The library of Alexandria, burns again.

That movie hits so different as an adult through Wonka’s eyes.

what is Holland?

Yes, I could definitely see the lower dollar increasing tourism to the US in the current context with everything that has been done to boost foreigners desire to visit the US. Who wouldn’t want to visit the US right now?!?

Trump seems to think it would be appropriate:

Donald Trump has filed defamation lawsuits against a range of individuals and organizations. Media figures and outlets have been frequent targets:

ABC News and George Stephanopoulos were sued over comments stating Trump was found liable for “rape,” which Trump claimed was false; the case was settled with ABC donating $15 million to his library.

CNN was sued for $475 million over its use of the term “the big lie” and comparisons to Adolf Hitler, but the lawsuit was dismissed.

The New York Times and four of its reporters were sued for $15 billion, accusing them of defamation and acting as a “mouthpiece” for political opponents.

CBS and its “60 Minutes” were sued for $10 billion over alleged deceptive editing of Kamala Harris’s interview.

The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and two journalists were sued for $10 billion over a report about a lewd note Trump allegedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein.

The Des Moines Register, its pollster J. Ann Selzer, and parent company Gannett were sued over a pre-election poll showing Trump trailing Harris in Iowa. 

Simon & Schuster and Bob Woodward were sued for allegedly violating copyright and defaming Trump by using recorded interviews out of context in a book.

Trump has also sued individuals associated with media or public commentary, including journalists and publishers, often over reporting he claims damaged his reputation. Some cases are ongoing, while others have been dismissed or settled. 

A sign? Lol, the signs were when boards hired MBAs for the last 40 years to run “non-profit” universities and colleges and suddenly it was all about growth, new buildings, rising tuition, and the loss of faculty power–you know the ones who provide the value in the institution?

New billionaire owner and 2 months later suddenly renovating his orgs arena is being discussed. By misappropriating voter supported initiatives that have nothing to do with the billionaires business? Taxpayer billionaire theft, a real change of pace. Glad to see the new owner spent so much time ingratiating himself to Portland before trying to open her coffers.

Omg. GTFO

As a state, it’s not worse than Alabama or Mississippi.

Isn’t that about as bad as it can get?

Where is the part in the article where the sudden corporate expansion of data centers that suck up water and raise electricity prices for consumers aren’t approved? Where is the part about new data centers needing to foot the price for their impact on the entire grid rather than pushing the increases to other rate payers? The article reminds me of how in CA, where agriculture used 80% of the water, the common person is blasted with ads about taking quick showers and not watering their lawn–blamimg the victim and focusing away from the actual corporate glutton doing the vast majority of the consumption.

Nearly all the solutions suggested require up front capital, which people don’t have. Most people aren’t getting a free new mobile home with better insulation.

It was part of the invasion of '27 you should have had covered in 5th grade history class.

There has to be a luxury condo or another lane of highway we could replace with these funds though surely so they go where most needed?

Maybe don’t pull punches when you still had a free press then NYT?

Fuckkkkkk you NYT

It’s of course a monkeys paw.

Congrats, no more vote by mail.

Sorry, states only get to count toward totals if they X(fealty, bribe, cede rights/controls)

Wait I thought only full people could vote, not 3/5ths? Can’t have that in nationalized elections

NYT endorsed Iraq invasion even though there was no evidence of WMDs and the rest of the world was against it. Surprise, no WMDs were found.

Interestingly, some companies did steal billions upon billions of dollars and we blew the national debt up. Strange that outcome …

“The exact technical mechanism remains under investigation, though the compromise occured at the hosting provider level rather than through vulnerabilities in Notepad++ code itself. Traffic from certain targeted users was selectively redirected to attacker-controlled served malicious update manifests.”

Fuckall they could really have done about it other than changing host providers, which they mentioned they already have as a result.

I hope this is in tandem with a state-level change to the “department of highway and oil interests development” sometimes referred to as the Dept of Transportation.

Trimets funding and a safer and better world for bikers are mutually dependent, adding a protected bike lane here and there is nice for the brochure but doesn’t change the underlying power and funding mechanisms for development which are largely owned and controlled by car-centric real estate developers which destroy safety absent enforcement and penalties severe enough to change behaviors.

There are a lot of Americans who are learning American politics against their will at the moment too(their ignorance seems willful and self-imposed in many instances); hopefully enough of them to not support the insanity in the future.

• “But Trump said he would help union jobs”

• “But they were just supposed to go after the bad minorities, not my group”

• “But tarrifs don’t raise prices for Americans, they promised”

• “But why can we pay $50k sign on bonuses for ICE but not fund education or healthcare?”

• “But that’s against the law, I thought they supported the 2nd amendment?”

• “But they’re being violent toward white people too, I thought my group was safe”

• “But they said they hated paedophiles and wanted to punish them and that they would release the Epstein files”

• “But Trump said he would end the Ukraine war in 24 hours”

• “Why can’t I get vaccinated and get my kid vaccinated in some states?”

• “But they defunded my X when they said they were only going to defund Y”

• “But that hurts my business, I bought their line that…”

• “Well I thought they were just going to take away abortions from and track poor, minority group women from having abortions, my case is different”

• "Why is my USD currency value crashing? Why are the trump coin crypto I bought not able to be sold, Trump has discretion on the lockup period and gets to decide who sells and when?

• "Why do billionaires seem to be doing really well and at lots of events with the administration and everyone else doesn’t seem very happy?

• But laws shouldn’t be used only against certain people, don’t they apply to everyone in a system where money equals power?

-an American

Compliance in advance, giving up your own existing legal rights is their dream. They are breaking the law, don’t move your behavior to accommodate.

Queue the propaganda pieces from the Chinese. You are seeing this as Canada just opened their markets to Chinese autos last week and the US is terrified and China wants to push their advantage while the US is destroying their own global market hegemony.

This piece is meant to sew desire for Chinese car products to either indirectly support Canadian market entry as reasonable, which if you’re Canada it is, if you’re the US it’s disastrous for your dated, overpriced, uncompetitive, sluggish auto industry.t

“one group proposing”

And I’m sure not a single one of this group is associated, employed, or funded by Subway Boring Tunneling Inc.

This is where journalism has extreme power and should exercise extreme prejudice in the ideas it gives light to. There are probably dozens of ideas, many of which don’t have corporate or political beneficiaries which didn’t get a writeup for their cause. This is where access, privilege and “other side” really rears its head to disproportionately represent “choice” in the marketplace of ideas and distort reality.