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‘This isn’t just about Trump’: the Rev William Barber arrested after prayer-protest against Republican-led budget
Eight were arrested at Moral Monday, an effort to stop a bill they say will slash vital healthcare for lower-income people
https://www.theguardia…

Steelers' long wait for Aaron Rodgers is over, but offense far from finished product https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-long-wait-for-aaron-rodgers-is-over-but-offense-far-from-finished-product

A man I have long admired, for good reasons. Worth supporting his cause with donations
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/04/moral-monday-protest-rev-william-barber-arrest

A man I have long admired, for good reasons. Worth supporting his cause with donations
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/04/moral-monday-protest-rev-william-barber-arrest

‘Start Over From Scratch’: Nobel Laureate Economists Denounce GOP Budget Bill | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-06-03/start-over-scratch-nobel-laureate-economists-denounce-gop-budget-bill

This is a dangerous level of squinting at tea leaves, so •serious• grain of salt here, but:
The sudden re-plunge of Tesla’s stock price during this Musk / Trump spat suggests that maybe, maybe its utterly wild overvaluation had nothing to do with Tesla’s products, or its market position, or Musk’s phony brilliance, or even (the usual explanation) with investors getting hyped about a self-driving car future and magical robots.
Maybe it was investors expecting the company to be the beneficiary of kleptocratic pillaging of the US Federal budget. Which — unlike all the other explanations — would not be an irrational expectation.

Advertisers are shifting millions in ad budgets, particularly in CTV, from The Trade Desk's DSP to Amazon's, driven by lower fees, inventory access, and more (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/marketers-mov

EXCLUSIVE: Marketers Move Millions in Ad Spend from The Trade Desk to Amazon’s Ad Platform 
Sources say Amazon is gunning for The Trade Desk’s clients to win market share

A change in reporting and evaluating faculty productivity... the increased workload will fall to... faculty...?
https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/05/02/indiana-budget-bill-curbs-univer…

Indiana budget bill curbs university faculty power, ties tenure to new ‘productivity’ reviews • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Sweeping changes to how public universities manage faculty tenure and campus governance were quietly added to Indiana’s new budget.

Bootstrapping periodic quantum systems
Zhijian Huang, Wenliang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02386 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02386…

Bootstrapping periodic quantum systems
Periodic structures are ubiquitous in quantum many-body systems and quantum field theories, ranging from lattice models, compact spaces, to topological phenomena. However, previous bootstrap studies encountered technical challenges even for one-body periodic problems, such as a failure in determining the accurate dispersion relations for Bloch bands. In this work, we develop a new bootstrap procedure to resolve these issues, which does not make use of positivity constraints. We mainly consider …

"A last-minute provision inserted into President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful” budget reconciliation bill would allow Chile’s wealthiest business magnate — and former landlord to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump — to begin mining operations on protected federal lands."
A Chilean Billionaire Strikes Gold In The Budget Bill
https://www.levernews.com/a-chilean-billionaire-strikes-gold-in-the-budget-bill/