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Inside Stephen Miller’s secret plan to normalize Trump’s dictator rule. He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.
Inside Trump’s plan to have red attack blue states — using a 200-year-old law.
No, Trump can’t deploy troops to wherever he wants. “…the president is acting in a manner that is “untethered to the facts.”
Senate Republicans vote down legislation to check Trump’s use of war powers against cartels.
The Trump administration in one word: cruel. Trump administration ends support for disabled Americans facing homelessness.
America’s latest recession warning is a brown cardboard box. Falling demand for cardboard boxes — long a proxy for consumer spending — is raising concerns about the U.S. economy.
Why iRobot’s founder won’t go within ten feet of today’s walking robots. Today’s bipedal humanoids are fundamentally unsafe for humans to be near when they walk due to the massive kinetic energy they generate while maintaining balance.
Scientists learn that memories are stored in other parts of the body, not just in the brain. So be careful how you sit?
Scientists just proved the Easter Island statues could walk, solving a 500-year mystery.
Florida man arrested on charges for maliciously starting what became the deadly Palisades fire.
Florida man with thermos inserted in body caught sneaking it into Polk County Jail: ‘Put it up the exit ramp’.
Late Night-
Trump dangles shutdown paychecks, FAA stretches thin and FBI looks for Amelia Earhart | The Daily Show (Video)
Trump shutdown causes flight delays and travel chaos; Bernie responds to Trump’s barbs | Late Night with Seth Meyers (Video)
Trump sends troops to Democrat-run cities, gets sued by QAnon shaman and still stalling Epstein files. | Jimmy Kimmel (Video)
Keep scrolling down. Lots of interesting stuff in On This Day, Birthdays, and Deaths.
Quote of the Day:
I really thought that love would save us all.
--John Lennon (Wikipedia link)
(More John Lennon quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Curious Events Day, Global NCBRS Awareness Day, International Beer and Pizza Day, Leif Erikson Day, National Depression Screening Day, National Fire Prevention Day, National Moldy Cheese Day, National Nanotechnology Day, National Pro-Life Cupcake Day, National Sneakers Day, Nautilus Night, Ombuds Day, PANS/PANDAS Awareness Day, Scrubs Day, Submarine-Hoagie-Hero-Grinder Day, World Post Day, and World Sight Day.
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA. (Not currently updating due to government shutdown.)
On This Day:
2024 – Hurricane Milton made landfall in Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 hurricane, causing US$34.3 billion in damage only two weeks after Hurricane Helene impacted the state.
2017 – American film producer Harvey Weinstein was fired from The Weinstein Company after allegations of sexual misconduct
2012 – Pakistani Taliban attempted to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.
2007 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2008 financial crisis.
2006 – North Korea conducted its first nuclear test.
1992 – The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pound (12.6 kg) meteorite crashed into a parked Chevy Malibu in Peekskill, New York. (Video)
1986 – Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launched as the fourth US television network.
1986 – The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opened at Her Majesty’s Theatre. (Video)
1986 – “The Late Show with Joan Rivers“ premiered on Fox, making her the first woman to host a US late-night TV talk show; she was fired in May 1987
1981 – President François Mitterrand abolished capital punishment in France.
1969 – In Chicago, the National Guard was called in as demonstrations continued over the trial of the “Chicago Eight“.
1967 – A day after his capture, Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1965 – The Beatles’ single “Yesterday” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 where it remained for four weeks. (Video)
1963 – In Italy, a large landslide caused an 820 foot (250 meter) megatsunami to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.
1946 – “The Iceman Cometh” opened on Broadway.
1936 – Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) began to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
1919 – The Cincinnati Reds won the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) was chartered in Old Saybrook.
1635 – Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
1604 – Kepler’s Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1984 – Marie Kondo, Japanese author and television presenter
1979 – Brandon Routh, American model and actor
1975 – Sean Lennon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1969 – PJ Harvey, English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer
1964 – Guillermo del Toro, Mexican-American director, producer, and screenwriter
1958 – Michael Paré, American actor
1954 – Scott Bakula, American actor
1953 – Tony Shalhoub, American actor and producer
1952 – Sharon Osbourne, English television host and manager
1951 – Robert Wuhl, American actor, comedian, and writer
1949 – Rod Temperton, English keyboard player, songwriter (“Thriller”), and producer (died 2016)
1948 – Jackson Browne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Video)
1943 – Mike Peters, American cartoonist (Mother Goose and Grimm)
1941 – Brian Lamb, American broadcaster, founded C-SPAN
1940 – John Lennon, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1980) (Video)
1936 – Brian Blessed, English actor
1922 – Fyvush Finkel, American actor (died 2016)
1918 – E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer and author (died 2007)
1914 – Edward Andrews, American actor (died 1985)
1900 – Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor and academic (died 1976)
1900 – Joseph Friedman, American inventor (flexible drinking straw) (died 1982)
1873 – Charles Rudolph Walgreen, American pharmacist and businessman, founded Walgreens (died 1939)
1873 – Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (died 1916)
1859 – Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (died 1935)
1835 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer and conductor (died 1921) (Video)
(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)
Some Deaths:
2014 – Jan Hooks, American actress and comedienne (born 1957) (Video)
2001 – Herbert Ross, American director, producer, and choreographer (born 1927)
1988 – Felix Wankel, German engineer, invented the Wankel engine (born 1902)
1987 – Clare Boothe Luce, American author, playwright, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (born 1903)
1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (born 1929)
1974 – Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (born 1908)
1967 – Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness trainer, developed Pilates (born 1883)
1967 – Che Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, politician and guerrilla leader (born 1928)
1911 – Jack Daniel, American businessman, founded Jack Daniel’s (born 1849)
(A more complete list of today’s deaths.)
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