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Florida is experiencing one of its worst droughts in decades, causing widespread wildfires and evacuation orders in large swaths of the state. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis recently offered a possible silver lining. “They do say, that when you have droughts, that the hurricane seasons tend to be less active,” DeSantis said at an April 22 event in Jacksonville. “I don’t know if that’s true. I don’t know if that’s an old wives’ tale. I don’t know if there’s data to back it up, but people do say that, and so I guess we shall see what that means for this…

This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss the attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and the media coverage that followed. They examine the shooter’s manifesto, why it struck some observers as uncomfortably normal, and what that says about the mainstreaming of extreme political rhetoric. The panel also considers President Donald Trump’s renewed push to build his new White House ballroom in the aftermath of the attack. Next, the editors turn to New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan for city-run grocery stores, whether government-backed supermarkets can fairly compete with private businesses, and why critics may have helped…

The Correspondents’ Dinner was a big night for men who use the word ‘vehicle,’ writes Suzy Weiss. Source link

Iran sent a proposal to the US that would bring the war to an end and allow ships to transit the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials sent the new proposal to the US via Pakistan. Tehran’s deal includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for Washington ending its blockade and war against Iran.  The proposal, which Axios first reported on Sunday, would leave significant issues such as US sanctions and Iran’s nuclear enrichment program to be resolved at a later date. The White House is expected to reject the proposal as President Donald Trump sees the blockade…

Jonathan Capehart: Before Saturday, I had never personally experienced a shooting event like this. Yet I intuitively knew what to do. Drop to the floor. Get under the table. Source link

It’s a common, misleading refrain in anti-vaccine circles: Childhood vaccines may be unsafe because few if any have been tested in placebo-controlled trials before being approved. But that claim misunderstands the vaccine safety testing process and takes advantage of a narrow definition of a placebo, scientists told us. “Not a single childhood vaccine on the schedule has ever been through a double-blind placebo-based trial prior to licensure,” Del Bigtree, a prominent activist with ties to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said at a March 9 conference that billed itself as being about a “massive epidemic” of vaccine harm. “It is…

ABC Should Take a Stand on Kimmel After Widow Joke Source link

Florida Tackles the Supply Side of School Choice Source link

Republican politicians love to talk a good fiscal conservatism game, but they’ve been quick to throw out their penny-pinching playbooks when pro sports team owners come calling.  In states like Indiana, Kansas, and Ohio, elected officials are offering increasingly massive public subsidies for new stadium projects, using a variety of convoluted mechanisms to hide the ultimate cost to taxpayers and communities. We can start with the story of the Chicago Bears’ replacement stadium in either Illinois or Indiana. The drama here features the deeply unusual casting of Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker as the nominal voice of fiscal sanity and…

Alright, you caught me red handed! I missed last week’s email. I did, however, spend a solid hour, hour and a half, writing an article about how the film The Prince of Egypt framed 90s kids’ first impressions of Israel. But I very quickly realized the topic was too complex for a 500 word email article. And constraints on my time just won’t allow for that kind of a deep dive. Suffice to say, as an all-American, Jesus-loving, Sunday school attending 90s kid, I loved The Prince of Egypt. I was and always have been fascinated with ancient Egypt. But…