@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-29 13:54:33
Trump faces fresh MAGA blowback for efforts to ‘de-escalate’ in Minnesota
Donald Trump’s efforts this week to “de-escalate” controversial deportation tactics in Minnesota in the face of widespread public dismay
has caused a new wave of blowback from his base of hard-line anti-immigration advocates.
The felon-president is caught between competing interests:
a loyal base of voters who elected him on a campaign promise of “mass deportations,”
and a broader elect…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-23 13:55:44
Voice of America's Persian service blacks out Iran's exiled crown prince (Laura Kelly/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5701358-voa-persian-censors-iran-crown-prince/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p22#a260123p22
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-25 06:05:46
Sources: Ali Javanmardi, VOA's Persian-language service advisor, is accused of censoring coverage of Iran's exiled crown prince due to a personal political bias (Laura Kelly/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5701358-voa-persian…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-23 23:15:36
Major insurers have recently sought permission from US regulators to offer policies excluding liabilities tied to businesses deploying AI chatbots and agents (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/abfe9741-f438-4ed6-a673-075ec177dc62
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-25 20:25:24
Amid the Trump administration’s military escalations against Venezuela,
one Florida Republican is salivating at the prospect of a full-scale military invasion,
arguing that a U.S. military invasion would be “very good news for the American economy.”
“Venezuela, for those Americans who do not understand why we need to go in, basically [it’s] for three reasons,”
said Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), speaking with Fox’s David Asman.
Those three reasons, Salazar exp…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-12-16 21:42:01
from my link log —
The Euclid-Mullin sequence of prime numbers.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/a-curious-sequence-of-prime-numbers/
saved 2019-05-26
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-27 07:06:36
The Persian service for Trump’s overhauled Voice of America (VOA)
is censoring coverage of Iran’s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi,
who played a central role in stirring up antigovernment proteststhat rocked the country earlier this month.
Three staff members at VOA told The Hill that the adviser overseeing VOA’s Persian-language service,
#Ali
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-10 04:25:58
Iran's exiled crown prince rises as a figure in protests, decades after leaving his homeland (Jon Gambrell/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-crown-prince-reza-pahlavi-cec4123ec75a0953bc0726e46ad32f1f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p148#a260109p148
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-14 04:56:01
How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing the strain of AI's increased energy demand with their promises of net-zero carbon emissions (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-25 18:43:03
Tying housing costs to homelessness rates, researchers have identified inflection points:
🔸When rents in a community exceed about a third of the median income, homelessness escalates.
🔸“As the share of low-income households with severe rent burdens grows, so does their risk of homelessness,”
said Thomas Byrne of Boston College, an author of the study.
Gregg Colburn, a housing expert at the University of Washington, found that
Seattle and San Francisco, with so…
