Vance f**king up Viktor Orban’s reelection campaign is why Jon Stewart calls him “The Closer”

JD Vance: "I will never bow to the Pope or kiss his ring."

To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. (@eji.org) calendar.eji.org/racial-injus... “Red Sox managers abandoned all three Black ballplayers and sent them home without contracts or even the courtesy of a response from the team managers.”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... "There are a lot of people assigned female at birth who might have a Y chromosome, or some traces of Y chromosomal DNA...Instead of dealing with the complexities of the human body—not to mention gender itself—this is just resurrecting an old-school approach."

More states are passing “religious exemption laws” allowing health providers to refuse to treat LGBTQ+ patients. These laws worsen already stark health-care inequities. This story originally appeared in @theconversation.com:

IT'S OFFICIAL: Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Congressman Tony Gonzales (R-TX) have officially resigned

EXCLUSIVE: As Steve Kerr’s 12th season nears its end, a question hangs over his future: what comes next? Through injuries, tension and a “fading dynasty” label, his focus hasn’t changed.

April 14, 2000: Philadelphia's Theo Ratliff dunks on Dikembe Mutombo of Atlanta, after an over-the-shoulder assist from Allen Iverson. Ratliff finished with 13 PTS/13 REB/7 BLK and Iverson had 27 PTS in the 76ers' 104-92 win. Mutombo had 16 PTS/12 REB/3 BLK for the Hawks.

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/fram... "In US and Israeli discourse, Iran is a monolithically evil country that represents the antithesis of civilisation...We suggest that this flawed analysis helps to explain why the United States has been out-thought, outmanoeuvred and outclassed by the Iranians"

UK elections still run on a model set in 1872: one place, one day, one shot. That may be about to change in a handful of areas next month… And what happens there could quietly reshape how voting works everywhere ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "When feminists and others in the infected eye of the storm tried to raise the alarm, we were told we were exaggerating for attention, or that we couldn’t take a joke...Identical arguments were used to dismiss the rise of Maga until it was far too late."

US Congressman Thomas Massie “We should end all US military aid to Israel.” HELL YEAH!

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Actually, Jesus was low IQ! He was crucified like a dog!

youtube.com/watch?v=GND7... "Calvin Klein's no friend of mine, don't want nobody's name on my behind!..."

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Boogaloo Joe Jones - Brown Bag [US, Acid Jazz] (1970) https://redd.it/mbpnv5 https://youtu.be/io7Pkfy1tOU

#JazzSunday #JazzSky #SweetKeys #MusicChallenge Happy birthday Herbie Hancock 🎂 🎶 Cantaloupe Island youtu.be/otFVFLtRF_s?...

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Hungary was the playbook for anti LGBTQ policy in the west. Don't say gay in Florida was modeled on policies adopted there, which they modeled off of Russia. Same with ending legal recognition of trans people. They restricted access to transition care in 2020. www.hrw.org/news/2023/02...

📚 Weekend Reads (Edition 84) ✍️ Olly Haynes Nigel Farage has spent more than 1,113 hours – or 140 working days – on his various other jobs since being elected to Parliament in July 2024.

The moment Israeli forces detonated a three-story building in Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank.

Doc Rivers: Bucks don't have the roster to contend with Giannis Antetokounmpo, 'That puts him in a tough spot' Milwaukee Bucks legend and broadcaster Marques Johnson is more direct about the situation, "It is as toxic as it appears." www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/doc...

South London fails again!...🙄

April 11, 1986: The Bulls defeat the Bullets, 105-103. Michael Jordan finished with 31 PTS, John Paxson scored 23 PTS off the bench and Charles Oakley had 13 PTS/20 REB for Chicago. Washington's Jeff Malone scored 24 PTS and Cliff Robinson added 23 PTS/13 REB/7 AST.

In fifty years when people look back at the past decade or so, the big world-changing technological innovation won't be the chatbot slop machines, it'll be mRNA.

Donna Summer’s reign on the charts lasted three decades. slate.trib.al/UXHdZzg

Six months of an ineffective #ceasefire have left 733 people dead and 1,913 injured in #Gaza. Doctors Without Borders calls on world leaders to protect civilians, restore dignified living conditions and allow humanitarian aid to reach those who need it.

April 10, 2005: Michael Sweetney tips in the game-winner at the buzzer and the Knicks defeat the Pacers in OT, 113-112. Sweetney finished with 20 PTS/9 REB, Jamal Crawford scored 32 PTS and Stephon Marbury had 17 PTS/19 AST for New York. Reggie Miller scored 34 PTS for Indiana.

This nation is unbreakable ❤️🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini 🫡

ICE agents shot another driver -- on Tues. He had just asked to call his wife. They shot him six times. One bullet his jaw. Now he can't speak and has been mostly unconscious. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

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www.propublica.org/article/flor... "In Florida and many other states, court-ordered medical procedures are just one of the ways pregnant patients’ rights are restricted. The effort to chip away at those rights is rooted in the concept of fetal personhood"

www.truthdig.com/articles/cou... "There is nothing more dangerous than an autocrat afraid of losing power, and there is no autocrat on the world stage today more fearful and paranoid than Donald Trump."

m.thewire.in/article/worl... "Detainees have been abused in unfathomable ways, including rape with bottles, metal rods and knives, starvation, breaking of bones and teeth, burning, being spat upon, and being attacked and urinated upon by dogs."

newsone.com/6852831/whit... "Some of those same “genocide refugees” are now packing up their bags and heading back to South Africa. " 😭

znetwork.org/znetarticle/... "The rubble of Gaza today serves as the latest horrific reminder that the central lesson of this history remains unlearned: that might does not make right; that bombing can unleash endless horrors in war but cannot bring peace."