DOGE gets axed; Trump losing self-control, in "gross decline"; MAGA crowd on X from outside U.S.; GOP still stymied by health care; defeating A.I. with poetry.
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Tatiana Schlossberg, JFK’s grandaughter, reveals terminal cancer diagnosis and criticizes cousin RFK Jr.
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DOGE has officially been DOGE’d — Trump administration confirms department no longer exists. DOGE shut down about eight months before its planned termination date of July 4, 2026.
Irobot co-founder calls out Elon Musk’s Optimus robot ‘fantasy’.
Trump and Mamdani’s ‘lovefest’ exposes the media’s broken script. Trump and Mamdani’s cordial moment didn’t just reveal campaign theater — it exposed how much the political press depends on a fixed narrative to explain Trump.
Zohran Mamdani says he still believes Trump is a ‘fascist’ and a ‘despot’ after White House meeting.
The President is losing control of himself. Donald Trump’s recent outbursts on social media were different than usual.
We can see Trump is in gross decline: psychologist.
President Trump could reveal existence of non-human intelligent life in ‘near future,’ says documentary director. “The Age of Disclosure” director Dan Farah believes “it’s only a matter of time” before a sitting president “tells the world we’re not alone in the universe.
Disneyland ‘MAGA Invasion’ organizers reveal unsanctioned plans to ‘trigger’ guests and “Make Disney Great Again”.
X’s new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts. The function, which shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was created.
Obamacare premiums are skyrocketing. Republicans can’t figure out what to do.
Russia’s assault on Ukrainian civilians raises war crimes concerns. (60 Minutes Overtime Video) One attack this past spring illustrates what investigators describe as Russia’s strategy: On Palm Sunday, Russian missile strikes killed 35 civilians.
Airlines cancel flights to Venezuela after FAA warns of worsening security, military activity. On Friday, the FAA warned pilots that unspecified threats “could pose a potential risk to aircraft at all altitudes” as well planes taking off and landing in the country and even aircraft on the ground.
Rhyme is the key to set AIs free when verse outsmarts security. Large language models are vulnerable to jailbreak attacks when prompts are in the form of poetry instead of prose.
A taste for cheese may reveal your future risk of dementia.
Florida man was ready for operation with top surgeon. How it went wrong. “I felt like I was being treated as an oil change,” the man said.
Florida man walked ‘buck naked’ in 36-degree weather — told deputies it was for TikTok.
Brave Florida woman confronts Republican Congress members by reading Charlie Kirk’s most controversial quotes aloud: “They don’t care.”
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History highlight:
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was shot and killed by Jack Ruby on live television. Robert H. Jackson’s photograph of the shooting won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Photography. (Video)
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Keep scrolling down. Lots of interesting stuff in Quote of the Day, Holidays, On This Day, Birthdays, and Deaths. I can pretty much guarantee you’ll learn something new.
Quote of the Day:
I want everyone to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.
--Garson Kanin (Wikipedia link)
(More Garson Kanin quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Brownielocks Day, Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day, D.B. Cooper Day, Evolution Day, National Carménère Day, National Sardines Day, National Use Even If Seal Is Broken Day, Win Friends and Influence People Day, and World Conjoined Twins Day.
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
On This Day:
1989 – After a week of mass protests against the Communist regime known as the Velvet Revolution, Miloš Jakeš and the entire Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party resigned from office. This brought an effective end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia.
1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discovered the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed “Lucy“ (after The Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds“), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia‘s Afar Depression.
1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
1966 – The Beatles began recording sessions for their album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”.
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was shot and killed by Jack Ruby on live television. Robert H. Jackson’s photograph of the shooting won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Photography. (Video)
1962 – The influential British satirical television program That Was the Week That Was was first broadcast. (Video)
1947 – The House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities found the “Hollywood Ten” in contempt for refusing to reveal whether they were communists.
1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opened.
1928 – The first federal prison for women opened in West Virginia.
1877 – Anna Sewell‘s animal welfare novel Black Beauty was published.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant captured Lookout Mountain and began to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
1859 – British naturalist Charles Darwin‘s On the Origin of Species was published.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
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Some Birthdays:
1990 – Sarah Hyland, American actress
1978 – Katherine Heigl, American actress and producer
1977 – Colin Hanks, American actor
1974 – Stephen Merchant, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1964 – Brad Sherwood, American actor and game show host
1957 – Denise Crosby, American actress and producer
1950 – Stanley Livingston, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1948 – Spider Robinson, American-Canadian author and critic
1947 – Dwight Schultz, American actor
1946 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (died 1989)
1944 – Candy Darling, American model and actress (died 1974)
1942 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian and actor
1942 – Marlin Fitzwater, American soldier and journalist, 17th White House Press Secretary
1941 – Donald “Duck” Dunn, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (died 2012)
1941 – Pete Best, Indian-English drummer and songwriter
1925 – William F. Buckley Jr., American publisher and author, founded the National Review (died 2008) (Video)
1916 – Forrest J Ackerman, American soldier and author (died 2008) (Video)
1913 – Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (died 2005)
1913 – Howard Duff, American actor, director, and producer (died 1990)
1912 – Garson Kanin, American director and screenwriter (died 1999)
1911 – Kirby Grant, American actor (died 1985)
1897 – Lucky Luciano, Italian-American mob boss (died 1962)
1888 – Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (died 1955)
1868 – Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer (died 1917)
1864 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (died 1901)
1784 – Zachary Taylor, American general and politician, 12th President of the United States (died 1850)
1690 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German organist and composer (died 1750) (Video)
1632 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and scholar (died 1677)
(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)
Some Deaths:
2024 – Helen Gallagher, American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1926)
2016 – Florence Henderson, American actress, singer and television personality (born 1934)
2012 – Héctor Camacho, Puerto Rican-American boxer (born 1962)
2005 – Pat Morita, American actor (born 1932)
2004 – Arthur Hailey, English-Canadian journalist and author (born 1920)
1991 – Eric Carr, American drummer of KISS (born 1950)
1991 – Freddie Mercury, Tanzanian-English singer-songwriter, lead vocalist of Queen, and producer (born 1946)
1982 – Barack Obama Sr., Kenyan economist and academic, father of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (born 1936)
1980 – Henrietta Hill Swope, American astronomer and academic (born 1902)
1980 – George Raft, American actor and dancer (born 1901)
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (born 1939)
(A more complete list of today’s deaths.)
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some ironic shyte.. cancer in the fam .. total wacko anti health guy at helm . what could go wrong?