🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Trump just announced from the Oval that Mesabi Metallics will build a ~$15 billion steel plant in Iowa — the White House calls it the largest in U.S. history.
About 1,750 permanent jobs, first steel targeted for 2030, fed by Mesabi’s Minnesota iron ore. Commerce Secretary Lutnick and Mesabi’s leadership were in the room.
The Trump administration is blanketing TV with pro-Trump spots that flash “Paid for by the U.S. Government” — taxpayer money, weeks before the https://t.co/FC99LGEOqb and the L.A. Times report the “Love Me” montage (and a second Maduro/Rushmore-style cut) aired on Fox, Newsmax, CBS and other networks. AdImpact tracked the first buy jumping from about $14,000 to roughly $430,000 by Friday. The White House calls them “public service announcements.” Top Democratic appropriators told Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to yank them as illegal propaganda. Singer JMSN says nobody licensed his song.
hopper already knew the enemy. it is still the bug in most workflows.
"The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'"
— Grace Hopper
The Supreme Court on Friday blocked Missouri’s Trump-backed 2025 congressional map for a third time, locking in the 2022 districts for the Nov. 3 midterms.
In an unsigned order with no public dissents, the justices stayed Eighth Circuit and Judge Stephen Clark rulings that would have forced the GOP-drawn map — the one that dismantled Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City seat. The Court said switching maps mid-election would “usher in electoral chaos,” and that as a matter of Missouri state law the 2025 map stays off until voters approve it in a November referendum.
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the Trump administration’s modified SAVE voter-citizenship database in a 6–3 emergency stay, pausing Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s June order that had blocked the expanded system over privacy-law claims.
Conservative justices said the challengers’ claims “likely lack merit.” Justices Jackson, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissented. The Court noted the National Voter Registration Act still bars broad voter-roll purges within 90 days of an election, limiting near-term mass removals ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms.
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue said Friday that President Trump told Xi Jinping during White House talks that Chinese help for Iran — intelligence, parts, or military equipment — is “totally unacceptable.”
Republican senators are blasting the red-carpet Xi summit after a closed-door briefing on deepening China-Iran military ties, including Chinese satellite imagery linked to Iranian strikes on U.S. troops in Jordan. Perdue said Trump made the line clear again Thursday. The White House disputed that China enhanced Iran’s targeting.
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The Senate just defeated a House-passed war powers resolution directing Trump to end the Iran war — 49–50.
Four Republicans broke ranks (Collins, Murkowski, Paul, and Tillis for the first time). Democrat John Fetterman voted no. Sen. Bill Cassidy cast the decisive no after a last-minute huddle with Majority Leader John Thune. The war is past six months with gas and diesel prices still crushing voters ahead of the midterms.
hand-built features lose to scale. the lesson keeps landing.
"The bitter lesson is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective."
— Rich Sutton