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Over 100 dolphins die in Black Sea in April because of Russian actions
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Canadian government proposes ban on assault-style firearms
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Russian political opposition sign declaration in Europe against Putin's regime and war in Ukraine
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Hospitals that denied emergency abortion broke the law, feds say
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Florida Principal Resigns After Sending $100K to Scammer Posing as Elon Musk
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Saucon Valley must allow After School Satan Club to meet, judge rules
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science

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Surge of gamma wave activity in brains of dying patients suggest that near-death experience is the product of the dying brain
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Brain activity decoder can reveal stories in people’s minds. Artificial intelligence system can translate a person’s brain activity into a continuous stream of text.
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Tightly coiled hair stops heads overheating more effectively than straight or moderately coiled hair, which may explain why it evolved in the first humans
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space

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Astronaut shares the profound 'big lie' he realized after seeing the Earth from space
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Is Apollo 11's Lunar Module Still In Orbit Around The Moon 52 Years Later? An analysis using GMAT suggests it possible
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Astronomers detect the closest example yet of a black hole devouring a star
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IBM to Pause Hiring for Jobs That AI Could Do
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Students are turning to ChatGPT for study help, and Chegg stock is plummeting 30%
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Scientists claim to have found a way to use brain scans & artificial intelligence modeling to transcribe "the gist" of what people are thinking, in what was described as a step towards mind reading
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Richard Feynman said, “Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.” What are some real life examples of this?
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Coworkers that couldn’t handle the sexual tension anymore and went for it. How’d it turn out?
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Who is the kindest/rudest celebrities you've met IRL?
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TIL that the deepest scuba dive of all time was 1,090 feet, set by Ahmed Gabr in 2014. It took him nearly a decade to properly prepare for the dive. While the descent took only 15 minutes, the ascent back to the surface took over 13 hours.
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TIL that the invention of bicycles was fundamental to the early women's liberation movement. Bicycles promised freedom to women long accustomed to relying on men for transportation. It was also the main reason corsets and long skirts fell out of fashion in the early 20th century.
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TIL that during World War II, the Danish resistance movement smuggled the Jews out of Denmark before the Nazis could send them to the concentration camps, in part by going through telephone books and warning everyone with Jewish-sounding names to go into hiding.
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[OC] Facebook makes more revenue per user than Netflix
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Message frequency by daytime for some of my chats [OC]
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Electricity prices across the United States and Canada [OC]
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What does oxtail taste like?
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What is your favorite side dish?
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Breakfast food that isn't breakfast food
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[Homemade] Sourdough Blueberry croissant
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[homemade]Turkish pides, aka pizza canoes!
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[Homemade] Andes Mints
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Pedro Pascal Joins Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator’ Sequel At Paramount
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The Writers Guild of America is Officially On Strike
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First Image of Mia Goth and Halsey in 'MaXXXine'
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Circling Back, Me, Digital, 2023
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Freedom, me, photography, 2022
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“FISH SELLER”, me, pixel, 2023
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King of the Hill Actor Confirms Revival Will Feature a Time Jump
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The Writers Guild of America is Officially On Strike; Late-Night Shows Shutting Down Immediately
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Vice Is Said to Be Headed for Bankruptcy
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At my local Dominos
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Had a 55 lb dumbbell dropped on my toe at the gym. The guy said "sorry bro" and disappeared.
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Riot police on fire after a Cocktail Molotov throw in Paris today
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Bioluminescence is typically used by animals to warn or evade predators, lure or detect prey, or communicate among members of the same species. This Dana octopus-squid, which has the largest known bioluminescent organs of any animal, is likely flashing its photophores to ward off the observer.
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This laptop has a trackpad above the keyboard
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This gummy brand of candies from Norway have boobs on half of the gummies.
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My cat came home with a crayfish claw clamped to her paw
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During the 2018 wildfires, this man captured his drive to work in the morning
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The death of a single celled organism. RIP
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Brooklyn Supreme, Weighed 3200 Ibs and Was 6 ft 6 in (1930)
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Prophecy foretold
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The power of a stare
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Hello long story short visible customer support is useless. I wrote down my port out pin and account number 5 days ago and didn't realize it was only for 7 days. And now the visible app won't let me into my account even though I'm using bitwarden auto fill so there's no chance of me mistyping. I only have a day and the customer service and the forget password option link just takes me back to the homepage. So I've given up on visible $35 a month isn't worth me hitting my head repeatedly into a wall.
All 3 carriers are good where I live but Verizon is the very best due to all the small cells they have here and the cbrs they have deployed. Att is good but they don't have 5g at the amusement park I go to sometimes and that's not really a problem since I haven't gone recently but If I wanted to it could be a problem. TMobile has a knocking sound on phone calls here I suspect our engineers in Virginia arent that great. Regardless I just want it to be good for a day or so and mint is too expensive because theres a big roaming area near me that I've only been through twice but If I went again I wouldn't be too happy since I don't know the area and would get lost driving through it. And I also don't trust TMobile native coverage in the Shenandoah valley even though I only go a couple times and haven't been in several months and probably won't go back til November when the leaves change. ATT is good I just think it's really expensive because I'm on a single line and I would have to call the port activation center and they might not do it fast enough and my number may be lost forever because of visibles incompetence. Cricket is expensive and I don't care for the salesman there and them charging activation fees and I would probably have to call the port center anyway.
Visible would be perfect if there system didn't try stealing my number and their customer service worked. My area is seriously blanketed in n77 and in the best case scenario I would be on postpaid but I can't afford that single line and no one else would come with me and I don't trust circled in because I don't know them. Everyone in my family is on their own lines despite me recommending countless times that is joining together would save and my best friend is paying metro 60 a month and only uses 5 gbs a month. I've tried helping him but he doesn't listen and I guess he was right this time because visible did screw me over. Us mobile is probably my best bet and I'll get somewhere between 10 and 15 gbs because even though that's more than I need, spectrum goes down a lot and as well I like having the safety net. And as well I'm trying to be better with money and keep my s22 even though I'd prefer a pixel for stock Android.

In the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh Shimla, it is famous for many reasons. Shimla is known for Some of the main things which include:

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during the colonial era, Shimla was the summer capital of British India and as a result, for its colonial architecture it is renowned. The city is covered with beautiful buildings that exhibit British architectural styles, such as the Christ Church, Gorton Castle, Viceregal Lodge (Rashtrapati Niwas), and many others.
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Hill Station: Shimla is a famous tourist destination and hill station known for its pleasant climate and scenic beauty. It is located in the Himalayan foothills. It gives stunning views of snow-covered mountains, dense forests, and green valleys, making it a popular destination for adventure enthusiasts and nature lovers.
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Mall Road: One of Shimla's most well-known tourist destinations is The Mall Road, which is home to numerous lodging establishments, dining establishments, nightclubs, bars, banks, retail stores, offices, post offices, and tourist information centers. Slowly moving along the Mall route, people can sip their preferred coffee
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while taking in the beautiful sights of nature. Many congregate at the Ridge and Scandal Point on Mall Road to catch up with friends, observe the Himalayan range, and shop. At Scandal Point, where a statue of the nationalist leader Lala Lajpat Rai has been placed, the Mall route and the Ridge are joined.
Toy Train: A prominent tourist destination in Shimla and a UNESCO World Heritage Site is the Shimla-Kalka toy railway. Shimla to Kalka is connected by a narrow gauge railway with over 800 bridges, 102 tunnels, and stunning scenery. For visitors visiting Shimla, riding the toy train is a distinctive and memorable experience.
Cultural Heritage: With influences from the local Pahari, Punjabi, and British cultures, Shimla has a rich cultural history. Throughout the year, the city offers several cultural gatherings, fairs, and festivals that highlight the customs, music, dance, and visual arts of the area.
Adventure Activities: Shimla is a well-liked vacation spot for thrill seekers. It attracts thrill-seekers worldwide with various adventure sports like trekking, camping, paragliding, skiing, and ice skating (during the winter).
Fruit Orchards: Shimla is renowned for its orchards of various fruits, especially apple orchards. Visitors can explore these orchards, sample the fresh fruit, and even purchase apples and other regional food as mementos. The area is renowned for its succulent and tasty apples.
Overall, Shimla is well known for its colonial architecture, hill station charm, Mall Road, toy train, cultural history, adventurous activities, and fruit orchards, which makes it a well-liked tourist destination in India.

Rank		Team (First Place Votes)	Score
#1		UConn (45)	1149
#2		San Diego State	1056
#3		Miami (FL)	959
#4		Florida Atlantic	946
#5		Texas	928
#6		Alabama (1)	888
#7		Houston	817
#8		Gonzaga	814
#9		Kansas State	775
#10		UCLA	739
#11		Creighton	720
#12		Kansas	610
#13		Marquette	503
#14		Xavier	492
#15		Tennessee	482
#16		Michigan State	360
#17		Purdue	336
#18		Arkansas	316
#19		Baylor	294
#20		Arizona	284
#21		Duke	256
#22		Saint Mary's	254
#23		Princeton	156
#24		Indiana	110
#25		Memphis	102

Others Receiving Votes: TCU 101, North Texas 95, Penn State 67, Kentucky 54, Texas A&M 44, Virginia 37, Fairleigh Dickinson 34, UAB 27, Drake 26, Charleston 21, Missouri 20, Northwestern 20, Pitt 18, Iona 11, Utah State 9, Furman 4, NC State 4, Charlotte 3, VCU 3, Auburn 2, Iowa State 1, Louisiana 1, Utah Valley 1, Villanova 1
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"It's unethical for a prosecutor to use a witness who has such a long history of lying." - Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz, suddenly very concerned about someone lying to law enforcement

Mr. Indict Now

A happy Trump indictment week to us all.

• Yes, disgraced former president Donald Trump has officially made his way from Florida to New York ahead of his arraignment scheduled for tomorrow. Trump reportedly will face charges related to his hush money payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, after a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict him on Thursday. Trump is due to surrender on Tuesday, and will likely be fingerprinted before appearing before the judge. He will (naturally) plead not guilty. But if he pleads “not guilty because this is a witch hunt,” then you must take a shot of Fireball. We don’t make the rules.
  
• Trump has wasted no time padding out his (already considerable) legal team, hiring prominent white-collar criminal-lawyer-to-the-stars Todd Blanche, who has urged the judge not to allow videography, photography, and radio coverage of the arraignment. Blanche previously represented Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman and fellow criminal Paul Manafort.
  
• On top of that, federal investigators and the Justice Department have reportedly gained new evidence pointing to obstruction of justice by ole’ Donny boy after he got caught allegedly/definitely stealing classified government documents and hiding them at Mar-a-Lago. Law-enforcement used emails and text messages from a former Trump aide to piece together new details, which highlight the degree to which the investigation under special counsel Jack Smith (will never get over how generic this name is) has begun to centralize the obstruction-of-justice elements at play.
  

News of Trump’s long-delayed legal accountability have garnered all the expected reactions.

• As we’ve seen every time Trump faces real repercussions for his bad deeds, a very loud group spanning the political spectrum has arisen to insist “this will only help him politically.” Most notably, there was this dreadful analysis from New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker who said that the indictment puts Trump “exactly where he loves to be — in the center ring of the circus,” and that the integrity of the case is at stake because Trump is treating it like a spectacle. Baker and others like him have argued (as many did during both impeachment hearings as well as in the aftermath of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago) that this will only embolden Trump and ultimately help him politically.
  
• The trouble is: it’s just not a particularly good argument. A new CNN poll finds that 60 percent of Americans approve of the indictment even before it’s been unsealed, but even if that weren’t the case, does it somehow make more sense to continue to let Donald Trump commit crimes ad infinitum with impunity? There are many parallels between Trump and his fellow disgraced former president Richard Nixon, but one of the most overlooked is that the right wing also characterized the Watergate hearings as a partisan witch hunt before public opinion gradually turned against him.
  

Trump is a grifter; he will always be able to squeeze dollars and media attention out of a scandal or when his back is against the wall. The man is also a career criminal, and rooting for him to continually evade justice out of fear of a momentary bump in his numbers is inexcusable cowardice, no better than an actual political crusade.

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Under The Radar

The Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against Fox News is looking increasingly Not Good for the standard bearer of televised disinformation. The Delaware judge overseeing the case ruled on Friday that the case will proceed to a jury trial in mid-April, meaning that the network’s highest-ranking executives and big-name hosts could be compelled to testify about their roles in spreading the Big Lie. Perhaps as significant, Judge Eric Davis also awarded Dominion “summary judgment” on the falseness aspect of the defamation suit, which means jurors at trial will only consider the other element of defamation: malice. Davis ruled that, based on the evidence made public through the proceedings thus far, “none of the Statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true.” He also said that “pure opinion,” which is protected by the First Amendment, does not apply in this case because the false claims were accusations of criminal activity made by newscasters purporting “to be sources of accurate information.”

What Else?

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed a bill allowing concealed carry of firearms without a permit into law on Monday. Wow, I’m starting to think this guy is not on the level!
Democrats are targeting 31 GOP-held House districts in the 2024 election cycle, finally going on the offensive!
The Kremlin has begun confiscating passports of Russian officials to stop them from fleeing the country or defecting. Let us know how that goes!!
Germany may block the artificial intelligence application ChatGPT over data security concerns, as Italy recently did.
Finland’s conservative party leader Petteri Orpo defeated center-left Prime Minister Sanna Marin. The country’s far-right populist party won a record 20.1 percent of the vote.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired yet another member of his cabinet who criticized his planned judicial coup. Dictator alert!!
A Virginia state court judge voided a U.S. marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan, more than one year after he took the four-year-old girl away from the Afghan relatives who were raising her.
The Virginia teacher who was shot by a six-year-old student is suing the school’s administrators for $40 million because they did nothing despite being repeatedly warned that the child had a gun.
Louisiana State University beat Iowa to win its first basketball championship, men’s or women’s, in the school’s history. Coach Kim Mulkey is now the first women’s coach to win national titles at two different schools.
Twitter has removed the verification check mark from the New York Times’s account because CEO Elon Musk hates the paper for not covering him adoringly.
The Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit against Norfolk Southern seeking damages and alleging that the train derailment and ensuing environmental disaster in East Palestine, OH, violated the Clean Water Act.

You Gotta Be Fucking Kidding Me

The United States already allocates an eye-popping portion of its annual budget to the military, but now the line between the larger economy and the Pentagon may get even blurrier. In the past year, the Pentagon has begun providing loans, guarantees, and other financial assistance to technology companies it considers crucial to national security, forms of support beyond standard grants and contracts it normally uses. Now, it has taken things a step further. When Silicon Valley Bank failed in March following a bank run, the Defense Department lobbied the government to issue a bailout to insure its investments. But there was no indication that any Pentagon contractors might have been at risk, nor did any of the major defense contractors like Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing have any cash in SVB. So a bank bailout in the name of “national security” would have both baseless and unprecedented. But that hasn’t stopped the proposition from advancing or picking up influential friends like Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA). Relatedly, Warner was notably one of the Democratic senators who voted to repeal key parts of the Dodd-Frank Act in 2018, which is how this mini-crisis arose in the first place.

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NASA named the first woman and first Black astronauts ever assigned to a lunar mission, as part of a four-person team that will fly on the nation’s first crewed voyage to the moon in 50 years.
Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) signed a bill legalizing medical marijuana into law on Friday.
Finland will formally join NATO on Tuesday after the Turkish government finally waved through its admission.

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John Lees on Twitter: "I just walked out of a shop in Glasgow, and a little kid standing with his mum says, “Well, well, well, look who it is: some guy.” I could spend hours at the writing desk trying to come up with a line that good."

"Paying people not to talk about things, hush money, is ordinary in modern America." - Tucker Carlson, #1 anchor on the official Hush Money Network

Chairmen Of The Deplored

Looks like there’s no indictment today. Aw, drat. But that hasn’t stopped the GOP from unleashing a firestorm of lies and invective to protect their golden goose.

• Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham warned that arresting disgraced former president Donald Trump would “blow up our country,” and “is a bunch of B.S.” Without having the foggiest idea what the first Trump indictment might include, Graham also claimed that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is a “George Soros-backed prosecutor,” because his 2021 election campaign was partially funded by Color of Change PAC. They love to pull out George Soros—sorry, (((George))) (((Soros)))—when the going gets tough!
  
• House Speaker Kevin McCarthy also downplayed the allegations against Trump and called the D.A.’s investigation “just political.” Following comments like the ones from McCarthy and Graham, on top of yesterday’s conspiracy theory-ridden, threatening letter to Bragg from three House GOP chairmen, demanding Bragg sit for sworn testimony, Bragg issued a statement today insisting that he and his office “will not be intimidated by attempts to undermine the justice process, nor will we let baseless accusations deter us from fairly applying the law.”
  
• By sheer coincidence, definitely having nothing to do with the GOP becoming an overtly violent party, someone called a bomb threat into a New York City courthouse just as a lower Manhattan judge was about to start proceedings in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s unrelated financial-fraud lawsuit against Donald Trump. The courthouse was temporarily closed and searched, after which it was determined that the threat was unfounded. NYPD announced it had increased uniformed presence throughout the city but stressed that there were “no credible threats,” at this time, though they remained prepared for protests and counterprotests.
  

No amount of weak protests from Trump’s gang of allies will help him outrun the law, but the mainstream media and even powerful elected politicians also seem to have learned nothing from the past seven years.

• As Trump nears criminal indictment, the political hand wringing about whether or not this will be the moment the GOP finally breaks with the former president is in full effect. Are we really doing this again? For the one-thousandth time? If the past seven years have taught us anything it’s that there’s no “breaking point” when the Republican Party will say enough is enough, and expel him from the party, especially if it would require caving to the libs. (If Trump ever proposed increasing taxes, though…)
  
• In fact, much of the discourse surrounding Trump’s looming indictment(s) feels like deja vu. The Democratic Party’s resident lump of coal, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), said he thought an indictment would “just embolden” Trump and could have “the reverse effect of what people might be thinking.” Wow, we’ve never heard that one before, Joe! Truly groundbreaking stuff. As with all of his myriad crimes, the fact that Trump could invariably use justified legal consequences as a fundraising tool is not a good reason not to prosecute him! This isn’t difficult!
  

When it comes to Trump, how he handles accountability, and how the Republican Party then handles him, we’ve seen all of this before. Sarah Longwell, a vocal GOP critic of Trump and Founder of the Republican Accountability Project said that if Republicans fail to break with the malignant Trump at a time like this, “they’ll have no one to blame but themselves when Trump is the nominee again.” Sound’s a lot like Lindsey Graham’s famous May 2016 tweet “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…and we will deserve it,” doesn’t it? And we all know what happened next.

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Under The Radar

Fox News producer Abby Grossberg alleged in a new lawsuit that Fox lawyers tried to get her to take the fall for the network’s repeated airing of conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems by coercing her into giving misleading testimony in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. Grossberg alleges that Fox News lawyers coached her and she felt “pressured not to name names or implicate others, in particular prominent male on-air personalities and Fox News executives.” Both Fox and Dominion presented their arguments before Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis. The Judge appeared to be skeptical of Fox’s arguments that they were reporting on Dominion neutrally and do not meet the criteria for “actual malice”, for good fucking reason! Davis said, “To me, it doesn’t seem intellectually honest that you apply actual malice and say there’s neutral reporting privilege…How can you be neutral if you’re knowingly doing false things?” Dominion’s lawyers now have presented ample internal Fox communications that prove the network repeatedly spread slanderous falsehoods and hosted guests who did the same out of fear of losing viewers to its far-right competitors like Newsmax.

What Else?

DOJ prosecutors in the special counsel’s office have procured “compelling” preliminary evidence that disgraced former president Trump knowingly, intentionally misled his own attorneys about his personal retention of classified White House materials.
A new United Nations report estimates that 43,000 Somalians died last year in the country’s longest drought on record, half of whom are estimated to have been children.
A federal judge ruled against Donald Trump on Monday in his efforts to keep key evidence out of his civil rape trial brought by former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.
The city of Torrance, CA, has paid a man in Redondo Beach $750,000 after two police officers allegedly spray-painted a swastika inside his car in 2020. An investigation of the incident led to the discovery of rampant racism and homophobia among Torrance police officers, resulting in prosecutors dismissing dozens of felony cases.
The Georgia state senate passed SB 140 today, which denies transgender youth gender-affirming care and imposes harsh penalties on doctors who attempt to provide such care. The bill now heads to Gov. Brian Kemp for a hateful signature.
Republican Chairman of the House Oversight Committee James Comer has gone two-feet-in on his self-appointed role to investigate every unhinged claim about president Biden and his family, even going so far as to lament that the president’s late son Beau was never investigated. Just a uniquely horrible guy!
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow appeared in court today (NOT for the jade eggs you put in your vagina, this time) in response to a lawsuit filed by a 76-year-old retired optometrist who claims Paltrow violently crashed into him while skiing in 2016.
Three former employees of a Virginia mental hospital in Virginia were arrested and charged with second-degree murder last Thursday over the death of a Black man who was transported to the facility from jail earlier this month, and the videotape of the incident was released today.
European Union antitrust regulators raided the Austrian energy company Red Bull on the suspicion that the company is abusing its dominant market share.

What In The World?

Bonner General Health hospital in Sandpoint, ID, announced on Friday that it will no longer provide labor, delivery, and a host of other obstetrician services, citing increasing criminalization of physicians and the inability to retain pediatricians as major contributing factors. Bonner General is the only hospital in a 50-mile radius, and the residents of Sandpoint will now be forced to travel for hours to receive this basic and essential care. The hospital’s leadership made a statement saying that the decision to eliminate the obstetrics unit came from the “political climate” in Idaho, which has caused “highly respected, talented physicians” to leave the state entirely. They continued, “The Idaho legislature continues to introduce and pass bills that criminalize physicians for medical care nationally recognized as the standard of care.” The Dobbs decision legalized a state ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, and Idaho is one of six states that prosecutes doctors for providing the procedure. The Idaho legislature is also terminating its maternal mortality review committee.

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The Biden administration has established national monuments in Nevada and Texas and created a marine sanctuary off the coast of Hawaii as part of a slate of conservation actions with the Department of the Interior.
Former vice president Mike Pence is struggling to find anyone of any political stripe who likes him. That’s pretty fun.
Thirty-thousand education support staff workers in Los Angeles, the nation’s second largest school district, went on strike over a breakdown in salary negotiations, prompting citywide school closures.

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RELEASE NOTES 1.31.22.0

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NEW CONTENT/FEATURES

• Optimized the “Checking for updates” phase to reduce the booting time of the simulator; improved the download speed in the installation manager; improved loading time before booting to the main menu
• Added a new assistance option to customize the intensity of turbulence experienced during flight (based on current altitude, environment, and weather conditions).
• Turkish and Korean languages have been added into the sim
• Added an input key to toggle Flight Assistant Panel
• Spotlight Event Pack: a pack of activities is now available in the Marketplace, which contains a curated selection of 13 Spotlight Events from the past. Please note: completing these activities will not count towards Spotlight Event related achievements.

General Bug Fixes

• Several crashes have been fixed across the title
• Fixed a bug in the purchase flow of MSFS Marketplace
• Keyboard shortcut to toggle Screen Narrator on/off has been added
• Control Options menu stops reset to top when assigning a button.
• “Set Departure”, “Set arrival” & “Zoom to Details” are now appearing when Airport Icon is clicked
• Fixed aircraft visibility issues with their interior and exterior model
• Corrected an issue that caused some multiplayer planes to display a purple texture on their Glass cockpits.
• Fixed Engine Governor being incorrectly labeled
• Fixed game freeze during boot
• Added parameter to cfg that allows to fix the legacy flight model integration of the accelerations that was causing wrong accelerations and g-force calculations in the legacy flight model. Integrated collision constraint response into the force calculation for g force estimation when on ground. This allows to have 1.0 when still on ground even with some suspension systems that don’t have enough force to counter gravity.
• Fixed issues in the building generation that could caused crashes
• Various localization improvements

Menu

• Fixed airport considered as water if runways have undefined surface type
• Added Weight & Balance visualization for rotorcraft.

Navigation/Traffic

• [Partially Fixed] Glass cockpit externalization has been reworked. There’s no intermediate window anymore; each glass cockpit opens a distinct window with the glass cockpit name. Window position and size is saved when ending a flight.
• With multi-layout screens cockpits, mouse collision for glass cockpit externalization is now received only by the current active glass cockpit.
• Navlog timer no longer resets when user closes and reopens it
• Fixed SimConnect injected traffic planes not following the assigned flight plan
• Fixed live traffic planes incorrectly following departure procedures
• Fixed live traffic planes staying stuck at hold short in some airports
• Fixed live traffic planes staying at low altitude after takeoff
• Fixed SimConnect injected traffic being often unable to depart from the departure gate
• Fixed traffic planes causing performance issue in the world map
• Fixed live traffic planes sometimes not showing nameplate
• Fixed live traffic planes sometimes spawning at an incorrect location and unable to move
• Fixed live traffic planes staying at low altitude during go around
• Fixed a crash where ATC uses an invalid runway number
• Glass cockpit: Waypoint with no associated city now show an empty city field instead of random characters.
• Glass cockpit: NavigationData expiration year is now properly displayed when date range extends over two years.

Weather

• [Partially Fixed] Heat only thermals are limited in height up to the cloud base (except under clouds)
• Limited and tuned negative thermals around clouds and hot ground.
• Reduced thermals close to ground.
• [Partially Fixed] Improved thermal slanting and cloud alignment.
• Reduced “blue” hot ground thermals in rain, with altitude and with high winds
• Reduced mountain turbulence with altitude
• Maximum vertical wind speed in storm clouds / TCU has been increased
• Fixed a cloud popping issue when updating Live Weather data
• Fixed a problem where in water presets, water would be iced for the physics but displayed as water in the rendering.
• General Live Weather improvements
  • Live Weather now uses server time instead of local time to avoid inconsistent or no live weather
  • Date of METAR files is now checked before ingesting the data to avoid replacing current METARs with out-of-date METARs in case of CDN issues; this also reduces bandwidth usage
  • Fixed an issue that would potentially stop the game from retrieving clouds
  • Fixed an issue where incorrect weather was injected while retrieving new data, potentially causing abrupt wind and pressure changes as well as cloud popping
• Fixed a Rendering issue where clouds were ghosting into the sky at horizon

Activity

• Fixed various issues on leg start in bushtrips
• Training activities are now recorded in logbook
• Fixed an issue that caused the P-51 to run out of fuel too early in Reno races
• Fixed an issue that could cause the engines to shut down when first starting a mission.
• In Bushtrips, the Description Box displays incorrect values for the Flight Length, Flight Duration, and Number of Legs

Glass Cockpits

Garmin G3000 / G5000

• Fixed incorrectly rendered lists when the number of items in the list was very large.
• Fixed various instances where FMS would not automatically tune the primary approach frequency when loading or activating ILS/LOC/LDA/SDF/VOR approaches.
• The GTC Airport Information page will now display the primary approach frequencies for all ILS/LOC/LDA/SDF approaches at the airport in the Freq tab.
• The PFD traffic inset map’s range labels are now always displayed in the bottom left to avoid conflicts with other map elements.
• Fixed long approach names from overflowing the approach button on the GTC Select Approach page.
• Miscellaneous map memory optimizations.
• Fixed a bug where on-route direct-tos incorrectly inherited the turn direction of their target legs.
• Fixed a bug where the initial course of an on-route direct-to was set in true degrees instead of the expected magnetic degrees.
• Fixed a bug where the flight plan would become corrupted when syncing a world map flight plan with an approach and at least one enroute waypoint but no departure or arrival.
• Advanced VNAV no longer tries to capture descent altitude constraints during climb phase.
• Added aural alerts for TIS/TAS/TCAS traffic and resolution advisories.
• Added support for choosing aural alert voice type (male/female).
• Enabled the Direct-To buttons in the GTC Waypoint Information and NRST pages.
• Most aural alerts that trigger at the same time will now be played back in a queue instead of overlapping each other. Note that some alerts are still allowed to overlap others.
• New CAS warning and caution messages are now accompanied by an aural chime.
• The active NAV source is now reset to FMS when the system is power cycled.
• Fixed a bug where the VSR navigation data bar field always displayed dashes (‘––––’).
• Selecting a waypoint in the GTC Direct-To page (either via the keyboard or the Nearest tab) that matches the current Direct-To target will now load the appropriate existing Direct-To information.
• Selecting a waypoint in the GTC Direct-To page (either via the keyboard or the Nearest tab) that is in the primary flight plan will now cause an on-route direct-to to be created when the Activate button is pressed.

G1000 Nxi

• Fixed an issue that caused the G1000Nxi to pan very slowly in Legacy interaction mode

Garmin GNS430W / GNS530W

• Fixed some page navigation issues where the right knob push would not close dialogs

VFR Map

• Fixed an issue where the plane’s CDI source would change when opening the VFR Map
• Optimizations for reducing memory usage
• Added support for VR in-game panel zoom axis

Aircraft

General

• FLO mode transition now takes into account density altitude
• Fixed Load % to display the correct individual engine power.
• Fixed a bug on WASM & TS glass cockpits using the zero pitch line of the PFD. The line now represents the 0° of the aircraft
• Fixed contrail effects on some planes
• Corrected an issue that caused the P-51 Bunny to display a white screen instead of the radio.
• [Partially Fixed] an issue that caused some lights on the B747 and A320 to incorrectly react to interaction with their controls.
• Corrected an issue that caused LEFT/RIGHT_AXIS_BRAKE_SET to incorrectly affect both brakes.
• [P-51 Mrs Virginia] Landing gear doors animations are now working correctly
• External HUD : Variometer is no longer displayed on external HUD when not relevant to the aircraft.
• [Checklists] Fixed inconsistent XML parsing behavior between PC and consoles
• [Known Issue] LS8 can be pushed towards the ground when using winch launch method

Helicopters

• Engine power jump was reduced during the governor activation.
• Added an engine trimmer. If the helicopter has this feature, it is now possible to slightly change the nominal engine/rotor RPM that a governor is trying to maintain. Please, refer to the new input commands in the Control Options menu: “ENGINE TRIM RPM INCREASE” and “ENGINE TRIM RPM DECREASE”
• The throttle control logic for multi-engine helicopters has become more consistent.
• Fixed Tail rotor increment for better controllability with gamepad Helicopter profile (without tail rotor assistance)

Airbus 310-300

• Significant sound improvements in all areas of the aircraft (numerous reports are covered in this).
• External lights adjusted for a more realistic experience.
• Pressure system bug resolved.
• Improvements to T/D logic.
• Flight deck door resolution improved on Base version.
• FMS symbol tweaked to be more realistic.
• VOR* to VOR transition in capture bug resolved.
• Landing weight calculations on FMC for imperial fixed.
• Sliders added in EFB.
• VOR1 RMI disappears when overlapping VOR 2 needle bug fixed.
• SPD LIM mode premature bug fixed.
• Galley latches repositioned to closed position.
• Console unit flood light moveable.
• Trim wheel integral light now added.
• Glass added on outstanding cockpit gauges.
• Added magnetic variation to navaids.
• Autobrake commands added for hardware.
• INIT B & LW bugs fixed.
• RSK a waypoint to VERT REV bug fixed.
• Loading co-route character removal bug fixed.
• Custom PBD can now be added on new waypoint page and entering directly into F-PLN.
• When selecting INHG in options, perf calc bug fixed.
• Negative temperatures in EFB, now inserting correctly.
• vPilot COM 2 bug fixed.
• Sticker on door bug fixed.
• Cargo doors now use brake accumulator.
• Chrono bug fixed.
• SEC FPLN crashes fixed.
• CG prompt in FUEL PRED adjusted to ZFWCG.
• Some light leaking fixed.
• ATC/AI audio bug fixed.
• Triggering secondary approach more than once crash fixed.
• VHF2 and 3 now audible in cockpit.
• Volume knob pull to mute working in A310.
• Players voice now heard when talking to ATC.
• Fuel page line amber when it should be green.
• EFB checklist upon scrolling bug fixed.
• Brake accumulator logic improved.
• LBS when over 100,000 clipping fixed.
• Extra fuel/time now gets calculated when an ALTN is selected.
• EMER LTs state in Cold and Dark bug fixed.
• ATHR to GA keybind bug fixed.
• INIT B selecting values bug fixed.
• Stab trim movement during different HYD pressure bug fixed.
• Overall hardware compatibility improved with HoneyComb Bravo, Saitek panels.
• APU fire test conditions logic improved.
• Ailerons position bug fixed in 15/0 state.
• VONavaid Identifier Sound not working fixed.
• Unable to query sim waypoint database from REF page fixed.
• Fixed HSI changes on selector in flight deck.
• Wiper no longer moves with no power.
• Fixed loudspeaker not making sound.
• Fixed issue where aircraft systems freeze mid-flight.
• Entered temps not appearing on weather page of f-plan fixed.
• Expose current altimeter reference value fixed.
• Fire Loop lights on switched to AC ESS instead of AC EMER bus.
• ADF needles now point to true bearing not magnetic.
• Fixed abnormal behavior when choosing NONE STAR approach and transition.
• WASM API nav data waypoint structure adjusted.
• Updated translation files.

Bell 407

• Engine performance increased to match more closely the real-world behavior.
• Now it is easier to overstress the rotor RPM and torque under heavy load.
• The helicopter is easier to stabilize now in cruise flight with trim and assistances turned off.
• Low rotor warning sound now sounds when the battery is switched on.
• Annunciators illumination is stronger now in DIM mode.
• Altimeter barometric scale values now match up with the simulator values.
• Gauge illumination is toned down preventing it to being overblown on maximum brightness settings.
• Auto-trim switch has been removed.
• Force trim switch has been removed.
• Pedal stop functionality added (limits left pedal movement during flight) above 50 kts.
• Rotor rotation animation in multiplayer is now functioning.
• Rotor brake is functional again.
• Used fuel type in the weight and balance settings is JET fuel.
• Added Turkish language translation.
• Added Korean language translation.
• Pedal animation on the connecting rod is fixed.
• Interior collider adjustments. The camera doesn’t clip into the main panel anymore.
• VR support adjustments. Full VR support.
• Reference cruise speed now shows the correct value on the aircraft selection screen.

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental

• Fixed an issue that could prevent part of the speed brakes from properly triggering on the 747.

Guimbal Cabri G2

• START mode behavior improved on EPM
• Better synchronization between engine RPM and rotor RPM
• In Direct To Page, magnetic bearing is displayed instead of true bearing
• Throttle handle animation is now working correctly
• Fixed miro drift on ground contact with helicopters. Fixed Cabri skid suspension settings; Cabri now stable on ground.

Cessna 172 Skyhawk G1000

• Fixed ground steering during takeoff to compensate for crosswind

Cessna Citation CJ4

• MFD: Fixed battery electrical indications always showing 0
• AP: Fixed altitude capture not engaging in TO vertical mode
• Disabled unused COM3 radio receiver
• Adjusted brightness of Standby Indicator
• Fixed the AoA indexer not indicating the correct AoA
• Fixed sim checklist stuck in After Starting Engines checklist
• Fixed wrong state indication on APPR button tooltip
• FMC: Fixed ARRIVALS page not working when airport features approaches not tied to a specific runway
• FMC: Fixed discontinuities piling up when editing procedures
• YD/AP DISC Bar now disables the Yaw Damper
• Fixed Overspeed Warning audio not always working
• Fixed an issue with the Direct To initial Course being incorrect
• Fixed an issue where the FMA would always show LOC1/VOR1 even when nav source is NAV2
• TOGA button on the Thrust Lever is now active
• Added automatic VOR tuning functionality
• Added the FLT LOG page to the FMC and flight tracking
• The FLT LOG page will show on the FMC after landing based on the setting in DEFAULTS
• Added ability to ident the transponder on the FMC ATC CONTROL page
• Fixed an issue where fuel used tracking on FUEL MGMT page 2 was not correct
• Reduced pitch instability and adjusted elevator authority, tweaked roll rates at various speeds to keep light control feel but reduce excess performance
• Adjusted flaps to achieve a better compromise between approach angle and flaps pitch/lift moments, reduced flaps drag at both flaps levels
• Slightly increased top end engine thrust to address a few reports of insufficient climb power
• Increased gear down drag
• Increased gyro stability to reduce excessive turbulence impact
• Adjusted load stations to be more in line with real loadout
• Added additional groundwheel friction to avoid skidding during moderate crosswind landings
• ILS data is now loaded from the approach FAF origin facility to allow for nav-to-nav and auto-tune even when scenery runway data does not have the appropriate ILS reference information
• Fixed bugs related to visual approach loading and visual approach vnav guidance
• Fixed missing basic aural alerts
• COM input now allows to enter 136.xxx frequencies
• Limit types of airports displayed on the map to show only suitable ones

Cessna Citation Longitude

• Fixed incorrect pitot heat logic.
• Fixed the AILERON(S)_LEFT/RIGHT key events commanding ailerons in the opposite direction as intended.
• The engine auto-start and auto-shutdown procedures (Ctrl-E and Ctrl-Shift-E) now function correctly.
• The standby instrument now automatically adjusts its backlight levels.
• Autothrottle no longer requires gear and flaps to be retracted to change from TO mode to SPD/CLIMB/DESC modes.
• Taxi auto-tests now require engines running to begin evaluating.
• Fixed broken external animations for non-default liveries.
• Fixed incorrect load station count in cfg, and adjusted passenger load positions to match standard 8-seat configuration.
• Increased ND elevator trim limit to prevent AP from running out of trim authority at low altitudes and high speeds.
• Fixed AFCS control panel APR button tooltip.
• Added BRAKE FAIL and GENS OFF aural alerts.
• The G5000’s active NAV source now defaults to FMS when starting a flight.
• The AFCS control panel UP/DN wheel now changes pitch reference when the AP is in PIT mode.
• Fixed broken rotate animations on the CRS knobs.
• The 500-foot touchdown callout will now sound as appropriate. Also added other touchdown callouts from 450 to 50 feet.

Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny”

• Fixed in VR elevator not moving.
• Fixed engine audio from nearby Jenny aircraft can be heard within cockpit.
• Added Phone EFB with Compass, Indicated Air Speed, Radio and XPDR functionality tied to core sim.
• Added electrical system for the EFB.
• Added EFB section to the Flight Manual.
• Added right bracket in cockpit to Show/Hide EFB.

Daher TBM 930

• Increased maximum nose wheel steering angle to 28 degrees, and increased speed at which nose wheel steering starts becoming less effective to 10 knots.
• [Partially Fixed Increased brightness of taxi and landing lights.
• Pulse lights no longer draw additional power when landing lights are on.
• Fixed broken door animations for non-default liveries
• Fixed handling of electrical battery key events.
• Improved compatibility with hardware that send electrical battery and external power key events every frame.
• Fixed AFCS control panel APR button tooltip.
• The overspeed, stall, and landing gear aural alerts will now sound as appropriate.
• The G3000’s active NAV source now defaults to FMS when starting a flight.
• Fixed broken rotate animations on the CRS knobs.

Darkstar

• Fixed several issues related to entering a frequency on the transponder of the Darkstar
• External Camera display now rotates without stretching the view.

DG-1001E

• Improved adverse yaw, balance, handling qualities and spoiler drag
• Improved stall to match stalling characteristics as described in the flight manual (wing drop)
• Winch launch now requires the technique as described in the DG-1001E flight manual: "During ground roll and initial take-off push the control stick to a forward position to prevent excessive nose-up pitching rotation during initial take-off. After reaching safety altitude gradually pull back on the stick, so that the glider will not pick up excessive speed. Don’t pull too hard. After reaching release altitude pull the tow release knob. Recommended winch launch airspeed 110-130 km/h (60-70 kts.).

Douglas DC-3

• Upside down illegible writing on rear door stairs in Blue stripe Livery.
• Landing light switches are no longer reversed.
• Underside beacon light illuminates correctly.
• Multiple items can now be manually completed with evaluation mode.
• Landing gear text decal is no longer obstructed by open passenger door switch.
• DC-3 Aux tanks correctly feed the engine.
• HUD correctly indicates state of flaps.
• DC-3 cockpit model - Nose rivets remade.
• With the propellers feathered moving the prop control affects all the propellers.
• DC-3 cockpit model - Screws no longer clip through window frame.
• Beacon Light switch is targetable.
• Instrument texture no longer disappears when zooming out in external/showcase view.
• The user can’t hear the wind on takeoff even if all audio is turned off.
• Red yellow cargo image in liveries selection is consistent with livery in free flight.
• Blue stripe image in liveries selection is consistent with livery in free flight.
• Image for ole dusty livery in selection screen does match the livery in free flight.
• Mesh switch turns off and now the state of the switch correctly indicates it is off.
• Carb Air temperature correctly matches sim.
• Beacon light underneath fuselage can now be turned on.
• There is now a switch in cockpit to toggle on/off beacon light.
• Quickview 3 in cockpit camera is positioned correctly.
• Tooltip indicates correct state of Master Ignition switch.
• Off position on the right fuel selector now fixed.
• Cold dark switch use failing to show fuel pressure is fixed.
• Checklist for starting engine now says to wait 2 seconds.
• Scroll wheel issue with Desired Heading knob has been recoded.
• Spawning at night on runway, Cockpit lights now are on.
• Typo present in Hangar Description has been rectified.
• DC-3 Thumbnails now match the model.
• AUX Fuel gauge needles are fixed.
• Incorrect string on AUX fuel weight and balance fixed.
• Hole in cargo doors from inside cargo bay hold fixed.
• Various light leaks fixed.
• Texture improvements throughout the model(s).

Grumman G-21 Goose

• Fixed duplicate key name errors.
• Fixed cockpit camera clipping through floor.
• Fixed typo in cockpit placard.
• Fixed typo in loading screen trivia.
• Fixed engine audio from nearby Goose aircraft can be heard within cockpit.
• Added Phone EFB with Radio and XPDR functionality tied to core sim.
• Added Switches to Show/Hide EFB and Turn ON/OFF Avionics (including switch audio and decals).
• Added EFB section to the Flight Manual.
• Updated translation files.

H-4 Hercules “Spruce Goose”

• Yoke interaction with VR controllers simulate a yoke instead of a flight stick.
• Weight and Balance screen no longer contains debug text.
• Flying very far past Vne now triggers a crash.
• Modern avionics added.
• Clipboard updated with new features.
• Auto-pilot added.
• Green navigation light orientation.
• ATC/ICAO params.
• Prop animation issue on one side.
• Clipboard items missing check once clicked.
• CHT, Oil, Radiator temperatures have been adjusted.
• The blurred propellers no longer cast shadows.

LS8

• Improved adverse yaw, stall and spoiler drag

Ryan NYP “Spirit of St. Louis”

• VR controller interaction influence fixed.
• Multiplayer Art issue fixed (the front was hidden on other Ryan).

Wright Flyer

• VR users can launch the aircraft properly now, the throttle is automatically set to 100% once the catapult is triggered.
• Cockpit collision added.

World

• Fixed Statue of Liberty standing in water

Airport

• Fix terraforming issue on taxiway at HECA
• [Partially Fixed] Fix taxiway bridge issue at RJTT causing aircraft crashes
• Fixed Queenstown airport not updated with World Update 12
• Fix taxiway bridge issue at SBGL causing aircraft crashes
• [Partially Fixed] Fix taxiway bridge issue at LFPG causing aircraft crashes
• Fixed wrong airport names in Australia (Coober Pedy)
• Fixed terraforming issues include the crack on runway 26 at ESSA
• Fixed the possibility to set a seaplane base as departure without a seaplane

World Update 1 – Japan

* POIs:

• Fixed Rainbow Bridge night texture.
• Nagasaki Airport RJFU:
  • Fixed Control Tower LOD transition.
  • Added collisions for few missing objects.
• Hachijojima Airport RJTH:
  • Fixed windsock direction behavior.
  • Fixed multiple objects LOD transition.
  • Added collisions for few missing objects.

World Update 2 – USA

* POIs:

• Fixed Alcatraz Water Tower LOD transition.
• Fixed the satellite imagery cab be seen on the terrain below New River Gorge Bridge.
• Added marker to Lowry Avenue Bridge.
• Fixed Rainbow Bridge Niagara Falls texture.
• Fixed Haystack Rock position over terrain.
• Fixed US Grant Bridge textures and blend with the aerial imagery.
• Fixed Yosemite El Capitan terraforming clipping.
• Fixed terrain and imagery blending of the Lewis and Clark Bridge.
• Fixed Navajo Bridge terrain blending.
• Fixed collisions size of the Monument Valley.
• Fixed Rainbow Bridge Niagara Falls LODs transition.
• Added collisions to the US Air Force planes on the Airport Graveyard.
• Fixed United States National Arboretum is missing textures near the top of the pillars.
• Fixed Glen Canyon Dam ground textures clipping through the Dam.
• Added missing building to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
• Added collision to Bixby Creek Bridge.
• Fixed United States Capitol LOD transition.
• the Las Vegas Strip is now searchable by name.
• The Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls.
• Fixed Fort Knox LOD popping.
• Added collisions to Sunshine Skyway Bridge buildings.
• Fixed missing texture on Lowry Avenue Bridge.
• Atlanta Airport KTAL:
  • Fixed the Ground services clipping at parking RAMP 312 CARGO, parking spot N ramp 312 and airliners gate H-4.
  • Fixed flipped textures of Delta hangar and Atlanta Fire Rescue buildings.
  • Added collisions to all buildings.
  • Fixed Bridge on a taxiway.
  • Fixed night lighting disappears at short distances.
• Friday Harbor Airport KFHR:
  • Fixed few terraforming issues.

World Update 3 – UK & Ireland

* POIs:

• Fixed Goodison Park LOD popping.
• Added and improved collisions for the following POIs: 100 Bishopsgate, Wembley Stadium, Blackpool Tower, Durham Cathedral, Floors Castle, The Blair Castle, Blenheim Palace, The Royal Botanical Gardens, Goodison Park, The Eden Project.
• Fixed St James Park missing texture.
• Fixed Emirates Stadium model and textures (include misspelling billboards).
• Fixed Eilean Donan Castle Vegetation clipping.
• Fixed Canterbury Cathedral LOD pops.
• Fixed Stamford Bridge LOD 1 and LOD 2 switched.
• Fixed Blackpool Tower texture clipping.
• Fixed Kew Garden floating bespoke building.
• Removed TIN spikes around St. James Park stadium.
• Fixed Windsor Castle LOD popping.
• Fixed Pontcysyllte Aqueduct LOD popping.
• Fixed Glass Pod on British Airways I360 position popping at different distances.
• Fixed Goodison Park missing textures under Sunroofs.
• Fixed Floors Castle texture and Added missing texture.
• Fixed Scotland flag display on Edinburgh Castle.
• Fixed Archbishop’s Palace Maidstone texture and LOD popping.
• Fixed Villa Park Stadium LOD popping.
• Fixed Kew Garden alignment with the satellite imagery footprint.
• Fixed Anfield Stadium LOD popping.
• Fixed Glamis Castle Grass vegetation clipping.
• Fixed Caernarfon Castle displaying.
• Fixed Wales Millennium Centre LOD transition.
• Fixed Forth Rail Bridge’s Northside pillar missing textures.
• Fixed Forth Rail Bridge displays Cars climbing.
• Fixed Twickenham Stadium and York Minster LOD popping.
• Liverpool John Lennon Airport EGGP:
  • Removed Light pole in middle of a taxiway.
  • Added missing collisions to multiple buildings.
• Barra Airport EGPR:
  • Fixed few taxi path issues.

World Update 4 – France &Benelux

* POIs

• Fixed the Mont Aiguille collision. It is now possible to land at its top.
• Fixed Stade Jean-Bouin collision.
• Fixed Stade Vélodrome LOD transition.
• Nice Cote Airport LFMN
  • Fixed runways center lines missing in both runways.
  • Fixed waypoints and nav procedures issues occurred.
  • Added collision to multiple buildings.

World Update 5 – Nordics

* POIs:

• Fixed Viking Stadion / SR-Bank LOD popping.
• Fixed Road traffic driving underneath Storseisundet Bridge and Svinesund Bridge.
• Fixed Petäjävesi Old Church and Uddevalla Bridge displays double markings.
• Fixed Cars driving through Copenhagen Opera House.
• Fixed Copenhagen Opera House LOD popping.
• Added collisions to the Tjörn Bridge.
• Fixed Kullen Lighthouse vegetation clipping.
• Fixed Øresund Bridge terraforming issue.
• Fixed Brøndby Stadium spawning.
• Fixed the Bolt Arena missing collision.
• Fixed Roskilde Cathedral Cars driving up the building.
• Fixed Helsinki Ice Hall LOD popping.
• Fixed Blue Water Arena missing collision.
• Fixed Arctic Cathedral LOD popping.
• Fixed Aalborg Stadium missing collision.
• Fixed Tromsø Bridge Road traffic under and beside the Bridge.
• Fixed floating TIN artifacts/crane near Helsinki Olympic stadium.
• Fixed Hallgrímskirkja Church missing collision.
• Fixed Eleda Stadion LOD popping.
• Fixed Ullevaal Stadion LOD transition.
• Added collisions to the Ylisto Bridge beams.
• Fixed Sparebanken Sør Arena LOD popping.
• Fixed Sölvesborg Bridge vegetation clipping.
• Stockholm Arlanda Airport ESSA:
  • improved LOD transition of several buildings.
  • Added collisions to all buildings.
  • Fixed terraforming issues include the crack on runway 26.
  • Fixed big crack in runway 26.
• Svalbard Airport ENSB:
  • Added missing collision to Airport hangar.

World Update 7 – Australia

* POIs:

• Fixed occasional displacement of dynamic flags on Sydney Harbour Bridge.
• Fixed vegetation clipping and placement issues at Anzac Bridge, Sydney.
• Fixed vegetation clipping at Mooney Mooney Bridge.
• Fixed flashing geometry on Tasman Bridge, Hobart.
• Adjusted photogrammetry exclusions at 568 Collins Street, Melbourne.
• Minor enhancements at several other locations, e.g., clipping vegetation or water exclusions.
• YSHL Shellharbour Airport:
  • Minimized visible LOD changes of hangars and other buildings.

World Update 8 – Iberia

* POIs:

• Fixed location of Fort of Sao Joao Baptista and Covão dos Conchos.
• Fixed or adding collisions:
  • Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Centre.
  • Royal Palace of Madrid.
  • the Museu Nacional d Art de Catalunya.
  • the Estádio Algarve.
  • Bom Jesus do Monte.
  • Alqueva Dam.
  • Aldeadavila Dam.
  • the Museum of Art Architecture and Technology.
  • Estadio Jose Alvalade.
• Fixed LOD popping:
  • Montjuic Castle.
  • Estadio Da Luz.
  • Episcopal Palace of Astorga.
  • Covão dos Conchos.
  • San Pablo Bridge.
  • Torre Mapfre.
  • Basilica de La Sagrada Familia.
  • Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Centre.
  • Puente Nuevo.
  • Fort of Sao Joao Baptista.
  • Estádio Municipal de Aveiro.
  • Estádio do Dragão.
  • Hotel Arts.
  • Observatorio Roque de los Muchachos.
  • El Monumento Natural de los Mallos de Riglos.
  • Palacio de Deportes de Santander.
  • Catedral de Leon.
  • the Alamillo Bridge.
• Fixed Montjuic Castle vegetation clipping.
• Fixed Z-fighting in front of the Museum of Art Architecture and Technology.
• Fixed Estádio Cidade de Coimbra double markers.
• Fixed Puente Nuevo Cars path.
• Fixed Guadiana International Bridge 2D footprints over the satellite imagery.
• Fixed Freixo Bridge- car traffic driving up below the Bridge.
• Fixed Third Millennium Bridge Cars traffic issue.
• Fixed Maria Pia Bridge- Cars climbing up to top of Bridge.
• Fixed Luís I Bridge displays Cars traffic path.
• Fixed Santiago Bernabeu Stadium seats texture.
• Fixed Castillo de Santa Barbara texture gaps.
• Fixed the animation of the Gondola on the Vizcaya Bridge.
• Fixed Bom Jesus do Monte trees clipping into the building.
• Fixed Alqueva Dam texture.
• Fixed Alcázar de Segovia terrain clipping.
• Fixed Pena Palace trees clipping into the POI.
• Fixed El Flysch Zumaya and El Capricho Villa POIs name spelling.
• Fixed Rande Bridge Cars path and trees clipping into the POI.
• Fixed Aldeadvila Dam vegetation clipping.
• Fixed Alcázar de Segovia trees clipping into the POI.
• Fixed El Monasterio de El Escorial Z-fighting.
• Fixed Monumento a Alfonso XII Z-fighting.
• Fixed 516 Arouca bridge vegetation clipping.
• Pico Airport LPPI:
  • Fixed double windsocks.

World Update 9 – Italy & Malta

* POIs

• Fixed Duomo Di Orvieto LOD popping.
• Added missing collisions to Basilica San Francesco.
• Fixed Torri Di San Marino LOD popping.
• Fixed Diga Di Santa Giustina terrain LOD popping.
• Added missing collision to Torri Di San Marino.
• Fixed Faro Di Capo Caccia cliffs collision.
• Fixed Castle of Corigliano Calabro vegetation clipping.
• Fixed Fort Manoel collision.
• Fixed Castello Di Graines collision.
• Fixed Caserta Royal Palace collision.
• Fixed Place Moulin Dam vegetation clipping.
• Fixed Fénis Castle textures issues.
• Fixed Potola Palace bridges terrain blending.
• Fixed Fort St Angelo vegetation clipping.
• Fixed Castelsardo invisible terrain issues.
• Fixed Palazzo Pitti Z-fighting and LOD popping.
• Fixed Fort St Angelo vegetation clipping.
• Fixed National Stadium Ta’Qali collisions.
• Fixed Fénis Castle vegetation clipping and Added collisions.
• Fixed Parish Church of Mellieha missing textures.
• Fixed Mi.Co. Gate 2 vegetation clipping.
• Fixed Basilica San Francesco vegetation clipping.
• Fixed Maxxi the National Museum collisions.
• Fixed Lighthouse Of Genoa powerlines, DEM and generic buildings clipping.
• Fixed Allianz Stadium vegetation clipping.
• Fixed Viadotto Sfalassa vegetation clipping.
• Fixed Basilica Di San Pietro vegetation and TIN clipping.
• Fixed Basilica Di San Petronio TIN clipping.
• Added missing collisions to Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi.
• Fixed Castelsardo Z-fighting and vegetation clipping.
• Fixed Grotta Di Nettuno vegetation clipping.
• Marina Di Campo Airport LIRJ:
  • Fixed double windsocks.

World Update 10 – USA

* POIs:

• Fixed Mount Washington Hotel terraforming.
• Fixed National Park of American Samoa’s Marker position.
• Fixed textures stretched in Royal Gorge Bridge & Park’s Rock.
• Fixed Z-fighting on the roof of the Getty Museum.
• Fixed the Smithsonian National Museum of American History display name.
• Fixed the Cabo Rojo Lighthouse marker position and windows textures issues.
• Fixed the vegetation clipping into the Independence Temple.
• Fixed the New Orleans bridges collisions.
• Fixed the US flag in Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site.
• Fixed the Longaberger Company headquarters and Fort Massachusetts collision.
• Fixed LODs transitions for the following POIs:
  • Split Rock Lighthouse.
  • Kentucky State Capitol.
  • Indian River Inlet Bridge.
  • World War II Memorial.
  • Cabo Rojo Lighthouse.
  • Yerkes Observatory.
  • Montana State.
  • Mount Washington.
  • Theodore Roosevelt Dam.
  • the Independence Temple.
  • Fort Massachusetts.
  • National Gallery of Art.
• Lake Tahoe Airport KTVL:
  • Added collisions for few missing buildings.
• Block Island Airport KBID:
  • Added collisions for few missing buildings.
• Dallas Forth Worth Airport KDFW:
  • Fixed few terraforming issues in the airport.
  • Runways types are now defined.
• Others:
  • Fixed the Water cracks present at Seven Seas Lagoon near.

World Update 11 – Canada

* POIs:

• Fixed TIN buildings exclusion near Hatley Park National Historic Site.
• Fixed blend of Samuel de Champlain Bridge surrounding terrain.
• Fixed the double markers of the One on the World map.
• Fixed Cars floating above Pierre-Laporte Bridge.
• Fixed Cars flow over Jacques Cartier Bridge and Angus L. Macdonald Bridge.
• Fixed big Nickel POI name.
• Fixed the vegetation clipping through Burrard Street Bridge.
• Fixed Z fighting on the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
• Fixed LOD popping of Cape Bonavista Lighthouse cliffs and Cape Spear Lighthouse National Historic cliffs.
• Fixed the vegetation clipping into the zipline at the Cape Enrage Lighthouse.
• Fixes Pierre-Laporte Bridge terrain alignment.
• Fixed the vegetation clipping into the A. Murray MacKay Bridge and Thousand Islands Bridge.
• Fixed Lions Gate Bridge alignment with tterrain and road.
• Fixed terrain spikes going through Jacques Cartier Bridge.
• Fixed Holes in terrain all around Citadel Hill (Fort George).
• Fixed terrain LOD popping around Parliament of Canada.
• Fixed terraforming at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
• Fixed TIN data displays next to Fisgard Lighthouse.
• Added missing building on the Canadian High Arctic Research Station.
• Added missing building for the Cambridge Bay Radar Station.
• Fixed collisions of Jacques Cartier Bridge, The Lions Gate Bridge and The Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

40th Anniversary Edition / Sim Update 11

• Meigs Field KCGX:
  • Fixed Z-fighting in runway and tarmac.
  • Fixed taxi to parking after landing.
  • Starting in KCGX helipad while helicopter is selected is now available.
  • ATIS is now available.
• Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport VHHX:
  • Added collisions to multiple buildings.
  • Fixed the too low glideslope.
  • Fixed the ILS range for runway 13.
  • ATIS is now available.
• Princess Juliana Airport TNCM:
  • Added collisions to few missing buildings.
  • Fixed the LOD transitions.
• First Flight Airport KFFA:
  • Fixed Z fighting on pathway.
• Helipads/Heliports:
  • Lingotto Building LIBH:
    • Fixed the too High collision preventing smooth landing.
    • Fixed Z- fighting on the roof of the building.
  • NYC Heliport KJRB – Added collisions for few missing items.
  • Tokyo Heliport – Added collisions for few buildings.
  • US Bank Tower Helipad:
    • marker is now centered over the helipad.
    • Fixed LOD transition.
  • Heliponto Mirante Dona Marta SMDH:
    • Heliport collisions has been fixed.
    • Fixed LOD transition.
  • Menara Telekom Tower Helipad:
    • marker is now centered over the helipad.
    • Fixed Z-fighting on Water near the tower.
  • Bitexco Financial Tower – Fixed LOD transition.
  • London Heliport EGLW – Removed building appeared inside the Airport perimeter while photogrammetry is off.
  • Needles Lighthouse – Lighthouse Light is now spinning.
  • Issy-Les-Moulineaux Heliport:
    • marker is now centered over the helipad.
• Glider Airports:
  • Itakura Gliderport RJT1 – Fixed ground and runway textures.

Game of the Year Edition

• Voloport:
  • All Voloports are now possible to use as helipads.
  • Issy-Les-Moulineaux Heliport- Voloport is now available as helipad.
  • La Defense Voloport is is now available as helipad.
  • Fixed LOD transition for all Voloports.
  • Fixed Le Bourget Voloport name spelling.
• Lugano Airport LSZA:
  • Collision has been Added to multiple objects.
  • Fixed floating lights around the airport.
  • Fixed Z-fighting on airports’ tennis courts.

Top Gun Maverick

• Fixed the clipping through the rocks at Seneca Rocks Peak.
• Fixed Haines Knob collision is size.
• Fixed collisions in Germany Valley Quarry.
• Fixed French Gulf Marina has LOD transition.
• Fixed LOD popping in Riffle Lake Dam.

"Antifa should party more, riot less." - Finally some fun in the Fox News chyron!!

Straw That Woke The Camel's Back

More bank instability? In this economy??

• Federal regulators working in conjunction with multiple Wall Street lending giants rushed to finalize a plan to stop the bleeding at First Republic Bank and stave off public fears of a 2008 repeat today. Eleven major U.S. banks pledged to infuse $30 billion into First Republic, to stabilize the market after the ripple effects from the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures rattled smaller and regional banks. Regional bank stocks initially fell today but reversed course after reports of the deposit plan became public.
  
• In a joint statement, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the intervention from the group of large banks “is most welcome, and demonstrates the resilience of the banking system.” Not exactly how I would put it, but sure. Yellen worked closely on the emergency measure with the major bank CEOs and industry regulators, as well as with White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients and White House National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard.
  
• Yellen also testified at a Senate Banking Committee hearing and defended the Federal government’s response to the collapse of SVB and Signature Bank. She faced questioning from members of both parties on the committee and asserted that the U.S. banking system is sound and that Americans can move forward with the confidence that their deposits are safe. However, she clarified that the emergency actions taken by the government with SVB and Signature bank should not be the industry expectation for all deposits. (I’m sure that’s their takeaway too, most definitely.)
  

Yellen and other heads of America’s regulatory institutions are in the hot seat for the time being, but Republicans are, as usual, following their own deranged script.

• Under questioning from Republicans on the committee, who are feigning outrage corporate malfeasance, Yellen testified that a bank would only receive the kind of emergency assistance seen by SVB and Signature Bank if supermajorities of the boards of the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and Yellen “in consultation with the president, determine that the failure to protect uninsured depositors would create systemic risk and significant economic and financial consequences.” The decision to intervene with SVB and Signature was necessary, Yellen said, because “the chances of contagion that other banks might be regarded as unsound and suffer runs, seemed extremely high,” and the consequences of such conditions would be swift and very serious. (Sounds like the tech bros tweeting in ALL CAPS about the apocalypse that would ensue if they didn’t get a bailout had their intended effect.)
  
• Republicans are, of course, also using this opportunity to pin the largest banking failure since 2008 on their favorite boogeyman: “wokeness.” Right-wing trolls on social media and their king, Tucker Carlson, claimed that SVB’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies “distracted” them from, you know, banking and caused the crash. Yes, this is an argument people are trying to make. Not because of poor investment and risky strategies that depleted their cash stores and made them insolvent in the face of aggressive withdrawals, because of wokeness. Never mind that their executive team is, like most banks, is all White and mostly male! Obviously, there’s no evidence to support these claims, and it was a pretty classic run on the bank, spearheaded by the scourge of wokeness himself, Peter Thiel.
  

Even conservative economists and analysts agree that the recent spate of bank failures stemmed from bank mismanagement and the recent financial woes of SVB’s tech and startup client base. But trying to misdirect public attention serves their dual purpose of furthering their hollow culture war while fending off the kinds of regulation that would prevent something similar from happening in the future. Great stuff!!

Under The Radar

Move over, George Santos! There’s a new Republican fraudster in the House. Freshman Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) started a GoFundMe years ago, supposedly to raise money for a children’s burial ground, using an image of a stillborn baby on the page, and imploring “Help us help other families.” The page promised a “burial garden” featuring “a life-size statue of Jesus watching over the children” along with benches where families could sit. He raised almost $25,000. GoFundMe confirmed that Ogles received the money, but the park doesn’t exist, and he won’t say where the money has gone. In fact, he has patently refused to say what he did with the money, and is now naturally portraying himself as the victim, and released a statement saying that people should believe him that he used the money for the appropriate purposes, despite offering no proof.

What Else?

Special grand jurors in Fulton County, GA, reportedly heard a third recording of a phone call disgraced former president Donald Trump made to a Georgia election official as he tried to overturn his 2020 loss in the state.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and said Syria recognizes the territory of Ukraine the Kremlin has unlawfully annexed as Russian, and that Syria would welcome expanding Russia’s military presence there. Dictators are gonna be dictators, I guess!
The Biden administration has called for TikTok’s Chinese ownership to sell the app or face a possible ban, a significant shift for the White House as it moves to address national security concerns about the app.
Despite the Kremlin’s denials, the Pentagon released a video of a Russian jet dumping fuel on the U.S. drone that was taken down over the Black Sea earlier this week.
French Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne used a special legislative procedure to advance an unpopular pensions bill through the French National Assembly without a vote, spurring calls for her resignation from the country’s parliament.
Everyone’s favorite spiritual girlboss from the 2020 Democratic primary and Joe Biden’s sole 2024 challenger Marianne Williamson has been accused by former campaign staffers of abusive treatment replete with “foaming, spitting rage.” My third eye did not see this coming!

What In The World?

Unions representing more than one-million British health-care workers, such as nurses and paramedics, reached a deal Thursday to pause months of strikes, just days after U.K. treasury chief Jeremy Hunt proposed a budget that contemplates paying them a lump-sum bonus this year, and higher compensation next year. Strikes will be halted while members of the union rank-and-file vote on whether to accept the offer, which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (whose personal wealth is greater than the Royal Family’s) has also endorsed. Thanks for your input, Rishi. The largest trade union in the country, Unite, lambasted the U.K. government for months of “dither and delay” that caused unnecessary hardships to staff and patients and said it would not recommend the deal, but that it supports members voting on it. Wages lagging record inflation is not limited to the health-care sector. Tens of thousands of teachers, civil servants, and workers in London’s subway system all walked off the job Wednesday. U.K. Health Secretary Steve Barclay said the department would look for cost savings and the funding for higher wages would ultimately be up to the Treasury, and would not come at the expense of patients. Imagine that!

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Two reproductive health networks, Trust Women and Whole Women’s Health, announced that they will not immediately stop prescribing mifepristone if the Trump-appointed federal judge rules to suspend or invalidate its FDA approval.
North Dakota’s state Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision to block a statewide abortion ban, saying that the state’s constitution protects abortion rights in some situations, meaning that the procedure remains legal in the Roughrider State.
New polls show that 21 percent of Fox News viewers place less trust in the network since the revelations from the Dominion lawsuit, and 13 percent no longer believe the election was stolen after reading the leaked texts from Fox hosts and executives.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) reportedly once ate pudding with his fingers on a plane. Move over, Amy Klobuchar’s salad comb.
Graduate Students at the University of Chicago won their election to unionize by a landslide.

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"No signs. Nothing indicating they could not be there." - January 6 insurrectionist lawyer Carol Stewart, talking about people who came in through the Capitol windows

Return To Lender

In the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, things are feeling a little unstable around these parts!

• Global financial markets experienced more turbulence today after Credit Suisse announced it found “material weakness” in its financial reporting, triggering a selloff of the company’s shares, which dropped over 20 percent in value almost immediately. European banking stocks more broadly also took a tumble, dragging down all of the major stock indexes.
  
• Swiss regulators said that Credit Suisse can access money from the central bank if needed, an emergency measure meant to assuage fears resulting from the disclosure. Swiss financial regulator FINMA and the Swiss central bank filed a joint statement assuring that Credit Suisse “meets the capital and liquidity requirements imposed on systemically important banks.”
  
• Fears of broader weakness in the global financial system have been revived in the past week, but the risk of “contagion” from Credit Suisse to other European banks, at least for now, appears to be relatively low. Germany’s financial supervisory authority also stated that it sees no direct risk of the problem spreading, and that the German banking system is robust and capable of weathering higher interest rates. Despite assurances from the banking world (which many people rightly take with a grain of salt!), concern remains…pretty fucking high!
  

The regulatory response to SVB and Credit Suisse have been prompt and at least temporarily stabilizing, but the confluence of current market conditions make this a vulnerable time.

• In times of global financial peril, we are reminded once again that capitalist economic policy and corporate governance, well, it can have some negative consequences! Silicon Valley Bank executives not only gave themselves bonuses as the company was going down in flames on Friday, but they also sold off tens of millions of dollars in company stock over the past two years, raising (pretty obvious!!) questions about insider trading. SVB’s CEO Greg Becker sold almost $30 million of stock over the past two years, and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) called on him to return the money to depositors. Yes I’m sure he will do the right thing!!
  
• The Securities Exchange Commission recently created new rules to increase disclosure, transparency, and timelines for scheduled stock sell-offs, in order to weed out this kind of impropriety. Under the new rules, Becker’s sales would not have been allowed. Cool cool cool!! SVB was the go-to bank for many startups, but it also housed a great deal of cryptocurrency money. So the federal government is now insuring investments over the $250,000 limit even for those who invested big in an unregulated currency. After a huge crash and months of poor performance, cryptocurrency rallied on monday after the lowercase-b bailout. Seems bad to me!
  

Abuses in the financial sector are like guns: they’re ubiquitous in America, they cause catastrophic harm to millions of people, and the government refuses to regulate them.

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Under The Radar

As the craven Trump-appointed Texas judge weighs whether or not to invalidate the FDA’s long-standing approval of mifepristone, the most widely-used medication to terminate pregnancy, it’s clear that the worst of what we feared after the fall of Roe may be yet to come. Republicans in South Carolina are pushing legislation that would make any person who has an abortion subject to the state’s homicide laws, which are punishable by death. The bill is called the “South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act” and describes anything from an embryo with a handful of cells up to a fully gestated baby as a “person.” South Carolina law hands down death penalty sentences or minimum sentences of 30 years in prison to people convicted of murder. The measure includes no exceptions for rape or incest. Over a dozen Republican lawmakers have co-sponsored the bill. South Carolina hasn’t acted on the measure yet, but Republicans hold control of both houses of the state legislature and the governorship. Thank you once again to everyone who told women they were “exaggerating” about what Republicans would do in a post-Roe world!

What Else?

Investigators in Fulton County, GA, reportedly have another audio recording of a phone call from disgraced former president Donald Trump—this one to the Georgia Speaker of the House—in which he attempted to toss out Joe Biden’s victory in the state.
In other Trump criminal proceedings, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen wrapped up his second day of testimony before a New York grand jury regarding the “alleged” hush money payment Cohen made at Trump’s behest to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Daniels met with Manhattan prosecutors today.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) revoked the Hyatt Regency Miami hotel’s liquor license because it hosted “A Drag Queen Christmas.”
Speaking of Meatball Ron, allies of disgraced former president Donald Trump have filed a complaint with the Florida Commission on Ethics accusing DeSantis of violating campaign-finance and ethics rules as he continues his shadow run for the GOP presidential nomination without formally declaring his candidacy.
Sens. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Ted Budd (R-NC) introduced a bill to mandate tracking systems on weather and research balloons so the U.S. military can chill the hell out.
State officials in Texas announced a takeover of Houston’s public school district, home to over 200,000 students, in a move Democrats say is a politically motivated exertion of control by the administration of Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) over the increasingly blue city.
Honda recalled 500,000 cars in the United States and Canada due to a problem with the front seat belts. Elon Musk would never.
The Kremlin announced that it will try to recover the wreckage of the American drone it struck down yesterday.

Be Smarter

Something strange is happening on Pennsylvania Avenue, and it’s not Joe Biden ordering ice cream deliveries in the winter. A slew of real estate sales have occurred two blocks east of the Capitol building, and the properties have a common buyer: allies of disgraced former president Donald Trump. The Conservative Partnership Institute, a nonprofit (sure) led by Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, bought a total of $41 million in properties just steps from the Capitol, and in the organization’s annual report, CPI announced that its aim is to transform that particular swath of real estate into a sort of MAGA campus it calls “Patriots’ Row.” Republicans are always going on about their disdain for DC and how it is run so it’s interesting that they are taking somewhat clandestine measures to buy up large swaths of it! It’s also borderline unprecedented for a nonprofit to purchase so many properties (nine in the past year!) in such a close proximity (on one street) in such a short period of time. Pro-insurrectionists having headquarters right next to the Capitol doesn’t feel great! FBI, u up?

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President Biden announced today that the government will subject 27 drugs to inflation penalties, aiming to reduce out-of-pocket costs for Medicare recipients and lower prescription drug prices more broadly.
A Nebraska lawmaker has been filibustering an anti-trans bill for…three weeks!!!
Medicaid expansion passed the North Carolina senate 43-2, inching one step closer to becoming law.

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Do(?) Fear The Reaper

Russia’s war in Ukraine has been stymied by a strong coalition of Western support for Ukraine, but a Tuesday incident has brought the United States as close as they’ve come to direct conflict.

• Russian fighter jets downed an American surveillance drone as it made its way over the Black Sea today, according to U.S. military officials. One of the Russian jets collided with the drone’s propeller after both aircrafts dumped fuel on it. This prompted the U.S. Air Force to bring the MQ-9 Reaper down in international waters, and called the incident part of a “pattern of dangerous actions by Russian pilots.” Officials said the actions of Russian aircrafts were “reckless and environmentally unsound,” and that such provocations could lead to “miscalculation and unintended escalation,” between the two countries.
  
• These are the most serious hostilities between the United States and Russia since the war in Ukraine began. The United States and NATO have provided billions of dollars in aid, weapons, and intelligence to Ukraine, but deny what the Kremlin characterizes as a Western conspiracy to destroy Russia. And this is the first time during the war that Russia has destroyed military-surveillance equipment that was under U.S. (as opposed to Ukrainian) control.
  
• The Russian Defense Ministry denied striking the MQ-9, and blamed the “sharp maneuvering” of the unmanned drone for the crash, and further claimed that Russian jets did not make contact. Nevertheless, U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters that senior officials would be in contact with their Russian counterparts to relay “our strong objections.” Western geopolitical analysts have described the incident as thus far unprecedented, though fortunately the two countries are responding diplomatically—after Price’s comments, the U.S. officially summoned the Russian ambassador, which is diplomacy-speak for “we’re really pissed about it.”
  

It increasingly appears that regular citizens of Russia are not feeling the consequences of the war at home.

• Western sanctions have impacted Russia’s banks, technology imports, and Russia’s famed population of wealthy oligarchs, but have not had the intended effect of fomenting public discontent with the war. The Russian economy is largely holding up, and doesn’t look markedly different than it did before the war began. All of that might change, however, now that sanctions are finally falling on Russia’s central cash cow: oil. Sanctions on Russian fossil fuels could deplete the resources funding the Kremlin’s attacks on Ukraine, and some economists predict that signs of true economic strain will emerge in the coming months.
  
• Other economists, however, say that the Kremlin has plentiful reserves of money that haven’t and most likely won’t be hit by sanctions, and its new trade partners in Asia will help Moscow continue to stay afloat. There’s also the issue that though 1,300 corporations have left Russia or are working to do so, another 1,600 or more are either staying or pulling a wait-and-see. Russia enjoyed record fossil-fuel profits last year, and even cutting its revenue by one-third, as sanctions are intended to, wouldn’t lead to a crash. Rich Russians are still rich, and many of them are fleeing to Dubai, as the UAE has maintained direct flights to Russia throughout the conflict and staked out a neutral, “apolitical” posture on the war.
  

When Russian President Vladimir Putin began conscripting Russian nationals to fight his war, there was fleeting hope that perhaps the thousands of men who fled the country in defiance of the draft would foil his plans. Time and again, hopes of the war resolving itself quickly or in a predictable fashion have proven idealistic.

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Under The Radar

Inflation eased slightly again in February (though it remains high), but the whole “collapse of multiple major banks” thing has drawn renewed scrutiny to the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest-rate hikes. Nevertheless, the Fed is still expected to raise interest rates 0.25 percent next week, and then again in May. In the wake of the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank over the weekend, the Fed and other regulatory agencies are seeking to shore up confidence in the American banking system. One option would be to slow the pace of rate increases in tandem with the slowing pace of inflation, while letting banks run by reckless executives fail without bailouts—a morally just option that would also be anti-inflationary. But Fed Chairman Jay Powell et al seem inclined to do the reverse.. The U.S. economy is in something of a straight jacket: Inflation has decreased but still remains too high, while the labor market remains strong but still vulnerable to more interest rate increases. And for now at least, American consumers still feel the pinch of higher prices.

What Else?

The state of Ohio has sued Norfolk Southern after the disastrous train derailment and resulting environmental damages.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) called Russia’s war in Ukraine a “territorial dispute,” and claims it should not be considered a top national security interest for the United States, in his effort to win the pro-Kremlin/Tucker Carlson primary. Thanks for your input, Meatball Ron!
Facebook parent company Meta officially announced it will lay off another 10,000 employees this week.
Disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) may mount a primary challenge against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). It’s almost like this guy doesn’t understand that no means no!
A California appellate court reversed most of a ruling that had invalidated Proposition 22, the state’s law allowing Uber, Lyft, and other gig economy companies to classify their workers as independent contractors rather than employees entitled to benefits and other protections.
The EPA proposed the first federal limits on “forever chemicals” in drinking water on Tuesday, a measure the agency said will save thousands of lives and prevent serious illnesses including cancer.
Wellesley College in Massachusetts held a student referendum today to decide whether the school will admit transgender applicants including trans men. It should be noted that Mount Holyoke, another historic women’s college, decided to admit trans and nonbinary students back in 2014 without much controversy!
Rep. George Santos (R-NY) has officially filed paperwork declaring his 2024 candidacy and we simply…have to laugh!

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Australia will once again prohibit Indigenous people in “prescribed areas” from purchasing or possessing alcohol, after trying the “equal rights” thing for a few months. Like many Western governments founded by White colonizers (hello), Australian officials have publicly wrestled with the country’s relationship to Indigenous communities in recent years. And not just the actions of their ancestors, but their own actions. Back in 2007, the Australian government banned alcohol in prescribed areas, and imposed other race-based restrictions on Indigenous Australians. The alcohol ban lapsed last year amid complaints from hundreds of Aboriginal communities that the policy was racist. But now a new uptick in crime in surrounding areas has revived the bad old times of 2022, as the government apparently found no other way to reduce crime in the past 15 years. The resurrected alcohol bans have coincided with another politically charged moment, as the country begins to discuss amending the Australian constitution to enshrine an Indigenous body to advise on policies that affect Aboriginal communities. Decades of race-based, paternalistic policies imposed by White Australian officials over Aboriginal communities, which are largely impoverished due to decades of discriminatory policies, have left many Aboriginal people feeling hopeless. The 2007 ban did not solve any of the underlying issues in Aboriginal communities, and many argue that there is little reason to expect reinstating it will serve as anything other than a bandaid, and a renewed source of stigma.

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President Biden issued an executive order today reinforcing background checks for gun buyers, a policy the White House is promoting as the most comprehensive action a president can take without new legislation.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) signed a law Monday that will make Illinois one of three states to require employers to offer paid time off for any reason, based on hours worked, as long as appropriate notice is given.
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Is it just me, or is it starting to feel a little 2008 in here?

• The Federal Reserve announced Monday that it will review its supervision of Silicon Valley Bank after it collapsed over the weekend in the second-largest American bank failure on record. SVB crashed after a bank run (when a larger portion of clients withdraw money at the same time because they believe the bank is in danger of failing), and now the government is pulling emergency levers to backstop uninsured depositors, and President Biden is assuring Americans that the money they keep in the nation’s other banks is safe.
  
• SVB was the largest bank failure since Washington Mutual went under in 2008. So what the hell happened? SVB held assets for a thick slice of the tech and startup industry, as its name would suggest. It also invested its holdings in long-term bonds, as if it anticipated years of extremely low short-term rates would continue forever. But the tech sector has had a rocky few months full of extensive layoffs, just as the rest of the economy was running hot, and the Fed was raising rates. Many of SVB’s clients thus needed more cash over the past year than before, so they began withdrawing their deposits, forcing the bank to sell a large portion of its bonds at a considerable loss. As word of the impending emergency spread, more clients withdrew their deposits, and there’s the run.
  
• On Sunday, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury Department, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation collectively decided to guarantee all deposits at SVB as well as New York’s Signature Bank, which was also seized on Sunday. That is—the regulators guaranteed all deposits above and beyond the $250,000 limit on insured deposits. Student loan borrowers and people with medical debt everywhere are saying: “How do we get some of that??” All three agencies and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen moved quickly to assure Americans that “no losses associated with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank will be borne by the taxpayer.”
  

Okay great, we’re all feeling very confident!!

• If there’s one person we can count on to be hopping mad about a banking issue, it’s Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and boy is she. Warren wrote an op-ed for the New York Times and laid the blame for this most recent bank failure directly at the feet of “leaders in Washington weakening the financial rules.” After the 2008 financial crisis, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act, which was aimed at improving accountability and transparency in the American financial system and rein in the “too big to fail” banks. Obviously, Wall Street hated this law and wanted its unlimited runway back as soon as possible. It spent millions of dollars lobbying the FDIC and Congress trying to defeat it, and then when that failed, trying to weaken it. In fact, two former senior aides to House Speaker Mr. “No blank checks” Kevin McCarthy went on to become SVB’s top lobbyists in this effort. McCarthy himself and countless other Republican lawmakers pushed for the repeal of significant pieces of Dodd-Frank. Disgraced former president Donald Trump signed a partial repeal of Dodd-Frank into law in 2018. (This astute cartoon captures the origins of multiple recent national crises in a single cell.)
  
• Yellen also went on to assert that this is “not a bailout” but it certainly walks and talks like a bailout! Bank stocks around the world plunged today, losing about $90 billion in value, even as President Biden pledged to take any actions needed to ensure the safety of the U.S. banking system following the emergency measures deployed by the nation’s fiduciary institutions. The strong measures are meant to restore confidence and prevent further banking failures, but it’s not entirely guaranteed.
  

So what have we learned since 2008? Not enough, apparently! Silicon Valley Bank was poorly supervised thanks to regulatory rollbacks, and employed a risky strategy that maximized short-term profits but made it vulnerable to this exact scenario. Just like in 2008, we watched SVB hand out bonuses to their executives mere hours before the government takeover. How many times will we have to watch the economy brought to the brink of collapse by greedy, nefarious financial actors before elected officials understand that deregulation will always end in disaster?

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Trump-appointed federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has been on a tear during the Biden administration, knocking down workplace protections for transgender Americans, agreeing to hear a case brought by anti-vaxxers against major news organizations for not publishing anti-vaxx misinformation, and ruling against the Biden administration on immigration in cases so shoddy even the ultraconservative Supreme Court picked his work apart. His reputation for right-wing hackery has driven many hackish right-wing organizations to file lawsuits specifically in his district, anticipating friendly rulings from Kacsmaryk, then a review from the similarly right-wing Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and then the conservative majority in the Supreme Court. That’s exactly what an anti-abortion group did when it decided to challenge the FDA’s approval of the abortion medication mifepristone,…20 years after the fact. Experts expected Kacsmaryk to side with the anti-abortion groups no matter what, and then. But weeks after the last briefs were submitted, he still hasn’t ruled, and it appears that he is conducting his review more or less in secret. After being accused of this secrecy, Kacsmaryk ordered oral arguments in the case to take place on Wednesday morning, according to a new court filing. The FDA has strongly disputed the anti-abortion group’s claims and argued that pulling mifepristone from the market should its approval be nullified would not only put women’s health at risk, it would also weaken the FDA’s authority. Mifepristone is used in about half of all U.S. abortions.

What Else?

After signing the single-largest piece of climate legislation in American history, the Biden administration is planning to wave through a mammoth $8 billion oil drilling project in the North Slope of Alaska. Not great!
Speaking of climate change, the head of the United Nations today called for scientists to deliver “cold, hard facts” in order to spur governments to make substantive policies to curb the damage before the point of no return. In defense of the scientists, they’re the ones who have been holding up their end of the deal!
The International Criminal Court plans to seek criminal arrests of Russian officials who forcibly deported children from Ukraine and targeted civilian infrastructure, the first ICC case involving Russia’s war on Ukraine.
U.S. Treasury Department and Justice Department officials are seeking new ways to liquidate the assets of Russian oligarchs.
Former Vice President Mike Pence issued his harshest criticism of disgraced former president Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 insurrection, saying that he “was wrong,” to try to overturn the election (you think??) and that “his reckless words endangered my family…” He nevertheless refused to testify before the House January 6 Committee and has challenged a subpoena to testify before the grand jury investigating Trump’s role in January 6.
The Colorado state Republican Party selected rabid election denier, former state representative Dave Williams, as its new leader this weekend.
State lawmakers in Nevada may allow the water agency that manages the Colorado River supply for Las Vegas to drastically limit residential water use. The good news is, we may finally see a crackdown on the ultra-wealthy for their overuse of water! Stop trying to have a lawn in the desert you freaks!!
Speaking of disgraced former president Trump, he does not plan to testify in the New York State grand jury investigation into his “alleged” (wink) hush money compensation to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

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Fox News has had a rough couple of weeks (haha!) thanks to revelations from a defamation lawsuit brought against them by Dominion Voting Systems. But an even bigger lawsuit against Fox is looming. Fox’s efforts to get the case dismissed have thus far not been successful. Smartmatic claims Fox hosts and guests made over 100 false statements regarding the 2020 election (seems like a conservative estimate!) and that Fox falsely claimed Smartmatic was involved in tallying 2020 election results in six battleground states. Fox also alleged that Smartmatic shared its technology with Dominion, when the two companies are in fact rivals and have no communication with each other. Probably the wildest claim Fox made is that Smartmatic was founded in Venezuela, sanctioned by corrupt dictators, when the company was actually founded in Boca Raton, FL, in 2000 in the wake of the “hanging chad” nightmare, aimed at using technology to restore the public’s faith in election results. Imagine that.

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Everything Everywhere All At Once cleaned the hell up at the Oscars, winning three acting awards, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. Damn, Daniels!
Michelle Yeoh became only the second woman of color and first Asian woman to win Best Actress.
An Illinois man is suing Buffalo Wild Wings because he claims the “boneless wings” are just chicken nuggets. The American dream is alive and well in our nation’s courtrooms!!

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