Bunkers, Snow Angels and Optimism

There was a night in Wyoming when a little kid's dog died of antifreeze poisoning. It was midnight. It was snowing. And his father drove a Chevy Blazer out onto a frozen pond, got out with the headlights on, and fell backward into the snow making snow angels. That story opens today's show, and it is the through-line for everything that follows, because the point of all of this is not just to stop the bad. It is to fight for magic.Today's stories: Trump inadvertently admitted on Air Force One that the $400 million White House ballroom is a cover story for an underground military bunker, complete with bulletproof glass and drone-proof ceilings, and the railroad company donating to it turns out to own the air-gapped military fiber network running beneath the American rail system. Stephen Miller has been confirmed by two DHS officials to have ordered daily calls demanding ICE agents "vanquish protesters by any force necessary," which is now being directly linked to the killing of Alex Preti. The United States used an untested short-range ballistic missile called the PRSM on a second school in Iran on the same day 175 people were killed at the school in Manab, bringing the one-day total to two schools struck. And to fund the $200 billion war, the House Budget Committee is cutting the ACA cost-sharing provisions that help low-income Americans afford high deductibles, which would push 300,000 more people off coverage by 2034.Also: the unhoused are disappearing. Not metaphorically. They are being removed from public spaces, the discomfort we were never allowed to name is being quietly resolved for us, and nobody is keeping count of where they went.Thirty days to May Day. You deserve more than the floor. Stay lit.