The Daily Populous

Tuesday April 21st, 2026 morning edition

The Onion reaches new deal to take over Alex Jones’ Infowars
Authored by cnn.com
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Should The Onion win court approval, it would cap a legal saga lasting more than 18 months over the future of Jones’ website and show.

We have not backed down at any moment,” The Onion CEO Ben Collins told CNN in an interview.

Under the agreement, and with the support of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion will initially pay a monthly licensing fee to the court-appointed receiver overseeing InfoWars.

Collins said the company has also signed a deal to purchase the full assets once the current judicial stay expires.

He has yet to pay a single cent of the more than $1 billion in damages he owes the families.

In 2024, The Onion won a court-mandated auction for Infowars’ parent company, backed by the Sandy Hook families.

“The Sandy Hook families took on Alex Jones to stop him from inflicting the same harm on others. »

Ukraine’s Second Miracle Year
Authored by thebulwark.com

Ukraine now has 1.3 drones at the front line for every 1 Russian drone, and they are of better quality.

The last time Ukraine had the advantage in medium-range attacks was after the introduction of HIMARS to the battlefield in 2022.

The result is that Ukraine, unlike Russia, had struggled to hit moving targets more than 20–30 kilometers behind the front lines. »

PlayStation's Shuhei Yoshida was fired for not listening to Jim Ryan
Authored by eurogamer.net

Shuhei Yoshida, the former long-tenured leader of Sony's first-party PlayStation Worldwide Studios, has said he was fired from the role by Jim Ryan - the boss of PlayStation - because he didn't listen to him.

"Jim Ryan wanted to remove me from first-party because I didn't listen to him.

As Yoshida later remarked, he and Ryan were part of the same PlayStation generation so they knew each other well. »

Trump’s scandal-ridden Labor Secretary resigns after reports of drinking and misconduct
Authored by independent.co.uk
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Donald Trump’s Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned in the wake of allegations of misconduct in office, marking the third high-profile departure from the president’s Cabinet within recent weeks.

Keith Sonderling will serve as Acting Secretary of Labor.

Her husband also has been accused of sexually assaulting Department of Labor employees, resulting in his alleged ban from department buildings. »

In pictures

image for [OC]Seen this sign today hanging on a porch railing in a trailer park.
image for Residents turn out to hear from progressive candidates in deep red Polk County, WI 4/19/2026 (OC)
image for Saw this billboard in San Francisco…
image for In Wisconsin, a local brewery from Minocqua is at war with the Republican party. (OC)
image for [OC] Found a paystub from my first official job while in high school. Burger King 1999.
image for [OC] Dave Sanders Columbine high school
image for Protest Sign No. 2 -- Dommy T [OC]
image for A Once-in-a-Lifetime Comet, C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) [OC]

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