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BREAKING: Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul lawyers
escalate their request for an immediate TRO
to temporarily halt Operation Metro Surge
following today's ICE killing of Alex Pretti 
— noting three shootings by ICE in the past three weeks,
after 11 months of no
officer-involved shootings in Mpls.

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
BREAKING: Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul lawyers escalate their request for an immediate TRO to temporarily halt Operation Metro Surge following today's ICE killing of Alex Pretti — noting three shootings by ICE in the past three weeks, after 11 months of no officer-involved shootings in Mpls.

The problem with Las Vegas is that visitors are now treated like marks rather than guests.
The $50 gotcha charge at Paris Las Vegas for unplugging a cord in the room to charge a laptop is a perfect example:
https://view…

“$50 Charge Because I Unplugged A Cord”: Paris Las Vegas Hotel’s Tiny Print Fee Sums Up Why Visitors Are Fleeing The City
A reader shares that the were billed "$50 to charge a laptop" at Paris Las Vegas, and they thought this was "an even more outrageous fee" than $26 for a bottle of water at Aria. Las Vegas executives can't seem to figure out why tourist visits are declining in the city.

Giants fire defensive coordinator Shane Bowen following collapse vs. Lions: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6832655/2025/11/24/ny-giants-shane-bowen-fired-defense/

Filing: PhonePe reports H1 FY 2026 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$427.5M, a ~$157M loss, and 657.6M users; the payments company plans to sell 50.7M shares in its IPO (Rajesh Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Those drone cuts following closely the skiers down the slope at the Alpine Ski World Cup are insanely cool.

@… https://www.zachleat.com/web/symbiotic-open-source/ still accurately reflects my current feelings on it. If a deal isn’t *financially* symbiotic, I wou…

Went to hear Elephant Sessions at the Usher Hall #Edinburgh, somewhat randomly, and came away looking up
➡️ www.belugalagoon.com
Solo band, great following who knew the words, and danced. Andrew O'Donnell, owned the space.
And nature documentary series on the BBC, it seems.
#Polymath #Creative

The Free Birth Society (FBS) is a business run from North Carolina that promotes the idea of women giving birth without midwives or doctors present.
It is led by Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark,
ex-doulas turned social media influencers who have gained a global following through the FBS podcast, which has been downloaded millions of times.
FBS profits from sales of its instructional video guide to freebirthing, and access to a paid-for membership group for pregnant …

Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline the process of drafting patent applications for patent attorneys, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/17/exclusi

Exclusive: Palantir alums using AI to streamline patent filing secure $20 million in Series A venture funding
Palantir alumni Tamar Gomez and Wiem Gharbi founded Ankar which counts L'Oreal and Vorys among early customers

Sphere, which raised a $4.3M seed as an edtech marketplace, pivots and raised a $21M Series A led by a16z to develop an AI tax compliance software service (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/a16z-leads-21m-series-…

a16z leads $21M Series A into AI-native tax compliance software Sphere | TechCrunch
Sphere helps automate registration, calculation, filing, and remittance obligations for companies.