Wait, the ban on selling GPUs to China was reversed after AMD and Nvidia promised to give the U.S. government a cut of revenues?

This is what happens when your government no longer has principles and is simply coin operated.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

I will also accept numbers from LoveToRide autodetection

NEW: The D.C. circuit has, for now, closed the door on Judge Boasberg's contempt proceedings against Trump administration officials he says violated his March 16 order to prevent deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

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Feels transparently feckless

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

Jared Wise was caught on video yelling "Kill 'em, kill 'em" as Jan. 6 rioters skirmished with the police. He called officers Nazis and the "Gestapo."

He's now "a valued member of the Justice Department," a spokesman said.

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If you work in/adjacent to Democratic politics, or even if you are an occasional Democratic donor, this new @adambonica.bsky.social piece is the most important thing you can read today.

The Democratic Party cannot build power if it allows scam pacs to thrive

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I cannot handle Vance's claim going continuously unchallenged in these articles. CA had an independent commission with even Dems and Rs which passed maps unanimously.

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Note how the article does not provide a response to Schroer's claim that the GOP has a responsibility to... gerrymander.

And no mention that CA's districting is an independent commission.

JUST IN: Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as US Atty for DC, 50-45

Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There “Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.

Trump sent Jerce Reyes Barrios to CECOT without charge, indefinitely, over a Real Madrid-inspired tattoo and a "rock&roll" hand signal. Jerce told us his story. (& he wants the world to know: “I’ll always be a fan of Real Madrid”)

w/ @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...

The International Residential Code (1&2 family), which controls townhomes, is much lower cost than International Building Code, which controls multifamily.

This isn’t true globally - @stephenjacobsmith.com’s shows building costs per unit decrease with density everywhere but US/Can.

the palate cleanser in the five course pardon meal

Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report The president implied that the BLS commissioner, long-time federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."

BREAKING: President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after weak jobs report.

Emil Bove’s norm-breaking behavior at the Department of Justice alarms some observers

Senate Confirms Trump's Most Alarming Nominee To A Lifetime Federal Judgeship Bove faced credible allegations of telling DOJ attorneys to defy court orders. Republicans confirmed him to a seat on a U.S. appeals court anyway.

JUST IN: Senate Republicans have confirmed Emil Bove to a lifetime federal judgeship, choosing to ignore credible allegations that Bove had told Justice Department attorneys to defy court orders and say “fuck you” to judges who ruled against them. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...

This is the guy who negotiated a corrupt quid pro quo with Eric Adams and forced the resignation of the lawyers who protested. He is a criminal and has demonstrably shown he has no concern for the rule of law, and will break any rule to advance Trump. Installing him to the judiciary is a crisis.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25A11 DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL. U. MARY BOYLE, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [July 23, 2025] The application for stay presented to THE CHIEF JUSTICE and by him referred to the Court is granted. The application is squarely controlled by Trump v. Wilcox, 605 U.S. _ (2025). Although our interim orders are not conclusive as to the merits, they inform how a court should exercise its equitable discretion in like cases. The stay we issued in Wilcox reflected "our judgment that the Government faces greater risk of harm from an order allowing a removed officer to continue exercising the executive power than a wrongfully removed officer faces from being unable to perform her statutory duty." Ibid. (slip op., at 1). The same is true on the facts presented here, where the Consumer Product Safety Commission exercises executive power in a similar manner as the National Labor Relations Board, and the case does not otherwise differ from Wilcox in any pertinent respect.

This is enraging.

SCOTUS shadow dockets the end of another agency’s independence.

The majority refuses to call it precedent, because they know that would be laughable on its face. They just say one like ruling “control[s]” another. And you, district judges, need to figure out if it’s so.

Washington Post: Trump intervenes to boost Hegseth aide who left military for politics A waiver granted by the president allows Ricky Buria, a top adviser to the defense secretary, to bypass federal law and depart the Marine Corps at a rank he held only briefly. July 21, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. EDT

OMG THIS IS WHAT THEY CRITICIZED TIM WALZ FOR. THEY ACCUSED HIM OF STOLEN VALOR.

Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein

Whooo boy. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...

Funny. Livermore sometimes requires tacked on non-functional balconies.

The government is aware of no other prosecution pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 242 in similar circumstances. Indeed, reasonable minds might disagree as to whether defendant Hankison's conduct constituted a seizure under the Fourth Amendment in the first place. Compare Campbell v. Cheatham County Sheriff's Dep't, 47 F.4th 468, 476-79 (6th Cir. 2022), with id. at 483-87 (Nalbandian, J., dissenting) (discussing, e.g., Torres v. Madrid, 592 U.S. 306 (2021)). And reasonable minds certainly might disagree whether, even if Defendant Hankison's conduct did constitute a seizure, a prosecution under this statute should have been brought under these circumstances at all.

From the DOJ sentencing memorandum that recommends time served — a one-day sentence — in the case over the officer who was convicted for his role in the 2020 raid that led to Breonna Taylor's killing — firing 10 shots, although not one that killed Taylor. This is an appalling memo:

A siting U.S. senator is suggesting here that two Trump judges in Washington have been unjustifiably blocking a contempt proceeding into DOJ and Emil Bove until he can secure a lifetime appointment and become untouchable.

Sounds very sinister when you put it that way, but he has a point.

Based on the contents of the article, the headline should be something like "Evidence Refutes Claim That Biden Pardons Were Signed Without His Knowledge" with the subhead "Email records support Biden's account of pardons, while Trump and his team admit they have no contradictory evidence"

It was the latest salvo in an aggressive and wide-ranging campaign to quiet critics. In recent months, UnitedHealth has targeted traditional journalists and news outlets, a prominent investor, a Texas doctor and activists like Ms. Strause and her father, who complained about a UnitedHealth subsidiary. In legal letters and court filings, UnitedHealth has invoked last year’s murder of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of the company’s health insurance division, to argue that intense criticism of the company risks inciting further violence.

UnitedHealth's CEO being assassinated has been a huge boon for the company's legal team as they use the murder to justify "an aggressive and wide-ranging campaign to quiet critics" through threats and lawsuits aimed at journalists, platforms, activists, and investors. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/b...

very interesting thing just happened: EWR had a complete ground stop due to “thunderstorms” despite no storms in a 200 mile radius. The only flight to leave from EWR in that window? Air Force One.

sure looks like Donald Trump just shut down EWR for 4 hours so he could watch a soccer game!

Yes, I see the map. I'm not sure what has changed.

ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

You asked why it's staying in the median and avoiding downtown. Is there play in that Initiative? Sure. But the core intent of it is pretty clear. The initiative was accepted by council in 2011, full context or not, and has the force of a referendum in practice.

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