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■ He’s promising
boosted police presence on public transit, in business districts, Millennium Park and at beaches …
‘This time Twitter failed in a way that brought people delight.’ Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri declares Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ bollixed presidential declaration “the funniest thing Elon Musk has ever done.”
‘A sort of reverse United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.’ Visiting the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg reassures Floridians and DeSantis, “None of it made me feel bad about myself.”
‘The Supreme Court just shriveled federal protection for wetlands.’ A University of California law professor explains.
‘Republicans want chaos because they know the media …will blame President Biden.’ Press Watch columnist Dan Froomkin on debt ceiling negotiations: “Sending the stock market and the economy into a tailspin while depriving the most fragile members of our society of the federal payments on which they depend” is a feature, not a bug.
Netflix’s password sharing ‘crackdown’ is ‘a fishing expedition.’ TechHive columnist Jared Newman: “While Netflix is publicly talking tough about password sharing, it’s applying a lighter touch to the actual enforcement.”
A world of wrong answers … and just a few right ones await you in the latest edition of The Conversation’s weekly news quiz, prepared by past Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions winner Fritz Holznagel. ■ Can you top your
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