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Grand jury rejected charges against Congresspeople who made the “you can disobey unlawful orders” video

Jim O’Neill fired from HHS

But he’s going to lead the National Science Foundation?

feds leaving Minnesota for real

Former SK President sentenced to life in prison

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Liberation Day is canceled!

Trump is definitely going to reinstate the tariffs claiming fake authority under some other statute

Originally IEEPA had a legislative veto, but SCOTUS killed it in the 80’s

No Republican Senate candidate in NM

The FDA is ruining biotech

Update: Trump intervened and now the review is back on!

EPA overturned finding allowing them to regulate greenhouse emissions

Trump is trying to cancel bridge project between US & Canada

The Snow Mexicans double-touched the stone!

They also lost to the US in the closest thing they have to a source of national pride

Also, the Poutine Beaners announced a plan to reach 2% of their GDP being spent on defense, but only buying exclusively from Canadian defense companies. The problem is that Canada doesn’t have any of those.

Your AI is not a lawyer

SeeDance is making full-ass multi-minute films.

Anthropic says they’ll pay for 100% of the grid upgrades needed to interconnect our data centers

CENTCOM continues to collect American military hardware like its pokemon

Trump announced a 10-day deadline for Iran to agree to a nuclear deal or “bad things happen”

Big military buildup near Iran

In retaliation for a Mexican operation that killed the leader of the CJNG leader “El Mencho”, the cartel erected roadblocks of burning cars, engaged in street violence, and issued threats against American tourists.

Netherlands taxing unrealized capital gains

They’ve actually been doing this for almost a decade, in an even stupider way

Happy News!

FDA Commissioner: “everything should be over the counter” unless a drug is unsafe, addictive or requires monitoring

Singapore is successfully eliminating mosquitos

San Francisco is working on eliminating zombies!

Chinese researchers have created injectable “bone glue”

In ten years, Israel almost got rid of cystic fibrosis among newborns

Aella has released her Bink Kink Dataset and a tool to play with it!

Tesla FSD has saved many lives. Here’s another one.

Insurance exists that will give you 50% off your premium when you drive with Self-Driving mode on

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