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Immigration protests last overnight in Los Angeles following surprise ICE detainments
Protests lasted through the night in Los Angeles after ICE conducted surprise immigration operations on Friday.
https://www.cbsnews.com/los…

The IRS said in a new court filing that clergy and houses of worship should be allowed to make political endorsements,
-- abandoning an 71-year-old tax policy that banned the mixing of religion and politics.

Nonprofits should be allowed to make political endorsements and not lose their tax exemption,
the IRS said in the court filing.
Religious congregations, the filing said, are like families and communication between them should not be deemed “participation” in a ca…

IRS: Churches should be allowed to make political endorsements
Since 1954, the IRS has banned nonprofits — including congregations — from participating in political campaigns. The agency now says political endorsements by churches should be allowed.

This still nauseates me.
☑️ Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/

Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss
The billionaire GOP donor, the biggest backer of Elon Musk’s attempted Twitter takeover, participated along with Fox’s Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participant.

Right now there's an ACM design technology conference happening with hundreds of people flying in to a conference facility on a remote island to discuss the conference theme of how to make their work more sustainable. In-person participation only.

FCBV-Net: Category-Level Robotic Garment Smoothing via Feature-Conditioned Bimanual Value Prediction
Mohammed Daba, Jing Qiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05153 https://

FCBV-Net: Category-Level Robotic Garment Smoothing via Feature-Conditioned Bimanual Value Prediction
Category-level generalization for robotic garment manipulation, such as bimanual smoothing, remains a significant hurdle due to high dimensionality, complex dynamics, and intra-category variations. Current approaches often struggle, either overfitting with concurrently learned visual features for a specific instance or, despite category-level perceptual generalization, failing to predict the value of synergistic bimanual actions. We propose the Feature-Conditioned Bimanual Value Network (FCBV-N…

Transient segregation of bi-disperse granular mixtures in a periodic chute flow
Soniya Kumawat, Vishnu Kumar Sahu, Anurag Tripathi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04025

Transient segregation of bi-disperse granular mixtures in a periodic chute flow
Transient size segregation of a bi-disperse granular mixture flowing over a periodic chute is studied using the Discrete Element Method and continuum simulations. A recently developed particle force-based size segregation model is used to predict the time-dependent flow properties of binary mixtures starting from rest. A two-way coupled continuum model that solves the momentum balance and convection-diffusion equations by incorporating the mixture segregation model along with the generalized in…

On Friday, Trump’s border czar,
Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles
to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city.
“We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what?
We are already mobilizing.
We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,”
Homan told Fox News.
California Governor Gavin Newsom respo…

LA protests live: National Guard to arrive within 24 hours after being deployed by Trump over immigration demos
Demonstrators clash with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in hours-long stand-off

The United Nations General Assembly will convene its September session in Geneva instead of New York,
following the United States’ refusal to grant entry visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and dozens of senior Palestinian officials
President Abbas is expected to address the Assembly in Geneva,
where he will call for international protection, recognition of Palestinian sovereignty,
and accountability for war crimes.
The Geneva session is expected to amp…

UN Assembly Moves to Geneva After U.S. Bars Palestinian Delegation | – IMEMC News
The United Nations General Assembly will convene its September session in Geneva instead of New York, following the United States’ refusal to grant entry visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abba…

Bernie Sanders warned of the US’s slide into authoritarianism
following Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the national guard to Los Angeles over the city’s protests against federal immigration raids.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…