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Trump’s tax policy encourages the very offshoring that his tariffs are intended to stop.
Take the more than $600 billion pharmaceutical industry.
Over the past few months, Trump and his associates have repeatedly criticized companies’ moves to offshore much drug making,
particularly to Ireland.
“We can’t be beholden and rely upon foreign countries for fundamental things that we need,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on April 13.
But the tax incentives i…

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Beautiful Bill’ Actually Pushes Manufacturing Abroad
A loophole in Trump’s policy bill would continue to encourage offshoring.

Ein Bericht zur #Netzstörung in #Spanien und #Portugal im April zeigt, dass die Ursache ein Zusammenspiel technischer Fehler bei der Netzstabilisierung war.

Spanish blackout report: Power plants meant to stabilize voltage didn’t
The Iberian blackout was a consequence of grid management, not any power source.

Man charged with attempted kidnapping of Democratic Memphis mayor (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/20/memphis-tennessee-mayor-kidnap-arrest
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p49#a250620p49

I love Europe. it is beauty personified
#FERROVELO #CYCLE #Italy

Overall #Irish exports fall by 43% in April compared to March, with shipment volume to #USA drastically down by 62%...but one bright spot from Emerald Isle data is insatiable demand from chubbies chasing #DietPills in states, where despi…

Irish exports fell by 43% to €21.9 billion in April compared to March

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

The EU says Apple and Meta will not face sanctions immediately after their 60 day DMA grace period ends on June 26, following €500M and €200M fines in April (Peggy Corlin/Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06…

Apple and Meta to escape sanctions for failing to meet digital rules
The European Commission will opt not to impose immediate financial penalties on Apple and Meta—even if they fail to comply with the legislation by next week's deadline. #EuropeNews

"And once in a great while, someone will light a lantern—or even two—that will shine forth for democratic principles that are under siege, and set the world ablaze."
This is one Heather Cox Richardson's better than the normally great essays.
#History
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-18-2025

The evolution of CME sheath turbulence from L1 to Earth: Wind and MMS observations of the 2023-04-23 CME
Matthew R. Argall, Li-Jen Chen, No\'e Lugaz, Norberto Romanelli, Jaye L. Verniero, Charles W. Smith, Brandon Burkholder, Victoria Wilder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13645

The evolution of CME sheath turbulence from L1 to Earth: Wind and MMS observations of the 2023-04-23 CME
An interplanetary shock driven by a coronal mass ejection (CME) containing an interval of sub-Alfvénic flow impacted Earth on April 23, 2024. In this article, we analyze the turbulence in the sheath region between the shock and CME to determine how it evolves from L1 (as observed by Wind) to Earth (as observed by MMS, upstream of the bow shock). Wind and MMS were separated by $55\,\mathrm{R_{E}}$ in the dawn-dusk direction, but the shock normals differ by only $2.8^{\circ}$ and the Pearson cor…

Leo Varadkar, who stood down as taoiseach in April 2024,
said he did not think a date should be fixed for an Irish unity referendum
as nationalists did not yet have the numbers to win.
But he said planning for a united Ireland should take place.
"I don't think a united Ireland is inevitable, I think it's something that we have to work towards," he said.
"But I think there are a lot of factors that would suggest that we're on that traje…

Leo Varadkar says Nigel Farage as PM would move Irish unity 'centre stage'
The former Irish prime minister says planning should take place for the possibility of Irish unification.