Reckless bill; MAGAs screwed; Trump's cognitive decline; sextortion; disappearing workers; headbutting sharks
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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
They didn’t have to do this. By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.
Video: What you're feeling is the banality of cruelty from Trump and the Republican Party.
“Mind-Boggling”: Trump voters shocked at how badly he’s screwing them. As evidence mounts that voters in Trump country are getting hammered by his biggest initiatives, an economist paints a dark picture of just how bad the sum total of these policies will be for working people.
Donald Trump accused of ‘crazy cognitive decline’ after fumbling ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ press conference.
Video: Trump again floats deporting U.S. citizens: ‘Maybe that’ll be the next job’.
Walmart workers vanish overnight and employees sound the alarm.
Sextortion email scammers increase their “Hello pervert” money demands. If it’s a widespread problem, perhaps there are indeed a lot of people who engage in this activity.
First Tesla drives autonomously from dealer to buyer's house, ends in embarrassing flub.
Florida man gets headbutted by a shark while surfing in dramatic footage: ‘Felt like getting hit by a car'.
Quote of the Day:
Three things cannot hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
--Hermann Hesse (Wikipedia link)
(More Hermann Hesse quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Freedom From Fear of Speaking Day, I Forgot Day, Made in the USA Day, National Anisette Day, National Wildland Firefighter Day, Raspberry Cheesecake Day, Special Recreation for the Disabled Day, World Sports Journalists Day, and World UFO Day.
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
On This Day:
2002 - Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. Fossett disappeared on September 3, 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. Extensive searches proved unsuccessful, and he was declared legally dead in February of the following year.
1997 - “Men in Black” premiered. (Video)
1980 - The movie "Airplane!" premiered (Video: Airplane! is actually a remake of Zero Hour!)
1977 - “Gonna Fly Now (Theme From ‘Rocky’)” is the #1 song on the U.S. pop charts. (Video)
1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
1962 - The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opened for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1956 - Elvis Presley recorded "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" (Video)
1955 - "Lawrence Welk Show" premiered on ABC (Video)
1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan were last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
1928 - The Jenkins Television Corporation goes on air with W3XK, the first television broadcasting station in the USA.
1921 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding signed the Knox-Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
1900 - Jean Sibelius' Finlandia received its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus. (Video)
1900 - The first Zeppelin flight took place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1897 - British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtained a patent for radio in London.
1890 - The U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1881 - Charles J. Guiteau shot and fatally wounded U.S. President James A. Garfield (who died of complications from his wounds on September 19).
1865 - Salvation Army founded.
1839 - Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 kidnapped Africans led by Joseph Cinqué mutiny and took over the slave ship La Amistad.
1776 - The Continental Congress adopted a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence was not published until July 4.
1698 - Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1990 – Margot Robbie, Australian actress and producer
1986 – Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer
1964 – Jose Canseco, Cuban-American baseball player and mixed martial artist
1956 – Jerry Hall, American model and actress
1948 - Saul Rubinek, German-born Canadian character actor, director, playwright, and producer of television, theatre, and film
1947 – Larry David, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
1946 – Ron Silver, American actor, director, and political activist (died 2009)
1937 – Richard Petty, American race car driver and sportscaster
1937 – Polly Holliday, American actress
1932 – Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy's (died 2002)
1931 - Robert Ito, Canadian-born actor (Sam-Quincy ME)
1929 – Imelda Marcos, Filipino politician; 10th First Lady of the Philippines
1927 – Brock Peters, American actor (died 2005)
1925 – Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (died 1963)
1922 – Pierre Cardin, Italian-French fashion designer (died 2020)
1916 – Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (died 1991)
1908 – Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and civil rights activist, 32nd Solicitor General of the United States, and former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1993)
1906 – Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005)
1877 – Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962)
(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)
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