Coach stops ICE; Congress skips town; Tesla troubles; Trump kills Mauna Loa; voting for retribution; AI destroying society.
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NYC youth baseball coach confronts ICE: ‘I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids'. Since the beginning of the Trump administration, fewer places are off-limits to agents.
‘We Voted for Retribution’. Over the next four years, some $45 billion will be spent on ICE detention centers, which will hold mainly people who have never been convicted of any crime.
House Speaker Johnson ends session early to avoid vote on Epstein files. The week’s legislative agenda was upended by Republican members who were clamoring for a vote. (Video)
Republicans propose naming Kennedy Center Opera House after Melania Trump.
The sinister truth of the Coldplay KissCam story: Nobody should expect to go to a huge concert and expect privacy, but the incident is a jarring reminder of the reach of the surveillance state and the internet’s insatiable appetite for public shaming,
A big problem for Tesla isn’t getting much attention. Tesla often makes more money selling its regulatory emission credits to gasoline carmakers than from sales of its vehicles. That credit is going away, and with it a big chunk Tesla’s profitability.
Tesla isn’t a car company anymore. That’s what Elon claims, anyway.
‘The Osbournes’ changed Ozzy’s image from grisly to cuddly, and changed reality TV. With the debut of his family reality show on MTV, the world learned what those who’d been paying closer attention already knew: Ozzy Osbourne was soft and fuzzy under the darkness.
The real reason why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii. The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissions. When you don't like the message, what do you do? You shoot the messenger, of course.
White House releases memo outlining Trump's health issues. (Video)
Trump dodges Epstein by attacking Obama, dropping MLK files, and trying to change Coke | The Daily Show (Video)
AI friend apps are destroying what’s left of society. As they become increasingly isolated, people are treating AI chatbots as friends and even lovers. We have to fix the broken society that made this possible.
Quote of the Day:
It's interesting that the more technologically advanced we become the more vulnerable our freedoms are.
--Anthony Kennedy (Wikipedia link)
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Today’s holidays:
Gorgeous Grandma Day, Hot Enough For Ya Day, National Vanilla Ice Cream Day, National Women Touched by Addiction Day, Peanut Butter and Chocolate Day, Sprinkle Day, World Castleman Disease Day, World Sjögren's Day, and Yada, Yada, Yada Day.
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
On This Day:
2012 – The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it had hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide.
2012 – Sally Ride, a physicist, the first American woman astronaut and the third woman to travel to space, died from cancer.
2011 – Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London apartment.
1999 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
1995 – Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
1984 – Miss America 1984, Vanessa Williams, resigned after Penthouse magazine announced plans to publish nude photos of her.
1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel and made a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba. (Video)
1982 – Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children were killed when a helicopter crashed onto them while shooting a scene from Twilight Zone: The Movie. (Video)
1973 – President Nixon refuses to hand over Watergate tapes.
1972 – The United States launched Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
1967 – Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.
1966 – Frank Sinatra's album "Strangers In The Night" hits #1 on the Billboard 200. (Video)
1962 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite. (Video)
1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
1885 – Former President Ulysses S. Grant died.
1875 – Isaac Singer, founder of the sewing machine company, died.
1840 – The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1989 – Daniel Radcliffe, English actor
1982 – Paul Wesley, American actor, director, and producer
1973 – Monica Lewinsky, American activist and former White House intern
1972 – Marlon Wayans, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1970 – Charisma Carpenter, American actress
1969 – Raphael Warnock, American politician and minister
1967 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor, director, and producer (died 2014)
1965 – Slash, English-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1962 – Eriq La Salle, American actor, director, and producer
1961 – Woody Harrelson, American actor and activist
1940 – Don Imus, American radio host (died 2019)
1936 – Anthony Kennedy, American lawyer and jurist
1936 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1993)
1933 – Bert Convy, American actor, singer, and game show host (died 1991)
1925 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress and singer (died 2016)
1921 – Calvert DeForest, American actor (died 2007) (Video)
1894 – Arthur Treacher, English-American actor and television personality (died 1975)
1892 – Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (died 1975)
1888 – Raymond Chandler, American crime novelist and screenwriter (died 1959)
1885 – Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American businessman, created Prince Matchabelli perfume (died 1935)
(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)
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