Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily lifted a lower-court order that would have halted the president's passion project.
A major polling tracker announced Thursday it would suspend its use of data from a pollster after it discovered evidence that the firm allegedly "falsified data" in a survey of candidates in Florida's gubernatorial Republican primary race.
A woman discovered she had been secretly filmed by a man wearing Meta's AI-powered smart glasses when friends and people she hadn't talked to in years sent her a video posted on social media. "It went viral. Across all platforms, probably over 200,000 views," Toluwa Omitowoju said.
The Democratic National Committee sued the Justice Department on Thursday over its refusal to turn over documents related to any plans to seize ballots, voting machines and other election materials within a month of any federal primary and general election during the midterms.
X's algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study ... read more
And, fwiw ...
I am not happy when it rains ...
Jesus And Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains (1987)
www.youtube.com
I'd much rather post songs about happy things ... :)
Speaking of the vice of the Vietnam War ...
Bruce Cockburn - If I Had A Rocket Launcher (1984)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
...
[Verse 1]
Here comes the helicopter
Second time today
Everybody scatters
And hopes it goes away
How many kids they've murdered
Only God can say, hey
[Chorus]
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
I'd make somebody pay
[Verse 2]
I don't believe in guarded borders
And I don't believe in hate
I don't believe in generals
Or their stinking torture states
And when I talk with the survivors
Of things too sickening to relate
[Chorus]
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
I would retaliate
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[Verse 3]
On the Rio Lacantn
One hundred thousand wait
To fall down from starvation
Or some less humane fate
Cry for Guatemala
With a corpse in every gate
[Chorus]
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
I would not hesitate
[Verse 4]
I wanna raise every voice
At least I've got to try
Every time I think about it
Water rises to my eyes
Situation desperate
Echoes of the victims cry
[Chorus]
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
Some son of a bitch would die
...
Black Flag - Slip It In (1987)
www.youtube.com
(there's some censoring [possibly an understatement] of the lyrics in the link, but what might be expected of an "official release?")
The album I have does not have that censoring.
I found this ...
Strait of Hormuz - Live Ship Tracker
hormuz.data-tracking.net
Looks like less than 30 to me. As opposed to the 130 ships per day before Pres Trump's War of Choice.
What does your current alias see?
Donald Trump Once Said He Would Eliminate America's $19 Trillion in Debt. The Total Is Now Approaching $50 Trillion. (July 2026)
finance.yahoo.com
... Trump promised to eliminate $19 trillion in national debt by 2024; instead it has nearly doubled to $39 trillion and is approaching $50 trillion. ...
In April 2016, Donald Trump told The Washington Post he could eliminate the nation's then-more-than-$19 trillion national debt "over a period of eight years."
Most economists called the claim implausible, noting it could require pulling more than $2 trillion a year out of a roughly $4 trillion annual budget.
Trump's argument rested on renegotiated trade deals, particularly with China, generating the growth needed to service the balance. Economists countered that a trade war would instead be crippling to the U.S. economy. ...
Can Trump fix the national debt? Republican senators, many investors and even Elon Musk are skeptical (2025)
www.pbs.org
... President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won't bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.[emphasis mine]
The response so far from financial markets has been skeptical as Trump seems unable to trim deficits as promised. ...
"All of this rhetoric about cutting trillions of dollars of spending has come to nothing " and the tax bill codifies that," said Michael Strain, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank. "There is a level of concern about the competence of Congress and this administration and that makes adding a whole bunch of money to the deficit riskier."
The White House has viciously lashed out at anyone who has voiced concern about the debt snowballing under Trump, even though it did exactly that in his first term after his 2017 tax cuts.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt opened her briefing Thursday by saying she wanted "to debunk some false claims" about his tax cuts. ...
Council chair Stephen Miran told reporters that when the growth being forecast by the White House is coupled with expected revenues from tariffs, the expected budget deficits will fall. The tax cuts will increase the supply of money for investment, the supply of workers and the supply of domestically produced goods -- all of which, by Miran's logic, would cause faster growth without creating new inflationary pressures.
"I do want to assure everyone that the deficit is a very significant concern for this administration," Miran said.
White House budget director Russell Vought told reporters the idea that the bill is "in any way harmful to debt and deficits is fundamentally untrue." ...
Another from the Austin Lounge Lizards ...
Austin Lounge Lizards - Jesus Loves Me (But He Can't Stand You) (1991)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
...
I know you smoke, I know you drink that brew,
I just can't abide a sinner like you.
God can't either, that's why I know it's true,
That Jesus loves me but he can't stand you.
I'm going straight to heaven, boys, when I die,
'cause I've crossed every T and I've dotted every I
Why, my preacher tells me I'm god's kind of guy,
That's why Jesus loves me, but you're gonna fry.
God loves all his children, by gum,
That doesn't mean he won't incinerate some,
Can't you feel those hot flames licking you?
I'm raising my kids in a righteous way,
So don't be sending your kids to my house to play,
Yours will grow up stoned, left leaning and gay,
I know - Jesus told me on the phone today.
Jesus loves me, this I know
And he told me where you're gonna go,
There's room for your kind down below
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Jesus loves me, he loves me real good.
I know he does.
He called me up on the phone today and told me how much he loves me.
He said, "Son, I love you."
He speaks English pretty well, considering it's a second language for him.
You can talk to him, too, you know.
I've got a 900- number in Tulsa you can call him at, I do it all the time. He'll be glad to hear from you. I talk to him everyday.
Jesus love me, but he can't stand you.
...
I am not at all surprised at this ~uprising~ against Pres trump by the representatives of the beef-producing states.
But what has really surprised my about Pres Trump's announcement was his implicit admission that Americans pay his tariffs. So contrary to the lies he has uttered in the past.