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Photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested in November while documenting a protest in Miami, Florida.
A coalition of 23 press organizations spoke out against the charges
— and this week the prosecutor agreed❗️
The following statement can be attributed to Adam Rose, deputy director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“I hope law enforcement officers take this to heart: Swearing an oath to protect the community means protecting everyone — including pre…

Florida prosecutor agrees: Photography is not a crime
A coalition of 23 press organizations spoke out against the charges — the prosecutor agreed

Canada's financial crime watchdog fines crypto exchange Cryptomus a record ~$126M for infractions including failing to flag suspicious transactions (Canadian Press)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cryptomus-fined-177-million-fintrac-9.6948338

Crypto exchange Cryptomus fined record $177M by Canada's financial crime watchdog | CBC News
A cryptocurrency exchange has been slapped with a fine of almost $177 million — the largest-ever penalty by Canada's financial intelligence agency — for infractions including failing to flag more than 1,000 transactions with suspected links to criminal activity.

Chornobyl protective structure could collapse following Russian strikes, plant director warns: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/chornobyl-protective-structure-could-collapse.html

Senate Republicans considering bill to keep SNAP benefits flowing amid the shutdown (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/22/congress/senate-republicans-josh-hawley-bill-snap-benefits-food-aid-shutdown-00619377
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p151#a251023p151

Spoiler: it's not by increasing GST
Australia’s health system is in intensive care
#Health

Australia’s health system is in intensive care
GST revenue is failing to keep up with the demands of our health system. There is a simple solution if government is brave enough to take it.

hanukkah’s grotesque aftermath

A General Many-Body Perturbation Framework for Moir\'e Systems: Application to Rhombohedral Pentalayer Graphene/hBN Heterostructures
Xin Lu, Yuanfan Yang, Zhongqing Guo, Jianpeng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19764

A General Many-Body Perturbation Framework for Moiré Systems: Application to Rhombohedral Pentalayer Graphene/hBN Heterostructures
Moiré superlattices host a rich variety of correlated topological states, including interaction-driven integer and fractional Chern insulators. A common approach to study interacting ground states at integer fillings is the Hartree-Fock mean-field method. However, this method neglects dynamical correlations, which often leads to an overestimation of spontaneous symmetry breaking and fails to provide quantitative descriptions of single-particle excitations. This work introduces a general many-b…

Response to President Trump’s Unauthorized Use of “Danger Zone”
Late Saturday, Oct. 18, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social account that portrayed him dumping brown sludge on a crowd of protesters while wearing a crown and flying overhead in a jet labeled “King Trump.”
The music accompanying the video clip was Kenny Loggins’ hit recording “Danger Zone,” from the 1986 motion picture Top Gun (it was also used in the 2022 sequel Top Gun: Maverick).
 

Response to President Trump’s Unauthorized Use of “Danger Zone” - Kenny Loggins
Late Saturday, Oct. 18, President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social account that portrayed him dumping brown sludge on a crowd of protesters while wearing a crown and flying overhead in a jet labeled “King Trump.” The music accompanying the video clip was Kenny Loggins’ hit recording “Danger Zone,” from the …

Tokyo-based Sakana AI becomes Japan's most valuable unicorn at a ~$2.6B valuation, following a ~$130M raise from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial and US VC firms (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/a…

Sakana AI takes crown as Japan's most valuable unicorn
AI developer valued at $2.63bn in latest funding round

So the US had a huge case using high-level informants.
Bukele wanted back 9 informants who could expose his govt's deals with that same gang to lower the level of violence,
fueling his image as a crime-fighter.
That Rubio made a deal was known.
That he reneged on informants was not.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders (@profsaunders.bsky.social)
So the US had a huge case using high-level informants. Bukele wanted back 9 informants who could expose his govt's deals with that same gang to lower the level of violence, fueling his image as a crime-fighter. That Rubio made a deal was known. That he reneged on informants was not.