SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An immigrant from Laos battling cancer holds the winning ticket for the $1.3 billion jackpot in Oregon.

Remember the good old days of comedy where people didn't get OFFENDED by everything and Lenny Bruce got arrested for swearing, Mary Whitehouse had a platform for years on end, the Christian right bullied a cancer charity in to refusing a donation from Jerry Springer the Opera...

Tumble in storage battery costs to boost shift to renewables, says IEA An expected sharp fall in battery costs for energy storage in coming years will accelerate the shift to renewable energy from fossil fuels, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday.

Just a few years ago any talk of this was dismissed by the "experts" who told us that we would always need gas. And now....

"renewable energy by itself is already much cheaper than coal and gas-fired plants"

Lmao

The real rioters? Cops and college presidents. The kids are alright. The adults are not.

I sat down and tried to sum up the last week or so of campus protests. This is what I got.

Smart man

i think often about the guy that said “suck my dick and choke on it, i yield my time, fuck you” in the LAPD zoom meeting. i hope he’s doing well

Beautiful birds

SPRING 1910 - Major Strikes Across The World

Russia strikes hard at Germany and Austria, taking a chunk out of Austria while Germany holds firm for now. Italy advances and takes a piece of Turkey. France strikes back at Italy and regains Brest, but a fleet slips into the North Atlantic

Ok

Saw my first Cybertruck in the wild. What an ugly piece of shit. Just aesthetic garbage. Like the shittiest nerd in school tried to draw the Cool S and fucked it up. Trying to imagine stepping out of one without hiding my face from the world.

Cute

That's nice

We’re a long way out from November still etc etc but this is not great

having the white house correspondents dinner right now feels very playing violin on the titanic

Four DPS officers standing around with guns

Texas DPS officers lined up in riot gear at UT

Texas DPS not stopping a gunman in Uvalde vs Texas DPS stopping unarmed protestors at UT

It's backwards logic

Image of roughly 50 patriot front members caring confederate flags patriot front flags appealed to heaven, flags and American flags all wearing their little khaki pants and blue shirts and white masks. @JoEllenZacks Downtown Charleston, WV right noW 10:20 • 4/27/24

patriot front is marching unopposed in West Virginia right now no police in sight. People really need to be asking why neo-Nazis are allowed to march with impunity while peaceful students protesting against genocide are being beaten, mercilessly and treated like a invading army.

Nope

Caw Caw!!!

Exactly. It's their assignment

The cops are the rioters.

lSRAEL BURIED CHILDREN ALIVE IN GAZA

Cool

Lmao

Disgusting symbolism

Columbia does not plan to call NYPD to campus, according to community email The University does not plan to call the New York Police Department back to campus, University President Minouche Shafik, board of trustees co-chairs Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, and David Greenw...

Columbia administration says it doesn't plan to call NYPD to campus again: "We all share the view ... that to bring back the NYPD at this time would be counterproductive, further inflaming what is happening on campus, and drawing thousands to our doorstep who would threaten our community.