International shipping to the USA has slowed dramatically and the word is this is just the beginning. This is extremely rare to see these docs without cargo.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/tariff-tit-for-tat-has-seattle-waiting-for-the-ships-to-come-in/

The Trump administration denied Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ request for individual and public assistance following an outbreak of severe storms and tornadoes that also affected neighboring Mississippi and Missouri and left more than 40 people dead.

The denial follows executive orders signed by Trump seeking to shift the burden of disaster response and recovery from the federal government onto states, as extreme weather becomes increasingly destructive and costly in a warming world.

The denial of the request, dated April 11, said the Trump administration had “determined that the damage from this event was not of such severity and magnitude as to be beyond the capabilities of the state, affected local governments, and voluntary agencies. Accordingly, we have determined that supplemental federal assistance is not necessary.”

64% of the state voted for Trump.

Hope their bootstraps survived the carnage.

Some classic quotes of future snacks:

Mr Lopez is no big fan of Musk and is critical of some of his management practices and politics, but admires the technology his companies have built and is happy to live nearby as long as the companies are good neighbours.

"As long as they don't ruin my water or dig a tunnel beneath my house and create a sinkhole, this isn't bad," he says, gesturing around the metal shed housing the bodega, coffee shop and bar.

...

Bastrop, {city manager Sylvia Carrillo} says, is a conservative, traditionally Republican place.

"His national stuff doesn't really register," she says. "His companies have been good corporate citizens, and we hope it can stay that way."

His companies have been good corporate citizens...? Apparently they haven't heard what xAI has been up to in Memphis (1)(2). Or what SpaceX has done in the far away land of... Texas ([3](https://

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You get what you wish for, Joe.

Leopards eating faces sometimes eats the wrong face. The child didn't deserve this.

I hope the parents realize what they've done and this haunts them for the rest of their lives.

Donald Trump gave his co-President Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency carte blanche to go on a federal employee firing spree—and now Musk is lamely begging for workers to come back.

In a post on X on Thursday, Musk tried to unretire air traffic controllers via tweet, as if he and Trump didn’t gut the department as part of DOGE’s chaotic and unwieldy firings.

“There is a shortage of top notch air traffic controllers. If you have retired, but are open to returning to work, please consider doing so,” Musk wrote.