Arnold Böcklin 💙

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Marketing creative. Non-bestselling author. Biblioholic. Beagles! There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. I do not use semicolons correctly. I love em dashes. 🚫DMs from sex workers, illuminati, Bitcoin or the god squad.

Its National Underwear Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Boxers. Briefs. Panties. Tighty-whities today wear your favorite under garments I think every mother has told their kids; “Make sure to always wear clean underwear. You never know when you will be in an accident!" 😆🤣 We will be okay Love Foxy

1861 US Army abolishes flogging
1891 World's first traveler's cheques issued by American Express
1905 First meeting of the Russian and Japanese peace commissioners takes place in US President Theodore Roosevelt's home at Oyster Bay, New York
1924 "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip by Harold Gray is 1st published in the New York Daily News
1926 Harry Houdini stays in a coffin underwater for 1½ hours before escaping
1930 The Norwegian Bratvaag expedition finds the remains, diaries and negative images of S. A. Andrée's ill-fated balloon polar expedition of 1897 on White Island in the Svalbard archipelago
1944 German forces begin the mass killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Polish civilians in the Wola district of Warsaw during the uprising
1957 "American Bandstand" premieres on network TV (ABC)
1966 Protesters throw rocks and bottles at Martin Luther King Jr. before a fair housing protest march at Marquette Park in Chicago
1974 US President Richard Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in
1981 US President Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers
1992 Four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department previously acquitted on charges of beating Rodney King are indicted on federal civil rights charges
2000 Moni Maker wins the $500,000 Nat Ray at the Meadowlands in a world record time of 1:52.1 to become harness racing's first $5 million stakes earner
2019 Brazilian drug dealer Clauvino da Silva tries and fails to escape a Rio de Janeiro jail by dressing up as his teenage daughter in a silicone mask and wig
2022 Volkswagen launches a prototype of its first flying car, an automated, electric passenger vehicle nicknamed "Flying Tigers

El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250

Its National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Back in 1937 Ruth Graves Wakefield ran out of baker’s chocolate for her cookie recipe so she added chocolate chips instead That is how this cookie came to be! Btw Seb makes the best CC 🍪 cookies😉 We will be okay ❤️ Love ❤️ 🦊 Foxy 🦊

1892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother are murdered with an axe in Fall River, Massachusetts; Borden is later arrested, tried and acquitted
1914 US President Woodrow Wilson issues his "Proclamation of Neutrality" to keep the United States out of the war in Europe
1934 Giants outfielder Mel Ott becomes first player in MLB history to score 6 runs in a game as New York beats Phillies, 21-4
1942 First train with Jews departs Mechelen, Belgium for Auschwitz
1944 Anne Frank is arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police
1955 Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for the construction of CIA headquarters
1964 Bodies of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam
1984 Prince's "Purple Rain" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 24 weeks
1988 Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II
2009 Kim Jong-il meets former president Bill Clinton. He pardons and releases captured American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling who were found guilty of entering the country illegally.
2015 Muppets Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog announce the end of their relationship on Twitter
2020 UN says COVID-19 pandemic has created biggest educational disruption in history affecting nearly 1.6 million students in 190 countries, 94% worldwide
2021 Global known COVID-19 caseload passes 200 million, with the death toll at 4.2 million according to Johns Hopkins
2022 Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay $4.1 million in compensatory damages to parents of child killed in Sandy Hook massacre after Jones claimed it was a hoax

Packed bulletin today. Trump is reportedly ready to fire Jeanine Pirro, his new Todd Blanche scam, MAGA infighting, his Iran talking points again falling apart in real time, plus much more. Catch up here:

Today in Politics, Bulletin 432. 8/3/26

… Trump is reportedly considering firing DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro after she dropped the Reflecting Pool vandalism charges against David Hearn. He called a press conference today in the Oval Office...

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Good morning #BreakfastCrew Resisters! Happy Monday!🌸🌼🌺 Tucked among the tall pines is this stone & timber house with a lovely waterfall & pool for today’s Virtual Meet & Greet!💦🌲☀️ Coffee, Tea, Juices & Cocktails ready!🍹☕️🥂 Meet new friends.👫👬 Everyone welcomed! Comment ✍️ & say Hi! 👋 #BlueCrew🦋

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It’s National Watermelon 🍉 Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Watermelon is a delicious summertime treat! Quick fact; The first recorded watermelon harvest occurred about 5,000 years ago in Egypt Watermelons were often placed in the burial tombs of kings to nourish them in the afterlife. We will be okay ❤️🦊

1882 US Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
1900 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company founded in Akron, Ohio, by Harvey Firestone
1908 French brothers Amédée and Jean Bouyssonie discover the fossil remains of a nearly complete 60,000-year-old Neanderthal man, known as the "Old Man of La Chapelle," at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France
1914 Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France, beginning World War l
1923 Baseball games cancelled following the death of US President Warren G. Harding
1943 General George S. Patton slaps a US GI in hospital, accusing him of cowardice
1944 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies
1955 Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days, making landfall in North Carolina and traveling to the Great Lakes
1977 Radio Shack introduces the TRS-80 personal computer, and within weeks, thousands are ordered
2004 The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks
2017 Massachusetts woman Michelle Carter sentenced to 21/2 years for urging her boyfriend to commit suicide
2022 Cells of recently dead pigs brought back to life by researchers at Yale University, with huge implications for organ transplants and stroke sufferers, as well as ethical questions over definition of death

James Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."

Hey, get in line behind *millions* of people, including Native Americans driven from their land and slaughtered, kidnapped Africans who were enslaved and lynched, women treated like property, LGBTQ people demeaned and treated like they didn’t matter, you crybaby, self-indulgent loser.

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