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Court docs: Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino spoke with President Trump in the weeks before the company settled with the DOJ in its monopoly lawsuit (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu

Live Nation CEO Spoke With Trump Before Reaching DOJ Settlement in Monopoly Case
In court filings this week, Live Nation confirmed Michael Rapino had spoken with Trump before the settlement but said that "no substantive terms regarding any potential settlement were discussed."

Tufted titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) has realized it's being watched.
Amigo Centre, outside Sturgis, Michigan
#naturalist #wildlife #bird

Following a blockbuster IPO earlier this month,
Elon Musk’s SpaceX experienced a rude awakening.
The rocket company’s shares have now been sliding for four consecutive days,
wiping out nearly all the gains the public offering had initially made.
Now the broader stock market is experiencing a similar and intensifying sell-off.
S&P 500 futures slid 1.6 percent on Tuesday,
while Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 2.8 percent, on track to wipe out over $1 trillio…

Tech Stocks Are Abruptly Collapsing
The global stock market is experiencing an intensifying sell-off, intensifying fears of a bursting AI bubble.

I'm open to a new job title: Sacrificial Lambgineer. Hire me for at least 90 days, I'll fix whatever random problems I come across, and then you can lay me off whenever, no hand feelings; minimum 90 days severance expected.

Hawaii has redefined what a corporation doing business in the state as an entity that DOES NOT have the power to spend money on elections or ballot measures.
Passed unanimously & with bipartisan support. Your move, California & New York.
▶️ Hawaii just found a way around Citizens United. Other states are following - MSNOW

The US special envoy sent to negotiate with Greenland and Denmark, used the occasion of Greenland's National Day to suggest that already next year they will be the 51st state.
I cannot express my feelings about this without swearing very very loudly.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/jeff-landry-maaske-kan-groenland-blive-usa-s-51-stat-allerede-naeste-aar

Irgendwann mal schreibe ich selbst AGB, welche auf private Regelwerke verweisen, die nur kostenpflichtig verfügbar sind 🤬
So was wie "Für die Gültigkeit dieses Vertrags und der daraus entstehenden Pflichten gelten, sofern nicht schriftlich anders vereinbart, ausschliesslich die Regeln des Handbuchs DMG D&D 5e 2024 in der deutschen Fassung."
#Recht

Logistics in the technical sense (part of supply chain management) is a subset of logistics in the vernacular sense ("the handling of the details of an operation"). You can explore this second and more general sense, and thereby build an understanding of the first and more technical sense, by iteratively asking the question, "how does one make that happen" and follow questions from there.
A big part of organizing is figuring out the (vernacular) logistics (and helping others figure it out). You want to organize a seed swap? Ok. How does one make that happen? Well, you need seeds, people, a place, and perhaps a time. How does one make that happen? You can forage seeds or you can buy seeds for a garden and swap extras. How do you get people to come? Well, figure out where you want people to come from and choose an accessible place. What's the easiest thing to do? Get people from your neighborhood. How does one make that happen? Well, maybe put up flyers. How does one make that happen? Well, print them on your printer if you have one, or at a library, then go post them up. Etc.
Keep asking questions until you either find a roadblock that you can't find a way around, or you find things you can do yourself (one of those things you can do yourself is asking friends to help).
If you practice the exercise of thinking about how things happen, you can start to find things that you can do yourself. You can start to understand what exists now, and you can imagine what's possible. By thinking about logistics, you can figure out how to replace things when they collapse or are dismantled. You can also identify things that can't easily be replaced, and try to figure out alternatives.
This practice is good for figuring out how to build, but it can also be a valuable practice for figuring out how to resist. Concentration camps and ethnic cleansing also require logistics. Mass displacement means moving people. How does one do that? People are generally going to be moved in planes or buses. How does one do that? Well, people get loaded on to planes or buses in specific places. Planes and buses need fuel. Planes are fueled at their airports, which may well be the same places where people are loaded on to them. There is a fuel depo and a fuel truck that makes flying people out of a specific place possible. How does the fuel get to that fuel depo? Well, that fuel is probably also delivered by truck. Someone drives those trucks. Someone fuels those planes. Someone clears the planes for takeoff. Someone fuels those busses. Someone drives those busses. And so on.
Logistics networks can be highly complex. The more complex the operation, the more possible points of failure and more possible points where pressure can be applied, where operations can be disrupted. Ethnic cleansing is a complicated operation. The logistics of disrupting complicated things tend to be much less complicated than the logistics of the complicated things themselves.
The Right has exploited this fact for a long time. Centralized social services are logistically complex. Public infrastructure is logistically complex. By destroying these things, they can loot public resources by privatizing the infrastructure and functionality.
But the things that support the Right are even more logistically complex. Oil, cars, AI data centers, internal paramilitary, these are extremely complicated and fragile. There are numerous pressure points, all of which can respond to numerous strategies.
If we want to win, we should reduce the influence of politics over the things we care about. We should focus on building distributed mutual aid networks that don't rely on state funding and aren't subject to the whims of politicians. This is also known as "dual power." That is, creating counter-institutions outside of the dominant political system. The Right already does this in the form of churches and corporations.
As we reduce our complexity, we can then press our complexity advantage against the things for which the Right *needs* the state: the apparatus of violence needed to maintain capital and enforce the dominant order.

Ccontrast Trump’s AI Jesus post with another Trump image that came into prominence last week:
As everyone else in the room is animated by concern for the fallen man’s well-being
—they’re elevating his legs to ensure that blood is flowing to his brain
—Trump is assuming the bored-to–petulant affect he normally shows when he’s not the center of attention.
He’s standing with his arms dangling at his side with his prepared remarks open on the desk in front of him.
He’…

How Trump Keeps Getting Away With Blasphemy
Liberals struggle to understand why the president’s evangelical supporters never seem to mind his sacrilegious tendencies. They’re missing the point.

FilmLA: on-location shooting of shows and movies in Los Angeles fell 12% YoY in Q2, falling to 4,711 shoot days, down from 5,394 in Q2 2025 (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/filmla-production-decline-q2-2026/

Los Angeles Film and TV Production Sinks 12% Despite New Tax Credits, FilmLA Study Shows
While high-employment TV dramas are holding on, reality TV's continued exodus fueled the decline