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Talking of #Bolton, as Hannah Spencer was in today's Guardian, I wrote this following a visit there, nearly 9 years ago.  I think it's one of my best pieces still.
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After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge – revised version
Here is the revised version of my working paper, “After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge”.  I’m grateful to those who have offered encouragement and constructively critic…

Even though I'm not running for re-election this November, I still get one more filing period for new legislation in September for my potential successors to pick up from me, so I'm still attempting to keep my legislation ideas repository at least somewhat up-to-date:
#NHPolitics

Revisiting Cowboys' Micah Parsons Trade After 2026 NFL Draft: Full Compensation https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/revisiting-dallas-cowboys-micah-parsons-trade-after-2026-nfl-draft-full-compensation

Ilhan Omar's office says she's 'not a millionaire' after $30M filing revised down to under $100K: report (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omars-office-says-shes-millionaire-30m-filing-revised-100k-report
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p52#a260418p52

In a legal filing, NYT accuses the DOD of defying a court ruling that declared parts of its press rules unconstitutional, after the DOD issued new rules Monday (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/business/media/new-york-t…

New York Times Accuses Pentagon of Defying Court Order
The company said in a legal filing that the department sought to fashion an “end run” when it issued revised media rules on Monday.

Hidden Higher-Order Vulnerabilities in Simplicial Complexes Revealed by Branch-Consistent Functional Robustness
Kaiming Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24286 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24286 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.24286
arXiv:2603.24286v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Robustness of higher-order networks is often quantified by the instantaneous smallest positive eigenvalue of the Hodge $1$-Laplacian under simplex deletion. We show that this observable is generically ill-defined: along a deletion trajectory, eigenvalue branches can switch, so the quantity being monitored may correspond to different nonharmonic modes at different steps. The primary issue is therefore definitional rather than algorithmic. We resolve it by fixing the first nonharmonic branch of the intact complex and following that same branch throughout the damage process, which defines a branch-consistent functional robustness. Triangle sensitivities then follow directly from first-order perturbation theory, making the resulting mode-sensitive deletion protocol a consequence of the observable itself rather than an independent heuristic. Across synthetic and empirical clique complexes, removing only a small fraction of triangles is sufficient to drive the tracked mode to collapse, while graph-level observables remain unchanged because the $1$-skeleton is exactly preserved. The same framework also reveals bridge-like localization of functionally critical simplices and provides a compact predictor of dynamical timescales.
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Cuba rejects U.S. Embassy request to bring in fuel, calls it ‘shameless’
The Cuban government this week refused a request by the U.S. Embassy in Havana
to import diesel fuel for its generators,
calling the ask “shameless,”
given the Trump administration’s fuel blockade on the island,
according to diplomatic cables reviewed by The Washington Post.

The denial could force the embassy to order nonessential staff to leave Cuba in May
or “possibly earlie…

Cuba rejects U.S. Embassy request to bring in fuel, calls it ‘shameless’
An effective U.S. oil blockade has worsened the island’s energy crisis. The U.S. Embassy in Havana, too, is feeling the effects.

Solutocapillary instability in slipping falling films
Sanghasri Mukhopadhyay, S\'everine Millet, Bastien Di Pierro, Asim Mukhopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17519 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17519 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17519
arXiv:2605.17519v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a comprehensive framework for gravity-driven, surfactant-laden thin films flowing over slippery substrates, elucidating how wall slip modifies the coupled hydrodynamics and interfacial transport. A long-wave model is formulated with a conservative bulk-surface mass balance and a Navier slip condition. The Orr-Sommerfeld eigenvalue problem governs the linear regime, while a weighted-residual model captures the nonlinear evolution over a range of equilibrium surfactant coverages, Marangoni strengths, and adsorption kinetics. The analysis predicts a non-monotonic variation of the critical Reynolds number with equilibrium coverage, exhibiting a maximum at intermediate $\Gamma_e$, and a slip-induced transition from single- to double-hump solitary structures with increasing Marangoni number, accompanied by attenuated capillary ripples. Under fast adsorption kinetics, the surface field homogenizes, preserving the mean film shape and flux while flattening both the surface concentration $\Gamma$ and the bulk inventory $\chi h\phi$. A spurious interfacial mass growth reported by Pascal et al.(PRF, 2019) and D'Alessio et al.(JFM, 2020) is resolved through a revised surface balance ensuring strict conservation. Wall slip thus emerges as a key control parameter, reducing viscous resistance and mitigating Marangoni back-stress. The slip parameter $\beta$ is a useful control knob for surfactant-laden films. Slip prevents fragile multi-hump bound states, promoting a single broad crest or an almost flat, uniform sheet by carefully bonding $\beta$ to wave selection, ripple damping, and the bulk-surface surfactant balance.
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After the Supreme Court refused his challenge to ICE, Isaac Antonio Villegas Molina, a construction worker filing a lawsuit against ICE with the help of the ACLU, was detained once again during his ISAP check-in.
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1strzjp