Jon

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President Camacho cracking a cold one
Drugs win drug war post above LA Times post about steroid Olympics
Donald Glover saying “good”
Ralph Wiggum and the baby looked at me
Text Shot: "Then when I come to this side of the aisle – where I'm still putting my life on the line to enforce the law and wanting to create a safer America – now all of a sudden, I'm not that hero.
Text Shot: What I do know is that there is no need to look upon the dull, vindictive, racist monsters running our government as a new or inexplicable sort of villain. I see in them a much more familiar identity: internet commenters.
Text Shot: Subscribe "The religious exemption protects our distinctive Catholic mission and ensures an LMU education remains accessible to generations to come," LMU President Thomas Poon said an a video message sent out Friday. "This decision safeguards our autonomy to carry out our mission without a third party that may not share our values.
Text Shot: “It’s hard to fill out a worksheet that just says, ‘Meet in the Home Depot parking lot,’” one of the former ICE officials said.
Text Shot: Replaying Space Quest II, encountering the half-remembered jokes and visual designs, brought back these memories. The novelist Thomas Wolfe knew that you can't go home again, and it was probably inevitable that the game would feel dated to me now. But playing it again did take me back to that time before the Internet, when not even hint lines, insta-death, and EGA graphics could dampen the wonder of the new worlds computers were capable of showing us.
Text Shot: This, however, is the worst possible time to look away. What Israel is promising is not yet another round of fighting, but a criminal escalation of a morally abhorrent war.
Text Shot: A video of Witkoff’s visit to the Kremlin on April 25 showed Putin greeting him with open arms. He did not appear to be accompanied by advisers who usually support US officials at negotiations. When a woman joined Witkoff on his side of the table, he pointed at her and said: “Interpreter? From the embassy? OK.”
Text Shot: “He’s pretty consistently off-putting, so maybe like a mean accountant,” mused CBC At Issue panelist Chantal Hébert. “I mean, as long as your company never needed its numbers to actually add up.”
Text Shot: Some four decades into the fight against AIDS, “we were actually talking about eliminating HIV globally,” Mofenson told me. Now, though, decades’ worth of progress seem to have “just disappeared overnight.” That includes the work the public-health establishment has done to collaborate with affected communities. “It has taken us decades to be able to build the trust,” El-Sadr told me. “Now it’s like we are rolling back the years.”
Text Shot: One individual on X, who goes by the handle @PatriotDadEV2.0, wrote on March 23 that he "had enough" after seeing a group of protesters at a Tesla dealership in Columbus, and decided to "start an effort here to create a shield around the facility next time they show up."
Text Shot: China has long focused on infrastructure and construction projects in other countries. Beijing could also look to other sectors that China already leads, like agriculture and public health. That could boost the country's bottom line and its publicity efforts, said Jeremy Chan, a senior analyst on the China and Northeast Asia team at the risk consultancy Eurasia Group.
Text Shot: The city of Los Angeles is on track to pay out at least $320 million this fiscal year to settle liability claims and lawsuits. That’s after more than $277 million in such payouts last fiscal year — both well over the $87 million city officials budgeted each year for such risks.
Text Shot: According to a source, Musk has been assigned the email address erm71@who.eop.gov. The email address reflects his attachment to the White House Office, the Executive Office of the President, and, apparently, Musk’s full initials plus his birth year, 1971
Text Shot: Over the past decade, Netflix, which first emerged as a destroyer of video stores, has developed a powerful business model to conquer television, only to unleash its strange and destructive power on the cinema. In doing so, it has brought Hollywood to the brink of irrelevance. Because Netflix doesn’t just survive when no one is watching — it thrives.
Text Shot: “They led with their guns the entire time,”
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Text Shot: The province said energy producers “will face scrutiny unique in the business world” under the new bill, and initial fines of up to $10 million.
Text Shot: “It’s a complete disaster,” said Viet Thanh Nguyen, a bestselling novelist and university professor of English, American studies and ethnicity and comparative literature who has taught at USC for 27 years. “In every option, our administration has chosen the worst option. Every step along the way, our administration has been absent.”
Text Shot: This raised an obvious question: After all that simplifying, which elements of the LACMA building will be recognizable as Zumthor details? “There are no Zumthor details any more,”
Text Shot: The officer rates have skyrocketed, he said. He pays officers $150 to $160 an hour, and a “scheduler” also charges $15 to $20. Despite the big payouts, when he calls the police for help, they don’t always respond, Sabri said. About six weeks ago, a man came into his office with a gun and said he was going to shoot someone. They called 911, but the police never came, Sabri said.