2021-05-01

Cool

• What We’re Learning About Ingenuity’s Flight Control and Aerodynamic Performance - NASA Mars

etc

• Meet the 19 horses racing in Saturday's Kentucky Derby

• Newsmax settles Dominion lawsuit, issues apology over election conspiracy ...

• Gas-Loving Texans Pile into Home Solar, Batteries After Freeze

• California appeals court finds Amazon responsible for 3rd party sellers products

• A 330-ton fatberg is clogging an English city sewer, and it won't move for weeks

• The Army's New Night-Vision Goggles Are Next Level

Horseshit

• Your Car Is About to Be a Software Platform, Subscriptions and All

• I Need to Explain to You Just How Dire America's Pokémon Card Crisis Is

• After freshman died drinking bottle of liquor in frat hazing, 8 men face charges

• America's Amtrak moment could finally be here

• Police Find More Than 90 People Inside Houston Home; Smuggling Suspected

celebrity gossip

• Jordan Peterson: the man they couldn't cancel

• Joe Manchin blasted online after coming out against against DC statehood

• "Game Of Thrones" Actor Esmé Bianco Is Suing Marilyn Manson For Rape And Abuse

• ‘SNL’ cast won’t be forced to appear with controversial host Elon Musk

• She built a toy empire while hiding a lifetime of existential depression

• Former Netflix executive convicted of money laundering

Obit

• Eli Broad, LA philanthropist for the arts and education, dies at 87

• ‘Steel Magnolias’ and ‘Moonstruck’ actress Olympia Dukakis dies at 89

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Florida to ban Facebook, YouTube from censoring Trump, politicians

• Jimmy Kimmel Whitesplains Racism to Tim Scott – PJ Media

• Prosecutors Seek Higher Sentence for Chauvin in Floyd Death

• The racist origins of the myth a Welsh prince beat Columbus to America (2019)

• It's set to be a hot, violent summer: murders spiking

TechSuck

• Muse Group formed to support MuseScore, Ultimate Guitar; acquires Audacity - Scoring Notes

• Experian's security bypassed as hackers unfreeze accounts

Economicon

• Venture Firms Bask in a Surge of Blockbuster Profits

• CNN Says 'Move Over, Bitcoin. Ethereum Is at an All-Time High'

Poilitcks

• Cold War 2.0? U.S. Stops Issuing Visas To Russians

• South Dakota governor sues Interior Dept. over denied permit for Mount Rushmore fireworks

• VP Kamala Harris to Lead National Space Council Under Biden Administration

• Powerful teachers union influenced CDC on school reopenings, emails show

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• ‘I’d Never Been Involved in Anything as Secret as This’ - POLITICO

• Defense Department cancels border wall construction, diverts funds

• Federal judge says Columbus police ran 'amok' during peaceful protests

World

• Turkey adds crypto firms to money laundering, terror financing rules

• Venezuela transfers 6 jailed American oil execs to house arrest as Biden weighs policy options

• Covid-19 vaccine maker Providence says it's leaving Canada

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Internet has decided that Pfizer is significantly cooler than Moderna–but why?

• TSA extends mask mandate on planes, buses, trains

• California’s secret weapon in Covid-19 success: A general embrace of the vaccine

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Post-pandemic boom in illegal sand mining threatens vulnerable lakes and rivers

• Earth's Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere Will Last Only Another Billion Years