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Supreme Court Rules Most of Donald Trump’s Tariffs Are Illegal

In a 6-3 ruling, justices upended the Trump administration’s signature economic policy, potentially putting the US government on the hook for at least $175 billion in tariff refunds.

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The infinite scroll goes on trial

The infinite scroll goes on trial

Testifying before a jury in LA, Mark Zuckerberg makes the case that platform design is about free expression. But the walls are closing in on Section 230

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The Trump Administration Broadens ICE's Powers

On Wednesday, the Trump administration issued a memo directing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to detain lawful refugees who have yet to secure permanent U.S. residency. Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker staff writer and the author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (Penguin Press, 2024), discusses the latest news, including his reporting on how the agency's bureaucracy works.

Photo: Observers film ICE agents as they hold a perimeter after one of their vehicles got a flat tire on Penn Avenue on February 5, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)


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CNN: “Supreme Court rules that Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal.” A much-needed check on Trump’s power. Next up is the midterms. 🇺🇸

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Alysa Liu Is Untouchable

Alysa Liu Is Untouchable
When athletes are said to thrive under pressure, that generally does not mean that they do not feel it. Rather, the common understanding is that athletes, or at least the great ones, are capable of taking pressure and turning it into fuel. That thermodynamic process is a par...

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Excerpts from The Believer: Island Time

- - - Reporting poolside from Don Nelson’s home on Maui, where the Hall of Fame NBA coach is enjoying a dog-filled and largely barefoot retirement. - - - I call Don Nelson from my rental car, which I’ve parked by some food trucks near the Kahului Airport. It rings through, ...

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I'd like to have an OPML subscription list with feeds with news about specific feed-based products. I started a thread on the reallysimple repo for people to post links to such feeds. Once I have enough feeds, I'll publish the URL of the subscription list. We should, in this community, of all communities, a good way to communicate about developments. Too many good ideas get lost without this.

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I've taught ChatGPT and Claude.ai how to properly indent code so I can paste it into my outliner, and it will represent the structure correctly. I just got it to do the same thing with HTML code I copied from the Chrome debugger. Pasted it into the outline. Have a look.

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Team USA’s Gold Is Sweeter For The Struggle

Team USA’s Gold Is Sweeter For The Struggle
The members of the U.S. women's Olympic hockey team may not admit to this, but they needed to have the pants scared off them by Canada to give the whole gold medal exercise some badly needed historical context. They needed Hilary Knight's reaper-cheating goal with 2:04 left ...

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Is It a Red Flag? Wuthering Heights Edition

He lives with your family, and he’s sort of your brother. Not a red flag. Because he’s not your actual brother, and everyone has already met the parents. He is repeatedly bullied by your actual brother. Not a red flag. Kids are resilient, and there is no evidence that indiv...

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If you're using OPML for your blogroll, here's an unofficial place to let us know what you're doing.

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I think the really big money in AI will be helping all the commerce sites get competitive again, their sites are breaking, and are anemic compared to what you can do with AI. I think the WordPress community is in great position to get a huge amount of business here because many of these people are your customers. If you're a WordPress developer I'd love to hear what you think.

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A new updated version of FeedLand via Docker. It's now possible to run FeedLand on a local machine in a private network. Thanks to John Johnston and Frank McPherson for their help.

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Why the era of relying on dozens of “purpose-built” databases is finally coming to an end

An isometric illustration of a person sitting at a desk with a glowing red monitor, positioned in the center of a complex, blue-walled labyrinth to represent the overwhelming nature of disparate data systems.

What will drive the next wave of innovation in enterprise applications? Ask the experts, and you’ll likely hear a similar

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WIRED
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Epilogue GB Operator Review: Play Your Game Boy Games on a Laptop

Epilogue’s adorable GB Operator plug-in gizmo is a must-have for collectors of retro Nintendo Game Boy games.

WIRED
Text • Matthew Korfhage

Boldr Kelvin Review (2026): Heats Your Body, Heats the Wall

The Boldr Kelvin heater looks cool and promises energy savings and far-infrared heat. Too bad it also heats backward.

WIRED
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Could AI Data Centers Be Moved to Outer Space?

Massive data centers for generative AI are bad for the Earth. How about launching them into orbit?

WIRED
Text • Scott Gilbertson

How to Layer Your Clothes to Stay Warm in Any Season (2026)

Whether you’re hiking, climbing, or backpacking, here’s how to use base layers, mid layers, and a shell to be comfortable no matter what nature throws at you.

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Stefano Verna

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Stefano Verna, whose blog can be found at squeaki.sh. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Ben Werdmuller and the ...

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Meet Scotland’s Whisky-Sniffing Robot Dog

Inside Dewar’s cavernous whisky warehouses, man’s best mechanical friend—a Boston Dynamics robot dog with an ethanol sensor for a nose—is on the hunt for leaky barrels.