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Midnight - Claudette Colbert in the Charles Brackett-Billy Wilder Comedy, MIDNIGHT share.google/Ft9AmcNLnK5E...
Pit Boss for Moe Dalitz, back before Vegas and then from the get go at the Desert Inn. On the job everyday until he was 90.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Without Trump’s trade wars since 2017, US exports to China would have been nearly 60 percent higher in 2025, or roughly $90 billion annually.
www.piie.com/blogs/realti...
Stop dooming. When we regain transparency there are surely crimes committed that will be fully documented and fully within the statutes of limitations. Also, Merrick Garland will not be the Attorney General.
Statement from Jasmine Crockett.
And, Talarico (D) takes the raw vote lead w/ a 76%-23% rout of Crockett (D) in Travis. Co. (Austin). This isn't on track to be a blowout, but he's the clear favorite. #TXSEN
EVERCORE, on Senate midterms:
“.. if you apply the +9pt differential over 2024 seen in the NJ/VA gubernatorial elections, the Democrats would pick up NC and Maine.
“.. they need to pull out one more victory out of .. Alaska, Iowa and Texas .. where tonight will have major implications.”
DENMARK SAYS ITS WILLING TO FUND FRENCH EU+ DETERRENT POLICY
After Macrons speech yesterday Denmark is willing to assist in funding an EU+ nuclear deterrence policy. Others are expected to follow. It’s quite extraordinary how quickly the realities of the situation are dawning on EU+ nations.
“What’s not spiking today is the cost of wind and solar,” said Manish Bapna, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council “National security hawks should be clean energy hawks.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/c...
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
Trump abandons attempts to impose potentially crippling executive orders against law firms that refused to capitulate to him, walking away from its appeal of victories the firms had won against the White House. @jonesieman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
List of national rulers who've been in power since 2000: Hassanal Bolkiah Obiang Biya Museveni Mswati III Afwerki Rahmon Kagame Lukashenka Sassou Nguesso Abdullah II Guelleh Mohammed VI Putin
With Khamenei's death confirmed, there are now 14 national rulers (de facto) who've been in power for the entirety of the 21st century.
"The 15-Hour City believes everything has its place. Houses go in one location, businesses in another, and in between is a dark sea of soul-crushing concrete and asphalt."
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The problem with the war in Iraq was that George Bush was an idiot. With the Iran situation, we've got... [checks notes]... oh jesus christ
Breaking news: The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, according to American and Israeli officials, as large explosions resounded in Tehran.
🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) for refusing to turn over key records related to his office’s sweeping 2025 voter roll purge — a purge that canceled nearly 471,000 registrations, about 6% of the state’s voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
NEW: Voting rights groups are suing Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) for cancelling nearly 471,000 voter registrations — about 6% of voters — and allegedly failing to fully share records explaining how the purge was carried out.
www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...
Leaked audio from a company-wide meeting has revealed that David Zaslav thinks it will take at least 6-12 months for the Warner Bros/Paramount deal to close.
“The deal may not close. If it doesn't close, we get $7 billion, and we get back to work.”
(Source: www.businessinsider.com/warner-bros-...)
Need to outlaw AI mimicking a human persona. There is no need at all for information to be presented this way. Indeed, no reason at all other than to try to make it more addictive for some users.
“The American dream turns into the American nightmare as we start to look at what we’re doing to biodiversity and systems that we depend on as humans."
Jack was having to lay off a bunch of people anyway (yes, they're in trouble) and Elon laid off a bunch of people because he's Elon. Change is coming but these two are only models of what not to do.
“The court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt — again and again and again — to force the US government to comply with court orders.”
New ruling by a federal judge as ICE & the Trump admin refuse to obey courts.
The Trump administration’s latest policy of deporting immigrants to “third countries” to which they have no ties is unlawful and must be set aside, a federal judge ruled in a case that already reached the nation’s highest court.
What actual businesses are they talking about? The number of Saas companies that could go to zero is not anything like dotcom bust era. And AI winning is going to create winners as well for same issuers, not all catastrophe.
Read @gregsargent.bsky.social on the paramilitary industrial complex. newrepublic.com/article/2069...
What conservatives did to Bud Light in 2023, that's what progressives should do to ChatGPT in 2026.
OpenAI is so vulnerable right now. With enough pressure, I think it's actually possible to take the whole company down.
quitgpt.org
We need stats on outlet assist leaders with pass going at least 50 feet. Style points in separate column.