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The IRS said in a new court filing that clergy and houses of worship should be allowed to make political endorsements,
-- abandoning an 71-year-old tax policy that banned the mixing of religion and politics.

Nonprofits should be allowed to make political endorsements and not lose their tax exemption,
the IRS said in the court filing.
Religious congregations, the filing said, are like families and communication between them should not be deemed “participation” in a ca…

IRS: Churches should be allowed to make political endorsements
Since 1954, the IRS has banned nonprofits — including congregations — from participating in political campaigns. The agency now says political endorsements by churches should be allowed.

Fullmoon fun with a cheap cellphone ... the Flimserstein above Flims, Graubünden, Switzerland illuminated solely by #moonlight (the village is pretty dim) - 20 seconds at f/1.79 and ISO 1600; some stars are visible in the brightened sky.

Following backlash, 'Face the Nation' will air interviews unedited (Jeremy Barr/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/05/following-backlash-face-nation-will-air-interviews-unedited/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p8#a250906p8

Low-temperature-compatible iron garnet films grown by liquid phase epitaxy
Jamal Ben Youssef, Nathan Beaulieu, Richard Schlitz, Davit Petrosyan, Michaela Lammel, William Legrand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06242

Low-temperature-compatible iron garnet films grown by liquid phase epitaxy
Single-crystalline yttrium iron garnet (YIG) thin films (< 100 nm) form the backbone of magnonics, owing to the record-low losses affecting their magnetization dynamics. However, thin epitaxial YIG has mostly been investigated under ambient temperatures, limited by the paramagnetic losses occurring at low temperatures due to the gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG) substrates required for epitaxial growth. Driven by a growing interest in magnonic devices that can operate in cryogenic conditions and …

CBS News implements a new policy: "Face the Nation will now only broadcast live or live-to-tape interviews" following complaints from DHS (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/1963988165795918221

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
New: CBS News has changed its interview format in reaction to complaints from DHS. According to a statement from a network spokesperson, Face The Nation will now only broadcast live or live to tape interviews

So if you were following my blog here the new handle is:
@…
Dunno if the rename kept all followers intact.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11477668…

Who's surprised? The rats fleeing the sinking ship climb onto an anti-personnel device.
"Ex-Tory minister Nadine Dorries defects to Reform UK"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9zld87y1go?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries defects to Reform UK
The ex-MP told the Daily Mail the Tory Party was dead and its members now "need to think the unthinkable".

Generalizing Verifiable Instruction Following
Valentina Pyatkin, Saumya Malik, Victoria Graf, Hamish Ivison, Shengyi Huang, Pradeep Dasigi, Nathan Lambert, Hannaneh Hajishirzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02833

Generalizing Verifiable Instruction Following
A crucial factor for successful human and AI interaction is the ability of language models or chatbots to follow human instructions precisely. A common feature of instructions are output constraints like ``only answer with yes or no" or ``mention the word `abrakadabra' at least 3 times" that the user adds to craft a more useful answer. Even today's strongest models struggle with fulfilling such constraints. We find that most models strongly overfit on a small set of verifiable constraints from …

This is going on, and the UK government is worried about a punk act at Glastonbury hurting the IDFs feelings?!?
The end cannot come soon enough for Netanyahu and the IDF.
#IsraeliGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes

Tariq (@rzeta0@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Fuck von der Leyen. Fuck Starmer. Fuck Merz. Fuck the EU. Fuck the BBC. Fuck the Guardian. Fuck the US Democrats. Fuck the German Staatsrason. Fuck the complicit mastodon-social admins. History will not forget your role in this. #genocide #gaza #warcrimes #history #palestine #ukpol #uspol #europe #journalism #mastodon #germany

Having 21 capitalists following you is quite an achievement!
#Capitalism