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On this day in 1930, people using the date to gamble got an unexpected payout...
New speakeasy pays tribute to August 5, 1930, a legendary day in Pittsburgh gambling
On this day in 1930, people using the date to gamble got an unexpected payout.
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OTD in 1930, three digits changed the course of history in Pittsburgh. It seemed like everyone bet on 805 as the daily number. When 805 hit, outlaw heroes & villains became legends. There's a new take on the story, a speakeasy called 805. 🗃️ www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/histo...
New speakeasy pays tribute to August 5, 1930, a legendary day in Pittsburgh gambling
On this day in 1930, people using the date to gamble got an unexpected payout.
pghcitypaper.com
You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
“The Delta Blues Museum has done so much to get people excited about music in Clarksdale," James "Super Chikan" Johnson said. "I’ve also gotten the chance to teach Blues classes there and be a mentor for young people.”
Delta Musicians Honor Blues and Gospel Traditions at Clarksdale Sunflower River Festival
Delta musicians have performed at the Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi, every year since its inception in 1988.
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Wow. If this isn’t the mentality of Trump’s party in a sound bite I don’t know what is.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
OPINION: "Because Grayson gave me so many reasons to love him, I grieve his loss. Because I’ve grieved his loss, the next time I have to grieve, I’ll be more prepared. I’ll still hurt. I’ll still cry. But I’ll know I’ll get through it," Nate Schumann writes.
Editor’s Note | Family Pets’ Passings Help Us Practice Grief
Features Editor Nate Schumann writes about the death of a longtime family pet and how the loss has made him reflect on the act of grieving.
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A new book explores the remarkable life of the late historian, teacher and activist Howard Zinn. He’s best known for writing A People’s History of the United States. For Zinn, says Zirin, “being an academic was always secondary to being in the streets and making history, not just studying history.”
New Book Chronicles Life of Howard Zinn, Historian Attacked by Donald Trump
For Zinn, says author Dave Zirin, “being an academic was always secondary to being in the streets and making history.”…
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I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
Are disbarment proceedings public? I have a great fundraising idea: sell tix to all the ones stemming from this administration and use the proceeds to help repair lives, communities. I suspect a Blanche or Bondi spectacle could raise some serious money.
Does the winner get a snappy new red hat? Or, better yet, a red hat worn by the dear leader, complete with makeup and spray tan smears?
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoThe government sent a message to military analysts “looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran.” It’s an unusual thing to ask over email… trib.al/ID865YN
Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce
Reuters@reuters.com · 2d agoMichigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E
In Pittsburgh, the coroner approached the owner of a large (7-story) cold storage building to use as a temporary morgue.
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
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What is it with elderly Jewish grandmothers & vice joints?
my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop
Also the Republicans were screaming that Fauci helped authorize vaccines for children, which is something every goddamn parent I know was praying for every day for more than a year and have been thankful for ever since. These people are all self-centered idiotic sociopaths, nothing more.
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3d agoif you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid
This week’s cover story from reporter Hannah Herner: How Nashville’s historic sites are reckoning with their history of slavery. https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverstory/nashville-historic-sites-slavery-history/article_4ad51ac1-5701-4790-8b68-a5fc2c1fd898.html
Dana Bash showed in this interview exactly how to handle a gaslighting sociopath. This is precisely how journalists should deal with all of them, including Trump.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoRFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking
personally, I'd rather live next to trans people and immigrants than nazis
Our corner of Kentucky has some cute Southern charm.
When will they ever learn: never give these ghouls a platform or cut the switch when they start this shit.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoBASH: How do you prepare for next pandemic? RFK Jr: We did almost everything wrong B: But what about now? K: We need to protect our rights B: ? K: During covid we dismantled our rights B: But I'm asking what *to* do K: You were part of the problem B: You want to sit here and attack me?
A friend of mine argues that Trump generally manic-posts when he’s stuck in the situation room bored and waiting for something to happen, i.e. he thinks it’s correlated with Trump ordering military stakes and looking at his phone while waiting for them to be carried out 
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 4d agoHe's now on one of his insane posting sprees - several about how young he looks, a doctored photo of Springsteen to make him look old (such dignified presidential behavior), posts about his dumb monuments, several posts showing him as George Washington or with an alien, and a threat to Greenland.
A reminder that the orange felon had his disgusting motorcade drive directly over the entirety of the Reflecting Pool after he began destroying it, he’s the one who needs to be charged with vandalism and destruction of govt property. He should be in jail, not in the White House.
The great historian Robert A. Gross, author of the prize-winning, The Minutemen and Their World, has written a historically-informed, nuanced rejoinder to J.D. Vance’s use of U.S. history as a tool of blood-and-soil nationalism. theamericanscholar.org/gratitude-is...
Gratitude Isn’t Everything - The American Scholar
The revolutionary Patriots owed much to their forefathers, but their fight for universal rights embraced a wider mission
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Start the clock. Now that Pirro has admitted the reflecting pool was Trump’s fault, who lasts longer? Pirro, or explosive diarrhea lettuce.
