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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
Trump says "nobody knows" if he'll bomb Iran; Tucker humiliates Cruz in MAGA meltdown: A Closer Look. (Video) (This was covered by the other late night shows yesterday, but Meyers tapes earlier (4 pm EDT) and I think his delivery makes this worthwhile.)
How Trump celebrated Juneteenth. (Video)
Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’.
The 16-billion-record data breach that no one’s ever heard of. “This is not just a leak – it’s a blueprint for mass exploitation. With over 16 billion login records exposed, cybercriminals now have unprecedented access to personal credentials that can be used for account takeover, identity theft, and highly targeted phishing,”
Americans told not to drink coffee in three states: 'Lethal in a matter of minutes'. Caffeine is a diuretic, and you really don’t need to lose water in a heat wave.
Is going to the bathroom ‘just in case’ bad for you? Define ‘bad’. At my age (almost 71), passing an available facility is just asking for trouble.
Sleeping with a fan on is not a good idea for your health, MD claims. Neither is transferring all the water in your body to your bedsheets, Doc.
The Trojan horse will come for us too. Americans can expect a major adversary to use drones and AI to go after targets deep inside the United States or allied countries. There is no reason to believe that an enemy wouldn’t take a page out of the Israeli playbook and go after leadership. New technologies reward acting preemptively, catching the adversary by surprise—so the United States may not get much notice.
Some US restaurants and servers oppose Republicans’ ‘no tax on tips’ budget proposal. “I think there’s a huge hole in this concept of ‘no tax on tips’ because a lot of restaurant workers aren’t receiving tips in the first place,” said Elyanna Calle, a bartender in Austin, Texas, and president of the Restaurant Workers United union. “It’s not helping most kitchen workers, and oftentimes those are the people who are being paid the least.”
Speaking of restaurants, where Olive Garden has gone wrong.
The Earth could be soon flung out of orbit or into the sun - all thanks to a passing star. For extremely large values of “soon”.
Why bugs don’t die like they used to. Bedbugs, termites, and roof rats, oh my! (Video)
KGB Quote of the Day:
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
--Lillian Hellman (Wikipedia link)
(More Lillian Hellman quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Anne and Samantha Day, Cuckoo Warning Day, International Nystagmus Awareness Day, International Surfing Day, International Tennis Day, National American Eagle Day, National Daylight Appreciation Day, National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement Officers, National Flip Flop Day, National Hike with a Geek Day, National Ice Cream Soda Day, National Kouign Amann Day, National Seashell Day, National Smoothie Day, National Take Back the Lunch Break Day, National Vanilla Milkshake Day, National West Virginia Day, New Identity Day, Plain Yogurt Day, Take Your Dog to Work Day, The First Day of Summer, The Longest Day, Toad Hollow Day of Thank You, Ugliest Dog Day, World Humanist Day, World Peace and Prayer Day, World Productivity Day, and World Refugee Day.
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
On This Day:
1782 – The U.S. Congress adopted the Great Seal of the United States.
1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moved at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
1840 – Samuel Morse received the patent for the telegraph.
1863 – West Virginia was admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installed the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1893 – Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
1943 – The Detroit race riot broke out and continued for three more days.
1944 – The experimental V-2 rocket reached an altitude of 176 km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space.
1945 – The United States Secretary of State approved the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip.
1963 – Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States signed an agreement to establish the so-called "red telephone" link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow.
1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18+1⁄2-minute gap appeared in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
1974 – The film "Chinatown" was released.
1975 – The film “Jaws” was released released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters".
1994 – Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson was arraigned for the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation was founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1819 – Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (d. 1880)
1905 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1909 – Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor (d. 1959)
1924 – Chet Atkins, American guitarist and record producer (d. 2001)
1925 – Audie Murphy, American lieutenant and actor, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1971)
1928 – Martin Landau, American actor and producer (d. 2017)
1931 – Olympia Dukakis, American actress (d. 2021)
1931 – James Tolkan, American actor and director
1933 – Danny Aiello, American actor (d. 2019)
1940 – John Mahoney, English-born American actor (d. 2018)
1942 – Brian Wilson, American singer, songwriter and producer (d. 2025)
1945 – Anne Murray, Canadian singer and guitarist
1946 – Bob Vila, American television host
1949 – Lionel Richie, American singer, songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
1952 – John Goodman, American actor
1967 – Nicole Kidman, American-Australian actress
(Complete list of today’s birthdays.)
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