RT: @carla_denyer Brilliant to see local Green Parties like @reading_greens go from strength to strength!
Greens are already the 2nd largest party on Reading Council, and in less than 3 weeks I'm looking forward to celebrating a record breaking number of Green councillors here & across the UK 💚
In Virginia redistricting election, 4 House seats at stake as voters go to the polls (Oren Oppenheim/ABC News)
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The referendum will decide if the Democratic-controlled legislature should be allowed to redraw the state's congressional map.Oren Oppenheim (ABC News)
Ex-staffers defend California governor hopeful after viral clips raise conduct questions (Liz Goodwin/Washington Post)
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How the California Governor's Race Is Changing Post-Swalwell (Laurel Rosenhall/New York Times)
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Democrats prepare to abandon Cherfilus-McCormick en masse (Andrew Solender/Axios)
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Democrats expand their fight for the House into redder territory (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)
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4/21/26☀️ AM: ... And it's barely so. -- This is putting a ton of new pressure ... (Punchbowl News)
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PRESENTED BY IN THIS EDITION Thune’s multi-front pile upCould this be Cherfilus-McCormick’s last week in Congress?Senate wades apprehensively into FISApunchbowlnews (Punchbowl News)
From Soderbergh to Aronofsky, esteemed Hollywood directors are starting to find ways to include artificial intelligence in the production of their filmsJesse Hassenger (the Guardian)
This is: Change. Read it through again and you'll get it.
From Project Gutenberg:
The Naturalist on the Thames
by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish
Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/8682
Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
New comic strip found: Shrimp And Grits by Andy Marlette for Tue, 21 Apr 2026 arcamax.com/thefunnies/shrimpa…
Enjoy the adventures and philosophical conversations between the two stars of this daily comic strip, "Shrimp" and "Grits".ArcaMax
Tim Cook's 15-year legacy by the numbers: Apple's market cap grew from $350B in 2011 to $4T+ now, net income rose ~700% to $112B for FY 2025, and more (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
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We (literally) Don’t Talk About Bruno.
In celebration of National Deaf History Month, Disney has reanimated three songs — Frozen 2’s “The Next Right Thing,” Encanto’s “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” and “Beyond” from Moana 2 — into American Sign Language. The full reimagined musical sequences are coming to Disney Plus on April 27th.
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First look at “We Don’t Talk About Bruno’ from Disney’s ‘Songs In Sign Language.’ pic.twitter.com/cp93A3CcRu— ToonHive (@ToonHive) April 20, 2026ToonHive (X (formerly Twitter))
Linux 7.1 Staging Ushered In More Developers To Make Their First Kernel Contributions
Over the weekend Greg Kroah-Hartman sent out his various pull requests for the areas of the kernel he oversees. Among those is the staging area where this time around the notable activity isn't too much about feature work but many developers making some of their first contributions to the upstream kernel...
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France and Sweden have co-signed a paper urging the European Union to ban imports from illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, and to consider tariffs and tighter import restrictions on such goods.
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank
France and Sweden have co-signed a paper urging the European Union to ban imports from illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, and to consider tariffs and tighter import restrictions on such go...Quds News Network
THE HOUSEMAID Author Freida McFadden Shares Her Real Identity—and More Book News!
Freida McFadden has revealed her real identity and her first wig-free portrait. Plus, more of the latest book news!
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#existence : actual possession of being
- French: existence
- German: die Existenz/das Dasein
- Italian: esistenza
- Portuguese: existencia
- Spanish: existencia
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