Kansas governor vetoes “born alive” legislation: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/04/15/kansas-governor-laura-kelly-vetos-anti-abortion-bill/4251681565007/ . The GOP has supermajorities in the legislature that will allow them to override this veto.
WSJ: Economists expect no Fed rate cuts in 2023: https://www.wsj.com/articles/economists-turn-more-pessimistic-on-inflation-ed2fd667 .
WSJ: What the Class of 2023 wants from employers: https://www.wsj.com/articles/class-of-2023-employers-mental-health-benefits-224b38c4 .
Intelligence leaker hit with federal charges: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/14/alleged-pentagon-leaker-hit-with-2-federal-charges-00092092 . This young man may be behind bars for quite some time.
GOP donor backs off DeMentis: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/big-republican-donor-and-a-bunch-of-friends-back-off-desantis-over-culture-war-politics-very-big-problem/ .
DeMentis’ time at Guantanamo: https://news.yahoo.com/desantis-is-not-a-good-guy-says-former-guantanamo-detainee-005257317.html . This adds an entirely new dimension to the “DeMentis is not a good guy” discussion. Guantanamo’s reality is that we have suspended the rule of law there. However, this prisoner’s viewpoint, that DeMentis does not subscribe to American values, has considerable support when you look at Ron’s “record” as Florida governor.
Explosive device thrown at Japanese PM while campaigning: https://apnews.com/article/kishida-japan-explosion-port-abe-34361b2a4996663c461ba6a152130d6a . Details remain somewhat confused, so we must await further reporting. However, the incident recalls the assassination of Shinzo Abe 9 months ago, an incident which shocked both Japan and the world. WSJ: More: https://www.wsj.com/articles/japan-prime-minister-kishida-evacuated-after-sound-of-bang-no-one-reported-hurt-c2b3b118 .
Sudan power struggle leaves 56 civilians and dozens of soldiers dead: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65284945 . WSJ: More: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sudan-rivalry-between-powerful-generals-erupts-in-warfare-3fdf7452 .
SNL catalogues crying in Orange Julius’ stories: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/they-were-all-crying-everybody-was-crying-snl-has-hilarious-montage-of-trump-telling-tales-of-tears-on-weekend-update/ . This is weird, although as many times as OJ has said it, I’ve never really given it much thought.
Webb telescope challenges our theory of the evolution of the universe: https://bgr.com/science/james-webb-discoveries-are-challenging-what-we-know-about-the-universes-evolution/ . I have been saying for some time that we need a new calculation of the universe’s mass, since currently 95% of it is attributed to dark matter and dark energy, which we know nothing about. This article describes another area in which our expectations about mass appear to be disproved by the Webb telescope.