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Speaking Monday at a mining convention in downtown Toronto, Ontario Premier Doug Ford doubled down on threats to cut electricity exports to U.S. border states if the tariffs go through.

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[…] the Retroid Pocket Classic has been introduced. This will mark the first vertical handheld that Retroid has released since the original Pocket back in 2020.

Coming as little surprise, Retroid didn’t share anything regarding specs, but it did share all seven colors that the Classic will come in. Front and center is yellow, featuring a deep purple D-pad, and while the X+Y buttons match the rest of the shell, the A+B buttons are green and red, respectively.

As for the rest of the colors, we’ll have a DMG colorway, transparent purple, pink, teal, lime green, and what appears to be a lighter version of what the DMG has. From there, the Pocket Classic sports a front-firing speaker, to go along with the Start, Select, and Menu buttons. Curiously enough, none of those three buttons are actually centered, and we don’t have any idea why this would be the case.

Germany's anti-Semitism commissioner on Tuesday said US President Donald Trump's heavily criticized plan to rebuild Gaza and resettle Palestinians deserves a "closer look."

"I don't think it's wrong to think radically and in a completely new way," Felix Klein told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung newspaper.

The commissioner argued that Trump does not want to drive out Palestinians, but only to resettle them while Gaza is rebuilt.

"After all, you don't sleep in your house while you're renovating it, and the massive destruction basically calls for the comprehensive construction of a completely new infrastructure," said Klein.

His comments were immediately disowned by Germany's Interior Ministry, which Klein's office is a part of.

Klein "did not speak for the federal government, but expressed his personal opinion," a spokesman for the ministry told dpa.

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John Mulaney's Tom Jones bit

A closely watched civil trial that began in North Dakota last week could bankrupt Greenpeace and chill environmental activism as the climate crisis continues to deepen. The multimillion-dollar lawsuit by Energy Transfer, the oil corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, claims Greenpeace organized the mass protests and encampment at Standing Rock between 2016 and 2017 aimed at stopping construction of the project. Although the uprising at Standing Rock was led by Indigenous water defenders, Energy Transfer is instead going after Greenpeace for $300 million in damages — an amount that could effectively shutter the group’s U.S. operations. “This case is not just an obvious and blatant erasure of Indigenous leadership, of Indigenous resistance,” says Deepa Padmanabha, a senior legal adviser for Greenpeace USA. “It is an attack on the broader movement and all of our First Amendment rights to free speech and peaceful protest.”

DemocracyNow original video is here (yes, they host their own videos too): https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/4/greenpeace - you can find a transcript on this page.

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Coming back to the 7X and the Mix which will be featuring Zeekr’s Golden battery technology, designed to charge from 10-80% in just over 10 minutes. This has been tested in the real world by many independent EV enthusiasts.

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The Trump administration launched attacks on abortion rights by dropping a case defending emergency abortions in Idaho and instead seeking to join a Supreme Court case backing South Carolina’s block on Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood.

Critics argue these actions threaten reproductive rights, despite Trump’s past pledges not to interfere. Idaho hospitals have reported delays in emergency care due to the state’s near-total abortion ban.

Pro-choice advocates warn these moves could further erode abortion access and endanger women’s lives.

Conservative leaders praise Trump’s support for state-level abortion restrictions.

Because this is a common misunderstanding, they're talking about scope 3 emissions:

These are Scope 3 Category 11 emissions

That means it includes fuels these firms extract and sell to be burned by others, with much of the "demand" for it being induced by the fossil fuel firms, who explicitly have a cartel which drops prices whenever people start to move away from fossil fuels.

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A court in Murcia, Spain, has ordered Google to testify in a criminal case concerning IPTV app, NewPlay. Football league LaLiga, whose matches were allegedly offered illegally through the app, previously called for the directors of Google, Apple, and Huawei to face criminal charges. LaLiga criticized the companies for failing to disable copies of NewPlay already installed on users' devices. Google and Huawei must now testify as 'profit-making participants' in an alleged piracy scheme.

Update was from 3 days ago, I'm really hopeful ladybird could be a future browser option to help break the stranglehold chrome has over the market, while Mozilla is struggling to find meaningful direction.

It seems like an exciting project with monthly progress updates :) they keep chipping away at compatibility.

Taiwan is learning from companies in Ukraine which continue to operate during the country's fight against Russia, [according to] a senior Taiwan official, as the island speeds up contingency planning amid heightened Chinese threats.

China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, despite the objection of the government in Taipei, and has ramped up its military pressure against the island in recent years, including holding several rounds of major war games.

"We hope to learn from Ukraine's first-hand experiences - how private companies helped build the resilience of its government and society during wartime," said a senior Taiwan security official, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.

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Among the ideas Taiwan is taking inspirations from Ukraine for include how to incorporate supermarkets into the government's supply distribution network and utilising taxi services for medical emergencies such as blood donations when the health system is overwhelmed.

The official said the government was working to connect companies in Taiwan with their counterparts in Ukraine in order to help Taiwan firms quickly boost their contingency planning.

"We have the will to fight, and now we must also look closely into our will to prepare," the official said. Taiwan is revamping its air-raid alert and shelter systems, taking into account lessons by northern European countries and Baltic states, the official added.

A closed-door workshop on preparations including stockpiling and civil defence training was held in Taipei this week, which was attended by Taiwan security officials and senior diplomats from countries including the U.S., Japan and Australia.

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"Technology, banking, food, delivery, retail - how do you keep the economy running?" [one expert] said when asked how the Taiwan government should prepare itself.

Wolfgang Ischinger writes in Foreign Affairs magazine on the context, fallout and implications of last week's meeting between Trump and Zelensky

The disastrous meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance at the White House on February 28 has led to a stark moment of truth for the Western alliance. In the fallout with Zelensky and the end of U.S. support for the war effort, the Trump administration has not only shaken Ukraine. It has also called into question some of the bedrock assumptions that have undergirded the transatlantic relationship since World War II.

In European capitals, panic has set in. Some policymakers and analysts are speaking of the end of NATO, or the end of the West. They are terrified about U.S. intentions: Does Washington intend to actively undermine the long-term survival of Ukraine as a sovereign and free country? Is Trump trying to execute a “reverse Kissinger,” by charming Russian President Vladimir Putin into abandoning his marriage to Chinese leader Xi Jinping and making an unholy alliance with the United States? A huge chasm has opened in transatlantic trust—one that is bad for Washington’s global power projection and for its image as a benign hegemon, and potentially catastrophic for transatlantic cohesion and the vitality of NATO.

The challenge facing the West is daunting. But the alliance has endured strong doubts before. And there are powerful arguments—on both sides of the Atlantic—that might yet rescue the alliance and support a continued strong U.S. presence and involvement in Europe. And there is much that Europe itself can do to demonstrate why the United States is so much stronger with it than without it.

Wolfgang Ischinger is President of the Munich Security Conference Foundation Council and former German Ambassador to the United States.

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