Members of the public will be welcomed for their first look of the Obama Presidential Center on June 19, coinciding with Juneteenth. https://to.wttw.com/4ssTK4q
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Members of the public will be welcomed for their first look of the Obama Presidential Center on June 19, coinciding with Juneteenth. https://to.wttw.com/4ssTK4q
oh for god's sake
Unofficial official 2026 Iditarod thread starts now. All the teams are out of Willow after the official restart. We have 34 real teams and 3 "expedition" mushers who I probably won't be talking a lot about after today, but we'll see. #mushersky #Iditarod54 1/
How gas prices have shifted since the weekend before Trump's SOTU speech. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Dutch intelligence agencies issue a warning about Russian-backed hackers launching a global cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts of officials, military personnel and journalists.
www.defensie.nl/documenten/20...
This, of course, is the second company in the drone sector that Don Jr. is involved with
And declines in student achievement among Hispanic and Spanish-speaking students, both U.S. and foreign born.
www.nber.org/papers/w34452
As the Trump administration embarks on a $38 billion plan to convert industrial warehouses into large-scale holding centers, it is turning to relatively untested businesses to rapidly build and operate the facilities.
"total abortion bans reduced rents...with the effect reaching 4.0% in the most recent year...bans increased rental vacancy rates...with the effect reaching 1.8 percentage points in the most recent year. Estimates for home values and homeowner vacancy rates are similar" www.nber.org/papers/w34921
“We probably have some skills that we now need to hire back, quite frankly,” Scott Kupor, the head of the OPM said... “There’s no question anytime you do restructurings … sometimes you over-restructure, sometimes you under-restructure.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8
I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But...
...maybe there wasn't much planning?
".. The last few years have been a steady exercise in market humility. 'Oil can’t go negative.' It did. 'Russia will always be a reliable supplier of gas to Europe.' It wasn’t. 'Hormuz is too important to actually stop.' Until it did."
- Morgan Stanley
This is wild. High Schools Are Losing the Struggle to Block Pot—Even During Class
Now everyone wants Ukraine's help.
* ZELENSKIY SAYS SOME REQUESTS FOR UKRAINE'S ASSISTANCE IN COUNTERING 'SHAHED DRONES' HAVE ALREADY BEEN MET WITH CONCRETE DECISIONS AND SPECIFIC SUPPORT
* ZELENSKIY SAYS UKRAINE RECEIVED 11 REQUESTS FROM COUNTRIES NEIGHBORING IRAN, EUROPEAN STATES, AND U.S.
Judge Lamberth gently calls out DOJ attys for trying to sneak one past him: “Although the Court assumes that this citation was not purposely misleading, [Kari] Lake does not acknowledge the gap between her characterization of [the statute] and its plain text.”
The love & care & indigenous wisdom that #32 Jody Potts-Joseph leads her dog team with can be seen in their handmade regalia for the #Iditarod ceremonial start.
Are those *beaded*?? Do you know how long beading takes?! Seeing them adorned and honored this way made me cry 🥹 my heart money’s on her
Headlines BBG Only All Dates Time *CSI 300 INDEX FALLS 2% TO 4,567.17 BN 21:35 *CHINA'S 30Y BOND FUTURES DROP 0.7%, BIGGEST DROP THIS YEAR BFW 21:34 *KOSPI DROP HITS CIRCUIT BREAKER; TRADING HALTED FOR 20 MINS BN 21:32 *SOUTH KOREA'S KOSPI SINKS 8%, TRIGGERING CIRCUIT BREAKER BN 21:32 *S. KOREA BRIEFLY HALTS KOSDAQ PROGRAM TRADING AS FUTURES DROP BN 21:32 *PHILIPPINE STOCK INDEX FALLS 3.4% TO 6,105.23 BN 21:32 *SOUTH KOREA'S KOSPI SINKS 8%, TRIGGERING CIRCUIT BREAKER BN 21:31 *CHINA'S CHINEXT INDEX FALLS 3% TO 3,132.33 BN 21:31 *PHILIPPINE STOCK INDEX FALLS 2.8% TO 6,141.38 BN 21:31 *PHILIPPINE STOCK INDEX FALLS 1.9% TO 6,198.45 AT OPEN BN 21:31 *SOUTH KOREA'S KOSPI INDEX FALLS 8%, NEARS TRADING HALT BN 21:30 *HONG KONG'S HANG SENG INDEX FALLS 3% TO 24,977.60 BN 21:30
One of those nights
Pretty and comfortable for the first post-7:00pm sunset in the Twin Cities this year.
Savor it. We could be shoveling 3 times this week.
Indy the floofy tan and white border collie mix sits on the blue green orange William Morris’s flower patterned living room ruling and looks at me with confusion but not really
“The clock says 5. Why aren’t we eating?”
U.S. Central Command, meanwhile, is asking the Pentagon to send more military intelligence officers to its headquarters in Tampa, Florida, to support operations against Iran for at least 100 days but likely through September, according to a notification obtained by POLITICO.
Bomb first, deploy spooks for 6 month deployments later.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Markets are *very* unhappy about developments in Iran.
remember you can always burn Shein clothes for petroleum
Four-byline alert: 🚨
“.. the first time the agency has approved or issued what it calls an ordered departure since the U.S.-Israel war on Iran began on Feb. 28.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...
Four-year-old clumber spaniel called Bruin wins best in show at Crufts
You’re gonna see a lot of snow maps on social media this week. Pace yourselves.
Yes, you’re gonna have to shovel at some point. And yes, there’s a shot at a decent snow storm next weekend.
That’s all we know now.
Two extremely floofy golden brown and white mixed herding dogs sleep on a brown chesterfield covered in flowery blankets. They are extraordinary comfy looking
“The clocks changed? Ok…”