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Breaking news: A Ford dealership in Kansas can't release a sold F-250 because a robin moved in first. An employee at the dealership located outside Kansas City noticed a robin building a nest on the tire of a brand new F-250 that was already sold. The robin laid four eggs and successfully hatched them. The truck is now stuck on the lot until the chicks fledge, because the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 makes it illegal to disturb an active nest of any native bird in the United States. The buyer has been a good sport. The dealership called it the only F-250 in America currently protected under federal law.

It's hard to believe this animation was made 90 years ago in 1934.

A lot of Americans remember Sears as a dying store in a half-empty mall. That’s not what Sears was. Sears was how American factories entered ordinary houses. Kenmore in the kitchen. Craftsman in the garage. DieHard under the hood. Coldspot humming in the corner. Lawn tractors in sheds. Socket sets in drawers that nobody was allowed to lose. It was basements, workbenches, catalogs, part numbers, repairmen, delivery trucks, credit accounts, and old men who could hear a washer struggling before it finally quit. A kid could flip through the Wish Book and learn what adulthood looked like. Tools. Appliances. Work boots. School clothes. A bicycle. Sometimes even a whole house ordered by mail and built piece by piece after the materials came in by rail. That was the part Sears understood. America was full of people trying to build stable lives with practical things. Then the practical world got replaced by a disposable one. The catalogs vanished. The stores hollowed out. Manufacturing moved overseas. Repair got expensive. Replacement got cheap. The people who knew how everything worked got older, retired, or died, and a lot of what they knew went with them. People call it the death of a department store. I don’t. Sears was one of the last national systems that still assumed ordinary Americans should know how to maintain the world around them instead of just replacing it. That’s the strange poverty nobody talks about now. Not having fewer things. Having more than ever and understanding almost none of them.

Transit of the Day Moon in Leo Sextile Sun in Gemini May 20th, 2026 The Moon governs emotional expression, instinctive reactions, and the need to feel emotionally alive in the present moment. In Leo, the emotional body seeks warmth, creativity, recognition, playfulness, and authentic self-expression. The Sun represents identity, vitality, conscious direction, and the organizing center of the personality. In Gemini, the Sun becomes curious, adaptive, conversational, mentally active, and socially engaged. When these two meet through a sextile, emotional confidence and conscious expression cooperate naturally. The result is a lighter atmosphere that encourages connection, humor, creativity, and emotionally expressive communication. This is a Fire-Air sextile, creating supportive movement between inspiration and interaction. Leo supplies emotional warmth, charisma, confidence, and the desire to express something genuine from the heart. Gemini keeps the energy flexible, playful, mentally alive, and socially responsive. Under this kind of weather, conversations tend to feel more animated, expressive, witty, and emotionally engaging. People may feel more willing to share ideas openly, perform creatively, flirt, laugh, socialize, or reconnect with parts of themselves that enjoy being seen and appreciated. Unlike heavier transits, this energy moves easily. The emotional body does not feel trapped under pressure or overwhelmed by intensity. Instead, there is space for experimentation, humor, storytelling, creative play, and genuine enthusiasm. Leo brings emotional sincerity while Gemini keeps things curious rather than rigid. This creates an atmosphere where people may feel more emotionally resilient simply because movement, connection, and expression begin circulating again. This is good weather for socializing, performing, writing, creating content, playful conversation, artistic work, collaboration, flirting, brainstorming, reconnecting with joy, and expressing yourself without over-editing every thought beforehand. Let curiosity and confidence support each other instead of competing. Speak from genuine enthusiasm. Create because it feels alive, not because it has already been perfected. The healthiest expression of this transit comes from allowing yourself to participate emotionally in life again instead of standing outside it analyzing every possibility from a distance. Natal Signature People born with Moon sextile Sun often experience less internal conflict between emotional needs and conscious identity than many other aspect combinations. In Leo and Gemini specifically, this can create individuals who naturally combine emotional expressiveness with social adaptability, creativity with intelligence, and confidence with curiosity. There is often a strong instinct toward communication, performance, storytelling, humor, teaching, entertainment, or emotionally engaging forms of self-expression. Over time, this placement can produce remarkable charisma, emotional resilience, creative versatility, and the ability to connect with people through authenticity and wit simultaneously. These individuals often learn through interaction and come alive when they can share ideas, emotions, or creative energy dynamically with others. The challenge can be scattering attention too broadly or becoming overly dependent on external engagement for emotional stimulation. The gift is the ability to bring warmth, intelligence, humor, and emotional vitality into the spaces they enter. Astrology as pattern language. Today’s weather: expressive momentum.

This might sound strange, but I sometimes add a few ice cubes to my rice cooker. Before cooking the rice. Not after. Why? Because rice usually tastes better when it heats up slowly. The ice lowers the temperature of the water, so the rice takes a little longer to get hot. During that time, the rice can absorb water more evenly. The starch inside the rice also has more time to break down into sugars. That’s why the rice can come out a little sweeter, softer, and fluffier. But there’s one important thing to remember. Ice turns into water. So if you add ice, you need to reduce the water a little. Otherwise, the rice can become too soft or watery. It’s such a small detail. But that’s what I love about Japanese rice culture. Rice is something you cook with care. With just a little extra effort, it really tastes so much better. Try it once.

@bennyjohnson If only Stephen Miller went after RINOs the way he does House Freedom Caucus members…

Grace Jones is a legend. Today is her solar return. Neptune on her MC. She's true artist. youtu.be/Z0XLzIswI2s?si…

Here's the best way to settle this Trump vs Massie thing. Old school. Drop Trou. Trump may want Laura Loomer to step in for him on this one.

🚨WOW!!! Tim Sparks has confirmed he purchased 80 PIZZA HUTS and brought back EVERYTHING that made them iconic! Pac-Man is back. Salad bar is back. Red cups are back. Booths for families. "I want to rebuild places for families to connect and put their phones down..."

Houdini was in Boston in 1908 to promote one of his upcoming performances, Houdini decided to take a 30-foot plunge into the Charles River while covered in locks and chains. Houdini stood on the edge of the Harvard Bridge as a Boston patrolman handcuffed his hands behind his back and chained to a collar around his neck. Around 20,000 spectators including the mayors of Boston and Cambridge once the signal was given, Houdini jumped into the water below. The crowd waited anxiously and after around 40 seconds Houdini emerged with the restraints in his hands May 1 1908.

y’all minnesota is called the state of hockey because we’ve produced more nhl players than any other state all time players v. active players, we’re still #1

@saniyafatma1278 Not everyone wants a large gaudy ring

This is the Hello Kitty & Friends themed KFC in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico A KFC was transformed into this and became so popular people would wait hours to enter or even go through the drive thru The KDC sold special combos, limited edition collectives and had special packaging for their items America used to do interesting fun stuff like this all the time, now we don’t do anything Our fast food places used to have their own identities, they were fun and vibrant. Now everything is just corporate slop with no identity America doesn’t take risks, businesses need to stop playing it safe and do fund still like this again for Americans. Bring some life back into our country

You know that Uranus in Gemini has arrived when hacker twins take down over 290 .gov related sites and reams of data including IRS docs. zerohedge.com/political/ex-c…

You can't have plastic straws because of climate change but they can rape the earth with AI data centers no one wants

Admit it... we all wanted Arnold's room when we were younger

Behind the scenes of “The Magic Schoolbus” on PBS, 1990s.

@cutiieepie6 They wrapped it just take it to the bank dude

Some guy tipped me ten dollars in quarters, and I’m still trying to figure out what kind of person thinks that’s acceptable. I just finished a DoorDash order, and he casually mentions he forgot to tip in the app—which, fine, not ideal, whatever. Then he dramatically pulls out a literal roll of quarters like he’s handing me the crown jewels. He looks me dead in the eye and says, “Sorry man, I didn’t tip on the app, this is all I’ve got.” Yeah, thanks. I love holding a handful of coins like it’s 1998. I don’t use change. I’m not a parking meter. I’m not walking around with rolls of quarters or dumping them into a Coinstar just to get the money I already earned. I took it because arguing over coins isn’t how I planned to spend my day, but that doesn’t make it okay. Tipping in quarters is peak absurdity. Tip in the app, tip in bills, tip digitally—literally anything that doesn’t involve me schlepping around loose metal. Acting like this is normal? Pure comedy. And yes, no one should ever think a pocketful of coins counts as a tip.