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Gov. Newsom sends National Guard and CHP to tackle San Francisco's fentanyl crisis

The two agencies will join forces with local police and the district attorney's office to ramp up efforts against fentanyl trafficking in San Francisco.

🔗 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/22/1171467560/newsom-san-francisco-fentanyl-national-guard-highway-patrol


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Explorers find a World War II ship that was sunk with over 1,000 Allied POWs aboard

The Japanese ship Montevideo Maru wasn't marked as carrying POWs, and on July 1, 1942, a U.S. submarine fired four torpedoes, sinking the vessel in less than 10 minutes.

🔗 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/22/1171466250/world-war-ii-japanese-ship-allied-pow-found


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'Wait Wait' for April 22, 2023: With Not My Job guest 'Weird Al' Yankovic

Weird Al is a music and comedy legend, and the subject of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, a parody biopic about his very real life. He may be Weird Al, but what does he know about Weird Alabama?

🔗 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/22/1171243751/wait-wait-for-april-22-2023-with-not-my-job-guest-weird-al-yankovic


npr, to random

Inside the Taiwan chip incubator the U.S. is trying to emulate

A visit to a technology incubator in Taiwan that's helped create companies behind the world's most advanced semiconductor chips.

🔗 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/22/1171450320/inside-the-taiwan-chip-incubator-the-u-s-is-trying-to-emulate


npr, to random

Dame Edna creator Barry Humphries dies at age 89

The Tony Award-winning comedian was internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending snob whose evolving character delighted audiences over seven decades.

🔗 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/22/1171452052/dame-edna-everage-barry-humphries-dies


npr, to random

Mexico migrant camp tents have been torched across the border from Texas

The fires were set Wednesday and Thursday to about 25 makeshift tents at a camp of about 2,000 people, most of them from Venezuela, Haiti and Mexico, in Matamoros, Mexico, near Brownsville, Texas.

🔗 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/22/1171445779/mexico-migrant-camp-tents-torched-border-texas


npr, to random
npr, to random

The Oakland A's are on the verge of moving to Las Vegas

Team officials said they had signed an agreement to buy a 49-acre site near the Strip for a new stadium. The team's departure would leave Oakland with no major pro sports teams.

🔗 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/21/1171046613/oakland-athletics-las-vegas


npr, to random

Remembering Michael Denneny, an editor who championed LGBTQ voices

One of the first openly gay editors working at a major publishing house, Denneny launched the Stonewall Inn Editions imprint. He died April 12. Originally broadcast in 1987 and 1994.

🔗 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/21/1171048390/remembering-michael-denneny-an-editor-who-championed-lgbtq-voices


npr, to random
npr, to random

Twitter once muzzled Russian and Chinese state propaganda. That's over now

The company used "visibility filtering rules" in order to curtail propaganda and misinformation. Under Elon Musk, those guidelines have been discarded.

🔗 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/21/1171193551/twitter-once-muzzled-russian-and-chinese-state-propaganda-thats-over-now


npr, to random

Twitter erases state-affiliated, government-funded labels from NPR and other accounts

The social media platform also dropped the "state-affiliated" label from propaganda outlets in Russia and China.

🔗 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/21/1171236695/twitter-strips-state-affiliated-government-funded-labels-from-npr-rt-china


npr, to random

Who will win 87,000 bottles of wine? 'Drops of God' is the ultimate taste test

A French woman and Japanese man battle to inherit the world's most valuable wine collection in this high-gloss Apple TV+ series, based on the hit Japanese manga.

🔗 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/20/1171008600/drops-of-god-review-manga-wine


Aphelion, to poetry
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Honored by this recent review of Disremembering, my book of poetry on love and loss. Available on Amazon or direct from me at https://www.nihtgengapress.com

Disremembering a book of poetry by Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe featuring a disembodied birds wing in black white and grey

etherdiver, to music
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A band to look for this : Fellow Fediverser @Traiken has a Best Of comp out! In their words "[it's] a best of, there shouldn't be a bad pick" and we like that confidence!

https://traiken.bandcamp.com/album/the-best-of-traiken-thus-far

Aphelion, to books
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Filling orders this morning! You can grab a copy of Disremembering direct from me at https://www.nihtgengapress.com

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