Wednesday, 4 June 2025

TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! I pray The Great Spirit be with you 🙏 🌅

Another hazy kind of a yellowish sun in what looks like a thick haze, 🌫 smoke to be sure. Let me check that out with Accuweather:

Current Air Quality

Today:

6/4

AQI

Poor

The air has reached a high level of pollution, making it unhealthy for sensitive groups. Reduce time spent outside if you are feeling symptoms such as difficulty breathing or throat irritation.

_*It doesn't appear to be very conducive to being the best of days to spend much time outdoors. Now that the sagging scrotum has moved on, we find that we just traded one pain in the arse for another. 😵 💩

It's warmer, but either way, not much sun, I guess that's why pale face👤 stays pale. Me sooner be pale face than wear baby sh-t for make up like our dear OLD CHIEF BABY SHIT FACE IN CHARGE.🎃

That's enough of that topic this morning, I don't want to upset my stomach, not worth having an upset stomach over a lousy bunch of cockroaches. 🪳 🪳 🪳 🪳 🪳 🪳 🪳 🪳

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

LIGHT & THOUGH = 'C'

Regarding the post I just made about the 'clean energy' challenge, I was thinking idly about the progression from the chimpanzee to the Ardipithecus to mining the Moon for helium-3, which could be used to make isotopes that could power fusion reactors with no radiation and no pollution. Now, add moondust, the smartphone or supercomputer, the speed of light, and the stopping of light (EIT), as well as Bose-Einstein condensates. We've traded sweat for swipes, yet our gaze remains fixed on the same short horizon.

Lost in a limbo of thoughts, I suddenly hit the brakes; I had a bingo! I thought to myself, it's no short horizon where I just came from; it's an endless landscape of pathways leading outward to yet more pathways leading outward. Yes! Carl Sagan once reflected, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself".

What goes faster than all of those, as mentioned earlier? In my opinion, I would say *THOUGHT IS COMPARABLE, IF NOT SURPASSING, THE BARRIER OF TIME & SPACE*. The speed of light is only a barrier because we don't know what's beyond the speed of light, except that time begins going backwards. In imagination, a thought, and you are in Alpha Centauri. Scientists can even measure Alpha Centauri's elements purely by inference. How long does it take light to get to Alpha Centauri from Earth?

WELL, ya bunch of Taco arse kissers, in the land of potentialities, I would hate to think of what doors you have opened in your own future potentialities. In quantum physics, all things are possible, or should we say one potential in the infinite potentialities, what goes around comes around, Karma, and that also stands for the law of gravity, you throw a brick straight up, and if you don't move... You know what I mean.

That's not just my opinion, it's the law of physics.

BREAKING NEWS:

The Trump administration just doubled the tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Here’s what that means

US tariffs on steel and aluminum doubled to 50% as of 12:01 am ET on Wednesday, a move cheered by the beleaguered American steel industry but worrisome to sectors that heavily use the metals, from car makers to can manufacturers.

The jump in import taxes is the latest salvo in President Donald Trump’s trade war, part of a broad range of tariffs he’s levied since February. But the steel tariffs are especially significant to him and his political base, a symbol of once-iconic US manufacturing that has since fallen on hard times.

The leap in tariffs likely won’t hit American pocketbooks immediately – but experts say that higher prices on construction projects, car lots, appliances and elsewhere are all but inevitable from the higher duties. And while the tariffs could protect steel manufacturing jobs, they could hurt employment in much larger industries.

But the administration said the tariffs are crucial to national security and the economy.

“Domestic steel and aluminum production is imperative for our defense-industrial base,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement to -CNN-.

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Published 12:01 AM EDT, Wed June 4, 2025 - CNN -

In China, AI-powered satire and propaganda fuel criticism of Trump tariffs

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As President Trump imposed tariffs on China, AI-powered satire and propaganda videos have flooded Chinese social media platforms. Largely untouched by censors – and at times backed by state media – these clips mock Trump as a tariff-wielding figure and blame US trade policies for global instability. The message from Beijing: China’s economy is resilient, and its global influence is expanding. CNN's Will Ripley has more.

June 4, 2025 - 02:42 - Source: - CNN -

Trump administration takes hundreds of migrant children out of their homes, into government custody

The Trump administration is taking hundreds of migrant children already residing in the United States out of their homes and into government custody, at times separating them from their families and making it more difficult for them to be released, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

President Donald Trump and his top aides have repeatedly cited the influx of children who arrived at the US southern border under the Biden administration without a parent or guardian as a critique of his predecessor and his handling of border security. Trump officials argue that hundreds of thousands of those children went unaccounted for — and are in potentially dangerous situations.

While former Biden officials contend that the surge of kids in 2021 placed tremendous pressure on the federal system, they and several experts in the field refute claims that there are large numbers of children missing from the system.

Published 6:00 AM EDT, Wed June 4, 2025 - CNN -

"Damned if I wasn't right a year and a half ago, Hittler and Gestapo!"

In the battle between Harvard and the Trump administration, the goalposts keep moving

When the president of Harvard University gave his charge to this year’s graduating class, he spoke from experience.

“My hope for you, members of the class of 2025, is that you stay comfortable being uncomfortable,” Alan Garber said last week.

Uncomfortable situations have hung over Garber for much of the year, as the Trump administration has targeted Harvard for special scrutiny – while also sowing doubt the school could ever satisfy its mounting demands.

Since its initial criticism of Harvard as a place where antisemitism was condoned or ignored during last spring’s pro-Palestinian protests, the government’s list of complaints about the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university has grown by the day.

Updated from Jun 3, 2025 - CNN -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Bank of Canada holds interest rate at 2.75% amid U.S. tariff 'uncertainty'

Rate decision comes as Trump raises steel and aluminum levies to 50%

Inflation rate drops to 1.7% in April, driven by lower energy prices after carbon tax removal
Canada's unemployment rate ticked up to 6.9% in April, matching a pre-pandemic high
Bank of Canada officials speak after interest rate announcement

VIDEO Included: Started 15 minutes ago

U.S. trade war risks Canadian progress on financial stability, says Bank of Canada

Doubled tariffs raise concerns Canadian steel could be shut out of U.S., but some companies say they'll adjust

Industry leaders say federal government also needs to address unfair trade practices — like steel dumping

With U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum now doubled, Canadian steel businesses and industry leaders — already wounded by the initial tax — have mixed reactions about the hike.

Calling the impact of the initial 25 per cent tariffs "devastating," after it resulted in job losses and a drop in shipments to the U.S., one steel industry leader says a 50 per cent tariff will lead to a "dramatic acceleration" of those trends.

"At a 50 per cent tariff, we basically consider the U.S. market closed — completely closed, door slammed shut, if you will — to Canadian steel," said Catherine Cobden, CEO of the Canadian Steel Producers Association.

Posted: Jun 04, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

- CBC -

Mangy, puke-faced, Jaba the Hutt; one-eyed orange slime sloberpuss; creepy hunchback, crawly cockroach, with vampire-like teeth; hairy monster ready to rip human flesh apart. Would someone with a Goofy 🙊 size 20 steel-toe work boot please step on the cockroach? Goofy doesn't need snowshoes. All that's left for us Canadians to do now, after he gets done with the orange pukehead, is to ask Goofy if he's good at stomping out forest fires too.

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