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"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." --Thomas Pynchon

[Zack Thomas @TFel922]

Hunter Dekkers 👿
• 366 bets
• ~$2,800 wagered
• One bet involving Iowa State football
• Lost entire season, NCAA eligibility, career

Brendan Sorsby 😇
• ~2,900 bets
• ~$90,000 wagered
• 40+ bets involving Indiana football
• Currently eligible after court injunction

Sorsby placed ~8x more bets and wagered ~32x more money than Dekkers…

[NWS Weather Prediction Center @NWSWPC]

An updated Day 3-7 Hazards Outlook has been issued. https://t.co/VBxTZCp4sE

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

Multiple agencies & hospitals just war-gamed Ebola and MERS outbreaks SPECIFICALLY for the World Cup beginning in 3 days.

The National Special Pathogens System just simulated a MERS outbreak emerging from the tournament.

NYC Health just ran an Ebola drill.

Remember EVENT 201 right before COVID?

[DR POOL @DRPOOLQ17]

🚨SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY: "It strikes me as breathtakingly ironic that that the people who are screaming so loudly about President Trump's decision to audit federal spending, are the very same people who wanted to hire 80,000 new IRS agents with guns to audit the American people."

[Blackrussian @Blackrussiantv]

Footage of the Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano🌋 eruption on Flores Island in Indonesia.

[Spider Tracks @Spider70S]

‘Turn The Page’
~Bob Seger

[🎼 sedrul @sedrul08]

Enjoy your Week 🫶

Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues (1968)

[Stefan Burns @StefanBurnsGeo]

Here we observe the seismic waves racing out across North America from the recent very anomalous M6.1 reverse thrust earthquake that struck just off the west coast of Cuba. Weak shaking/jolts were felt across Cuba, Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, and most of Florida.

[Matt Devitt @MattDevittWX]

RARE GULF EARTHQUAKE: The magnitude 6.1 today near Cuba is officially the 2nd strongest on record in the Gulf. Strongest quake was a 6.4 in the Southwestern Gulf near Mexico in 1959. Considering the shaking in Florida today, the largest known quake ever in the state was a 4.4 in 1879 southeast of Gainesville!

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

IVERMECTIN KILLS NEW WORLD SCREWWORMS IN BOTH HUMANS AND ANIMALS

LIVESTOCK: 12 studies found 97%+ prevention of New World screwworm infestation in cattle wounds

HUMANS: Documented complete larval elimination in severe oral and eye socket infestations

"Horse paste” wins again.

[Disaster News @Top_Disaster]

Major earthquakes hit the world today: (08.06.2026)

➡️ 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck 26 km SW of Kablalan, Philippines 🇵🇭

➡️ 6.5 magnitude Earthquake struck 19 km SW of Balangonan, Philippines 🇵🇭

➡️ 6.1 magnitude Earthquake struck 104 km WNW of Mantua, Cuba 🇨🇺

➡️ 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck 16 km WSW of Balangonan, Philippines 🇵🇭

➡️ 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck 4 km ENE of Pangyan, Philippines 🇵🇭

➡️ 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck 11 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines 🇵🇭

➡️ 5.3 magnitude Earthquake struck 19 km SSW of Lumatil, Philippines 🇵🇭

➡️ 4.9 magnitude Earthquake struck 20 km NNE of Padang, Indonesia 🇮🇩

➡️ 4.6 magnitude earthquake struck 54 km SE of Angoram, Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬

Source: USGS

[Shannon 🇺🇸I stand with America @thewriterme]

Excellent Read. Sad and uplifting. Never give up.

Robert Plant
He was twenty-eight years old, leading the most powerful band on the planet, living among private jets, packed stadiums, and seemingly limitless success. Then he heard the voice of his wife, Maureen. And in an instant, everything fell apart.
Karac, their five-year-old son, was dead. A stomach virus, swift and merciless. No warning, no chance to intervene. While Robert sang on the other side of the ocean, his "little mountain man" was gone.
The tour stopped immediately. Plant flew to England in a state of shock that no amount of fame could allay. He found his son in the quiet of the Midlands, surrounded by a grief beyond words. That day, he looked for his bandmates. John Bonham was there, as devastated as he was. Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones were not. They did not show up at the funeral. Years later, they would talk about "respecting space," but for Robert, it was an absence that left a deep scar.
Something inside him cracked. He returned to his farm, stopped drinking, stopped taking drugs, stopped living like a rock star. He said he didn't want to be in Led Zeppelin anymore, that he just wanted to be with his family. He even applied for a job at a teachers' college, ready to leave music forever.
The only one who managed to bring him back was Bonham. Not with pressure, but with friendship. He'd show up at the farm driving a limousine, wearing a chauffeur's hat to make him laugh, and take him out for a quiet drink. He'd remind him that they were friends first, and musicians second. So Robert agreed to give it one last try.
In Through the Out Door was born, an album marked by an undisguised pain. Inside was All My Love, the most intimate tribute Plant ever wrote for his son.
In 1980, they were about to go back on tour. But tragedy wasn't over. On September 24th, during rehearsals, Bonham began drinking like never before. Forty shots of vodka in twelve hours. The next morning, he was dead. He was thirty-two years old.
Led Zeppelin issued a brief, almost terse statement: without Bonham, they couldn't continue. And they kept their word. No farewell tour, no replacement, no nostalgic outing. The biggest band in the world simply stopped.
For the next forty years, promoters from half the planet offered Plant astronomical sums for a reunion. Hundreds of millions for a single tour. Each time, he refused. Fans accused him of selfishness, of stubbornness. But Plant knew something they didn't: the "Golden God" had died in 1977, along with Karac.
Since then, he has built a new musical life. He explored folk, bluegrass, North African rhythms, sang with Alison Krauss, lowered his voice, let go of the cry that had made him immortal. He said he could no longer be that man, because that man no longer existed.
His story overturns the common idea of strength. It's not about moving forward at all costs. It's about knowing when to stop, when to protect what remains of truth. Plant chose his humanity over legend, life over myth.
Today he's seventy-six. He still plays, still creates, tours small venues. But he's never looked back. And perhaps this is his greatest lesson: you can buy everything except the past. And sometimes the bravest thing is to let go of what made you famous to save what made you human.
Credit Quara

[Noah Bergren @NbergWX]

Two earthquakes today, the rare 6+ magnitude in the SE Gulf, and about a 4.0 NE of Puerto Rico. Remember there is no actual fault line in the Gulf.

The Caribbean tectonic plate is moving at a rate of 0.8" per year east relative to the North American Plate that Florida sits on.

[US Homeland Security News @defense_civil25]

🚨Confirmed: DEAD!! IRGC Supreme Commanding General Ahmad Wahidi, who took command after several of his fellow Generals were killed at the start of the War, was killed in an Israeli air-strikes in Tehran last night!!

[All Things Emerald Coast @AllEmeraldCoast]

UPDATE: Officials say the victim in today’s shark attack at NSA Panama City was a Navy base employee in his late 20s who suffered injuries to both arms. Another person was in the water at the time but was not injured. Please pray for him 🙏

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Genetically Modified Mayo: Hellmann's 'Real' Mayonnaise now requires a bioengineered label on its jars.

Less than 2% of each jar is egg...98% is chemicals, oils, corn starch, EDTA & thickened with gums.

This isn’t food anymore — it’s a Frankenstein experiment in a jar. GMO corn, seed oils that inflame your arteries and disrupt hormones, EDTA that leaches minerals from your body, and synthetic gums that wreck your gut lining. Every spoonful is quietly feeding chronic disease, autoimmune chaos, and the slow poisoning of America’s families.

They slapped a “bioengineered” warning on it like it’s no big deal — because they know most people won’t read it. Hellmann’s sold its soul for profit while we were busy trusting the brand our grandparents used.

STOP FEEDING THIS TO YOUR KIDS.
Boycott it. Throw it out. Make your own in 60 seconds with real ingredients. Your body will thank you.

Quick Homemade Butter Mayo (Immersion Blender – makes about 1 cup)
Ingredients:
- 1 large egg (room temperature)
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard (or prepared mustard)
- ¼ teaspoon salt (or to taste; use ½ tsp if butter is unsalted)
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, melted and cooled slightly to warm (not hot)

Directions:
1. Place the egg, lemon juice, mustard, and salt in a tall narrow jar or container that just fits your immersion blender head.
2. Insert the immersion blender to the bottom and blend for a few seconds until combined.
3. With the blender running, slowly pour in the melted butter. Move the blender up and down gently as it thickens into creamy mayo (about 30-60 seconds total).
4. Taste and adjust salt or lemon if needed.

Store in a glass jar in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

A healthy institution promotes men willing to risk their careers for the truth.

A dying institution promotes men willing to risk the truth for their careers.

[Shane Tuttle @ShaneTuttleNCAA]

Deion Sanders has implemented a new policy prohibiting Colorado freshmen from earning NIL money until their sophomore year.

“Making money from this sport is a privilege. If you’re playing on my team, you have to earn that.”

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

This quote from an anonymous Big 12 coach is incredible.

That’s exactly what the ruling today means. If the NCAA can’t win the appeal or severely punish Texas Tech for this, players gambling is not only allowed now, but they’re probably going to intentionally use it.

[Brandon Marcello @bmarcello]

All four justices on the Seventh Court of Appeals in Texas are Texas Tech graduates.