79
Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
1305
Sir William Wallace is executed for High Treason at Smithfield in London.
1572
Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris – St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre.
1775
King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1839
The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
1914
World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
1927
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
1929
Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1939
World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1942
World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
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No. 3 Pitt volleyball opened the season with a loss against No. 1 Nebraska.
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This is from George Will:
"As flaccid as a boned fish, Donald Trump crumpled quicker than even Vladimir Putin probably anticipated. The former KGB agent, currently indicted for war crimes, felt no need to negotiate with the man-child. The president’s thunderous demands — a 50-day deadline, a 10-day deadline, “severe consequences,” a ceasefire before negotiations — all were just noise.
When Dwight Eisenhower asked Gen. Georgy Zhukov, the foremost Soviet hero of World War II, how the Red Army cleared minefields, Zhukov replied that it marched through them. Putin has been marinated in lore about that war, and about “the West” trying “to cancel a whole 1,000-year culture, our people.” He is delusional, but serious.
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Eighty-five summers ago, the United States was saluted by Britain’s prime minister in the House of Commons. On a dark day (June 4, 1940) he anticipated the day when “the New World, with all its power and might, steps forward to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”
Now it is the Old World’s turn to rescue the United States. It needs to be liberated from the chimera that it has no substantial stake in the outcome of high-intensity, state-on-state violence inflicted by a nuclear power obedient to a man who has actual beliefs: crackpot, but real, and menacing."
Eighty-five summers ago, the United States was saluted by Britain’s prime minister in the House of Commons. On a dark day (June 4, 1940) he anticipated the day when “the New World, with all its power and might, steps forward to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”
Now it is the Old World’s turn to rescue the United States. It needs to be liberated from the chimera that it has no substantial stake in the outcome of high-intensity, state-on-state violence inflicted by a nuclear power obedient to a man who has actual beliefs: crackpot, but real, and menacing."
Old World Europe certainly has a big stake in this. And it's wonderful they are rising to the occasion. My only question is, did they respond to Russia--or to the 'boned fish?'
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Will one month of a National Guard presence in Washington really solve the problem of crime in D.C.?
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More than half of NYC MTA riders evade their fares, which costs the MTA $315 million annually.
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Of the 30 cities that reported the most murders to the FBI in 2023, murders are down in 26 of them. We’re seeing a 20% drop in murder, a 10% drop in violent crime, and a 13% drop in property crime. Whereas in 2024 murder fell a lot and auto theft fell a lot, now it’s pretty much that everything is falling a considerable amount.--Asher
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AI scored a perfect 100 on the medical exam
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JLL estimates $170bn of assets will require construction lending or permanent financing this year. Between now and 2029, however, global spending on data centres will hit almost $3tn, according to Morgan Stanley analysts. Of that, just $1.4tn is forecast to come from capital expenditure by Big Tech groups, leaving a mammoth $1.5tn of financing required from investors and developers.
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The UK ultimately lost international power because a very large percentage of its population left for greener and more pleasant lands overseas. However, the scale of emigration was so large that, by the 1980 census counts the US had more people of British descent than the current UK does.
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Google now spends more on physical capital like data centers ($85 billion / year) than the entire UK defense budget ($79 billion / year).
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In the U.S. the 2023 child poverty rate was lower than in any year before 2018. By at least one measure, it was at an all-time low in 2022, with 2023 the second-best year ever.
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Will one month of a National Guard presence in Washington really solve the problem of crime in D.C.?
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More than half of NYC MTA riders evade their fares, which costs the MTA $315 million annually.
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Of the 30 cities that reported the most murders to the FBI in 2023, murders are down in 26 of them. We’re seeing a 20% drop in murder, a 10% drop in violent crime, and a 13% drop in property crime. Whereas in 2024 murder fell a lot and auto theft fell a lot, now it’s pretty much that everything is falling a considerable amount.--Asher
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AI scored a perfect 100 on the medical exam
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JLL estimates $170bn of assets will require construction lending or permanent financing this year. Between now and 2029, however, global spending on data centres will hit almost $3tn, according to Morgan Stanley analysts. Of that, just $1.4tn is forecast to come from capital expenditure by Big Tech groups, leaving a mammoth $1.5tn of financing required from investors and developers.
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The UK ultimately lost international power because a very large percentage of its population left for greener and more pleasant lands overseas. However, the scale of emigration was so large that, by the 1980 census counts the US had more people of British descent than the current UK does.
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Google now spends more on physical capital like data centers ($85 billion / year) than the entire UK defense budget ($79 billion / year).
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In the U.S. the 2023 child poverty rate was lower than in any year before 2018. By at least one measure, it was at an all-time low in 2022, with 2023 the second-best year ever.
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In the second quarter of this year, India exported more smartphones to the U.S. market than China did
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A new Richmond Fed study finds labor productivity in construction has fallen more than 30 percent since 1970. Over the same half-century, overall US productivity doubled.
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Real median personal income has risen by 50 percent since the 1970s. Hourly wages, adjusted for inflation, are up substantially since the 1990s. And the hourly wages of the bottom third of Americans are up by even more: over 40 percent.
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The original estimate for the number of jobs in the month of June was 159,724,000. Then, after the revision with better data, it was 159,466,000. That’s a 0.161 percent correction, based on higher-quality information that didn’t exist at the time of the original estimate. This disparity stimulated Trump to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
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The WashPo says there are 55 million foreigners with American visas. Plus illegals.
Pew, as of June 2025:
51.9 million immigrants lived in the U.S.
15.4% of all U.S. residents were immigrants, down from a recent historic high of 15.8%.
19% of the U.S. labor force was immigrants, down from 20% and by over 750,000 workers since January.
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OnlyFans took in $7.2bn from its subscribers in 2024, up from $6.6bn the previous year.
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