Evening Roundup, April 16
Congress in the dark, big WINS over monopolies, Contrarian Calls to Action, documentary perseverance, striking out on robot umpires, surveillance, April Ryan w/ Rep. Carson & Leah Daughtry, & more!
Spotlight
Hot Topics
Robocop, Meet Roboumpire
Inventors Have Looked to Perfect ‘Robot Umpires’ for Better Part of a Century
By Frederic J. Frommer
The era finally arrived last month when MLB adopted the automated ball-strike system.
Culture Corner
'If Someone Won’t Answer, Persist.'
Last month, Amy Goodman hopped on a last-minute flight from Mexico City to Los Angeles to attend the Academy Awards in support of Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Arnaud, an Oscar-nominated short documentary about a former colleague who was killed in Ukraine. She sh…
(In)Security
Why Donald Trump and Kash Patel Want Your Data
By Jeff Nesbit
The very administration that claimed to be the victim of surveillance overreach is now asking for the keys to the most powerful spy machine ever built.
Media Center
The Tea w/ April Ryan ft. Leah Daughtry and Rep. André Carson
Thank you for joining us for another episode of The Tea with April! This week April was joined by Leah Daughtry, Founder of Power Rising and the Presiding Bishop at The House of the Lord Church and U.S. Representative André Carson (D-IN)
Pulpit Fiction
Hegseth the Crusader is at it again — “it” being blasphemy and thinking he knows more about the Bible than the actual pope. The Contrarian is community-supported. Join now to support bold journalism and help fund critical litigation to stop Trump’s corruption.
Witkoff, Vance, and Kushner are the stupidest people that could have been sent to Iran. JD Vance barely had 2 years as a senator before the veep so that was boneheaded in the first place to send him just as it was to send him to Hungary. MAGA has become Morons Are Governing America.
This was the worst blunder made by the regime as far as foreign policy. Criticizing the Pope wasn’t smart either because now their base is turned off by their ignorant remarks.