Q: Last week you said that you would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz to be a U.S. territory. Can you elaborate?
Trump: I think it's a great idea
Q: Last week you said that you would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz to be a U.S. territory. Can you elaborate?
Trump: I think it's a great idea
Trump claims his ballroom has "gotten fantastic architectural reviews"
Ars Technica
• Ashley Belanger
Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.
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• Ashley Belanger
Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.
Racket
• Em Cassel
Good decor and great walleye in south Minneapolis.
Techdirt
• Mike Masnick
This ruling came out a week and a half ago at this point and I’ve been so annoyed with it that I kept putting off writing about it, but it’s so bad that it requires a discussion. A federal district court in San Jose denied motions from a bunch of the big tech companies seeking […]
Techdirt
• Daily Deal
The Complete Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP32 Bundle has 14 courses covering what you need to get started on building out your own smart home. After learning the basics, courses show you how to create a weather monitoring system, a smart home security system, a plant watering system, and more. Courses also cover getting familiar […]
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Amanda Caswell

The independence developers gain from open weights comes with a hard infrastructure ceiling, according to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. “AI
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Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“Mark Cuban lashed out at Silicon Valley Congressman Ro Khanna over the Democratic lawmaker’s proposal that the government should lend money to billionaires with large paper fortunes to help them pay wealth taxes,” Bloomberg reports. Said Cuban: “That’s insane. You want the state to loan money to the founder, who will then immediately give it […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“It used to be that once a National Institutes of Health grant award hit ‘status 19,’ the money was about to go out the door,” NOTUS reports. “That’s not the case anymore. The Trump administration has enacted an unprecedented political review process, pushing hundreds of awards into limbo. Status 19 — an administrative code describing […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“Civil liberties groups on Monday asked the Supreme Court to hear their challenge of a Texas law requiring that all public school classrooms display the Ten Commandments, potentially setting up a landmark clash over the separation of church and state,” the Washington Post reports.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“President Donald Trump is providing Russian President Vladimir Putin a window of opportunity to break apart NATO, analysts fear, even as the Kremlin searches for an elusive path to victory in its grinding war of attrition against Ukraine,” Rolling Stone reports. “American actions are accumulating into an existential crisis for the alliance. Trump and members […]
Trump calls reporting on the horrific conditions aboard the USS Lincoln "fake news"
Trump yells at reporter: Quiet. Quiet. QUIET! You're very disrespectful. Quiet. You're fake news. You're a loud, boisterous person. Be quiet. Be quiet. Be quiet. You're a fake reporter and you report fake news.
Trump gushes about Kim Jong Un:
Kim Jung Un has always treated me with great respect. I understand him, he understands me. I get along with him very well.
Q: Why hasn't Kim Jung Un responded to your request to have a conversation?
Trump: How do you know he hasn't?
Q: Has he?
Trump: Uh... Yeah he has.
Q: Jon Ossoff says you would rather travel with Natalie Harp and build your ballroom than do your job. Your response?
Trump: You mean Pee-wee Herman? Pee-wee Herman lookalike? We're building a great facility here.