Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers — WIRED The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.

“The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.”

ICE confirms a measles outbreak in the nation's largest detention facility in Texas — NBC News The agency said it's closely monitoring the situation and coordinating with public health authorities while the facility has been closed to visitors and attorneys.

It was probably the plan all along.
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Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130 Billion in Tariffs — The Wall Street Journal More than 2,000 lawsuits have been filed by companies in the court seeking to recoup their money after Supreme Court invalidated tariffs last month

Why should Republicans have to obey the law if they don’t want to? Why start now?
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Ultraprocessed Food at Age 3 Linked to Emotional and Behavioural Problems at Age 5 By the time a child starts school, roughly half of everything they've eaten has been ultraprocessed. Not junk food in the familiar sense — not just the

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'Corporate Murder': Even Trump's Former AI Advisor Thinks the Pentagon's Fight Against Anthropic Is Bad "The machinery of our current republic seems to be in such disrepair that it is hard to see how it lasts," writes Dean Ball.

Ball laid out his case in a Substack post; he explained in very morbid terms that America is not doing well: “I don’t know where we are in the death process, but I know we are in the hospice room. I’ve known it for a while, though I have sometimes been in denial, as all mourners are wont to do.”

The world is watching America lose its moral compass and its global credibility
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Elon Musk’s ‘self-driving’ delusions get a reality check — Fast Company The electric carmaker says its ‘Full Self-Driving’ claims aren’t misleading. The law takes a different view. Two months ago, a state administrative judge in California determined that Tesla broke the ...

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Kristi Noem just said the quiet part out loud:

“When it gets to Election Day, we’ve been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country.”

Cory Booker Catches Kristi Noem Lying Under Oath Multiple Times — The New Republic The Homeland Security secretary was asked if she had ever detained U.S. citizens. She insisted her department hadn’t.

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Report shows progress towards even cleaner EV supply chains, Tesla leads — Electrek A new report produced by a coalition of environmental and social advocacy groups details forward progress being made across the industry towards more sustainable supply chains, with Tesla leading the ...

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Elon's dirty deals, Tesla's credit losses, and electric semi trucks save BIG money — Electrek On today’s disturbingly dirty episode of Quick Charge, Elon Musk is undoing nearly two decades of decarbonization by pumping out massive amounts of pollution to keep his xAI and Grok slop-machines rol...

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Your Car Has A Brightness Setting That Can Actually Help Reduce Glare From LED Headlights — BGR LED headlights on modern cars can be incredibly bright for oncoming traffic, but fortunately there is a simple setting you can adjust to help reduce the glare.

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Palantir CEO Uses Slur to Describe People Who Don’t Think the Government Will Take Their Company — Gizmodo Hello Alex this is your lawyer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit.

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Tesla loses Toyota and Stellantis from its EU CO2 pool, taking billions with them — Electrek Toyota and Stellantis are both withdrawing from Tesla’s European CO2 emissions pool for 2026, according to new EU filings. The two automakers were among the largest paying members of the pool.

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Soldier Details Chilling Messaging From Higher-Ups About ‘God’s Plan’ In Iran: ‘It Shocked Many Of Us’ — HuffPost One commander had a “big grin” on his face while saying Donald Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran,

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Colin Gray convicted in Apalachee High School shooting — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A jury from neighboring Hall County found the father guilty of second-degree murder, among other charges.

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White House rationale for war keeps shifting — The Washington Post The president and top aides have offered varying justifications for attacking Iran — from regime change to preemption to eliminating its nuclear program and ballistic missiles.

Flood the zone with bullshit. And bodies. apple.news/Av7fET67aRyK...

Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide — Guardian US A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images f...

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This is why our electricity bills are so high right now — Ars Technica New data shows electricity rates rose 5 percent nationwide in 2025.

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Oz Pushes Catastrophic Health Plans, Which Critics Call Junk Insurance — Forbes The main criticism of high-deductible health plans has been that people with such coverage typically must pay thousands of dollars out-of-pocket when they do get sick.

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Sam Altman in Damage Control Mode as ChatGPT Users Are Mass Cancelling Subscriptions Because OpenAI Is “Training a War Machine” — Futurism

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Trump warns of longer Iran war as Riyadh, Beirut hit — AFP News US President Donald Trump warned that his attack on Iran could extend longer than a month, as the war spread Tuesday with Israel bombarding Lebanon and Tehran targeting US allies in the Gulf, includin...

Ya think?
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Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions — The Wall Street Journal Justice Department plans to withdraw appeals defending punitive executive orders issued by the president, people familiar with the matter said

It would be nice to have the rule of law back, but this is probably just a blip in the Republicans’ plan to strip rights from everyone who isn’t like them.
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Who benefits from Trump’s war in Iran? The answer is disturbingly clear. — MS NOW There’s no four-dimensional chess here. There’s just the president, and what we know he’s like.

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He built the ultimate test for humanoid robots, and they beat it in months — Scientific American Roboticist Benjie Holson created the “Humanoid Olympic Games” thinking home robots were 15 years away. Then they started folding the laundry Dressed as a robot, Benjie Holson demonstrates the silver m...

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Tesla Robotaxis are Much Worse than Human Drivers as Tesla Hides Details From Public — Men’s Journal Tesla's Robotaxis are not performing well.

“This is most of what we know, as unlike its other autonomous vehicle competitors Waymo and Zoox—and every other company in the market—Tesla is the only company to fully redact and hide details of all crashes from the public, thanks to a confidentiality provision under the NHTSA."

Doctors Are Begging Middle-Aged Women To Make This 1 Lifestyle Change ASAP — HuffPost If you're between ages 40 to 65, this singular habit can boost bone health, mood, longevity and more — yet not enough people prioritize it.

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How the X algorithm can make you more right-wing in just a few weeks — Startup Daily Led by Germain Gauthier from Bocconi University in Italy, it is a rare, real-world randomised experimental study on a major social media platform. And it builds on a growing body of research that show...

They found evidence that the algorithm increased the share of right-leaning content by 2.9 percentage points overall (and 2.5 points among political posts), compared with the chronological feed.
It also significantly demoted the share of posts from traditional news organisations’ accounts

In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A | Fortune The CBO estimates that benefit reductions would start at 8% in 2040 and steadily climb to a 10% cut by 2056.

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Glyphosate is driving a rift in MAHA. Here’s what the science says about its effects on health — Scientific American The Trump administration wants to boost manufacturing of glyphosate, the world’s most common weed killer. Here’s what that could mean for health Of all the pesticides out there, few have sparked more ...

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