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Get ready to encounter more XXS and XXL Pokémon in the Sizable Sizes event! Plus, shiny Wimpod debuts, and take part in raids for Kartana and Celesteela, which can be shiny for the first time!

Starts Thursday, April 4, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. local time

Ends Tuesday, April 9, 2024, at 8:00 p.m. local time

read more: https://pokemongohub.net/post/event/sizable-surprises-event/

Pokémon GO’s April Community Day Classic featured Pokémon is Bagon! Bagon is making a return as a Community Day Pokémon, this time giving Trainers an opportunity to evolve to a Salemence that knows the Dragon charged attack Outrage.

Bagon will be appearing more frequently in the wild. If you’re lucky, you may encounter a Shiny one! Catch Bagon to complete event-themed field research rewarding encounters with Bagon, Pokéballs, Stardust and more.

Bagon Community Day Classic takes place on Sunday, April 7th, 2024, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. local time.

read more: https://pokemongohub.net/post/event/bagon-community-day-classic-april-2024/

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l8V4Zm3KCg

In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “Pro-American Rally.” Images of George Washington hung alongside swastikas, underlining the organizers' belief that Nazism was entirely consistent with American ideals.

NAZI TOWN, USA tells the largely unknown story of the German American Bund, an organization of Nazi sympathizers on American soil.

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=g9HmV_-EE8g

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Wt_Pl0jFBHk

Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! announces the winners of the 2024 Izzy Award.

The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College has announced that this year’s Izzy Award “for outstanding achievement in independent media” will be shared by nonprofit news outlet In These Times for economic justice stories that centered workers; journalist Mohammed El-Kurd for powerful reporting from Palestine; Lynzy Billing for chronicling the American military’s environmental devastation in Afghanistan; and Trina Reynolds-Tyler and Sarah Conway for their joint investigative series “Missing In Chicago,” which exposed police malpractice.

The Izzy Award is named for I. F. “Izzy” Stone, the dissident journalist who launched I. F. Stone’s Weekly in 1953 and questioned McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, racial injustice, and government deceit. An award ceremony will be scheduled for late April 2024.

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=br3kR4MECnY

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A man wanted just two slices of cheese on his sandwich, so when his wife used three slices in his grilled cheese sandwich, he became irate.

Angered at the sight of all the extra cheesiness, James DePaola became agitated and violent, yelling at the woman, Michele DePaola. According to WSB-TV, DePaola then ripped the landline out of the wall so his wife couldn’t call the police and reportedly screamed at her intensely. The couple’s 12-year old daughter who witnessed the incident called the police to the scene, according to Athens-Clarke County police.

James DePaola was charged with obstruction of a 911 call and criminal trespass/damage to property over what the police now refer to as “the grilled cheese incident”. DePaola has a history of “abusive behavior,” and was often “excessively critical and controlling of day to day things in life” like sandwiches, apparently.

read more: https://www.mediamatters.org/jesse-watters/fox-news-guest-decrying-migrant-crime-previously-arrested-after-getting-violent-over

The Charged Up Research Day is coming to Pokémon GO, with a focus on Electric type Pokémon! On March 3, 2024, you will be able to catch select Electric-type Pokémon, with an increased odds to encounter a shiny version of them!

read more: https://pokemongohub.net/post/event/charged-up-research-day/

YouTube link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RoPv3ZF9bAE

As we survey the rubble that once was the U.S. journalism industry, a common refrain involves lamenting that “online journalism just isn’t profitable.” But as the recent collapse of outlets like Sports Illustrated and The Messenger illustrate, the real culprit often isn’t that journalism isn’t profitable, it’s that U.S. media is predominantly run by utterly incompetent individuals who fail upward into positions of power.

Last week’s collapse of Vice media came as no surprise given years of stories about waste and excess by a rotating crop of terrible management. Also unsurprising is that most of the postmortems (usually written by people employed in the U.S. media sector who would like to remain so and don’t want to offend ownership by being honest) involve lots of vagaries as to responsibility.

There was a lot of ambiguous finger pointing at the supposed inherent impossibility of making money in online journalism. Most breakdowns just parroted the soulless, AI-esque memo to staff by CEO Bruce Dixon without context, blaming ambiguous externalities and the supposedly unavoidable unprofitability of running a silly old website in the TikTok and Twitch era:

read more: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/27/the-vice-media-collapse-was-entirely-the-fault-of-incompetent-fail-upward-brunchlords/

They couldn't resist breaking the rules lmao, but face no consequences, besides being mad about it

Israel has threatened to withdraw from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest if organizers decide to reject its entry amid wider calls for the country’s exclusion over its military campaign in Gaza.

The European Broadcasting Union is currently reviewing the lyrics of Israel’s entry, a song called “October Rain” by Russian-Israeli singer Eden Golan, which is thought to reference the victims of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. If the EBU decides Israel has breached its rules by submitting content deemed political, the body will allow it to submit new lyrics or a new song.

Israel’s Public Broadcasting Corporation earlier said it has “no intention to replace the song” if it is not approved, warning that it will pull out of the contest scheduled for May in Malmö, Sweden. Israel’s culture minister has stated that while the song reflects “the current public sentiment in Israel these days,” that doesn’t make it “a political song.”

Israel became the first non-European nation to compete in Eurovision in 1973, and has since won the competition four times.

read more: https://www.semafor.com/article/02/27/2024/israels-controversial-eurovision-song-entry

The Mexican government is seeking billions of dollars in damages for arms suppliers' role in cross-border gun trafficking.

The government of Mexico is suing U.S. gun-makers for their role in facilitating cross-border gun trafficking that has supercharged violent crime in Mexico.

The lawsuit seeks US$10 billion in damages and a court order to force the companies named in the lawsuit – including Smith & Wesson, Colt, Glock, Beretta and Ruger – to change the way they do business. In January, a federal appeals court in Boston decided that the industry’s immunity shield, which so far has protected gun-makers from civil liability, does not apply to Mexico’s lawsuit.

As a legal scholar who has analyzed lawsuits against the gun industry for more than 25 years, I believe this decision to allow Mexico’s lawsuit to proceed could be a game changer. To understand why, let’s begin with some background about the federal law that protects the gun industry from civil lawsuits.

read more: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/mexico-is-suing-us-gun-makers-for-arming-its-gangs-and-fueling-extreme-violence/