Archive - Tugboat for Today

Favorites: Philly Fire Lanes, F1 Wallet Ads, and Fewer Parking Minimums

June 28th 2025: Republicans’ spending bill keeps mutating, CEQA exemptions move ahead, and USPS may scrap its EV fleet.

Jun 29 •

Favorites: Warning Shots and Gold-Card Grift

June 23rd 2025, Stem-cell therapy reverses diabetes in 10 of 12 patients, while a bill forces the US Post Office to dumpster its EVs and Chargers

Jun 24 •

Pincer at SFO, Proxies Exhausted

Trump signs a “trade deal” that’s literally blank, while his DNI Tulsi Gabbard is iced out of Iran strike prep

Jun 18 •

Favorites: Record Protests, Coinbase Cameos, and Cosmic Dogfights

June 15, 2025: Doctors choose the wrong ChatGPT, SF forces interns underground, and households with two kids are sick half the year

Jun 16 •

Favorites: Windowed iPad, Leave Waymo Alone

June 12th 2025: F-16 downs a Russian SU-35, Musk and Trump trade threats, and first-gen immigrants shift right on immigration.

Jun 13 •

Favorites: Musk-Trump Meltdown, Solar Surge, and Senate SB 79 Success

June 8th 2025: Solar hits 11 % of U.S. electricity, AI leaders quietly swap hype for products, and NYC’s trash solution actually works.

Jun 9 •

Favorites: Drone Deluge, Dimon Distractions

June 2nd 2025: Russia loses a fifth of its strategic bombers; drones can bypass any port security we have

Jun 2 •

May 2025

CEQA Cleanups, DOGE Dissolves

May 30th 2025: Courts call Trump’s tariff “emergency” fake, solar + battery beats diesel in 40 days, and Musk exits with nothing to show

May 30 •

Favorites: Solar Super-Cycle, SCOTUS Jazz Hands, and AI Tutoring Triumph

CRISPR edits a teen’s stem cells, AI discovers a new drug in a closed loop and fiscal models crash

May 23 •

Favorites: Shipping Shockwaves, Polling Plunge, and a Rare‑Earth Squeez

Look at pictures of shipping operations, we’re in for something crazy.

May 9 •

April 2025

Favorites: AI Persuasion, Canada's Conservative Party Collapse

April 29 2025: Pell-grant bots flood colleges, Waymo tops 250K rides a week, and Jamie Dimon calls a recession “best-case.”

Apr 30 •

Favorites: Ornament for Height, Housing for All

April 25th 2025: New AI text-to-speech sounds human, Samwise’s “real” name, and LA port traffic sinks.

Apr 25 •

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