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Trump pulls $4 billion in funding for California bullet train project – NBC News and the Associated Press (AP)

Ironworkers with the California High-Speed Rail Authority work on the Hanford Viaduct in Kings County, Calif., on April 15. Godofredo A. Vásquez / AP file

President Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy have called the project, first approved by California voters in 2008, a “train to nowhere.”

July 16, 2025, 7:46 PM PDT / Source: The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Trump administration revoked federal funding for California’s high-speed rail project on Wednesday, intensifying uncertainty about how the state will make good on its long-delayed promise of building a bullet train to shuttle riders between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

The U.S. Transportation Department announced it was pulling back $4 billion in funding for the project, weeks after signaling it would do so. Overall, a little less than a quarter of the project’s funding has come from the federal government. The rest has come from the state, mainly through a voter-approved bond and money from its cap-and-trade program.

President Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy both have slammed the project as a “train to nowhere.”

“The Railroad we were promised still does not exist, and never will,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “This project was Severely Overpriced, Overregulated, and NEVER DELIVERED.”

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump pulls $4 billion in funding for California bullet train project CA.gov

See also Governor Newson’s statement on Trump’s failurehttps://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/07/16/governor-newsom-responds-to-trumps-latest-gift-to-china-defunding-americas-only-high-speed-rail/

#2025 #America #AP #AssociatedPress #BulletTrain #California #DonaldTrump #Health #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #NBCNews #Politics #Resistance #Science #Travel #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpCancelsTrain #UnitedStates

The latest version of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok is echoing the views of its billionaire creator, so much so that it will sometimes search online for Musk’s stance on an issue before offering up an opinion.

The unusual behavior of Grok 4, the AI model that Musk’s company xAI released late Wednesday, has surprised some experts. #ap #tenessee jed

Freed from #ICE detention, #MahmoudKhalil files $20 million claim against Trump administration

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 3:47 PM EDT, July 10, 2025

[good article - contains interview excerpts and photos]

"Inside, Khalil said he was denied his ulcer medication, forced to sleep under harsh fluorescent lights and fed “nearly inedible” food, causing him to lose 15 pounds (7 kilograms). “I cannot remember a night when I didn’t go to sleep hungry,” Khalil recalled.

Meanwhile, the #Trump administration publicly celebrated the arrest, promising to deport him and others whose protests against #Israel it dubbed “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.” "

apnews.com/article/mahmoud-kha

#NoDeportationOfMahmoudKhalil
#StopTheDeportations
#NoDeportationOfRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationOfMohsenMahdawi
#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#Gaza #Palestine #MiddleEast
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press @palestine

Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil poses for a portrait during an interview, July 3, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
AP News · Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil files $20M claim against Trump administrationPalestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, whose role in campus protests against Israel led to his detention for over three months in immigration jail, is now seeking $20 million in damages from the Trump administration. His lawyers filed a claim Thursday, alleging false imprisonment and malicious prosecution after his March arrest by federal agents. Khalil, a legal U.S. resident, said he suffered severe anguish in jail, and continues to fear for his safety. The government has accused him of leading protests aligned with Hamas, but has not provided any evidence of a link to the terror group.
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@Kletskous De #ap voert een persoonlijke jihad tegen alles wat #belastingdienst is. Het verhaal is voor een groot deel onjuist. En ja, je kan zien of een vrouw met een vrouw partnerschap heeft en met een man man maar ook man vrouw. Dat is gemeentelijke informatie. Wat is daar zo vreemd aan? #google en #facebook weten meer dan alle informatie die de belastingdienst heeft. Het suggereert dat medewerkers een hele dag naar zogenaamde privacy informatie zitten te kijken.

"But under the hood, the #ActivityPub protocol doesn’t use full mentions at all. Instead, it uses actor IDs."

The actor ID for my main account is mastodon.social/users/crepels. In my case, there is a direct translation between the full mention and the actor ID, but that doesn’t have to be the case."

@crepels, 2023

seb.jambor.dev/posts/understan

Intriguing. So in theory, the Actor ID for a fediverse account could also be represented in an app as @username@email.service or @username@xmpp.service 🤔

MastodonSebastian Jambor (@crepels@mastodon.social)63 Beiträge, 71 Folge ich, 317 Follower · I like to explore und understand technology, and share my understanding in an acessible way on my blog. I also created two playgrounds: systemd-by-example.com is a playground that allows you to experiment with systemd from your browser, and activitypub.academy is a Fediverse instance that allows you to explore the ActitivyPub protocol in real time.

🔥🔥🔥 TRIGGER WARNING 🔥🔥🔥

Truly SHOCKING video reporting here by #AP, about US contractors in Gaza firing live ammo at Palestinians as they come for food aid. IMHO, this is one of those times when it's important to bear witness, unless it would be too distressing to watch the footage. Will be shocked if this does not explode in the news.

youtube.com/watch?v=63XTo2EyLZ

.#Israel #Hezbollah #Hamas #Houthi #Gaza #Palestine #Lebanon #Iran #MiddleEast #War #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #News

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People keep pointing out the UX fail of expecting people to have multiple accounts to use all the different fedi services. But that wouldn't be true if every #AP app and server used a general purpose #C2S API, defined in the AP spec (whether the existing one or not).

Then we could, for example, use a Mastodon account to login to a PeerTube service to browse and post videos. Or use a PT account to login to a Mastodon service to browse and post Notes.

@tchambers @rakoo @benpate @jupiter_rowland