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“Slovakia’s Erin Brockovich:” Slovakia has its first female president, and she’s a certified badass. Zuzana Caputova, an environmental activist and political newcomer, will take office in June.
A Valid Question: “What in the actual fuck? Why is the vice-president of the United States smelling my hair?” To understand the true weirdness of this encounter between former Veep Joe Biden and former Nevada Assemblywoman Lucy Flores, I implore you read her New York Magazine piece. Here’s Flores explaining why she decided to share this 2014 anecdote before the 2020 election.
Here’s What Keanu Reeves Is Up To
keanu got stranded somewhere in california and had to take a bus instead of a plane and some guy filmed the entire experience and i am BEGGING yall to watch this pic.twitter.com/I1TmLOEYiK
— #1 em stan (@keanusgf) March 24, 2019
Neighborly: Nineteen-year-old Omarian Banks was fatally shot in Atalanta Friday after knocking on the wrong apartment door, thinking it was his girlfriend’s.
Cool Flex: Donald Trump is threatening to close the US-Mexico border this week for no apparent reason. The move could deeply fracture our trade relationship with Mexico and other Latin American countries. But “American first” or whatever.
This is an April Fools Joke:
No one associates New York, a city in the eastern United States, with good restaurants. That’s beginning to change. https://t.co/WpPyyvqKHU
— L.A. Times Food (@latimesfood) April 1, 2019
This Tragically Isn’t an April Fools Joke: Elon Musk has released a rap song abut Harambe, that gorilla that populated the internet in a tragic and probably racist way three years ago. Sorry
Victim-Centered Policing: An Oregon bill speeding through the state legislature could make it easier for victimized sex workers to report a crime without being penalized for selling sex.
Oh, Look: Oregon has a new secretary of state. Here’s what we know about Bev Clarno.
SKOOH DUCKS: University of Oregon’s women’s basketball team is headed to the Women’s Final Four for the first time ever. Here’s what that feeling looks like:
That Final Four feeling! #GoDucks pic.twitter.com/gTlF03ykbz
— Oregon Women’s Basketball (@OregonWBB) March 31, 2019
