Jaw dropping promises; risky advice; NASA's strange red dots shouldn't exist; Gulf Stream global chaos; pot quadruples diabetes risk; late breakfast linked to "increased risk of death".
It's National Double Cheeseburger Day!
Please like and share. It really helps!
Knee Deep in the Hoopla
Excessive medical stuff:
Take medical advice from the Trump administration at your own risk.
RFK Jr does not just reject vaccines. He rejects science and must step down
—Bernie Sanders
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s family calls for his resignation.
ObamaCare fight meets shutdown politics. Democrats are signaling they want Republicans to extend the ACA’s expiring premium subsidies before they support any bill to keep the government open.
Australia approves vaccine to protect koalas from chlamydia. Thank heavens RFK isn’t Australian.
Cannabis use may quadruple diabetes risk.
Sugar Coke? Department of War? Where some of Trump’s most jaw-dropping promises stand.
How the US right wing is taking over the news media and choking press freedom. Takeover of broadcast companies by Donald Trump’s allies is harbinger of media capitulation to authoritarian leanings.
FACT FOCUS: Assassination of Charlie Kirk prompts flood of false and misleading claims online.
Patel faces congressional hearings after missteps in Kirk assassination probe and turmoil at FBI.
Weakening Gulf Stream system could unleash global chaos. As opposed to the serene order we have now?
Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade apologizes for saying mentally ill homeless people should be executed.
That Fox anchor’s long history of having to apologize for awful remarks.
The era of step-on-a-rake capitalism. Trumponomics isn’t about economics. It’s about creating pain and demanding tribute.
US farmers are being squeezed - and it's testing their deep loyalty to Trump,
Listen to a Hannity radio caller’s panicked warning about how Trump’s tariffs represent an existential threat to farmers. “75% of us will have to take out some sort of bankruptcy.”
The Epstein scandal finally takes down a politician. Just not an American one.
We warned you about Project 2025. Well, it’s here… (Video)
NASA's Webb Space Telescope just found strange red dots that shouldn’t exist.
A single data point at age 7 could predict how long you'll live. TLDR: blood pressure.
Humpty Dumpty caper at New Jersey mini-golf course sparks police investigation.
Keep scrolling down. Lots of interesting stuff in today’s daily features.
Quote of the Day:
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
--Agatha Christie (Wikipedia link)
(More Agatha Christie quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Butterscotch Cinnamon Pie Day, Free Money Day, Google.com Day, Greenpeace Day, International Day of Democracy, International Dot Day, International Hypothalamic Hamartoma Awareness Day, International Myotonic Dystrophy Day, Make a Hat Day, National Caregivers Day, National Cheese Toast Day, National Crème de Menthe Day, National Double Cheeseburger Day, National Felt Hat Day, National Linguine Day, National Neonatal Nurses Day, National Online Learning Day, National Tackle Kids Cancer Day, National Thank You Day, Someday, World Afro Day, and World Lymphoma Awareness Day.
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
On This Day:
2008 – Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
1986 – L.A. Law premiered on NBC.
1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1978 – At the Superdome in New Orleans, Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times.
1971 – The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.
1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship was launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
1968 – Barbra Streisand- A Happening in Central Park premiered on CBS. (Video)
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, wrote a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1963 – Baptist Church bombing: Four children were killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava headed toward Cuba, one of the events that set into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1962 – Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons’ “Sherry” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. (Video)
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1955 – Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” was published.
1954 – Marilyn Monroe's iconic skirt scene is shot during filming for The Seven Year Itch. (Video)
1949 – The Lone Ranger premiered on ABC-TV. (Video)
1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
1945 – A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.
1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket.
1789 – The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1984 – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
1977 – Tom Hardy, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Danny Nucci, American actor
1961 – Dan Marino, American football player and sportscaster
1960 – Lisa Vanderpump, British restaurateur, television personality, and author
1958 – Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (died 2005)
1946 – Oliver Stone, American director, screenwriter, and producer
1946 – Tommy Lee Jones, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 – Jessye Norman, American soprano (died 2019)
1940 – Merlin Olsen, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (died 2010)
1929 – Stan Kelly-Bootle, English singer-songwriter, computer scientist, and author (died 2014)
1929 – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)
1927 – Norm Crosby, American comedian and actor (died 2020)
1926 – Henry Silva, American actor (died 2022)
1925 – Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (died 2012)
1922 – Jackie Cooper, American actor (died 2011)
1918 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (died 2005)
1915 – Albert Whitlock, English-American special effects designer (died 1999)
1913 – John N. Mitchell, American lawyer, and politician, 67th United States Attorney General (died 1988)
1908 – Penny Singleton, American actress and singer (died 2003)
1907 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (died 2004)
1894 – Jean Renoir, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1979)
1890 – Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 1976)
1889 – Robert Benchley, American humorist, newspaper columnist, and actor (died 1945)
1857 – William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (died 1930)
1857 – Anna Winlock, American astronomer and academic (died 1904)
1789 – James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian (died 1851)
1254 – Marco Polo, Italian merchant and explorer (died 1324)
(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)
Some Deaths:
2024 – Tito Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1953)
2017 – Harry Dean Stanton, American actor (born 1926)
2014 – Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (born 1922)
2007 – Brett Somers, Canadian-American actress and singer (born 1924)
2006 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (born 1929)
2003 – Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist and author (born 1930)
1991 – John Hoyt, American actor (born 1904)
1989 – Robert Penn Warren, American novelist, poet, and literary critic (born 1905)
1938 – Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (born 1900)
(A more complete list of today’s deaths.)
Visit KGB Overset for the memes, cartoons, humor, news, and miscellany that didn’t fit in today’s newsletter. You can also follow on Bluesky or Facebook.
If you like KGB Report, please share with a friend.
Subscribers get all content for free. If you sign up for a paid subscription, you get my eternal gratitude, and maybe some occasional photos of the dogs and cats here at the South Park Casa de Pelaje y Cajas de Arena.
Old KGBReport.com archives (not the stuff here on Substack)
Current weather in South Park, PA (Personal station on Weather Underground)
KGB Quotations Database Search (KGB Quote-A-Matic)
DCL Dialog Online (an archive of my DCL Dialogue columns which appeared in DEC Professional (later renamed Digital Age) magazine from March, 1987 through December, 1995.)