Excited to announce I’ve been paid $5,000,000 for my new comedy special, “They Won’t Let You Do Comedy Anymore” for a big streamer. It’s shot at an opera house that sits 5,000 cheering fans. My opening bit will be about me being silenced. The rest will be how much I hate my wife

Personally I think this sounds very bad. time.com/6972021/donald…

Aioli has never been more popular than today

UPDATE: many of those arrested are being charged with “Hate Crime on Law Enforcement” per NOPD

“We can get rid of the entire federal department of education. We don’t need them,” Murrill said #lalege #lagov

lolz

.Governor Jeff Landry says he 'would love to identify as Shaquille O'Neal' and try out for the LSU men's basketball team but that he would be 'laughed off the court' if he did so. He likens this to transgender women competing in women's sports #lalege #lagov

Louisiana state university ate THAT 😍

Fake Photos, Real Harm: AOC and the Fight Against AI Porn

Deepfakes are easier to make than ever — and our sense of reality and democracy are at risk

by Lorena O'Neil

for Rolling Stone

rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Commencement speakers launch boycott of USC satellite graduation ceremonies latimes.com/california/sto…

The two groups have clashed and the police have arrested a bunch of people and cleared the park

A lot of Americans are unaware of how our country and our leaders have subverted Haitian democracy.

I wrote about a pivotal instance of US & foreign interference: the election of 2010-11, in which the intl community blatantly and clumsily meddled.
nybooks.com/online/2024/04…

Does she… know what the “doctor” stood for?

that Trump repeatedly floated executing people while he was in office is especially terrifying in the context of his current push for total presidential immunity.

“Am I enabling – with my tax dollars and my career and my contributions – the dispossession of Palestinians and worse?”

Palestinian Americans talked to Lorena O'Neil about trying to work for the US govt and US corporations while grieving immense loss theguardian.com/world/2023/nov…

The La. House of Representatives approved a nearly $48 billion state budget plan that cuts public school teacher pay, even after several legislators vowed to make the educators’ previous hike permanent this year. Julie O'Donoghue reports: lailluminator.com/2024/04/25/lou… #lalege #laed

Middle East Eye Here’s Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
#Gaza #Protesters

In the United States you can be acquitted of rape charges cause you raped so many women that too many women showed up to court to call you a rapist

Under proposed guidance from the Texas Medical Board, doctors who perform life-saving abortions would have to document whether they tried to transfer the patient to avoid performing an abortion.

Here’s why this is worrying doctors and their lawyers:
texastribune.org/2024/04/25/tex…

In one of the grosses displays I've seen in a while, Idaho's AG says that doctors are lying about having to airlift pregnant women out of state to get care, and that they're just trying to make a 'political statement' idahostatesman.com/news/politics-…