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Samsung's Galaxy XR gets beta support for Google's realistic avatar system for video calls, a Travel Mode, and a built-in PC remote desktop feature (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/samsung-galaxy-xr-android-xr-likeness-beta-travel-mode…

Samsung Galaxy XR Gets Realistic Face-Tracked 'Likeness' Avatars
Samsung Galaxy XR's Android XR now has a Persona-like realistic avatar system for video calls, called Likeness, as well as a Travel Mode and a built-in remote desktop app.

Insane...just don't visit the USA, that much is clear...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/travel/social-media-tourists-visa-border-patrol.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k8…

U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History
Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don’t need visas, would have to share five years’ worth of social media.

Super bowl, open air bar, Hanoi, Vietnam. #travel

U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists' Social Media History (Christine Chung/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/travel/social-media-tourists-visa-border-patrol.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p140#a251209p140

Rams' McVay ill, will travel to Arizona separately https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47227310/rams-mcvay-ill-travel-arizona-separate-team

The Trump administration will expand its ban on travel for citizens of certain countries
to more than 30 nations, said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem,
in the latest restriction to come since a man from Afghanistan was accused of shooting two National Guard members.
The expansion would build on a travel ban already announced in June by the Republican administration,
which barred travel to the U.S. for citizens from 12 countries and restricted access to the U.S.…

When I build my time machine, the first thing I will do is travel back to the 90s in Japan and kill all the people who made those horribly broken support websites that couldn't be properly archived and all the drivers are now lost

Oil residues can travel over 5,000 miles on ocean debris, study finds #ocean

Oil residues can travel over 5,000 miles on ocean debris, study finds
When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery online, attracting scientists' attention. Working together, they linked the black residue-coated debris to a 2019 oil slick along Brazil's coastline. Using ocean current models and chemical analysis, the team explains in Environmental Science & Technology how some of the oily material managed to travel over 5,200 miles (8,500 kilometers) by clinging to debris.

The US CBP proposes vetting five years of social media history for travelers from the UK, France, Germany, and more; the current system only requires basic info (Christine Chung/New York Times)
https://www.nyti…

U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History
Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don’t need visas, would have to share five years’ worth of social media.

guess who's booked first conference travel for 2026 👍👍

Listen to the history of Star Wars' hyperspace travel & mapping. Allen of Generation Tech is such a good storyteller.
▶️ How were Hyperspace Lane's Discovered?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6-7mF3g53kw&si=tLcbP6xLT645bFEF

Noticed that @… had left her coffee as she was running late. So, I poured it from her cup into her YETI travel mug and ran after her before she caught the bus lol 😅
#Coffee disaster avoided

The Eglinton Crosstown finally opened yesterday. How did it take to travel 19km across Toronto? About 16 years....
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/we-rode-the-whole-length-of-the-eglinton-crosstown-on-opening-day-heres-how-long-it-took/

Adobe partners with YouTube to launch a dedicated content creation space for YouTube Shorts creators within its Premiere mobile app for iOS (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/adobe-launches-content-…

Adobe launches content creation hub in Premiere mobile for YouTube Shorts creators | TechCrunch
The company says the space is designed to give creators everything they need to produce viral videos, grow their audience, and tap into trends, whether it's creating day-in-the-life vlogs, travel videos, or behind-the-scenes clips.

I just looked for my knitting needles I knew I had, but knitting was so many obsession/fixations ago. I had to look through the detritus of successful and false-start obsessions of years past. There's creative writing. There's photography. There's travel. There's fandom. There's running. There's sewing. There's needlepoint/cross-stitch.
Ah, ha! There's my knitting needles. I knew I had the right ones for this project. Now, where did I put my knitting ba…

South Korean online travel platform Myrealtrip aims to hit a $1B valuation in a Seoul IPO as early as H2 2027, per CEO Donggun Lee, amid a boom in tourism (Jihye Lee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj…

Coalition of Human Rights Organizations Issues a Statewide Travel Alert for Florida Ahead of FIFA World Cup
A coalition of civil rights, community leaders, and human rights leaders is coming together to issue a travel alert today to warn international travellers, tourists, and visitors of the potential dangers that exist in the United States, particularly in Florida, to their rights, liberty, and physical security.

This troubles my Bill-of-Rights-loving soul. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/announcement-of-expanded-screening-and-vetting-for-h-1b-and-dependent-h-4-visa-applicant…

Announcement of Expanded Screening and Vetting for H-1B and Dependent H-4 Visa Applicants

FOSS4G 2026 Travel Grant Program is Now Open
#foss4g

Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees boat strike videos (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/08/ndaa-boat-strikes-congress-hegseth-without-funds-00680679
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p80#a251208p80

BluePrint MedTalks
Takes you behind the scenes of life as a doctor or nurse in Australia. From locum and travel adventures across rural and remote regions to career advice, mentorship, and unfiltered stories from the front line, this is where the healthcare community comes together...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://w…

Suspected sabotage disrupts trains in northern Italy as Winter Games begin https://therecord.media/italy-suspected-sabotage-winter-olympics-trains

I noticed only now that the ubiquitous Costa Coffee in Poland is no longer owned by Coca Cola, it's French since 2023 (Lagardère).
From our classic "No Logo" nemesis to a billionaire-controlled #copyright cartel: not sure how I feel about it.
It's one of those chains where a #vegan g…

Lagardère Travel Retail builds on its strategic partnership with Costa Coffee to become the brand’s master franchise partner in Poland - Lagardère - Lagardere.com - Groupe
Lagardère Travel Retail and British coffee shop chain Costa Coffee, a Coca-Cola owned company, announce that their long-term partnership has further developed with the transfer of control of the brand’s 142 stores in Poland and Latvia to Lagardère Travel Retail, as master franchisee. This confirms Lagardère Travel Retail’s strategic ambition to become a global leader in Foodservice and to cover travelers’ needs holistically. The transfer of control of Costa Coffee’s network of stores…

Can Spacecraft-Borne Contamination Compromise Our Understanding of #LunarIce Chemistry? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JE009132 -> Lunar spacecraft exhaust could obscure clues to origins of life: https://news.agu.org/press-release/lunar-spacecraft-exhaust-could-obscure-clues-to-origins-of-life/ - exhaust methane could travel pole-to-pole in under two lunar days, half of it settling in regions potentially harboring original ingredients of earthly life.

Hate to share this because it's so unconfirmed but Spain's Transport Minister said one hypothesis is a cyberattack.
Travel chaos in Catalonia as ‘suspected cyber attack’ hobbles train network leaving thousands stranded amid intermittent services
…

Catalonia travel chaos: thousands stranded as suspected cyber attack disrupts rail network
Thousands of travelers face delays and stranded journeys in Catalonia after a suspected cyber attack disrupts the regional train network, causing intermittent service and widespread travel chaos.

Diarycast - Lockdown Patently Workable (2020-05-10) - April/May news: more good PV generation, and active travel is getting some UK central-government TLC... #podcast #coronavirus #activeTravel…

Diarycast - Lockdown Patently Workable (2020-05-10)
April/May news: more good PV generation, and active travel is getting some UK central-government TLC... #podcast #coronavirus #activeTravel

Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary,
has advocated for a new travel ban on visitors from an unspecified number of countries
following the shooting death in Washington DC of a national guard member by an Afghan national.
Noem posted to X her proposal on Monday night after she said she had spoken with Donald Trump,
whose first term travel ban on seven Muslim countries faced widespread criticism and followed a rocky legal path before it was eventually upheld …

Airlines urged to ditch unhealthy airplane snacks in latest push to overhaul US travel | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/plane-snacks-airlines-sean-duffy-travel-b2872405.html

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Sources: Nvidia's H200 chips for China, mainly manufactured in Taiwan, will travel to the US for an unusual national security review before they are exported (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech…

Defense policy bill includes provision to limit defense secretary's travel budget unless unedited boat strike video is released (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/defense-policy-bill-includes-provision-limiting-defense-secretarys-tra-rcna248117
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p3#a251209p3

I ordered a vegetable curry - which the day before, I had confirmed had no meat.
But today's staff decided to do me a favor and add chicken to it. Yay. Thanks...
#Indonesia #Vegetarian #Travel

I’m in SLC, punk!
#travel #slc

Finished "The Memory Collectors" by Dete Meserve.
A company has developed technology to transport your consciousness into your past, but only for one hour and without any precision as to when. Some go to see a lost loved one. Others to briefly escape the pain of future traumas.
Four strangers find themselves marooned on the same day and begin to discover a connection.
Strong start but devolves into an all too neat saccharine finish.
3/5 ⭐⭐⭐

The Memory Collectors
Four strangers time travel to the past and find themsel…

thirty years ago i didn't have mastodon so i muttered to myself in a kind of witless travelogue http://peter.honeyman.org/travel/travel.1995.html
i have kept this server on the dl for many many years (many years!) but a bofh emailed me today which is prob'ly the death k…

All tv shows and movies are about time travel but usually only in one constant direction.
#tv #movies

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Tiwayo:
🎵 I've Got to Travel Alone
#Tiwayo
https://recordkicks.bandcamp.com/track/tiwayo-ive-got-to-travel-alone
https://open.spotify.com/track/6VkLHw9YP2waFgxdTIDJSa

5. “But what are we supposed to do exactly?!” − Fight for digital sovereignty. Fight for a more independent financial system. Stop honoring US pharma patents. Form large coalitions to threaten economic sanctions. Limit travel, or increase the friction of it. Target the comfort of the billionaires who are bankrolling this. There is a long list of actions countries can take if •and only if• their populations create the political pressure for it.

Dear @… , could you please revive @… ? 🥺 Looks like it got stuck.
Love the podcast, keeping me well entertained when I commute and travel. Thank you!

Report: Cowboys refused to let Diggs stay in D.C. on mini-bye before release https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/30/report-cowboys-trevon-diggs-christmas-travel-jordan-schult…

This is a brilliant channel for US citizens looking to move abroad #travel @…
Smile Abroad | Leave USA Fast
…

#FF2025 in-person folk - if you're feeling a bit sniffly after travel and/or having fun in London, there are some (surgical) masks at the registration desk. I'm seeing my favourite octogenarians on Monday so I'm masking up most of the time too!

Trump administration will expand travel ban to more than 30 countries, Noem says (Rebecca Santana/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/travel-ban-trump-immigration-national-guard-shooting-15b0aa6b7826e32dfa05cf9f5a0c908d
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p69#a251205p69

Oura just told me to get ready for bedtime at 5am in the morning so I guess computers can get jet lag now too. #agi
(Yes, I’m physically back home; expect an exciting stamina release that was ready before I left but was too chicken to push before travel.)

9/ Porta Alpina - Beatrice Trussardi Foundation
https://beatricetrussardifoundation.com/ideas/9-porta-alpina/
'Like all good utopian visions, the “Porta Alpina” station began with a proclamation for transforming the way that Swiss passengers would travel. Its creator, the engineer Eduard Gruner, published an essay in 1947 that imagined how people in the year 2000 would travel the country by trains that took them deep into the belly of the earth, under the mountains, to a great underground station ...'

Just my luck to be visiting Antigua and Dominica on day #Drumpf admin declares the two islands as subject to US Travel Ban?
https://www.imidaily.com/north-america/ant

Antigua and Dominica PMs Respond to US Travel Ban - IMI Daily
Antigua PM calls US travel ban an error, says program presents no risk whatsoever to security. Dominica seeks urgent clarity.

They just updated the UK Iran travel advice to say the Tehran embassy staff have been withdrawn.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/iran

Iran travel advice
FCDO travel advice for Iran. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

"Real adventures are right on your doorstep, you don't need long-distance travel for that"
Reminded me immediately of @… 😀
Abenteuer vor der Haustür

Abenteuer vor der Haustür – Wie funktioniert das Young Explorer Program?
Gut vernetzt für die Natur: Bloggerin Iris wirft einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Young Explorer Programms und trifft engagierte junge Naturbegeisterte.

Reeker has some strange acting and dialogue, is of odd overall quality, and has a questionable ending, but it has some wild effects in it, even early on. And Michael Ironside is in it. It's not too bad for 2005 😂
#horror

Reeker (2005)
Strangers trapped at an eerie travel oasis in the desert must unravel the mystery behind their visions of dying people while they are preyed upon by a decaying creature.

U.S. tourism faces $5.7B US loss as Canadians continue to stay home
#buycanadian

Blueberry species (genus Vaccinium) circled the Northern Hemisphere to travel from North America to Hawai'i— and then closed the loop to hybridize with a North American species
#science

Last day in lovely Luang Prabang, Laos. It's a UNESCO heritage protected colonial gem and probably the nicest little tourist town I've ever visited. #travel

Airlines should tell UK customers the carbon impact of flights, watchdog says https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/05/watchdog-urges-airlines-tell-uk-customers-carbon-impact-flights

A documentary from several years back that's worth checking out if you're already a fan or just curious about Charlie Parr, IMHO a true great of American music.
#americana

Meeting Charlie Parr - The Movie
Meeting Charlie Parr - The Movie---------Meeting Charlie Parr is a travel documentary about one of the most emblematic blues folk singer from American Midwes...

Embarking on retirement is like stepping into a world where my travel dreams become thrilling reality. With financial security set, the globe is at my feet. Where's your heart urging you to explore first? My bucket list keeps growing, and I eagerly await your top travel picks. Let's broaden our horizons together! 🌍✈️

drag, the upcoming أحمد [AHMED] shows in #nyc got cancelled (with no mention of rescheduling). https://www.fouroneoneprojects.org/events/ahmed

Immigrant, civil rights groups issue Florida travel alert for FIFA World Cup (Kimberly Leonard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/05/immigrant-civil-rights-groups-push-florida-travel-alert-for-fifa-world-cup-00767388
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p96#a260205p96

I’m in Chicaago! Not a fan of weather that can be reasonably described as terrifying 🥶 ❄️ 💀
#travel #weather

Is there any legal justification for the US attack on Venezuela?
International law experts expect Washington to claim self-defence and face little serious pushback [from the UN]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan

Onko #Epstein pää ollut pyörällä kuin Haminan kaupunki?
Helsinki näkyy esintyvän lentokohteena, usein Venäjältä tai Balttiasta Yhdysvaltoihin https://www.jmail.world/

Jurors aren't paid: they get travel (not much, by definition they're local) and subsistence (again, not much — a pub lunch per day each, at most). Selecting jurors is just a lottery system, so very easily automated. Deal with jurors being objected to, or pleading excuses, can be dealt with by the automated system in advance.
No-shows on the day can be dealt with by inviting a percentage of extra jurors.

Is the travel advisory just about protecting Canadians… or is it also a subtle signal that there may be something on the horizon?
“”It is no secret that Canada frequently supports U.S. invasions and interventions in the Caribbean region, so this advisory worries me," John said.
"It could be indicative of impending action by the U.S. to yet again violate the sovereignty of a country located in the Caribbean." "
#Cuba #Canada #Tourism #TheAmericanFascist
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cuba-travel-warning-9.7073480

Funny how folks in the West will debate the ethics of going back in time to kill baby Hitler whenever the topic of time travel comes up but no one ever considers going back to stop colonialism.
🤔

SIE PlayStation UK is hiring a test engineer. You have to be a UK resident, and not terribly far from Bristol; the position should be majority remote AFAIK. I think the pay should be at least 50k GBP annually.
The job entails being a flexible special agent who gets assigned to different PlayStation software engineering teams as needed to help bring projects to life. That includes possibly helping my team for a while. Management might ask you to travel to a different team's office t…

Oh joy. I feel so much safer. /s
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump…

Border Patrol monitors US drivers and detains Americans for ‘suspicious’ travel
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious. The Associated Press has found that the predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched, and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going, …

Oh joy. I feel so much safer. /s
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump…

Border Patrol monitors US drivers and detains Americans for ‘suspicious’ travel
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious. The Associated Press has found that the predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched, and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going, …

Dit heb ik ooit ook geprobeerd te zingen, dat ging niet zo heel erg best.
Songs of Travel: No. 7, Whither Must I Wander
https://youtu.be/mic3Xi6aPxI?si=4bzxhalR9WNUzQ1C
> Provided to YouTube by PIASSongs of Travel: No. 7, Whither Must I Wander · Cyrille Dubois · Ann…

Trump’s latest travel ban leaves fans unable to travel to support their World Cup team | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/trump-travel-ban-world-cup-2026-b2900875.html

This is welcome, but the also axed Paris-Vienna route still has no replacement.
New sleeper services will run from Paris to Berlin next year | Rail travel | The Guardian
#NightTrains
https://www.

How far have you come? This page will show you how far you’ve traveled since you were born.
The Cosmic Odometer calculates how far you've traveled through space just by being alive. Even if you've never left Earth, you've orbited the sun, rotated with the planet, and embarked on both solar and galactic travel — all while sitting on your couch. https://…

Sonnet 050 - L
How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,
'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!'
The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
As if by some instinct the wretch did know
His rider lov'd not speed being made from thee.
The bloody spur cannot provoke him on,
That sometimes a…

The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries who were banned from traveling to the United States earlier this year.
The action halts green card and citizenship processing for broad swaths of people, according to a spokesman from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Pauses Immigration Applications From Nations on Travel Ban List
The pause, which will halt green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people, deepens a remarkable crackdown on legal immigration pathways in recent days.

Gosh, how inconvenient that tourists have to deal with cultural differences that don't cater to them. 🙄
☑️ Tourists in Japan Are Baffled: Where Are the Trash Cans? - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/tourists-in-japan-are-b…

NBC's Savannah Guthrie cancels plans to travel to Milan for Winter Olympics coverage, amid a search for her missing 84-year-old mother (Jackie Strause/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/sava…

Savannah Guthrie Pulls Out of NBC’s Winter Olympics Coverage as Mother Remains Missing
The 'Today' co-host's mom, Nancy Guthrie, was reported missing on Sunday, with her disappearance now being treated as a possible kidnapping or abduction.

We have another Penguins on Tour update out! #movingtobulgaria #penguinsontour #travel
The End of an Era

Scoop: Trump's comeback travel (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/04/trump-comeback-travel-economy-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p31#a251204p31

$4.55 for a glass of Spanish wine and the most comfortable chair of my trip. Luang Prabang, Laos. #travel

Bills-Jets takeaways: Buffalo gets one last win in Highmark Stadium https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6940369/2026/01/04/jets-bills-score-result-takeaways-nfl-week-18/

The US is not only no longer an ally of Europe, it is actively undermining democracy in Europe.
https://www.politico.eu/article/large-afd-delegation-set-travel-washington-us-congress-member-says/

Large far-right German delegation to visit Washington, Trump ally says
The invitation to the capital comes as Alternative for Germany politicians seek to build closer ties to the U.S. government.

It'll be interesting to see how long this takes to cover the whole UK train network - basically allowing anyone with a contactless payment to travel without buying tickets in advance.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/simpler

Simpler train travel to London airports as tap-in, tap-out expanded across south-east England
Buying tickets will be more convenient, more accessible and more flexible, ensuring passengers can get the best fares.

Trump administration considering expanding travel ban to around 30 countries after National Guard shooting (Camilo Montoya-Galvez/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-travel-ban-30-countries-national-guard-shooting/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p84#a251202p84

Trump says he’s protecting Nigerian Christians. His admin is blocking them from coming to the US | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-nigeria-travel-ban-refugee-isis-attack-b2891074.html

Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries,
the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior
that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects.
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.
The …

Border Patrol monitors US drivers and detains Americans for ‘suspicious’ travel
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious. The Associated Press has found that the predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched, and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going, …

Our new YouTube travel channel just launched. Please check it out, watch, subscribe, and like. #travel #bansko
https://www.youtube.co…

Day of Infamy -- Unfortunately, this isn't a bad dream -- Travel day yesterday, so no time for a full-scale post. (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/day-of-infamy
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p92#a260106p92

NFLPA: Players have 'no appetite for an 18th regular-season game' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7019521/2026/02/03/nflpa-18-games-international-david-white/

Port of Seattle Commission condemns Trump travel ban expansion as discriminatory - The B-Town (Burien) Blog
https://b-townblog.com/port-of-seattle-commission-condemns-trump-travel-ban-expansion-as-discriminatory/

A digital pass available through the reservation site Recreation.gov includes “America-first pricing” at some parks.
Starting on Jan. 1, nonresidents without an annual pass will have to pay a $100 surcharge to enter 11 of the most-visited places in the system
https://www.<…

National parks announce ‘America-first’ upcharges for foreign visitors
The National Park Service's new America-first pricing policy will see foreign visitors pay more to access popular national parks, including Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.

The EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its "regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures" (Lorne Cook/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/europe-bret

EU warns of possible action after the US bars 5 Europeans accused of censorship
The European Union's executive is warning of possible action against the U.S. after travel bans were imposed on five Europeans accused of pressuring American technology firms to censor viewpoints. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the five "radical" activists. They include Thierry Breton who is the former EU commissioner responsible for supervising social media rules. The European Commission condemned on Wednesday the U.S. decision and is seeking clarification. It says the EU is within…

Noem reveals sweeping travel ban plan after meeting with Trump (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/trump-travel-ban-more-countries-noem-dhs-plan
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p4#a251202p4

For a decade, Donald Trump’s rallies were intertwined with his political identity.
His big crowds were how he first got the media and the Republican Party to take him seriously,
and they provided real-time feedback.
Those who followed him closely could watch his positions take shape from one rally to the next
—an offhand comment that got a strong reaction would become a talking point at the next rally,
and then a core part of his pitch.
And he took notic…

The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.

US air travelers without REAL IDs will be charged a $45 fee (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/real-id-fee-airport-security-travel-tsa-fe8c7ed55cf3dacafa10d50cc2112eb7
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p112#a251201p112

Airbus issues an order to revert 6,000 A320-series planes to old software, after an incident revealed that intense solar radiation corrupted flight control data (Nadeem Badshah/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/

Anthropic details how NASA engineers used Claude to plot out the route for Perseverance rover to navigate a ~400 meter path on the Martian surface (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/features/claude-on-mars

Claude on Mars
The first AI-assisted drive on another planet. Claude helped NASA’s Perseverance rover travel four hundred meters on Mars.

#Wildflower seekers typically must wait until February or March to see blankets of color in #Borrego #Springs but,
thanks to the early autumn rain,
the blooms are arriving early.
Last weekend, visitors walking thr…

It's only December but this SoCal desert escape is already blanketed in wildflowers
In Borrego Springs, you'll find a mini explosion of sunflowers, desert sand-verbena, basket evening primrose and even elusive desert lilies.

Trump Has Never Been More Isolated (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/trump-white-house-travel-rallies-isolated/685073/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p9#a251201p9

Pirro Threatens Jail Time for Lawful Gun Owners Who Travel to D.C. With Firearms (Robert Jimison/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/pirro-dc-guns.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JVA.GkoY.AhcviPVXgT1k&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p61#a260203p61

Trump to travel the country weekly ahead of midterms (Diana Nerozzi/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/21/trump-midterm-elections-travel-00738682
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p49#a260121p49

Scoop: House Democrats told by leadership not to go to Minnesota (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/29/minnesota-minneapolis-democrats-travel-leadership
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p132#a260128p132