Saturday, May 24
Robert Reich
As These Senators Go Home for the Memorial Day Weekend …
Friends,
As Republican senators go home for the Memorial Day weekend, it’s an excellent time for those of you who live in their states to be heard — especially on the Big Ugly Bill that’s coming to the Senate from the House next week.
As I mentioned yesterday, that bill amounts to the largest redistribution in history from poor and working-class Americans to the wealthy and super-wealthy. It also contains a poison pill that would remove contempt authority from the courts.
To pass this monstrosity, Senate Republicans can afford to lose only 3 votes at most (with JD Vance acting as tie-breaker).
The following Republican senators are most persuadable because they’re up for reelection in 2026 if not before. They’re also most vulnerable.
At A Glance
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Infamous bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are killed by police (1934);
John D. Rockefeller dies (1937)
German Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann revealed to have been captured in Argentina (1960)
Musician Jewel born (1974)
James Bond actor Roger Moore dies (2017).
In The NEWS
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)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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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:
- Racism
- Poverty
- Discrimination
- Illegal Drugs
- Political Corruption
- Voter Manipulation
- Gender Inequality
- Tax Shelters for Wealthy
- Fighting Other Countries Wars
- Systemic Racism
- Healthcare costs
- Increasing National Debt
- Declining Education
- Low Wages
- 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!!!!
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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