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The Justice Department is accelerating its efforts to undo decades of civil service protections intended to insulate the work of law enforcement officials from political interference.
A new batch of more than 20 career employees at the department and its component agencies were fired on Friday,
including the attorney general’s own ethics adviser, Joseph W. Tirrell.
Others who were dismissed included a handful of senior officials at the U.S. Marshals Service, as well as pros…

Dismissals at Justice Dept. Would Bypass Civil Service and Whistle-Blower Laws
In court filings and dismissal letters, the Justice Department’s political leadership claims sweeping authority to fire career law enforcement officials without cause.

Former ABC News correspondent and anchor Terry Moran launches a Substack channel following his ouster from the news network (Glenn Garner/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/terry-moran-launches-substack-abc-news-dismissal-1236431503/…

Terry Moran Launches Substack Channel To Continue “Important Work” After ABC News Dismissal
Following Terry Moran's unceremonious ousting from ABC News, the Emmy-winning anchor and reporter has already moved onto his next platform.

Electronic localization on the structural inhomogeneities formed due to Bi and Te deficiency in the MBE grown films of AFM topological insulator MnBi2Te4: Evidence from spectroscopic ellipsometry and infrared studies
N. N. Kovaleva, D. Chvostova, T. N. Fursova, A. V. Muratov, S. I. Bozhko, Yu. A. Aleshchenko, A. Dejneka, D. V. Ishchenko, O. E. Tereshchenko, K. I. Kugel

Electronic localization on the structural inhomogeneities formed due to Bi and Te deficiency in the MBE grown films of AFM topological insulator MnBi2Te4: Evidence from spectroscopic ellipsometry and infrared studies
The intrinsic substitutional and antisite defects cause unintentional doping and shift of the E_F position above the conduction band minimum in the AFM topological insulator (TI) MnBi2Te4. This prevents measurements of the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAH) and investigation of the topological Dirac states. In the present study, the Mn-Bi-Te films grown by the MBE technique onto Si(111) substrates with decreasing Bi and Te contents and increasing Mn content were investigated by 0.5-6.5 eV spec…

Reflections on Tech, Faith, and Justice
This week, I'm talking about yet another Christian-famous person falling from grace. Plus a sad court case, and a few other bits.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/reflections-on-tech-faith-and-justice/

Reflections on Tech, Faith, and Justice – Bob Mueller
DIY wins, tech fixes, Disney stars in space, faith deconstruction, and justice in CCM—this week had it all.

A Generative Imputation Method for Multimodal Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis
Reihaneh Hassanzadeh, Anees Abrol, Hamid Reza Hassanzadeh, Vince D. Calhoun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09271

A Generative Imputation Method for Multimodal Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis
Multimodal data analysis can lead to more accurate diagnoses of brain disorders due to the complementary information that each modality adds. However, a major challenge of using multimodal datasets in the neuroimaging field is incomplete data, where some of the modalities are missing for certain subjects. Hence, effective strategies are needed for completing the data. Traditional methods, such as subsampling or zero-filling, may reduce the accuracy of predictions or introduce unintended biases.…

Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit found dead in suspected suicide following dismissal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/russian-transport-minister-roman-starovoit.html

A quantitative stability result for regularity of optimal transport on compact manifolds
Micah Warren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09035 https://

A quantitative stability result for regularity of optimal transport on compact manifolds
We use a Korevaar-style maximum principle approach to show the following: Fixing a $C^{2}$ bound on the log densities of a set of smooth measures, there is a quantifiably-sized Wasserstein neighborhood over which all pairs of such measures will enjoy smooth optimal transport. \ We do this in spite of unhelpful MTW\ curvature, by showing that when the gradient of the Kantorovich potential is small enough, the Hessian ``bound" places the Hessian in one of two disconnected regions, one bounded and…

Trump is recklessly shredding our economic advantages in the global economy.
Companies that are looking to make investments shouldn’t have to worry if Trump has cooked the books on economic data--but that’s exactly what’s happening following his decision.
-- Katie Porter

Firing of labor statistics head undermines trust in key data, ex-Trump official warns
President Trump is expected to nominate a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week, days after firing Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following the release of a disappointing jobs report. The president dismissed the data as “rigged” and “manipulated for political purposes.” Geoff Bennett discussed more with William Beach, the commissioner of labor statistics during the first Trump term.

Court filing: Trump and Rupert Murdoch agree to postpone Murdoch's deposition in the Epstein letter libel suit until after a ruling on the WSJ's dismissal case (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/trump-murdoch-lawsuit-epst…

Trump, Murdoch agree to pause WSJ case deposition until after dismissal ruling
Trump had asked a federal court in Florida to expedite the 94-year-old Murdoch's deposition in the case due to health concerns.

After airport chaos, tanker blast, Putin fires Russian transport minister: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/after-airport-chaos-tanker-blast.html