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RIP Gene Shalit

#LandBack win! The Shawnee Tribe acquired two properties in its ancestral homelands and is seeking World Heritage protections for one of them. www.kosu.org/shawnee-trib...

What now?

Chicken Wolf, circa 1890 Louisville Colonels. #Baseball

the odd letters of "boom or bust" spell out a synonym for "bust"

10 years.

Book Cover of the Day:

DAVID HOCKNEY (1937-2026) He was 88.

Bruh 🤣 #WorldCup

The increase in suicide risk from gun ownership is so much higher than any perceived safety benefits that encouraging anyone to own a gun is just plain evil

folks: the 15-minute city

In 2022, for-profit health insurers paid $10B in compensation to agents and brokers for enrolling individuals into Medicare Advantage plans. My legislation would bar financial perks for agents and brokers and ensure they work with patients to choose the best plan for them.

WE DON’T NEED A FUCKING TREATMENT WE HAVE A VACCINE THAT IS 97% EFFECTIVE AND COULD ERADICATE THE DISEASE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ANTIVAX GRIFTERS LEADING US 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

Nearly 180,000 Black men served in the Union Army. Another 19,000 in the Navy. Black soldiers accounted for roughly 10% of Union military deaths. A large portion of each were formerly enslaved. I imagine they gave a damn about slavery.

Here's a whole lotta Clutterbuck #cardsky

McDonald’s Worker Suffers Severe Burns After Being Attacked With Hot Oil https://theonion.com/mcdonalds-worker-suffers-severe-burns-after-being-attacked-with-hot-oil/

So this is funny, but it’s also flat out dazzling. That Elle Cordova is brilliant is hardly news :) but getting all of these pretty much note-perfect - especially the Joyce, for God’s sake - is just amazing.

as a reward for putting up with my long-lost comic nostalgia, here's some cool ads

We could have had this for the whole country. 956 days.

cracking open a cold one with the boys

A 16 year old in Collinsville is currently being moved to Texas against the family’s will after they were denied the chance to take him home despite the request combing from the documented aunt and uncle at the immigration facility. #MetroEast #STL

Vince Coleman, 1985 #STLCardinals #Baseball

Not just a great ball player but a tremendous jazz bassist to boot

Kawami is a 55-year-old bar owner. Unlucky in love, she was divorced at 25, separated from her daughter, and burdened with 30 million yen in debt from a man she dated.

Hummingbird of the Day: Rivoli’s Hummingbird 📷 Jason Vassallo

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is one of the purest things I've ever encountered, so of course Republicans are killing it. Truly heinous people, all of them.

There is nothing quite like the confined madness of a handwritten VHS tape label.

“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” Shut it all down. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Posters by Pierre Fix-Masseau (1905-1994), the son of French sculptor Pierre Félix Masseau. Known notably for his Art Deco style during the 1920s-30s, he continued designing fantastic work into the midcentury era. #wardsmorguefile

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

"Pronoun police"? Please. The proper term is the gendermes.

The spectacular Venus-Jupiter #conjunction is tonight! 🥳 Shortly after #sunset, brilliant #Venus will appear next to bright #Jupiter. And #Mercury will lie below them in the evening twilight. Watch this video: buff.ly/fSA3rMC Visit EarthSky’s night sky guide: buff.ly/QJkeIZz 📸 EarthSky.org.

USSR vs. WHA all-stars Summit Series, 1974

reading faulkner like

can’t stop laughing at this random German guy in the States for the World Cup who was in no way prepared for Atlanta

“Drive, George, drive! This one’s got a coat hanger!”

You can just run over a 92 year old in a parking lot in this country and say "whoops" and the cops let you off. I hate it.

well, this just made me cry

This is Chootie. He looks like a dog, but from one of those 15th century paintings done by someone who had only ever heard about dogs. 12/10 (IG: chootieboy)

Hi real archaeologist here, worked in the field for nearly 30 years, this is total bullshit, Indus valley (as one example) had major cities with clean water and clear equality (no rulers, similarly sized housing), we have rats today (ancient Egyptians had cats as pest control) etc, stop boosting 💩

2 weeks ago in the free press: www.thefp.com/p/nithya-ram...

I found it! The algorithm brought it back to me