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Craven Trump caves! Trump exempts smartphones, computers from 'reciprocal' tariffs f24.my/B5Zh.BS

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. Frightening! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o... Dial down the condescension. Stop reflexively defending government. Be willing to tick off your own team.

Thor Heyerdahl was right, sort of! 🧪 apnews.com/article/igua...  Iguanas likely crossed the Pacific millions of years ago on a record-setting rafting trip

French Member of European Parliament demands the US 'give us back the Statue of Liberty' f24.my/B1K0.BS

“No one has died as result of a brief pause to do a sanity check on foreign aid funding,” Elon Musk said. “No one.” Peter Donde was a 10-year-old orphan with H.I.V. in the city of Juba who had been getting his medications with the help of a United States-supported outreach program.

1/2 Mtamu Kililo’s company, MycoTile, produces building materials in Kenya that are made out of agricultural waste bonded with the fungal filaments that form the ‘roots’ of oyster mushrooms. “MycoTile’s insulation panels have been installed in a few projects.” www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

🧪evidence of a major meteorite impact 3.5 billion years ago. “Before our discovery, the oldest impact crater was 2.2 billion years old, so this is by far the oldest known crater ever found on Earth,” Professor Johnson said. www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-r...

It appears that the USGS earthquake website is not functioning properly!😱🧪

🧪I'm no expret in this, but it seems like an important thing. "UH Manoa researchers discovered several species of fungi from Hawaii’s nearshore environment have the ability to degrade plastic, with some species conditioned to do it faster than others.

Of the $5 trillion spent by the United States on health care in 2023, roughly 70% was funded “in some shape or form” by taxpayer money.

Foreign Policy magazine asks a very relevant question. Map projections may be key to understand a presidential obsession. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/14/t...

gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o... Trump really seems not to give a crap about the working class. Trump is not a populist. He campaigns as a populist, but once he has power, he is the betrayer of populism.

Let's ask RFK,J how he plans to address this! www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...

🧪The United States seems to have rejoined the Earth for USGS earthquake site after a brief 1-day pause.

Looking at earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/..., it appears that overnight the USGS stopped listing US and territorial quakes between 2.5 and 2.9 magnitude.

The Times of London