What A Day

If you're looking for just the thing to get your malformed composer boyfriend who haunts the underground lake of the opera house this Valentine's Day, look no further.

For one night only, Airbnb is offering an overnight stay at Paris' historic Palais Garnier, the theater that inspired author Gaston Leroux to write his 1910 novel Phantom of the opera.

In this economy?

I hate this.

As black people, this is not what we do. It's all I'm gonna say. I just think that this is not our style. I'm not gonna tour an underground lake like that's not. This is what Ron DeSantis doesn't understand about us. This should be in AP African American Studies.

While Rice wrote over 30 novels throughout her career, she is best known for her novel, Interview with a Vampire, famously adapted into a movie starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in 1994.

When I become a vampire or a witch or when I write about that subject, I'm able to write about good and evil and guilt and pain and death and life in a way that I can't when trying to write realistically.

'Make it Count,' my fight to become the first transgender Olympic runner.

I was definitely speaking to the little ones, the little trans kids.

Sports is a good outlet to channel all of these things, right, all of what we're feeling, very normal human being emotions.

My goal next in getting to the Olympic stage, 2028 Los Angeles, is honestly just trying to stay safe, sane, healthy, and rise to the occasion in a healthy and positive way and look forward to the indoor season next year because nobody's gonna ever stop me from competing but myself.

I'm excited for other athletes to read my book. I'm excited for people to see that not all trans people are the same and the stories are different and see what we really go through, unfiltered, raw, and very necessary.

They'll cover everything from the upcoming release of her new book, Say More, to the media's role in keeping democracy alive in 2024 and beyond.

Tesla is the first company to bring sort of Silicon Valley startup and venture capital culture into the auto industry. That has a profound effect on how it does everything it does from how it designs vehicles, how it continuously updates them, how it manufactures them. Some to really good effect and some to less good effect. It's the source of both their strength and their perennial challenges.

One of the things that comes along with that is sort of the eternal optimism and hype that really runs a lot of the venture capital ecosystem.

Being someone who kind of needs to go and see things for myself, I went down to Harris Ranch, which is halfway between LA and San Francisco. And I spent a long Memorial Day weekend there watching. And sure enough, there were lines for the superchargers but they did not open the battery swap station at all.

Instead what Tesla did was they brought in backup superchargers and hooked them up to diesel generators. So it was this very dramatic moment where not only was this sort of technology that they were hyping as this game changer at the time for electric vehicles wasn't real or wasn't being used in a real way but then they were bringing in these polluting diesel generators to charge vehicles and they could have just, if the swap station had been real, allowed customers to use it, which they said they wanted to do.

Ultimately what I found out was that the swap station allowed Tesla to earn a lot more of zero emission vehicle credits from the California scheme. So they were effectively kind of ripping off this carbon offset scheme essentially.

It will be based on author Meryl Wilsner's bestselling novel of the same name.

He just came out with a book about this very case called Trying Trump, a guide to his first election interference criminal trial.

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I highly recommend.

The South Dakota stories volume 7 my trip to South Dakota was the best summer ever.

Now I don't need to go to Mars because I've been to the Badlands and I caught a bigger wall I than dad from we went to the Missouri River.

Then I rode my bike through these huge rocks called needles.

Ooh I also saw my first herd of bison even a fuzzy furry baby one.

I can't wait to go back and see more.

We here at Willow says that former White House dog major was a real bitch.

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She survived a really terrible physical attack from Dr. Dre. This is not a moment where we need to have a conversation and say a legit and this is he has admitted he did what his legal obligations were at the time, but the reality is the attack was then announced so unconscionable that I part of why it will always come up is because for so long there did not feel like there was a tone man.

This is the conversation that we've been having in so many different types of ways for so many years and yes we've had these moments where we actually can see a shift but like it will never sit well with me that it quite literally took 25 years.

Instead of trying to deem this moment as the start of some hopeful shift in the industry, we really as a culture should be doing something else.

I think we owe it to ourselves to sit in it because of the years of inaction because of the fact that this is a genre of music and it's a hard portal swallow but this is a genre of music that's literally built off the debatement of women.

Clint Smith, who did the podcast Justice in America with me, has an incredible chapter in his book about Angola. I highly recommend it, how the word was passed.

It's a behind-the-scenes account of the first two years of Biden's presidency, from his swearing in a few weeks after the January 6th riots to the 2022 midterms, and everything in between.

Not quite. Largely because in his own head he's a great man in history and I think he wanted to have an accomplishment that you would set next to you, the New Deal or the Great Society, and he came so close to getting that.

If Joe Manchin had gone along with Build Back Better and you got the extension of the social safety net in all of those directions, he would have cemented that place.

I think in your list of accomplishments I would also point to the Inflation Reduction Act, which I think is maybe potentially the biggest of them all, and so much of that actually depends on its implementation over the course of the next four years.

You argue in your book, or the premise of your book is basically that Biden is essentially the last of a dying breed of politician.

Public schools in Hillsborough County, including Tampa Bay and the surrounding area, will cut back on teaching Shakespeare to align with Governor Rhonda Santus expansive new restrictions on curriculum.

The schools usually required students to read two of Shakespeare's novels or plays in their entirety per year.

I don't think this will stop your teenagers from being interested in sex, but OK.

Like, do you think Shakespeare is the reason that teenagers are thinking about sex? Apparently.

So unless you want your kids to know as little Shakespeare as I do, let them learn some Shakespeare.

So maybe the same could be done for like crime and punishment.