China rows back after envoy denies sovereignty of former Soviet states | China | The Guardian

Beijing says it respects status of countries such as Ukraine after ambassador’s comments spark row
— Read on www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/24/china-rows-back-after-envoy-denies-sovereignty-of-former-soviet-states

Watch Cab Calloway Actually Perform “Mr. Hepster’s Dictionary,” His Famous Dictionary of Jazz Slang (1944) | Open Culture

Who’s up for a good dictionary on film?

Colin Browning, assistant editor of The Bluff, a Loyola Marymount University student newspaper, has some kopasetic casting suggestions for a hypothetical feature adaptation of the “Merriam-Webster classic.”

He’s just muggin’, of course. Open Culture, openculture.com
— Read on www.openculture.com/2023/04/watch-cab-calloway-actually-perform-mr-hepsters-dictionary.html

Nine injured in Texas prom after-party shooting – UPI.com

Nine teenagers were wounded in a shooting that erupted over the weekend at a prom after-party near a small eastern Texas town, local police said.
— Read on www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/04/24/Texas-prom-after-party-shooting/6001682308975/

(Me: too many guns means shooting instead of a fistfight… NRA will say ‘more guns needed?’)

La Terre et les peuples autochtones meurent pour notre obsession de l’or ! Choisissez le droit à la vie plutôt que les profits sur l’or !

photo : Barrick Gold Corporation L’or est une relique coloniale que nous devons de toute urgence reconnaître comme essentiellement sans valeur – la …

La Terre et les peuples autochtones meurent pour notre obsession de l’or ! Choisissez le droit à la vie plutôt que les profits sur l’or !