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Musician, writer, and filmmaker Rachel Brown on having a life outside of your creative world – #CreativeLife https://thecreativeindependent.…

Musician, writer, and filmmaker Rachel Brown on having a life outside of your creative world – The Creative Independent
Musician, writer and filmmaker Rachel Brown discusses how important it is to balance a life outside of artmaking, what it means to work with the right kind of collaborators and how seeking perfection can hold you back

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trumps-budget-director-says-layoffs-begun-government-shutdown-rcna236923
According to a legal filing, 176 people were fired from CISA on Friday.

Trump administration begins laying off more than 4,000 federal workers amid government shutdown, court filing shows
Affected agencies include the departments of Homeland Security, Education, Treasury, Energy and Health and Human Services, according to a DOJ filing.

Fear of flying therapy is about reframing the flight experience;
if my mind’s eye squints,
I can almost interpret my sweating palms and pounding heartbeat as a kind of buzz.
But this requires repeated, strenuous effort,
and the result is a mental exhaustion that makes the worst-case scenario appealing:
succumbing to my fears and never flying again.
I imagine this as analogous to what many Americans, aerophobic or not, are feeling.
It’s simply easier…

Winging It | Noelle Mateer
For those trying to overcome their fears of flying, it’s been . . . a challenging time to say the least.

Sources: investigators have uncovered evidence that Russia is at least in part responsible for a recent hack of the US federal court filing system (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/russia-hack-federal-court-system.html…

Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System
Federal officials are scrambling to assess the damage and address flaws in a sprawling, heavily used computer system long known to have vulnerabilities.

Democrats fear falling into GOP trap on government shutdown (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5499731-democrats-government-shutdown-threat/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p40#a250912p40

A profile of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, whose estimated 11% stake is now worth $1B following ICE's $2B investment, as its rivalry with Kalshi intensifies (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciap…

Crypto’s Fastest-Growing Startup Mints World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaire
A $2 billion investment from NYSE parent ICE vaults Polymarket’s 27 year-old founder Shayne Coplan into the three-comma club and intensifies its rivalry with prediction market competitor Kalshi.

South Korean workers return home after days in detention following US immigration raid (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-hyundai-georgia-immigration-raid-dd97210ffb6126bdf763228dc03918e0
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p53#a250912p53

China bans TechInsights from working with or receiving data from Chinese entities, citing national security concerns, after a report on Huawei's Ascend AI chips (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/china-blac

China blacklists major chip research firm TechInsights following report on Huawei
Beijing has banned semiconductor researcher TechInsights from working with or receiving data from entities in China.

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits last week hits 263,000, most in nearly 4 years (Matt Ott/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/unemployment-benefits-jobless-claims-layoffs-labor-a69fc3afbbebe731c29824b855e3c83f
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p137#a250911p137

Workers Fleeing Immigration Raid Scale a Fence at the C.I.A. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/us/politics/ice-cia-raid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.k08.LUl5.R_0cJ4OJI6A0&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p3#a250911p3