China Drops to No. 3 Holder of Treasuries, Falling Behind UK
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/china-falls-to-no-2-holder-of-treasuries-with-uk-on-the-rise?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Hedge Funds Boost Bullish Bets on Brent on US-China Trade Truce
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/hedge-funds-boost-bullish-bets-on-brent-on-us-china-trade-truce?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Chicago Taps EY to Close $1 Billion Gap as Trump Threatens Funds
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A Texas suburb that saw its population jump by a third is the fastest-growing city in the US
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Schauffele battles back to make the cut at the PGA Championship, extends streak to 64 tournaments
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Healthcare workers who have worked in #gaza speak outside the High Court #uk, sharing their own and others testimony of what they experienced. Dr Azra Zyada reads the testimony of Hussam Abu Safiya, a doctor in Gaza, arrested and tortured by ISR forces.
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Meta faces Democratic probe into plans to power a giant data center with gas
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Meta faces Democratic probe into plans to power a giant data center with gas
Meta faces questions over whether plans to power its largest AI data center yet with gas contradict the company’s sustainability claims.Justine Calma (The Verge)
Moody's downgrades #U.S credit rating, citing rise in government #debt
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Moody's downgrades United States credit rating, citing growth in government debt
Moody's had been a holdout in keeping U.S. sovereign debt at the highest credit rating possible, and brings the 116-year-old agency into line with its rivals.Yun Li (CNBC)
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Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide'
Agitprop? Protest? An attempt to suck up to the boss?
Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide'
: Agitprop? Protest? An attempt to suck up to the boss?Iain Thomson (The Register)
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#TikTok 、22時以降にフィードに瞑想動画を挿入 18歳未満ではデフォルト強制 - ITmedia NEWS
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『18歳未満のユーザーの場合は、この機能はデフォルトでオンになる。
ユーザーが午後10時以降にTikTokを使っていると、「おすすめ」フィードがガイド付きの瞑想エクササイズ動画によって中断され、眠りを促す。それでもTikTokを使い続けると、2回目のリマインダーが全画面に表示される。
成人ユーザーの場合は、スクリーンタイム設定で設定した入眠時間になると瞑想エクササイズ動画が表示される』
U.S. Starbucks workers walking out over new dress code - People's Daily Online
NEW YORK, May 15 (Xinhua) -- A workers' union said on Thursday that more than 1,200 U.S. Starbucks een.people.cn
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Concerns Rise Among Ghana's LGBTQI+ Community Over Potential Revival of Repressive Legislation
In Ghana, the contentious anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, formally known as the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, has resurfaced with renewed vigor. Originally passed by Parliament in February 2024, the bill has yet to be enacted, but its implicatNewsroom (Axadle | Stay Informed with Horn of Africa Headlines)
ClojureScript forks Google Closure Library for backward compatibility: clojurescript.org/news/2025-05…
"ClojureScript is and never was only just for rich web applications. Even in the post React-world, a large portion of the web is (sensibly) still using jQuery." 🔥
Mexico accuses Youtuber MrBeast of exploiting Mayan pyramids permit
Authorities say they never allowed Mr Beast to film at their pyramid heritage sites for profit.
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Convert from Webpack to Vite by ChaosExAnima · Pull Request #34450 · mastodon/mastodon
This is a PR based on #24981 that will merge into #34454. It also contains #34469 and #34485.GitHub
America’s Cities Are Finally Growing Again—but There’s a Big Catch
Doomers thought cities would collapse post-pandemic. The numbers tell a much different story.Henry Grabar (Slate)
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oowaaah, an affordable fretless that seems decent
im tempted
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Ein neues Thema bringt die #CryptoParty im Mai: Der Umzug in die private Cloud. Wie immer am 4ten Donnerstag im Monat, 22.05.2025, 19 Uhr, im #OpenLab, Bäckergasse 32, #Augsburg.
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Moody's downgrades US credit rating citing rising debt
Moody's said successive US administrations had failed to reverse ballooning deficits and interest costs.
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Here you go, for anyone still confused. All the stuff in one place.
Feel free to share it with the people still spreading disinformation.
David Hogg's White Tears, Explained - by Michael Harriot:
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David Hogg's White Tears, Explained
The controversy over the DNC election is a perfect example of media bias, the Democratic Party's white problem and why everyone hates DEIMichael Harriot (ContrabandCamp)
MAGA is irate when a justice calls for following precedent and the rule of law, even when she agrees with them ideologically on the issues they purport to care about.
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Amy Coney Barrett enrages MAGA for skewering Trump lawyer during birthright SCOTUS arguments
Justice Amy Coney Barrett challenges Donald Trump's administration over nationwide injunctions in birthright citizenship case at Supreme Court.Law & Crime
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Guyana's ‘Ol’ Higue’ meets her match in tale that is the regional winner of the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
The author says the piece is “authentically Caribbean” – essentially “a story about family [and] its role in creating spaces of safety and sustenance in times of great adversity.”Global Voices
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When one group is denied civil rights, it affects everyone else. Immigration lawyer Andrea Flores points out that if the Trump administration prevails in denying birthright citizenship, parents of citizen children will have to prove that their children are in the USA legally too. All the time. Your child's and even your own birth certificate won't mean you have the right to live in the USA.
China has dropped to the third-largest holder of US Treasuries, behind the UK.
I like the way Buffy the Psych Prof thinks! 🧐
Any more bible quotes and excepts we should be using against them? 🤨
I assume the Trump administration will say this horrible ruling rolling back LGBTQ+ civil rights should only apply to the Northern District of Texas, right? Federal judges aren't supposed to make rulings that apply to the whole country any more, if we are to believe the argument Solicitor General D. John Sauer made yesterday (quite poorly).
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Far Right Federal Judge Rules Gay And Trans People Can Be Discriminated Against In Workplaces
Judge Kacsmaryk, a federal judge in the Northern District of Texas, ruled on the EEOC's treatment of Title VIII employment discrimination claims on gay and trans people.Erin Reed (Erin In The Morning)
This guy has time for doing everything EXCEPT banning taxes on tips.
Trump says Taylor Swift's popularity has dropped:
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He talks about Taylor Swift as much as my nieces, who are huge fans.
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The State of Georgia is keeping a deceased pregnant woman on life support against her family’s wishes.
The reason? She was 9 weeks pregnant at the time of her death and the State has a strict abortion ban.
They’ve turned her into a vessel for a fetus who has low odds of survival anyways (brain death drastically impairs the hormones necessary to grow a healthy baby)
This is torture. The family don’t want this, they don’t believe their daughter would have wanted this, and if the fetus survives it won’t have a mother.
It’s likely to be severely disabled, and the same government forcing this birth are trying to cut Medicaid for disabled children.
Forced birth is unimaginably cruel.
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World Bank says Saudi Arabia and Qatar have paid off Syria's outstanding debt
The World Bank says that the $15.5 million Syria owed it has been paid off by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, enabling Damascus to take out new loans.
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This is just excellent news
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EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis - Irish Council for Civil Liberties
Landmark court decision against “TCF” consent pop ups on 80% of the internetJohnny Ryan (Irish Council for Civil Liberties)
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in reply to Clare Harris 🍁 • • •No barbecue, no shrimp, no poly-cotton shirts or pants, Trisha Yearwood an' Dolly have gotta stop singing - they're married women - Oh, and football goes out the window - it's played between sundown on Friday and nightfall on Saturday, and while "play" is fine, no coaches, no making food, no ushers, and sure as heck no million-dollar sponsorships.
(don't EVEN get this Shobbos goy started. I will RUIN THEM.)