ABORTION PILL ADVERTISEMENT AT US OPEN LEAVES GOLF FANS APPALLED

New York Post

 

Abortion pill advertisement at US Open leaves golf fans appalled: ‘Gross and divisive’

By Ryan King

Published June 22, 2026, 6:34 a.m. ET

 

Golf fans attending the third round of the US Open at Shinnecock Hills Saturday were left stunned when an airplane buzzed the course towing an advertisement promoting obtaining abortion pills by mail.

 

The ad was paid for by Mayday Health, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit dedicated to highlighting the availability of abortion medication and birth control pills across the country.

 

“It just felt gross and divisive. I’m sure that’s exactly what this group intended, which is a real shame,” one fan told The Post about the stunt.

 

“These kids kept pointing at the banner asking their parents ‘What does that say?’ And it was clear they had no clue how to respond. I mean, what do you even say?

 

“Especially when there are so many golfers and spectators who are strong in their faith — this felt like an intentional distraction by outside agitators to undermine the tournament,” the fan added.

 

The banner flew over the Southampton property for about 90 minutes, witnesses said.

 

The choice of venue was likely no accident, as the US Open famously concludes on Father’s Day weekend each year.

 

Mayday Health was founded in 2022 after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which struck down its 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling and allowed each state to set its own abortion policy.

 

Mayday’s advertising ploys have caused controversy across America. In 2022, Mississippi clashed with the group over its billboards touting ways women can terminate their pregnancies.

 

In March, the group reached a settlement with South Dakota in which it agreed to “remove any signs with deceptive and unlawful advertisements,” according to the state attorney general’s office.

 

The United States Golf Association and Mayday Health did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

 

Wyndham Clark secured his second US Open win on Sunday, shooting a four-under-par 276 to hold off Sam Burns by one shot.

BILL MUMY LOOKS BACK ON CHILD STARDOM AND HOW HIS NOVELTY SONG FISHHEADS CAME TO BE

PEOPLE

 

Bill Mumy Looks Back on Child Stardom and How His Cult Classic 1978 Novelty Song 'Fish Heads' Came to Be

By Charlotte Phillipp  Published on June 21, 2026 05:29PM EDT

 

Bill Mumy is taking a look back at his storied career — including everything from his time as a child star to the surprise success of "Fish Heads."

 

In a new interview with CBS Sunday Morning on June 14, Mumy, 72, reflected on his time starring on hit series as a kid, including Lost in Space (in which he played Will Robinson from 1965 to 1968), episodes of The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and more.

 

Remembering when he finished production on Lost in Space after three seasons, Mumy shared that he was devastated.

 

"I cried," he recalled. "I actually can remember sitting on the blue couch in our den, and putting my head in my mom's lap and her just kind of petting my head, going, 'That's showbiz, honey.' "

 

Despite the ending of his hit series, Mumy shared that he was able to avoid the pitfalls that so many child actors face by finding another creative outlet — and for him, it was music.

 

"There are a lot of child stars who had sad endings, and when that one experience of a long-running television show was over, they weren't treated special anymore, and they had to find out who they were," he said.

 

Mumy's love for music eventually led to even more success in the form of Barnes & Barnes, his quirky rock and novelty duo group with the late Robert Haimer. The pair is best known for their bizarre 1978 cult classic song, "Fish Heads."

 

According to the actor-musician, the quirky track — the music video for which was named No. 57 on Rolling Stone's list of the top 100 music videos of all time — came about when he and Haimer were "jamming together."

 

"We're making up funny songs because we both liked '50s horror comic books and the Three Stooges and that kind of stuff," he recalled. "And it's just a release of excess energy."

 

"We went out to lunch, a restaurant on Pico Boulevard in West L.A. called Wan-Q, and we got a fish dish, and it came with the fish head on the plate kind of coiled up and giving you a little stare back before you got your knife out," Mumy shared. "And [Haimer] said, 'Roly poly fish heads. Let's eat them up. Yum.' "

 

The song, which Mumy described as having "a very primitive nursery rhyme kind of a melody," eventually made it to the recording studio. Although the success of the song was unexpected, Mumy said that it was a welcome surprise.

 

"You never know what's going to click with the audience, right?" he said. "I mean, you can have 300 songs that are very soulful and perhaps melodically interesting, and it's 'Fish Heads' that resonates and becomes locked in the ID of society for 40 years."

 

"'Fish Heads' has been very, very good to me," Mumy conceded. "'Fish Heads' has been very good. You know, it's been on The Simpsons. It's been a bunch of commercials. It's been in a lot of films. 'Fish Heads' has paid for a few vacations. 'Fish Heads' has definitely bought a few guitars."

 

According to Mumy, acting still holds a special place in his career, but music is where he eventually found his true passion.

 

"I don't want to diminish my enjoyment of acting," he told CBS. "I know the craft of acting and I'm comfortable whenever I do it. But if I'm not doing it, it's not like I go home and act. It's not like my wife Eileen and I sit around and do plays in the living room. But what I do do is, I play guitar and piano and music all the time."

CANADIAN PODCAST AUDIENCE REACHES NEW PEAK

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WAYMO TAKES SCARED PASSENGER ON JOYRIDE THROUGH CONSTRUCTION ZONE WITH COPS IN PURSUIT

New York Post

 

Waymo takes scared passenger on joyride through construction zone — with cops in pursuit: ‘Don’t want to use it again’

By Ben Cost

Published June 22, 2026, 3:57 p.m. ET

 

It lost its Way-mo.

 

A San Francisco passenger found themselves in an accidental car chase after their Waymo veered way off course, attracting the attention of police cars.

 

San Francisco resident Elliot Slade and his fiancé had been taking one of the robotaxis along Highway 101 when they came upon a construction zone, ABC News reported.

 

The driverless cab, which is part of the automated transport arm of the tech firm Alphabet, attempted to change lanes but to no avail. Despite the abundance of signs, lights and cones, the Waymo went straight into the off-limits lane before taking off, per the passenger.

 

“It went through the cones and then sped up straight away,” lamented Slade, who said their mishap caught the eye of a patrol car, which began chasing the rogue robo-car to see what was amiss.

 

All the while, Slade said he was shouting, “Stop Waymo,” and wondering, “What the heck is going on?”

 

The automated car chase finally ended after the car departed the construction zone and took a freeway exit into a residential neighborhood.

 

Slade thanks his lucky stars there wasn’t a collision.

 

“In that moment it’s like, ‘Oh this technology is not ready,'” said the relieved rider, who Ubered home that evening. “If something else had gone wrong, someone in that road might have got hit. We might have crashed in the car.”

 

While he has taken a Waymo since the fiasco, he said he doesn’t want to use it again.

 

“There was a moment where even getting into it again was kind of freaky. A bit of PTSD- yeah,” said Slade.

 

Coincidentally, this is one of over a dozen similar incidents in which these self-driving taxis accidentally entered construction zones after failing to recognize the literal warning signs.

 

To curb these disasters, the automated car giant recalled over 3,800 of the robotaxis, per a report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

 

The car company also restricted them from driving on the freeway while it outfitted the tech with better situational awareness and a directive to avoid entering construction zones.

 

“We identified an area of improvement regarding performance around freeway construction zones,” Waymo told The Post in a statement.

 

“We voluntarily restricted freeway operations last month while making improvements, proactively notified state and federal regulators, and decided to file a voluntary software recall with NHTSA.”

WVIT-TV CHANNEL 30 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT LATE NIGHT JUNE 1986

Here's a TV DX aircheck of a local Connecticut TV station. Though intriguing, it doesn't surprise me that MTV syndicated some of their programming to local broadcast stations as so many people still didn't have cable 40 years ago. The episode of "That's the Spirit" is also interesting. Seems unusual for Catholics, two nuns no less, to recommend people find God by praying conversationally to Him, reading the Bible and then thinking about what they've just read, which is what I would tell people to do as well. 

SMOKING MULLEIN AND ITS MEDICAL BENEFITS

What a remarkable plant. 

STAGGERING NUMBER OF BERKLEY LAW STUDENTS CLAIM THEY'RE DISABLED AS EMOTIONAL DISORDERS SKYROCKET

New York Post

 

Staggering number of Berkeley Law students claim they’re disabled as ‘emotional disorders’ skyrocket

By Titus Wu

Published June 19, 2026, 5:20 p.m. ET

 

An eye-popping number of students at the elite UC Berkeley School of Law claim to have a “psychological” or other mental disabilities, according to university data — leading critics to accuse pupils of trying to game the system to gain an advantage in school.

 

There are 378 law students in UC Berkeley’s Disabled Students’ Program, approximately a third of enrollment. That marks a massive shift from just five years ago, when only 3% of Berkeley’s graduate students claimed a disability.

 

University-wide, the number of students in the disability program have steadily increased — going from 4,153 in 2020 to 5,711 last year. The school claims to be “one of the first campuses in the U.S. to begin accommodating students with disabilities.”

 

The leading disability types across campus are classified as psychological or emotional disorders, as well as ADHD. Significantly less are the number of physical disability claims.

 

Critics claim the numbers evidence of a “sham” by students to take advantage of woke considerations by educators to gain a leg up in school.

 

The numbers are preposterous, said Andrew Testerman, a graduate of the law school who looked into the numbers.

 

“At Berkeley Law, there are more disabled law students than there are male law students,” said Testerman.

 

“We are asked to believe that students at elite law schools are significantly more likely to be disabled than our nation’s senior citizens.”

 

The disability status unfairly gives students advantages, Testerman said.

 

For instance, those classified as disabled had significantly more time to take exams. According to university data, proctoring service requests to accommodate disabilities have skyrocketed from less than 4,000 in 2021-2022 to more than 14,000 in 2024-2025.

 

Professors and other critics have slammed the disability accommodations as untrustworthy and gaming the system.

 

“I have heard from many people that this is the way that rich people scam the system to help their kids,” a computer science professor at a West Coast state school who asked to remain anonymous told The Post.

 

Giving these students more time for their exams is supposedly “fair,” but it’s anything but, added George Leef, of the higher-education think tank James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal.

 

“This is even more absurd when you realize that most students in law schools come from successful families and have done well throughout their years of education,” he explained. “Apparently, the world of ‘social justice’ means that we can’t have fair exams.”

 

UC Berkeley’s disability program was apparently aimed at addressing physical disabilities when it was first created. But in 1982, the word “physical” was dropped from its name to encompass learning disabilities, the school’s website said.

 

It’s in line with the school’s diversity programming, where a disability is formally treated as a diversity classification, according to the university’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion data dashboard.

 

Other schools across the nation have seen similar trends. At nearby Stanford University, for instance, 38% of students have registered with the Office of Accessible Education.

 

Even high school students seem to be leaning into the “scam.” The number of high schoolers getting extra time on college-entrance exams has more than tripled in the last decade.

 

Dean of Berkeley Law Erwin Chemerinsky told Testerman that the law school has no authority over accommodations and simply complies with the law.

 

The Post contacted the university for comment.