How cute: #JusticeGorsuch helpfully compiled a list of recent cases where #SCOTUS rulings did not follow common sense (or "commonsense principles of communication").
How Trump's immigration policies, visa fees, and fuel costs are affecting international artists' US tours; Pollstar: US concert volume in Q1 is down ~17% YoY (August Brown/Los Angeles Times)
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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring unsubstantiated victories,
whether against South Americans or in the Middle East.
In a charged press conference on March 13, Hegseth did more than attack journalists for questioning his unverified claims about the course of the war in the Middle East.
He singled out CNN, introducing a troubling dimension to the conversation.
“The soo…
It's going to be a busy #EGU poster session for our team this year:
🌲 Explainable Machine Learning for diagnosing Data Quality Issues in Dendrometer-Based Tree Growth Time Series https://meetingorganizer.coperni…
Anybody have a non emergency service contact for Puget Sound Energy? They have a contact to report outages and downed wires but not lower priority issues.
We've pretty definitively figured out what's going on at my friends' place: intermittent brownouts on one of the two 120V phases affecting the entire house but not neighbors. Waveforms show glitches in the sine right above and below the zero crossing consistent with series arcing. And it happens more often in windy weathe…
Giants trading Lawrence could be good, or bad, for Cowboys draft plans https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/20/giants-bengals-dt-lawrence-trade-cowboys-draft/89698954007/
Große Teile der Innenstadt frei von Autoverkehr zu kriegen, birgt durchaus das Problem, das eine oder andere Auto an den Zielort¹ zu bekommen, wenn dorthin keine für den Autoverkehr freigegebene Route mehr existiert. Allerdings können wir das so machen, wie mit dem Fahrrad in der Fußgängerzone: absteigen und das Gefährt schieben. Kleinere und leichtere Wagen würden auch gleich viel beliebter.
Vielfach täte es auch ein verkehrsberuhigter Bereich², und in der Praxis bewegen sich von Zul…
Call for abstracts Sociolinguistics of Emojis: Implications for Customer Psychology and Behavior
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The Commission of Fine Arts,
a panel whose members were all appointed last month by Donald Trump,
unanimously approved a plan for a 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom on Feb. 19,
clearing one of the hurdles on the controversial project.
The seven-member panel also includes former lead architect on the project -- James McCrery, who abstained from voting due to his role.
Trump took to Truth Social to celebrate the approval on the $400 million project, which is…
Talks kick off Monday between U.S. and Mexican trade officials.
The North American economies could agree to renew the
US-Mexico-Canada Agreement,
or USMCA as it is for another 16 years
— a prospect that appears unlikely.
Or they could keep working on ways to improve it;
Under a convoluted renewal process, they have until 2036 to reach an agreement
Much of this bustling cross-border commerce is duty-free, thanks to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, that Do…