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And add Canada to this growing list of countries issuing travel warnings for the U.S..👇

submitted 39 days ago • 45 comments

This is a fantastic point -- I think it better describes why I'm emphatically opposed to LLMs replacing front line government staff. The problems you could run into at a field office for almost any service can get *weird* and it's super easy for an LLM to mess it up. #civictech

submitted 41 days ago • 6 comments

The Trump administration announced that it would be freezing over $175 million in federal funding to Penn on March 19, citing the University's failure to bar transgender athletes from women's sports. www.thedp.com/article/2025...

submitted 41 days ago • 6 comments

This is ridiculous

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Explore how Rice University is advancing carbon nanomaterials for climate technology in my conversation on the Beyond The Hedges podcast about DexMat's revolutionary Galvorn and the future of sustainable materials.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Collaborators with the fascists.

submitted 45 days ago • 1761 comments

Senator Mark Kelly is getting rid of his Tesla, saying, “I don’t want to be driving a car built and designed by an asshole.” This comes just days after Elon Musk called the astronaut and decorated veteran a “traitor” for supporting Ukraine.

submitted 45 days ago • 78 comments

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

submitted 47 days ago • 504 comments

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

submitted 47 days ago • 703 comments

AOC slammed Mike Johnson, saying: “You run the government. If you have the votes, then go ahead. If you need Democrats, then you need to negotiate with Democrats. Those are your two options. Blaming someone else because your shoes are untied isn’t one.”

submitted 47 days ago • 335 comments

I live in a blue bubble. Things aren’t going to get better until this graph changes.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

The funniest thing about all this is Joe Biden built a "bring back US manufacturing" button and Trump could have just kept pressing it but instead he insisted on smashing the "crash the stock market" button

submitted 48 days ago • 71 comments

If it's not fully setting in how ominous this is, try reading it this way:

submitted 51 days ago • 31 comments

I had to bring this here because it’s so good

submitted 51 days ago • 1463 comments

Wasserman Schultz: "I think this important fact should sink in for everyone: Donald Trump, in his first month in office, has fired more veterans than any president in history."

submitted 52 days ago • 144 comments

Which US state has the most billion dollar weather and climate disasters? It’s not California and it’s not Florida - it’s Texas. As this article explains, the only state subject to more wildfires than Texas is California. Texas even leads California in acreage burned.

submitted 55 days ago • 18 comments

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

submitted 56 days ago • 2085 comments

No one in DC can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not follow laws passed by Congress. No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States. Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.

submitted 56 days ago • 128 comments

Protestors met JD Vance in Vermont when he went to vacation there today. This is a good one:

submitted 58 days ago • 616 comments

WOW. After yesterday’s Oval Office ambush of President Zelensky, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway’s leading marine fuel providers, announced that it will no longer refuel U.S. Navy vessels, urging other European firms to follow suit. The United States is weaker and more isolated than ever.

submitted 58 days ago • 1363 comments

The roof is open today at the Ice Box for the Owls and the Vols.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

what a day

submitted 59 days ago • 509 comments

The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow forecast for the first quarter was just revised to show a contraction at a 1.5% annual rate. This would be the first quarterly contraction in the economy since the first quarter of 2022. The forecast was slashed from an expansion at a 2.3% rate …

submitted 59 days ago • 12 comments

How it started / How it’s going

submitted 60 days ago • 101 comments