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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.

Please apply pressure to electeds, urging them to aggressively pursue state charges against ICE officers, in defiance of the FBI if necessary.
Many of them already want this. State AG is already taking steps to do this. Apply the pressure anyway; the pressure helps.
If you live in Minnesota:
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #MSP

“Arguing that ‘no country should be above international law,’ Mayor Brandon Johnson urged the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday to hold President Donald Trump’s administration accountable for what he called a ‘worsening human rights crisis in the United States.’”

Johnson urges UN panel to hold President Trump accountable for what he calls 'human rights abuses'
In a virtual appearance before a United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Switzerland, Mayor Brandon Johnson invited UN experts to come to Chicago to witness firsthand the “abuses” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during raids that have wreaked havoc in neighborhoods across the…

Love to know who lives in the houses whose view was improved by the poisoning, and what relationship they have with the council.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-06/council-criticised-for-removing-illegal-trees-from-dunes/106174826…

Council criticised for removing 'illegally planted' trees from sensitive sand dunes
A Queensland council is being criticised for uprooting unauthorised saplings from sand dunes amid a long-running vegetation battle.

A look at Hamlet, a startup that uses AI to process local government meeting videos and which plans to provide the tool to local journalists for free (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/new-st…

New streaming channel launches to give viewers a peek into city council meetings | TechCrunch
Hamlet TV is a way to help keep citizens informed of what's happening inside local governments.

“MW chargers are expected to comprise almost 15% of the total installed charging power needs, but only 2% of the total number of chargers. Lower-power chargers, such as 350 kW chargers, can cover more than half the public fast charging needs for long-haul trucks.”
https://theicct.org/pu…

Charging infrastructure needs for battery electric trucks in the European Union by 2030 - International Council on Clean Transportation
Analyzes battery electric truck charging infrastructure needs by 2030 in the EU, and compares them to the AFIR targets by modeling the expected fleet and considering its energy consumption, driving patterns, and charging behavior.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/08/europe-leaders-no-longer-deny-relationship-with-us-changed

In a departure from my customary #EngelskeGloser, I will today present part of our #NorwegianGlossary, recently named winner of 2025 "nyord i norsk" (New words in Norwegian) by The Language Council of Norway. And the winner is ... 🥁 📯

Progressives may flip Aurora council as voters reject Danielle Jurinsky and other incumbents (Kyle Harris/Denverite)
https://denverite.com/2025/11/05/aurora-city-council-elections-progressive-flip/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p177#a251105p177

(For those not in the know: Minneapolis is heavily, heavily Democratic, but there are really two Democratic Parties here, split loosely speaking between leftists and centrists; city council and mayoral elections are always bitter fights between these groups)

"Her joins a City Council comprising seven women, making St. Paul a rare large city that’s entirely women-led."
Rep. Kaohly Her Wins Stunning Upset in St. Paul Mayoral Race, Making History | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-11-30/rep-kaohly-her-wins-stunning-upset-st-paul-mayoral-race-making-history

In 2019, Russia signaled that it was willing to allow the United States to act as it pleased in Venezuela,
in exchange for Washington giving the Kremlin a free hand in Ukraine,
according to Congressional testimony from Fiona Hill,
who ran Russian and European affairs on the National Security Council during the first Trump administration.
The Russians “were signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap arrangement between Venezuela and…

Russia Once Offered U.S. Control of Venezuela for Free Rein in Ukraine
The exchange offer was recounted at the time in congressional testimony by Fiona Hill, who ran Russian and European affairs on the National Security Council during the first Trump administration.

#eduroam has been named one of the 13 Dutch brilliant breakthroughs by the Dutch Research Council (NWO)
Created in 2002 by Klaas Wierenga, eduroam started as a simple idea: make Wi-Fi secure, easy & free for students and researchers, wherever they go.
Today, eduroam connects people at almost 40,000 locations in 106 countries. In 2024 alone, it recorded over 8.4 billion authenticatio…

I was surprised to learn that famously neutral #Switzerland 🇨🇭 has been a member of the Council of Europe 🇪🇺 (which is *not* the same as either of the European Council 🇪🇺 and the Council of the European Union 🇪🇺) since 1963. For reference, Switzerland joined the #UnitedNations in 2002.

You know there's something suss when a local council takes time to indulge in this sort of culture war. Just what are they trying to distracted ratepayers attention from?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/aboriginal-torres-…

NSW council votes to stop flying Indigenous flags and enforce permissions for Welcome to Country
A mayor in southern NSW says removing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags from council meeting chambers will "promote civic neutrality".

Is there any legal justification for the US attack on Venezuela?
International law experts expect Washington to claim self-defence and face little serious pushback [from the UN]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan

Much lower energy fast chips:
"Scientists from the University of Warwick and the National Research Council of Canada have reported the highest "hole mobility" ever measured in a material that works within today's silicon-based semiconductor manufacturing...
This achievement also represents a significant accomplishment for Warwick's Semiconductors Research Group and highlights the UK's growing influence in advanced semiconductor materials research."…

A 1950s material just set a modern record for lightning-fast chips
Researchers engineered a strained germanium layer on silicon that allows charge to move faster than in any silicon-compatible material to date. This record mobility could lead to chips that run cooler, faster, and with dramatically lower energy consumption. The discovery also enhances the prospects for silicon-based quantum devices.

Never forgot how completely fucking cartoonish the entire Adams administration was.
And that our current NY City Council just stood by and watched the whole thing without doing much more than sternly-worded letters.
And Governor Hochul, when given the opportunity, decided *not* to remove Adams from office.

OpenAI forms the Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, with eight experts to help guide OpenAI's work on ChatGPT and Sora (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/open-ai-expert-council-safety-ftc.html

OpenAI forms expert council to bolster safety measures after FTC inquiry
The council will help guide OpenAI's work around ChatGPT and Sora, and define what healthy AI interactions look like.

"It appears the council would like to see more multi-storey car parks on the edge of town constructed after opening the Ancoats Mobility Hub last summer."
So people still encouraged to drive through Manchester.
Watch out for this and then fight it; we need proper city-wide traffic reduction.
The latest plan to convince you not to drive into Manchester city centre - Manchester Evening News

The latest plan to convince you not to drive into Manchester city centre
More details will be released later in the year - but one element of the plan is clear

BREAKING NEWS
The United Kingdom is no longer a country. The Arts Council have spoken. Please update your records accordingly.

Czechia's security council to decide future of Ukraine ammunition initiative on Jan. 7: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/czechias-security-council-to-decide.html

Fine letter from Kate Macintosh on UK Labour Party's irrational retention of the Right to Buy council housing. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/06/why-labour-lacks-credibility-when-it-comes-to-housing

My loose process for evaluating an ACR (VPAT®):
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/01/how-i-evaluate-an-acr-vpat.html
You may have your own thoughts / ideas. Add them to the comments.
I was also torn between the meat grinder and a Plinko metaphor.

How I Evaluate an ACR (VPAT®)
ACRs are Accessibility Conformance Reports, which are the output of a VPAT, or Voluntary Product Accessibility Template maintained by ITIC, or the Information Technology Industry Council (which is why VPAT often has a ® symbol hanging off it). An organization may fill out the template to indicate how or if…

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/kensington-chelsea-westminster-council-cyber-attack-b2872495.html
Multiple London councils hit by ‘cyber attack’ and initiate ‘emergency plans’

Multiple London councils hit by ‘cyber attack’ and initiate ‘emergency plans’
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea said it is ‘too early’ to determine whether any data has been compromised

Is the UK still on the UN Security Council? Does the UN Security Council still exist?

At the U.N., Even Allies Condemn U.S. Action in Venezuela (Farnaz Fassihi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/world/americas/un-security-council.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p2#a260106p2

Expanse s2e1 : can’t believe the head of the UN would wear deely boppers to a council of war #inappropriate
#scifi

JD Vance did nothing
as Trump cuts cost his Ohio home town millions.
Despite Vance being Middletown’s most famous son
and Ohio broadly safe ground for Republican politicians for at least a decade,
⭐️nearly four in 10 of voters in the city of 50,000 people chose not to back Vance and Trump in last year’s presidential election.
Two progressives are running for seats on Middletown’s non-partisan,
yet Republican-leaning,
council in next month’s election…

while you are at Dublin mayors, maybe you could ask car drivers to turn on their lights as required by law in Ireland :-) ?!?! During my super brief time in Dublin in 2024 I saw a lot of cars with their lights off during a dark rainy afternoon.
https://mastodon.ie/@irishcycle/115583918846…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Style Council:
🎵 Walls Come Tumbling Down
#NowPlaying #TheStyleCouncil
https://open.spotify.com/track/00cn1ynXQhURwsgv69fN0b

Once upon a time, in Canada of all places though you wouldn't know it now, direct science outreach was part of the National Research Council, producing a freely sent quality periodical direct from the scientists themselves that a teen like me would instantly devour, although in all my years I never met anyone else who so much as even knew about it.
https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oon.00001_197402/1

🪣 Drivers Beg for Relief Bill to Allow More Parking for Bathroom Breaks and Rest
#nyc

Drivers Beg for Relief Bill to Allow More Parking for Bathroom Breaks and Rest
For-hire drivers who work for companies like Uber and Lyft often struggle with urinary issues and have a hard time finding bathrooms during long shifts, advocates testified in the City Council.

"Glasgow City Council is currently consulting on active travel improvements around Thornwood Roundabout and National Cycle Network Route 7 (NCN7)."
#cycling

For anyone in #Chicago, here's an opportunity to stand up for your public library and fight against the devastating proposed cuts: https://www.afscmelocal1215.org/event/loca

November 7 at YDS! Public conversation with the Rev. Matthew Laferty '11 M.Div., Director of the Methodist Ecumenical Office Rome with responsibility for representing the World Methodist Council to the Holy See.
7 p.m., upper Common Room, open to all.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it,
despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost,
and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise,
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
will be cut.

Manchester’s Local Plan is available in draft.
You've til 17 Nov to respond.
Our post gives you the links to the plan and consultantation, AND our draft response that you can use as a template for yours!
In summary, the council is constrained by planning regulations but they could still do much better.
Tell them!
 #Manchester

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation
UPDATE!  11 Nov.  We have now submitted a revised version.  It adds some answers to questions we didn’t address in the previously published draft, and has some additions to some of the other …

I drive a plug-in hybrid - a Prius Prime which is possibly not as greedy as the car used in the video
My experience so far has been that when I was driving nearly every km on electricity a message popped up that I needed to top up my gas tank with fresh fuel and drive on that for a time!
Because I bought it as a new car, the cost of replacing it with an EV is quite high. And I still would need to go fight Strata Council to get charging at my parking space.

Amid the moral panic about unofficial #migration, the vulnerability of desperate people is never mentioned. Here's a dereliction of the duty of care.
"More than 50 lone child asylum seekers who disappeared soon after arriving in the UK and while in the care of the authorities are still missing...
"Many of the missing children arrived in small boats or hidden in the backs o…

Ugh, Vickie Paladino is still in City Council.
Booo!

El ministro danés es la viva imagen de "el tonto y la linde" https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/11/26/child-sexual-abuse-council-reaches-position-on-law-…

Reviewing my sample ballot for Concord's municipal elections Tuesday; my recommendations:
- Mayor: I like both Byron and Kate West. Vote your conscience.
- Councilor-at-large: Fisto is my first choice, then either Amanda Grady Sexton or Fred Keach. Definitely not Robert Washburn, though.
- Ward 6 Councilor: Vote Aislinn Kalob!
- School Board: Vote Cara Meeker!
- Sale of Eastman: Kinda wish we could know who it'd be sold to first, but sure, why not
- Social districts: Sure, although I'll want to follow this up by attending the city council meetings where they work out the details, and make sure they limit them to individual fully-pedestrianized city blocks (e.g. Bicentennial Square, Eagle Square)
- Keno: It is currently prohibited. It is necessary to vote YES on this question to continue to prohibit it (because otherwise new state law would require it to be allowed by-right), so I say yes, do that, vote to prohibit it.

Anybody know anyone on #Vancouver City Council? Because they’re talking about seeking alternatives to Xitter: https://bsky.app/profile/jmcelroy.bsky.social/post/3m7qmxxutss24

Europe, famous for its quality of life.
European Research Council: "The deadline to submit the review [for a 25 page proposal] is: 06 January 2026".
Dudes, I don't even live in the EU, I'm doing you a favor. (They even make clear this is not compensated.)

Wie gefährlich sind #Feinstaub, #Stickoxide und #Ozon aus dem #Verkehr für unsere

Gesundheitsschäden aufgrund von Feinstaub, Stickoxiden und Ozon aus dem Verkehr
Diese Woche fiel mir ein Pressehinweis zum ICCT auf. Das International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) hat eine Studie zur globalen Luftverschmutzung aufgrund von Emissionen aus dem Verkehr veröffentlicht. Das...

“This is illegal. The occupation is illegal.” The International Court of Justice agrees, as has the United Nations, according to numerous resolutions passed starting in 1967. And yet now the Security Council has effectively given Israel’s occupation of Gaza the force of international law."
Opinion | In Gaza and the West Bank, Human Rights Work Changes Course - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/NnUaf#selection-993.114-993.404

Cyprus's president meets Zelensky in Kyiv as Nicosia prepares to chair EU Council: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/cypruss-president-meets-zelensky-in.html

Venezuela’s mission to the U.N. has requested an emergency Security Council meeting
and has asked the Council to condemn the U.S. military strikes against the country.
Venezuela’s ambassador, Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta, said in a letter to the Council’s president:
“The United States of America always uses lies to fabricate wars.
It is an international tyranny imposed with the propaganda of death:
the recent past confirms this.”
Russia and China, allie…

Venezuela Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run' Country After Capture of Maduro
President Trump offered few details about how the United States would oversee Venezuela and for how long, but said its oil industry would “make a lot of money” under U.S. leadership. President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were being taken to New York to stand trial on drug and weapons charges.

"For nearly 20 years, the [#SNP] has acted, in many respects, as a bulwark to the worst of Westminster – or so the story goes. Not good policy, just not as bad as Westminster. Just enough to hold power without disrupting the status quo.
When the SNP had the political capital to finally scrap the regressive Council Tax – something they had previously promised to do – they baulked. On LGBT ri…

We’re proud to support Polar Connect Step 2 (24-EU-DIG-PC2) as an Associated Partner, working alongside the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, NORDUnet, GlobalConnect, CSC, and the Swedish Research Council (the project coordinator).
With the Grant Agreement now signed, PC2 takes a major step toward realising Polar Connect – a resilient Arctic submarine cable system linking Europe, North America, and East Asia for the benefit of the global internet.
🔗 Read more:

For ESA’s mission #Vigil to forecast dangerous space weather, #mpsgoettingen is providing one of the key instruments: Vigil's Photospheric Magnetic Field Imager. Read more about the instrument and the science we plan to do with it here:

And the Press Conference from the ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level has begun with 1 hour delay: https://watch.esa.int/Two/

One guess is that they got some region-based data on where the brown and Black people are, and are just going off that.
Another guess is that are targeting specific city council members. This I doubt — unless they’re getting that from local police depts, which I could totally believe.
My own theory is that they really, really, really don’t want white people to see what they’re doing, except through the eyes of the right-wing camera crews that follow them around.
Whatever it is, it’s pretty striking.
2/2

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
TRAVIS: Whose in particular?
FEN: Like most of our city, this room lives; a vegetable biologically adapted but living and growing - and all life, Travis, is linked. [Laces her fingers] That is the basis of the Rule of Life.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/158

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Style Council:
🎵 Shout to the Top
#TheStyleCouncil
https://laurieshawofficial.bandcamp.com/track/shout-to-the-top-style-council-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/2lYfbCENL9ltqzTSX1xrPe

The New Orleans City Council Dec. 3 launched an online portal
for residents to report civil and human rights abuses by ICE and CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during the Trump regime’s anti-migrant occupation.
The launch of the portal, came as CBP forces began disappearing residents in the city, Kenner and other suburban areas of the Greater New Orleans area and parts of the River Parishes

New Orleans launches portal to report human rights abuses by Trump paramilitary units
The New Orleans City Council Dec. 3 launched an online portal for residents to report civil and human rights abuses by ICE and CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during

Hummm.
So I was thinking about how with a couple of caster-boards and straps, the bed could be upturned and stowed in the studio. Probably? I should have figured for a fold-away really.
Still. Could work...
Then, without a bed in there, the place could turn into a dining room.
I was thinking about a shape of a table for a dinner party in there.
Oh my god.
This semi-circle table curve of wood and attachable table-legs and fold-able stools might just fit, like, under the bed normally?
Looks perfect for a card-game or a Dungeon Master setup.
Could that table and it's legs and it's chairs all fit under the bed? Probably not at it's current height. But I want to raise it a bit anyway.
🤔
Oh my god, look at this though. The projector is pointed at the wall behind the throne surrounded by the seats for the council of seven.
This could be built.
Not right away, but eventually?

Ballot Box Scotland 2025 in review: council by-elections
"remember the most important aspect of STV – that the nice simple language used for FPTP of “gain/loss/hold” isn’t as applicable here. Whoever vacated one of three or four seats is not always the same as the overall winner at the last election. It’s entirely possible for the vacating party, the party that had a first preference lead, and the party that would have won a single seat election ... to all be different"

2025 in Review: Council By-Elections
A bad year for Labour in by-elections bodes ill for May, no matter how much they may spin one fluke and one narrow Parliamentary by-election win.

The real problem here is that I was born to be on the Watcher's Council or a Man of Letters or in the Talamasca or on the tenure track at Miskatonic in a world where I make more money fixing your damn computer and also those societies don't actually exist
.......but, and hear me out on this....could they?

@… Since members of the Global Council are not eligible, might I suggest listing those members on this page? https://kit.pyladies.com/en/latest/glob…

EU member states backed a revised proposal to combat online child sexual abuse, despite opposition from Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, and the Netherlands.
The plan allows companies to voluntarily scan encrypted messages as part of risk-mitigation duties, replacing earlier mandatory detection orders. Germany’s shift secured a qualified majority.
The Council will now negotiate final wording with the European Parliament, which previously rejected the scanning.

Bloody hell imagine having to put that as your address.
And the council are still only debating whether or not they want to rename the road!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg90qk13xdo

How does genocide happen in 2025? Because of toadies like Keir Starmer.
He should be sitting at The Hague alongside Netanyahu, Trump, Friedrich Merz, and everyone else who is complicit in the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people.
#israel #genocide

Call for papers | Catholic Record Society 68th Annual Conference | 1-2 July 2026 | London & online
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Critical Survey (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Dear Colleague, The latest issue of Critical Survey…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Disgusting. Pope Innocent the 2nd is woke. Prohibiting under anathema "that murderous art of crossbowmen and archers" to be used against Catholics and Christians. Imagine giving into the "Peace and Truce" woke peasant mob. Fuck the Lateran Council. As a successful, red-blooded, 6'1" noble, I will KEEP hiring as many crossbowmen as are willing to share my 3 empty standing stalls.

Sigh.... Somedays I'm reminded just how far we still have to go to reduce bigotry amongst those we elect
https://www.bordermail.com.au/story/9115872/federation-council-moves-to-drop-indigenous-flags-from-chambers/<…

The Riverina council that just voted to take down Indigenous flags
Mayor's push for 'unified culture' creates heat among councillors.

"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."

U.N. Security Council Adopts Trump’s Peace Plan for Gaza - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/world/middleeast/un-security-council-gaza-peace-plan.html

In Major Breakthrough, U.N. Security Council Adopts U.S. Peace Plan for Gaza (Farnaz Fassihi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/world/middleeast/un-security-council-gaza-peace-plan.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p157#a251117p157

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Style Council:
🎵 How She Threw It All Away
#TheStyleCouncil
https://open.spotify.com/track/5VTvWY2wVOdyfX6Bzi92Zv

ICE detained British journalist Sami Hamdi on October 26 at SFO; the Council on American-Islamic Relations says it was retaliation for his criticism of Israel (Michael Sainato/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/ice…

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/10/27/manchesters-local-plan-responding-to-the-consultation/
Our draft response notes some glaring prob…

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation
Local Plans are what guide the pattern of a land use and and building across a council area.  In the case of Greater Manchester (excluding Stockport), the Joint Strategic Plan, Places for Everyone …

Now simultaneously on #Soyuz MS-28 docking to the ISS - and on https://watch.esa.int/Two/ a (slightly delayed) press conference from the ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level.

From SPEC
We are writing today to share some difficult news. #Vancouver City Council has eliminated funding for the citywide Repair Café program in its newly approved 2026 budget. Because Repair Cafés operate through a City contract, the loss of this funding will significantly erode SPEC’s ability to deliver these events at their current scale. The cuts mean that several of the planned 2026 Repai…

UN Security Council approves Trump’s Gaza”peace plan”, green-lighting U.S.-Israeli control of Gaza’s future – Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/un-security-council-approves-trumps-gazapeace-plan-green-lighting-u-s-israeli-control-of-gazas-future/

"Interesting that Lloyd suggests that Andrew should be “packed out to a shed in the Outer Hebrides”. Why is Scotland always seen as the repository for unwanted goods and people?" — @…
A council house in Clacton would seem more suitable. I'm sure he would be welcome there.

But can these neighbours afford the high prices small shops must pay for small-batch wholesale and rent? Will banks finance small enterprise or treat them like restaurants?
I'm all for a walkable ward, but mine is already conspicuously littered with boarded up small shops and gentrified boutiques.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-council-votes-oppose-ford-government-bill-60-9.6976288

Kiama locals complain about car park being used to park cars.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-21/jamberoo-car-park-byd-storage-bid-rejected-kiama-…

Kiama Council rejects application to store BYD EVs at Jamberoo Action Park
Jamberoo Action Park's car park has been used to store BYD electric vehicles, but not for much longer.

Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to allocate computing capacity given a critical shortage; members include Thomas Kurian and Demis Hassabis (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-balancing-act-googles-co…

Inside the Balancing Act Over Google’s Compute Crunch
Earlier this year, Google convened a group of its top executives to address what some staffers see as an existential problem: the company doesn’t have enough computer chips for everyone who wants them. A shortage of computing capacity was creating internal tensions, as leaders of Google’s varied ...

Not a bad read on #Wythenshawe and the redevelopment plans.
The battle for the garden city - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ne

The battle for the garden city
Campaigners say Wythenshawe's £500m revamp has 'a real sense of gentrification', but Manchester council points out that it's building 422 all-affordable homes to kick the project off. Ethan Davies reports on the battle for the garden city

Scottish Greens to bring buses back into public ownership with free bus travel for all, and to replace Council Tax.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62e7849l1lo

Scottish Greens vow to make bus travel free for all and to replace council tax
The co-leaders pledged to "bring hope back to this country's politics" during their first conference speech after they were elected in August.

Salt Lake City mayor, council leaders broadly condemn ICE airport arrest in 'gateway to our state' (Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/10/30/salt-lake-city-mayor-condemns-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p49#a251031p49

Regional Queenslanders have the poorest dental health in the country and most regional Queenslanders don't realise that," Dr Foley said.
It's known as the 'Queensland Smile.'
https://ww…

Kiama Council rejects application to store BYD EVs at Jamberoo Action Park
Jamberoo Action Park's car park has been used to store BYD electric vehicles, but not for much longer.

The UK approves the £750M Marlow Studios project backed by James Cameron, overruling a 2024 local council decision to block it due to environmental concerns (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

UN security council passes US-drafted resolution authorising an international stabilisation force in Gaza
The UN security council has voted to pass the US-drafted resolution regarding the mandate for an International Stabilisation Force in Gaza, one of the key points in Trump’s Gaza plan

Chandler Langevin, a Palm Bay council member elected last year,
claimed that Indians come to America to “drain our pockets” before returning to India,
“or worse … to stay”.
His remarks have sparked widespread anger.
Since 29 September, residents along with regional and national Indian American groups have crowded Palm Bay city council meetings and demanded that he step down.

Trump administration makes major changes to a report it commissioned on FEMA reforms, AP sources say (Gabriela Aoun Angueira/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/fema-review-council-kristi-noem-trump-disasters-22274e65fad13b9e3005e302bcce9cbb
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p166#a251119p166

With the Washington DC mayoral field now wide open,
who will step into the race?
Recently, two names have been bandied about:
D.C. Council members Janeese Lewis George (D-Ward 4)
and Kenyan R. McDuffie (I-At Large).
Lewis George reportedly is on the cusp of launching a bid in the style of fellow democratic socialist and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

The D.C. mayoral race might include its own Mamdani-style candidacy
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser’s announcement was quiet. The campaign to replace her won’t be.

Putin calls European leaders 'little pigs' and says Russia will achieve Ukraine goals by diplomacy or force - Europe live (Jakub Krupa/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/dec/17/ukraine-russia-war-eu-european-council-frozen-assets-zelenskyy-europe-live-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p57#a251217p57

Putin calls European leaders
‘little pigs’
and says Russia will achieve its
Ukraine goals by diplomacy or force
The Russian leader says the aims of its ‘special military operation’ will be met ‘unconditionally
https://www…

Bessent resets financial watchdog with deregulatory mandate (Aiden Reiter/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/11/treasury-bessent-financial-stability-oversight-council-letter-00686574
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p61#a251211p61

The only remaining criminal case against Donald Trump has been revived
after the head of Georgia’s prosecutor’s council appointed himself to replace Fani Willis,
the Fulton county district attorney, who was removed from the election interference case in September.
Pete Skandalakis,
a Republican and the executive director of the prosecuting attorneys’ council of Georgia,
the state body that provides legal training and is often charged to mitigate prosecutorial co…

The case against Donald Trump and his co-defendants in Georgia ended on Wednesday
with a filing for dismissal by the state prosecutor who took over after the removal of Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney.
Pete Skandalakis, the prosecutor and the executive director of the prosecuting attorneys’ council of Georgia, confirmed to the Guardian that
“it’s over”after superior court judge Scott McAfee issued a one-page order on Wednesday dismissing the 2020 racketeeri…

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said on Sunday that
the United States has revoked the visa for British journalist
Sami Hamdi,
alleging that he has supported terrorism and worked to
"undermine American national security."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) confirmed that Hamdi has not been deported but remains in custody,
and lawyers for the advocacy group are "working to address this injusti…

DHS Revokes Visa for British Journalist Accused of Supporting Terrorism
British Journalist Sam Hamdi has been accused of supporting terrorism and remains in custody as the U.S. looks to deport him.

"the Fedora Council has approved the latest version of the AI-Assisted Contributions policy formally".
Whoever contributes the code is required to be fully transparent on what AI tool has been used for it.
https://www.gamingonlinux.co…

Fedora Linux project agrees to allow AI-assisted contributions with a new policy
AI generation, it's everywhere! And now it's going to be formally accepted into Fedora Linux, as per the latest approved change with a new policy.

Many lawyers and career officials at the White House National Security Council, Pentagon and Justice Department ...
who had raised concerns about using lethal force against "narcotraffickers" ...
either left government or were reassigned or removed.
https://skywriter.b…