governor ron desantis has a growing store of admirers. This includes many who have watched the cantankerous Floridian only from afar. They have heard glowing things. He was the biggest winnerof an otherwise dark election cycle for Republicans. He has impeccable bona fides as a Donald Trump disciple—without being Trump himself, whom many see as the biggest loser of said dark election cycle.
Before the start of this year’s session of the Florida Legislature, Gov. Ron DeSantis publicly unveiled a plan to suspend the state’s tax on gasoline — a temporary tax “holiday” that the governor said would bring badly needed relief to Floridians struggling with rising prices at the pump.
Illegal fires in the Amazon rainforest reserve in Pará state, Brazil, 2020. Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images
It has been overlooked so far in the middle of so many other urgent issues, but the state of Qatar is currently facing a ticklish existential question. Here is another standard-issue jaw-dropping fact about this place. Climate scientists have estimated that by the year 2070 Qatar will no longer be fit for human habitation. Wait. What?
Lodged between two seas, deprived of greenery or waterways, Qatar is warming at an alarming rate. At the same time Qatar produces more carbon per citizen, for export and domestic use, than any nation on earth. Here is a place that is basically sitting on a pile of gold, while simultaneously gnawing its own legs off. The end of the world? It’s on the check-list. The Supreme Committee is aware of your interest.
The people don’t like totalitarianism.
That’s why the sanctity of elections is so important.
I don’t know if this is news on the east coast. Maybe you went to bed before this story broke. But they’re revolting in China, over the zero-Covid policy, as a result of the ten people who died in a fire as a consequence thereof and…
You don’t protest in a totalitarian state anymore, BECAUSE THERE ARE CAMERAS EVERYWHERE!
Donald Trump may have skated, at least so far, but all those people who participated in 1/6? They’ve gone up the river, and they certainly don’t have a paddle. There’s endless footage, people have been identified, they’ve been brought to trial. And if they believe elected officials have their backs, the same ones pledging fealty to Trump, who only cares about himself, who will sacrifice anybody to maintain power, they’ve got another think coming.
Top Democrats are calling for an inquiry into explosive allegations that an earlier Supreme Court decision authored by Samuel Alito was leaked—seemingly by the conservative justice himself. “The first step to recovery is to admit you have a problem,” Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse wrote on Saturday. “At SCOTUS, the problems run deep.”
The New Zealand parents of a four-month-old have refused life-saving surgery to go ahead over fears of ‘vaccinated blood’. Photograph: Hannah Peters/Getty ImagesNew Zealand’s health service has made a court application over the guardianship of a four-month-old baby whose parents are refusing to allow his life-saving heart surgery to go ahead unless non-vaccinated blood is used.
The parents of the baby discussed their son’s health situation and their medical preferences in an interview with an anti-vaccination campaigner.
Jimmy Kimmel on the set of his show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! Photograph: Randy Holmes/ABC/Getty ImagesT
“The Eternal Daughter,” a lovely and haunted dream of a movie from the director of “The Souvenir,” opens on a spectral scene at dusk. On a desolate country road shrouded in fog and bordered by bare trees, sounds of the wind and lonely music drift on the soundtrack as spindly branches reach across the frame like fingers. By the time taxi headlights pierce the fog, your head may be churning with thoughts of ghosts and fanged demons, the kind that emerge from the shadows in old horror films to trouble your sleep.
just saying let's remove all the warning labels and let
the problem work itself out.
the way much faster now.
hands. If they are holding a gun, she's probably angry.
Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers. Now
they drink like their fathers.
You know that tingly little feeling you get when you really like
someone? That's common sense leaving your body.
I don't like making plans for the day because then the
word "premeditated" gets thrown around in the courtroom.
I didn't make it to the gym today. That makes five years in a row
I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim.I
feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning
Dear paranoid people who check behind shower
curtains for murderers; if you find one, what's your plan?
A man walks into a cocktail lounge and approaches
an attractive woman sitting by herself and asks,
"May I buy you a cocktail?"
"No thank you," she replies, "alcohol is bad for my legs."
"Sorry to hear that. Do they swell?"
THESE ARE ACTUAL COMPLAINTS RECEIVED BY "THOMAS COOK VACATIONS" FROM DISSATISFIED CUSTOMERS:
1. "I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local convenience store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts."
2. "It's lazy of the local shopkeepers in Puerto Vallarta to close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during 'siesta' time -- this should be banned."
3. "On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don't like spicy food."
4. "We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our own swimsuits and towels. We assumed it would be included in the price."
5. "The beach was too sandy. We had to clean everything when we returned to our room."
6. "We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as white but it was more yellow."
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