Coming soon to a federal agency serving you An “important safety recall” on my car arrived via U.S. Mail the other day. The notice arrived, it said, “in accordance with the requirements of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act” (NHTSA, passed in 1966). A wiring issue could cause “the unintentional deployment of the airbag(s).” Dealers will fix the defect at no cost. It’s the newest car I’ve ever owned and my first recall. Your recall mileage may vary. Literally. The notice is required under Sec. 113 of NHTSA: Yup, that’s pretty much what arrived in the mail (not from Tesla). But it got me thinking. NHTSA is now administered by Donald Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. He got into a little Cabinet Room dustup this week with Elon Musk, he of reusable self-parking rocket booster and “rapid unscheduled disassembly” fame. With his youthful but inexperienced DOGE saboteurs, Musk is bringing his cutting-edge, rapid unscheduled disassembly technology to bear on a government agency serving you.
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Aid money starts to flow, vital youth care is affirmed, a radical housing plan takes root, and desert water gets revolutionized.
A steroid, an antibiotic and cod liver oil From the New York Times account of this week’s fractious White House meeting between Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s cabinet secretaries: “The exchange ended with Mr. Trump telling Mr. Duffy that he had to hire people from M.I.T. as air traffic controllers. These air traffic controllers need to be ‘geniuses,’ he said.” We’re days away from a Trump Executive Order to water U.S. crops with Brawndo. Meantime, “a steroid, an antibiotic and cod liver oil” walk into an emergency room with RFK Jr.: There is a highly effective vaccine that prevents measles but no specific antiviral to treat it. Kennedy has previously pushed the use of vitamin A, and in an interview with Fox News this week, he endorsed an unconventional treatment regimen for measles including a steroid, an antibiotic and cod liver oil, which is rich in vitamin A.
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The Democratic Party has lost the trust of working-class voters. This congressman says he has the key to winning them back.
Baby eaglets! Big Bear’s beloved bald eagle couple, Jackie and Shadow, have welcomed eaglets into the world! You can watch live as the proud parents keep a close eye on their babies. Original live video courtesy of FOBBV. The first eaglet arrived Monday night, popping out of its shell shortly before 11:30 p.m. The special moment was captured live during the 11 p.m. newscast of ABC7 Eyewitness News. The second chick hatched sometime in the overnight hours. The third egg appeared to be hatching, as well, about 1 p.m. Thursday. Jackie and Shadow are taking turns watching and feeding the baby birds, who won’t be able to leave the nest for about 10 to 14 weeks. The baby birds are unnamed, but suggestions will come from the public. The tough decision-makers will be local Big Bear third-graders. In 2022, Jackie and Shadow successfully hatched an eaglet, later named Spirit via a contest held by Friends of Big Bear Valley. Here’s the Live Cam. Join all of LA in watching this rare bit of unadulterated good news.
This food timeline started as a way to explore the revolution in Australian food that has occurred during the baby-boomers’ lifetime, but has since expanded to include more about the previous decades (and century) as well. Also included are overseas events and trends that had an impact here. The entries are brief, but there are lots of links if you want more information.
The list of invitees at the White House crypto summit illustrates the tight link between Trump and new cohort of political donors.
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bonkers shit as Trump waves around a printout of one of his Truth Social posts meant to show how he purportedly gave water to California pic.twitter.com/9LTlyGhAIc — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 25, 2025 That’s incredibly dumb but then, what else is new? Remember the big water release in California Trump bragged would soon be in Los Angeles and we would never have any fires again? You know, the one that almost flooded the flood plain and wasted billions of gallons of water for nothing? Well, it started out as a DOGE thing: Representatives from the Department of Government Efficiency repeatedly pressured the head of a United States water management agency to open a major California pump system in late January, intending to release a huge amount of water south toward Los Angeles — even though the water would have never made it to the fire-scarred metropolis.
Trump is dead serious about annexing Canada. As Chris Hayes noted on his show last night, six weeks ago people would have told you you were hallucinating if you’d said that Trump would make Canada enemy number one and that the U.S. would be engaged in a vicious battle over an alleged fentanyl and illegal immigration problem on our northern border. But it’s happening. The New York Times ran down the evolution of this insane idea that has brought the leadership of Canada to the conclusion that he isn’t bluffing. It’s so ridiculous I can hardly wrap my mind around it: Mr. Trump and Mr. Trudeau spoke twice on Feb. 3, once in the morning and again in the afternoon, as part of discussions to stave off tariffs on Canadian exports. But those early February calls were not just about tariffs. The details of the conversations between the two leaders, and subsequent discussions among top U.S. and Canadian officials, have not been previously fully reported, and were shared with The New York Times on condition of anonymity by four people with firsthand knowledge of their content. They did not want to be publicly identified discussing a sensitive topic.
The sentencing of Ruben Oseguera-Gonzalez, co-leader of Jalisco New Generation Cartel, will do little to stem the flow of drugs.
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. I Tyskland har den så kallade Schuldenbremse (skuldbromsen) varit en central del av den ekonomiska politiken sedan år 2009. Regeln begränsar hur mycket staten får låna, med syftet att hålla den offentliga skulden låg. Kruxet med regeln har dock varit uppenbar — den hindrar nödvändiga investeringar i infrastruktur, grön omställning och välfärd. Sverige har […]
pic.twitter.com/AMrSYRuyen Is there ANYTHING more douchey than an FBI Excecutive? This is James Dennehy who said he was going to "DIG IN" in order to resist a simple and lawful request from DOJ to hand over case information. He was also leaking info as a "whistleblower" to Corey… — Kyle Seraphin (@KyleSeraphin) March 7, 2025 His letter to the staff: All, Late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did. I was not given a reason for this decision. Regardless, I apologize to all of you for not being able to fulfill my commitment to you to serve as ADIC NY for at least two years.
Un nuevo informe de la ONU se basa en un agente financiado por el gobierno estadounidense, Félix Maradiaga, que ayudó a instigar el violento golpe de Estado de 2018 para destituir al presidente Daniel Ortega. Sin embargo, los «expertos» de la ONU se han negado a entrevistar a los numerosos nicaragüenses secuestrados y torturados por la oposición. MASAYA, NICARAGUA – Reynaldo Urbina conduce su moto por las calles de Masaya, Nicaragua, con agilidad, a pesar de tener un solo brazo. […]
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The Dean of Georgetown Law School responds to that MAGA freak show of a DC US Attorney Ed Martin’s threat to not hire any Georgetown lawyers unless the school ends all “DEI” programs:
The book’s argument is that in straining to peer through the chaos and confusion of the world to the underlying mechanisms, too much economic thinking, both in Ricardo’s day and ours, mistook a small, unrepresentative sample as the whole picture. This has distorted the vision of generations. If your scientific ideal is a simple, logical […]
The White House proudly announces that the first-ever National Women’s Day will be held on March 8. Formerly—and badly—known as “International Women’s Day,” President Trump has patriotically renamed this holiday to honor the best women on the planet: the women of the United States of America.
To mark this inaugural holiday, the president is proud to announce his five-part Agenda for American Women:
1. PASSING THE ERA
For too long, American women have lived as second-class citizens, their rights assumed but not guaranteed. That changes today with the introduction of the Equal Rifle Amendment. This constitutional amendment, proposed by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene at an NRA-sponsored chin-up competition, will guarantee that women cannot be discriminated against based on sex when buying and selling rifles. President Trump firmly believes that no matter how bad they are at sex, women should be entitled to carry guns, because it makes them hotter.
The current approach to education in Australia, as reflected in the New South Wales Bilateral Agreement and national funding models, underscores an increasing reliance on neoliberal principles. These policies prioritise efficiency, accountability, and standardised performance metrics, shaping education into a market-driven enterprise where schools and students are treated as economic units rather than as participants Continue reading »
In Asian media this week: Speeches show Li is for continuity, Trump insists on change. Plus: Cambodia worse than Myanmar for online “scamdemic”; How agents exploit Indians trying for work in America; Brutal competition shapes Fantastic Four tech leaders; Prabowo sets up sovereign wealth fund; Thailand joins Beatles era. The two superpowers this week laid Continue reading »
A dozen days ahead of this Chinese New Year, a large-scale exhibition opened at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. The event, “Cezanne and Renoir Looking at the World – Masterpieces from the Musee de l’Orangerie and the Musee d’Orsay,” showcased 52 masterpieces, featuring how the pair innovatively reinvented the art of their time and Continue reading »