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Inside Trump's closed-door clash with Senate Republicans (Mychael Schnell/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/inside-trump-closed-door-clash-senate-republicans
http://www.memeorandum.com/260624/p131#a260624p131

Trump berated Senate Republicans face to face on Wednesday
for allowing a vote to block his war in Iran,
further escalating a feud that has diverted GOP efforts to focus on election-year affordability issues
and brought much of the chamber’s business to a halt.
Invited by Florida Sen. Rick Scott to speak at a GOP luncheon in the Capitol,
Trump had signaled ahead of time that he would use the closed-door meeting to push senators to pass his proof-of-citizenship v…

Trump holds tense GOP meeting at Capitol after scrapping bill signing
President Donald Trump has berated Senate Republicans during his visit to the Capitol for allowing a vote to block his war in Iran, further escalating a feud that has diverted GOP efforts to focus on election-year affordability issues and brought much of the chamber’s business to a halt. Trump had signaled ahead of time that he would use the closed-door meeting to push senators to pass his proof-of-citizenship voting bill. But the conversation was more focused on Tuesday’s vote to approve t…

OpenAI says its AI agents "took actions we did not intend" when they tried to hack government and university websites, and it is working with the organizations (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/techno…

OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting
In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.

'Leuchtturm' #FotoVorschlag
From holidays at the baltic sea, a couple of years ago.
#photography #balticsea

How special-edition popcorn buckets designed for major movies became lucrative; AMC Theatres estimates they will generate $100M in revenue this year (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/bus…

‘Odyssey’ Popcorn Buckets Help Fuel a $100 Million Market
Once, a tub of popcorn was just a tub of popcorn. Now, ‘collectible concession vessels’ could make one chain more than $100 million.

Letzte Nacht (zwecks #Bikestreak Tag 88 wie üblich kurz vor Mitternacht) nach der Arbeit im Home Office noch mit dem #BromptonElectricGLine #rausgeschafft. War wieder mal so eine "Ich…

Quitobaquito Springs in south-west Arizona has been called a biological wonderland with few equals.
The springs are an oasis in the vast Sonoran desert along the US-Mexico border, held sacred by the O’odham people, who call it A’al Vaipia.
Here, water flows out of an aquifer at the bottom of a hill, runs along a short concrete channel and collects in a pond.
The pond is home to Sonoyta pupfish, which are small and silvery, with upturned jaws.
In the channel are found …

‘Total chaos’: the biological wonderland threatened by Trump’s border wall
Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham people

Kleines abendliches #Rausgeschafft mit dem #BromptonElectricGLine auf meiner in letzter Zeit für kurze Runden favorisierten #Hürstwaldrunde (5km) mit vor allem geschotterten Waldw…

In 1917, as canadian troops fought at Vimy Ridge in northern France,
Lieutenant Leslie Miller collected acorns from the battlefield and carried them home to Ontario.
Saplings from the resulting oaks were sent back to France about a century later, and became a living link between the two countries.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney recounted that story in Strasbourg last week to the European Parliament as he proposed an alliance that went far beyond trade
to encomp…

America’s Allies Are No Longer Waiting for Trump to Leave
They now figure isolationism and protectionism will be U.S. foreign policy for a long time to come.

Charles Ross has a degree in math and a yen for physics.
He says he can sense celestial alignments, and feel the difference between colors of light in a spectrum.
When he needed a well dug for his desert home, he called a dowser.
The artist, 88, belongs to a generation of land artists who shed galleries and cities to work at a scale more common in ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica.
In 1975, he had been crisscrossing the Southwest for four years, hunting for the perfect…

He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?