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“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Imagine that

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.

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MEMORANDUM OPINION By way of context, a federal prosecutor is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all. The obligation to govern impartially concerns, above all, the state's exercise of coercive power-meaning its power to deprive its subjects of life, liberty, or property... As a representative of the state, a prosecutor's exercise of coercive power must be impartial ... [in] that prosecutorial power may not be exercised vindictivelymeaning that the prosecutor may not punish a defendant for exercising a protected statutory or constitutional right. United States v. Zakhari, 85 F.4th 367, 384-85 (6th Cir. 2023) (Kethledge, J., concurring) (citations and quotations omitted). This context frames review of Defendant Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's ("Abrego") motion to dismiss his indictment for vindictive and selective prosecution. (Doc. Nos. 104-05). The Government opposes the motion (Doc. No. 121), and Abrego has replied (Doc. No. 127). Abrego's motion is not ripe for decision because he seeks discovery and an evidentiary hearing because there is some evidence of vindictiveness here. For the reasons that follow, the Court holds that the totality of events creates a sufficient evidentiary basis to conclude that there is a "realistic likelihood of vindictiveness" that entitles Abrego to discovery and requires an evidentiary hearing before the Court decides his motion. United States v. Andrews, 633 F.2d 449, 457 (6th Cir. 1980) (en banc), cert. denied, 450 U.S. 927 (1981).

NEW: Judge Crenshaw finds that the Trump admin's criminal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia may well be vindictive—and greenlights discovery and an evidentiary hearing. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump opens with a threat to the generals:

"I've never walked into a room so silent … Have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud ... If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future. but you just feel nice and loose."

I‘m sure these hundreds of US generals and admirals were very happy to be used as props in a campaign performance for Fox News by the former Fox News talking head and the former reality TV personality that never served, while being insulted as „decayed“ and „fat“. Brilliant move.

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

🇺🇸 Attention USA-- Stop ordering from the EU. As of Aug 23rd, your package won't be shipped--thank Trump

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Why Glacial Lake Outbursts Like the One in Alaska May Happen More Often Meltwater from a glacier lake outburst is flooding Juneau, Alaska. Such events are likely to happen more often as climate change destabilizes ice and glacial lakes fill with more meltwater

Meltwater from a glacier lake outburst is flooding Juneau, Alaska. Such events are likely to happen more often as climate change destabilizes ice and glacial lakes fill with more meltwater

"Ahem, we tried that twenty years ago and it didn't work."

GPT-5 has completed the project, all it has to do now is write it up

GPT-5 regularly asks you why you are not citing its work. GPT-5 always believes your estimator is biased. GPT-5 has more of a comment than a question. Sometimes GPT-5 tells you stories about grad school and expresses regret about getting a PhD. GPT-5's mom wonders when it will start making money.

Responds to every prompt with "In my day, we used OLS and we liked it, dammit"

[noise from pocket]: "I have more of a comment than a question"

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer knows how to write a lede. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Yesterday, Antarctic sea-ice extent reached 4 standard deviations below the 1991-2020 daily mean. The only other years on record where this has happened are 2023 and 2024.

In a normal distribution, 4 SD's represents a 1-in-31,600 event. These are not normal times.

How to give children the freedom to play all across the city – not just in playgrounds Play should be promoted in cities to bolster children’s right to play anywhere.

Alarming finding from case studies of urban play projects.

“Because of a range of aggressive behaviour from adults, children’s use of streets and public spaces were consistently restricted. A common statement from dissenters was ‘children can go elsewhere.’ The reality is they can’t.”

A Trump Truth Social post from July 11, 2025: “Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was great on FoxNews this morning. Talking about modern weapons and warfare. Thank you also to Brett Velicovich, who really knows his "stuff." We are really on our way. MAGA!”

The Secretary of War hasn’t existed since 1947

Shunned Myanmar leader thrilled at US contact after Trump tariff letter Min Aung Hlaing expresses ‘sincere appreciation’ for letter from US president threatening 40% tariff

That sinking feeling when you accidentally send a tariff letter addressed to the leader of a ruling military junta that the United States refuses to recognize or (otherwise) engage with.
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IT glitches and mistakes can clearly have devastating ripple effects:

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Bezos to buy Vogue as a gift to new wife? Insiders link deal to Sanchez’s cover shoot, could cost him billions Rumors are swirling that Jeff Bezos might acquire Condé Nast, Vogue's parent company, as a wedding gift for Lauren Sanchez. This speculation is fueled by Sanchez's recent Vogue cover, hand-picked atti...

Bezos rumored to be buying Condé Nast, which would include Vogue, Teen Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Architectural Digest, and Ars Technica.

Wired and Teen Vogue have done some of the best reporting in the Trump era. Ars Technica one of a handful of good remaining tech pubs.

Important postscript on our recent study: We can confirm now that the recent heat domes over North America & Europe were part of a resonant "wave 7" hemispheric pattern that emerged in mid June, persisting through most recent data [analysis by @xuekeli.bsky.social]

Trump administration shuts down U.S. website on climate change The Trump administration shut down a website with national reports on climate change. Scientists decry the move, saying it robs the public of vital information.

The Trump regime just censors scientific information it does not like, even though the American taxpayers paid for it.
Any info that reveals the consequences of the fossil fuel business model is suppressed.
They prefer a population of ignorant sheep.
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Just fully in the same tier with the most deranged, silliest, must utterly embarrassing cults of personality authoritarian regimes have displayed in modern history.

It will be a very long, hard road from this to anything resembling a democratic political culture.

I’m sure employees will be thrilled to know their confidential reviews were put into GPT so their manager can “seem smart” and save time. Especially given the culture at Netflix. If you can’t write 25 appraisals, change the system or admit you are inept. What else do you have to do?

What Did Elon Musk Accomplish at DOGE? Even before Musk fell out with Donald Trump, the agency’s projected savings had plummeted. But he nevertheless managed to inflict lasting damage to the federal government.

What did DOGE do to America? Benjamin Wallace-Wells speaks with people who worked with and for the initiative. The answer is that Musk did very little—other than collect, for his personal use, a massive amount of data in the hands of the federal government which was previously assumed confidential.

A group of tow truck drivers in LA have reportedly also been stalking ICE vehicles and towing them once the agents get out of the vehicles and leave it unattended. /

Nochmal im Klartext: Im Jahr 2050 hat der dritte Planet dieses Sonnensystems 500 ppm CO₂ in der Atmosphäre und +2,5 °C Erhitzung. Einfach linear extrapoliert. Das ist das brutale numerische Maß für -alles- Weitere. Es geht in dieser Zeit nun vor allem um eines: die Menschlichkeit nicht zu verlieren.

Why do the characters in JAWS not simply defeat the shark in the marketplace of ideas?

At GSA, in the Biden administration, we were determined to build as much federal EV infrastructure as quickly as possible: buy vehicles, run greater power capacity to facilities, install chargers. Because a Republican administration wouldn’t undo all of *that*.

Yet here we are: