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A Florida Teenager Is Tracking Russian Oligarchs’ Yachts and Jets on Twitter – He’s Moved On From Tracking Elon Musk
Jack Sweeney is a 19-year-old college freshman at the University of Central Florida. In January it came to light that he had managed to create a system for tracking the movements of America's billionaires by using public data that records the movements of their private jets.
Russia Is Preparing to Cut Itself Off from the Global Internet
The internet in Russia is already a very different place than it was before the invasion of Ukraine just two weeks ago. There’s limited access to major social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. Movie fans can no longer stream Netflix. Creators can no longer upload videos to TikTok. Freelancers can no longer find work on Upwork. And citizens can only see what the Kremlin wants them to see about the war in Ukraine.
Biden to ask Congress for $2.6B to promote gender equity
President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he will ask Congress for $2.6 billion for foreign aid programs that promote gender equality worldwide, more than double the size of last year’s request.
Market capitalism is not the answer to close the justice gap
There are two legal systems in California – one dispenses justice to those who can afford an attorney, the other steamrolls those who can’t.
Rising Seas and Government Greed
Rising gas prices are an immediate problem — rising seas are not. Yet in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Biden had nothing new to say about bringing gas prices down. Releasing a few barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is not a solution; it's a Band-Aid that will last about two days. Yet all that Biden can do is repeat the outworn bromide that global warming is a catastrophe bringing drought, storms, and rising seas.
