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Asia’s last great free-flowing river faces toxic contamination crisis https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/05/asias-last-great-free-flowing-river-faces-toxic-contamination-crisis/

Asia's last great free-flowing river faces toxic contamination crisis
Asia's longest free-flowing waterway between Thailand and Myanmar is facing a crisis.

NFL free agency winners and losers: Daniel Jones cashes in; Maxx Crosby waits for what's next https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-free-agency-winners-and-losers-daniel-jones-cashes-in-maxx-crosby-waits-for-what-s-next

Fleet of ‘Flying Ferries’ Will Provide Zero-Emission, Silent EV Boats for Commuters and Tourists Along Norway’s Coast https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/fleet-of-flying-ferries-will-provide-zero-emissio…

Fleet of ‘Flying Ferries’ Will Provide Zero-Emission, Silent EV Boats for Commuters and Tourists Along Norway’s Coast
Tourists and commuters along Norway’s coast will soon travel aboard “flying” electric ferries—quietly whizzing above the water from Candela.

Doin' US taxes again. Super blah without a donut!!
Last year my personal filing was about 200 pages long. (We also do a separate corporate filing.)
And once again my taxes will far, far, far exceed the actual disposable income I have received.
Yes, this is an upper-middle-class, first world problem.. But I do hate paying what amounts to big wads of $$ to pay for El Cheato's destruction of the US.

Paramount responds to Hollywood creatives' letter against its WBD acquisition, reiterating its commitment for 30 theatrical feature films annually, and more (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/paramount-warner-bros-merger-creatives-…

Paramount Responds To Letter From Hollywood Figures, Says WBD Merger Will Ensure Creatives Have “More Avenues For Their Work, Not Fewer”
The company argued that the Warner Bros. Discovery merger will create "more avenues" for work, not fewer.

Demand for Russian oil is falling! Even India has turned away! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/13/demand-for-russian-oil-is.html

UCLA's Hollywood Diversity Report finds that films with casts that are 41%-50% BIPOC achieved the highest median global and domestic box office receipts in 2025 (Arushi Jacob/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/diversity-report-casting-in-fil…

Hollywood Diversity Report: Audiences Prefer Diverse Casting in Films
UCLA's Hollywood Diversity Report for 2025 reported that audiences prefer diverse casting in films, and the industry's need to focus on diversity.

Falcons DE James Pearce Jr. charged with three felonies, one misdemeanor https://www.nfl.com/news/falcons-de-james-pearce-jr-charged-with-three-felonies-one-misdemeanor

The Richmond Free Press, a 34-year-old Black-owned weekly, shuts down due to falling ad revenue as the Black press suffers from the dispersion of its readership (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

A Black newspaper in the former capital of the Confederacy is closing
The Richmond Free Press, a Black newspaper in Virginia’s capital city, ceases publication after three decades.

Sources: CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil is broadcasting from Taipei this week after failing to obtain a Chinese visa in time for the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/13/2026

Exclusive: CBS’ Tony Dokoupil to broadcast from Taiwan after failing to get China visa in time
It was a stumble in the network’s efforts to play a leading role in this week’s dominant global story.