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Flute extraordinaire JJim Walker and his band Free Flight blew Johnny Carson's mind on the Tonight Show back in 1982 with their melding of jazz and classical. Walker has had a stellar career playing his beloved instrument, but was also a world class educator who retired a few years ago as a professor of practice in USC Thornton’s Winds and Percussion department. Two years in a row, he received the Most Valuable Player Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Academy itself famous for its GRAMMY Awards.

While Donald Trump plots to be a dictator on Day One, Balaji Srinivasan and his wealthy tech bros are plotting a different version of authoritarianism and ethnic cleansing, one that does not require a presidential campaign. Gil Duran wrote about this oligarch for The New Republic: To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan.

We've already established here that Trump lawyer Alina Habba is trash. And Habba has established that she's ridiculously stupid, too. Habba was asked in a relatively recent interview whether she would rather be pretty or smart. She said, "Oh easy, pretty … I can fake being smart." That's not true at all.

Pro-life activist Randall Terry was nominated as the Constitution Party’s presidential candidate, Ballot Access News reports. He is likely to be on the ballot in battleground states of Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

The FAFSA flopper, Richard Cordray, is leaving office all of a sudden.

The money and ideology that flood American colleges failed to put the necessary Muslim manpower in place at UW.