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Numismatist alert!
I just found this very old penny in my pocket because it *stuck to my headphone case's magnetic clasp*
Wait, you say. Isn't ol' Abe supposed to be copper (or copper and zinc)?
Apparently not in 1943!

Wildfires reverse decade of ozone cleanup in the United States, study reveals https://phys.org/news/2026-06-wildfires-reverse-decade-ozone-cleanup.html
Wildfires are reversing America's progress on ozone pollution

Wildfires reverse decade of ozone cleanup in the United States, study reveals
Ozone pollution has worsened in much of the continental United States over the past decade, fueled by wildfires and the long-distance transport of unhealthy air, according to a new study titled "Fires reverse progress toward ozone air quality standards in the U.S.," led by University of Iowa researchers and published in the journal Science.

The Rented Crowd: Nero’s Five Thousand, the Paris Claque, and the Box That Laughed for America
For the better part of two decades, the laughter of the United States lived inside a padlocked box....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/15/the-

The Rented Crowd: Nero’s Five Thousand, the Paris Claque, and the Box That Laughed for America | David Boles, Blogs
For the better part of two decades, the laughter of the United States lived inside a padlocked box. Charles Rolland Douglass, a CBS sound engineer who had spent the war helping the Navy develop shi…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Peaches
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://toiletmusic.bandcamp.com/track/peaches-the-presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/750wm5pwuAQfnSLX8mxa5f

Trump has announced that the United States and Iran have reached a deal to end their war.
“Congratulations to all!” he said in a posting on his Truth Social site this evening.
He then headed off to oversee the garish public spectacle he’d arranged for his birthday on the South Lawn of the White House.
The United States, however, has little to celebrate:
Trump and his team, in record time, just lost a war to a militarily mediocre
—but nonetheless extremely dang…

Trump Parties While America Surrenders
The peace deal with Tehran is an Iranian victory.

Joint Statement of the United States of America, Republic of Lebanon, and State of Israel on the Latest High-Level Trilateral Meeting (United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/06/joint-statement-of-the-united-states-of-america-republic-of-lebanon-and-state-of-israel-on-the-latest-high-level-trilateral-meeting/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p48#a260604p48

#Birds #birdsOfMastodon #naturephotography
A Dickcissel (who decided that was a good name for a bird?) and a Blue Grosbeak.

The probability that the upcoming El Niño event will be a strong one is increasing.
Its effects on the weather around the world are complicated, but this map shows typical effects on precipitation. Both droughts and floods can, of course, hurt agriculture.
https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-

A head-spinning week
as Iran and the United States trade blows and mull peace deals
On the sidelines Europe is feeling the pain and calling for a permanent end to the conflict.
Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has been an outspoken critic of America's involvement in the Middle East
and he joins Christiane from Paris to discuss the state of play.
And, as the cycle of strikes and fragile truces continues, former Deputy National Security Adv…

The Unanimous Declaration
In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should…

The Unanimous Declaration – Bob Mueller
In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which Read More

RE: https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116709104841575820
Wow. This is the web site of the office of the president of the United States of America.
Is anyone even pretending anymore that America isn’t fascist?

Actually real. Insane, and real.
We did know he wants to f*ck up voting.
😲😬🤦‍♂️
source: #USpol

From the beginning, these United States were home to a diverse body of immigrants.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/after-the-founders-declared-independence-printers-quic…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Rock & Roll Pest Control
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica

“The CDC collects data on abortions that are committed in the United States of America through a system called the Abortion Reporting System,”
Senator Josh Hawley said when asking Erica Schwartz whether she would commit to collecting detailed data on abortions.
“This system is voluntary, and so a number of states, not coincidentally large blue states, do not turn over any data,
so that it’s difficult to get a picture of just how many abortions and under what circumstances …

Rest assured, the new CDC director thinks ‘abortion surveillance’ is essential
An exchange between Dr Erica Schwartz and Senator Josh Hawley during her confirmation hearing is alarming

The US is not one thing, but it is a thousand things
It is the masked ICE agent shooting Renee Good as she stood up for immigrants,
but it is also Good herself and the immigrants, and the streets of Minneapolis and their Dakota and Ojibwe Indigenous past
– and present and future.
The US before 1865 was slaveowners, but it was also the enslaved and the abolitionists.
The US is the KKK and the ACLU and the NAACP, right-to-life terrorists and Planned Parenthood se…

What is the United States of America now?
The United States of America is … so many things, horrific and magnificent, good and evil, promising and cursed

Joseph P. Swelterpants 🤣 writes
"CALLING ALL PATRIOTS!!! The next This Machine is scheduled for July 5th!!! What better way to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the United States of America than with a protest!!!! It's red, it's white, it's blue, it's what we do!"
#Greenbelt, #MD

6.5 million Americans face landslide risks—a new database shows where they live #America

6.5 million Americans face landslide risks—a new database shows where they live
Landslides cause an estimated $3 billion to $6 billion in damage and multiple fatalities annually in the United States. Those numbers could easily increase as housing needs spur development in landslide-prone areas and climate change increases the severity and frequency of heavy rains, which often trigger landslides. Despite the threat, there has never been a systematic, nationwide accounting of who is most at risk from landslides.

Time to sell your #AI stuff and buy some quantum computing instead!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/ushering-in-the-…

Ushering in the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Froggie
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ukM1JODB2ud78JvpGYYG7

In a post on X on May 18,
Elbridge Colby, the under secretary of defence for policy at the Pentagon,
announced that the United States would pause its participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD)
to “reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense.”
The under secretary pointed to Canada failing to make credible progress on its defence commitments as well as to Canadian rhetoric,
a jab at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech in Davo…

Canada and America Are Drifting Apart. The Pentagon Just Made It Official | The Walrus
A surprise defence decision reveals the depth of the political rupture

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Lump
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://strayaways.bandcamp.com/track/the-presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-lump-nightcore
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Lump
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://strayaways.bandcamp.com/track/the-presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-lump-nightcore
https://open.spotify.com/track/2chzksqvbwwuRBwNB2pslH

Congress’ marquee housing legislation
aimed at increasing the country’s housing supply
is set to become law at midnight
— without Donald Trump’s signature.
“I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House,
in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,”
Trump, who could still change his mind and sign the legislation, posted on Friday.
The b…

The Housing Bill Trump Refused to Sign Is Set to Become Law Without Him
The bipartisan legislation is aimed at speeding up housing development across the country.

Fireworks, heat and drought make this July 4th a recipe for wildfires #envronment

Fireworks, heat and drought make this July 4th a recipe for wildfires
Across the United States, the sky will be erupting with fireworks on July 4, 2026, and the days around it as America celebrates the 250th anniversary of its independence. Many cities will be hosting spectacular fireworks shows.

What is the United States of America now? (Rebecca Solnit/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/01/what-is-the-united-states-of-america-now
http://www.memeorandum.com/260701/p56#a260701p56

Looks like the Alberta Government under Danielle Smith is going to try to have a referendum on separating or remaining in Canada.
(the pipeline deal really worked, eh Carney!?)
Make no mistake. Regardless of the fact that the *vast* majority (70% ) of Albertans don't want to have a referendum because they have never wanted to separate from Canada, this is an effort, supported by a foreign country, namely the United States of America and traitorous sycophants in Alberta, to weaken, and break up Canada.
It won't be successful.
Albertans don't want it.
First Nations oppose it.
Canadians support Albertans and Albertans support Canada.
Premier Smith is going to have a news conference tonight. I'm sure it'll be sickening.🤮
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #ABPoli #Separatism

Just a couple of weeks into his war in Iran Trump began demanding other countries solve the problem he had created.
“Many Countries,” he said on social media on March 14, “will be sending War Ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the [Hormuz] Strait open and safe.”
He added that “Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others” would put their own sailors in harm’s way on his behalf.
They didn’t.
“This is not our war, we h…

No one is coming to bail Trump out of his disastrous war
He's the only one who can end this.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Kitty
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://insaneian.bandcamp.com/track/kitty
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
The United States of America:
🎵 The Garden Of Earthly Delights
#TheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://open.spotify.com/track/2YtOfw6ziMPeouhmu3ocqW

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Peaches
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://toiletmusic.bandcamp.com/track/peaches-the-presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-cover
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Dune Buggy
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zNi80FzTPU8INDfS2LZ10