One thing I like to do is post little sayings. If these are quotes I will credit the source if I know it. I will credit "unknown" if •I• don't know the source and "anonymous" if •no one• knows.
While all have meaning to me •your• mileage may vary.
“People will shrug their shoulders and say, ‘Oh, #travel and #tourism, big deal.’ Yeah, well, guess what? It is a big deal,” he said. “Because when you look at travel and tourism and everything it touches, it’s bigger. It’s a bigger deal than the auto sector, which does grab the front pages of the newspapers.”
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/posthaste-canadian-travel-boycott-hits-120008988.html
"Multiple #SSA employees, including front office staff, tell WIRED that they entirely ignored the email about the #chatbot because they were too busy with actual work, compensating for the reduced headcount at SSA offices. Others said they had briefly tested out the chatbot but were immediately unimpressed."
https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-ai-training-video/
"According to prediction market #Polymarket, Carney has an 80.5 percent chance of remaining prime minister after the election, while #Poilievre has a 19.6 percent chance of assuming the role.
On Sunday, Polymarket predicted that #Carney had a 77 percent chance of holding the office after the election to Poilievre's 23 percent possibility, showing Carney's odds have increased in recent days."
https://www.newsweek.com/canada-election-polls-liberals-conservatives-carney-poilievre-2062970
"[Hegseth] did not deny news reports that he shared real-time operational information with family members before strikes in Yemen were carried out. He didn't explain why his wife, who is not a Defense Department employee, was in the text chat. That was the second #Signal group with whom #Hegseth shared planning details about the Houthi airstrikes, which took place in mid-March."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-orders-makeup-studio-installed-pentagon/
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.
"It's stunning to me that, at a time when we're seeing more intense hurricanes, greater rainfall extremities, more drought, more wildfires – why at that point would we ever imagine cutting the science that is key to addressing those issues, and keeping people safe?"
"With this backdrop, “#60Minutes” has run an extraordinary series of tough stories about the new administration since it took office. The president angrily denounced the show on social media after its April 13 episode featured critical stories about Ukraine and Greenland, saying CBS should “pay a big price” for going after him."
“You have to ‘seed’ the device. Use the phone for a day or even for a few hours. It just can't be clean clean. That’s weird,” ... “My recommendation is to make a finsta for travel, because if they ask you what your profile is, how are you gonna say ‘I don't use any social media’? Many people have a few accounts anyway. One ratchet, one wholesome—add one travel.”
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protect-yourself-from-phone-searches-at-the-us-border/
"We're already hearing that shipments of goods from #China have all but ceased and that ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, have quieted down considerably and not receiving a lot of goods.
And so these are long cycle types of phenomenon that if indeed this were to persist for some time, getting 1.8 percent [GDP] growth would be a victory, given that we grew about 2.5 percent last year."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/economic-forecasts-show-trumps-tariffs-having-major-global-impact
President Trump’s trade wars are likely to slow down economic growth across the globe significantly this year, according to projections from the International Monetary Fund. And Treasury Secretary Bessent reportedly told investors that he believes the trade war with China is unsustainable and hopes tariffs on both sides could be eased. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Ron Insana.
"#Foreignstudents, we have about a million of them in the country right now. They contribute to the #economy if they stay here. There's a lot of Fortune 100 companies that began because of international students. If they become elites in their country, then we have pro-American elites. They also contribute financially to American #colleges and #universities. They're central to the business model."
According to attorneys, over 1,000 student visas have been revoked in the Trump administration’s crackdown. Part of that effort has been a State Department argument that some students’ actions threaten U.S. foreign policy interests. Nick Schifrin discussed more with former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Richard Haass, president emeritus of the Council of Foreign Relations.
"The resin’s unexplained inclusion on the list exemplifies how opaque the administration’s process for crafting its #tariff policy has been. Major stakeholders are in the dark about why certain products face levies and others don’t. Tariff rates have been altered without any clear explanation for the changes. Administration officials have given conflicting messages about the #tariffs or declined to answer questions at all."
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-tariffs-exemptions-pet-lobbyists-asbestos-confusion-secrecy
The administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. “It could be corruption, but it could just as easily be incompetence,” one lobbyist said.
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