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Colorado River water cuts: Deep Arizona reductions loom as deadline nears Water policy experts are warning Arizonans to prepare for significant water cuts as a multi-state agreement over Colorado River usage nears expiration.

Arizona’s negotiators say water cuts are coming, and some experts say they could be worse than expected.
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Each of these data companies touts its stable of pedigreed experts. Mercor says around 30,000 professionals work on its platform each week, while Scale Al claims to have more than 700,000 "M.A.'s, Ph.D's, and college graduates." Surge Al advertises its Supreme Court litigators, McKinsey principals, and platinum recording artists.

That project soon ended and then came another. It was nearly identical to the first, which she had enjoyed, but now, on top of writing rubrics, she had to stump the model and complete the more difficult task in the same amount of time. She was also getting paid $8 an hour less. This is common at Mercor. Nearly every worker I spoke with reported that demands increased, time requirements shrank, and pay decreased as projects continued. Those who couldn't meet the new demands got "off boarded" and replaced by new recruits.

This is what concerns her more than the AI itself: that it's bringing to knowledge work the sort of precarious platform labor that has transformed taxi driving and food delivery. Meanwhile, she watches in horror the desperate gratitude of her colleagues as they rejoice at the 7PM announcement of incoming work.

Thousands of workers poured into the new Slack only to discover it was the exact same job, now paying 24 percent less. All but two of the Slack channels had been deleted, including the watercooler, support, and help rooms. The ability to direct-message one another had also been cut off. There were no team leads to be found. With no one to ask for assistance, workers flooded the main rooms with pleas and indignation.

This is so incredibly bleak. A must read about the great expertise extraction from highly competent precarious professionals. A giant sucking sound as brains get extracted by malevolent billionaires (Gift link) www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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1 day ago

How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War

“Pentagon officials said in recent closed-door briefings on Capitol Hill that the military used up $5.6 billion of munitions in the first two days of the war alone…”

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1 day ago

America Is an Oil Exporter. Why Does a Mideast War Raise U.S. Gas Prices?

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/b...

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Epstein Doctor Steps Away From Elite Health Clinics

Epstein Doctor Steps Away From Elite Health Clinics

Dr. Bernard Kruger once arranged a private E.R. membership for Jeffrey Epstein and unnamed “girls.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/u...

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2 days ago

FBI obtains voting data from Arizona GOP’s 2020 review that confirmed Trump’s loss A federal grand jury in Arizona has subpoenaed records from a review Republican lawmakers conducted of the 2020 presidential results that confirmed Trump lost.

Call me when you have some news — FBI obtains voting data from Arizona GOP’s 2020 review that confirmed Trump’s loss wapo.st/4dbM2au

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Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions, Pentagon estimates The figure, accounting for the war’s first two days, is likely to intensify concerns in Congress that U.S. forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.

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2 days ago

How Rising Home Insurance Costs Are Linked to Your Credit History (Gift Article) In many states, homeowners with “excellent” credit scores are charged less for home insurance than those with worse scores, even if they live in a disaster-prone area.

I shouldn't have been surprised by this but I really thought more states had banned pricing property insurance based on your credit score.

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3 days ago

This is what the oil industry wanted, not Venezuelan oil infrastructure.

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The Long-Feared Persian Gulf Oil Squeeze Is Upon Us Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.

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3 days ago

Evidently, Netanyahu & Kushner family were close friends in the ‘90s; even staying in Jared’s empty bedroom when he was in NYC

Would not be a surprise if he’s a Mossad officer, or a Sayan (a Jew who voluntarily helps Mossad)

www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/u...

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3 days ago

ICE Detention of Teen Musicians Roils Texas Mariachi Community

ICE Detention of Teen Musicians Roils Texas Mariachi Community www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...

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4 days ago

2 guards working the night Epstein died were fired. An inmate says one killed Jeffrey Epstein

A female guard replied “If he is dead, we’re going to cover it up"

Investigators say the fractures found in Epstein's neck were "much more common in homicidal strangulation”

✏️ by @miamiherald.com

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4 days ago

Who was running Epstein catch-and-kill in the fed gov? 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Judge rules Kari Lake unlawfully ran U.S. media agency, voiding layoffs Sweeping layoffs at Voice of America made by Trump appointee Kari Lake were declared void by a federal judge, who said she served unlawfully.

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4 days ago

Gun-Rights Groups Clash With Trump Officials Over Fatal Shooting of Armed Protester Some in the administration have criticized Alex Pretti for carrying a gun to a protest activity, but Second Amendment groups have long fought for the right to do so.

www.wsj.com/us-news/gun-...

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Lydia Polgreen, sharp as always www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

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4 days ago

Operational Excellence, Strategic Incompetence The president and his advisers are in the grip of “victory disease.”

The president and his advisers are in the grip of “victory disease.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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4 days ago

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol The memorial honoring officers who defended the Capitol was required by law to be installed by March 2023.

"There was no announcement, no ceremony, no news cameras — just two employees on their routine overnight shift working while most of Washington slept."

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4 days ago

Lindsey Graham’s Quest to Sell Trump on Striking Iran Few others in the president’s ear argued for the attack as effectively as South Carolina’s senior senator.

Netanyahu's American sidekick on Iran: "Few people lobbied Trump to undertake the riskiest gambit of his presidency as effectively as the hawkish and persistent Graham." www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ

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4 days ago

Thread by @Mauro_Gilli on Thread Reader App @Mauro_Gilli: Regarding the reported destruction of a U.S. AN/TPY-2 missile-defense radar in Jordan, and the possible damage to a component of another U.S. AN/TPY-2 radar in the UAE, a few points to c...

Just read a solid thread on X regarding the reported destruction of U.S. AN/TPY-2 missile-defense radar , and the significance and implications.
Check out this thread at Thread Reader App. threadreaderapp.com/thread/20302...

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Wow. Impressive work. Thank you.

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5 days ago

NEW from me: Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Here Are The Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein

🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein A Department of Justice document combined with interviews reveal that a long-running investigation into organized crime led law enforcement to suspect the serial sex abuser of money laundering, distri...

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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5 days ago

Exclusive | Google’s Rush to Get 1,000 of Its People Out of Dubai When War Erupted The glut of stranded staff was a notable example of outsize evacuations by large companies from Gulf states.

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5 days ago

Not sure what has me feeling like one big itch tonight. Took my allergy meds but also sprayed myself down with aerosolized Aquaphor in case it is a dry skin thing.

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US military gives update after American attacks in Ecuador The U.S. military said it conducted targeted operations with Ecuador against designated narco‑terrorist groups.

US Military Gives Update After American Attacks in Ecuador
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5 days ago

Why daylight saving time is worse for your body than standard time Daylight saving time gives us more light at the end of the day to enjoy spring and summer activities, but it can have a negative impact on our health.

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5 days ago

And to think that we could go in there and have nobody killed, not lose one aircraft, where we’re going 1,800 miles an hour over a small area with 152 different planes, different planes and helicopters, is pretty amazing to people, you know. You didn’t have a [President] Jimmy Carter crashing helicopters all over the place, that you didn’t have a Biden Afghanistan disaster where they couldn’t do the simplest maneuver. That was a simple maneuver — they should have never left from that airport. They should have used Bagram.

David E. Sanger

What — what did that feel like? You were down at Mar-a-Lago?

President Trump

It’s like watching a movie, except you’re — it’s a little bit, you know — look, you don’t know if —

Katie Rogers

Are you worried when this is happening, while you’re watching? Or what is going through your mind?

President Trump

Yeah, I’m worried that it ends up being Jimmy Carter disaster that destroyed his entire administration.

President Trump

I looked at — I looked at some of the attacks. I studied the Carter attack. It was a disaster. I would have never done it that way.

David E. Sanger

You were talking about the attack. I was asking about the occupations that followed —

President Trump

You know, they had — they had a — they had a sandstorm. Did you know that? And they decided to go forward. We would go back, and let’s hit it three days later. They wanted to go forward, and they said, keep going. Helicopters don’t work well in the sand.

Karoline Leavitt

Sir, do you want to show them the renovations?

Today's a good day to note that in his interview w/NYT Trump conveyed a real terror of becoming Jimmy Carter.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

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