High noon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — autumn as autumn gets.

Into a news-cycle dive this morning, I ran out of options, so I decided to go with Annie Lennox, along with her longtime musical partner, Dave Stewart, to melodize us into accepting that which we can not change, and loathing asshole Republicans who know only cruelty as their point.

Annie and Dave and foreshadowing the rain that’s coming, pounding  down the road:

Beyond the joy, Annie teams with David Bowie to try and unfurl the pressure embedded:

Or, on another concept, would I lie to you — may be:

Real-time Annie, or not, yet here we are once again…

(Illustration out front: New Yorker cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan, found here.)