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It’s Day 3 of the Jeopardy Invitational Tournament! (The 3rd of 9 Quarterfinal games.) Here’s the full lineup for the JIT. I am SO excited to see these iconic contestants, some of whom I GREW UP watching, back on the Jeopardy! stage! Cozy sweater alert! This is cute. Love her shiny lip gloss too! Terry’s College Championship (Season 30, #6773, 6777, 6779, & 6780) and 2014 Tournament of Champions (Season 31, #6939 & 6941) are both on Pluto.

The following tweet is from the Director-General of the WHO two days ago. I think we all also share Director-General Tedros’ …. “deep concerns about the threat posed by mis- and disinformation to human lives and health.” This is why it is important to remember and remind others of just “who” was and is spreading mis- dis- and mal- information. Thank you for reading Who is Robert Malone. This post is public so feel free to share it.

Hi all, if you are a free subscriber who doesn’t want to receive a preview of the weekly posts, please sign in to your Substack account and change your notification settings so you still receive the monthly newsletter! You won’t want to unsubscribe because I have a bunch of goodies for Mental Health Awareness month for all subscribers in May! Each month, I let you all decide what next month’s theme will be!

As a New York queer historian, one of the more exciting things to be able to document is when a singular physical space in the City gets passed down from being one queer venue to another. With the transient nature that is inherent to New York City, there are in fact countless addresses spread across the five boroughs which, unbeknownst to many, have housed multiple unique and historic LGBTQ venues often across multiple decades.

In my last essay, I explained that when Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant said “We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly” it was tantamount to characterizing them as monsters. Some readers wrote to me in private, suggesting that I was going too far. The description of Hamas killers as animals, they said, was nothing more than an expression of moral outrage for their heinous acts. But now, Benjamin Netanyahu has made it explicit.

In our Engineers of Scale podcast, we relive and celebrate the pivotal projects in Infrastructure Software that have changed the course of the industry. We interview the engineering “heroes” who had led those projects to tell us the insider’s story. For each such project, we go back in time and do an in-depth analysis of the project - historical context, technical breakthroughs, team, successes and learnings - to help the next generation of engineers learn from those transformational projects.

Sunday was the 65th anniversary of the day a girl named Dorothy Counts made history by integrating a Charlotte school. This photo used to hang on the wall at the Charlotte Observer. I stared at it for years before I finally figured out how to write about it. The story below ran on the 50th anniversary—I can’t believe it’s been 15 years. Dot turned 80 this March. I saw her a few months ago.

In 2019, Pat Spencer was anointed the best lacrosse player in America. I mean that literally. While playing at Loyola University in Baltimore, Spencer was awarded the Tewaaraton Award, lacrosse’s version of the Heisman Trophy. By the time he graduated, he had set the NCAA Division I record for assists and ranked second all-time in points. Spencer became the first overall pick in the 2019 Premier Lacrosse League Draft. He seemed destined for lacrosse superstardom.

One of the best plots in made-for-TV movies is “mysterious woman moves into a gullible family’s house and tries to take it over,” as seen in Summer Girl, The Babysitter, and too many “evil nanny” Lifetime movies, including one literally called Evil Nanny. In all of the movies, the plot hinges upon people being so pig-stupid that the villain could pour arsenic into their teacups right in front of them, and they’d still drink it.