Sunday, April 21, 2019

Sunday, April 21, 2019

And another day of “nothing wrong” comes to a close:

"What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics." — Nikola Tesla

Trump tampered with witnesses. These 14 Senate Republicans voted to oust Bill Clinton for doing just that.

President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani: “There's nothing wrong with taking information from Russians”. Shut up, Rudy.

From "total exoneration" to "total bullshit": Trump lingers on damning report.

House Democrats subpoena for full, unredacted Mueller report.

More than 200 killed as Easter Sunday blasts hit churches, hotels in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka blocks social media after deadly Easter explosions.

Donald Trump’s veto on Yemen war Is a sign that the strongmen in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are winning.

Yemen war death toll reaches at least 70,000.

The suit alleges that Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard professor and lawyer for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, "was also a participant in sex trafficking, including as one of the men to whom Epstein lent out Plaintiff for sex."

The U.S. tax code allows orgs to make independent expenditures on politics while concealing their donors’ names — as long as politics isn’t the org's “primary activity.” This is called “dark money.” The IRS is charged with policing. Spoiler: It’s not.

DHS wants to use facial recognition on 97 percent of departing air passengers by 2023. CBP has been implementing this program, which photographs passengers at their airport gates before they board their flights, in 2017. By 2018, the agency had unveiled the program at 15 U.S. airports.

Two Florida middle school girls are facing charges that they planned to kidnap and kill nine people. WTF?

Nine years later, the BP oil spill's environmental mess isn't gone.

Notre Dame fire pledges inflame Yellow Vest protesters. Demonstrators criticise donations by billionaires to restore burned cathedral as they march against economic inequality.

Antivax parents sue over mandatory vaccination order in New York (which has a major measles outbreak). You can’t fix stupid.

Schools keep teaching slavery and civil rights history in ways that traumatize black students.

A German auction house is helping return Nazi-looted art to their rightful owners.

Prince had a unique vision of a perfect world, one that challenged gender and sexual norms, one where love was the only rule. He died three years ago today.

Half of UK consumers willing to pay more to avoid plastic packaging.

Thirty-five percent of Americans say they’ve tried cannabis at some point, and of those who haven’t, 25% say they’d consider it. Who are these other 65%?

Tell your anesthesiologist if you smoke weed.

Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.

Until next time, my friends. Good night.

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