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Fauci tests positive for Covid-19. Fauci, 81, has mild symptoms and has been boosted twice
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US report: nearly 400 crashes of automated tech vehicles from last July to May 15. It would be interesting to see how many "human" crashes occurred during the same time period.
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Flooding closes Yellowstone, in a sign of crises to come. Record rainfall and mudslides forced closures just as tourism season ramped up. Virtually none of America’s national parks are untouched by extreme weather and climate change.
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WATCH: Florida woman records giant alligator's mating call in Apopka. Yep, it's Florida.
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Sleeping on your side can literally clean your brain. Personal experience: move the dog first.
Also: Americans take way too much melatonin.
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Four cheese brands to avoid right now, including Kraft Singles, which technically isn't cheese but a "pasteurized prepared cheese product".
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Russia is 'hemorrhaging' millionaires. As Western sanctions make life harder for its elite, Russia is predicted to suffer a net loss of around 15,000 high net-worth individuals (HNWIs) - defined as people with more than $1 million in assets - in 2022, compared to 5,500 in 2019, according to the report. That equates to about 15% of Russia's millionaire population.
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Physicists link two time crystals in seemingly impossible experiment. What could go wrong?
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Extreme heat is bad for everyone's health -- and it's getting worse. Of all the natural disasters, heat is the No. 1 killer, studies show. And as temperatures continue to rise because of the climate crisis, scientists expect it to make even more people ill.
Also: Remember how renewables were blamed for the Texas winter power crisis? Now, wind and solar power are 'bailing out' Texas amid record heat and energy demand.
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'Squid Game' reality series coming to Netflix with biggest cash prize in TV history. The streaming home to the hit survival drama announced 'Squid Game: The Challenge,' with 456 players in real-life competition in a series of games for a record-setting $4.56 million purse.
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So long, Internet Explorer. The browser retires today. And good riddance.
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Plants appear to be breaking biochemistry rules by making 'secret decisions'. "We found that plants control their respiration in a way we did not expect, they control how much of the carbon from photosynthesis they keep to build biomass by using a metabolic channel."
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Miscellany:
Birthdays:
- 1910 - David Rose, English-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1990) (Video)
- 1916 - Herbert A. Simon, American political scientist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
- 1917 - Lash LaRue, American actor and producer (d. 1996)
- 1921 - Erroll Garner, American pianist and composer (d. 1977) (Video)
- 1932 - Mario Cuomo, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New York (d. 2015)
- 1937 - Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002) (Video)
- 1941 - Harry Nilsson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1994) (Video)
- 1949 - Jim Varney, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (d. 2000) (Video)
- 1954 - Jim Belushi, American actor (Video)
- 1963 - Helen Hunt, American actress, director, and producer
- 1964 - Courteney Cox, American actress and producer
- 1969 - Ice Cube, American rapper, producer, and actor
- 1970 - Leah Remini, American actress and producer
- 1973 - Neil Patrick Harris, American actor and singer (Video)
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On this date in:
- 1844 - Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
- 1864 - Arlington National Cemetery is established
- 1878 - Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
- 1916 - United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
- 1969 - "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV. (Video)
- 1991 - In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, killing over 800 people.
Today is:
Fly a Kite Day, Global Wind Day, Justice for Janitors Day, Magna Carta Day, National Electricity Day, National Kiss a Wookiee Day, National Lobster Day, National Megalodon Day, National Smile Power Day, Native American Citizenship Day, Nature Photography Day, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.
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Comments, tweets and observations:
Millions of Seniors move to Florida for the climate, and then stay
indoors all day with A/C to avoid the climate.
-John Fugelsang
Republicans who accepted NRA money to keep gun laws from being passed
now want taxpayer money to keep Republicans from being shot.
-Middle
Age Riot
I also didn't win the 2020 presidential election. $250 million, please!
-Stephen
Colbert
Today was President Trump's 76th birthday. Pretty impressive. 76, and he
can still get an insurrection.
-Seth Meyers
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Things change.
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No, Google's AI is not sentient. Happy the elephant may be sentient, but a court says she's not a person. As one of the X-Men once remarked, "Stinks to be sentient, sometimes, don't it?"
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Cloned crayfish accidentally created in an aquarium are conquering the world. Let's just hope the marbled crayfish never sets its sights on humanity. If they do, we may never be able to stop them.
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How zoology got female animals all wrong. Female animals are just as promiscuous, competitive, aggressive and dynamic as their male counterparts and play an equal role in driving evolutionary change...
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Tom might have problems explaining this: Mother and teenage son create 'first time sex starter kit'.
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Coffee brands with the worst ingredients. As long as they have caffeine, I'm ok.
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A three-hour long solar flare erupted from the sun. Impressive video; fortunately, it only caused isolated radio blackouts.
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Wingnuts helpfully threaten to kill police after arrests of neo-Nazis who planned pride event riot.
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Over 100m Americans urged to stay indoors over extreme heat and humidity. Heat wave expected to settle over states from Gulf coast to Great Lakes and east to Carolinas with 100°F temperatures in some cities.
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No, Marjorie Taylor Greene, transgender people aren't causing the tampon shortage. ...the real issue can be traced back to an increase in the cost of cotton and plastic used to produce tampons. These materials, also used for masks and other medical supplies, have been in particularly high demand since the pandemic. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has added another challenging layer to the problem, as both countries are key exporters of the materials.
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Miscellany:
Birthdays:
- 1909 - Burl Ives, American actor and singer (d. 1995) (Video)
- 1919 - Gene Barry, American actor (d. 2009) (Video)
- 1925 - Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (d. 2004)
- 1928 - Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, author, guerrilla leader and politician (d. 1967)
- 1931 - Marla Gibbs, American actress and comedian
- 1931 - Junior Walker, American saxophonist (d. 1995) (Video)
- 1946 - Donald Trump, American businessman, television personality and 45th President of the United States
- 1961 - Boy George, English singer-songwriter and producer (Video)
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On this date in:
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army was established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Armed Forces.
- 1777 - The Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States.
- 1822 - Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
- 1900 - Hawaii became a United States territory.
- 1949 - Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rode a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first mammal and first monkey in space.
- 1951 - UNIVAC I was dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill into law that placed the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
- 1959 - Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
Today is:
Army's Birthday, Call Your Doctor Day, Family History Day, Flag Day, International Bath Day, National Bourbon Day, National Strawberry Shortcake Day, Observed annually on June 14th, Own Your Share of America Day, Pause for the Pledge Day, Pop Goes The Weasel Day, World Blood Donor Day, and World Pet Memorial Day
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Comments, tweets and observations:
If you don't think Donald Trump will end up in prison, remember, nobody
thought he would end up in the White House either.
-Middle Age Riot
If Trump was arrested, and led away in cuffs, and it was televised by
the US Gov't., live on Pay Per View, it's possible we could eliminate
the National Debt.
-Duty to Warn
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Before commencing the usual daily festivities:
Senseless censorship:
For the past few months, Facebook's "community standards" scanner has been periodically stopping my KGB Report newsfeed on the social network and, most recently, prohibiting me from posting anything at all, including to my personal account. This was particularly irritating, since I couldn't respond to comments or even use Facebook Messenger. My guess is they've grown sensitive to criticisms about some of the conspiracy, white supremacy and other nut job postings, so they've turned their post-scanning censor software up to 11. For example, if you post a meme that contains a photo of a swastika, the words "hoax", "5G", or some other conspiracy/coronavirus-type reference, you'll get suspended for "activities... that don't comply with Facebook policies."
This posting in February got me kicked off for a week. Facebook labeled it "Hate Speech":
I still don't know who was being hated upon: the men or the dog. I had
posted it a year earlier without incident. I guess Facebook is getting
touchier as it gets older.
The current offense in question was shared from another page which, incidentally, is still up and running. This image is also all over Twitter as well:
Just a few hours after the expiration of my latest suspension, this appeared on my page last night:
I have no idea what I did to deserve this. It doesn't reference a specific post, so I have no way of knowing what "didn't comply with Facebook policies." Does Andy Borowitz or The Onion have this problem?
See the box that says "Disagree With Decision"? It used to be that you could appeal and a human would review it, and generally you'd get an "oops" and the post would be restored. But now you get the message:
So the strike remains on your record, and there's no way to remove it. And then you get this, should you happen to stumble across the "Page Quality" tab, which is hidden under a "More" button on the administration page:
As A.J. Liebling wrote in The New Yorker in 1960, "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." With the Internet, everyone owns a personal electronic printing press. The trick is getting people to read it. On Facebook, KGB Report has over 10,000 followers. The KGB Report blog has -ahem- somewhat less.
If you read and enjoy the blog, spread the word. If you're receiving the email version, forward it to a friend or five. If you're reading it on the website, please copy our url (https://www.kgbreport.com) and pass it along.
Maybe this is what got me the boot. Do not taunt The Zuck, I guess:
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Today is Wednesday, May 13, the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 232 days remain until the end of the year.
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Among other things, today is Cough Drop Day, Donate a Day's Wages to Charity Day, Frog Jumping Day, International Hummus Day, International Receptionists' Day, National Apple Pie Day, National Fruit Cocktail Day, National Leprechaun Day, National Root Canal Appreciation Day, National Third Shift Workers Day, Top Gun Day, World Cocktail Day, and World FM Day.
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Remembering Bea Arthur (May 13, 1922 - April 25, 2009) (Video)
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Harvey Keitel is 81 today. (Video)
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Remembering Mary Wells (May 13, 1943 - July 26, 1992). (Video)
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Little Stevie Wonder is 70 today. (Video)
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Remembering Ritchie Valens (May 13, 1941 - February 3, 1959). (Video)
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Stephen Colbert is 56 today. (Video)
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Listen to the audio- Supreme Court oral argument: President Trump's financial records. Justice Elena Kagan told Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow a "fundamental precept of our constitutional order is that the president is not above the law." Chief Justice John Roberts asked Trump lawyer Patrick Strawbridge: "Do you concede any power in the House to subpoena personal papers of the president?" The Trump attorney said it was “difficult to imagine” a situation in which that would be justified. However, in 1974 the justices acted unanimously in requiring President Nixon to turn over White House tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor. And in 1997, another unanimous decision allowed a sexual harassment lawsuit to proceed against President Clinton. In those cases, three Nixon appointees and two Clinton appointees, respectively, voted against the president who chose them. Ginsburg and Breyer were those Clinton appointees. The New York Times story is here.
Related: I've seen Trump's tax returns and you should, too: "If all of this information from Trump's taxes, bankers and accountants was good enough for me over a decade ago, it's certainly good enough for Congress and the Manhattan district attorney today."
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Unreleased White House report shows coronavirus rates spiking in heartland communities. Trump's claim that cases are falling everywhere is contradicted by his own task force's report... showing the virus spreading far from the coasts.
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Reopening America... "...daring Mother Nature to kill you or someone you love...Mother Nature bats last, and she bats a thousand."
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Credit where credit's due... The four men responsible for America's COVID-19 test disaster..
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Fact check: McConnell claims Obama didn't leave Trump a pandemic 'game plan.' Obama left a 69-page playbook.
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Mall optometrist Rand Paul doesn't know why Dr. Fauci thinks he's such an 'expert' on pandemics.
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Developing a COVID-19 vaccine quickly is possible... but not without risks and some ethical rationalizations. (Video)
Related: Let's say there's a COVID-19 vaccine—who gets it first? An immunization shot is still in development, but debate over who gets priority has already begun.
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Broadway theaters will remain dark at least through Labor Day. The closed productions will offer refunds or exchanges to ticket holders through Labor Day.
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The filmed performance of the blockbuster Broadway musical "Hamilton" is coming to Disney+ a year earlier than anticipated, just in time for Fourth of July festivities. Disney paid $75 million for the worldwide rights in February and had set a theatrical release date of fall 2021. But with the pandemic shuttering so many cinemas and theaters worldwide, Disney is clearly betting on its hugely successful streaming service (which just surpassed 50 million subscribers) to recoup its investment.
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Our weird behavior during the pandemic is messing with Artificial Intelligence models. (Video)
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Judge invites outside parties to weigh in on Flynn case, delaying DOJ effort to drop charges. The judge, a Clinton appointee, still needs to approve the DOJ's motion to drop the charges. He has yet to schedule a hearing or ask for further briefing.
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Clarence Thomas wants to shrink your free speech rights- unless you're a rich donor.
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Thoughts of the day:
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the
intellect.
-G.K. Chesterton
Some call the adage "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and
expecting different results" a cliché. Others call it practice.
-Variously
attributed
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body.
Then I realized who was telling me this.
-Emo Philips
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
-Anwar
Sadat
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such
narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such
feebleness of thought.
-Alexander Herzen
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race.
P.J.
O'Rourke-
The smartest thing ever said on the Internet: "Laws are just stories we
tell poor people."
-Variously attributed
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