Pen-pricks

• The White House may agree to teachers’ union request to slap diversity requirements on charter schools to end their federal funding. Even pre-school reading circles are indoctrination sessions that stifle independent thinking. The cows say moo, the cats say meow, and the sheep say it’s all Putin’s fault.

• Weather Channel reports a rare spring low pressure system coated Southern California, causing freak April showers that left L.A. with the fresh scent of a Southern spring day. Los Angeles looked beautiful. After a rain shower one day, the skies were as clear as Johnny Depp’s schedule.

• The Kentucky Derby was won by 80-1 long shot Rich Strike over the heavy favorite Epicenter on Saturday at Churchill Downs. It was like something you only see in the movies. As Rich Strike was accepting the cup for winning the Derby, Epicenter rushed to the winner’s circle and slapped him.

• The Betty Ford Center reports it’s is experiencing record high patient intakes this year likely due to the at-home drinking and drugging during the pandemic shutdowns.TMZ reported that Lindsay Lohan is hanging around the wrong crowd again. She spent Mother’s Day with her mother.