News you need,
whether you know it or not

• New York prisons may have effectively banned journalism behind bars • Human Rights Campaign declares a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the United States • Saudi crown prince buys PGA Tour – and control of golf in North America Golf was already dead to me, but now it’s deader. • “Enough is enough” — Australian PM throws support behind movement to free Julian Assange • Reddit lied about negotiations, and I have it on tape, says creator of app now forced to shut down • Peacemaker gets a street named after him • Archaeologists discover Atlantis 

• Canadian wildfires lead to historic U.S. air quality event supercharged by climate change • Grim future for coral reefs around the world • Earth’s land is drying as it warms, but it is not clear how dry is too dry 

• Cop fired for swindling $2-million from elderly dementia patient gets his job back • Police say former deputy sheriff masturbated in parking lot of ice cream shop • L.A. Sheriff’s Deputies arrested a trans activist for robbery; video tells a completely different story • Judge tosses hundreds of convictions tied to N.Y.P.D. officers accused of misconduct • N.Y.P.D. anti-crime units still stopping people illegally, report shows • Former officer facing reckless homicide has been charged in Ohio before • Deputies suspended after ignoring inmate’s fatal medical emergency 

• Stop politicizing the weather, says Republican Congressman whose state is under an air quality warning • Pence says we must “restore confidence in equal treatment under the law in this country” by not indicting Trump • Republicans demand records from investigators of Trump lies • Huckabee ditches Chick-fil-A, pledges allegiance to Popeye’s • Jordan further weaponizes his subcommittee on the weaponization of the gov’t to chill speech • Tucker Carlson’s Twitter show opens with an anti-Semitic fanfare 

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My browser history
without the porn• April Fool’s on the radio • My life as a waitress • No straights at Pride Night • What did Johnny Appleseed really do? • When workers pushed to unionize, Ben & Jerry’s chilled 

♫♬  It don’t mean a thing  ♫
if it don’t have that swing• Bonanza — Lorne Greene • It Isn’t Nice -—Malvina Reynolds • Let the Sunshine In — Hair • Ring of Fire — Johnny Cash • Trains — Al Stewart 

Eventually, everyone
leaves the building
• Marlene Clark • Pat Cooper • Ian Hacking • The Iron Sheik
• nostreboR taP • George Winston • Harald zur Hausen

 6/9/2023  
Cranky Old Fart is annoyed and complains and very occasionally offers a
kindness, along with anything off the internet that’s made me smile or
snarl. All opinions fresh from my ass. Top illustration by Jeff Meyer. Click any image to enlarge. Comments & conversations invited.