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Pete O'Connell at vinepair.com has done us the favor of compiling what he calls "The 5 Worst Booze Ads of All Time."

The New York Times wanted to summon one of its favorite characters: an everyday Dem so upset with the Left that they were going to vote for Donald Trump instead. It found it in Anna Anaya, notable to it only for being a 58-year-old who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but now likes the other guy. — Read the rest

Check out Belgian musician Max Vandervorst playing a fantastic (and fantastical!) instrument he made—the porciphone.

Apologizing to the cats, JD Vance attempts to cast his disparaging childless women as funny ha-ha.

The famed animatronic performers at kids' party restaurant Chuck E. Cheese are finally being taken out back, victim to changing trends, spiraling maintenance costs and the improved advertising revenues offered by the screens that shall replace them. The New York Times recently said goodbye to the mechanical marvels (archive.org — Read the rest

The astronauts who arrived at the International Space Station via NASA's Starliner spacecraft on June 5th, 2024, are still awaiting their journey back to Earth. Their return has already been delayed and rescheduled several times due to launch system and thruster issues. — Read the rest

These clips of Don Jr interviewing his daddy's VP candidate are reported to be displayed at normal speed.

Britain's new government has dropped its predecessor's plans to challenge to the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The court accuses Netanyahu of orchestrating war crimes in the invasion of Gaza, where some 38,000 civilians have so far died in the ongoing conflict. — Read the rest

People who murder or harm gay and transgender people have prevailed at trial on the strength of the "gay panic defence," which boils down to the idea that a victim's sexuality or gender may be so shocking that it diminishes legal responsibility for violent crimes committed against them. — Read the rest

Donald Trump wants flag burners to get prison time, but the Supreme Court has already declared the action protected.