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Dow asks Texas to legalize plastic pollution from its plant Facing multiple lawsuits, North America’s largest chemical manufacturer requests an “unprecedented” permit amendment to authorize its discharge of polyethylene pellets into coastal waters.

Facing multiple lawsuits, Dow requested an “unprecedented” permit amendment to authorize its discharge of polyethylene pellets into coastal waters.

Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

Breaking WSJ:

The Trump admin plans to abandon its defense of Trump's executive orders sanctioning several law firms.

DOJ — as soon as today — is expected to drop its appeals of four rulings that struck down Trump's actions against Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

If Arsenal do win the Premier League this season, they'll need to have the parade in the Cardiac Care unit because that's where everyone will be.

They are literally trying to convince you that starting a war is ending a war.

BREAKING: The Pentagon says three U.S. service members have been killed and five seriously wounded in hostilities with Iran

But they said he was “The peace president.” 🥴

Lindsey Graham is showing just how unhinged MAGA and this administration is on Meet the Press discussing Iran. Wow.

The entire Republican party knows Trump is deranged, but they keep supporting him for various reasons, some out of greed, some out of fear of retribution, and some because they are ashamed to admit that he made fools out of them.

Multiple deaths confirmed in Austin 6th Street shooting; suspect shot by police As many as 20 people were shot and injured, with multiple possible fatalities, near West Sixth and Nueces streets early Sunday. Police say the suspect was shot and the scene is secure.

😢

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If I was Kendall Scudder, I would be on the phone right now with the Talarico and Crockett campaigns working to coordinate a joint video statement condemning the unauthorized Iran attacks, showing that while they are competing against each other, the true opposition is the current administration.

Deported Austin college student declines return flight to U.S., fearing arrest Last month, a federal judge ordered the return of a deported Austin student to the U.S. Any Lucía López Belloza's lawyers said they feared the government would immediately re-arrest her upon...

Incredibly sad for this young woman.

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THIS.

No SXSW badge? The best free events you can attend during spring break in Austin No badge, no problem. From big-name concerts to local showcases and parties, we found plenty of free and ticketed events you can hit up during SXSW.

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Sam Altman tweet: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

My goodness.

What this means for our customers Secretary Hegseth has implied this designation would restrict anyone who does business with the military from doing business with Anthropic. The Secretary does not have the statutory authority to back up this statement. Legally, a supply chain risk designation under 10 USC 3252 can only extend to the use of Claude as part of Department of War contracts—it cannot affect how contractors use Claude to serve other customers.

shorter Anthropic: lol fuck you, you’re way out over your skis and we’re going to beat your asses in court

Voting rights groups sue Georgia for refusing to release voter purge records Without full access to the records, plaintiffs say they cannot determine whether eligible voters were wrongly removed.

🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) for refusing to turn over key records related to his office’s sweeping 2025 voter roll purge — a purge that canceled nearly 471,000 registrations, about 6% of the state’s voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I don’t think it will matter much, although I wish it would have come out two weeks ago, and not on the last day of early voting here…

Exclusive | Classified Report Finds Kristi Noem Created Security Vulnerabilities at Airports Noem’s handling of the issue is part of a pattern of incidents that have alarmed some national-security officials.

I don’t love that this is how I learned the TSA body scanners can’t scan shoes www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Trump backs Sid Miller and Don Huffines in Texas GOP primary Trump’s last-minute primary endorsements that directly oppose the Texas governor’s selections came hours after he spoke at an event in Corpus Christi on Friday.

President Donald Trump endorsed Don Huffines and Sid Miller in their respective Republican primaries for Texas comptroller and agriculture commissioner, a last-minute boost for the candidates that directly opposes Gov. Greg Abbott’s picks in the races.

Silicon Valley Rallies Behind Anthropic in A.I. Clash With Trump

Our story on how the Pentagon misread the situation with Anthropic. They thought they would fold under the strong-arm tactic. Instead, Anthropic is seeing a boom of support from other AI companies and their own employees.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays

Some scary shit going down at the Pentagon with Hegseth

I don’t think that we need to think Anthropic are heroes of the resistance or whatever, but I do think it’s illuminating who is able to see a couple years down the road and think “oh shit, I might be held liable for this stuff” in a way that, say, Planatir clearly isn’t.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

What’s crazy is I haven’t seen one Ken Paxton commercial on network TV, and I’ve lost track of the number of Cornyn ones. Maybe he is just advertising on Fox or Newsmax?

Trump is in Texas today because the GOP is in trouble. Presidents don’t campaign in “safe” states unless something’s wrong.

And, there's a lot wrong right now. Texans have suffered under one party rule for too long.

They were out of stickers at 10 AM this morning where I went in Austin!

Early voting is any location in Austin.