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  1. Good piece on the impact of retaliatory tariffs on specific industries and their geographies in the US, suggesting they're targeted to hurt areas that voted a certain way in this past election. The story also provides links to studies from Brookings and MIT showing similar results. Some pulled quotes: The jobs that could be hit by retaliation are especially concentrated in pockets of the upper Midwest, South and Southeast, including many rural parts of the country that are responsible for producing agricultural goods. It also includes areas that produce coal, oil, car parts and other manufactured products. The message foreign countries are trying to send, he said, is, β€œYou think you can bully us, well, we can hurt you too. And by the way, we know where it really matters.” Rural parts of the country are once again at risk from retaliation. Agriculture is a major U.S. export and farmers are politically important to Mr. Trump. And rural counties may have one major employer β€” like a poultry processing plant β€” that provides a big share of the county’s jobs, compared with urban or suburban areas that are more diversified. Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings Metro, said that many of the counties affected by retaliation were rural, and β€œhard red territory.” The geography of Mr. Trump’s political support, he said, was β€œno secret to our trade partners.” β€œThey’re very cognizant of these industries, the geography of these industries, and how American politics work,” he added. Sharing gift link so you can move your cursor around over counties to see the number of affected jobs and their share of the total in each place. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/business/economy/tariffs-trump-maps-voters.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4U4.EjUu.clGohPPmoEo_&smid=url-share Top Ten states with the highest share of impacted jobs (4% in Texas):
  2. Back in the late 1980s, when it was still a derelict shell of a building, my high school crew may have snuck in it and gone exploring a time or two. Exterior:
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  5. I listened to the first one and read the full thread of the second, and they’re both absolutely infuriating. What was most telling was how Rubio commented twice that this whole maddening fever dream about the US economically conquering Canada is based on a disagreement between the Canadian government and the President of the United States, as if he were the entire US government. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but just the thought makes me boil inside.
  6. Best vantage point I can show using Google Maps. They're on the brownish rail bridge, crossing the river.
  7. The opposite: https://www.facebook.com/ABCBig2NewsKMID/videos/1152296386379741/ Over Midland: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=122227512038209050&set=pcb.122227512680209050
  8. Relevant to the discussion: Young Democrats’ Anger Boils Over as Schumer Retreats on Shutdown A generational divide, seen in newer lawmakers’ impatience with bipartisanship and for colleagues who don’t understand new media, has emerged as one of the deepest rifts within the party.
  9. Republican mental gymnastics have gone on far longer than the past 10 years. I'd say they first hopped on the pommel horse with Nixon, and they've only gotten better at it since.
  10. Well, it doesn't sound like he or his team of 15 are even attempting to support his district. Fuck'em.
  11. I hope my lesbian cousin, who's a women's coach living in aSheville (yes, she's living the stereotype), was in attendance kicking some ass, too.
  12. I checked this out on the map, and the rail bridge they're passing over is almost exactly 49 miles SOUTH of where Putin's Palace (Google map link) is located. So, it's within range.
  13. I guess that means no more high school mascots or productions of The Wizard of Oz.
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  15. He's just signaling to his buddies that he's still a racist and a homophobe.
  16. The Svalbard thing might be an interesting twist if they somehow work in the whole global seed vault thing. @austingirl One thing, though, is that Irving hopped on a train to get out of there, which doesn't seem too realistic for a remote island above the Arctic Circle. "Shuttle" could also mean a private plane.
  17. https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1ja7e5y/putin_declares_ukrainian_pows_should_be_treated/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1ja7jo2/russian_troops_execute_at_least_five_ukrainian/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1jaeury/crimean_political_prisoner_rustem_virati_died_in/
  18. https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1ja7k5q/nearly_60_of_french_support_the_use_of_frances/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1jal9dz/france_to_refuse_any_demilitarization_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1jad06y/russias_novotroitsk_chromium_plant_to_shut_down/ I don't know shit about chromium, but here are some of the replies.
  19. As wildfire anxiety grows, Austin plans to designate half the city as at risk of fire damage Austin plans to greatly expand the amount of land, and therefore homes, considered at risk of wildfire damage. Council members are scheduled to discuss updating rules surrounding Austin’s WUI, or Wildland-Urban Interface, later this month. This is the area where wilderness and development meet, and where there is a higher risk that a fire burning in a wooded area could jump to homes and businesses. The move would put 71% of the city’s land parcels in a zone vulnerable to burning should a wildfire break out, according to a presentation in January by the Austin Fire Department. That amounts to about half of all city land, up from 38% a decade ago. The discussion comes as experts have grown increasingly convinced conditions are ripe for Austin to have a devastating wildfire. Summers have grown hotter and droughts more extreme. Austin ranks fifth in the nation on a list of cities with the highest number of homes at risk of being damaged by wildfires. The four cities that rank above Austin are all in California. β€œWe’re sitting on the edge of a major catastrophic fire,” said Randy Denzer, a former battalion chief with the Austin Fire Department. β€œThis isn’t too far-fetched.” Old map vs New map Rest of the story: https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2025-03-13/austin-texas-wildfires-risk-map
  20. Given your handle, I always assumed you were from Northern New Mexico.
  21. It seems their writer room has a finger on the pulse of Austin because that would totally check out based on the past few years.
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