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DeSantis inks bill to expel student supporters of designated terrorist groups (Claire Carter/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/4518116/ron-desantis-bill-florida-students-designated-terrorist-groups/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p104#a260406p104

Decent overview of why people will say "Britain's infrastructure is state owned, just not by the British state".
There's so much anger over the energy situation in the UK, and the right wing press has, to some extent, managed to channel it into resentment against "green policies" rather than economic policy.

Why “Green” Britain Is Still Dangerously Exposed to Energy Shocks
How decades of poor decision making has left Britain at the mercy of the markets

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February
— five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop
— has been ruled a #homicide, authorities said Wednesday.
The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for
Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death,
which the agency said…

Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide
The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death.

Not the best-phrased headline ever, but this news warms my heart. They're disinterring them because they have enough family DNA samples to finally identify them.
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2026-03-04/pearl-harbor-identification-dpaa-2094…

Plans set to disinter USS Arizona unknowns from Hawaii cemetery 85 years after Pearl Harbor
DPAA has committed to exhuming the remains of dozens of sailors who were aboard the USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Onderzoek: ook met kleiner Schiphol kan Nederland economisch functioneren | de Volkskrant
#Schiphol #Lelystad

Iranians Feel the Pain as Their Economy Descends Into a Death Spiral (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iranians-feel-the-pain-as-their-economy-descends-into-a-death-spiral-47dba669?st=3nEQei
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p104#a260429p104

Mais qu'est-ce que @… faisait Š Nice? Et pourquoi n'est-il pas descendu du train Š Marseille? Connexion Š Lyon? En tout cas, 8h de retard, c'est une forte indication qu'il était Š bord du train.

Un TGV Nice-Paris bloqué dans un tunnel à la sortie de Marseille pendant 8 heures
Moins d'une semaine après les voyageurs d'un Paris-Marseille bloqués plus de 9 heures après une panne, ceux d'un Nice-Paris n'ont jamais pu parvenir à destination en raison d'un "accident de personne". Les enquêteurs ont mis cinq heures à faire leurs relevés.

An analytical model of Disequilibrium and decentralized productive Exploration
Nazaria Solferino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00718 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.00718 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.00718
arXiv:2604.00718v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper studies the economic role of persistent dispersion in allocations across agents. We develop a tractable model in which firms allocate resources under imperfect information and behavioral updating, generating sustained heterogeneity in beliefs and actions. While dispersion induces static misallocation, it also fosters decentralized experimentation, allowing the economy to explore a broader set of productive opportunities. We show that the economy converges to a stationary equilibrium with strictly positive dispersion and that, under plausible conditions, such disequilibrium can dominate the perfectly coordinated benchmark. The model provides a novel interpretation of observed dispersion in productivity and returns as reflecting both inefficiency and productive exploration. It also yields testable predictions linking dispersion to growth and innovation dynamics.
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Russia’s economy has entered the death zone - Alexandra Prokopenko - Economist
#Ukraine

Trump jokes Hegseth doesn't want Iran war to end (Mike Brest/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/4502114/trump-jokes-hegseth-doesnt-want-iran-war-negotiate/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260324/p149#a260324p149