Swing voters in North Carolina say they are frustrated with President Trump and the state of the economy, but aren't ready to abandon him or his party as the midterms inch closer.
Nvidia will invest $150 billion a year to make Taiwan an AI "epicenter." read more
The bill, an urgency measure, becomes effectively immediately -- just in time for California's Tuesday primaries.
California Governor Gavin Newsom repeatedly derided Donald Trump as he signed an election bill on Wednesday, saying stronger guardrails are needed in the wake of a "delusional" president.
Former President Joe Biden filed suit against the Justice Department on Tuesday in an effort to block the release of recordings and transcripts from interviews he gave for his memoir ... read more
Meta is the latest company to trim its workforce as a result of the growing use of AI within the industry. read more
@#1 ... But I found this other link to the article I think you may be citing ... ...
Hint: when I run into a paywall, I try a couple of things.
First, I put the headline into my search engine of choice (usually duckduckgo.com ), and see if there is a non-pay-walled version available. If that doesn't work, then I place the first paragraph of the article in the search engine.
Many times there is a non-pay-walled version available or, at least, quite similar reporting.
That's how I found the article I noted in #1.
YMMV and all that ...
My browser's security settings flag archive.ph as a security issue.
But I found this other link to the article I think you may be citing ...
5 ways daily cannabis use can affect your body and mind
www.yahoo.com
... Monica Romano was 13 when she first tried cannabis in the 1980s. It started out as a social way to spend a Friday night behind the bleachers at football games, she said, but it soon became a daily habit.
"I was reaching for it to quell anxiety," said Romano, now 59, a health and lifestyle journalist and former nurse in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. "I was an uneasy teen, never feeling like I was good enough." Cannabis minimized her social anxiety and helped her process what she calls an "unstable home life."
She continued to smoke marijuana daily until she was 30. It didn't stop her from earning two college degrees and raising her son largely on her own, she said. "I started looking back and wondered: How did I do that? I worked, I studied, I showed up, I raised my son, but pot was always there."
Marijuana is a constant for a growing number of young and middle-aged adults, 8 to 11 percent of whom now use cannabis every day, according to Monitoring the Future, an ongoing research project from the University of Michigan. Daily use in older adults 55 and up has decreased.
Young adults 19 to 30 are nearly three times as likely to use cannabis daily than drink alcohol daily, while adults ages 35 to 50 use both about equally, per data in the journal Addiction in 2024. And as daily cannabis use becomes more common, it's natural to wonder what such frequent consumption may or may not be doing to our health.
Some people like to compare cannabis to other widely used substances, such as caffeine. ...
... The optics for a president could not be worse ...
Reminds me of this tune ...
Wide Boy Awake - Chicken Outlaw (1982)
www.youtube.com
Is Pres Trump just a chicken outlaw, a.k.a., bully?
@#8
Fact Check: Posts on JD Vance's 'America's Hitler' remark are accurate
news.meaww.com
... In 2016, JD Vance wrote to his former law school roommate Josh McLaurin, "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical ----- like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler. How's that for discouraging?"
McLaurin made the text public in 2022, and multiple reputable outlets, including Reuters, BBC, and The Guardian, has corroborated its authenticity over the following years. ...
Pres Trump's $1.776B slush fund for J6 rioters, among others, is just another example.
Saw this recently ...
Trump's Supporters Reject His Anti-Weaponization Fund In New Poll: Nearly Half Of MAGA Oppose
www.forbes.com
... Republican and Democrat voters agree in nearly equal numbers they oppose President Donald Trump's anti-weaponization fund in a new poll that marks a rare bipartisan consensus -- as Republicans in Washington have also revolted against the so-called "slush fund." ...
Key Facts
- - - A poll by the Economist/YouGov found a majority of Republicans (52%) and a plurality of MAGA supporters (45%) oppose the fund set up to offer payouts to people who believe they've been wronged by the government.
- - - Only 24% of Republicans support it and 24% aren't sure, while 32% of MAGA Republicans support the fund and 24% aren't sure.
- - - The numbers are similar for Democrats: 25% support the fund, 56% oppose it and 19% aren't sure (the poll of 1,520 U.S. adults was conducted May 22-26 and has a margin of error of 3.6).
- - - Overall, 49% of respondents oppose the fund, 24% support it, and 27% aren't sure.
- - - The poll comes after a revolt among Republicans in Washington against Trump's anti-weaponization fund derailed a vote last week on an immigration-enforcement bill that would have also funded Trump's ballroom project.
Big Number
34%. That's Trump's overall approval rating in the poll. He had a 59% disapproval rating, an increase of five points in his net negative approval rating from last week. ...
Related ...
NATO prepares a Baltic fortress to head off Putin
www.politico.eu
... NATO is scrambling to fortify a windswept Baltic island that military planners increasingly see as one of the alliance's most exposed -- and strategically vital -- front lines against Russia.
Perched in the middle of the Baltic Sea, Gotland sits just 300 kilometers from Russia's heavily militarized exclave of Kaliningrad. As fears grow over Russian aggression, hybrid attacks and wavering U.S. commitment to European security, Sweden and its NATO allies are racing to turn Gotland back into a military stronghold.
Last week, Sweden wrapped up its first NATO-coordinated exercise on the island since joining the alliance in 2024. Around 18,000 troops from 13 countries trained across Gotland's dusty plains for a possible Russian assault.
A Russian attack "could happen anytime," Swedish Chief of Defense Michael Claesson told POLITICO, as soldiers weaved between armored vehicles on the western side of the island.
The exercise highlighted the difficulties faced by Sweden: The U.S. shrank its participation -- part of a larger pattern as Donald Trump pulls back from NATO -- and the Ukrainian troops taking part in the training showed off their drone warfare mastery by rapidly destroying a Swedish armored detachment. ...
@#1 ... 1. Trump is viewed as out of touch, but not weak ... ...
Yeah.
I am hearing that more and more lately as I listen to political opinion shows.
Voters seem to like that Pres Trump is willing, even eager, to pick a fight. Regardless of the reason for that fight.
Just that he is willing to start a fight.
Is that real, or just a fabrication of the opinion shows I listen to?
I wish I knew.