Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (4/22/25 Earth Day Edition)

Quote I

"We must hold the Administration accountable for these illegal acts and demand Kilmar’s release. Today it’s him, tomorrow it could be anyone else," Rep. Maxwell (Not Smart) Frost (D-FL)

Quote II

'I didn't need a visa, but hey, I've seen Donald Duck several times. So, I'm off to see other things.' Colombian President Gustavo Petro

Quote III

“For the last 50 years, American children have increasingly been living in a toxic soup of synthetic chemicals,” FDA Commissioner Marty Makary

Quote IV

“But we hope that she’ll still be with us for another couple decades or even centuries,” Marc Franusch, the head of the Tegel Forestry Office, Germany

I guess her delusion came crashing down.

SAN FRANCISCO — A man and woman have been sentenced to four years in federal prison for running a drug delivery service that offered clients perks like time with cute puppies, court records show.

The alleged leader of the drug ring, Natalie Marie Gonzalez, is a Stanford alumna who ran the illicit business with all the care, attentiveness to detail and intellectual curiosity that the top university is known for. Prosecutors say she inquired potential middlemen drug dealers to their customer base, not wanting to contribute to drug addiction, held customers to a $300 minimum and hid drug transactions from scrutiny with use of cryptocurrency.

Prosecutors describe a drug business modeled after popular delivery services, like DoorDash or Instacart. After an online order, customers would be instructed to wait for a Subaru to come bring the drugs to a pre-determined location. Sometimes, they’d be given a description of the delivery driver’s “black-and-white puppy” and encouraged to take some time to pet the pup so that onlookers wouldn’t get suspicious.

Is it thinking outside the box or is someone over his head? Time will tell with Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon helm.

In early April, after Pete Hegseth returned from a trip to Panama, the last person to step off the plane before the defense secretary himself was a colonel wearing slacks and a pullover.

This was Ricky Buria, Hegseth’s junior military assistant and one of the only holdovers from the last secretary’s team.

The ONT Is Always Looking Out For You^TM

How to see the cosmic ‘smiley face’ in the sky in Arizona this week
No joke: The crescent moon will align with Venus and Saturn to form an emoji-like grin.

It is nice to see another runner not physically beat a competitor. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day

With the 2025 Boston Marathon finish line in sight, he sacrificed a personal goal to help a runner in need
Videos of Brazilian runner Pedro Arieta helping a fellow runner at the 2025 Boston Marathon have received millions of views on social media.

My oh my! What a family. Genius Award Winners.

APRIL 22--In the course of a child porn probe targeting his younger brother, an upstate New York man caught a legal ricochet shot when investigators discovered videos showing him engaged in sexual acts with animals, including a cow, court records show.

Mark Banks, 38, was arrested earlier this month for sexual misconduct for allegedly having “sexual intercourse with a dairy cow on the property of Winsor Acres,” the Broome County farm where he has worked for 22 years.

Born Today In Music April 22nd

1922 - Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, pianist, composer and bandleader Charles Mingus, His final project was the collaboration with Joni Mitchell Mingus. He died 5th January 1979 aged 56.

1936 - Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell, country singer, songwriter, TV presenter. Hits include ‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix’, ‘Wichita Lineman’, and ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’. As a session musician in the 1960s he worked with Bobby Darin, Ricky Nelson, The Monkees, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra. His guitar playing can be heard on ‘Strangers in the Night’ by Frank Sinatra, ‘You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'‘ by The Righteous Brothers and ‘I'm a Believer’ by The Monkees. Campbell became a patient at an Alzheimer's long-term care and treatment facility in 2014 and died of the disease in Nashville, Tennessee on August 8, 2017 at the age of 81.

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