective struggled to clearly dissociate himself from some Trump-like rhetoric and policies.
Albanese, 62, had pitched himself as a steady hand to guide Australia through a period of global turbulence turbocharged by Trump’s tariff war. He becomes the first Australian prime minister to serve consecutive terms since 2004.
(UK reform party notwithstanding?)
Technically the song has no direct meaning at all. At that time Stipe was just singing random words that sounded good. It’s really open to any interpretation.
During a White House cabinet meeting on Wednesday, then, Waltz was apparently using an Israeli-made app called TeleMessage Signal to message with people who appear to be top US officials, including JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and Tulsi Gabbard.
Every photo of Waltz shows him on his phone leaking US intelligence. 
The TLDR/ leopard version:
"G has fetal alcohol syndrome, autism, ADHD and a mild intellectual disability. Cupp and her husband adopted G as a toddler, and Cupp asked that NPR use only G’s first initial because this story describes the symptoms of G’s disabilities and her school’s response.
Cupp says that after weeks of trying to get G’s school to change the way it handled her daughter’s behavior, she filed a complaint with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, or OCR, which investigates discrimination in schools.
Now, Cupp and other parents say their civil rights complaints aren’t being investigated. Last week, Cupp joined a lawsuit that aims to force the federal government to act on complaints like hers. The lawsuit claims the layoffs have undermined OCR’s “ability to fulfill its statutory and regulatory mandate to enforce civil rights laws in schools.”
“I just can’t fathom that anybody would cut something so vital,” says Cupp, a devout Christian. She says she voted for President Trump and thought he shared her beliefs. “But I can’t understand why they’re doing what they’re doing, because that is not what God would intend.”
100% can see this happening.
Hopefully not with the same dateline
The most exciting thing about being a pope, is that popes can convoke cadaver synods.
TIL a new word: Novemdiales. It is a 9-day mourning period for the deceased Pope. Wouldn’t making such a joke, right in the midst of the sadness over the loss of the Pope, be an offense to Catholics and blasphemy? What does Mr. Vance think about this?