Gene Park It's fake from a blue check engagement farmer hustling for money. Real pic is on this website:
thecrazychristianartist.com

The sponsored events were part of Live Nation's Washington blitz to sell itself to lawmakers and the media. They've gone from 4 lobbyists to 37. One new lobbyist is a former chief of staff to Amy Klobuchar, the company's biggest critic.
prospect.org/power/2024-04-…

David Dayen Axios They had these napkins as well lol

So Axios held two parties around WH Correspondent's Dinner week. Their cosponsor was Live Nation, which is under an antitrust investigation.
And even the COCKTAIL NAPKINS were lobbying.
prospect.org/power/2024-04-…

'Greenblatt, head of the ADL, has stressed repeatedly that he is concerned about rising antisemitism. Unfortunately, he has also made clear that he cares about antisemitism only as he defines it and as it affects people who agree with him'
By me Slate slate.com/news-and-polit…

The story is over-covered but it is bizarre to watch Columbia first discover siccing the NYPD made things worse and now see their 'ok seriously guys leave by 2pm today' plan fail. It's like no one running this school has ever talked to a college student. nytimes.com/2024/04/29/nyr…

Jaw-dropping new story from my The Capitol Forum colleague Patrick Rucker and ProPublica's David Armstrong:

'A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her.'

propublica.org/article/cigna-…

I don't straight up plug a product often but if you're a Slay the Spire fan and/or a board gamer Slay The Spire: The Board Game is a surprisingly great adaptation and you can buy a copy through the end of the month via Contention Game. Some of the best deck building around.

The Falcons brain trust blocking Bellichick from being hired and then immediately botching the draft is so perfect.

Ben Collins running The Onion is arguably weirder than Donald Trump becoming president.

Look at the replies to see the video of this cameraman arrested for 'hitting an officer' being slammed to the ground from behind by police unprovoked as he's trying to film the protest.

An independent review has found Israel provided no evidence to back up its explosive claims that UNRWA employees were tied to Hamas. Israel was told staff names and raised no objection. Yet the US and other countries continue to cut off UNRWA funding. nytimes.com/2024/04/22/wor…

To recap: Plainclothes ran up on random accountant & his family in a parkade, boxing him in w/ van. He thought it was a carjacking & ran one over escaping

Charged him w 1st degree, & officers told stories in court that were contradicted by 2 expert reconstructions & surveillance

This is incredible. The ultra-rich do things like fly their private jets out of the state right after midnight, and time their returns until just after midnight, so they can escape NY taxes, but stay in the city as long as they can bloomberg.com/news/features/…

no but literally

she is Maryland’s old third district

One cool thing about covering the Parliamentary system for years was watching wave after wave of tourists and school kids come in to see their representatives work. It's hard for me to reconcile the idea of Canada with a rule that *certain* people are not welcome there.

No one owes AI a participation trophy
aftermath.site/humane-ai-marq…

We spent the Patriots dynasty debating who was the biggest villain between Belichek and Brady and turns out it was Kraft all along

a 4-year study in JAMA that found no relevant anatomical disease process, nor differences in auditory/cognitive/vestibular function in Havana Syndrome patients relative to controls, is somewhat better evidence than “a woman once got vertigo while a Russian guy was in her city”