RIP Glen Hansard

Glen Hansard, the musician and actor best known for The Commitments and Once, died early yesterday outside Dublin, Ireland, after crashing his motorcycle. He was 56. Gardaí (the Irish national police) will conduct a routine inquest to determine exactly what happened.

In other news:

• The OAFPOTUS has completely flipped world opinion on the US and China, as we're less popular than they are now.
• Between the OAFPOTUS's deranged dementia and the natural proclivites of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's natural proclivities, ICE is using a program to reunite migrant children with relatives as a shortcut to deporting the relatives. Becaues the cruelty is the point.
• A former deputy prime minister of Canada rolls her eyes at the OAFPOTUS blaming Canada for just about everything.
• Jennifer Rubin cracks her knuckles as Republicans rightfully panic about the midterms.
• Paul Krugman jokes that "reality is a Communist plot" in the wake of US Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)'s "unhinged obsession" with former CDC director Anthony Fauci.
• Jamelle Bouie asks, "why do we tolerate Elon Musk's racist commentary?"
• Bruce Schneier presents a simple way to decide if you should use AI for a task.

Finally, it looks like summer heat will return to Chicago after a three-day respite. Oh, joy.