Battery storage growth in Texas is wild

This is a drone cargo plane, designed for logistics and disaster response. It is the first unmanned aircraft for high-altitude, it can operate using very short runways, and is adaptable to either landing full of cargo, or dropping it by parachute to the ground. The capacity is one ton, with a range of over a thousand miles, with AI systems for loading and unloading in under five minutes.

The international order follows the law of the jungle much more than it follows international law. There are five major kinds of fights between countries: trade/economic wars, technology wars, capital wars, geopolitical wars, and military wars. Let’s begin by briefly defining them

Rummler/Obama covered up the prostitution scandal, and instead blamed the Secret Service: ten members lost their jobs over the scandal.

These developments do not represent isolated events but markers of an industry shifting toward broader participation, tighter regulatory scrutiny, and more strategic use of airspace management. The trajectory of drones in the next 12 to 24 months will be shaped as much by policy choices and manufacturing strategy as by technical innovation.

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

It also revealed the lack of talent on the Democratic team. You may have seen the clip of AOC trying to answer a question about U.S. support for Taiwan–a question that foreseeably is likely to come up, but about which she evidently has never spent a single moment thinking:

Chicago Office Sales

250 S. Wacker Drive ?74%
$23.8M vs $90M in 2011

175 W. Jackson Blvd ?87%
$41M vs $306M in 2018

600 W. Chicago Ave ?82.5%
$89M vs $510M in 2018

311 S. Wacker Drive ?85%
$45M vs $302M in 2014

From below, hundreds of AI-native startups are entering every vertical. When building a credible financial data product required 200 engineers and $50M in data licensing, markets naturally consolidated to 3-4 players. When it requires 10 engineers and frontier model APIs, the market fragments violently. Competition goes from 3 to 300

Great quote from the owner… “There are towns across America that wish they were Music City — and we’re trying to be Las Vegas. Why?”. Absolutely terrible quote from the mayor. “ It’s not up to me whether he keeps that business open, the market evolves.”

(Yes, a human still decides which tools the agent is allowed to use. That’s a real marketing surface. But once the agent is running, the runtime purchasing decisions are pure optimization. The land grab is making it onto the allowlist, then being the best option once you’re there.)

This buy-then-convert pattern turned out to be surprisingly common. Using searches of Becker’s, CHOW, and hospital finance websites, I found 25 cases of for-profit hospitals getting acquired by nonprofits in the last decade. In over half those cases, the newly acquired hospital almost immediately (within a year) enrolled in the 340B Program. The remainder did not enroll because they were not 340B-eligible even after conversion (e.g., they did not meet eligibility criteria such as the DSH threshold). Here’s the full timeline of the acquisitions I found:

These findings suggest economic policies implemented in the 1970s had nothing to do with the Midwestern population declines that occurred after the 1970s. Rather, these data are consistent with a long-term and large-scale shift in preferences that began long before the 1970s, one that was not unique to the Midwest. It is foolhardy to center public policy around this false narrative, and, unsurprisingly, the administration’s attempts to reverse this trend have not only failed but have also economicallyhurtAmericans.

“findings indicate that we are currently unable to distinguish clinically meaningful MRI abnormalities from incidental findings,” the study authors concluded.

Companies report that they face a “reviewer lottery,” where critical questions hinge on the approach of a small number of individuals at FDA. Some FDA review teams are creative and forward-leaning, helping developers design programs and overcome obstacles to get needed products to patients, without cutting corners. FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence (OCE), for example, is repeatedly identified as a model for providing predictable yet flexible options for bringing new drugs to cancer patients. OCE is now a dialogue-based regulatory paradigm that has facilitated efforts by academia, industry, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and others to develop new cancer therapies and launch innovative programs and pilots like Project Orbis, RealTime Oncology Review.

In effect, two separate but related campaigns.

He then goes on to list what he thinks is going to happen, for which the point summaries are:

• There will be more software than ever before
• AI-enabled or AI-centric software is simply moving up the stack of what a product is
• New tools will be created with AI that do new things
• Domain experience will be wildly more important than it is today because every domain will become vastly more sophisticated than it is now
• Finally, it is absolutely true that some companies will not make it.

The Circle Pines man worked for the Minnesota Department of Corrections until this past October. As wild as Brown’s story is, this is even wilder. Department of Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell thanks the immigration authorities for their efforts. “If these federal allegations are accurate, this individual engaged in sophisticated efforts to misrepresent their identity, extending well beyond Minnesota,” Schnell said. “We are grateful to USCIS and ICE for their work in investigating and addressing immigration fraud.” Now that is wild.

But here’s what should keep software founders up at night: the line only moves in one direction. Every model generation pushes it higher. What’s above the line today will be below it in eighteen months. You can’t build a business on the assumption that your moat is permanent when the water level is rising on a schedule.

Business has never been better for lobbyists paid to push the agendas of foreign countries and companies, but critics say the surge undermines Trump’s ‘America First’ pledge.

“One third of the total package price, with the land, is in the regulatory costs,” one builder noted, including “your wetland fees, your park dedication fees, your permit costs,” and more. Thus, a house in Corcoran, Minnesota, that costs $182,000 to build will have an all-in cost of $372,000, including $56,000 in administrative costs alone! Throw in a modest profit margin, and you’re well out of “starter” range in the area. The same goes for estimates from Michigan and New Jersey.

The New York Post published their reporting three weeks before the end 2020 presidential election. Within 48 hours, 51 former intelligence officials signed a letter calling it likely Russian disinformation. They knew it was authenticated. They coordinated with the Biden’s Autopen campaign to sign it anyway. Twitter locked the New York Post’s account. Facebook suppressed the story. The corporate media called it a smear.

Chinese carmakers have lower cost structures, driven by tighter control over their supply chains and a stronger focus on the China market. This puts Western OEMs in a tough spot.

Putting data into glass is as simple as etching it (to be clear, this is technically not etching, which is a chemical modification of glass’ surface—here, lasers burn features into the interior of the glass). But that’s been one of the challenges, as the writing is typically a slow process. However, the development of femtosecond lasers—lasers that emit pulses that only last 10^-15 seconds and can emit millions of them per second—can significantly cut down write times and allow etching to be focused on a very small area, increasing potential data density.

Granting Permission to Yourself: American Medical Records Requests are Often Absurd.

But there was something special about the original M5, launched in spring 1985, and it wasn’t only that it was the second car after the M1 to use the two-digit model code and get a proper WBS motorsport prefix on the VIN plate. Almost four decades later, there’s still something magical about the M5, and it remains the car that’s referenced as ground zero when it comes to super saloons.

David Reichel, executive director of the Sierra Avalanche Center, explained that the conditions became lethal as the massive storm delivered heavy snow on top of a base that had been transformed by an exceptionally dry January and start to February. The fresh snow, he said, fell on a “layer of snow that weakened and became unstable during the warm, dry weather.”

Drawing on OBFCM data from ~1 million vehicles (2021–2023), it reveals significant gaps: PHEVs emit 3–5 times more CO? than approved, with only ~25–30% electric driving due to frequent combustion-engine use even in battery-discharge modes. 2. Average real fuel consumption for PHEVs is 5.9 l/100 km, comparable to pure combustion-engine vehicles, undermining their climate benefits.

You’re always the angriest when you’re a bit guilty. Rice presided over the Domestic Policy Council when BIden opened the borders, assuring Trump’s return. Now she vows to perpetuate the cycle of crude partisan revenge. She seems confident she’ll remain in the elite pursuing it.

More Billing Codes See Skyrocketing Billing. T1019 is not the only billing code with explosive growth from 2018 to 2024, although it is the code with the highest amount paid out in that time. Twenty-two other codes saw anywhere from 200% to over 10,000% increases. Eight codes had over 500% more payments.

The old view: Everything is gray, no absolute right or wrong.

• The new reality: Scripture provides clear guidance — God doesn’t leave us hanging.
• Why it matters more now: As technology and human power to manipulate nature grow, objective morality (rooted in Scripture) becomes essential to stay grounded and good.
• Result: Life feels better, clearer, more filled with light when aligned with unchanging truth.

I know that’s uncomfortable. Code review is sacred. It’s how you catch bugs, share knowledge, maintain standards. It’s also an identity thing. We’re engineers, and reviewing code is what engineers do. But clinging to the PR workflow in an agent-driven world isn’t rigor. It’s an identity crisis. Think about it. An agent generates 500 PRs a day. Your team can review maybe 10. The review queue backs up. This isn’t a bottleneck worth optimising. It’s a fake bottleneck, one that only exists because we’re forcing a human ritual onto a machine workflow.

The next morning, I rode back to the same crumbling building where I’d been polygraphed the day before. The examiner said, “Now that you’ve had a chance to think about it, is there anything you’d like to say?” He didn’t need to ask me twice. “You bet there is. I did my part, now I expect you to do yours.” It wasn’t until late that afternoon, when I was waiting for my plane at Dulles, that I realized, “Is there anything you’d like to say?” does not mean, “Please tell us all our faults.”

The concept behind sandboxing is fundamental to modern security: by restricting what an application can access, you minimize the potential damage from malicious code or unintended behavior. Think of it as putting an application in a secure room where it can only interact with specific objects you’ve placed there.

It’s already showing up in the numbers. Earlier this month, the FT reported that KPMG pressured its own auditor, Grant Thornton, to cut fees — arguing that AI should make the work cheaper. Grant Thornton agreed to a 14% reduction. When a Big Four firm is using AI as leverage to renegotiate its own audit fees, the repricing isn’t theoretical.

Looking around, and given that the high level idea is clear, there are a lot of smaller Claws starting to pop out. For example, on a quick skim NanoClaw looks really interesting in that the core engine is ~4000 lines of code (fits into both my head and that of AI agents, so it feels manageable, auditable, flexible, etc.) and runs everything in containers by default. […]

The career path of most application programmers is fairly short. In most enterprises, the majority have five years or less of real in-depth experience, and battle-scared twenty-year+ vets are rare. Mostly, these novices are struggling through early career experiences, not ready yet to deal with the unbounded, massive complexity present in a big design.

And, then there’s the blatant fraud… for which I sadly don’t expect any final accounting and punishment.

“The term [provider] should not be used to describe physicians, nor should physicians use it to describe themselves, their team members, or their trainees.”

The H-1B program lets firms hire high-skill foreign workers for a six-year term. The annual number of visas allocated to for-profit firms is capped at 85,000 and there is excess demand for those visas. The analysis merges data from the Labor Condition Application where firms attest that H-1B hires do not adversely impact natives, the I-129 Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker where firms request to hire a specific person, and the American Community Surveys. On average, H-1B workers earn 16 percent less than comparable natives. The payroll savings suggest that firms may be willing to pay a one-time fee to obtain an H-1B visa. The data are examined using a labor demand model to simulate how a fee alters the hiring decision. Depending on the level of excess demand, the unobserved productivity gains or costs from an H-1B hire, and the rate of job separations, the revenue-maximizing fee is between $118,000 and $264,000, has little or no impact on the number of H-1Bs hired, and generates between $6.2 and $22.4 billion in revenues. The fee would also change the skill composition of the H-1B workforce, making it more skilled.

In November 2025, the EU’s trade deficit with China averaged €1.07 billion a day. EU imports from China rose 4% year on year in November 2025, while exports fell 1%. As a result, the EU’s trade deficit with China widened to €32.2 billion, up from €30.3 billion a year earlier.

Matyushev says the Kona needs $250m for development, certification, and EIS.  LNA estimates that upwards $900m is a closer figure. Matyushev says the Horizon needs $3bn to $5bn, a figure LNA estimates is significantly under-estimated. JetZero says it needs $7bn to $10bn for the Z4. LNA also believes this number is way too low.

Geely may be best placed to build cars here: Volvo Cars, which it controls, has had an auto plant up and running in South Carolina since 2018, where it builds Volvo and Polestar vehicles. (Volvo stated, “We do not have any plans to produce cars on behalf of Geely there.”) If Geely does attempt to enter the US market under its own brands, it likely won’t happen before 2029.

Yiannis Exarchos, the CEO of the Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), told reporters Wednesday that 15 FPV drones are being used in Milan Cortina, with an additional 10 traditional drones aiding coverage (it takes 800 cameras in total to broadcast the Games, per the OBS media guide). The use of FPV drones, Exarchos said, helps make sense of some of the more unconventional winter sports — particularly to casual viewers who only tune in during the Olympics.

But now, the market is shifting again. We are at an inflection point. The geopolitical architecture that allowed Taiwan to become the sole foundry for global democracy is looking brittle. The “Silicon Shield” is looking less like a shield and more like a target. The world needs a backup drive. And surprisingly, the coordinates for that backup drive are pointing to a snowy plain in Northern Japan.

Starlink has grown its customer based from around 10,000 in 2021 to around 4,000,000 by October of 2024.

It’s all state-of-the-art. And it’s terrible. Light switches, which have been self-explanatory since the dawn of electric lighting, apparently now come as an unlabeled multibutton panel that literally required a tutorial session from a technician. Pressing the same button twice might turn the lights on and off, or you might have to press one button for “on” and another for “off.” “It depends” is the name of the game—which is exactly what you don’t want when you’re trying to find the bathroom in the middle of the night.

“This is due in large part to the high construction costs of smaller-scale buildings for each home created,” the report says. “However, recent changes allowing construction of small multiunit buildings in most of Madison’s residential areas may contribute to an increase in this construction type in coming years.”

Alphabet (google) has lined up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond, stepping up a borrowing spree by Big Tech companies racing to fund their vast investments in AI this year.

$1T in Medicaid provider spending data released on opendata.hhs.gov. Public should know how its money is spent! Data explorer.

A fireplace is consistently among the most-searched amenities by home buyers nationwide, according to Zillow. But while convenience leans toward the automated ease of gas, many wealthy homeowners prefer the sensory trifecta of real fire: the scent, the rhythmic crackling and the living warmth that a faux flame simply can’t mimic. “The more high-end the property is, the more the homeowner typically wants it,” says Katherine Koriakin of Wyoming’s GYDE Architects.

Last time I wrote a manifesto about how we should increase competition in the hospital sector. I got SO MANY thoughtful emails about ideas people have been thinking about, clearly I struck a chord.

The trend of construction productivity in the United States failing to improve over time is indeed concerning. “Productivity” means some measure of output, divided by some measure of input. When productivity is improving, we get more output for a given amount of input over time; if productivity is falling, we get less output for a given amount of input over time. If productivity doesn’t improve, we can’t expect construction costs to fall and things like houses, roads, and bridges to get any cheaper. Because of this, it’s worth looking deeply at what exactly the trends in US construction productivity are.

But it’s all an illusion. Artificial enchantment. Virtualized nostalgia. It may sound like you’re ripping revs from gear to gear—HHHHM, HHHuuum, Hummmmm. But the revs you hear, and therefore the reality you can faithfully report, is completely artificial. The damn thing doesn’t even have a transmission, per se.

Yes, this is all boring. No sane person should ever get excited about a blank wall, let alone read a thousand plus words on the subject. But your wall at home is a recurring reminder that most true architectural and design advancements are almost entirely invisible.

Never cared about curling until I found out Sweden set up a surveillance operation to catch Canada cheating.

I and many others had to figure out how donor-advised funds (DAFs) work, how grants are documented, and how nonprofit financial reporting actually functions. Mistakes were made, including by me. But those early errors didn’t invalidate the core finding: the shadow nonprofit government as a function of the Deep State is real.

Yeah, I’ve been relatively quiet not for lack of effort, but because I’ve been hard at work automating myself using OpenClaw. Not for the boring (and socially risky) use cases of social media or email monitoring. No, I set to build a full-fledged research assistant that has access to FEC records, 990s, and has a strict entity resolution pipeline. Every question I ask it, it gets smarter because it automatically rolls in its own discoveries to the various graph databases it has.

The Reluctant case for a minivan

About that tippy A321

The Joy of a Morning Swim

Poland did this in 1989 under Balcerowicz. Two years of pain, then 28 consecutive years of growth. Argentina has attempted this playbook before and failed. Milei’s bet is that he can hold the political coalition together long enough for growth to materialize.

“The competitive reality is that the Chinese are the 700-pound gorilla in the EV industry,” Ford CEO Jim Farley told me in an interview last year. “There’s no real competition from Tesla, GM or Ford with what we’ve seen from China.” Even Farley, after driving a Xiaomi SU7, said he didn’t want to part with it. The company is now rebuilding its EVs, starting with a $30,000 pickup, to compete directly with what they have seen from China.

And yet, this is how a lot of modern software behaves. Not because it’s broken, but because we’ve normalized an interruption model that would be unacceptable almost anywhere else.

The Dot-com Optimists Got a Lot Right. An analysis of Mary Meeker’s late-90s internet reports suggests she was often accurate, or even too conservative.

With launches every hour carrying 200 tons per flight, Starship will deliver millions of tons to orbit and beyond per year, enabling an exciting future where humanity is out exploring amongst the stars.

As with the large number of ‘blatniks‘ in the Soviet era who made sure their factories got what they needed outside the formal state procurement process, Epstein greased the wheels for the neoliberal state. His job was governance.

Publishing industry progressives were shocked that Frederick would even consider calling the police on black people (angelic children, probably) so soon after the killing of George Floyd. She was basically murdering them. Under intense pressure, everyone who worked at the agency resigned.

The Minnesota welfare fraud story isn’t an immigration story or a story about an excessively generous welfare state. Rather, these thefts were the predictable result of a public policy decision to embed middlemen throughout our welfare system. Like many frauds that pop up all across the country and the welfare state, the Minnesota day care schemes all occurred in programs where a private provider acts as a middleman between the government and individuals.

It’s all part of the airlines’ ongoing fight for market share and access at O’Hare, where the Chicago-based United has the hometown advantage and more gates. It intends to squeeze out its rival, but American, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is just as determined to maintain the airport’s status as a dual hub. After all, O’Hare’s central U.S. location makes it a premier spot for domestic and international connections. “It is one of the few airports in the world that genuinely is able to be home to major airline alliances,” says John Grant, chief analyst at the travel data company OAG.

Industry analyst Robert Mann Jr. characterizes the conflict as a battle of press releases and big egos: “Mr. Kirby is attempting to essentially extend United’s lead in Chicago, and this put up a marker for [American CEO] Mr. [Robert] Isom, who has decided that he would like to even the score.”

His story shows how one developer, a handful of regional organizations, and millions in dark money built nationwide infrastructure for tracking federal law enforcement while claiming to be “grassroots.”

Now a fair and necessary taxpayer question: Can Hennepin County confirm that local property tax dollars are not funding excessive executive compensation packages at contracted nonprofits? For reference, Nexus Family Healing’s IRS Form 990s are public records and should be part of this discussion:

The report concluded that “no one knows whether there are other unknown biolabs because there is no monitoring system in place.” Now we know that there was at least one other, but we still don’t know how many more. That is why it is critical for Congress to pass my bipartisan legislation, authored with Rep. Costa and Rep. Valadao, to find these labs and shut them all down.

The lesson here is that whatever the world thought would end just ended up being vastly larger than anyone thought. And the thing that people thought would forever be replaced was not simply legacy but ended up being a key enabler.

While Thiel is fond of Britain, he believes we have made serious errors by not controlling our ‘crazy immigration’ or taking advantage of the tech-powered growth the United States has. Nonetheless, he hopes that Britain can stand up to a vengeful American administration if the Democrats are elected in 2028, perhaps even acting as a refuge for the politically persecuted. In this sense Britain is like New Zealand, where Thiel has acquired citizenship and bought land to help him establish a refuge in times of international discord.

Submitted: “Our trash removal drivers got 2 seat belt violations in downtown Minneapolis this week, in case you wanted to know what Frey’s police force is actually working on.”

“At this point, they bring nothing but baggage,” one Democratic lobbyist told the publication. The Clintons’ “continued presence is a barrier to the party’s renewal,” the lobbyist said.

“I was hired by the Washington Post in 2021 transcribe all our interview questions and give them to Joe Biden days in advance on picture post cards.”. “Today I was laid off.”

If your position at The Washington Post was recently eliminated, please consider applying to write for The Babylon Bee. We are seeking applicants experienced in writing fictional content presented in the tone and style of a legitimate news organization.

As usual, the answer is: upskill yourself and adapt. If a crusty old fart like me can do it, you can too.

The problem is that it has given me no reason to care about possessing a short understanding of where early Venice came from. “There are lots of cities out there—so what?” No matter what material the author might cover after this historical background introduction, only the most dedicated readers will make it that far.

This map shows active Coast Guard navigational beacons in the United States and parts of Canada, from the 2025 Light List.

The Signal network erupted. Using a red phone emoji to signal an all-points alert, a message blasted out: “?? easy. URGENT: observers urgently requested at glam doll donuts @ 26th & nicollet [sic]. an observer has been shot by ice, unknown condition, emts [emergency medical technicians] present, please be safe. EDIT: medics requested to join perimeter in case agents start gassing. be aware there are many agents and mpd [Minneapolis Police Department] officers present.”

One unlikely beneficiary has been the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla, which lucked into a future fortune when ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, gave the island the “.ai” top-level domain in the mid-1990s. Indeed, since ChatGPT’s launch at the end of 2022, the gold rush for websites to associate themselves with the burgeoning AI technology has seen a flood of revenue for the island of just ~15,000 people.

Vimeo stock IPO’d at $52, and within a year, lost 85% of its value, trending down to just $8.42 by the end of May 2022. As we entered 2022, many states and localities had started easing up on lockdown restrictions, which hurt not just Vimeo, but many other tech companies as well. By the end of the summer of 2022, the tech sector had entered an unspoken recession, encasing the carnage at Vimeo in a cement tomb that it’d never be able to break free from.

You can trace all the funding mechanisms you want, but at the end of the day, the trail will end at the CIA/NED/USAID’s doorstep.

What I’m trying to say is, the same way Americans need to visit the world and find meaning, we need them to come, to flood us like some contrast liquid and give us meaning.

Hillary says she has “absolutely no support” for cities that don’t listen to DHS on deportations: Regarding Kathryn Kate Steinle. More.

The jumpers will arrive Feb. 1 and stay with the family through Feb. 10. The Slovenians will return to Westby after jumping in the Norge tournament near Chicago. “They have several other tournaments in the U.S. after the Snowflake tournament, but they wanted to come right back to Westby in between and we are excited to have an extra few days with them.”

The boy who cried wolf is a cautionary tale about false alarms. But there’s another version of that story: the village that was so conditioned to ignore warnings that they didn’t notice when the wolf actually showed up. Look at the evidence. Draw your own conclusions. And if those conclusions match mine, then we have work to do—and the time to start is now.

For the adventurous, the answer is: today. Both MapLibre GL JS and MapLibre Native now support MLT sources. You can use the new encoding property on sources in your style JSON with a value of mlt for MLT vector tile sources.

Third, Christians must not be intimidated by the vitriol of our opponents. These are dark and serious times for the church in America, but we must remember that we are blessed when others revile us and when they lie about us (Matthew 5:11-12). In this life, we will have enemies because Christ Himself has enemies. Such opposition is not a sign of failure, but an invitation to greater faithfulness. The enemy’s tactics are not new, and they cannot stop the advance of Christ’s church. The darkness cannot overcome the light.

But there was one last hope to save the team. In December, a group of Buffalo businessmen, key leaders in the community, came to Sonju with a proposal: If we sell 2,000 more season tickets for the remainder of the season, will John Y. Brown promise to keep the Braves in Buffalo? Sonju asked Brown; Brown said yes. A massive 30-day blitz began, with the Buffalo bigwigs knocking on doors and holding out their hats. All they needed was 2,000 season tickets to save the Braves. They sold less than 100.

Then comes the Palisades fire and guess what? The insurance companies are now suing the Government of California because they think California should pay…not them.

The NTSB has released an animation reconstructing the final three minutes before the midair collision near Washington D.C., illustrating what each crew could—and couldn’t—see at night and why see-and-avoid measures failed.

On Jan. 5, Walz shocked the political world by suddenly — and angrily — dropping his re-election bid, connecting his decision directly to the attacks he’d sustained, starting with the recent wave of fraud coverage. According to Axios, it was actually “fellow Democrats” who applied the “mounting pressure” that forced the governor’s hand. 

Football is a purely mediated experience, even when there is no media involved. It’s not just that you can see a game better when you watch it on television. Television is the only way you can see it at all.

“DO NOT make the mistake President Biden made for not firing a grossly incompetent DHS Secretary.”

My personal favorite feature is the Pay Now button. Because I have the data of the city and the associated payment subdomain, you theoretically could pay someone’s parking ticket for them!

City of Oakland managed by clowns. Imagine in 2013: new venues for the A’s, Raiders and Warriors. 2026: Everyone left, and nobody even wants to buy the emptied out husk of land. Local elections matter. Pay attention to local elections and hold your local leaders to account.

They are also a good example of what their proponents have labelled “gentle density”, offering five or six storeys of space-efficient housing, laden with attractive and practical period features.

He was once married to a Patrice Kazmierczak. They divorced a few years ago. His ex-wife Patrice is a political activist & a big supporter of Ilhan Omar & AOC.

Rams is a documentary portrait of Dieter Rams, one of the most influential designers alive, and a rumination on consumerism, sustainability, and the future of design.

Oliver would get up before dawn and use small fish colloquially known as poagies to lure lobsters from her boat, the Virginia, which was first owned by her late husband. As she established a remarkable 97-year tenure on the waters, and word of it spread, she became the subject of documentaries, major US television networks’ news stories and children’s books, including one titled The Lobster Lady, her obituary recounted.

The New York Times writes about Jacob Savage’s viral @compactmag essay without naming Savage, mentioning Compact, or providing a link.

Let’s be clear: I left him over $8 BILLION in reserves. This is the same Mamdani who spent years attacking me for not spending enough during the migrant crisis. The only reason those reserves exist is because I ignored him and his socialist comrades who demanded we blow billions more with no guardrails. “Free” isn’t free. It’s just a bill someone else has to pay.

SpaceX has developed a novel Space Situational Awareness (SSA) system, called Stargaze ? starlink.com/stargaze

I’ve obtained a declassified US Navy comprehensive report on the Battle of Leyte Gulf from 1944 – including the Battle Off Samar.

Former Google Engineer Found Guilty of Economic Espionage and Theft of Confidential AI Technology justice.gov/opa/pr/former-…

In the aftermath of Minnesota’s Signal networks being exposed, a ripple effect has surged through activist circles, prompting rapid organization in states hungry to fortify their “defenses” against ICE. Seattle’s groups, for instance, have ramped up encrypted recruitment, drawing from MN’s exposed tactics to create tighter vetting processes and decentralized “response pods” that activate within minutes of raids. Illinois follows suit, with chats buzzing about mirrored databases for agent tracking, now layered with anonymity tools to evade scrutiny. Even in corners like Texas and California, pop-up networks echo the model, blending local intel with national coordination to disrupt deportations.

was an eyewitness as the Financial Times went woke and I couldn’t bear it. The London Stock Exchange Group has cancelled its Financial Times subscription and I can’t blame it

Delusional optimism is a secret to success. People who overestimate their chances work harder and persist longer. Even against the odds, that extra persistence turns failures into wins.