It’s depressing that people considering travel to the United States have to resort to such measures. These are the kinds of precautions you might take before traveling to a banana republic. What happened to free speech in the U.S.? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is not news. If Trump had played a clean game of golf, or refrained from lying for 24 hours, it would have been news.

The “Tech Oligarchs” series of articles in Le Monde makes for compelling reading, highly recommended.

Donald Trump’s name reported to feature in DoJ files about Jeffrey Epstein

I’ve noticed that the New York Yankees struggle to catch and throw the baseball. Unfortunately for them, those are essential attributes of the sport.

Trump tempted to release Epstein Files just to see own name in print

AWS has made some job cuts, according to Reuters. I assume details on the number of employees and departments affected are forthcoming. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Will anybody call out this blatant market manipulation? Trump pulls this stunt repeatedly, most often with his tariff hijinks. Markets go down, then go back up when Trump reverses course. He thinks he’s clever, but this is glaringly obvious chicanery. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/stocks-c...

Quote: "We're building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan," the billionaire CEO said. That’s not efficient, and I doubt that it’s sustainable. www.reuters.com/business/zuc...

Where did Trump go to school? The professors at Wharton should hang their heads in shame. After reading his “tariff letters,” I note that he can barely string a coherent sentence together. Moreover, his erratic use of capitalization follows no discernible pattern. It’s madness on a stick.