Kathy Hocul is shopping around the idea of a complete ban of cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products in New York State phased in over a ten year period. One of the ideas would start the ban for those born after a certain date, like 2010. Under that option, anyone born after 2010 would never be able to purchase tobacco in NY.

Can they drink out of a hose?

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Everyone’s betting on fusion to change the game now that science seems to think we’re inches away from cracking the cheap energy source.

Yeah we all feel great about it after seeing a billionaire blow up a rocket.

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An Egyptian lawyer, Mahmoud al-Semary, sued Netflix for casting a black woman as Cleopatra in an upcoming docudrama. “Netflix is trying to provoke confusion by spreading false and deceptive facts that the origin of the Egyptian civilization is Black,” he said, concerned that the show contributes to distortion and erasure of the Egyptian national and cultural identity.

She also didn’t speak English.

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Imagine if the Knicks ever won something important.

Seventh Ave is shut down ! pic.twitter.com/CY49oVKXwj

— Kazeem Famuyide 🇳🇬 🍎 (@Kazeem) April 23, 2023

Chase Koepka scored a hole in one on Sunday at a tourney in Australia and the crowd went nuts showering him with beer and debris.

And we were worried these guys weren’t going to take golf seriously.

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Absolute mayhem at the Watering Hole! ☔️#LIVGolf pic.twitter.com/uoV1vd0Pco

— LIV Golf (@livgolf_league) April 23, 2023

Or maybe they don’t. CNN claims that the dynamic duo’s new show will not be political, but they’re not really saying what these two are going to talk about on their new talk show. The weekly show will be called “King Charles” and run an hour each week starting in the fall. “We don’t want to say, ‘We’re a liberal, conservative, Republican, Democrat’ — that’s one of the things that’s already ruined television in general,” Barkley said.

It will be political, you just don’t know how.

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Baldwin was back on set, with bloodstained clothing, and holding a gun as Rust began filming again. A photo taken on set appears to show Baldwin holding the gun backwards.

Don’t worry about it, he’s above the law.

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Wrexham has won enough games to pop up to the next level of play, graduating to a higher league. Owners Reynolds and McElhenney celebrated the win with Paul Rudd

Who wrote this? The Ted Lasso writers room?

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Murphy the Dragon perished at Disneyland after catching fire. When Black Twitter caught wind of #RIPMurphy trending, people seemed to think Eddie Murphy was gone.

Chill out Black Twitter. No one ever referred to Eddie as “Murphy”.

RIP Murphy the Dragon from Maleficent at Disneyland who went out engulfed in flames. May you rise again one day. Happier times: pic.twitter.com/Hfab1VQAkI

— GioLovesYou 🌋🌻🇺🇦 (@GioLovesYou) April 23, 2023

Only about 6%. The rest of us are exhausted from arguing about these two.

It’s a lot like seeing grumpier old men.

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Next year in Clearwater the stars of Napoleon Dynamite will come together for a live show to celebrate and have a cast reunion after a special screening event.

They can’t wait to tell each other that they haven’t done anything good in two decades.

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After Emily Ratajkowski went viral making out with Harry Styles in Japan last month, “In the case you ask me about, it’s more of the same. I feel bad for Olivia, because she had to suffer this situation on several occasions.”

Just think there was only one person who could stop that from happening.

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He told the independent that he had met an Italian woman who told him the character was offensive. “An Italian woman told me she was offended by it, and I was like, ‘All I’m trying to do is the old comic staple, you know, gibberish and everything.’ And she was like, ‘Right, but my father spoke like that and he actually spoke Italian.’ He added, “Your sensibility changes when you get older. I don’t think I would do that again.”

We all find italians to be offensive, that just means the character worked.

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Future copies of Matthew Perry’s memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing” will no longer include reference to Keanu Reeves. Perry says he feels bad about insulting the actor and the movie John Wick. “I said a stupid thing. It was a mean thing to do,” Perry said according to the LA Times. “I pulled his name because I live on the same street. I’ve apologized publicly to him. Any future versions of the book will not have his name in it. If I run into the guy, I’ll apologize. It was just stupid,”

All of us have forgotten your book. I wouldn’t worry about it.

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