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Costco Says It Will Use Potential Tariff Refunds To Lower Prices It is unclear whether the wholesaler will receive tariff refunds, though it is one of several companies suing the Trump administration for the refunds.

Costco: if we succeed in getting tariff refunds, we will pass them back to our members. Sets the standard for others. www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

While you were blinking,

Here’s how Doug Ford’s ban on American booze in Ontario has impacted distilleries one year later It’s officially been one year since Ontario’s liquor aisles turned into the unlikely battlegrounds in a trade fight with the United States.

"More than 3,600 American-made alcohol products were pulled from LCBO shelves and taken off the menus at restaurants and bars across the province, marking an “enormous hit” to U.S. producers as Ontario said it had sold $965 million worth of their alcohol annually." www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Read more about what this case means for press freedom in this op-ed by @seth-stern.bsky.social in @theintercept.com, published in Nov.

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

COPE Councillor Considering Next Steps After Mayor’s False Drug Accusations | The Tyee Ken Sim wrongly accused Sean Orr of dealing illegal drugs and initially let another councillor take the blame.

Within this story from @kehyslop.bsky.social and @jenstden.bsky.social: Former Green councillor Adrianne Carr says she resigned in 2025 in part because of remarks Sim made to her during an in-camera meeting
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Scoop: FEMA Cancels All Emergency Manager Trainings

Scoop: FEMA Cancels All Emergency Manager Trainings #Climate

Meanwhile, in the land of the living:

YouTube video by Channel 4 News Israel and America rain bombs on Iran and Lebanon - as thousand flee Beirut

=1,000= ships with $25 billion in cargo are now trapped in the Gulf of Hormuz per Lloyds:
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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

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Listen to what American and Israeli leaders are saying - in public. Bye.

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US Sen. Ron Wyden wants answers from Trump administration on wildfire preparedness Lawmakers across the West are nervous about a potentially destructive wildfire season at a time when federal firefighting agencies are strained.

Oregon's snowpack is meager so far, and fears are growing that this summer's wildfire conditions will be dire. With about half of the state's land managed by the federal government, Sen. Ron Wyden is pushing the Trump administration to provide some answers on its plans to do to prepare.

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Tell me this isn't JudeoChristian holy war:
"Assassinating #Khameini during #Ramadan is about as subtle as murdering the Pope on the steps of St. Peter's in Holy Week. It will inflame the Shiite world." - Former #NATO Dep Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe #IranIsraelWar
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❗️Iran has struck the BAPCO refinery in Bahrain with ballistic missiles.

I detect a pattern . . .

Bloomberg NEF's Vagneur-Jones: “When a technology becomes cost competitive, you get to a tipping point on adoption.”

Pacific Ocean Floor by MARIE THARP, Bruce Heezan, and Heinrich Berann, *as published in* the National Geographic. There, fixed it.😉

NBC's top climate reporter quits In an exclusive interview, veteran NBC meteorologist Chase Cain opens up about burnout, suppression, and why he's going independent.

NBC's top climate reporter resigns
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Two minutes of searing insight into the attack on #Iran from a former NATO supreme commander:
x.com/dunc_saboteu... via @skynewsrss.bsky.social

Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girls’ school targeting likely ‘deliberate’ Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.

A thorough analysis of the Minab school missile strike, which killed 165 people - mostly schoolgirls - and injured 95.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/... #Iran

Pro-Trump podcasters pushing idea that president is bringing about the Second Coming The United States and Israeli strikes on Iran have sparked biblical theories among Trump’s base

The Independent takes a tour through End Times rhetoric among pro-Trump podcasters. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

The climate scientist who refuses to stay objective » Yale Climate Connections In ‘Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel about Our Changing Planet,’ Kate Marvel argues that feelings belong in climate science – and that hope is still alive.

Can a scientist be emotional and credible? Kate Marvel says yes – and her book might change how you think about climate change.

Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese Festival organisers criticise the university for last-minute booking cancellation of event headlined by special rapporteur for Palestinian territories

Adelaide Uni - Academic freedom, freedom of speech!

Francesca Albanese - Great, let's discuss human rights, war crimes, and genocide.

Adelaide Uni - Oh, not that much freedom. Cancelled, soz.

Genuinely pathetic and embarrassing cowardice.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This echoes US and Israel's rhetoric, holding all concerned hostage to Old Testament eye-for-an-eye-type vengeance: