Three chords and the truth

 

Oct 7, 2025 (260/1461)

Three chords and the truth. That’s country music in a nutshell. And if the NFL bringing in Bad Bunny wasn’t an eye-popper, Zach Bryan has one-upped them. Zach teased out his new song which is very very anti-ICE. Wow. The things you thought you’d never see. Of course TOM is the original of things you thought you’d never see. “Country music star Zach Bryan is facing backlash after sharing a snippet of a new song that criticizes federal immigration raids. The short clip posted on Instagram has divided fans, with some calling him brave and others swearing off his music entirely.

In the snippet, Bryan sings, “ICE is gonna come, bust down your door / Try to build a house no one builds no more / But I’ve got a telephone / Kids are all scared and all alone.” Despite the backlash, Bryan’s career momentum hasn’t slowed. His snippet dropped just days before he broke George Strait’s record for the largest ticketed concert in history — performing in front of a 112,408-person crowd.” Another beacon in the very foggy night shines through.

TOM has put on his vindictive coat. And I’m sure he’ll blame D’s (or Biden) for this. “Hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers may not automatically receive back pay once the government reopens, President Trump signaled on Tuesday, prompting renewed fears that the administration might try to circumvent federal law and maximize the pain of the shutdown.

The president’s comments, which echoed a draft memo that has circulated at the White House, contradicted the administration’s own guidance that furloughed employees would receive retroactive pay shortly after Congress strikes a funding deal. Following the longest shutdown in history — a five-week closure that began under Mr. Trump at the end of 2018 — Congress adopted a law that guaranteed back pay for the millions of federal workers who often bear the financial brunt of funding lapses. That measure, known as the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, applied not only to that closure but also future fiscal lapses, quelling a major source of uncertainty for federal workers caught in the political fray.

Mr. Trump signed that measure into law in 2019. But his administration six years later now appears to have interpreted its guarantees much differently. Asked if these workers would indeed lose back pay, Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House that it “depends on who you’re talking about,” adding that there were “some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of, and we’ll take care of them in a different way.” And that would likely be firing them. When a mafia don talks about taking care of people, we all know what that means.