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Also of note, Texas State authorities trespassing into the river (which is international territory) to sabotage lawful crossings

• The Supreme Court ruled that the affirmative action admission policies of Harvard and the University of North Carolina, which gave weight to a would-be student’s race, are unconstitutional.
• The court’s majority opinion said that both Harvard’s and UNC’s affirmative action programs “unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points.”

Pacific Northwest city lost nearly 3% of its population between 2020 and 2022

Mark Rogers has made a list of things he misses about Portland—its vegan restaurants, Powell’s bookstore, public transit—and the things he doesn’t—having his things stolen, stepping in human excrement, extreme politics.

The 44-year-old artist moved across the country to Fort Wayne, Ind., last year.

“I don’t want to talk trash about my home city even though there’s trash everywhere,” Rogers said. “I still love Portland even though it’s got some problems, and I wouldn’t have left if the housing prices weren’t so high.”

Unfortunately for him, he probably moved from one political extreme to another. It's like there's no home for normies anymore.

Basically the EU's new "tech regulations" have managed to not affect a single European company except one, which isn't happy about it and wants to be exempted.

It does seem like Europe can't cultivate any meaningful innovation, but is perfectly happy to tell foreign companies how to operate worldwide.

It is definitely down, written off by thousands of individual and institutional investors. The most obvious issue: scams. In the world of crypto, big firms are scams. Little firms are scams. Stable coins are scams; exchanges are scams; NFT schemes are scams; initial coin offerings are scams; tokens are scams. Firms run by self-proclaimed altruists are scams. Firms run by the shadiest dudes you can possibly imagine are scams.