XCures, which uses AI to streamline patient data and medical records, raised a $46M Series B at a $127M post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $76M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/xcures-lands-seriesb-medical-re…
The Trump administration is taking its war on free speech into the realm of thought crimes.
This is more than politics.
In declaring “Antifa”
—a loose ideology based on opposition to fascism
—as a domestic terrorist organization,
the government has given itself a green light to treat speech, belief, and association as criminal acts.
With this one executive order,
political dissent has been rebranded as terrorism and free thought recast as a crime.
Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold (David Remnick/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/06/chronicle-of-a-disaster-foretold?currentPage=all
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p54#a260623p54
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Die Vorstellung, dass finanzielle Unterstützung für Unternehmen in der Schweiz im Krisenfall ein staatlicher Gnadensakt ist, stellt das überarbeitete Epidemiegesetz auf schwache Beine.
https://batz.ch/2026/06/ein-epidemieng
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Parl. Staatssekretär BMZ
Matthias Ristau
Deutsche Seemannsmission
Wiebke Petersen
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Supreme Court rules border agents can deny green card holders reentry into US if they are charged with crimes (Hannah Nightingale/The Post Millennial)
https://thepostmillennial.com/supreme-court-rules-border-agents-can-deny-green-card-holders-reentry-into-us-if-they-are-charged-with-crimes
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p70#a260623p70
How the global memory chip crunch, driven by AI demand, is hurting China's car industry, squeezing automakers already hit by a price war and razor-thin margins (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/automobiles/from-by…
RunPod, which rents access to non-Nvidia servers, raised $100M led by Summit Partners at a $1B valuation, a source says up from $100M after its seed in 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cl