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"The country is not just a large consumer market for books but a parallel publishing universe 🌌
-With its own dominant formats, commercial logic & reading culture. It’s time everyone else started paying attention as it’s not AI: It looks like a workable future for writers & publishers."
💃 Opera meets Wrestling 🤼♀️ :
www.youtube.com/shorts/3AJQE...
Historically:
Priests 🛐 ➡️Athletes 👟 ➡️Actors 🎭 ➡️Theatre
🦠🌌🪐"Could Viruses Exist Beyond Earth?
Frozen remnants beneath the Martian surface could preserve viral particles.
Icy moons of Jupiter & Saturn harbor subsurface oceans, potentially teeming with microbial life- & viruses.
Viruses elsewhere may play the same key role in shaping alien ecosystems."
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#Trump Cabinet: Labor Secretary Steps Down Amid Misconduct Investigation "As investigators review widespread misconduct allegations, including having an affair with a member of her security team- Making her the 3rd cabinet official to depart the Trump administration. She follows 4 other staffers."
📕📘 🚫📚🚫 📙📗 Book bans at Record Highs, with "Sold" topping the list:
Objections include use of alcohol & cigarettes (Looking for Alaska), LGBTQ themes (Gender Queer, The Perks of Being a Wallflower), sexual violence (Sold & A Clockwork Orange). Challenges to 4,235 works, topped only by 4,240 in 2023.
👫 "What Sex Reveals that Dating Hides: Much can be hidden before 2 people actually enter the same physical space. Courtship allows for editing. A person can be attentive, yet be protected by image. But intimacy asks for presence, not presentation. It asks the body to participate, not just the mind."
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" #Epstein "-?
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👩⚖️ 👨⚖️👨⚖️👨⚖️👨⚖️👨⚖️👨⚖️👨⚖️ 👩⚖️ "The birth of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket has long been a mystery....
Until now: "
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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Clearlake Capital managing partner José E. Feliciano to buy the San Diego Padres:
A group led by Chelsea Football Club co-owner Feliciano ($4 Billion net worth) & his wife Kwanza Jones is near a deal to purchase the San Diego Padres- for what will be a a MLB-record-shattering $3.9 billion."
🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 LeBron James could be done:
"Tomorrow, the Lakers begin their playoff series against the Rockets... It could be the last time we see LeBron James play in the NBA.
“ 'The moment is all we have. At the end of the day, that’s all that matters.' ”
www.nytimes.com/athletic/720...
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"Acting ICE Director Says He Plans to Resign in May:
Todd Lyons joined ICE in 2007, worked his way up to head Enforcement & Removals.
He spoke of a surge in threats against ICE officers.
His resignation shakes up the leadership of the Agency tasked with carrying out Trump’s Mass Deportations."
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Like a painter's equivalent of a Pablo Neruda poem:
👨🎨 Saw Picasso's"Guernica" --the original, massive, immense work-- a painting that could not be contained by most Living Rooms-- on display in its own viewing chamber: nothing else in the room.
Sharing the room with just "Guernica" .....is an Experience.
🌽👩🌾 🌽 "Arriving in Japan via Portugal, 🌽 was initially known as *Nanban-kibi* ('Southern BARBARIAN Millet')."
🏌️♀️⛳🏌️⛳🏌️⛳"LIV Golf’s future in question:
Saudi Arabia pulls funding: Billions in losses create massive deficits. LIV is in poor financial health: 5-10 years from turning a profit. Lost $590.1 million in its UK-based entity alone, in 2024. The Saudi fund is pulling its MultiBillion-Dollar investment.”
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🏫🎓"Hampshire College Will Close Amid Student Enrollment Declines: Hundreds of private colleges like Hampshire have closed recently as financial pressures & competition for students increase. Hampshire joins an epidemic of college closures, the past two decades. More 300 closed from 2008 to 2024."