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“A Trump adviser said ICE agents will attend the Super Bowl after Bad Bunny was announced as the halftime performer. You know, to catch all those farm workers who can afford Super Bowl tickets.”
--SNL Weekend Update
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Posse comitatus be damned?
Trump sends California troops to Portland after court blocks use of Oregon guard. The deployment appears to circumvent a federal judge’s ruling.
Illinois National Guard authorized for Chicago mission, official says.
Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago. Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.
A half century of American book banning. In the 21st century, censorship of work like Judy Blume’s has evolved into a broader attack on books.
Gallup: 43% say Supreme Court is “too conservative”, 42% job approval remains near record low. Less than a majority trust the judicial branch for fourth straight year.
Trump gives morbid answer when asked about his hopes for 2026: ‘I want to survive’. “The rhetoric that these crazy Democrats are using is very dangerous; they made politics very dangerous.”
California police pull over a self-driving Waymo for an illegal U-turn, but they can’t ticket. Officers stopped the vehicle, but declined to write a ticket as their “citation books don’t have a box for ‘robot’.”
Do you get déjà vu? Memory glitches make time feel repeated. Neuroscientists now believe it’s a normal brain glitch tied to how memory and perception interact.
Two newly discovered comets will be visible in October.
Earth is getting darker and it’s changing the planet’s climate balance.
Rescue efforts under way after 1,000 people trapped on Mount Everest slopes.
Florida and Nevada have the most ‘gold diggers,’ study reveals.
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Keep scrolling down. Lots of interesting stuff in On This Day, Birthdays, and Deaths.
Quote of the Day:
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
--Shana Alexander (Wikipedia link)
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Today’s holidays:
Blue Shirt Day, Child Health Day, Come and Take It Day, Day of Unity, Garlic Lovers Day, Jackie Mayer Rehab Day, Mad Hatter Day, National Coaches Day, National Consignment Day, National German American Day, National Noodle Day, National Orange Wine Day, National PA Day, National Plus Size Appreciation Day, World Architecture Day, World Cerebral Palsy Day, and World Habitat Day.
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
On This Day:
2010 – Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, was founded.
1995 – The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, was discovered.
1981 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was murdered by Islamic extremists.
1979 – Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1973 – Egypt and Syria launched coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War.
1969 – The Beatles’ single “Something” was released. (Video)
1965 – The Supremes’ single “I Hear A Symphony” was released. (Video)
1963 – Barbra Streisand appeared on “The Judy Garland Show” (Video)
1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent “talkie” movie. (Video)
1926 – Babe Ruth set a World Series record.
1884 – The Naval War College of the United States was founded in Rhode Island.
1866 – The Reno brothers carried out the first train robbery in U.S. history.
1683 – Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1990 – Scarlett Byrne, English actress
1974 – Jeremy Sisto, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1965 – Steve Scalise, American lawyer and politician
1963 – Elisabeth Shue, American actress
1949 – Leslie Moonves, American businessman
1949 – Lonnie Johnson, American inventor
1942 – Fred Travalena, American comedian and actor (died 2009)
1942 – Britt Ekland, Swedish actress and singer
1935 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American wrestler and trainer (died 2018)
1925 – Shana Alexander, American journalist and author (died 2005)
1917 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and philanthropist (died 1977)
1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (died 2002)
1908 – Carole Lombard, American actress (died 1942)
1906 – Janet Gaynor, American actress (died 1984)
1866 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony (died 1932)
1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (died 1914)
(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)
Some Deaths:
2020 – Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (born 1955)
2020 – Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter (born 1940)
2019 – Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (born 1931)
2000 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor and stuntman (born 1920)
1999 – Gorilla Monsoon, American wrestler and sportscaster (born 1937)
1992 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (born 1922)
1989 – Bette Davis, American actress (born 1908)
1985 – Nelson Riddle, American composer, conductor, and bandleader (born 1921)
1981 – Anwar Sadat, Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
1962 – Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (born 1880)
1892 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (born 1809)
1536 – William Tyndale, English Protestant Bible translator (born c. 1494)
(A more complete list of today’s deaths.)
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can't we send the national gaurd after ICE 'agents' ?