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  1. Stat: More than 40% of home sellers are cutting their prices in markets that boomed during Covid, including Salt Lake City, Sacramento, and Boise, according to Redfin. One Boise real estate agent said that the city grew so much during the pandemic that people who arrived there for peace and quiet are now leaving, because too many newcomers (like them) have ruined the rustic charm.

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    Trademark filing for the word "the"

    US Patent and Trademark Office

    The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has approved Ohio State’s application to trademark the word “THE,” which has become a popular rallying cry for sports fans of THE Ohio State University (shhh…no one tell them it’s the most common word in the English language).

    The process took years: As trademark attorney Josh Gerben explained on Twitter, Ohio State first filed the application in 2019. But that was held up for a couple of reasons, including a) a dispute with fashion label Marc Jacobs, which had tried to trademark the word a few months earlier and b) the USPTO’s claim that the trademark was “merely ornamental.” Both issues, apparently, have been resolved.

    Good news is, we don’t owe Ohio State $2 million for the 85 times we used “the” in this newsletter, and you won’t owe them anything for using it in regular conversation. The trademark only applies to certain types of sports-related clothing.

  2. Thank you @Peter Carroll.... Interesting update.... although this section still raises some eyebrows:

    "The police badges with a WEF logo are used by local officers in Graubunden to mark the organization’s annual conference."

    A "badge" is used by police and military to confer authority..... 

    Either way this place into the narrative that they are becoming more powerful with each step....

    Check out the info I just posted above about Klaus Schwab's father.

  3. package_1f4e6.png Amazon is launching drone delivery…finally. Nine years after Jeff Bezos first floated the concept on 60 Minutes, Amazon announced that its first drone delivery service would go livein the town of Lockeford, CA, later this year. The company’s once-hyped drone program has been agonizingly slow to lift off, beset by safety concerns, technical snags, and high employee turnover within the unit. And it’s not a done deal yet—the FAA still has to approve the service before the flying robots start dropping off packages in backyards.

  4. oil-drum_1f6e2.png  The country has earned almost $100 billion from selling oil and gas to other countries in the first 100 days of the war, according to a new study from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. That’s more than it’s spent on the war effort. Quick update on where things stand right now: Russian forces are focusing their efforts on taking the city of Severodonetsk, the last remaining Ukrainian stronghold in the Donbas’s Luhansk region.

  5. Excerpt from Justice Sotomayor's opinion on the ruling:

    "Remarkably, the Court goes beyond invoking its national-security talisman in this case alone. In keeping with the unprecedented level of generality the Court imports into the special-factors analysis, the Court holds that courts are not "competent to authorize a damages action...against Border Patrol agents generally." Ante, at 11. This extraordinary and gratuitous conclusion contradicts decades of precedent requiring a context-specific determination of whether a particular claim presents special factors counseling hesitation. See supra, at 6-8.4.

    The consequences of the Court's drive-by, categorical assertion will be severe. Absent intervention by Congress, CBP agents are now absolutely immunized from liability in anyBivens action for damages, no matter how egregious the misconduct or resultant injury.That will preclude redress under Bivens for injuries resulting from constitutional violations by CBP's nearly 20,000 Border Patrol agents, including those engaged in ordinary law enforcement activities, like traffic stops, far removed from the border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, On a Typical Day in Fiscal Year 2021, CBP...(2022), https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/typical-day-fy2021This is no hypothetical: Certain CBP agents exercise broad authority to make warrantless arrests and search vehicles up to 100 miles away from the border."

  6. That’s a clear violation of the 4th amendment and the supreme court cannot exceed its powers by superseding it. The problem is democrats and republicans in other branches won’t do anything about it.

    Basically if you live on the border, border patrol can access your home without warrant or cause. You also can't sue for damages to you or your property if the actions were not state sponsored. The supreme court is ramming fascists rulings at a breakneck speed while the majority watches in terror. When will the US people learn that the system is too far gone for pacifist measures?

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/08/supreme-court-border-patrol-smugglers-inn/?utm_source=reddit.com

    Every major city is inside this border-San Diego, Washington DC, San Fransico, New York, Boston, Houston, San Antonio, Chicago, Seattle, Portland...

    So are the entire states of Maine and Florida.

    Also the entire states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, New Jersey, Michigan and Hawaii. New Hampshire also looks pretty suspect from the few maps I've seen and there's only small little pieces of Massachusetts and Vermont that don't fall within the zone. That's 8/50 states. Let that sink in.

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  7. Did you know that today in 1839 the initials “O.K.” were first published in the Boston Morning Post?  Meant as an abbreviation for “oll korrect,” a popular slang misspelling of “all correct” at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday speech of Americans.  During the late 1830s, it was a favorite practice among younger, educated circles to misspell words intentionally, then abbreviate them and use them as slang when talking to one another.

     

    These days it’s common to tell friends that you are doing “OK”.  But we have all been through and incredibly hard year and it’s ok to not be “OK”. 

    Season 9 Ok GIF by The Office

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