On this day in 1964 Manfred Mann were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Do Wah Diddy Diddy', the bands first of three UK No.1's.

The Rectification of Names: Potemkin Prison Postscript.

The Rude Pundit: Why Doesn't the Right Defend Kai Cenat's Actions as Free Speech?

Stonekettle Station: The Latter Days of a Better Nation, Part VI.

Attention space nerds! Is gravity losing its grip?

Round Up by driftglass of the Professional Left Podcast and Science Fiction University

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