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Senate rejects bid to scale back Iran war A similar measure is also expected to fail in the House, giving the president near carte blanche to proceed with the conflict.

“The 47-53 vote split largely along party lines, with Republican senators united to defeat a measure that would have required congressional approval to continue the operation.” www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Scoop: Trump officials broker massive U.S.-Venezuela gold deal The arrangement shows the tightening commercial bounds between Venezuela and the U.S.

“This contract is the third extraction deal made under the Trump administration's supervision as the U.S. has taken control of Venezuela's most crucial and abundant resource, oil.” www.axios.com/2026/03/05/t...

Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers 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.” www.wired.com/story/trumps...

Global sea levels have been underestimated due to poor modelling, research suggests Analysis shows average levels are 30cm higher than thought, and up to 150cm in south-east Asia and Indo-Pacific

Oops, sea levels might be higher than previously www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Crypto industry quietly powers negative campaign ads in Illinois The super PAC Fairshake is spending big bucks against some Illinois candidates.

Fairshake, the crypto PAC, is dumping money into Illinois primaries www.axios.com/local/chicag...

Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking Like many other features and systems in modern cars, tire pressure sensors leak sensitive data that can be abused by threat actors.

Your car's tires are helping spy on you www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-secur...

YouTube video by Cabrit St. Vincent - Grace (Live @ Little Saint Healdsburg) [Jeff Buckley cover]

St Vincent covers “Grace” www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRe3...

Damn, the Ayatollah and Lou Holtz in the same week. Pick up the phone. Make that phone call you’ve been putting off.

According to the US and Israeli right wings, Iran has been in the last mile of their nuclear weapons program for my entire adult life.

Netanyahu drew his red line at the UN nearly 14 years ago.

The New Eve Is Rising, by The New Eves 9 track album

Purposely didn't listen to this for the past several weeks to give 2026 releases a chance. No doubt it's still my favorite record of 2025
theneweves.bandcamp.com/album/the-ne...

Favorites here if interested: www.zoocoup.org/2025/music/l...

I love how for every metal band's Bandcamp page I have to scroll three pages down past the sections to buy hoodies, coffee mugs, signed vinyl and a bevy other options before I finally get to the tracklist

Data centers should have to take the water they need from golf courses.

man wearing a cut off denim jacket with a celine dion my heart goes on patch. its all a bit satanic

a series of folders, with eyes and nose and mouth glyphs on them, loosely resembling a face. loosely

a lot of you are hesitating to update to macOS 26, which is too bad, because i'm over here making my new best friend: foldy

Even Rumsfeld never said anything this stupid.

MacBook Neo Introducing the new MacBook Neo. Stunning colors, durable aluminum design, 13” Liquid Retina display, all-day battery life, AI and Apple Intelligence.

Hello, Neo www.apple.com/macbook-neo/

M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon Apple is using more chiplets and three types of CPU cores to make the M5 family.

“But the M5 chips are a surprisingly large departure from past generations, both in terms of the CPU architectures they use and in how they’re packaged together.” arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Iran War Oil Shock Threatens to Unleash Wave of Global Inflation Sustained high oil prices would boost inflation and slow growth, putting central banks in a tough spot.

“Iran War Oil Shock Threatens to Unleash Wave of Global Inflation”

They never gave us “The Raid 3”, so justified.

Trump's Plan To Escort Ships Through Strait Of Hormuz Would Put U.S. Navy Warships In The Crosshairs Escorting convoys through the Strait of Hormuz could get commerce flowing again, but not without putting American warships in the line of fire.

“Escort operations mean that American warships would need to transit through the highest threat areas repeatedly, as well, which would only give Iranian forces more engagement opportunities. There is a reason why U.S. naval vessels are currently operating well away from the Persian Gulf…”

Exclusive: It’s bots vs. reporters at the AP The tensions inside the wire service reveal a broader conflict playing out across the media over how AI should be applied within journalism.

“hard not to escape the feeling that the people hyping/guiding the decisions around these powerful tools exist in a totally different reality than the people who wake up every day and do the work of reporting” www.semafor.com/article/03/0...

US military launches operation in Ecuador to combat drug trafficking US Southern Command said joint mission with Ecuadorian forces involves ‘decisive action’ against narco-terrorists

The US military is also conducting operations in Ecudaor www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

Adtech helps the CBP hunt www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

Denver Cut Street Homelessness Nearly in Half Between 2023 and 2025, the city cleared encampments and quickly built new shelters. It reduced the unsheltered homeless population by 45 percent, even as the total number of homeless people in Denver ...

“Denver’s high-water mark was 2023, when 1,423 people were living outdoors… By 2025, the unsheltered homeless count was 785, a 45 percent reduction. The number of unique encampments with 10 or more tents went down by more than 90 percent” www.governing.com/urban/denver...

I can't be the only one who says “Sheboygan” in my head like a Jerry Lewis exclaimation, right?

Cornyn, Paxton head to runoff in Texas Senate GOP race Sen. John Cornyn is in the fight of his career — and national Republicans fear they could lose the seat if he falls.

No matter who wins, we all lose www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Again, how can you resist that raw charisma?

Are y'all still trying to tour the US this year?

It would be great to finally see you live, but (looks around at everything) I also get why you would stay away.

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