Fortunately the Sixers players are mentally tough and are showing no signs of acting erratically in response

US fertility rates hit a record low last year, continuing a decades-long decline.
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The Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of I'd Like to See Ol Donny Trump Wriggle His Way Out of THIS Jam! and you will be shocked to learn how it went huffpost.com/entry/trump-im…

“Can you call the philosophy department and tell them I’ve been arrested?” is an all-time quote.

In a statement to Semafor, a New York Times spokesperson pushes back on this, saying 'the notion that any line of coverage has been ordered up or encouraged in retaliation for declining an interview, or any other reason, is outrageous and untrue.'

A doubly strange omission given that Trump has explicitly said he'll pardon an untold number of 1/6 insurrectionists convicted of crimes. This is not theoretical in Trump's case. He's told us that he will do this.

This is famously why the court gave murderers blanket immunity awhile back, it only encourages them to kill potential witnesses otherwise

Front page for the ages.

There's a significant difference in the framing from local Fox News vs. national Fox News regarding the UT Austin Palestinian solidarity protest

The national Fox stories contain no mention of state troopers slamming and arresting the local Fox photographer

Before leaving White House for Syracuse, Biden made some comments to reporters about Avigail Idan, the 4-year-old former Hamas hostage, and Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli-American who is still a hostage of Hamas.

Of note: Semafor was told that Speaker Johnson is laser-focused on passing a budget ahead of what’s probably another Colosseum-style showdown to fund the government through FY2025.

House Rs squeaked by last year in passing “Limit, Save, Grow” measure
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🟡New: What’s next on Capitol Hill’s to-do list w/Kadia Goba

- FY2025 approps (yes, already!)
- FAA reauthorization
- Farm bill
- NDAA
- Baltimore bridge $$

Not on the list: Picking a new House speaker with Ds inclined to rescue Johnson
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Young Russians are warming to anime and K-pop as wartime sanctions limit access to Western entertainment.
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So far, the story here seems to be that at least three justices (Roberts, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh) seem inclined to send the case back to the lower courts for additional analysis. That outcome would doom chances of Trump case going to trial this year and, if he wins the election, ever

On FY2025, a senior House GOP says “conservatives are going to be just as stubborn on spending - probably even more so” after Johnson rolled many of them to pass Ukraine aid with Democratic votes

Have a suspicion Trump might lose this one

One of the most ambitious startups of the crypto era has run into an unexpected problem: It’s running low on orbs.
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