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The Republican Party Is Fracturing Over Trump's Labor Agenda (Jade Lozada/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/economy/republican-party-trump-labor-agenda
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p18#a251217p18

"German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers"
https://www.theguardian.com/world…

#Entropia #Karlsruhe
Hallo zusammen,
am 23.11. (So) um 18:00 hält TM einen Talk mit anschl. Workshop zum Thema "Build your own cloud-based Werbeblocker" (Abstract und Workshop-Details:

BBC News hires Lindsay McIntosh, previously Head of News at The Sunday Times, as its Executive News Editor (BBC Press Office on LinkedIn)
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7407013484615409664

We are delighted to announce Lindsay McIntosh as the new Executive News Editor, BBC News.    As Executive News Editor, Lindsay will be at the heart of the BBC newsroom – driving the BBC’s editorial… | BBC Press Office
We are delighted to announce Lindsay McIntosh as the new Executive News Editor, BBC News.    As Executive News Editor, Lindsay will be at the heart of the BBC newsroom – driving the BBC’s editorial agenda and working across BBC News to ensure we continue to deliver high quality, distinctive news across our platforms.   Lindsay joins us from The Sunday Times where she is currently the Head of News and oversees its award-winning political and investigative journalism across digital and pr…

#phpugmrn meetup on Dec 11th - save the date!
We have scheduled talks abot HTMX & PHP 8.5. Do not miss!
Sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/phpug-rhein-neckar/events/30547833…

PHPUGMRN 06/25, Thu, Dec 11, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Agenda:** 19:00 CET - Doors open 19:30 CET - Intro 19:45 CET - Create reactive web applications with (almost) no JavaScript (HTMX), Thomas Bley 20:30 CET - Break 20:45 CE

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115894798045761296
It should be noted that Ted Nelson here has a bit of a naive viewpoint, as the reasons for how a machine is designed and why it exists are because people made it and people literally always have an agenda.
In other words, a machine exists because it does something that a person actively decided it should—it is the embodiment of non-neutrality.

How David Sacks and AI adviser Sriram Krishnan overcame the opposition to Trump's AI EO, reaching out to lawmakers and finally modifying the text of the order (Washington Post)

How Trump’s tech advisers overcame a MAGA rebellion over AI
President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting states’ power to regulate AI split his supporters and highlighted Silicon Valley’s growing influence over his agenda.

Hightech-Agenda: Merz fordert Schulterschluss für technologische Souveränität
Deutschland muss Innovationsführer werden, betont der Kanzler. Die Hightech-Agenda fokussiere auf Schlüsseltechnologien, um sie auf Wertschöpfung auszurichten.

"Less arguing, more action: will Brazil’s unorthodox approach to Cop30 work?"
#Brazil #COP30 #ClimateSummit

A federal court in Maryland has ordered the release of
Kilmar Ábrego García from ICE custody on Thursday,
and he will be advised on his release conditions in his separate Tennessee criminal case.
The case of Ábrego, a Salvadorian national who was a construction worker in Maryland,
has become a proxy for the partisan struggle over Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration policy and mass deportation agenda.
Trump administration officials have waged a relentless public …

"Nederland liet zich voor karretje Microsoft spannen"
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/11/13/nederland-liet-zich-voor-het-karretje…

‘Nederland liet zich voor het karretje van Microsoft spannen’
Jochem de Groot | Ex-lobbyist Microsoft: Microsoft benadert landen alsof die hun natuurlijke partner zijn. Nederland is gevoelig voor deze benadering en voert ongewild de agenda van Microsoft uit. Inmiddels behoort het tot de beste Microsoftklanten wereldwijd. „We zijn mentaal gekoloniseerd.”

Conservative Warning To Judges: Get On Board With Trump's Agenda Or Get Impeached - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/11/conservative-warning-to-judges-get-on-board-with-trumps-agenda-or-get-impeached/

WATCH: Hidden camera catches red-state university admins admitting how they 'cleverly' disguised DEI agenda (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watch-hidden-camera-catches-red-state-university-admins-admitting-how-they-cleverly-disguised-dei-agenda
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p75#a251112p75

"But they stop short of examining the forces that may be actually driving the minerals agenda: tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, who see Greenland not just as a source of rare earths, but as a laboratory for their libertarian economic and social experiments. These tech-billionaires envision unregulated “freedom cities” in Greenland, free from democratic oversight, environmental laws, and labor protections."

Don't threaten me with a good time.
En o ja, Dilan ... GL-PvdA was toch de partij die zover van de rest afstond? Of zit het echte gat soms tussen CDA en VVD?

If I’ve stopped lying, then you should too. But you can’t seem to stop twisting the truth about anarchism, using the dictionary as a weapon to bend reality toward your own system and agenda. That manipulation says more about your control than my beliefs.

from my link log —
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants, and how I built a dashboard to see through it.
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?triedRedirect=true
saved…

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

Capitol agenda: House GOP at the Obamacare cliff (Mia McCarthy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/15/congress/house-republicans-obamacare-deadline-health-care-vote-00690377
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p94#a251215p94

Billionaire tech advisers overcame a MAGA rebellion over AI in the Trump Whitehouse
A power struggle over the future of technology is playing out inside the administration,
as officials confront high-stakes decisions that touch everything
from national security and jobs
to online safety for children.

How Trump’s tech advisers overcame a MAGA rebellion over AI
President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting states’ power to regulate AI split his supporters and highlighted Silicon Valley’s growing influence over his agenda.

Given the remarkable #GreensSurge in members and polling, and the ongoing chaotic infighting at 'Your Party', it's maybe worth reposting my questioning of both leaderships on the eco-planetary crisis and overshoot.
As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda? – degrowthUK

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failu…

A sensação é de estar revivendo os anos 30, com os EUA fazendo o papel da Alemanha Nazista com relação Š eugenia: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTMHkhxjK62

Nach dem Digital-Gipfel fordert Gerald Lembkel: Es braucht weniger Strategiepapiere und mehr Umsetzung. Deutschland scheitert nicht an fehlendem Wissen, sondern an mangelndem Handlungswillen. Digitalisierung entsteht durch konsequentes Tun – nicht durch neue Absichtserklärungen. #Digitalisierung #Innovation

Nach dem Gipfel ist vor dem Handeln: Warum digitale Souveränität jetzt auf Ihre Agenda gehört
Liebe Macherinnen und Macher, der jüngste deutsch-französische Digitalgipfel mit Kanzler Merz und Präsident Macron war mehr als nur ein politisches Schaulaufen. Mit zugesagten Investitionen von über 12 Milliarden Euro (1) ist klar: Digitale Souveränität ist vom Buzzword zum knallharten strategischen

How did the Council approve the #Mercosur agreement, exactly?
«EU capitals now have until 5 p.m. on Friday to lodge any objections and formalize the vote. This so-called written procedure»
https://www.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/german-far-right-setting-agenda-as-opponents-amplify-its-ideas-study-finds
Now that proper researchers say what we've been repeating for at least a decade, wi…

House Republican absences make it harder to deliver Trump's agenda (Kadia Goba/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/15/house-republicans-missed-votes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p113#a260115p113

Money is power, and the founders of this country feared that a president would turn into a monarch if he alone could dictate how the government uses the federal Treasury.
President Trump, however, has tried to take Congress’s constitutional power and make it his own.
He has repeatedly ignored laws passed by the House and the Senate to spend money, or not spend it,
based on his whims and agenda.
He has violated the law at least six times,
according to the Governm…

Opinion | Trump’s Spending Abuses Are Out of Control. He Shouldn’t Have That Power in the First Place.
Trump’s actions should alarm anybody who shares the American founders’ suspicion of centralized power.

Federal judge deals 'major blow' to Trump's agenda in ruling with nationwide implications - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/judge-major-blow-trump/

Cowboys downplay Commanders win as playoffs now on agenda https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-downplay-commanders-win-playoffs-now-agenda/a768ec530ead40db9bba44e5

Solange die Presse über Regierungshandeln unter der Prämisse berichtet, daß die Beteiligten alle das Ziel hätten, das Beste für alle Menschen zu erreichen und dabei nur unterschiedlicher Meinung ob des Weges seien, gelegentlich Fehler machten und der eine oder andere ggf auch mal korrupt sei, so lange greift jede Analyse zu kurz.
Das sind alles Personen mit eigenen Zielen und eigener Agenda, die nur zufällig gelegentlich zum Wohle aller passen. Und diese Ziele, diese Agenda zu benennen…

Hearing from NDP leaders in Ontario and Manitoba.
Premier Kinew says the way to respond to Trump’s America First agenda isn’t Canada First, it’s Humanity First. Drawing big applause.
I honestly forgot that the NDP was actually the official opposition in Ontario!
#bcpoli #bcndp #onndp #mbndp #canpoli #cdnpoli

Fußball in 8K und 180 Grad: Apple tastet sich an europäische Top-Klubs heran
In der Hoffnung auf zahlungskräftige Fans setzt Apple für die Vision Pro auch auf Sportinhalte. Nun rückt europäischer Spitzenfußball auf die Agenda.

From BC Humanists
Last fall, we pushed the government to finally fulfill a longstanding promise to regulate dangerous and deceptive unregulated (crisis) pregnancy centres.
These fake clinics cloak their religious agenda to deny people their reproductive autonomy and freedom. Many of these groups are registered charities, meaning your taxes subsidize their donations.
Now, the government has let religious anti-choice groups off the hook with its lack of action in Budget 2025.…

The two core parties for a new Dutch government coalition - CDA and @… - have agreed on an agenda; they will now invite other parties to join in.
Some of their points on energy and climate in this thread!
1/n

"Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the COP30 climate summit"
#COP30 #ClimateSummit
htt…

Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the COP30 climate summit - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief’s real-time text tracker offers a helping hand by decoding agenda and keeping a searchable record of every document at COP30

others) that are most important to assess the added value.
3. What concrete measures and actions may be taken at EU level to support the development and growth of the
EU open-source sector and contribute to the EU’s technological #sovereignty and #cybersecurity agenda?
4. What technology areas should be prioritised and why?
5. In what sectors could an increased use of open source lead to increased competitiveness and #CyberResilience?
2/2

Wirtschaftskrise, Migration und Kriege dominieren die Agenda – perfekte Bühne für rechte Parteien, um Klimaschutz als „Elitenprojekt“ zu verteufeln. Unterstützt von Öl- und Gaslobby breitet sich gefährliche Gleichgültigkeit aus, die echten Klimaschutz blockiert. Politik muss endlich Klartext reden und handeln.
@t_online #Klimakrise

Paris-Abkommen in Gefahr: Kann sich die Welt noch einmal zusammenreißen?
Die Klimakrise spitzt sich zu, doch viele Regierungen wirken müde. Die Klimakonferenz COP30 in Belém muss zeigen, dass die Welt noch handlungsfähig ist.

geil hightech agenda
vielleicht bekomme ich jetzt geld um den taschenrechner fertig zu stellen

Organise the @… meeting on 12 February with a talk by Rodrigo Girão Serrão (@…) on the paradox of itertools.tee:

Python Users Berlin (PUB): The paradox of itertools.tee, Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup
📆 Agenda * 19:00 Welcome to the PUB (Python Users Berlin) – setting up * 19:15 Main talk * 20:00 Lightning talks * 20:30 Social gathering 🎙 Main talk by Rodrigo Girão S

Halestorm en Teatro Coliseo 2026
https://www.futuro.cl/2025/12/halestorm-en-chile-2026-fecha-lugar-y-venta-de-entradas-para-el-concierto/
Halestorm se suma a la agenda de conciertos 2026. La banda liderada por Lzzy Hal…

"How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it"
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm_campaign=post

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

Tony Romm of the New York Times shows just how out of touch they are. They think that a narrower victory in New York City then in New Jersey is somehow a mandate for their extreme agenda? I don’t want Trumpen America any more but socialism is not going to fly in most of America

Los jabalíes son víctimas, no culpables: sobre la gestión del brote de peste porcina africana y la necesidad de un enfoque ético y científico
https://www.eldiario.es/caballodenietzsche/jabalies-peste-porcina_132_12829685.html

Los jabalíes son víctimas, no culpables: sobre la gestión del brote de peste porcina africana y la necesidad de un enfoque ético y científico
El consejo científico del UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics (UPF-CAE) -formado por las profesoras e investigadoras Núria Almiron, Paula Casal, Catia Faria, Laura Fernández, Eze Paez y Marta Tafalla- ha enviado al conseller d’Acció Climàtica, Alimentació i Agenda Rural de la Generalitat de Catalunya, ...

Zou me verbazen als GroenLinks-PvdA hierbij aansluit, is toch meer een CDA-verhaal. Centrumrechts lijkt hier inderdaad beter bij te passen, maar zeker niet op alle punten en dan zijn hakken in het zand een barrière. Dus: minderheidskabinet?

Trump -- openly fearful that a Congress controlled by Democrats could investigate him, impeach him and stymie his agenda
-- is using every tool he can find to try to influence the 2026 midterm elections
-- and, if his party loses, sow doubt in their validity.
Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion,
challenging long-established democratic norms.

They include unprecedented demands that Republican state lawmakers redraw congressional di…

Trump is trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted
Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, challenging long-established democratic norms.

Was looking at the Chaos Communications Congress agenda & this session caught my eye:
A cool civilian terrestrial backup for GPS Satellite that is interference resistant.
✅ Who cares about the Baltic Jammer?
https://

[39c3] Who cares about the Baltic Jammer? – Terrestrial Navigation in the Baltic Sea Region
Since 2017, our team at DLR and partners across Europe have been working on an alternative to satellite navigation: **R-Mode**, a backup system based on terrestrial transmitters. Our main testbed spans the Baltic Sea — a region now infamous for GN...

House GOP faces internal divisions, challenges on agenda and questions from Trump (Emily Brooks/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5675643-house-republicans-2026-agenda/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p16#a260107p16

Quoted in RNS about No Kings Rally and Religion
New York faith leaders join 'No Kings' march against Trump administration agenda
Hussein Rashid, a Muslim scholar who teaches at Union Theological Seminary, addressed the crowd wearing a T-shirt reading “Salam,” Arabic for peace. “God is called the compassionate and the merciful often in the Qura

Hussein RashidQuoted in RNS about No Kings Rally and Religion
New York faith leaders join ‘No Kings’ march against Trump administration agenda Hussein Rashid, a Muslim scholar who teaches at Union Theological Seminary, addressed the crowd wearing …

😅 New research finds Americans deeply concerned about US democracy
#usa

New research finds Americans deeply concerned about US democracy
A new study from the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Public Agenda finds that Americans are deeply concerned about the state of U.S. democracy and that growing divisions within the Republican Party deepen partisan divides over how the Constitution should guide presidential authority and the balance of power.

At the first SF Transit Riders member assembly! Plan is to hold these quarterly to update members, hear feedback and let members initiate projects. #sfpol

HOPE Hacking Conference Banned From University Venue Over Apparent ‘Anti-Police Agenda’ https://www.404media.co/hope-hacking-conference-banned-from-university-venue-over-apparent-anti-police-agenda/

'Give Republicans a taste': Legal experts propose next Democratic president's Day 1 agenda - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/next-democratic-president-agenda/

Another Maine town just defeated a data center in its backyard. In this Women Talking 'Bout AI podcast, Joline Blais explains how her community rallied to the cause, and why AI is only a small part of the reason these are being built https://www.

Oh no. St. John’s University has banned the HOPE Conference because one person claimed it is anti-police.

When Trump criticized a ruling from a so-called “Obama judge” in 2018,
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. responded that “we do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.”
But the data suggests that in the 13 appellate courts, there is increasingly such a thing as a Trump judge.
The president’s appointees voted to allow his policies to take effect 133 times and voted against them only 12 times.
Ninety-two percent of their total votes were i…

Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor
President Trump promised to fill the appeals courts with “my judges.” They have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges.

Trump policies spur economic anxiety in US Republican heartland: ‘Tariffs are affecting everything’ | Trump administration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/02/trump-economic-agenda-republican-heartland-tariffs

Die Vorratsdatenspeicherung ist zurück auf der politischen Agenda! 📱💾 Bundesjustizministerin Stefanie Hubig (SPD) hat einen Gesetzentwurf vorgelegt, der vorsieht, dass Internetanbieter IP-Adressen künftig für drei Monate speichern sollen.
Zum Artikel: https://…

Goede zet geweest van Jetten en Bontenbal om gewoon met de inhoud aan de slag te gaan (ipv wie wel/wie niet). Eerste week formatieteam D66 en CDA voorbij, gewerkt aan 'verrassende agenda' - https://nos.nl/l/2591401

Eerste week formatieteam D66 en CDA voorbij, gewerkt aan 'verrassende agenda'
Er zijn tientallen experts langsgekomen met adviezen voor het aanpakken van grote problemen.

Was looking at the Chaos Communications Congress agenda & this session caught my eye:
A cool civilian terrestrial backup for GPS Satellite that is interference resistant.
✅ Who cares about the Baltic Jammer?
https://

Maryland Democratic state leaders say redistricting won't be on the special session agenda (Brakkton Booker/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/11/maryland-redistricting-state-legislature-00687992
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p130#a251211p130

Looks like my tree has an agenda

Dario Amodei addresses "inaccurate claims" about Anthropic's policy stances after David Sacks said the "real issue" is "Anthropic's agenda to backdoor Woke AI" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/anthropic-ceo-trump-s…

Anthropic CEO disputes Trump AI czar David Sacks' claims that company is 'woke'
The company has faced repeated criticism from David Sacks, the venture capitalist serving as President Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar, in recent days.

Republicans are sweating Tuesday’s special election in Trump country

The surprisingly competitive race
in Tennessee’s ruby-red 7th Congressional District
is a high-profile test of voters’ attitudes about the president’s agenda.
https://www.washingtonpo…

Why Republicans are sweating Tuesday’s special election in Trump country
The surprisingly competitive race in Tennessee’s ruby-red 7th Congressional District is a high-profile test of voters’ attitudes about the president’s agenda.

Important reminder! If you're no longer able to attend today's event, please cancel your attendance on our meetup page. This helps us plan for food and drinks. Thanks!
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PHPUGMRN 05/25, Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Agenda:** 19:00 CET - Doors open 19:30 CET - Intro 19:45 CET - The one hour expression language, Dan Leech 20:30 CET - Break 20:45 CET - Simplify Your Dev Workflow with D

😲 Brazil’s governance style leads to controversial impacts
#brazil

Brazil's governance style leads to controversial impacts
The Federal Republic of Brazil has a constitutional system with an exceptionally strong executive branch where the president controls the budget process, wields a line-item veto and can initiate legislation by declaring ‘temporary laws’ (Medidas Provisórias) that force the legislature to consider its policy agenda. Congress has corresponding checks and balances, including the power to […]

"I find it difficult to avoid deep pessimism. The lessons of the Covid pandemic have not been learned, and we face the risk of a much more threatening pandemic. The rise to prominence of the ethno-nationalist right in most of the ‘rich’ world combines climate change scepticism with command of a racist political agenda on migration.
/contd

Capitol agenda: GOP pushes back on Trump (Mia McCarthy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/09/congress/gop-pushback-trump-votes-health-care-war-powers-00718544
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p34#a260109p34

"Declining property values and home prices are understood as a sign of impending doom, rather than a cause for celebration, and so the system aims to keep prices on an upward slope."
Housing can't be a good investment and affordable
https://jewishcurrents.org/zohran-mamd

Zohran Mamdani Vs. the Real Estate State
Can the mayor-elect overcome the snares being set for his affordable housing agenda?

Was looking at the Chaos Communications Congress agenda & this session caught my eye:
A cool civilian terrestrial backup for GPS Satellite that is interference resistant.
✅ Who cares about the Baltic Jammer?
https://

Goed tussenverslag van D66 en CDA.
https://www.kabinetsformatie2025.nl/site/binaries/site-content/collections/documents/2025/12/02/tussenverslag/inhoudelijke-en-ambitieuze-agenda…

"They have to turn back to God and we are;
We're gonna ask all Americans to pray for an end to political violence, to pray for our president, to pray for a Christian agenda in Washington. It's long overdue.  We need it. And we think it's an important step."
"We need God's help if we're gonna get through what we're going through now,
-- the push toward actually acceptance of communism by a growing number of Americans."

Family Research Council And The House Freedom Caucus Organizing A 'Congress Prays For America' Call
The Family Research Council and the House Freedom Caucus are holding a "Congress Prays For America" call to "pray for a Christian agenda in Washington."

Project 2026? Group behind Trump’s return to the White House outlines next agenda | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-project-2026-heritage-foundation-b2892391.html

Who's ready for some PHP knowledge sharing? This evening @… and @… will share their expertise on "The one hour expression language" and "Simplify Your Dev Workflow with DDEV".
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PHPUGMRN 05/25, Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Agenda:** 19:00 CET - Doors open 19:30 CET - Intro 19:45 CET - The one hour expression language, Dan Leech 20:30 CET - Break 20:45 CET - Simplify Your Dev Workflow with D

David Sirota says that while the United States is now
“immersed in corruption” in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics,
it is the result of a decades long agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system
and to essentially make anti-bribery laws unenforceable.
“This is all part of a plan by a corporate movement that sees democracy — the government providing what people want — sees that as a threat.”

Master Plan: David Sirota on Trump & the Decadeslong “Plot to Legalize Corruption in America”
We speak with journalist David Sirota about his new book, Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America. Co-authored with Jared Jacang Maher, the book is based on their award-winning investigative podcast of the same name for The Lever. Sirota says that while the United States is now “immersed in corruption” in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics, it is the result of a decadeslong agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system and to essent…

Capitol agenda: GOP dreams face harsh legislative reality (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/19/congress/trump-gop-reconciliation-megabill-policy-agenda-unity-00658619
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p38#a251119p38

Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, said Unions are gearing up to challenge the US president’s “Billionaire First” agenda in 2026
– and drive candidates in key elections to stand up for “struggling” Americans.
In an interview with the Guardian, she described how the federation has pushed to restore collective bargaining rights for federal workers,
-- and filed lawsuits against the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken unions and worker protections.
“People were …

House Democrats assert themselves as Republicans struggle to set agenda (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/19/house-democrats-gop-agenda-00699385
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p14#a251219p14

Good news, any progress in more federated social media is a good thing in my view.
https://openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky-dawns-building-infrastructure-for-sovereign-social-media/

Eurosky dawns – Open Future
The Eurosky initiative is building European social media infrastructure on the ATProtocol, representing a new step in Europe's digital sovereignty agenda as policymakers seek alternatives to Big Tech platforms that serve public interest rather than commercial imperatives.

Staggering number of judges hammer Trump’s immigration agenda: analysis - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-2674255532/

Money has always distorted U.S. politics,
but the current Trump regime has entered new territory with
🔥an unabashed pay-to-play setup that’s stuffing the president’s political coffers
while enriching him and his family.
💥Donald Trump’s coldly transactional dealings have been on full display
as he’s tapped billionaire allies and major corporations
to shower his administration with donations to pay for his latest vanity project:
a 90,000-square-foot, $…

Trump’s White House Ballroom Is Being Bankrolled by Genocide and ICE Profiteers
The ballroom donor list also includes Wall Street and cryptocurrency firms that benefit from the president’s agenda.

A Skeptical Supreme Court Puts Trump's Economic Agenda in Question (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-tariffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p14#a251106p14

Almost Half of U.S. Imports Now Have Steep Tariffs
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/05/business/economy/trump-tariffs-us-imports.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=ar…

Almost Half of U.S. Imports Now Have Steep Tariffs
President Trump has transformed U.S. trade policy. Here's how much of his tariff agenda is under threat at the Supreme Court.

"The calls are part of a broader strategy by the Trump administration to ... turn the state department into an anti-immigration machine. "In the Trump administration migration issues have become a key pillar of our foreign policy, and this may be here to stay for the rest of the century,” a senior state department official told The Guardian."
**Stephen Miller holding secret calls with diplomats every day to push Trump’s immigration agenda across the globe**
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-immigration-diplomats-secret-calls-b2856464.html

Why Trump's agenda is on voters' minds even if he's not on the 2025 ballot (Phillip M. Bailey/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/04/2025-election-midterms-trump-presidential-race/86627677007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p49#a251104p49

Trump administration abruptly recalls over two dozen career ambassadors
The Trump administration has recalled more than two dozen
career diplomats from ambassador positions and other senior posts around the world
as it works to enforce adherence with Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda.

The directive has infuriated State Department personnel
who say it will leave key embassies without critical leadership
and may effectively end the careers of many ambass…

Trump administration abruptly recalls over two dozen career ambassadors
A senior State Department official called it a bid to ensure adherence to the “America First” agenda while others called it a devastating blow to America’s diplomatic corps.

Capitol agenda: Health deal hinges on Trump (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/01/congress/health-care-obamacare-deal-trump-fitzpatrick-00671204
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p45#a251201p45

"By the end of 2026, Trump will have begun to distance himself from the aggressively pro-AI industry policies that characterized his AI strategy in 2025,"
wrote retired New York University professor and AI entrepreneur Gary Marcus.
"The giant AI infrastructure plays (like Project Stargate) that he championed after his inauguration will look like an unprofitable and underused mistake.
So will his utter failure to meaningfully regulate AI,
against the w…

This 'utter failure' from Trump could 'stun the world' in 2026: researcher
President Donald Trump has bet big on an agenda to expand artificial intelligence investment in the United States — but this year, some analysts think it could come back to haunt him, as a long-suspected AI investment bubble bursts and the public turns against the technology for its increasingly app...

Mr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist who ran on an #affordability agenda,
pledged during the campaign to freeze rent on the city’s nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments.
“We know we are fighting for a #rent #freeze…

Mamdani’s First Orders Focus on Housing and Undoing Adams’s Decisions
Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a flurry of executive orders on his first day as mayor of New York City. They were aimed at protecting tenants and revoking some of ex-Mayor Eric Adams’s past orders.

Inside MAHA's 2026 food agenda (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/31/kyle-diamantas-maha-fda-food-policy-00698153
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p62#a251231p62

The shutdown is starting to bite
– and throw Trump’s architectural folly into sharp relief.
On Saturday, with Congress still locked in a legislative stalemate,
a potential benefit freeze could leave tens of millions of low-income Americans without food aid.
Democrats accuse Trump’s Republican party of “weaponising hunger” to pursue an extreme rightwing agenda.
Images of wealthy monarchs or autocrats revelling in excess even as the masses struggle for bread

Capitol agenda: Thune says shutdown talks are picking up (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/29/congress/shutdown-talks-thune-democrats-snap-deadline-00626811
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p43#a251029p43

Capitol agenda: Brace for sharper shutdown pain (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/27/congress/shutdown-trump-snap-troops-federal-paychecks-00623501
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p81#a251027p81

While the US can protect security in Europe and deserves our undying gratitude for having done so for the last 80 years,
Europeans cannot protect democracy in the US.
They can and must, however, protect liberal democracy in Europe,
which risks becoming a collateral victim of Trump’s domestic and foreign policy agenda.
What happens in America doesn’t stay in America.
It is often a precursor for trends in Europe.
Just as the

Stephen Miller, who has overseen Trump’s hard-line agenda on drugs and immigration, and other top advisers never lost sight of their goal of crushing the cartels.
And in pursuing this goal they were aided in part by a personnel restructuring that removed potential obstacles.

Many of the lawyers and other career officials at the White House National Security Council, Pentagon and Justice Department
who had over the preceding months raised concerns about using lethal force a…

White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.

The internal dispute that could derail the GOP's 2026 agenda (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/24/gop-reconciliation-bill-health-care-00704698
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p6#a251224p6

Political operative Stuart Stevens spoke about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers.
Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project,
a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where he is a senior adviser,
is working to stop Trump’s anti-democratic agenda.

Cracks Grow in MAGA Coalition over Epstein Files, Healthcare & Racist Group Texts: Ex-GOP Adviser
“The Republican Party has really become an extremist movement.” Amid a growing political divide in the Republican Party over the release of federal documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, we speak to former Republican political operative Stuart Stevens about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers. Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project, a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where…

Capitol agenda: Ingrassia reveals the GOP's red line (Zachary Warmbrodt/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/22/congress/paul-ingrassia-trump-nomination-rand-paul-00618095
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p80#a251022p80