Good morning. An Israeli strike hit Iran on Thursday night, per multiple reports that cited US officials. Israel has not claimed responsibility for the strike.
In today's newsletter, we're looking at the first week of former President Donald Trump's criminal trial and what's at stake.
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A compelling matchup between two of America’s brightest young boxing talents has been overshadowed by questions about the the social-media superstar’s state of mind.
One of the most unusual build-ups to a major prizefight in recent memory came no closer to normalcy on Thursday afternoon when Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia came together for the final press conference ahead of their intriguing but unsettling world super lightweight title fight in Brooklyn.
On paper it’s the caliber of event that’s all too rare in boxing today: a delicious matchup between two of America’s brightest young stars, both 25 years old and at the front of their athletic primes with ample top-flight experience. But it’s been almost entirely overshadowed by Garcia’s erratic behavior both in person and on social media, calling into question the responsibility of the New York State Athletic Commission in assessing a fighter’s mental fitness and whether Saturday’s fight at Barclays Center should even take place.
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Overall, the study results are consistent with what medical experts have been advising patients for years.
Dr. Arman Fesharaki-Zadeh, an assistant professor of psychiatry and of neurology at the Yale School of Medicine, recommended three “lifestyle measures” that folks may want to consider when trying to lower their risk of young-onset dementia ― starting with physical exercise.
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Taylor Swift on her Eras Tour in Singapore. Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management
The Tortured Poets Department and the broken way we talk about pop music.
Taylor Swift has always been a pop culture Rorschach test. Every song Swift releases, every single she performs or awards show she attends, every candid photo of her is up for everyone’s interpretation. What people see depends on how they feel about her.
To some, she’s a ruthless capitalist who crisscrosses the Earth on her private jet, yells at her sweet professional football player boyfriend, and doesn’t have the integrity to take a side in the upcoming election. Plus, she might have ignored Celine Dion at the Grammys.
To others, she’s the greatest songwriter of her generation, a feminist who isn’t afraid to be successful or even misunderstood — because everything she does is for her fans.
Extreme interpretations could never fully capture the totality of Taylor Swift, but they offer a portrait of her gravitational pull on pop culture. The clearest thing about Taylor Swift is that no one can stop talking about her, and that when it comes to the pop star, it’s impossible to remain neutral.
Ahead of her album release — The Tortured Poets Department on April 19 — Swift has become exceptionally famous, and in doing so she has maybe broken all of us. She’s always been successful and thrived in the spotlight, but over the last few years she’s seemingly achieved a rare level of celebrity that makes her and the attention swirling around her feel inescapable, even for Swift.
“Whatever’s happening and whatever she’s doing, it’s working. Her persona and cultural dominance feel more saturated than ever,” DJ Louis XIV, a fan of Swift and host of the podcast Pop Pantheon, told me. Louis has adored the star since 2008’s Fearless but says he could do without the constant debates surrounding her.
“As the biggest star of the moment, it can feel like Taylor Swift devours 80 percent of our entire pop cultural discourse. But there’s also an element of that dominance that is not even necessarily her fault,” he added.
It’s impossible to avoid everyone’s feelings, ideas, criticisms against and adoration for her, and even more difficult to remain impartial on Swift. Like a Rorschach, some of that’s by design. But some of it is a peek into how efficient social media has become at crushing any kind of nuance.
Taylor Swift has become inevitable
What makes being Switzerland on Swift so difficult is that the discourse that follows her — her fans and her critics fighting with each other — is omnipresent. After releasing three new albums in as many years (Tortured Poets will be four since 2020) she embarked on the record-setting worldwide Eras stadium tour, created a box office smash movie about said tour, and found the time to announce that she would be directing her first feature film. She also started dating professional NFL player Travis Kelce and went on to attend not just a handful of his games but also his Super Bowl win. Amid all these events, Gannett, which publishes USA Today, announced that it was hiring a Taylor Swift reporter to keep up with everything Swift.
Because she’s so famous, Swift pulls focus. These things that she does become less about the things themselves and more about Swift. A Variety feature like Directors on Directors is usually inside baseball for film dorks, but when Swift talks to The Banshees of Inisherin director Martin McDonagh about the short film for her song “All Too Well,” it becomes another part of Swiftie lore. Now when she attends an awards show, she isn’t just a guest but the guest, with the camera frequently cutting to her as she dances and gasps in the audience. Ahead of this past year’s Grammys, Swift and her team changed the profile photo on her Instagram account, sending the public into a frenzy trying to decipher the meaning. That meaning was revealed during her Album of the Year acceptance speech, when she announced Tortured Poets.
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Taylor Swift and her friends went to a football game and became one of the biggest stories of the Super Bowl.
This focus-pulling phenomenon became almost painfully clear when she started going to Kelce’s football games. Her week-to-week attendance at America’s most favorite televised sport became a story on its own, which devolved into male fans chastising networks’ decisions to devote (even minimal) camera time to her. Unfortunately, some critiques dipped into misogyny. At the same time, her attendance at games upped the ratings and brought new fans, primarily women, to the NFL.
Swift-Kelce became such big news that former President Donald Trump weighed in on their relationship. Swift’s impact on the NFL is just a microcosm of the Taylor Swift effect.
Even if you don’t have a direct opinion on Taylor Swift or her music, a conversation about sports or movies eventually becomes directly about her.
Why people react to Taylor Swift the way they do
The polarized reaction Taylor Swift creates among her critics and devoted fans isn’t accidental. Like other ultra-successful pop stars — Madonna, Beyoncé, Britney Spears — Swift has created a persona that people respond passionately to.
Swift’s persona has always been one of all-American relatability and perceived accessibility. Primarily, Taylor Swift has always publicly positioned herself as a good friend. The 1989 album and tour, Instagram posts about her famed Fourth of July parties, paparazzi shots, and awards show cutaways entirely devoted to Swift’s friends, including Selena Gomez, Gigi Hadid, and Blake Lively. She’s a bestie who just so happens to be the biggest pop star in the world.
Adding to that lore, Swift’s songs are peppered with Easter eggs, inside jokes, and tidbits that only fans who truly know her — her best friends — would understand. If you really know her music, you really know who Swift is and her friendship seems as obtainable as it is fantastically desirable.
Swift has also long presented herself as the industry’s underdog.
This part of her persona goes back to the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, when Kanye interrupted her speech to tell her that she did not in fact have the best video of the year. It continued with her response to the jokes made at her expense and the lazy reductionist reviews of her music being about the men she’s dated. There have also been moments where Swift has spoken up and addressed concerns like sexual harassment, artists getting paid for their music, and the music business’s misogyny in which men (Kanye West specifically, Scooter Braun obliquely) try to undercut women’s success. That message trickled down to her fans, who are quick to point out when they feel like she’s been slighted, particularly by men.
People want to protect underdogs. Friends want to defend their friends.
The thing about these personas is that in order to be successful, they need something to push back against. You can’t be friends with everyone. You can’t be an underdog if no one is dragging you down. Swift’s personas need criticism as much as they need loyalty.
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Taylor Swift’s genius is the ability to be supernaturally relatable and give her fans a sense of what friendship with her would be like.
Can one like Swift’s music but not the Easter egg accouterments that accompany every album? Is it possible to like the positive things Swift inspires in young girls but not like her music? Can you be annoyed at the conversation that surrounds Swift but actually like her as an artist? Is it possible to like none of it but keep that fact to yourself?
Maybe once upon a time it was. But on social media, where stan culture dominates the conversation, all different types of Swift criticism and praise get flattened into very simple and caustic pro or anti arguments.
“There are so many people out there participating in the discourse where anything less than sheer adoration is grounds for an attack,” pop culture expert DJ Louis told me. “How are we supposed to have any sort of nuanced, critical discourse about any of this? Taylor and Beyoncé and all pop stars are all worthy of praise and criticism — we should want that to exist in our culture. But I feel like we’re just getting into a situation right now where it’s nearly impossible to have any sort of nuanced cultural debate.”
To that point, a Reddit forum called SwiftlyNetural exists where fans and critics are encouraged to voice their opinions but keep the conversation civil and respectful. There, criticism isn’t seen as an attack and praise isn’t the only belief. One can also find discussions about the aesthetics of her new album and the changes in her musicality.
Perhaps the silliest thing about all this chatter is that it doesn’t affect Taylor Swift herself. All the things we feel about Taylor Swift end up saying more about us — our hangups, our desires, what we like and don’t like about ourselves — than anything about her.
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If you look at the Serie A table for the first time right now, you will definitely be surprised to see Bologna in fourth place, only behind Inter, AC Milan and Juventus. However, the Italian side has worked hard in the past years to reach this level, and even if this is still something surprising, it shows that the long-term vision of the club is paying off. But how did this happen?
Bologna are currently fourth in the Serie A table and fully in the race for a Champions League spot, especially when you consider that Serie A will likely have an extra spot for the biggest European tournament next season. Potentially, Bologna can also qualify for the Champions League if they land in fifth place, with six more games to play between now and the end of the 2023-24 season. Thiago Motta's side currently have 59 points after 32 games played with 16 wins, 11 draws and only five defeats. Bologna up to now scored 45 goals (like Juventus for instance) and conceded 25 goals (only Inter and Juventus have a better record).
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Before her tee time on Thursday, LPGA super star Lilia Vu withdrew from the Chevron Championship due to injury.
World No. 2 golfer Lilia Vu will not defend her title at the Chevron Championship.
Ahead of her tee time on Thursday, the LPGA superstar withdrew due to a back flare-up during warmups.
She explained her decision to pull out of the tournament on Instagram.
“I have been dealing with a back injury for a while now. Some days are better than others, and today was, unfortunately, not a good day,” she wrote. “During my normal warmup routine, I had severe discomfort in my back and I felt that I could not compete up to my standards and made the decision to withdraw from the tournament ahead of my tee time.”
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This season has not gone well for Vu.
She has one top-10 finish, a T7 at the Honda LPGA Thailand. After that event, Vu withdrew from back-to-back events. At the Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship, she finished T37, and in her last start, the Ford Championship, she finished tied for 21st.
This back injury is not new. She had a scare last year and took a month off to heal. Vu explained she manages the injury, but there are still times when it flares up. It caused problems at the Blue Bay LPGA event in China earlier this year.
Ahead of the Chevron Championship, Vu felt “95% there.”
“It’s been a rough couple months battling with my injury,” she said. “It’s been a little scary. I’ve definitely cried a lot on the range sometimes because my back just couldn’t hold up. If I can stay healthy this week, I think I’ll be able to do what I need to do.”
The 26-year-old burst onto the scene last year, winning two majors. Vu also won the Rolex Player of the Year award, making her the first American to earn the honor since Stacy Lewis in 2014.
This withdrawal marks the third time she has pulled out of an event, as the former UCLA Bruin fights to get healthy.
Vu was supposed to play alongside Minjee Lee and Nelly Korda on Thursday, at 2:10 p.m. ET.
Savannah Leigh Richardson is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. For more golf coverage, be sure to follow us @_PlayingThrough on all major social platforms. You can also follow her on Twitter @SportsGirlSL and Instagram @savannah_leigh_sports.
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Iranian state media outlets reported explosions in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, but officials in the country have said they were caused by air defenses shooting down drones, Reuters reported. Israel has not commented on the events.
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Taylor Swift released her new album, "The Tortured Poets Department," at midnight ET on Friday.Two hours later, she surprise-released a deluxe edition with 15 extra songs.Four of the extra songs were already teased as vinyl exclusives, while the others were kept hidden.
Taylor Swift packed a one-two punch early Friday morning, releasing two versions of her new album mere hours apart.
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Iran's Fars news agency reported that explosions were heard near the Isfahan airport, but emphasized that the reasons were unknown.
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Stocks are set to open in the red on Friday as markets reacted to Israel's apparent strike on Iran. Gold, a safe-haven asset, jumped overnight amid rising fears of a wider Middle East conflict. Brent crude oil prices also shot up before paring gains.
US stocks are set to open lower on Friday after Israel's apparent retaliatory strike against Iran.
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Taylor Swift's new album "The Tortured Poets Department" is almost guaranteed to be a bestseller. But no matter how well it does, it won't be the way Swift earns most of her money this year.In fact, the remaining leg of her Eras tour will add much more to Swift's billion-dollar fortune.
Taylor Swift released her new album "The Tortured Poets Department" at midnight, and, in what should be no surprise to anyone on this planet in the year 2024, it caused a scene.
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Neutrophils are an important part of the immune system, says Iliev, but excessive activity can lead to prolonged inflammation that is characteristic of Covid. “Neutrophils will keep coming because they think there is inflammation and infection,” he adds. “They basically start exploding to make these structures called neutrophil extracellular traps—which, instead of helping you, actually makes the disease worse.”
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It's always fun to see what's coming up in your favorite games. For Fortnite fans, this allegedly leaked image may have just revealed what's happening in 2024 across Battle Royale, Fortnite Festival, LEGO Fortnite, and Rocket Racing.
The image has been floating around on 4chan for a few days now, with leaker iFireMonkey posting it on X, formerly Twitter, on April 19. It's important to note that iFireMonkey is not confirming the contents of the image, nor has it been confirmed by Epic Games, so take everything in the article with a pinch of salt.
Still, it's exciting to look at possible plans for Fortnite, and should they prove to be true, could set us up for an incredible year across all the game modes.
https://twitter.com/iFireMonkey/status/1781176957683573176
I've split the leaks into each game mode below, to make it easy for you to read what could be coming to your favorite mode.
Battle Royale.
Pirates of the Caribbean crossover
Fortnite OG Chapter 2 season
Marvel's Doctor Doom crossover
Fortnite Festival.
Season Three: Billie Eilish
Season Four: Metallica
Season Five: Karol G
Season Six: Snoop Dogg
LEGO Fortnite.
Star Wars Star Destroyer
Klombo
Rocket Racing.
Volcano-themed season
Futuristic-themed season
While none of these are officially confirmed, the idea of building a Star Destroyer in LEGO Fortnite is right up my alley, and I'd love to get stuck into building one in the mode. I'd also be very keen for the Chapter 2 Fortnite OG season, and I know many would love a Pirates of the Caribbean crossover too.
Thankfully, we won't have to wait too long to see if any of this supposed leak is true, as the Pirates and Metallica crossovers are both scheduled for Fortnite Season Three, which kicks off on May 24.
The post All of Fortnite’s 2024 plans may have just leaked, and they look awesome appeared first on Destructoid.
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