Rooftop Trump; 2nd Alligator Alcatraz; AI takes 100K jobs; RFK pulls vaccine funding; personality types and Trump support; DOGE a dud.
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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
Donald Trump makes bizarre arm gesture after saying he'll put nukes on White House roof. The bizarre moment reporters gathered in the White House grounds shouted questions up at the President, who had been on a tour of the roof.
Why was Trump on the roof? | Trump's disapproval rating | Did Ghislaine Snitch? | Red state rage (Video)
Florida prepares to build a second immigration detention center to join 'Alligator Alcatraz'. The site would add to the capacity at the state's first detention facility, built at an isolated airfield in the Florida Everglades and dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." Already, state officials have inked more than $245 million in contracts for that facility, which officially opened July 1
Federal judge to hear conservation groups' arguments for shutting down Alligator Alcatraz. The lawsuit, filed June 27 alleges state and federal agencies of violating a landmark federal environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act, in building the detention center in the wetlands of Big Cypress National Preserve in the Everglades. The Miccosukee Tribe has also joined the suit, saying it's built on sacred tribal land.
AI is leading to thousands of job losses, report finds. For the first seven months of 2025, rising adoption of generative AI technology by private employers accounted for more than 10,000 job cuts.
Denmark zoo asks people to donate their small pets as food for captive predators.
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose.
Elon Musk’s worst nightmare about DOGE is starting to come true. Federal agencies are starting to admit that DOGE’s policies were trash.
Study finds a chilling link between personality type and Trump support. Malevolent traits and reduced empathy go hand in hand.
What $4 trillion in debt from Trump's spending measure could mean for future generations. This projected uptick in federal debt complicates the government's finances but it also holds potentially severe consequences for the pocketbooks of everyday people.
Quote of the Day:
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
--Alfred Lord Tennyson (Wikipedia link)
(More Alfred Lord Tennyson quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Balloons to Heaven Day, Corporate Baby Name Day, Farmworker Appreciation Day, Hiroshima Day, Klippel-Feil Syndrome (KFS) Awareness Day, National Fresh Breath Day, National Gossip Day, National Psychiatric Technician Appreciation Day, National Root Beer Float Day, and Wiggle Your Toes Day.
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
On This Day:
2018 – Facebook, Apple, YouTube, and Spotify removed all content by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and InfoWars from their platforms, citing policy violations.
2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars.
2012 – Died: Marvin Hamlisch, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1944)
2009 – Died: John Hughes, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1950)
2005 – Died: Creme Puff, tabby domestic cat, oldest recorded cat (born 1967, 38 years, 3 days.)
2004 – Died: Rick James, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1948)
1996 – NASA announced that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1991 – Tim Berners-Lee released files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1991 – Died: Harry Reasoner, American journalist, co-created 60 Minutes (born 1923)
1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council ordered a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1978 – Died: Pope Paul VI (born 1897)
1975 – The New York Times published a front-page obituary for Agatha Christie sleuth Hercule Poirot—an honor rarely, if ever, accorded a fictional character. Christie had announced plans to kill him off in her next book..
1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
1965 – The Beatles released their fifth album, the film soundtrack “Help!” (Video)
1960 – Chubby Checker performed his version of Hank Ballard's "The Twist" on "The Dick Clark Show", starting a worldwide dance craze. (Video)
1959 – Died: Preston Sturges, American director, screenwriter, and playwright (born 1898)
1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network made its final broadcast.
1945 – Hiroshima, Japan was devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" was dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
1932 – The first Venice Film Festival opened.
1930 – New York Judge Joseph Crater disappeared.
1926 – First public screening using the Vitaphone process.
1926 – Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler became the first person to be executed by electric chair.
1846 – The Donner Party encountered its first delay.
1819 – Norwich University was founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States were delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; debate began.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1981 – Leslie Odom Jr., American actor and singer (Video)
1976 – Soleil Moon Frye, American actress
1973 – Vera Farmiga, American actress
1972 – Geri Halliwell, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Video)
1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
1963 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker (died 2023)
1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer
1958 – Randy DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1951 – Catherine Hicks, American actress
1940 – Louise Sorel, American actress
1938 – Peter Bonerz, American actor and director
1938 – Paul Bartel, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2000)
1934 – Piers Anthony, English-American soldier and author
1928 – Andy Warhol, American painter, photographer and film director (died 1987)
1926 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (died 1999)
1924 – Samuel Bowers, American white supremacist, co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (died 2006)
1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (died 1997)
1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and businesswoman (died 1989)
1901 – Dutch Schultz, American gangster (died 1935)
1900 – Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded Texas Instruments (died 2003)
1881 – Louella Parsons, American journalist (died 1972)
1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate, discoverer of penicillin (died 1955)
1848 – Susie Taylor, American writer and first black Army nurse (died 1912)
1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (died 1892)
(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)
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