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• The civil-military crisis is here. Despite the firing of several top officers—and Trump’s threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the commander in chief. But for how long?

  • National Guard members from Texas are in Illinois in Trump’s latest move to send troops to cities.

  • Noem visits Chicago area ICE facility as agents arrest 13, raid city neighborhoods.

• Trump administration threatens no back pay for federal workers in shutdown.

• Bondi dodges questions as she clashes with Democrats over claims she’s weaponized Justice Department.

• Treasury defends lawfulness of minting a $1 Trump coin. An 1866 law dictates that only the deceased can appear on U.S. currency, but Treasury says the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 permits it.

• Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. “We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.”

• “It smells really bad”: Ancient life frozen in Alaska for 40,000 years has been woken up. “To a microbiologist, that’s very exciting because interesting smells are often microbial.” Gee, what could go wrong?

• Astronomers are sounding the alarm over dangerous space weather. Are we prepared? TLDR: Nope.

• A parade of green comets is streaking toward Earth. Kryptonite? (Actually, diatomic carbon.)

• Some good Florida news:
  Florida dog leads authorities to missing woman. “I’m not even his owner, I’m his grandmother. You’re a good boy, Eeyore. Grandma loves you.”

• Late Night:

  • Jimmy Kimmel reacts to poll saying he is more popular than Donald Trump: ‘I hope he doesn’t see this’.

  • Trump has NOTHING to do with Epstein birthday letter, Bondi grilled and federal workers go without pay - Jimmy Kimmel (Video)

  • Trump worried about getting into Heaven, dodges Ghislaine Maxwell pardon, Bondi stonewalls Senate | The Daily Show (Video) (This one’s especially good.)

  • Trump lashes out at “Politically Correct” Fox News - Seth Meyers (Video)

Keep scrolling down. Lots of interesting stuff in On This Day, Birthdays, and Deaths.

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Quote of the Day:
Money is a terrible barometer of a person’s worth.
--Harvey Pekar (Wikipedia link)

(More Harvey Pekar quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)

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Today’s holidays:

Alvin C. York Day, American Touch Tag Day, Emergency Nurses Day, International Birth Registration Day, International Lesbian Day, International Off-Road Day, International Podiatry Day, International Top Spinning Day, Latina Women’s Equal Pay Day, National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work and School Day, National Curves Day, National Fluffernutter Day, National Hero Day, National Pet Obesity Awareness Day, National Pierogi Day, National Salmon Day, National Stop Bullying Day, Stop America’s Violence Everywhere Today, World MCT8-AHDS Day, and World Octopus Day.

Details here and here.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA. (Not currently updating due to government shutdown.)

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On This Day:

• 2014 – The first person in the U.S. diagnosed with the Ebola virus died.

• 2004 – Martha Stewart began a five month incarceration at Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, for insider trading and obstruction of justice.

• 2001 – U.S. president George W. Bush announced the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security.

• 2000 – The musical “Peter Pan,” starring Cathy Rigby and filmed before a live audience, premiered on A&E TV. (Video)

• 1986 – “The Color of Money” had its world premiere in New York. (Video)

• 1982 – The comedy “My Favorite Year” was released. (Video)

• 1974 – Franklin National Bank collapsed due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.

• 1970 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize in literature.

• 1969 – The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurred, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago.

• 1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men were captured in Bolivia.

• 1956 – The New York Yankees’s Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series.

• 1956 – The first enclosed shopping mall in the United States opened.

• 1945 – First patent filed for the microwave oven.

• 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field aired the first live broadcast of a football game.

• 1918 – World War I: Corporal Alvin C. York killed 28 German soldiers and captures 132 for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.

• 1871 – Slash-and-burn land management, months of drought, and the passage of a strong cold front caused the Peshtigo Fire, the Great Chicago Fire and the Great Michigan Fires to break out.

(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)

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Some Birthdays:

• 1993 – Angus T. Jones, American actor

• 1985 – Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

• 1970 – Matt Damon, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1968 – Emily Procter, American actress

• 1964 – CeCe Winans, American singer-songwriter

• 1961 – Kim Wayans, American actress and comedian

• 1960 – Reed Hastings, American businessman, co-founded Netflix

• 1956 – Stephanie Zimbalist, American actress

• 1955 – Darrell Hammond, American comedian and actor

• 1949 – Sigourney Weaver, American actress and producer

• 1946 – Dennis Kucinich, American journalist and politician, 53rd Mayor of Cleveland

• 1943 – Chevy Chase, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter

• 1943 – R. L. Stine, American author, screenwriter, and producer

• 1941 – Jesse Jackson, American minister and activist

• 1939 – Harvey Pekar, American author and critic (died 2010)

• 1939 – Paul Hogan, Australian actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1936 – Rona Barrett, American journalist and businesswoman

• 1920 – Frank Herbert, American journalist, photographer, and author (died 1986)

• 1917 – Billy Conn, American boxer (died 1993)

• 1910 – Kirk Alyn, American actor (died 1999)

• 1897 – Rouben Mamoulian, Georgian-American director and screenwriter (died 1987)

• 1895 – Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, 29th President of Argentina (died 1974)

• 1890 – Eddie Rickenbacker, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1973)

(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)

Some Deaths:

• 2020 – Whitey Ford, American professional baseball pitcher (born 1928)

• 2015 – Paul Prudhomme, American chef and author (born 1940)

• 2011 – Roger Williams, American pianist (born 1924)

• 1992 – Willy Brandt, German lawyer and politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913)

• 1983 – Joan Hackett, American actress (born 1934)

• 1982 – Fernando Lamas, Argentinian-American actor and director (born 1916)

• 1967 – Clement Attlee, English soldier, lawyer, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1883)

• 1953 – Nigel Bruce, British actor (born 1895)

• 1944 – Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician (born 1892)

• 1869 – Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (born 1804)

• 1793 – John Hancock, American merchant and politician, 1st Governor of Massachusetts (born 1737)

• 1754 – Henry Fielding, English novelist and playwright (born 1707)

(A more complete list of today’s deaths.)

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