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A series of firings and feuds initiated by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
has left the Army essentially rudderless
as it struggles to deal with the threat posed by cheap, deadly drones and missiles that have pounded U.S. bases in the Middle East.
The Army has not had a chief of staff,
the service’s top officer,
since Mr. Hegseth fired Gen. Randy George without explanation in April,
And there are no signs that he is close to filling the position,
sai…

Hegseth’s Purge of Top Generals Leaves the Army Rudderless
The leadership vacuum comes as the Army is trying to adapt to a new kind of war dominated by deadly drones.

At his first Cursor all-hands, Musk said Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic is leading the AI race, and more (Grace Kay/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cursor-officially-enters-musk-era

Inside Musk’s First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind
Earlier this month, on the day SpaceX announced it had completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, Elon Musk called into an all-hands video meeting with the coding startup’s staff. Musk told them that SpaceX’s AI unit had fallen behind competitors and that he wasn’t used to losing. Unlike ...

Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second GOES-18 (GOES-West) Infrared Window images of Hurricane Polo
as it rapidly intensified from a Category 1 to a high-end Category 3 storm late in the day on 21 September 2026.
An eye became apparent by the end of the animation
Following the period of 30-second imagery,
a single GOES-18 Mesoscale Sector provided 1-minute Infrared Window imagery for the remainder of the day on 22 September,
as Polo c…

30-second imagery of rapidly intensifying Hurricane Polo — which eventually reached Category 5 intensity
Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second GOES-18 (GOES-West) Infrared Window images of Hurricane Polo (above) as it rapidly intensified from a Category 1 to a high-end Category 3 storm late in the day on 21 September 2026. An eye became apparent by the end of the animation (the overlapping Mesoscale Sectors ended at 0438 […]

As Trump continues to test the extent of his power,
systematically going after the most vulnerable population in our country, and those who defend them,
he is now pushing the limits to attorney ethics.
This flippant abuse of power and attacks to decades of precedent is putting bar licenses
and more importantly the lives of children at risk.
Unaccompanied migrant children arrive at our border alone, fleeing dangerous situations,
and remain one of the most…

HHS is Making it Impossible for Lawyers to Protect Immigrant Children (Or Their Own Bar Licenses)
The Trump administration’s attacks threaten children’s safety – and legal ethics.

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"Tori Tsui, stood alongside Andy Burnham last year on World Environment Day when the then Greater Manchester Mayor endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty proposal, calling it a “lifeline” to end coal, oil and gas. Today [Friday], her petition was sent to the Prime Minister urging him to stand by that commitment and reject Rosebank."
Stop fanning the flames of the #ClimateCrisis

Stop fanning the flames of the climate crisis, Mr PM!
11,000 campaigners call on the PM to “stop fanning the flames of the climate crisis” in petition stunt outside No. 10 North

Burnham government to aid Saudi air war against Yemenis.
Shameful. BBC showed families wh have fleed to camps in Djibouti.
Andy Burnham says UK to provide Saudi Arabia with 'defensive' support - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlykpe4dk0yo

Andy Burnham says UK to provide Saudi Arabia with 'defensive' support
The prime minister says "defensive air-to-air refuelling" is to be provided following a request from Saudi Arabia, after it faced attacks from the Houthis in Yemen.

When we encounter something that promises enjoyment or discovery, the brain’s reward system becomes active.
One important pathway runs from the ventral tegmental area,
a dopamine-producing region in the midbrain involved in motivation,
to the nucleus accumbens, a structure that helps generate feelings of reward.
Dopamine is often described as a pleasure chemical, but that is too simple.
One of its key roles is helping the brain identify opportunities worth pursu…

Why you keep buying books you don’t read – and why it feels so good
Why a pile of unread books is not stressful, yet a pile of unread emails is.

Since China offered a truce in the trade war last October following its threat to deprive the United States of rare-earth magnets,
the Trump administration has been happy to stop escalating.
After all, imports from China have been falling, down by 40% in the year to June, compared with the same period in 2024.
Best to declare victory and call it a day.
But the US hasn’t won this battle
– and there’s strong evidence to show it’s afraid to really try.
Last …

Is the US actually too chicken to take on China for trade?
A weak yuan guarantees Beijing massive trade surplus even as the White House tries tamp down on Chinese imports

For Donald Trump, it’s always personal.
And he leaves this week feeling betrayed.
First, the US supreme court rejected his effort to restrict mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
“These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court,”
the president wrote on his Truth Socialplatform. “They are merely a shell of their original selves.”
Then the Federal Reserve defied Trump by raising its benchmark interest rate by a quarte…

Trump’s authoritarian mindset can’t handle dissent from his appointees
Defiance from the supreme court and the Federal Reserve chair in one week ... how ever will the US president cope?