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A look at the threats and harassment local reporters covering US extremism face and the importance of coverage of how extremists interact with their communities (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/local-reporters-dangers…

How Local Reporters Manage the Dangers of Covering Extremism
The extremism beat has gone mainstream—but in local markets, it’s still intensely personal.

(2020) Want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local #environment

You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local
“Eat local” is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet. How does the impact of what you eat compare to where it's come from?

Justin Sun-linked BiT Global dismisses with prejudice its lawsuit against Coinbase for delisting wBTC; the delisting followed Coinbase launching rival cbBTC (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/06/07…

Coinbase, BiT Global End Legal Fight Over WBTC Delisting
BiT Global agreed to dismiss its lawsuit against Coinbase, with each party covering its own legal expenses.

"U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) said that he and his federal counterparts are being barred from entering the downtown Los Angeles facility in which people who were detained are believed to be held. "
Local congressman on L.A. ICE raids: ‘This administration is operating outside the bounds of the law’  | KTLA
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/local-congressman-on-l-a-ice-raids-this-administration-is-operating-outside-the-bounds-of-the-law/

Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems that could enable local attackers to escalate their privileges to root on susceptible machines.
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Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros
Two critical vulnerabilities in Sudo command-line tool allow privilege escalation for local attackers on Linux systems

Texas Democrats had been out of state for less than 48 hours when Gov. Greg Abbott moved to have their seats declared vacant.
The emergency legal filing represents an unprecedented escalation of Abbott’s effort to pass a new congressional map that adds additional GOP seats -- as demanded by Donald Trump.
It flies in the face of Texas’ own founding documents,
centuries of legal precedent
and a recent Supreme Court of Texas ruling, legal experts say.
Even Attorney G…

Abbott’s bid to expel the House Democratic leader goes to a court filled with his appointees
The Texas Supreme Court said in 2021 the Constitution allows members to thwart legislation by leaving the state. Abbott wants them to reconsider.

On the Isomorphism Relation for Omnigenous Locally Finite Groups
Su Gao, Feng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03907 https://arxiv.org/p…

On the Isomorphism Relation for Omnigenous Locally Finite Groups
The concept of an omnigenous locally finite group was introduced in [2] as a generalization of Hall's universal countable locally finite group. In this paper we show that the class of all countable omnigenous locally finite groups is Borel complete, hence it has the maximum Borel cardinality of isomorphism types among all countable structures. [2] M. Etedadialiabadi, S. Gao, F. Le Maître, J. Melleray, Dense locally finite subgroups of automorphism groups of ultraextensive spaces, Adv. Math. …

England’s swimming waters five times more likely to be polluted than in EU, research finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/08/englands-swimming-waters-five-times-more-likely-to-be-polluted…

Despite legal rulings, California school district tries to revive Christian prayers at meetings
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/despite-legal-rulings-california