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Bedraggled Democrats and ascendant Republicans are gearing up to pass legislation to fund the government beyond September 30.

Despite being the biggest contemporary star in a commercially ascendant genre, Wallen has always had a contentious relationship with Grammy voters.

Just a handful of years ago, the left was ascendant, with its candidates winning presidencies in one country after the other: Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Colombia and Brazil.

Outside of the confines of the silver screen, we know that half the world banded together to make those grinning and ascendant fascists eat dirt.

Brian Wilson’s death on Wednesday at the age of 82 heralds an end to one idea of Southern California — as the temperate paradise of ascendant Americana.