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Trump cuts $3B from congressional deal he hated

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2025/trump-cuts-3b-in-emergency-spending-congress-approved

Trump is slashing from a pot of money deemed emergency spending by the 2023 Fiscal Responsibility Act, which capped federal spending but also included a side deal criticized by Trump and his allies. One element of the 2023 law’s side deal allowed for more than $12 billion in emergency spending for this year, but Trump is effectively deeming about a quarter of that as outside the scope of any emergency.

#Trump #DEI #press

Tesla Stock’s 12% Surge Powers Broader Comeback—As Investors Bet Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs Won’t Be So Bad

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2025/03/24/tesla-stocks-11-surge-powers-broader-comeback-as-investors-bet-trumps-reciprocal-tariffs-wont-be-so-bad/

The ever-volatile stock market bounced Monday as investors once again tilted toward the notion President Donald Trump’s tariffs won’t be quite as bad as first thought, with the latest rally led by the big technology stocks worst hit by the tariff-related market pullback, including Tesla, which had its best day on Wall Street in more than four months.

#Musk #Tesla

Congress lines up to grill Trump officials on secret Signal chat

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/24/congress-yemen-signal-hegseth

The Trump administration's Signal fiasco has given Democrats an unexpected shot to go on offense, with a pair of hearings in the next two days.

"Well, somebody f**ked up," Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.), a former Navy SEAL, told reporters Monday.

#Hegseth #Vance #Gabbard #Signal #hearings #Congress #Trump #press

“Nuuk is closer to Toronto than it is to Copenhagen, and the region’s Inuit background clearly creates cultural ties between the island and northern Canada. However, it’s challenging even now to travel to Greenland.”

https://tedium.co/2025/03/24/greenland-popular-culture/

Hillary trolls Trump and Democrats demand firings after Pentagon texted top secret war plans to journalist

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14532811/hillary-clinton-troll-trump-atlantic-huthi-war-plan.html

Hillary Clinton trolled the Trump administration Monday after The Atlantic's editor-in-chief revealed he was accidentally added to a group chat of top Trump administration figures discussing attacking the Iranian-backed Houthis.

#Hegseth #Vance #Gabbard #Signal #TheAtlantic #leak #Goldberg #Trump #MAGA #Clinton #Houthis #press

What constitutes pop culture on an island as large (but with a population as small) as Greenland?

Among other things, they were fairly early to hip-hop.

https://tedium.co/2025/03/24/greenland-popular-culture/

updated @tedium (And yes, we talk about geopolitics.)

A Judge Lost His Election. He Asked His Colleagues to Declare Him the Winner

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/north-carolina-supreme-court-riggs-griffin-voting-rights.html

Lawyers for Judge Jefferson Griffin asked his colleagues on the North Carolina Court of Appeals to retroactively change the rules for the 2024 state Supreme Court election and throw out tens of thousands of ballots. Griffin lost to incumbent Justice Allison Riggs. Craig Schauer, asked the three-judge panel to order election officials to “adjust the vote count and declare a new election result.”

On "The White Lotus," the Ratliffs ooze the kind of idle rich ignorance that's killing us

https://www.salon.com/2025/03/24/on-the-lotus-the-ratliffs-ooze-the-kind-of-idle-rich-ignorance-thats-us/

Wealthy fools are a feature of "The White Lotus," but this family may be the apotheosis of society's ruin

@WellingtonChineseHistory The effects of the drug-running Collier family.

Flight to Shanghai Diverted to SFO, Because the Pilot Forgot Their Passport

https://sfist.com/2025/03/24/flight-to-shanghai-diverted-to-sfo-because-the-pilot-forgot-his-passport/

The latest major US airline snafu does not involve any of Elon Musk’s DOGE staffing cuts, but instead just some United Airlines pilot forgetting their passport, forcing an emergency landing at SFO.