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It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and time again over the past year:
using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations.
Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during
anti-immigration demonstrations across the US,
including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.

ICE ‘Crowd Control’ Led to Blindings and Traumatic Brain Injuries
It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and time again over the past year: using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations. Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during anti-immigration demonstrations across the US, including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.

Ray-Column IPRM: Restoring Radial Spectral Scale to Structure-Based Turbulence Modeling
Stavros C. Kassinos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17644 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17644 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17644
arXiv:2605.17644v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The particle representation model (PRM) and interacting particle representation model (IPRM) describe homogeneous turbulence through orientation-conditioned structural states. In their original form, the conditional state is organized by the unit spectral direction, while the radial spectral coordinate is integrated out. We introduce a scale-conditioned Ray-Column extension in which the spectral vector is decomposed into orientation and radial wavenumber, and the conditional structure state is projected onto finite radial bands.
The formulation starts from the continuum spectral tensor and is then reduced to the ray-packet ensemble sums used in the implementation. The bands are projections of an orientation-wavenumber tensor density and retain scale-conditioned structural populations for closure evaluation. The rapid dynamics remain ray-packet resolved, while the nonlinear slow and terminal closure coefficients are evaluated from band-aggregate structure tensors formed by integrating over orientation and wavenumber within each band. The present reference closure omits conservative cascade modeling among bands.
A reference closure is built from PRM rapid kinematics, band-local effective-gradient response, slow rotational randomization, and an active large-scale enstrophy (LSE) terminal-drain map. In the active-LSE closure, the misalignment-sensing factor Psi_fd regularizes the LSE structure-to-dissipation map; the Ray-Column formulation evaluates this map on band-aggregate structural populations. The model is assessed in irrotational strain, homogeneous shear, elliptic-streamline, and rotating-shear configurations. The rotating-shear comparison with filtered LES data illustrates the payoff of retaining band information: filtered or low-pass observables can be formed before scale information is lost in the one-point reconstruction.
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A profile of Don Lemon, whose independent company Lemon Media Network has surpassed 10M followers across platforms, with more than 50% growth in the past year (Christopher Wiggins/Advocate)
https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/don-lemon-relevant-after-arrest

Inside Don Lemon's fight for journalism — and his future
The Trump administration tried to silence one of America’s most prominent journalists — and in doing so, made The Advocate's July/August cover star impossible to ignore.

Numismatist alert!
I just found this very old penny in my pocket because it *stuck to my headphone case's magnetic clasp*
Wait, you say. Isn't ol' Abe supposed to be copper (or copper and zinc)?
Apparently not in 1943!

I appreciate Ukraine's continued employment of video game marketing aesthetics.
(Not so much this one, but many of the post-2022 Ukrainian websites evoke the visual style of Cyberpunk 2077 - a game that got its PS5 release around the same time as the Russian invasion.)
https://trophylab.mod.gov.ua/en/

TrophyLab
Access to aggressor equipment and its analysis — a platform for those working on defense solutions.

Sources: Nvidia's business development group, not its VC arm NVentures, has led much of its ~$90B dealmaking push across 145 companies over the past 16 months (Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/cc90e4b0-d971…

In many cases, the people citing the LLM to me either won’t listen to why it’s wrong or don’t care.
Because their employee reviews are a function of how much they use the LLM versus accuracy, bug-free code, giving a shit, …
https://bsky.app/profile/scottohara.me/post/3mlwdps…

Scott O'Hara (@scottohara.me)
It used to be that I would need to argue with developers over what is required by aria / wcag Now I get to fight with LLMs that are parroting a11y best practices (or just common inaccurate a11y advice) at me that aren’t applicable for the context It’s Friday. Time to f right off

You can really feel the warmth of the north american neighborhood
"Sovereignty comes with responsibility, and the responsibility to prevent a foreseeable disaster from crossing into another country's airspace has not been met"
Reacting to a social media post about the air quality in Cleveland, Moreno wrote: "I’ll be introducing a bill next week to sanction Canada and the responsible Canadian government officials for this atrocity."

4 Republicans in U.S. Congress accuse Canada of failing to do enough to prevent wildfires | CBC News
Republican members of U.S. Congress are slamming Canada's federal and provincial governments over what they claim is inaction in preventing the wildfires currently spreading smoke and poor air quality across much of the northeastern U.S., in addition to Central Canada.

Trump may be trying to wind down his conflict with Iran,
but he is escalating his war with Senate Republicans.
Trump blindsided his supposed allies in the Senate on Wednesday with a rocket of a social media post from across the Atlantic,
tying together a host of his pet peeves about the Senate while yanking his new nominee for national intelligence director from his confirmation hearing just hours before it was to occur.
It was an extraordinary move from a president w…

Trump Feuds With Thune and G.O.P., Stoking Election-Year Rift
The president upended the majority leader’s plans by yanking his intelligence nominee from a confirmation hearing and insisting on an end to the filibuster.

The owner of The Denver Post agreed to pay the city of Denver $13.5M under a settlement to cover overdue rent for the news outlet's former building (The Colorado Sun)
https://coloradosun.com/2026/06/16/denver-post-settlement-city-building-downtown/

Owner of Denver Post agrees to $13.5 million settlement with city over unpaid rent, will remove sign
The newspaper's lease was supposed to go through 2029, but it will now end June 30