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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> "Lilo & Stitch" and "Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning" projected to open with a combined $485M worldwide box office haul, potentially a record for Memorial Day weekend (More)

> New York Liberty's owners sell stake in the WNBA team at $450M valuation, the highest ever for a women's pro sports franchise (More) | NBA conference championships continue this weekend; see latest schedule (More) | ... NHL's conference championships also underway; see latest bracket (More)

> College Football Playoff committee approves change to seeding for the upcoming season, granting the top four seeds a first-round bye whether or not they won their conference (More)


Science & Technology
> AI startup Anthropic releases next version of its flagship chatbot, Claude 4 (More) | See rankings of AI models (More) | New AI model learns how to connect specific sounds with visual data without human assistance; may have use in helping robots understand their real-world environments (More)

> Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. releases "Make America Healthy Again" report, blaming ultraprocessed foods, pesticides, lack of physical activity, overmedication, and more for a wide range of chronic childhood conditions (More) | Read the report (More)

> Engineered contact lenses allow the wearer to see in infrared, a part of the electromagnetic spectrum invisible to the human eye (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.0%, Dow -0.0%, Nasdaq +0.3%) as 30-year Treasury yield hits highest level since October 2023 (More)

> Existing home sales in April fall to lowest level for the month since 2009; new listings reach highest level since March 2020 at 1.9 million (More)

> Adtech platform MNTN shares soar 65% on first day of trading; the company—which boasts actor Ryan Reynolds as chief creative officer—was valued at $1.2B before its debut (More) | Tinder CEO Faye Iosotaluno to step down in July (More)

Politics & World Affairs
> Department of Homeland Security revokes Harvard University's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, blocking the school from enrolling international students; move comes amid battle between Trump administration and the university over records on international students, admissions policies (More)

> Supreme Court deadlocks on what would have been the nation's first religious charter school; 4-4 ruling prevents state funding for the school (More) | Federal judge blocks executive order to close the Department of Education, requiring reinstatement of 1,300 terminated employees (More)

> National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts above-average hurricane season, anticipating six to 10 hurricanes, three to five of them Category 3 or higher (More)

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Congress

 

When will we ever learn that politicians only care about you when it is time for you to vote for them...  it is a fact that took me since 1967 to learn...  bopping me in the head in 2017 during the height of the hate Trump pandemic or the Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The Democrats, especially the liberals and the mainstream media, defecated on Trump like a Cat 5 hurricane and an EF5 tornado combined.  Actually, the lies started in 2015 and have continue through 2025 and no doubt through 2028.

But, more important than the attack on Trump is the fact that we had the SAME PROBLEMS in 1967 that we had in 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2025.  None of those problems had anything to do with Trump, except for ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

Our Problems Were:

1. Racism
2. Poverty
3. Discrimination
4. Illegal Drugs
5. Political Corruption
6. Voter Manipulation
7. Gender Inequality
8. Tax Shelters for Wealthy
9. Fighting Other Countries Wars
10. Systemic Racism
11. Healthcare costs
12. Increasing National Debt
13. Declining Education
14. Low Wages
15. Management/Labor Wages

GUESS WHAT?

Both political parties, Democrats and Republicans, in CONGRESS, have done nothing to CHANGE THE SATUS QUO.

WHY NOT?

It is not the PRESIDENT that creates tax shelters for the wealthy, it is CONGRESS.

CONGRESS IS OUR PROBLEM...

Politicians in Congress end up millionaires before they retire from Congress.

How is that possible?

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN!!!!

Somewhat Political

 

Giant Robotic Bugs Are Headed to Farms

Being long and skinny and wiggly is a strategy that’s been wildly successful for animals, ever since there have been animals, more or less. Roboticists, eternally jealous of biology, have taken notice of this, and have spent decades trying to build robotic versions of snakes, salamanders, worms, and more. There’s been some success, of a sort, although most of the robotic snakes and whatnot that we’ve seen have been for things like disaster relief, which is kind of just what you do when you have a robot with a novel movement strategy but without any other obvious practical application.

Dan Goldman at Georgia Tech has been working on bioinspired robotic locomotion for as long as anyone, and as it turns out, that’s exactly the amount of time that it takes to develop a long and skinny and wiggly robot with a viable commercial use case. Goldman has a new Atlanta-based startup called Ground Control Robotics (GCR) that’s bringing what are essentially giant robotic arthropods to agricultural crop management.

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Bongino Report

 

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Trump’s Biggest “Fuck You” Yet to Higher Education and the Rest of the World
He and his regime are mounting an assault on the American mind. 

Why? 

Because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny



Friends,

Yesterday, Kristi Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, notified Harvard University that “effective immediately, Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification is revoked.”

Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students. Existing foreign students must transfer to another university or lose their legal status.

This could affect more than a quarter of Harvard’s student body.

Noem said she did this because of the university’s “failure to comply with simple reporting requirements.”

Rubbish. There was nothing simple about the trove of information Noem demanded from Harvard — including the coursework of every international student and information on any student visa holder who had been involved in “illegal” activity — information beyond what Harvard is legally allowed to share with the government.

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At A Glance

Sixty historic photos of the US military and its service members.

The story of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Mapping the arrival of the Brood XIV cicadas.

What to do when your information leaks to the dark web.

Plants can "hear" the approach of pollinators.

Inside the weird world of animal robot research.

An exhaustive list of the best places to live in America.

We need to talk about your filthy water filter.

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Science & Technology
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> Volcanoes trigger cloud formation during eruptions, with ash providing a surface for ice to begin forming in the atmosphere; findings fill a knowledge gap around how eruptions influence climate (More)

> New manufacturing process significantly reduces corrosion of steel rebar, could eventually lead to a tripling of the lifetime of bridges to around 100 years (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -1.6%, Dow -1.9%, Nasdaq -1.4%) amid jump in Treasury yields and concerns tax bill moving through Congress will add to the US deficit (More) | Bitcoin price jumps to all-time high of $109,500, closing the day at $108,955.10 (More)

> Target shares close down 5.2% after reporting 3.8% year-over-year decline in same-store sales; company attributes the drop in part to tariff uncertainty, boycott over ending its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (More)

> United Arab Emirates launches Arabic-language AI model it says can match the performance of models up to 10 times its size (More)



Politics & World Affairs
> Rep. Gerry Connolly (D, VA-11) dies at age 75, weeks after announcing he would not seek reelection following the return of esophageal cancer (More)

> Rep. LaMonica McIver (D, NJ-10) makes first court appearance following assault charges stemming from May 9 visit to ICE facility (More) | Justice Department opens investigation into former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D) House committee testimony on spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes (More)

> Department of Defense accepts $400M luxury Boeing jet from Qatar, intended to serve as Air Force One (More) | Federal judge rules against Department of Homeland Security for sending eight migrants convicted of violent crime to South Sudan, requires DHS to keep migrants in US custody (More)

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