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📢 "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" [On this day, 39 years ago, 1987]

Trump expending effort and resources to DELAY the opening of this fully completed international bridge is as ignorant and moronic as his ridiculous tariffs, open the damn bridge! @jimgeraghty @GregCorombos @KenGardner11 crainsdetroit.com/politics-p…

We’ve got Europeans calling what is known as the number one public university in the United States “a random tier 2 American university”

0 F = extremely cold 100 F = extremely hot 0 C = kinda chilly 100 C = you're dead Conclusion: centigrade is a scale created by complete morons x.com/Daccord86169070/status…

The funniest thing about the NBA finals is how they try to pretend to be the NHL Stanley Cup finals.

They put the skyline on the cover and the entirety of Chicago got hit with the worst Madden curse of all time

Happy 6/5

Everything Kevin Warren touches turns to garbage, luckily his time running the B1G was short.

The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him. His name was Charles Carroll, and the colonies were crawling with men who shared it. His own father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis. So when the Declaration of Independence came to him for signing in 1776, a delegate made a cruel little joke. He said Carroll risked nothing by signing. There were so many Charles Carrolls that the King's men would never know which one to hang. Carroll didn't argue. He leaned over the page and added three words to his signature: "of Carrollton." The name of his estate. His address. He was the only signer in the entire room who wrote down where he lived, and he did it on purpose, so that if the British wanted to come hang the traitor, they would know exactly which door to knock on. That is who Charles Carroll of Carrollton was. Here is what makes the moment even sharper. He was not a man with little to lose. He was the single wealthiest man in the thirteen colonies and the largest private landowner among them. While George Washington and John Hancock get talked about as rich men, it was Carroll who topped them all. When he signed, he was wagering the biggest personal fortune in America against a noose. And he was the last man anyone would have expected to be there at all. Carroll was Catholic. In colonial Maryland, a colony founded as a Catholic refuge that had since turned on its own, Catholics could not vote. They could not hold public office. They could not worship in public. The most educated, wealthiest man in America was, in the eyes of the law, a second-class subject barred from the very government he was helping to create. He had spent seventeen years being educated by Jesuits in France and spoke five languages fluently, and back home he still could not legally cast a ballot. So he became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, putting his name on a revolution that he hoped would build a country with room for men like him. That was its own enormous bet, made by a man the existing system had already shut out. Then he simply outlived everyone. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same astonishing day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration. When they were gone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the last living signer left on earth. For six more years he was the final human link to that room in Philadelphia, the last hand that had signed, a living relic of the founding that ordinary Americans traveled to see and shake. He finally died in November 1832 at the age of ninety-five, fifty-six years after he wrote his address on a treason document and dared the empire to come find him. The richest man in America. The only Catholic. The last one standing. He had more to lose than any of them, every legal reason to stay quiet, and he signed his full address anyway. We remember the names we were handed in school. We forget the man who made sure his couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's. Which Founding Father do you think history shortchanged the most?

One of the worst Scott Pelley segments was when he featured Paul Ehrlich to warn that the planet was heading for extinction. This was in *2023.* Journalist Pelley never mentioned that Ehrlich had gone 0-for-30 in world-is-ending prediction racket over the previous 50 years.

I'd consider the NIL era as the last 4 seasons In which, 8 unique teams have competed in the national championship game Prior to that, playoffs had been around 8 seasons In which, 6 unique teams competed in the nat champ game Does Mr. Saban not prefer a more competitive cfb?

95 years ago (May 15 1931) the University of Iowa golf team boycotted the Big 10 championships in Ann Arbor Michigan. It was in protest because the prior weekend at a dual meet at a Chicago country club vs Big Ten opponents Northwestern and U of Chicago, Hawkeye golfer George Roddy was prevented from playing because he was black. Roddy was a senior from Keokuk, a 3 year letterman, Iowa's #1 player for 2 years, and team captain. For decades he held the course record at UI's Finkbine. The previous year, in 1930, he was barred from playing in the Big Ten championships at Westmoreland Country Club in Wilmette IL. After it happened in for a second year in a row, Hawkeye golf coach Charles Kennett announced he would withdraw his entire team over the treatment of his captain. After graduating with an engineering degree, George Roddy was golf coach at HBCU North Carolina A&T until 1948. He moved to Indianapolis and created the golf program at Crispus Attucks High School. He was twice city golf champion of Indianapolis, 1963 and 1967, when he was well into his 50s. Hats off to a great Hawkeye!

.@Jalopnik asked, "what if non-car companies designed a car?" Here are some playful ideas like Ikea, Igloo, DeWalt & Costco (Kirkland). Look out for extra parts from Ikea, extra warm/cool interior by Igloo, new style batteries from DeWalt every few years. jalopnik.com/2185209/non-car…

Go Blue! @UMichFootball's Kyle Whittingham is going FAST before the Detroit Grand Prix. @CFBonFOX | @INDYCAR

Anyone who claims the lack of joy about the 250th is a function of a rough economy was not alive in 1976. The country rocked in its 200th celebration and the economy was a FREAKING MESS. There is this Gen Z misconception that the '70s and early '80s were some sort of economic golden age of readily available, well-paying jobs, low cost housing and an all around sense of prosperity. WRONG. Google "Stagflation." Google "gas lines." Google "mortgage interest rates in the 1980s." Our economy today is a golden age by comparison, without exaggeration. Yet somehow in 1976 we could gleefully celebrate our nation's birthday without Democrats turning it into a Howard Zinn-inspired anti-history hatefest.