I spent the day trying to reenact an episode of The Golden Girls with chickens.

What an ordeal!

How to Reexamine our Nation’s Past with a Critical Eye "Challenging the Myths of US History" offers a meditation on the soul of America and asks: what narrative should we tell ourselves about the nation’s past?

"What narrative should we tell ourselves about the nation’s past?"

Author Marc Egnal turns a critical eye towards American history in CHALLENGING THE MYTHS OF U.S. HISTORY and how can we reexamine it: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/h...

#OAH26

Great news for Pittsburgh, the @post-gazette.com and @thebaltimorebanner.com!

My phone opening Bluesky, choosing a post, clicking reply and transcribing a conversation between Mrs. Brown, our neighbor David and me with ~80 percent accuracy

Pope Leo decries world ravaged by ‘tyrants’ following Trump’s insults The pontiff did not specifically name the president during his speech in Cameroon. He sharply criticized those who manipulate religion “for their own military, economic or political gain.”

There he goes again

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Robert Plant sounds just like Trump

Gifts I will accept from the federal government in lieu of cheap gas:
- cheese
- chocolate
- bike tuneup
- a free ticket to the Alternate Canada I assume we're all moving to when the wildfires overwhelm us

At home and at work, I’m on teams with mostly women, I’m wearing pink right now and we’re all WINNING

I mean, don’t send him back to the Vatican

We just said the same thing! Not about Hungary. Just that we want tacos

Trump announces naval blockade of Iran after Islamabad talks yield no deal The blockade could derail a tenuous ceasefire after just five days. Vice President JD Vance said the U.S. remains open to diplomacy if Iran takes “our final and best offer.”

4/5: "Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH!"

4/12: “Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz”

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Hungary’s Viktor Orban, ally of Trump and Putin, concedes election defeat WIth record turnout, Hungarians chose to end the 16-year rule of the prime minister who was a self-proclaimed champion of illiberal Christian democracy.

BREAKING Hungarians tire of winning

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Mississippi is running out of liquor, and it’s the state’s fault A months-long inventory glitch in the state-run wholesale warehouse has led to barren shelves at stores across the state.

Mississippi’s only alcohol warehouse shut down for what was supposed to be a two-week inventory.

The liquor hasn’t flowed right since and business owners say they are in a state of emergency.

10 presidents in 10 years: Peru’s leaders don’t last. Voters will try again. Elections on Sunday offer Peruvians another once-in-five-years chance to set the nation on a new path. All signs suggest they won’t.

Keiko Fujimori is likely to win the first round of Peru's presidential election today but lose in the inevitable runoff — for the fourth time in a row. That's just one feature of the country's chaotic politics, Simeon Tegel reports from Lima

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An online retailer advertises a garden sculpture depicting Snoopy as a World War I flying ace not in his customary RAF Sopwith Camel but in a red German Fokker biplane. The character is advertised as "SNPY," suggesting it's a knockoff.

SNPY HAS DEFECTED

Want to be a Canadian? It’s never been easier. Canada tweaks its dual-citizenship rule, allowing far more to apply.

While the Trump administration wants to end birthright citizenship, Canada is going in the opposite direction

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Pope to Olympic Athletes: “It is possible to win without humiliating. One can lose without losing oneself. And this also applies beyond sport. It applies in social life, in politics, in relationships between peoples, because sport, if lived well, becomes a workshop for a reconciled humanity.”

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Suryia, the orangutan who learned to bottle-feed orphaned tiger cubs by watching humans

Bo Knows Commercial YouTube video by Internet Lurker

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i hate when people shame others for mispronouncing a word they’ve only ever read. correct them, fine, but like let’s give grace to readers to talk about what they read.

“Reveals”

True story: when my college roommate broke up with his girlfriend, Chris Taylor, we took him to see Platoon to take his mind off it. The main character was named Chris Taylor

On the theme of kids of astronauts, this is Maya Glover, the daughter of NASA astronaut Victor Glover and Dionna Glover. Maya is at Cal Poly doing architecture.

From her Insta: mayalorinnn.

Astronaut Moments: Christina Koch YouTube video by NASA Johnson

Christina Koch is basically an extreme athlete. The first woman to travel to the far side of the moon is a surfer, backpacker, rock and ice climber. And an absolute stud who spent part of her career testing instruments in Antarctica. #ArtemisII #NASA www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLY8...

What the looming sale of CNN means for Trump’s feud with the network Animosity from the White House has taken on new meaning amid an imminent sale to David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance, fueling anxiety among journalists.

NEW:

CNN is used to attacks from Donald Trump. But as staffers prepare for David Ellison's Paramount to take control of the company, those broadsides stir new anxieties.

GIFT LINK: wapo.st/4tu9IvK

U.S. rescues missing crew member in Iran after fighter jet shot down The successful return of the missing airman came after an intense search-and-rescue mission, and all personnel involved in the rescue have returned safely, according to a U.S. official.

BREAKING U.S. rescues missing crew member in Iran after fighter jet shot down

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So you can rez your guys while I’m looting and use a drone to steal my gold salvage?

I know about half these words, but congratulations, it sounds like