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'Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!' #finance #law #markets #economics #politics #foreignaffairs Analytical opinions. (Also on Twitter, Threads @ml8_ml8)
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CNN @cnn.com · 22h
Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said that his non-resident visa to enter the United States had been rejected, adding that he believes it may be because he recently criticized US President Donald Trump. https://cnn.it/47fubMv
If you're an indie artist and not using AI run A/B experiments to reverse engineer any social media's algorithm, you're not doing it right. Hacking the algos just requires the smallest bit of science.
Singer Sophia James went viral for creating exclusive groups on TikTok as a “science experiment” to promote her music. She can’t believe it worked.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that Democrats would vote for Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-Mo.) bill to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program amid the government shutdown.
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This is a President, indeed an entire administration, that simply does what it wants until someone makes them stop, and even sometimes then they do not. Their open contempt for Courts is one of the things that most concerns me. Another is their willingness to use the military domestically.
A federal judge ruled that President Trump’s acting U.S. attorney in Los Angeles has been “unlawfully serving in that role,” marking the third time a court has disqualified one of the administration’s top prosecutors.
Judge rules Trump’s U.S. attorney in Los Angeles is serving unlawfully
This marks the third disqualification of a Trump-appointed prosecutor. The Justice Department is expected to appeal the decision.
www.washingtonpost.com
This sounds like a fun time.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 2d
Patients sometimes find themselves scrambling for affordable care when their insurer and hospital get into a contract dispute. Here are six things to know if that happens to you.
6 things to know if your doctors are suddenly out of network
Patients sometimes find themselves scrambling for affordable care when their insurer and hospital get into a contract dispute. Here are six things to know if that happens to you.
n.pr
Central planning of the economy going well. Add this to taxing imports so we can give soybean farmers 10s of billions to not sell product to China, and state ownership of major industrial companies.
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Never before has the world’s reigning superpower intentionally dismantled a system designed to sustain its own leadership, particularly while those trappings were returning enormous benefits, write Rebecca Lissner and Mira Rapp-Hooper.
Opinion | Trump Is Forcing the World Into a New Era of Disorder
Without a plan for what comes next, the United States is not only hastening its own decline but also forcing the world into a new era of disorder.
www.nytimes.com
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⚡️Ukrainian drones target Moscow in overnight attack, mayor says.

Moscow's Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports have temporarily suspended operations in response to the drone threat.
Ukrainian drones target Moscow in overnight attack, mayor says
Moscow's Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports have temporarily suspended operations in response to the drone threat.
kyivindependent.com
Harris had already secured the nomination, so she was trying to "run to the middle."
This is true, but you have to think about how politics works structurally. When a Politician is trying to pick up votes, they move to the middle, presuming they've already secured the votes to the more extreme side and trying to poach votes from their opponent.
Sorry, but if she can't beat Trump, then she cannot beat a ham sandwich much less a more viable Republican opponent. If she wants to rehabilitate herself, she could run for Governor or perhaps the Senate. Really, she should seek a position like UN Ambassador or maybe head of a major non-profit.
... chaser. Not a major player in the global drug trade?
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Hours after receiving a pardon from President Donald Trump, Binance Holdings Ltd.’s billionaire co-founder Changpeng Zhao issued a thank-you message mid-flight — and signaled his renewed ambitions for the world’s largest crypto exchange.
Binance’s CZ Prepares for Second Act as Trump Wipes Slate Clean
Hours after receiving a pardon from President Donald Trump, Binance Holdings Ltd.’s billionaire co-founder Changpeng Zhao issued a thank-you message mid-flight — and signaled his renewed ambitions for the world’s largest crypto exchange.
bloom.bg
Shot. Major player in the global drug trade? ....
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 5d
The US Treasury Department announced on Friday that it is sanctioning Colombian President Gustavo Petro “for his role in the global illicit drug trade.”

More details: https://cnn.it/42WvSMo
Oh my.
Exclusive: The Indian government allegedly directed $3.9 billion from the state-owned Life Insurance Corporation to India’s second richest man Gautam Adani’s businesses amid the mogul’s legal and financial challenges, a Post investigation reveals.
India’s $3.9 billion plan to help Modi’s mogul ally after U.S. charges
Internal documents detail how Indian officials oversaw a plan to steer billions in investments to Gautam Adani’s businesses from the state life insurance agency.
www.washingtonpost.com
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The Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigation Unit exposes Russia’s vast system that indoctrinates Ukrainian children, using education and leisure programs in occupied territories to build Russia’s future army.

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZGm...
Exposing Russia’s indoctrination of Ukrainian children
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent
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🇵🇸 The World Health Organization said there has been little improvement in the amount of aid going into Gaza since a ceasefire took hold -- and no observable reduction in hunger.
➡️ u.afp.com/SsR7
Kids these days call this being a "try hard."
“The clear desire to align himself with power at all costs, wherever that power might be, is one of the reasons he’s getting rejected so hard online. It’s a misunderstanding of the moment," a Democratic strategist told WIRED.
The Andrew Cuomo Campaign Is All in on MAGA Influencers
With the NYC mayoral race coming to a close, Andrew Cuomo is courting right-wing creators.
www.wired.com
Ka-pow! Great idea.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said he is creating an independent commission to build a public record of the conduct of federal agents engaged in aggressive immigration actions in his state with plans to use the information later to hold them accountable.
JB Pritzker Creates Watchdog for Federal Immigration Actions in Illinois
The governor signed an executive order to establish the Illinois Accountability Commission.
on.wsj.com
"Many Presidents" have tripled the size of the White House with gaudy glom ons?
lol, only if Qatar and major Islamic countries contribute heavily, and only if Israel gives their construction companies free access to Gaza, both of which seem impossibly unlikely.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 7d
Vice President JD Vance left Israel with an optimistic note, saying Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza strip, could be rebuilt in two to three years. https://cnn.it/4nDfF6p
Just wow.
President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the crypto exchange Binance, according to people familiar with the matter, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company.

www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Exclusive | Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder
The pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost Trump crypto company
www.wsj.com