Word of the Week: Solstice. When the sun stands still in its orbit around the Earth. Each day, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. As the sun arcs across the sky in its daily orbit around the Earth, some flowers, such as the sunflower and heliotrope, track the sun’s ... 06/15/2024 - 7:01 am | View Link
The summer solstice is coming. Here's what you need to know — and how it may impact your health. The summer solstice marks the official start of the summer season and the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. 06/15/2024 - 5:14 am | View Link
Fun facts about the summer solstice, the longest day of the year What is summer solstice? Here's why people celebrate the first day of summer and whether it happens on the same day every year. 06/15/2024 - 1:05 am | View Link
What is summer solstice: Everything to know about the longest day of 2024 What is summer solstice? Here's how people celebrate the first day of summer around the world and whether it happens on the same day every year. 06/15/2024 - 1:01 am | View Link
The summer solstice is coming up soon. OKC events to celebrate 2024's longest day If you're willing to brave Oklahoma's heat wave this week, check out events that celebrate the solstice, the official first day of summer. 06/14/2024 - 11:24 pm | View Link
Winter solstice: The science behind the shortest day of the year Here's why this day is the shortest day of the year, with the fewest hours of daylight. The winter solstice falls on Dec. 21 or 22 every year in the Northern Hemisphere. 06/13/2024 - 10:57 am | View Website
Winter Solstice Is Coming—Year’s Shortest Day Explained The winter solstice is the year's shortest day, but the start of winter also launches the sun's steady climb toward the long, warm days of summer. This year, the northern winter solstice occurs on... 06/13/2024 - 8:12 am | View Website
Winter Solstice – When Is Winter 2024? Astronomical winter begins at the winter solstice, which is the shortest day of the year. This means days get longer during winter—very slowly at first, but at ever-larger daily intervals as the March equinox approaches, heralding the start of spring. 06/13/2024 - 6:25 am | View Website
When is the Winter Solstice and what happens? | Space The Winter Solstice marks the shortest day of the year, the Summer Solstice marks the longest period of sunlight. Following the Summer Solstice, the days become increasingly shorter, just as... 06/13/2024 - 1:10 am | View Website
Winter solstice | Definition & Diagrams | Britannica winter solstice, the two moments during the year when the path of the Sun in the sky is farthest south in the Northern Hemisphere (December 21 or 22) and farthest north in the Southern Hemisphere (June 20 or 21). At the winter solstice the Sun travels the shortest path through the sky, and that day therefore has the least daylight and the ... 06/12/2024 - 6:36 pm | View Website
When one deals in politics long enough, you come to expect hypocrisy and outright lying from right wingers. But sometimes, they take it to such extremes that even the most hardened are left with their mouths agape. Charlie Sykes reached that plateau on Friday morning when he made an appearance on Morning Joe to discuss Donald Trump's dissing of Milwaukee:
Sykes actually had the audacity to say this:
This was probably not the most significant thing.
Sorry Trump, but CNN doesn't have any "poll numbers" they're worried about. Here's Trump at his birthday party/rally down in West Palm Beach, working up the crowd as to whether the upcoming CNN debate (the one we're still wondering when he's going to back out of) is going to be fair.
TRUMP: I accepted it, and I'm sure, I think Jake will be fair.
Some of the country's "top CEOs" were apparently were surprised by the fact that Trump is a "meandering" moron. Who wants to take dibs on whether all of them will still vote for him or not?
Here's more on that meeting from CNBC:
Former President Donald Trump failed to impress everyone in a room full of top CEOs Thursday at the Business Roundtable’s quarterly meeting, multiple attendees told CNBC.
“Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” said one CEO who was in the room, according to a person who heard the executive speaking.
A conservative advocacy group headed by scam artist Charlie Kirk is pushing Americans to drink raw milk at a time when a widespread flu outbreak makes this potentially fatal. This is just one of several moves by right-wing groups and media pundits since the Food and Drug Administration cautioned against drinking raw milk following the rapid spread of H5N1 bird flu among dairy cattle.
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Charlie Kirk, founder, and executive director of Turning Point USA, speaks at Dream City Church on June 06, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona.
The New Republic has the deets on this jaw-dropping campaign ad it called “possibly the most distasteful, cringe-worthy political ad of 2024 to date”:
“I have another dream!” begins the skin-crawling video, which was posted to X (formerly Twitter) on Friday. “Yes, it is me, Martin Luther King. I came back from the dead to say something, as I was saying, I have another dream—that Anthony Hudson will be Michigan 8th district’s next congressman.
There are buildings with Trump's name on them. However, tenants have fought to strip the former President's name from their buildings in some cases. In New York, a judge ruled that residents of Trump Place have the right to remove Lumpy's name from the building if enough of them approve of it.