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A US judge orders Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Spiegel, and Adam Mosseri to testify in the "first bellwether trial" over child social media safety, set for January (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/meta-instagram-snap-social-media-chi…

Zuckerberg, Mosseri and Spiegel ordered to testify in child social media safety trial
Mark Zuckerberg will need to testify at the first trial over the adverse effects of social media on younger users, a Los Angeles judge ruled Monday.

In a remarkable turn from prominent American conservatives,
-- who until Trump’s return to power in January had long complained of a censorious leftwing “cancel culture”
-- now seem happy to reframe that, too, as “consequence culture”.
Nancy Mace, a House representative, sounded a lot like the progressives she has often decried for their political correctness when she declaredlast week, during an effort to censure one of her opponents in Congress, that “free speech isn’t f…

Trump's tactics against the media resemble approaches used by authoritarian leaders in other countries, such as Hungary and Serbia, to curtail critical coverage (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-dictators-medi…

Trump's attacks on media echo authoritarians who silence dissent
Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against the media unlike any in modern U.S. history, making moves similar to those of authoritarian leaders that he has often praised. On Wednesday, Trump cheered ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after the comedian made remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk that criticized the president’s MAGA movement. It was the latest in a string of attacks against n…

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Plans to Resign in January (Annie Karni/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-resigns.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251121/p135#a251121p135

very tempted!
https://detroitopera.org/symphonic-pfunk-celebrating-the-music-of-parliament-funkadelic/

Documents: OpenAI has more than 100 ex-investment bankers paid $150 per hour to train its AI to build financial models as part of its secretive Project Mercury (Omar El Chmouri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

New reporting on Monday detailed just how much US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has spent on weaponry since Donald Trump took office
—weapons that have been purchased as the administration has turned federal agents on US cities such as Chicago and Portland, illustrating how the president is treating increasingly armed ICE officers as his
“private military,” as one progressive critic said.
The agency spent $71,515,762 on small arms from January 20—the day Trump began his…

Trump’s ICE jacks up weapons spending by 700%—including ‘guided missile warheads’
“ICE was always going to be Trump’s private military to deploy domestically against Americans,” said one critic.

Tom Homan was being investigated for allegedly accepting a $50,000 bribe
— before Donald Trump’s Department of Justice shut down the probe.
“The FBI and the Justice Department planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation’s top immigration official,”
the report said.
“But the case indefinitely stalled soon after Donald Trump became president again in January."

Bombshell Report Claims Trump DOJ Shut Down Probe Into Alleged $50K Tom Homan Bribe
A bombshell new report claims Tom Homan was being investigated for allegedly accepting a $50,000 bribe before the Trump DOJ shut it down.

The graph of public interest in Jimmy Kimmel's
#Wikipedia page since January 1 shows a few little bumps of interest and then a big BOOM.
Try it yourself: https://wikitwister.com/seismograph.html

I don’t expect the World Liberty Financial scandal,
—which The New York Times exposed in a superb investigative piece Monday
—to follow a recognizable trajectory.
That’s because nothing since January has followed a recognizable trajectory.
In the world I know, the Times story would initiate a Justice Department investigation and an impeachment inquiry,
and Trump’s Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff could be counted on to resign by week’s end.
In the mystifying w…

Does Anybody Care This Is the Worst Bribery Scandal Since Teapot Dome?
The UAE put $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. Nothing to see here, move along.