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[P. Terry's @pterrys]

This is a difficult post for us to share.

Due to TxDOT's I-35 expansion project, our Cap Plaza location will close on 6/28.

We’re so thankful to every guest who stopped by over the years. Visit us nearby at Koenig or Tech Ridge. ❤️

[Stream Standard - Goosie @StreamStandards]

The American Fork City Counsel heard public comments regarding the Lego theft reported by Reckless Ben and the actions made by the American Fork Police Department. Here are a few clips:

[ちえっく @chiekku]

@Marsormr_ "Thou shalt not steal, unless it's a dope-ass Star Wars LEGO collection." - Book of Mormon

[Mars @Marsormr_]

A star wars lego set exposing the mormon mafia in Utah was not on my 2026 bingo card

[P Shekter @neocon53]

He was literally with a process server at their house trying to serve a lawsuit. That is not "targeted residential picketing" or "stalking" - the police arrived *three times* and he calmly explained what he was doing. On the third time, they police arrested him. The police here are CORRUPT.

[Josh @Iconronic]

@Dexerto

[kimkaiju 🅙 @kimkaiju]

@Dexerto Brick by Brick!

[What? No way! @no_way94785]

@historyinmemes That was before the government started giving student loans. Once that happened the schools raised the prices knowing there government would pay. They also got rid of proving your major could pay it back so…

[ZeroBarkThirty @zerobarkthirty]

@historyinmemes College went from ladder to debt trap. 📉

[Heather @Heather82974511]

@historyinmemes The problem isn't the minimum wage. banks are now giving government backed loans for college regardless of the students ability to repay that debt or their academic excellence. This is the real culprit the University can charge outside what the free market will support.

[Mezz @Mike_Mezz_]

@historyinmemes This was before the government started sending everyone to college and guaranteeing the loans. The government made higher education more expensive.

[Moore @RichardGrampy]

When the Federal government involves itself in loans it basically created the incentives for colleges to price gouge on an astronomical level. Same incentives created the housing crisis & bubbles that actually burst and we still pay in the end only we end up in worse debt every time the Feds offer to fix something. It wasn’t broke, they broke it. It requires maturity to take out huge loans to own & maintain a home, same with an education.

[Rodo Snook @RodoSnook]

@historyinmemes Universities have multiplied their tuition because taxpayers have been funding it.
That needs to stop.
The education is not worth anywhere near the amount being charged in terms of ROI.

[MAGA Oldguy_54 @oldestguy72]

@historyinmemes When the federal government started guaranteeing the loans the colleges and lenders went on a raising tuition spree.
That's the consequence whenever the government gets involved.🤨

[Nick Manteris @thecostofwork]

@historyinmemes 260 hours of work covered a year of tuition in 1978. Today it takes 1,500. Productivity rose across the economy the entire time. Tuition should have come down. It went up. Same pattern as housing and healthcare. Three sectors, one direction.

https://t.co/9adpdzPPqv

[STUDENT LOAN JUSTICE @StudentLoanJus1]

@historyinmemes They took bankruptcy and other protections away, weaponized the loans, which caused hyperinflation.

They turned colleges into a financial scam.

"THEY" = The colleges, the Dept of Education, the $ changers.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Japan is leading the way in protecting children's health by targeting a complete elimination of processed foods and artificial additives from school cafeterias.

The country is spearheading a global movement toward superior nutrition by removing all processed and ultra-processed items from school menus. In their place, students now enjoy fresh, traditional, seasonal Japanese dishes prepared daily from scratch—emphasizing whole, natural ingredients over convenience foods.

This is far more than just a dietary change; it's a comprehensive national strategy to educate the next generation about the true value of balanced, wholesome nutrition. By prioritizing quality over quick fixes, Japan is cultivating lifelong healthy eating habits that start right in the school cafeteria.

Japan's dedication to food purity extends well beyond schools. The nation enforces some of the world's strictest regulations on food additives, preservatives, and chemical colorings—many of which are common in Western processed snacks and beverages. International brands must reformulate products like cereals, candies, and soft drinks to comply with these rigorous standards.

Additionally, Japan maintains tight controls on food imports, including strict bans or high certification requirements for meat products and a strong emphasis on the JAS organic label. These measures protect against diseases, industrial contaminants, and unsafe practices, reinforcing Japan's global reputation for having among the highest food safety and quality standards worldwide.

[Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. School Lunch Program and Nutrition Education in Japan. Government of Japan Publication]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists have identified a potential link between rising cases of early-onset colorectal cancer and exposure to a common agricultural herbicide through changes in the epigenome.

Researchers are increasingly studying how environmental and lifestyle factors influence gene expression without altering the DNA sequence itself. Epigenetic modifications act like “post-it notes” on the genome, telling cells which genes to activate or silence. These marks are highly responsive to external influences such as diet, stress, and chemical exposures.

In a new study, scientists analyzed tumor DNA methylation patterns from colorectal cancer patients and found distinct epigenetic signatures in those diagnosed under age 50. While known factors like poor diet and tobacco use appeared as expected, the analysis also revealed a strong new association with exposure to the herbicide picloram. This link was observed in a discovery cohort, replicated in a meta-analysis across multiple cohorts, and further supported by population-level data from U.S. counties showing higher early-onset colorectal cancer rates in areas with greater picloram use.

The findings suggest that certain environmental chemicals may be contributing to the alarming rise in colorectal cancer among younger adults by reprogramming cellular behavior through epigenetic mechanisms.

[Maas SCE, et al. (2026). Epigenetic fingerprints link early-onset colon and rectal cancer to pesticide exposure. Nature Medicine. DOI: 10.1038/s41591-026-04342-5]

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

205 years ago today, Napoleon Bonaparte died on a tiny British prison island in the middle of the South Atlantic. He was 51. He had ruled most of Europe. And he changed the world so thoroughly that you are still living inside the systems he built.

Start with the obvious one. The Napoleonic Code. He commissioned it in 1800, sat in on the drafting sessions personally, argued with the lawyers, and pushed it through in four years. Equality before the law. Property rights. Religious freedom. The end of feudal privilege. It is still the basis of civil law in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, most of Latin America, Quebec, Louisiana, and chunks of the Middle East and Africa. About a third of the planet writes contracts using rules a Corsican artillery officer wrote between battles.

He sold Louisiana to Thomas Jefferson in 1803 for 15 million dollars. Roughly four cents an acre. It doubled the size of the United States overnight. Without that deal there is no St. Louis, no New Orleans as an American city, no Lewis and Clark, no Manifest Destiny. The American century starts with Napoleon needing cash for a war.

He invaded Egypt in 1798 with an army and, weirdly, 167 scientists, mathematicians, and artists. They found the Rosetta Stone. That single slab is the reason we can read hieroglyphs at all. Egyptology as a field exists because Napoleon brought scholars to a war.

He built the Bank of France, which still runs French monetary policy. He created the lycée system that still educates French teenagers. He shoved the metric system across Europe at sword-point until it stuck. He emancipated the Jews of every territory he conquered, tearing down ghetto walls in Rome, Venice, Frankfurt. He abolished serfdom in Poland. He standardized road networks, civil registries, and tax codes that European governments still operate from.

And then there's the soldiering. He fought around 60 major battles and won most of them. Austerlitz, in 1805, against the combined Russian and Austrian empires, is still taught at West Point as one of the closest things to a tactically perfect battle ever fought. He was outnumbered, baited the enemy onto ground he had pre-selected, and broke them in a single afternoon. Three emperors took the field that morning. Only one walked off it on his own terms.

He slept four hours a night. He read constantly, dictated letters to four secretaries at the same time, and personally signed off on everything from cavalry boot specs to the seating chart at the Comédie-Française. Wellington, the man who finally beat him at Waterloo, was asked decades later who the greatest general in history was. He answered without hesitating. "In this age, in past ages, in any age, Napoleon."

He lost, in the end, because he could not stop. Russia in 1812 swallowed his army whole. Six hundred thousand men marched in. Maybe a tenth came back. He abdicated in 1814, escaped from Elba, ruled France again for 100 days, and lost it all for good in a wheat field in Belgium in June 1815.

The British shipped him to St. Helena, a volcanic dot 1,200 miles off the African coast, and waited. He spent six years there dictating his memoirs, gardening, complaining about the dampness, and quietly rewriting his own legend so effectively that Europe spent the next century arguing about him.

He died on May 5, 1821, during a storm so violent it ripped up the willow tree he liked to read under. His last words trailed off into fever. France. The army. Joséphine.

Nineteen years later France brought him home. Two million people stood in the snow to watch the coffin go by.

He was a tyrant. He was a reformer. He started wars that killed somewhere between three and six million people. He also wrote the rulebook that a third of humanity still lives under.

Most people who try to conquer the world are forgotten inside a generation. Napoleon has been dead for 205 years and we are still arguing about him because we are still using his furniture.

[GMWatch @GMWatch]

Warsaw follows Paris in banning food imports with pesticides to send message to Brussels. The banned pesticides include #glufosinate, one of the most widely used herbicides in the US, particularly on #GMO crops. https://t.co/7H8CFwzlzL