Apparently it is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Talk to elders in your family - hope not for the first time - about phone, Internet, Facebook & knock on the front door scams. Suggest that elders freeze their credit; they can still use credit cards, but no one can take out a new one in their name.
Over 41% of U.S. counties lost population between 2020 and 2025.
But an economist explains why population decline does not automatically equal economic decline:
https://theconversation.com/most-pittsburgh-area-communities-are-losing-residents-heres-why-that-might-be-ok-283951
No World Cup game, and no Olympic event, should be behind a paywall. Ever.
Amazon delivery guy just dropped a package & I went out before he had walked away, & he said "That is the coolest package drop I have ever seen, 10 out of 10", & my husband, who made it, heard him.
German engineers. They know they are good. But they love it when you know too.
Algeria picked Lawrence, Kansas as its base for the World Cup. "What the people of Lawrence did with that is the part I can't stop thinking about." Adam Kinzinger on Facebook wrote what the residents of Lawrence did.
This is MY USA.
⚽🌎🏆 https://www.facebook.com/RepKinzinger/posts/pfbid0AfVDbcPCH8HbRbgUfA1SZ4hBseud9QGeTzDKCP76D84Dn7sZ7sNfBuy3gDjbaFcTl
20 years ago in Germany during the 2006 World Cup. Watched the USA versus Ghana with a bunch of Ghana guys in a bar (nope, didn't know them). What a BLAST.
#WorldCup ⚽
Curaçao has been so much fun to watch. yes, I am pulling from Germany, but I love underdogs. Their fan section in Houston looks like a ton of fun.
I hate you so much, FIFA, but I will always love World Cup teams & fans.
#WorldCup ⚽
Living in Germany for either years, including during the World Cup there, & being married to a German, of course I pull from Germany, but geesh, German fans, do more than just stand & clap when your team scores! Pretend it's carnival!
#WorldCup ⚽
Scottish fans be some really, really loud fans!
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Good luck with that. Finding people that will come to your home to clean, check & change your oxygen tank, help you with your bills - in many parts of the USA, that is utterly impossible.
Billionaires should not exist.
Trillionaires should not exist.
You people can live on $900 million dollars alone, really, you can.
Terrific article in the associated press about what the 1976 celebrations were like for the USA's 200th anniversary. I was 10. Mom insisted me & my brother tour the American Freedom Train when it came to Evansville (& she was right - I loved it!).
https://apnews.com/article/bicentennial-200-years-america-250-3645e76b264e0978a05717da44a23644
reading comic books on physical paper helps the brain absorb & connect story details more easily than reading on a tablet.
https://www.psypost.org/neuroscientists-discover-previously-unknown-cognitive-benefits-of-reading-physical-books/
The US Navy will not promote a single woman to admiral this year, though women make up roughly a quarter of its officer corps.
Texting with a Paraguayan friend. The country is so sad now. But still festive. Because... Paraguay!
The men's soccer team is finally looking as good as the women's team!!!!
Wahoo!!!!
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#worldcup
I hate hate hate when they knock their noggins.
I worry.
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Props to tom cruise for knowing the words to the national anthem. The USA president does not. ⚽🇺🇸
How Iran's 'Stolen Revolution' failed to live up to its promise - Compass Points
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/compass-points/2026/06/how-irans-stolen-revolution-failed-to-live-up-to-its-promise?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World @world-PBSNewsHour
More than 1,000 patients at Kentucky's Lee Specialty Clinic - folks with intellectual & developmental disabilities, many with nowhere else to go for care - are set to be discharged & more than half the staff will lose their jobs, because of severe budget cuts.
Meanwhile, Musk is a trillionaire.