Casey Mendoza

At the 1936 Olympics, Haiti and Liechtenstein discovered they essentially had the same flag.

To avoid future confusion, Haiti added its national crest, and Liechtenstein added a yellow crown. Both are really, really ridiculously good-looking.

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

it's like salesforce knows they're already insufferable

oohh so it's like marshmallow's cousin

every year i google what is nougat because i genuinely forget every time

so I think I need to get these resoled

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

cows 🤝 crows
making tools

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

as a video editor who has made hundreds of explainers over the past decade, it's always fascinating to me what topics people jump on — seemingly around the same time.

this post is inspired by another video about tonka beans hitting my feed.

for anyone who ***for some reason*** wants to know more about loons 👀 share.google/l5Bg7AWraVcj...

@britannica.com has a neat video about them!

Diagram of centrifugal motion

Faith Hill describing a kiss:

Hey all,

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Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.

You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

feeling very seen by "sheer curiosity ... & spite"

Spotify Wrapped: Your listening age is 43,000! You've been listening to A LOT of the Geißenklösterle Flutes, vulture-bone instruments used by some of the earliest Homo sapiens in what is now southern Germany

Who DOESN’T unwind with facts about tortoises, Greek gods, and the world’s oldest manufactured instrument??

Comparison infographic of The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Wicked: Part 1 (2024) highlighting runtime, book origins, awards, and production details.

We hope everyone flies free this weekend.

BTW, the name Elphaba is a reference to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" author L. Frank Baum.

Release the transcripts @MoBamba.

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Remember Jamal Khashoggi.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield said outer space smells like gunpowder and burnt steak.

Yankee Candle, your newest seasonal scent has arrived.

Moss: Private Investigator

Due to their unique traits, mosses have been used as forensic evidence to determine how a crime occurred, sometimes even linking a person to a very specific location. 🧵⬇️

hey, can someone please produce an anachronistic series about Mary Shelley in the style of Apple TV's "Dickinson."

So, then, no, the Teen Vogue they're absorbing into the Vogue.com site is not going to be the same Teen Vogue that has been doing such strong consistent political work. Cool, cool, cool.

It remains unsettling how transparently unrelated media layoffs tend to be to the actual quality of work. The boldness of TEEN VOGUE's politics coverage has been one of the most inspiring stories of a historically desolate media environment.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

considering changing my alarm sound to tucker pillsbury yelling WHERE'S MY SALLY TONIGHT

Jane Goodall | Biography, Awards, Institute, Books, & Facts | Britannica Jane Goodall is a British ethologist known for her exceptionally detailed and long-term research on the chimpanzees of Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park. In 1977 she cofounded the Jane Goodall Ins...

www.britannica.com/biography/Ja...

Jane Goodall was one of a few people to earn a PhD without an undergraduate degree.

It was thought that her lack of formal academic training would allow her to remain unbiased by traditional thought and study the chimps with an open mind.

It worked. ❤️

Happening now: at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago, Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and other CBP/ICE agents emerge to patrol Beach Street and escort a vehicle out.

They ordered people out of the street, walked to the end of it and then back to the fence.

Per witness, Steve was filming an arrest when feds knocked a group of people backwards and grabbed him. She says it appeared targeted to her since he had been filming CBP interaction with the protester from start to finish.

Chaos again, feds tackling protesters at random.

They just detained @peoplesfabric.com.

'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off."

'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.'

We hope neither carries you off today.