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SOMEBODY EXPLAIN HOW THIS MAN STILL HAS A JOB? Brenden Cuni, the same ICE agent seen on video brandishing a rifle at the scene of the shooting in NY, where officers shot an unarmed man in front of his 5-year-old child, was also filmed kneeling on a pregnant woman in Minneapolis last December.

It’s National Coming Out Day 🏳️‍🌈 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Today celebrates people who publicly identify as bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender – coming out regarding their sexual orientation and/or gender identity being akin to a cultural rite of passage for LGBT people. We will be okay Love is love

1881 American inventor David Houston (26) patents roll film for cameras
1890 National Society Daughters of the American Revolution is founded by Mary Desha, Mary Smith Lockwood, Ellen Hardin Walworth, and Eugenia Washington in Washington, D.C.
1939 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with economic advisor Alexander Sachs to discuss Albert Einstein's letter warning about the possibilities of an atomic bomb
1963 William Shatner stars in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" episode of CBS anthology series "The Twilight Zone"
1975 "Saturday Night Live," created by Lorne Michaels, premieres on NBC with George Carlin as host
1981 Then unknown musician Prince Rogers Nelson opens for The Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Coliseum
1983 The last hand-cranked telephones in the US go out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, switch over to direct-dial
1986 Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
1987 200,000 people march for gay and lesbian civil rights in Washington, D.C.
1991 Law Professor Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her
1992 First three-way US presidential debate between George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot
2002 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to former US President Jimmy Carter
2024 Possible remains of mountaineer Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, including a foot, shoe, and labeled sock, are announced as discovered on Mt. Everest; he disappeared 100 years ago with George Mallory

Happy Caturday 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 It’s ONE week until NO KINGS Day of Action For over a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power does not belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who believe they are above accountability.

1871 The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after three days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and causing $222 million in damage
1889 Barnard College is founded in New York City after Columbia University refuses to admit women
1930 NY Yankees announce the signing of former Chicago Cubs manager Joe McCarthy as team manager for four years
1942 1,300 Austrian Jews are transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp
1957 US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware
1965 The Supremes appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show
1973 US Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after pleading no contest to allegations of tax fraud
1978 US Congress approves dollar coin honoring women's suffrage campaigner
Susan B. Anthony
1985 US fighter jets force an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, and the gunmen are placed in custody
2007 Expedition 16 launches to the International Space Station with Peggy Whitson serving as the first female commander of an ISS expedition; Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space
2018 Hurricane Michael makes landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 mph (250 km/h), going on to kill 27 people, having killed 15 in Central America
2019 3,500 women are allowed to attend a football match in Iran for a World Cup qualifier in Tehran for the first time since the Islamic Revolution
2025 Explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems, a commercial and military munitions manufacturing plant in Bucksnort, Tennessee kills 18 workers; there are no survivors