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Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans break with Trump on Epstein

Democrats are also seizing on an issue championed by the president’s base and nearly forced a vote Tuesday to take up the issue on the House floor.
Speaker Johnson said that Attorney General Pam Bondi
“needs to come forward and explain”
the confusion she has brewed after she said in interviews earlier this year that the
purported Epstein “client list” was sitting on her desk for review,

Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans break with Trump on Epstein
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that he supported the release of the Epstein files days after Trump’s Justice Department said the matter was effectively closed. Johnson is a close Trump ally and has never broken so publicly with the president on an issue.

Starz, which split from Lionsgate in May, reports Q2 revenue down 8% YoY to $319.7M, a net loss of $42.5M, and US streaming subscribers down 120K QoQ to 12.2M (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/starz-subscribers-earnings-q2-lio…

Starz Q2 Revenue Drop 8%, Streaming Subs Down After Lionsgate Split
Starz saw an 8% drop in revenue for its April 1-June 30 earnings, the now-standalone media company reported Thursday.

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Speaker Mike Johnson caught between lawmakers and Trump in GOP map fight (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/15/mike-johnson-redistricting-trump-house-speaker-texas-california/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p28#a250815p28

Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing with Subcarrier Power-Level Index Modulation for Integrated Sensing and Communications
Murat Temiz, Christos Masouros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10783

Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing with Subcarrier Power-Level Index Modulation for Integrated Sensing and Communications
This study proposes an index modulation (IM) technique for affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) signals and examines its communication and sensing performance toward integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. The power levels of subcarriers are utilized as modulation indices while also transmitting data symbols within each subcarrier. Thus, the proposed AFDM with subcarrier power-level index modulation (AFDM-PLIM) maintains all subcarriers active at all times to achieve a hig…

Ampd: South Korea's premium VOD revenue hit $1.1B in H1 2025, with paid subscriptions up 1.5M to 24.5M; Netflix has 8.2M subscribers and ~50% of the market (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/squid-game-netflix-korea-prem…

'Squid Game' 3 Drives Korea's $1.1 Billion VOD Market, Netflix Leads
Squid Game' Season 3 helps Netflix maintain dominance as Korea's premium streaming market reaches $1.1 billion with 24.5 million subscribers.

Pentagon pulls all military speakers from 'globalist' Aspen Security Forum (Jerry Dunleavy/Just The News)
https://justthenews.com/government/security/pentagon-pulls-all-military-speakers-globalist-aspen-security-forum
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p100#a250714p100

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House Republican hard-liners defy Trump, Speaker Johnson by crippling crypto measures (Reuters)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-republican-hard-liners-defy-trump-speaker-johnson/story?id=123780190
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p115#a250715p115

Q&A with independent journalist Molly White, who writes the tech and crypto newsletter Citation Needed, which has ~29K subscribers, including ~2,400 paid (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/independent-journali…

Independent journalist Molly White knows how to follow the memecoin
The cryptocurrency and tech newsletter Citation Needed is pay-what-you-want. White currently has about 29,000 subscribers including about 2,400 paid subscribers despite the lack of a paywall.