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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Brenda Lee Eager:
🎵 When I'm With You
#BrendaLeeEager
https://expansionsingles.bandcamp.com/album/brenda-lee-eager-when-im-with-you-let-me-be
https://open.spotify.com/track/0K7rOxbuCBBYueRzFCIh6W

Trump’s tariffs were ruled illegal. Americans could be owed up to $170B.
Amazon planned to show how much tariffs added to prices.
The White House called it “hostile.” Trump called Bezos.
The plan disappeared.
Now it’s much easier for corporations to keep any refunds.
https://bsky.app/prof…

The Lever (@levernews.com)
Trump’s tariffs were ruled illegal. Americans could be owed up to $170B. Amazon planned to show how much tariffs added to prices. The White House called it “hostile.” Trump called Bezos. The plan disappeared. Now it’s much easier for corporations to keep any refunds.

Both Amazon & Microsoft cooperatively push for 5 policy changes to address housing crisis in WA state.
▶️ WA must make it easier to build our way out of housing crisis | The Seattle Times
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/wa-mu…

"Trump had a lot of time to make his case, and what he said, again and again, was that the American people don’t know what they’re talking about."
Opinion | Trump’s State of the Union Was a Win for Democrats - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-sotu-2026.html

One of the things that's most frustrating about the hype cycle around OpenClaw is that so much of what people are excited about is just... software? You can automate doing lots of cool stuff with your inbox with deterministic software that's been around for decades, and it won't delete your inbox! And much of it is easier to install than OpenClaw is!

Sources: OpenAI staff discussed prioritizing sponsored content in ChatGPT when users ask relevant queries and created mockups with ads in sidebars or as pop-ups (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-ads-push-starts-taking-shape<…

OpenAI’s Ads Push Starts Taking Shape
OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot, leaving the broader digital ad industry eager for clues. Behind the scenes, staff are working through key details. Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to ...

{piggyback} makes it easier to attach large files (e.g. input data) to code in github repos: #rstats

GitHub - ropensci/piggyback: :package: for using large(r) data files on GitHub
:package: for using large(r) data files on GitHub. Contribute to ropensci/piggyback development by creating an account on GitHub.

Raiders may not be eager to trade Maxx Crosby but 'always listening' https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/02/24/raiders-gm-john-spytek-trade-maxx-crosby-always-listening/88…

This action by HHS and RFK Jr is unprecedented in scope.
Never before has the fed. gov. usurped the authority of medical professionals to set a separate standard of care
in an attempt to ban evidence based lifesaving care.
The man who thinks getting measles is good wants trans kids to suffer.
https://

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
A coalition of 19 states and DC have filed a lawsuit challenging the Kennedy declaration seeking to ban gender affirming care for trans youth by fiat by creating a federal "standard of care" based on pure pseudoscience. https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2025/attorney-general-james-leads-lawsuit-challenging-federal-attack-gender-affirming

Improve the IRS by giving it less to do

A simpler tax code would be easier to understand and enforce.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/23/irs-tax-code-complexity/

Improve the IRS by giving it less to do
A simpler tax code would be easier to understand and enforce.