In the expansive universe of rock and roll, few entities have demonstrated the cultural and musical endurance of the Grateful Dead. Following the 2015 “Fare Thee Well” concerts, which were billed as the final time the four surviving core members would perform together, a new chapter unexpectedly began. Dead & Company was formed in August of that year, uniting Grateful Dead founders Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann with a new generation of collaborators: Grammy-winning guitarist John Mayer, Allman Brothers Band bassist Oteil Burbridge, and veteran keyboardist Jeff Chimenti. The project’s genesis can be traced to a chance musical The post Complete List Of Dead And Company Band Members appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

It was then hit a second time; NASA thought it might have doomed the astronauts upon reentry.

In 2018, an independent researcher bought a piece of space rock from a vendor in Morocco. It could change what we know of the Solar System's formation.

Their corpses unleashed a “landscape of fear”.

The weapon was probably used just once, and hit its mark.

When former Labor Secretary Robert Reich can muster equal enthusiasm for radical leftist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and for PBS, that might help people locate precisely where PBS is on the political spectrum. In a new video, Reich began by posing with an Elmo puppet. Doesn’t every leftist begin their PBS argument with Elmo? Supposedly Trump opposes Sesame Street because they once made a puppet called “Donald Grump.” I’m sure he loved that parody when it happened….20 years ago. Reich asked: “Why is Trump so hell-bent on defunding PBS? It’s part of a larger plan — one where he can control not just what we do, but what we think.” It’s a conspiracy theory: “Trump is waging a war on the American mind!” Once again, Trump is painted as a dictator. Reich claimed: “Throughout history, tyrants have understood that their major enemy is an educated public. Slaveholders prohibited enslaved people from learning how to read. The Third Reich burned books. The Khmer Rouge banned music. Stalin and Pinochet censored the media.” “Fact checkers” could ask: How is Trump just like slaveholders, Hitler, Stalin, Pinochet, and the Khmer Rouge? Where has Trump prevented people from reading, burned books, banned music, or censored the media? And how is taking taxpayer subsidies away from PBS anything like book banning or reading prevention? The Left always associates itself with education. Reich said Trump believes, as they say in Orwell’s novel 1984, that “ignorance is strength.”  Reich claimed Trump favors teaching children “our country has never been wrong.” That’s what they claimed about the Florida education standards under Gov. Ron DeSantis. Leftists are firmly in control of universities and suppress all dissent. But Reich pretended the opposite: “As a professor, I know firsthand how education empowers young people’s minds. We can’t have a functioning democracy if people cannot deliberate critically about it. That’s why authoritarians replace education with indoctrination.  Instead of teaching students to think for themselves, authoritarians seek to instill blind allegiance and to suppress dissent.” In 2022, a Harvard Crimson poll found more than 80 percent of Harvard faculty respondents characterized their political leanings as “liberal” or “very liberal.” Only one percent of respondents stated they are “conservative,” and no respondents identified as “very conservative.” Just like PBS, most universities seek to prevent any conservative from speaking as an authority. They equate conservatism with ignorance and misinformation. That results in “blind allegiance,” “indoctrination,” and the opposite of a “functioning democracy” of minds. The Left associates a “functioning democracy” with Democrat Party control. When Republicans win, we live in frightening “authoritarian” times. Reich conflated Trump’s lawsuits against ABC and CBS and defunding “public” broadcasting with “suppressing” the media. Trump is “trying to silence major news sources.” Calling them out for “fake news” is suppression. Isn’t that fascinating? Attacking the leftist press is not “dissent.” It’s not “authoritarian” for PBS to suppress the conservative view on taxpayer-funded television.   Reich lectured: “A free press exists to question authority, and help the public question it as well.” But how did these “major news sources” perform in questioning authority in the Biden administration? Look no further than their propagandistic coverage of Biden’s mental state. They denied there was any problem and suppressed all “functioning democracy” within the so-called Democratic Party until it could no longer be ignored. Ignorance wasn’t strength. The Left objects to defunding PBS because it objects to any diminution of its indoctrinating power. The Left objects to adding any conservative narratives to education and the culture for the same reason. Conservatives exist to foist democracy upon them. 

You’ve probably seen the images—Amish farms with sprawling gardens, hand-built barns, and rows of crops stretching as far as the eye can see. There’s a quiet confidence in their way […]

California police released security video from a bizarre incident where a man wearing a bikini and a sun hat tried to rob a donut shop in Los Angeles.The incident unfolded at a Winchell's donut shop in the Harvard Heights area on May 28. Video obtained by KMPH-TV shows the bikini-clad man in the kitchen pointing what looks like a gun while the workers toss objects at him, including cash.At one point, the officer fires a shot at the man but apparently misses him.As he leans down to pick up the cash, they ram him with a cart. Surveillance video from outside the store shows one worker grabbing a chair and throwing it at the man before he flees from the scene.Police said they were later able to find the man in an alley of a nearby apartment complex in July. Body camera video shows the confrontation as an officer tries to get the man to stand down.At one point, the officer fires a shot at the man but apparently misses him.RELATED: Homeless man allegedly devours victim's face after fight at bus stop near Las Vegas Strip, told police he was possessed Officers were able to subdue him through the use of a taser and arrested the man. They said they were able to recover a knife as well as an airsoft replica handgun from the area.They later identified him as 41-year-old Christopher Hall. He was charged with robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

House lawmakers are advancing their investigation into how non-governmental organizations contributed to the immigration crisis under the Biden administration.The Committee on Homeland Security, chaired by Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), announced last week that it is holding a hearing, "An Inside Job: How NGOs Facilitated the Biden Border Crisis," as part of "a years-long investigation by the Committee into whether NGOs used taxpayer dollars to facilitate illegal activity during the Biden-Harris administration."A third organization received over $3 billion from the Biden administration to provide immigrant services.Blaze Media national correspondent Julio Rosas, Oversight Project president and Blaze News contributor Mike Howell, and GUARD Against Trafficking president and co-founder Ali Hopper will provide their congressional testimony during Wednesday's hearing.Last month, Reps. Green and Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability, sent inquiry letters to over 200 NGOs requesting additional information. The committee expressed concerns about some of the NGOs' activities, noting that one was linked to "the far-left, anti-law enforcement riots in Los Angeles" and another organization, funded by taxpayer dollars and potentially also backed by the Chinese Communist Party, allegedly advised illegal aliens on how to evade ICE. A third organization received over $3 billion from the Biden administration to provide immigrant services, including for the transportation and housing of unaccompanied alien children, the committee noted.The hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, July 16, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. It can be viewed live on the committee's YouTube.RELATED: Liberals viciously attack Sen. John Fetterman for defending ICE: 'F**k you, f**k your mom, your family' Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

I was working out of Blaze News’ headquarters in Irving, Texas, on September 27, 2024, when Hurricane Helene smashed into the heart of Appalachia. Within days, the scale of the devastation in Western North Carolina began to come into focus — and I knew I had to be there.“I have more going on right now than I can keep up with,” I told my editor in chief. “So I need you to talk me out of this — but I think I need to be in North Carolina.”Western North Carolina’s story is not one of despair but of resilience and defiance.Matthew Peterson looked up from his desk, paused for a moment, and said, “You need to be in Western North Carolina.”By that afternoon, I had checked out of my hotel and hit the road. My preferred route — Interstate 40 through the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina — had been washed out by the storm, so I took the long way: I-20 to Atlanta, then I-85 up to Durham. Along the way, I stopped at eight Best Buy stores trying to find a Starlink satellite unit. All of them were sold out. It was a good sign: Relief workers were already headed into the mountains.At home in the Raleigh area, I swapped my usual TV gear for boots and cargo pants. I ended up needing two pairs of boots. I blew out the soles on a pair during a rugged six-mile hike along the Toe River with a cadaver dog search team.Blaze Media's Jill Savage and Julio Rosas had already set out with Glenn Beck and Mercury One to Asheville in the early days after the storm. They quickly linked up with Savage Freedoms Relief Operations, a nonprofit led by Adam Smith, a 17-year Army veteran and former Green Beret. SFRO was operating out of the Harley-Davidson dealership in Swannanoa, and when I showed up unannounced and flashed my Blaze Media press badge, they took me in. I embedded with them for more than three weeks.Smith is the kind of man you’d cast in a movie: six foot three, broad-shouldered, and commanding. But his heroism wasn’t theatrical. The first rescue he led was an aerial evacuation of his own daughter and ex-wife from the flooded Broad River Valley. He had no idea whether they were dead or alive until he got there.Under Smith’s leadership — and in coordination with veterans, nonprofits, and local officials — SFRO helped launch one of the most effective private disaster responses in recent memory. They delivered nearly 6 million pounds of supplies and flew over 2,500 air sorties. Their supply chain used everything from helicopters and trucks to pack animals.I witnessed more than 100 volunteers — many of them veterans — bringing food, fuel, medicine, clothing, and shelter to remote communities. There were days of search and rescue, followed by the harder, heartbreaking work of search and recovery.Federal and state authorities were much slower to respond. National Guard troops and the 18th Airborne Corps were eventually deployed, working under the direction of Smith and SFRO leadership — but never in the numbers needed.WNC saw no more than 3,500 military personnel at any one time. That’s a fraction of the 60,000 National Guard troops deployed to New Orleans after Katrina or the 17,000 sent to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. By November 19 — just before Thanksgiving — virtually all military aid was withdrawn, even as thousands remained homeless and winter set in.The Biden administration and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) failed to meet the moment. But others stepped in: Samaritan’s Purse, Mercury One, Great Needs Ministry (an Amish charity from Pennsylvania), and countless others.“We wanted to help the people with the disaster,” Amanda Zook, a volunteer from the Amish group, told Blaze News. “Our hearts just felt drawn to come help the people in this area.” The Amish have spent countless hours repairing and rebuilding homes and businesses in the hurricane-afflicted area.RELATED: FEMA fires 3 more supervisors tied to home-skipping scandal impacting Trump supporters Photo by Win McNamee/Getty ImagesLocal high-schoolers stepped up, too. Students from the Mountain Heritage High School carpentry class built a tiny home for 75-year-old artist Sherry Housley, who lost everything in the flood. “I was flooded with water,” she said. “Now I’m flooded with angels.”There are hundreds of stories like hers. But recovery remains a long road. Estimates put the damage at $50 billion to $60 billion. So far, only a tenth of that has been allocated. One FEMA veteran told me, “This is the worst I’ve ever seen … times 10.”I caught up with Adam Smith again just before the Independence Day holiday. He still lives in one of the hardest-hit areas. “Western North Carolina’s story is not one of despair but of resilience and defiance,” he told me. “The rugged people of the mountains have proven that they will stand when the system that is designed to protect, rescue, or save them collapses.”“But they should not have to do it alone,” he added. “The region needs honest leadership, transparent spending, and a dramatic reduction of bureaucratic barriers.”I asked him whether Western North Carolinians could still celebrate Independence Day after all they’ve endured.“The real spirit of July Fourth lives in every volunteer wielding a chainsaw,” Smith said. “Every first responder risking life and limb. Every neighbor sharing a meal. Every small-town leader fighting to cut through the red tape.”He’s right. “The battle for Western North Carolina isn’t over,” Smith told me. “It’s a fight that demands every American’s attention, because when the systems designed to protect us collapse, all that remains is each other.”The people of WNC haven’t lost their independence — or their soul. They haven’t just survived. They’ve reminded the rest of us what it means to be free.