These charts will shock you I am sure.
Travel to the United States for Europeans appears much less popular year-over-year.
Financial Times shows the steep drop (paywalled) since the new administration began.
https://flowingdata.com/2025/04/15/decline-in…
Canada-U.S.: why some snowbirds* are flying farther south
https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/article/didnt-like-us-canadians-snowbirds-say-tensions-between-canada-us-led-to-changes-in-travel-itinerary/
* “Snowbird” refers to Canadians who spend their winters in sunny climates, which include Florida, Arizona, Texas, as well as other sunny U.S. locales.
The climate has changed ...
"EU-US Data Transfers: Time to prepare for more trouble to come", #maxschrems…
Judge Laughs Aloud at #TSA
Court outburst came as agency pursues $48m fine on #SouthwestAirlines for not handling gov mandated Transportation Safety Administration fees on passenger tickets to agency liking.
The $48 Million Fine was demanded of
Urbanity - Cloud Four ☁️
城市化 - 四云 ☁️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
"Liberal commentators are very eager to accuse the left of obsessing — and falling out — over things which, in reality, don't seem to the liberals to matter very much. They have a phrase for this: 'the narcissism of small differences.' Well, OK, we on the left do fall out over things which, seen from outside our spectrum, may seem trivial... But... let us, please, consider for the moment the beam in our brother's eye."
2025 NFL playoff picture: Broncos, Rams leap up as No. 1 seeds; which wild card teams are in trouble?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-playoff-picture-standings-week-14-2025/…
Filing: Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after a WSJ story about Instagram and teen mental health, noting Apple faces less scrutiny (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/874176/meta-zuckerberg-new-me…
#FF2025 in-person folk - if you're feeling a bit sniffly after travel and/or having fun in London, there are some (surgical) masks at the registration desk. I'm seeing my favourite octogenarians on Monday so I'm masking up most of the time too!
Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary,
has advocated for a new travel ban on visitors from an unspecified number of countries
following the shooting death in Washington DC of a national guard member by an Afghan national.
Noem posted to X her proposal on Monday night after she said she had spoken with Donald Trump,
whose first term travel ban on seven Muslim countries faced widespread criticism and followed a rocky legal path before it was eventually upheld …