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News organizations sue to unseal filings in DOJ's Fulton County election investigation (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/news-organizations-sue-unseal-filings-doj-fulton-county-election-probe-rcna345700
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p19#a260519p19

Man, old universities are weird places. Went to attend a talk (featuring linguists and computer scientists debating language models) in a room I hadn't been in before, and it turns out they have a full-ass Flemish tapestry just hanging from the wall.

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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Trump administration deepens quest to stamp out the events of Jan. 6
Trump’s effort to reframe what happened on Jan. 6 appears, in many ways, to be an attempt to shape public perceptions.
The details of what happened that day remain accessible and documented in an expansive universe of videos, accounts and court filings.

The day he was inaugurated last year, Trump pardoned most Jan. 6 defendants, some of whom are now seeking elected office.
The president also commu…

Trump administration deepens quest to stamp out the events of Jan. 6
In his second term, the president has doubled down on efforts to reframe public perception of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, in court and beyond.

Millions of Americans Are Going Uninsured Following Expiration of ACA Subsidies (Anna Wilde Mathews/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/millions-of-americans-are-going-uninsured-following-expiration-of-aca-subsidies-0051240d?st=Vx6dtW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p36#a260319p36

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

4 crew members safely ejected following Idaho jet crash, AP reports (KTFT)
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/mountain-home-air-force-base-locked-down-after-plane-crash/277-ffa1e9e6-e66a-41a2-84af-f3090359cb41
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p47#a260517p47

California lawmakers want to rename César Chavez Day following sexual abuse allegations (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-08264e63b6f594278239af1ad23ba1fc
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p83#a260319p83

Trump DOT yanks $73M funding from NY for 'failing' to vet foreign truck drivers (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/04/16/us-news/trump-dot-yanks-73m-funding-from-ny-for-failing-to-vet-foreign-truck-drivers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p96#a260416p96

Mamdani and his wife made less than $145,000 last year, tax filings show (Chris Sommerfeldt/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/16/mamdani-and-his-wife-made-less-than-145-000-last-year-tax-filings-show-00877729
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p118#a260416p118