Tootfinder

📊 Measured tools/list payload: 10 tools 5,843 − 1,431 bytes (-75.5%), 40 tools 23,423 − 1,431 bytes (-93.9%), 100 tools 58,585 − 1,431 bytes (-97.6%). Rule of thumb: past 10-15 tools, a catalog pays off.
⚖️ Trade-off: search adds a round trip and batches have no loops or branching. Small servers with always-used tools should keep advertising directly; agents needing control flow still need a sandbox like

Trump Administration Moves to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forests (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/climate/trump-ends-roadless-rule-forests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6VA.QIuN.yHWFQcHIaYxq&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260818/p89#a260818p89

Trump Wants to Roll Back a Rule That Protects Drinking Water for 25 Million Americans
https://gizmodo.com/trump-wants-to-roll-back-a-rule-that-protects-drinking-water-for-25-million-americans-2000786848

Remember, the first rule of forklift safety is to have fun and be yourself!

lol @ gruber forgetting rule number one:
if you want it done right, do it yourself.
(thread is more eloquent than i am, addresses the text, &c.) https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/117111278095986201

Rams rule out Aaron Donald for Week 1 game vs. 49ers in Australia https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-rule-out-aaron-donald-week-1-game-49ers-australia

Folks tying their businesses to the APIs of Anthropic, OpenAI, etc., are this generation’s Twitter client developers.
(Maybe look into recent history to see what Twitter eventually did and what happened to them. Rule of thumb: an API key is a key to a door you don’t own whose lock can be changed at any time.)

New York City has adopted a new rule that bans companies from using deceptive subscriptions to trap customers into paying for gym memberships, streaming services and other recurring charges, the city’s consumer protection office said.
The new rule, which will start on 1 October, promises hefty fines and aggressive enforcement for violators.
Companies that do not provide a simple way to cancel could pay $525 per user subscription, back fees and additional fines.
The city is …

New York City seeks to implement ban on deceptive subscription practices
Rule from Mamdani administration would target streaming services, gym memberships and other recurring charges

And to be clear, I’m not excited about the possibility of all that violence. I don’t like living in a world where disputes get resolved by murder — even if it’s the murder of truly despicable people. I mean, I’d like to see these technofascists cut down to size just as much as anyone else, but I’d rather that happen in a way that is thoughtful and just. For all its flaws, I still prefer the rule of law, the rule of ever-less-violent social consensus over the rule of violence. I would rather live in a world where we are always making the structures of our society less violent, less coercive, and more just.
I want that. Alas, that is not the direction the world is heading.

Ooh, found my dad's slide rule; I guess I have to learn how to use it now!
#retrocomputing

OMB's New Proposed Rule Will Turn Federal Grants Personalist and Partisan (Chuck Babbage/Liberal Currents)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/ombs-new-proposed-rule-will-turn-federal-grants-personalist-and-partisan/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260716/p32#a260716p32

In #Jellyfin 10.11.11 I had some shows with S01E09a S01E09b etc that would show as alternates for the episode number, but In Jellyfin 12.0 the b (and c) episodes have vanished!
Is there a better rule for episodes occurring in stand-alone parts? These were for the 80's Twilight Zone that put 3 shorts into each week's episode.

Ever since Donald Trump returned to the White House, his administration has taken a sledgehammer to anti-corruption efforts, destroying policy after policy dedicated to preventing bribery and money laundering in the country. But this week brought the biggest blow yet: The Treasury has obliterated a recent rule to deter devious shell companies, handily reopening the American economy to anyone looking to hide their illicit wealth.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/corrupt-administration-shell-company-business-transparency/688274/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/117269649777256405
Good at generating code doesn't mean it's good at generating good code.
In the hand of someone who's both an expert programmer and an expert team manager (basically a unicorn person, few exist)—yes they can produce good code if herded enough. But that's an exception, not the rule.
We are seeing and will see gradual, accelerating worsening of code quality.

2026 NFL season primer: Rule changes, notable games and more things to know entering Week 1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-season-primer-what-to-know-entering-week-1…

Barrett Pall shows some problems we have with content theft and influence campaigns: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbmRIg2qknY/
Part of why non-centralized social media matter. Platforms owned by single-owners (like meta’s [facebook, instagram, threads, whatsapp, etc.], tiktok, twitter, etc.…

BARRETT PALL on Instagram: "It isn’t just #MEN that are stealing EVERYTHING from EVERYONE to sell you other peoples work, image, and reputation anymore. The goal is to get everyone doing this. We have to SLOW DOWN and rebuild our attention spans. Plz follow my 3 click rule. #women #womenempowerment #feminism #feminist"
112K likes, 1,976 comments - barrettpall on August 3, 2026: "It isn’t just #MEN that are stealing EVERYTHING from EVERYONE to sell you other peoples work, image, and reputation anymore. The goal is to get everyone doing this. We have to SLOW DOWN and rebuild our attention spans. Plz follow my 3 click rule. #women #womenempowerment #feminism #feminist".

UN urges support for Afghan women’s aid five years into Taliban rule | Women's Rights News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/15/un-urges-support-for-afghan-womens-aid-five-years-into-taliban-rule

Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says Services surpassed 1.5B paid subscriptions, up from 1B in January 2025, but a gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt growth (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/apple-says-gaming-sl…

Apple says gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt services growth | TechCrunch
Apple said a slowdown in mobile gaming and changes to the App Store’s business model — including court-ordered payment rule changes in the U.S. — weighed on its services business, even as the company topped 1.5 billion paid subscriptions.

Rebel Democrats again help House GOP advance floor agenda (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/15/golden-gluesenkamp-perez-rule-vote-01078189
http://www.memeorandum.com/260915/p154#a260915p154

Golden rule of threat hunting:90% of what you find is IoT devices and admins doing something weird - Matthew Gracie at #BlueTeamCon https://github.com/InfosecGoon/StandardForPlaybooks

Beyond headcount and human capital: The Effective Cognitive Population as a decomposable capacity unit for AI-era planning
Kwan Soo Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09642 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.09642 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.09642
arXiv:2608.09642v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: National planning counts population, human capital, and artificial-intelligence preparedness in separate ledgers. Demographic accounting has advanced from headcount to skills-adjusted stocks and still debates how much age structure retains once skills are modeled, yet no existing unit carries the conditions under which preparedness becomes productive capacity. This study introduces the Effective Cognitive Population (ECP), a decomposable unit that weights population by capability and by the conditions under which capability is deployed, anchored to the World Bank Human Capital Index Plus (HCI ) and the non-overlapping dimensions of the IMF AI Preparedness Index. The architecture is portable in principle; the case tested here is artificial intelligence, which has a published preparedness index. For 144 countries, HCI becomes a productivity level, AI opportunity uses digital infrastructure and innovation integration, conversion governance uses regulation and ethics, and the benchmark is ECP = N H(1 AC). Against 2024 total output on identical population bases, ECP raises criterion R-squared from 0.849 for the HCI -adjusted stock to 0.882 and lowers leave-one-country-out RMSE from 0.723 to 0.641, with the working-age comparison identical and bootstrap intervals excluding zero. Eighty-nine of 144 countries move at least ten rank positions from headcount, mostly through the human-capital adjustment itself. Results are stable across denominators, vintages, aggregation forms, and a 27-rule multiverse. The direct A by C interaction is not statistically supported, so the conjunction is a planning rule rather than causal complementarity. ECP is a diagnostic ledger whose scope excludes forecasts of population decline and estimates of AI's causal productivity effect.
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➡️ Cycling Safety at Intersections: My Rule for When the Driver Has a Stop Sign
#bookmarks

This is how the rule of law dies
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/politics/fbi-ice-agents-investigations-shootings.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y1A.aLnf.Rl0wNtaiWohG&a…

Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.

More #emf #emfcamp #emf2026 photos.
Edit: This was meant to be a reply to the first post here:

This great piece by Ellen Nakashima and Amy B Wang suggests that the blame for the water system attacks be placed on the Republican governors who blocked the EPA from implementing cybersecurity requirements.
"Had the EPA rule been in place, some experts say, the Arkansas utility or others like it might have been spared."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/10/us-water-systems-are-low-hanging-fruit-cyberattacks-experts-warn-after-suspected-iranian-hacks/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Biffy Clyro:
🎵 Golden (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 18 September 2025)
#BiffyClyro
https://reubzen.bandcamp.com/track/biffy-clyro-that-golden-rule-8-bit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5W2qdWVMLheEl0nLnQktuW

Bakers and florists and all those folks that like to do this aren't channeling the Golden Rule, for sure.
Pastor files discrimination lawsuit after losing library job over pronouns
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/pastor-files-discrimination-lawsuit

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lenny Kravitz:
🎵 Let Love Rule
#LennyKravitz
https://wearethe28th.bandcamp.com/track/let-love-rule-cover-lenny-kravitz
https://open.spotify.com/track/2pmN85k5m9nO1rWaCDdrNE

Supreme Court strikes down USPS mail-in voting rule (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/14/supreme-court-trump-mail-in-voting-rule
http://www.memeorandum.com/260915/p3#a260915p3

In its latest move to restrict the legal immigration system,
the Trump administration announced a sweeping change Monday that could lead to the
deportations of thousands of asylum seekers.
The change from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
💥allows asylum officers to bypass the need to interview certain applicants
👉 and instead refer them directly to immigration judges for removal proceedings.
🔥The agency estimates that up to a third, or 444,000 of…

New federal rule sends hundreds of thousands of asylum cases to immigration courts
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services estimates that up to 444,000 of the more than 1.4 million asylum cases in its backlog could be affected by the rule.

RE: https://mastodon.uno/@amministratore/116967326136690873
Looks like there’s a Mastodon identity verification scam going around.
Good rule of thumb: if a web site asks you to verify your identity, you close that browser tab.
The scam lett…

Alito, Thomas stand by Trump mail voting rule the rest of Supreme Court rejected (Andrew Childers/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/alito-thomas-stand-by-trump-mail-voting-rule-the-rest-of-supreme-court-rejected/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260914/p138#a260914p138

Alito and Thomas dissented, of course.
Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to lift block on mail-in ballots rule
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/supreme-court-trump-mail-ballots-midterms.html

New rule: if you're going to complain about AI you have to talk about something you've created first.

Breaking: Supreme Court, with Justices Thomas and Alito Publicly Dissenting, Continue Block on USPS Rule Through the Midterm Elections [Now Updated with Analysis] (Rick Hasen/Election Law Blog)
https://electionlawblog.org/2026/breaking-supreme-court-with-justices-thomas-and-alito-publicly-dissenting-continue-block-on-usps-rule-through-the-midterm-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260914/p142#a260914p142

Shein's IPO prospectus shows Q1 revenue of $9.05B, up 1% YoY, as it swings from $395M profit in Q1 2025 to $99M loss partly due to US' "de minimis" rule removal (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/sh…

A search sent me to Kung Fury's subreddit and the rules cracked me up, specially since there is only one rule:
#kungFury #AI

The Grandmaster's Palace is a bit of a mixed bag. But it's interesting for the extraordinary wealth the Hospitallers commanded for much of their rule.

Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to lift block on mail-in ballots rule (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/supreme-court-trump-mail-ballots-midterms.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260914/p130#a260914p130

ScoreField: Neural Inverse Scattering with Score-Based Generative Priors
Wenhan Guo, Yuan Gao, Yu Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02937 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.02937 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.02937
arXiv:2608.02937v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Designing an effective electromagnetic inverse-scattering solver requires faithful enforcement of nonlinear full-wave physics together with an expressive prior on the unknown permittivity contrast. We propose ScoreField, a neural inverse scattering framework that integrates coupled implicit neural representations (INRs) with a pretrained score-based generative prior. ScoreField employs two INRs to parameterize the permittivity contrast and the induced current fields, and jointly optimize them under the Lippmann-Schwinger equations. In addition to the implicit regularization by the INR architecture, the score model provides a learned prior gradient on the contrast, which is propagated to the contrast INR through the chain rule. This formulation enables ScoreField to effectively handle strong multiple scattering, where nonlinear wave interactions require accurate modeling of the coupled full-wave physics. We evaluate ScoreField on simulated weak- and strong-scattering benchmarks, the canonical Austria phantom, and experimental Fresnel measurements. We note that ScoreField significantly improves reconstruction fidelity and suppresses artifacts relative to classical full-wave methods and deep learning baselines, achieving an average PSNR improvement of $1.8 \, \mathrm{dB}$ over the best competing method on real Fresnel data.
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What is the rule determining where you can find the previously used app on the iPhone when switching apps?
I expect it to always be at the left but that is definitely not *always* the case.

Trump’s proposed anti-trans gun rule suddenly had thousands of new supporters. Most were bots;
Assigned Media investigation finds that 96 percent of comments supporting a proposed anti-trans gun rule showed signs of being machine-generated. | Advocate.com
https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-transgender-gun-rule-bots?0#toggle-gdpr

New York City leads lawsuit against Trump's 'public charge' immigration rule (Joe Anuta/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/14/new-york-city-leads-lawsuit-against-trumps-public-charge-immigration-rule-01074188
http://www.memeorandum.com/260914/p70#a260914p70

oh look, the future of the USA.
"Nicaragua's President Ortega says no more elections, extending his 20-year rule"
#uspoli #fascism #democracy
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/21/nx-s1-5902228/nicaragua-ortega-no-elections

Build-Authorized Evidence for Opaque Calls: A Fail-Closed Rewrite-Authority Boundary
Zhonghua Yi (Toka Language Research Group)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18949 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18949 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18949
arXiv:2607.18949v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Detached semantic facts about opaque native providers do not by themselves justify compiler rewrites: rewrite authority must be confined to the accepted fact, selected provider and build, caller, callback environment, observation, and runtime target. We present a build-authorized path-effect interface that enforces this boundary through fail-closed authorization and link receipts. The design separates receipt closure, callback-environment closure, and projection identity, and passes accepted facts to LLVM through a narrow internal API. We use one-hop topology-load reuse as a minimal observable witness of authority, not as the optimization target.
A conservative LLVM consumer reuses a pointer observation only from a noalias root or one constant nonzero projection. Rocq models prove conditional refinement and authority non-amplification under explicit effect, alias, compiler/ABI, and target-resolution premises. We instantiate checked production with Toka: a source-summary gate emits exact LLVM IR, a separate IR checker accepts only a bounded topology-preserving subset, and only accepted IR is compiled into the receipt-bound provider object. A bounded static Darwin/arm64 profile also checks the final direct branch target.
Across issuer-declared readv, recvmsg, and Cairo boundaries, authorized IR retains each opaque call, reduces the relevant loads from two to one, and preserves observed results; mismatched providers, builds, callbacks, projections, and unsupported IR remain neutral. A libjpeg case is rejected because its callback environment is open, while a bound callback singleton demonstrates the supported closure rule. The contribution is a checked deployment-compiler boundary with an explicit trust and applicability frontier, not a uniquely expressive effect encoding or a new load-elimination algorithm.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117032211410803941
So anyway, who here wants to make a macOS Mail app plugin or AppleScript rule extension to automatically make icons (company logos and maybe gravatars) for mails? 😅
(I don't get why Mail app doesn't have something for this built-in.)

READ: A New Draft Rule for the Census Seeks Sweeping Changes to How Political Power Is Allocated (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/read-a-new-draft-rule-for-the-census-seeks-sweeping-changes-to-how-political-power-is-allocated
http://www.memeorandum.com/260811/p96#a260811p96

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116800069685944016
When you’re young (and maybe not just then), everything that happened before you were born happened in “the distant past,” which is all approximately the same time.
I remember at the age of 6 or so thinking about how I was born in ’76, so my parents lived before ’76, so what was it like for them living under British rule? It took me a good few minutes to figure out the catch.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #BBCProms
Thomas Arne, Nicky Spence, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo, BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Singers:
🎵 Rule, Britannia
#ThomasArne #NickySpence #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #SakariOramo #BBCSymphonyChorus #BBCSingers

Medicaid Work Rule Leaves Homeless People in the Cold - Cobb Courier
https://cobbcountycourier.com/2026/08/medicaid-work-rule-leaves-homeless-people-in-the-cold/

I've started to implement a pretty stringent "if you reply to my post but you couldn't be bothered to read my post first I will block you" rule.
It took a while but it really cuts down on unwanted and unhinged replies.

Breaking: Trump DOJ Goes to First Circuit Seeking to Overturn Preliminary Injunction Blocking USPS Mail-in Voting Rule - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/2026/breaking-trump-doj-goes-to-first-circuit-seeking-to-overturn-preliminary-injunction-blocking-usps-mail-in-voting-rule/

Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's first leader under Chinese rule, dies at 89 (James Pomfret/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/tung-chee-hwa-hong-kongs-first-leader-under-chinese-rule-dies-89-2026-09-08/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260908/p91#a260908p91

New on #blog: "How hard is it to get a jobserver client right?"
"""
In November 2025, I’ve started working on #steve, the #jobserver for #Gentoo. I wrote about it already, in the “One jobserver to rule them all” post. Back then, my main focus was on the motivation for a system-wide jobserver, and the technical details of getting it working. I have also mentioned a few client bugs we’ve discovered along the way.
Since then, we’ve found a few more bugs, as well as problematic design patterns. I think they’re kind of interesting, so I’ve decided to dedicate this post specifically to them. As a disclaimer, my aim is not to pick on specific projects; I’m bringing them up as real examples of what we’ve hit, and how that impacts jobserver operation.
"""
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/09/02/how-hard-is-it-to-get-a-jobserver-client-right/

WA attorney general leads coalition opposing USPS proposed rule restricting mail-in ballots – KIRO 7 News Seattle
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/wa-attorney-general-leads-coalition-opposing-usps-proposed-rule-restricting-mail-in-ballots/XGR7R7WAZ5GDNB5TAV7DFG56IA/

Smithsonian's Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/arts/design/smithsonian-secretary-lonnie-bunch-resigns.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260908/p76#a260908p76

I just released ptrclassify is a small, dependency-free Python library and CLI that infers likely IP usage from reverse-DNS PTR hostnames.
It is intentionally heuristic and multi-label. PTR naming is operator-controlled and is not authoritative evidence of how an address is actually used. The output therefore includes a confidence score, the text that matched, and the rule IDs that produced each label.
To summarize, the library is trying to guess usage (and a bit location) of an IP address based on its PTR records. It's based on a set of rules which can be updated easily.
#osint #cybersecurity #ptrclassify #opensource #dns
https://github.com/adulau/ptrclassify
module https://pypi.org/project/ptrclassify/

“Election Officials Warn It Could Take Years to Send Out Mail Ballots Under New USPS Rule” - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/2026/election-officials-warn-it-could-take-years-to-send-out-mail-ballots-under-new-usps-rule/

How radical environmentalists turned your retirement account into climate collateral (Wayne Christian/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4677310/sec-climate-disclosure-rule-repeal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260806/p56#a260806p56

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Ja Rule feat. Bobby Brown:
🎵 Thug Lovin'
#JaRule #BobbyBrown
https://staceystonebeats.bandcamp.com/track/ja-rule-ft-bobby-brown-thug-lovin-intro-clean-93-track-48
https://open.spotify.com/track/23L74esErcn5KvWFY0ZAqS

A new US rule to restrict student visas will hurt the US economy | PIIE
https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2026/new-us-rule-restrict-student-visas-will-hurt-us-economy

Federal workers sue over rule barring gender-affirming care coverage (Julianne McShane/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/federal-workers-sue-over-rule-gender-affirming-care
http://www.memeorandum.com/260803/p75#a260803p75

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Ja Rule:
🎵 Always On Time (feat. Ashanti)
#JaRule
https://djwhatsnext.bandcamp.com/track/ashanti-ft-ja-rule-always-on-time-disco-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2hNf1rawV2XAZ6Jld2Fxwf

Mamdani can't even get City Hall to stick to his 78-degree AC rule -- as temps in building hit as low as 54 (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/07/02/us-news/mamdani-cant-even-get-city-hall-to-stick-to-his-78-degree-ac-rule-as-temps-in-building-hit-as-low-as-54/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260703/p46#a260703p46

Trump Jr.'s 'Amazon of guns' could make millions under new proposed firearm rule (Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-jrs-amazon-guns-could-make-millions-under-new-proposed-firearm-rule-2026-07-02/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260703/p12#a260703p12

**BREAKING: The USPS rule is blocked again** - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/2026/breaking-the-usps-rule-is-blocked-again/

Handoffs drool, meetings rule. To fully realize our design vision we MUST coordinate with other people, and therefore deliberately design our meetings to be effective. But instead we are ceding the influence that meetings give us, to focus on LLM-powered solipsism.
#tech #UXDesign #SoftwareDevelopment #AI #LLM #UX #design

Judges Strike Down Trump Rule on Loan Forgiveness for Public Servants - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/business/trump-student-loan-forgiveness.html

Court Halts Pentagon Rule Requiring Escorts for Journalists (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/business/media/pentagon-journalists-escort-rule.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260630/p126#a260630p126

"Under a new rule, even being under hospice care won't automatically exempt you from the new Medicaid work requirements."
Trump Admin: 'Nearly Dead' No Excuse For Not Working For Your Medicaid
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-admin-nearly-dead-no-excuse

Jack Smith says rule of law under unprecedented attack in first TV interview since resignation (Sydney Carruth/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/jack-smith-doj-trump-defends-investigations
http://www.memeorandum.com/260702/p96#a260702p96

DoorDash is selling out D.C. over a 20-cent delivery tax
https://www.ms.now/opinion/doordash-dc-fee-home-rule

Postal Service Rule Could Bar Millions From Voting By Mail (Reid J. Epstein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/us/politics/mail-voting-trump-midterms-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9VA.up4T.OZwQGgb-H_eR&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260830/p6#a260830p6

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Thomas Arne, Sarah Walker, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Vernon Handley:
🎵 Rule! Britannia (Last Night of the Proms 1985)
#ThomasArne #SarahWalker #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #VernonHandley

"As Octavia Butler said: “To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.” The fool here is Trump. The opportunist here is Vought."
Russell Vought’s Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify You | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/russell-vought-omb-grant-rule/

Senate GOP close to cutting deal to avoid shutdown (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6001064-senate-funding-deal-omb-rule/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260731/p62#a260731p62

"these voters “very explicitly do not want majority rule. They want minority rule.” The study found that they viewed Democrats as immoral because of issues like supporting racial diversity, backing LGBTQ rights, believing in feminism and opposing the imposition of Christianity on society. They feel frustrated by ... young people overwhelmingly turning away from these values."
'I would rather die': Inside the politics of spite driving Trump voters - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-supporters-2677106031/

Johnson-backed plan to combine Pentagon and election bills advances to floor (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/29/congress/ndaa-save-america-rule-00981399
http://www.memeorandum.com/260629/p146#a260629p146

Federal judge blocks mail-in voting rule in Washington state | The Olympian
https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article316290571.html

House conservatives block rule advancing NDAA over SAVE America Act (Sudiksha Kochi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5947441-save-america-act-stalled/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260630/p89#a260630p89

Asylum seekers could be sent directly to deportation under new federal rule (Maria Sacchetti/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/07/28/asylum-seekers-could-be-sent-directly-deportation-under-new-federal-rule/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260728/p58#a260728p58

Trump Administration Seeks Supreme Court Stay of Lower Court Order Stopping USPS from Moving Forward with Rule to Limit the Delivery of Mail Ballots; Issue is Whether the Lower Court's Order was Premature - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157634

Duffy announces emergency shutdown of 110 driving schools over English proficiency rule (Max Rego/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/6061278-dot-shuts-driving-schools/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260831/p72#a260831p72

"The proposal would restrict international collaboration and give political appointees the ability to decide the most important research to fund, and the power to pull the plug at any time, for any reason."
Trump admin could shut US scientists out of Nobel-worthy discovery with new rule - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/how-the-trump-admin-could-shut-u-s-scientists-out-of-the-next-nobel-worthy-discovery/

US Postal Service rule tightens mail-in voting despite court orders blocking changes | US voting rights | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/21/us-postal-service-mail-in-voter-rule

Breaking: USPS Issues Final Rule on Handling Mail Ballots Following Trump's Mail-In Executive Order; Federal Government Says In Court Filings It Cannot Enforce It with Two Injunctions Against It in Place: What It Means for Pending Supreme Court Stay Request - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/2026/breaking-usps-issues-final-rule-on-handling-mail-ballots-following-trumps-mail-in-executive-order-federal-government-says-in-court-filings-it-cannot-enforce-it-with-two-injunctions-against-it-in-p/

Postal Service Publishes Finalized Plan to Restrict Mail Ballots (Adam Sella/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/postal-service-rule-restrict-mail-ballots.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7VA._8B7.K0UKuFnJ2AzL&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260821/p133#a260821p133

Court must enforce injunction blocking USPS from finalizing rule restricting mail voting, says voting rights groups (Brentin Mock/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/court-must-enforce-injunction-blocking-usps-from-finalizing-rule-restricting-mail-voting-says-voting-rights-groups/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260823/p33#a260823p33

Blessed be the rule of law.
DOJ Loses Appeal To Enact Trump's Mail Voting Edict - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/07/doj-loses-appeal-to-enact-trumps-mail-voting-edict/

US unions sue over new visa rule for foreign students, journalists | Politics News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/19/us-unions-sue-over-new-visa-rule-for-foreign-students-journalists?traffic_source=rss

'Explosive Diarrhea': Company Tied to Outbreak Donated to Trump as He Delayed Food Safety Rule (Prem Thakker/Zeteo)
https://zeteo.com/p/taylor-farms-trump-donations-explosive-diarrhea
http://www.memeorandum.com/260723/p132#a260723p132

US Postal Service issues rule to tighten requirements for mail-in voting despite courts looking to block (Mira Bhakta/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6045248-usps-mail-in-voting-guidelines-tighten/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260822/p48#a260822p48

Trump administration moves ahead to end roadless rule on national forests (Susan Montoya Bryan/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/roadless-rule-forests-trump-e80a41e0231aa070313a3484261368f3
http://www.memeorandum.com/260818/p106#a260818p106

Nicaragua's President Ortega moves to extend his 20-year rule and says no elections anytime soon (Anna-Catherine Brigida/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/07/20/nicaragua-elections-ortega-rosario-murillo-sandinist/6cc00576-848f-11f1-9cec-0fb26676f07e_story.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260721/p161#a260721p161

Trump "public charge" rule resets health test for green cards (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/public-charge-health-test-green-cards
http://www.memeorandum.com/260721/p13#a260721p13