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Day 14 of Donald Trump's first criminal trial (of 4) was an day of paradoxes. Starting with the porn star being portrayed as a "nut and a slut" and ending with Trump's long time former personal assistant, Madeleine Westerhout. Stormy Daniels was slut shamed for hours, repeatedly attacked for her line of work and made to justify every decision she made about her body, her career and her sex life.

The problem, as one might guess, is that motorcycles offer almost zero protection compared to armoured personnel carriers. The Russians count on the element of surprise coupled with the speed of the bikes. Sent in under heavy artillery bombardment, sometimes they do get through, although at least anecdotally this is the exception rather than the rule.

Someone let known sex pest Grandpa Sundowner near an open mic, and he bizarrely said that the Republican Party was the party of fertilization, and then added this explanation: “We want to help the women because they were going to end fertilization, which is where, when the IVF, where women go to the clinics and they get help in having a baby, and that’s a good thing, not a bad thing.

(COLUMBIA, Tenn.) — Dangerous storms crashed over parts of the South on Thursday even as the region cleaned up from earlier severe weather that spawned apparent tornadoes, killed at least three people, and gravely injured a boy who was swept into a storm drain as he played in a flooded street. A heavy line of storms swept into Atlanta near the end of the morning rush hour.

If H5N1 turns into a full-blown pandemic, we are currently in chapter one. To prevent chapter two from becoming a reality, the most important tool in our arsenal will be widespread testing. Testing isn’t just about diagnosing people with the virus. Containing the spread of this highly pathogenic bird flu strain in cattle hinges on our ability to detect and track it.

Readers of mainstream news may have learned after the fact about the role Christian evangelicals played in passing arms funding for Ukraine, but the reports they saw uniformly omitted a crucial aspect: The plan to shape Ukraine as a bulwark against LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights. Instead, sites ranging from Voice of America to the Washington Post described the efforts by Ukrainian evangelicals with no mention of their allies, backers, records or rhetoric.