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Good Morning, Portland! There're still a couple days left in Pizza Week—don't forget to snack!

IN LOCAL NEWS:
• Portland Trail Blazer Toumani Camara is in the running for NBA Defensive Player of the Year. Music editor Nolan Parker investigated a press kit that the Blazers' PR team sent over, as a fun way to catch us up on the situation:

• Did you know that the Dance of the Seven Veils comes from Oscar Wilde's Salome? What what and what. The Victorian-era work was immediately banned in England for depicting bible characters (and also probably incest, lust, deviousness in women etc.); Wilde himself never actually got to see it, but it's playing at Imago Theatre through April 27! The TLDR is very bible but totally worth it—read the whole review!

• For fun and mental fitness, dive into this week's Pop Quiz PDX, wherein our Editor in Chief tests your memory of local news stories, with questions like:

• Seattle is really showing us up in the prank department. On Wednesday, the recordings of several crossing buttons had been changed to an impersonated message from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, instead of their usual don't cross this road it belongs to cars etc. refrain.

NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL NEWS:
• Today in edging: As the Trump administration keeps committing crimes, and various federal judges keep telling them they can't do those darn crimes, political pundits point to a moment on the horizon when the law will have to decide if it will attempt to constrain President Trump in some way other than just telling him not to do something (and then totally letting him do it). If you've been following the story of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, one of hundreds deported to El Salvador and imprisoned without due process, then you have seen the courts order the government to facilitate his return. Now that it hasn't happened, one of the judges dealing with cases related to the deportations has announced that there's "probable cause" for contempt charges against the administration.  On Thursday, a three-judge panel on the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied the administration's attempt to avoid depositions about the deportations. And while judges making plans to make inquiries isn't exactly the most scintillating report, it does edge us closer to potential constitutional crisis—which plenty say we're already in. 

• If it were possible to OH SNAP as a Senator, than Maryland's Chris Van Hollen has done so by traveling to El Salvador to meet with and check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It's kind of wild that we haven't received any updates on Abrego Garcia's health, but that is part of being disappeared. Sen. Van Hollen said he had called Abrego Garcia's wife to update her and would provide a full update upon his return, presumably to the US.

• A gunman at Florida State University, in Tallahassee, killed two people and wounded six others on Thursday. Police shot and wounded the suspect—the 20-year-old son of the county sheriff’s deputy—after he wouldn't comply with their orders. The New York Times reports the gunman "was armed with a former service revolver of his mother, a deputy who has worked at the Leon County Sheriff’s Office for 18 years and was allowed to keep the gun for personal use." The President called the mass shooting a "shame" but commented that he wouldn't support any new gun control legislation.

• Today in the things the Trump administration really wanted to do: An estimated 1,500-1,700 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau received layoff notices Thursday. And a preliminary budget memo outlined plans to cut $40 billion from the Department of Health and Human Services.

• Yeah, it looks bad, but there's a cat that snuck onto White House grounds.

• Sending you into the weekend feeling SEEN by this funny bit:


• But with the confidence and energy of this bad mashup that is actually good: