Ferrari vows to adapt 2025 F1 car to Lewis Hamilton
Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has revealed the team will aim to adapt its 2025 F1 car to Lewis Hamilton amid the Briton’s declaration that the SF-25 is “alien” to him.
Ferrari vows to adapt 2025 F1 car to Lewis Hamilton
Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has revealed the team will aim to adapt its 2025 F1 car to Lewis Hamilton amid the Briton’s declaration that the SF-25 is “alien” to him.Taylor Powling (Motorsport Week)
These 7 GOP senators are backing a bill to curb Trump's tariff powers
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Seven Republican senators, including Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley, have co-sponsored the bipartisan Trade Review Act, which would revoke presidential tariffs after 60 days without congressional approval.
The bill challenges Trump’s sweeping tariff authority, exercised under his recent "Liberation Day" policy.
Though facing a likely veto and limited legislative prospects, the effort signals GOP divisions over Trump’s trade agenda.
Supporters argue Congress must reclaim its constitutional power over trade, reversing decades of authority ceded to the executive branch. A House version is expected from Rep. Don Bacon.
These 7 GOP senators are trying to curb Trump's tariff powers
Several Republicans signed onto a bill to make Trump's tariffs expire after 60 days if not approved by Congress. The White House says he'd veto it.Bryan Metzger (Business Insider)
Several Republican senators have signed onto the Trade Review Act, a bipartisan bill sponsored by Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington
Way to work with Republicans on the one issue they give a shit about while doing fuck all for human rights you fucking collaborationist scum
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The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens
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The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens
The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.Will Beaudouin (Center for American Progress)
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Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Order to Return Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador
Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Order to Return Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador
The chief justice, acting on his own, issued an “administrative stay,” a brief pause meant to give the court time to consider the matter. The justices are expected to act in the coming days.Adam Liptak (The New York Times)
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Cosa c'è nel “decreto Sicurezza” appena entrato in vigore - Il Post
Cosa c’è nel “decreto Sicurezza” appena entrato in vigore
Nella sostanza non è cambiato molto dal disegno di legge originario, con qualche lieve modifica nei suoi punti più contestatiIl Post
A network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the election
A network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the election - The Logic
The accounts are pumping out thousands of posts about the Canadian economy and alleged support within Canada for U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threat.Martin Patriquin (The Logic Inc.)
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Spain: Tens of thousands protest nationwide housing crisis
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Tens of thousands protested across Spain, including 150,000 in Madrid and 100,000 in Barcelona, over a worsening housing crisis fueled by real estate speculation, foreign ownership, and tourism.
Organizers demand rent cuts, more social housing, and the repurposing of vacant properties. Renters face soaring costs, with many spending over 40% of their income on housing.
Protesters accuse landlords and investment funds of profiting while evictions rise.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has proposed rent caps and limits on foreign ownership, calling the crisis a “social emergency” needing urgent action.
Spain: Tens of thousands protest nationwide housing crisis
Spanish tenants' associations called for a day of national protest over real estate speculation. Renters are increasingly unable to afford housing as the property business booms.Jon Shelton (Deutsche Welle)
On the plus side, he said, both parties shared the same fundamental analysis: that Spain has a basic lack of housing.
rewinds a decade
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_…
In 2013, Raj Badiani, an economist at IHS Global Insight in London, estimated that the value of residential real estate has dropped more than 30 percent since 2007 and that house prices would fall at least 50 percent from the peak by 2015.[10] Alcidi and Gros note; “If construction were to continue at the still relatively high rate of today, the process of absorption of the bubble would take more than 30 years”.[11]In the period for 2007-2013, Spanish house prices fell by 37%.[21] Each year almost a million homes were built in Spain, more than in Germany, France, and England combined.[22]
I guess that housing oversupply issue got solved despite Spain's population size being pretty flat since then.
Spain Population (2025) - Worldometer
Population of Spain: current, historical, and projected population, growth rate, immigration, median age, total fertility rate (TFR), population density, urbanization, urban population, country's share of world population, and global rank.Worldometer
Access to future AI models in OpenAI's API may require a verified ID
Access to future AI models in OpenAI's API may require a verified ID | TechCrunch
OpenAI may soon require organizations to complete an ID verification process in order to access certain future AI models.Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
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Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’
Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’
Microsoft fired the employee who interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event, according to an email sen by The Verge.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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Depending on your closeness to the actual technology I'd be damn tempted to take one for the team and sabotage these projects.
You can't imagine how literally violently mad I would be if any of my work was used to kill people. Doesn't matter who.
LOL they asked her to apologize. Never working for Microsoft. Fuck right the fuck off.
Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.Allison McCann (The New York Times)
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State of Homelessness: 2024 Edition - National Alliance to End Homelessness
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Praesent ornare neque at mauris pellentesque sagittis. Fusce egestas pellentesque porta.National Alliance to End Homelessness
If we move away from the hotel rooms to a bunk bed(like traditional homeless shelters usually are), the number would come down drastically to something like 21 billion. Its possible to end homelessness with the budget for jailing people. Its a choice,
Qual è il mutuo più conveniente oggi in Italia?
Qual è il mutuo più conveniente oggi in Italia?
Mutui in Italia: come scegliere quello più conveniente nel contesto attuale In Italia, il mutuo rappresenta uno strumento fondamentale...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get. People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand
What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get
People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.Xochitl Gonzalez (The Atlantic)
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Here’s the broader situation: 30 percent of American households are classified by Pew as low income, and 19 percent are upper income. And yet a 2024 Gallup survey found that only 12 percent of Americans identified themselves as “lower class” and just 2 percent as “upper class.” In short: No one wants to be perceived as poor, and no one rich ever feels rich enough.
This is just nonsense. Being in the upper class doesn't mean being in the top 19% of earners. Those 19% are middle class and they probably have never even interacted with anyone in the upper class. An upper-class person isn't someone who earns a $100k a year or even $1000k a year. In fact, he probably doesn't even have a job. CBS has a headline right now that says "Trump headlining $1 million a person super PAC dinner as stocks sink over tariffs". The people at his dinner (or the ones who could come but choose not to) are in the upper class.
Edit: As for the rest of the article, it makes a good point about the disconnect between the working class and the middle class, but I'm not sure that this disconnect is bigger now than it used to be.
Edit 2: Part of the disconnect is due to different values rather than different incomes, and this should be emphasized because Trump is popular with the working class (and unpopular with the middle class) not because he doesn't have much money but because he rejects middle-class values.
One can of course always argue over what percentile makes you which class (and to to what degree percentiles are useful for this question in the first place).
As for the question of influence, Piketty for example, while calling the top 10% the "upper class", calls the top 1% the "ruling class", which seems like a decent way to undercore this point.
Donald Trump threatens new 50% tariffs on China
Donald Trump threatens new 50% tariffs on China
The US president warns of the extra tax unless China withdraws its own 34% counter-tariff on US goods.Emma Haslett and Charlotte Edwards (BBC News)
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Who wants to bet that the idea of retaliatory tariffs wasn't gamed out beforehand and they have no strategy?
It seems like if you want a trade war with China, you'd want partners to help you apply pressure and replace Chinese goods you can't do without. Maybe somewhere like Vietnam for cheap labor; Canada for rare-earth minerals; and the EU to buy expensive American goods and services. Oh no.
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US Justice Dept mobilized armed Marshals to warn ex-lawyer over congressional testimony
Oyer has since told various media outlets that her firing came shortly after she declined to recommend restoring gun rights to actor Mel Gibson, a supporter of President Donald Trump.
She is one of several Justice Department officials slated to testify on Monday afternoon before a hearing organized by Democrats in the House of Representatives and Senate about the Trump administration's treatment of the Justice Department and law firms who act in cases disliked by the Republican president.Democratic U.S. Senator Adam Schiff of California called the mobilization of the Marshals to deliver a letter an effort to "intimidate and silence" Oyer, while U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland compared it to a move "ripped straight from the gangster playbook."
EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech
EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech - Techzine Global
EU prepares countermeasures to Trump tariffs with focus on Big Tech digital services after the 20% import tax on European products.Coen van Eenbergen (Techzine)
No, not tariffs. Tariffs would make Europeans pay more.
Hit the US where it hurts: intellectual property. The US forced the rest of the world to adopt its absurd intellectual property protections as a condition of getting tariff-free access to the US markets. Now that the US has reneged on that, the EU should restore rights to EU citizens that were restricted with these new laws.
‘Hands Off’ protests take off across US to oppose Trump agenda – live
‘Hands Off’ protests take off across US and Europe to oppose Trump agenda – as it happened
Protesters gather at more than a thousand events across the US and in cities abroad, such as London, Berlin and Paris. This blog is now closed.Maya Yang (The Guardian)
A very sad thing is that it's a protest. Even if it was reported on what would happen? What is the result of any of this?
Now imagine all those people went online and just created and shared content. Imagine all those people creating 5 things a week. They countered every bullshit on YouTube. If they countered every ounce of bullshit on Reddit. If they fucked with the algorithm by calling out the Rogan sphere and other podcasters making them look like the dumb asses they are. If they just culture jammed the fuck out of this broken fucking culture. But they don't.
They drive 2 hrs to stand in the cold hoping a media that doesn't listen will spread a message. I bet the protestors are not very clear on what the expected result is here either. Most probably seen that someone asked them to show up and they did. They're willing to do the work but in my opinion, it's directed into an energy sink with minimal reward. I think we can do better with understanding how content is king. How this is about culture and message and ideas rather than old school methods like protest in the streetds. People can laugh all they want thinking online content is just stupid jokes. It is. But also it's culture and this is about culture.
When Republicans and Russia wanted to change our culture to favor the right wing they didn't invest millions into protests. They hired influencers and created networks. They paid college kids to make memes. They ran bot farms to flood spaces with comments that dismissed opinions that didn't favor their view. Money and power were directed to dumb assholes that could get more people on brand. Joe Rogan went from being a dumb comedian to a platform to introducing people to those networks. And it branched out from there. It was strategic. All I'm saying is we all should think more systematically and strategically. Protests have a use case. I'm not sure how effective it is in a digital world. Protests should evolve I think.
We won't beat corporate funded media in their game.
You think those people aren't online?
This is exactly my point. You're proving it. The left have no idea what they're doing. This is why the right are winning. They aren't wasting their effort and time. They're targeting key areas using modern techniques and even inventing their own. The left are so hell bent on this romanticized ideals of the hippie putting flowers into barrels that they haven't progressed at all. It has cost so much and will continue to lead us into obscurity or worse.
I'll tell you what, let's come back in a couple weeks and see what these protests accomplished
Do they? I've seen the headlines but do they really?
Every few years it seems like they are circling the same drain as everyone else.
Protests where we all just gather and walk around aren't effective. You need to be proactive and anticipatory. We saw it with George Floyd protests. There's no win. Either people will show up and go home. Or, the protests will grow to a point that it becomes out of control. When it's out of control then the police salivate and pull out their black book training manual for how to beat hippies and they get to work. Just as a farmer leads his cows to slaughter. The police have solved the protestor problem. You will not win. Tactics need to adapt
Congo, M23 rebels hold first talks after months of conflict
DOHA, April 5 (Reuters) - Congo's government and M23 rebels last week held private talks in Qatar for the first time since the rebels conducted a lightning offensive in the country's east, a source briefed on the discussions told Reuters.
The talks, which will continue next week in Doha, offer the greatest hope of a halt to hostilities since M23 seized eastern Congo's two largest cities, a rapid advance that since January has resulted in thousands of deaths and forced hundreds of thousands more from their homes.
The fighting has raised fears of a wider regional war, as Congo's neighbours Uganda and Burundi also have troops in the region.
Reuters reported last week that Kinshasa and M23 planned to hold their first direct talks in Doha on April 9. But the source with knowledge of the situation said private talks were also held last week.
They were positive, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity, and prompted the rebels to withdraw from the strategic town of Walikale, in an area rich in minerals including tin, as a goodwill gesture.
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Judge Rejects Government’s Attempt to Dismiss EFF Lawsuit Against OPM, DOGE, and Musk
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/35711976
A lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from disclosing tens of millions of Americans’ private, sensitive information to Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) can continue, a federal judge ruled Thursday.Judge Denise L. Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York partially rejected the defendants’ motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which was filed Feb. 11 on behalf of two labor unions and individual current and former government workers across the country. This decision is a victory: The court agreed that the claims that OPM illegally disclosed highly personal records of millions of people to DOGE agents can move forward with the goal of stopping that ongoing disclosure and requiring that any shared information be returned.
Cote ruled current and former federal employees "may pursue their request for injunctive relief under the APA [Administrative Procedure Act]. ... The defendants’ Kafkaesque argument to the contrary would deprive the plaintiffs of any recourse under the law."
Judge Rejects Government’s Attempt to Dismiss EFF Lawsuit Against OPM, DOGE, and Musk
NEW YORK—A lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from disclosing tens of millions of Americans’ private, sensitive information to Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) can continue, a federal judge r…Electronic Frontier Foundation
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DOJ demands SCOTUS stop judge from forcing Trump to return wrongfully deported father
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With just hours to go before the Trump administration has to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a protected Maryland resident who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador as part of President Donald Trump’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants under an 18th-century wartime authority — back to the United States as part of a judge’s order, the Justice Department has tossed up a “Hail Mary” bid to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to put the kibosh on the efforts.
“On Friday afternoon, a federal district judge in Maryland ordered unprecedented relief: dictating to the United States that it must not only negotiate with a foreign country to return an enemy alien on foreign soil, but also succeed by 11:59 p.m. tonight,” wrote Solicitor General D. John Sauer in the DOJ’s Supreme Court application to vacate the order.
“This order sets the United States up for failure,” Sauer said.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday granted a preliminary injunction and gave the DOJ just over three days to facilitate bringing Abrego Garcia back to the country, referring to his deportation as “an illegal act” in her order. The 29-year-old was sent to El Salvador on March 15 in error as part of President Trump’s proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to rush through mass deportations — which have since been blocked by a federal judge — without providing due process to those being flown out of the country, often not to their country of origin. Abrego Garcia was in the country with protected legal status at the time of his deportation. His wife and 5-year-old child are U.S. citizens. The DOJ admitted to the lower court on Friday that his deportation was an “administrative error,” leading to the suspension of a 15-year DOJ vet who made the public confession.
On Sunday, Xinis issued a 22-page opinion saying she would not back off from forcing the Department of Homeland Security and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who are being sued, to return Abrego Garcia to U.S. soil. The DOJ filed an emergency motion to stay Xinis’ preliminary injunction on Saturday with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and lower court, “given the urgency of harms to the government,” the DOJ filings said. The 4th Circuit denied the motion on Monday shortly before the DOJ filed its Supreme Court application.
DOJ demands SCOTUS stop judge from forcing Trump to return wrongfully deported father
The Trump administration tossed up a "Hail Mary" bid to SCOTUS on Monday, asking it to stop the return of a protected Maryland resident who was sent to El Salvador just hours before they have to.Law & Crime
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Which Trump-supporting billionaires have lost the most in tariff markets turmoil?
Which Trump-supporting billionaires have lost the most in tariff markets turmoil?
Wealth of world’s richest tycoons shrinks as US president’s trade war spooks investorsMark Sweney (The Guardian)
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Hamas slams US claim it uses ambulances for ‘terrorism’ after medics killed
“[The remarks] are a hideous example of immoral solidarity with the Nazis of our time in their brutal war against defenceless civilians and humanitarian organisations,” the group said.
“Hughes’s accusations that Hamas is using ambulances are pure lies, devoid of any evidence, propagated by the US administration, alongside the government of war criminal Netanyahu, to justify its heinous and documented crime against paramedics and rescue workers.”
Updates: Netanyahu meets Trump as Israeli attacks continue in Gaza
Israeli forces kill two in attack on a tent housing journalists and issue new displacement orders for Deir el-Balah.Ted Regencia (Al Jazeera)
YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy
YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy
TariffTokers, Gen Z’s ‘it couple’, Easter potatoes, anti-MAGA hats, Zuck's D.C. mansion, Amazon's TikTok bid, Silicon Valley's cupid, and the fastest growing political channels on YouTubeTaylor Lorenz (User Mag)
The Kleptocracy Presidency | Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.
The Kleptocracy Presidency
Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.Anne Applebaum (The Atlantic)
Trump asks Supreme Court to block order requiring US bring back man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/25857740
This is INSANE! Trump is asking the Supreme Court to bless his administration screwing up TO THE POINT THEY CEEDED CUSTODY OF A PERSON THEY DIDN’T HAVE LEGAL CUSTODY OVER and not require them to fix it?If SCOTUS backs Trump here, literally all is lost. Due process will have NO MEANING if this isn’t fixed ASAP.
Remember, if they did it to this guy the only thing stopping them from doing it to you or me is dumb luck.
https://www.kmbc.com/article/supreme-court-mistaken-deportation-case/64408087
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Anyone who's watched Trump for any length of time shouldn't be at all surprised by this. Just ask the five Black men who wrongfully spent years in jail for the 1989 assault of a jogger in Central Park, before being exonerated in 2002 due to DNA evidence and a confession by the man who actually did it; because a full fourteen years after their release from prison, Trump maintained that they were guilty (and probably still does).
The man is biologically incapable of apologizing or taking responsibility for his actions.
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 32, mostly women and children
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The Real Housewives of Hasbara: When the Gaza War Is Good for Business
Makes me wonder how deep does the algorithm divide go.
In these 1.5 years I was never served an explicitly pro-Israel content. On the other hand I was served pro-Palestinian and even some anti-Israel creators.
Sure this is just anecdotal, but there must be something behind it. The algorithmic bubble, or intentional manipulation, idk?
EU offers Trump removal of all industrial tariffs
Summary
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen offered a “zero-for-zero” deal to eliminate all industrial tariffs with the U.S., following Trump’s 20% tariff hike on EU goods.
The offer revives a proposal from a decade ago that was nearly finalized under the TTIP — the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership — that was ultimately scuppered by Trump in his first term.
The deal would cover cars, chemicals, and other industrial goods. Trump's tariffs have rattled global markets, with EU stocks seeing their steepest drop since COVID-19.
The EU warned it is also ready with countermeasures if negotiations fail.
EU offers Trump removal of all industrial tariffs
“Europe is always ready for a good deal,” says Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.Koen Verhelst (POLITICO)
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Because it's something the EU wanted and didn't get in the last round. It'll be funny if Trump accepts because it basically concedes that his negotiating position is weaker than it was eight years ago.
I'm with you though. I think a united front from all the countries where Trump imposed tariffs would be more effective at nipping this nonsense in the bud. And I think countries are shortsighted if they don't recognize that the U.S. is becoming a fundamentally unreliable negotiating partner and their approach to negotiating with the U.S. should reflect that.
Trump Orders Four Mile Military Parade for His 79th Birthday
President Donald Trump is making plans for a military parade in Washington, D.C., on his 79th birthday, according to a report.
A source in the capital told the Washington City Paperthat Trump has earmarked June 14—which is the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army—for the event.
The display of military might will march around four miles from the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, to the White House, the D.C. source told the publication.
Trump Will Get His Showy (And Likely Expensive) Military Parade in D.C.
Trump’s 2018 plans for a parade of military tanks and planes down Pennsylvania Avenue NW were scuttled. But this year no one will stop him.Tom Sherwood (Washington City Paper)
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All the fucked up authoritarians did/do.
Kim Jong, Stalin, Mao, Mirziyoyev, Putin…now Trump.
The world reacts to Trump's sweeping tariffs: 'No basis in logic'
Summary
Global leaders criticized Trump’s new tariffs, which range from 10% to 49%, warning of trade wars and economic fallout.
The UK and Italy urged negotiation, while Brazil passed a reciprocity bill. China and South Korea vowed countermeasures.
Australia and New Zealand rejected Trump’s logic, citing existing trade deals and low tariffs. Norfolk Island was baffled by a 29% duty despite having no exports.
Financial markets dropped, oil and bitcoin sank, and leaders warned of inflation. Analysts say Trump risks fracturing global trade with little to gain economically.
The World Reacts To Trump's Sweeping Tariffs: 'No Basis In Logic'
“Nobody wants a trade war," said one British official.AP (HuffPost)
The First Victim of Trump’s Trade War: Michigan’s Economy
Paywall - archive.ph link here
Excerpt:
If President Trump’s trade war has a physical battleground, it is Michigan, where companies and workers are already feeling the beginning of an onslaught that could blow a hole in the state’s economy.
Nearly 20% of the economy is tied to the auto industry, which has become increasingly dependent on parts and vehicles from Canada, Mexico and China—imports Trump hit with steep tariffs in recent weeks. This trade has grown so large that Michigan ranks fifth in the nation by the size of its imports and exports, even though its total economy ranks 14th.
Detroit’s automotive executives have shifted into battle mode. They are stockpiling imported components, wrestling with suppliers over price increases and setting up war rooms to figure out how to cut costs.
Workers at the state’s biggest auto factories are tightening their belts, too, in case tariffs spark layoffs by causing a spike in vehicle prices and a drop in demand. Some early moves have added to their jitters. Hours after the latest tariffs took effect last week, Jeep parent Stellantis temporarily laid off about 900 workers in Michigan and Indiana who supply parts to factories in Canada and Mexico that the company idled at the same time.
One auto executive early last week darkly predicted “Chernobyl” if tariffs broadly hit imported parts, which they’re scheduled to do next month. Industry executives and analysts later said what the administration outlined Wednesday was worse than they expected.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/the-first-victim-of-trumps-trade-war-michigans-economy-ea6ff8b2
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salvinanza mattoide contro la sinistra che odia — vs adolescente pazzo nazista odiatore
So che ridere o lamentarmi di Salvini ormai è praticamente come sparare sulla Croce Rossa… ma non è colpa mia se lui si mette in condizione di dire cose (stavo per scrivere “o fare”, ma lui non fa mai niente, parla solo…) che vengono completamente ribaltate o smentite dall’universo nel giro di giorni! E stavolta […]
Palestinian teenager who died in Israeli prison showed signs of starvation, medical report says
Seventeen-year-old Walid Ahmad, who had been held for six months without being charged, suffered from extreme malnutrition, and also showed signs of inflammation of the colon and scabies, said a report written by Dr. Daniel Solomon, who watched the autopsy, conducted by Israeli experts, at the request of the boy’s family.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of Solomon’s report from the family. It did not conclude a cause of death, but said Ahmad was in a state of extreme weight loss and muscle wasting. It also noted that Ahmad had complained to the prison of inadequate food since at least December, citing reports from the prison medical clinic.
Palestinian teenager ~~who died in Israeli prison showed signs of starvation~~ starved to death by zio terrorists, medical report says
Imperial news up to its old tricks...
They didn't list a cause of death, so it could be the case that they just shot him to death after starving him for a while.
Not that that's better...
Full DC Circuit Unfires—For Now—NLRB, MSPB Board Members That Trump Lawlessly Axed
Full DC Circuit Unfires—For Now—NLRB, MSPB Board Members That Trump Lawlessly Axed
The full U.S. Court of Appeals for DC has reinstated a member of the National Labor Relations Board and a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board that…John Light (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too
Amazon’s recent decision to stop allowing people to download copies of their Kindle e-books to a computer has vindicated some of my longstanding beliefs about digital media. Specifically, that it doesn’t exist and you don’t own it unless you can copy and access it without being connected to the internet.The recent move by the megacorp and its shiny-headed billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos is another large brick in the digital wall that tech companies have been building for years to separate consumers from the things they buy—or from their perspective, obtain “licenses” to. Starting Wednesday, Kindle users will no longer be able to download purchased books to a computer, where they can more easily be freed of DRM restrictions and copied to e-reader devices via USB. You can still send ebooks to other devices over WiFi for now, but the message the company is sending is one tech companies have been telegraphing for years: You don’t “own” anything digital, even if you paid us for it. The Kindle terms of service now say this, explicitly. “Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you,” meaning you don’t “buy a book,” you obtain a “digital content license.”
The situation brings to mind an interview I did over a decade ago, with the executive of a now-defunct streaming platform. He told me candidly that the goal of all this was to make digital media a “utility” like gas or electricity—a faucet that dispenses the world’s art as “content,” with tech companies in complete control of what goes in the tank and what comes out of it.
Hearing this was a real tin foil hat moment for me. For more than two decades, I’ve been what some might call a hoarder but what I’ve more affectionately dubbed a “digital packrat.” Which is to say I mostly avoid streaming services, I don’t trust any company or cloud with my digital media, and I store everything as files on devices that I physically control. My mp3 collection has been going strong since the Limewire days, I keep high-quality rips of all my movies on a local media server, and my preferred reading device holds a large collection of DRM-free ebooks and PDFs—everything from esoteric philosophy texts and scientific journals to scans of lesbian lifestyle magazines from the 1980s.
Sure, there are websites where you can find some of this material, like the Internet Archive. But this archive is mine. It’s my own little Library of Alexandria, built from external hard drives, OCD, and a strong distrust of corporations. I know I’m not the only one who has gone to these lengths. Sometimes when I’m feeling gloomy, I imagine how when society falls apart, we packrats will be the only ones in our village with all six seasons of The Sopranos. At the rate we’re going, that might not be too far off.
The Digital Packrat Manifesto
DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too.Janus Rose (404 Media)
Yes, my physical library is pretty decent but my current digital one can fit on just a few external HDs. :/
China Displaces U.S. as Global Leader in Research - FPIF
The latest Nature Index rankings reveal an astonishing trend: nine of the world’s top 10 research institutions are now ChineseTo fully appreciate China’s meteoric rise, one must look back at the academic landscape a decade ago. When the Nature Index Global rankings were first released in 2014, only eight Chinese universities made it into the top 100. Today, that number has more than quintupled, with 42 Chinese institutions now ranking among the world’s best
One of the most notable policy shifts has been the move away from publication-based evaluation metrics. Previously, Chinese academics were incentivized to publish as many papers as possible, often at the expense of quality. However, recent reforms have introduced a more rigorous peer-review system that prioritizes impactful and innovative research over sheer volume. This shift has resulted in a significant improvement in the credibility and global influence of Chinese scientific output.
China Displaces U.S. as Global Leader in Research - FPIF
Nine of the world’s top 10 research institutions are now Chinese.John Feffer (Foreign Policy In Focus)
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Top Trump Official So Freaked Out by Tariffs, He Wants to Quit - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may be planning to cut and run
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may be planning to cut and run after Donald Trump’s disastrous “reciprocal tariff” announcement earlier this week.
During an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Friday, contributor Stephanie Ruhle reported that the key Cabinet member is already looking for an escape hatch.
“My sources say that Scott Bessent is kind of the odd man out here and, in the inner circle that Trump has, he’s not even close to Scott Bessent or listening to him,” Ruhle said. “Some have said to me, he’s looking for an exit door to try to get himself to the Fed, because in the last few days he’s really hurting his own credibility and history in the markets.”
To be sure, Trump’s tariff policy represents a sort of defeat for Bessent, a former hedge fund manager who entered office under the delusion that he might actually succeed in stopping Trump from wrecking the economy. Should he flee the administration now, he would likely forfeit what little credibility remains.
Bessent warned other countries Wednesday not to make any rash decisions in reaction to Trump’s sweeping “retaliatory tariff” policy, which included a 10 percent baseline tariff on almost every country in the world.
“My advice to every country right now is: Do not retaliate. Sit back, take it in, let’s see how it goes. Because if you retaliate, there will be escalation. If you don’t retaliate, this is the high-water mark,” he warned.
Bessent’s warning came off particularly clueless given that democratically elected foreign leaders are likely beholden to their electorate, who won’t take lightly to Trump’s blatant bullying.
Ruhle’s sources told her Bessent must understand just how ridiculous Trump’s tariff policy is because he “actually understands how the markets work, and what’s happening right now is only going to hurt markets,” she said.
And it already has: The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite experienced their single worst sessions since 2020 on Thursday. Bessent’s nomination had received strong Republican support because of his experience with financial markets.
Top Trump Official So Freaked Out by Tariffs, He Wants to Quit
And so the revolving door of Donald Trump’s Cabinet members begins.The New Republic
In this scenario, it may actually good advice - we don’t have one victim here. We have a bully that’s been successfull enough that he’s trying to bully the whole school. While he could never stand up to a united school, you can’t control whether all the victims will stand up.
However bullying everyone is unsustainable. Nobody has time for that. Any victim that stands up too tall will get the bully’s focused attention, while victims that kind of roll with it will be quickly forgotten about and ignored. The most important thing for the bully is to say “I win”, and it doesn’t hurt you for him to say that
Taiwan stocks plummet in biggest one-day drop on record after US tariffs
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What Eddy Burback got wrong about his phone... [Discussion of Fediverse as an alternative within]
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What Eddy Got Wrong About His Phone
Eddy's solution of locking his phone in a safe is not a sustainable solution. So I wanted to explore what I believe to be the next best thing!Gardiner Bryant (The Bryant Blog)
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I loved his video, but there were some pretty key actions that he could have done to reduce his phone usage, e.g., limiting/deleting his social media apps, reviewing/turning off his notifications, or setting Focus times to limit distractions during productive times of the day.
Fun experiment overall, but I wasn’t expecting any new revelations on attention spans from a comedian.
I think he made a good video but I couldn't stop thinking about this new "anti-consumerism consumerism". So many "I needed my phone to do x, so I bought this to do that." Even without the immediate ability to buy anything anywhere he is fundamentally locked into this mindset of "I need so I buy".
Could have used parental controls(like so many "adults" need to have their friends set on their phone) and locked your phone as only a phone. Delete every app that isn't essential. You can make your phone useless when you're bored, you can pick it up but nothing will be there to give you "relief". No distractions, no ability to install distractions. Your phone is yours, you can have it do whatever you want. I guess some people are just so addicted they can't even be near it. They're like people that stop smoking just to get addicted to vaping. Still addicted, just not to the old dirty style of getting your fix.
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DOJ Argues Courts Have ‘No Authority’ to Direct Trump to Bring Home Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador
Trump DOJ Says Courts Have ‘No Authority’ to Direct Admin on Bringing Home Maryland Man Wrongl ...
The Trump DOJ filed a brief Sunday saying federal courts cannot order the administration bringing home wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia.Caleb Howe (Mediaite)
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in reply to GreenEngineering3475 • • •On the one hand, this could easily shaft Leclerc.
On the other hand, maybe input from a vastly experienced driver could help the team altogether.
I seriously hope it's the second one, they tortured Charles enough