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Vegetables. Monetary policy. Facebook: How one post about a central bank decision fired up Ukraine's top economists: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/vegetables-monetary-policy-facebook-how.html

let me rephrase that title : Big Tech basically flipped their script and bowed to the King (other images come to mind but would be very vulgar)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/big-tech-basically-took-trumps-unpredicta…

Big Tech basically took Trump’s unpredictable trade war lying down
From Apple gifting a gold statue to the US taking a stake in Intel.

Trump fills end of 2025 with foreign policy (Brett Samuels/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5665946-trump-foreign-policy-focus/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p10#a251230p10

Sources and a memo: the US DOJ is using a novel reading of a federal anti-fraud law to probe contractors, including Google and Verizon, over their DEI programs (Lydia Wheeler/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-doj-dei-fraud-investig…

A cracked windshield, a waiting officer, a forgotten document:
The new family separations often start in the most mundane ways.
Seven years ago, during the first administration of President Donald Trump,
children were taken from their families the moment they crossed the border into the United States.
Under a policy of zero tolerance for illegal crossing, Customs and Border Protection officers detained adults while children were sent into the federal shelter system.…

ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.

Ok, now do circumcision:
Kennedy: No sufficient evidence for Tylenol-autism link
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5582061-kennedy-trump-tylenol-autism/

Kriegstüchtige Geheimdienste https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10177

How does a solar company thrive when policy support wavers?
ReVision Energy in New England has the answer: prioritize people over profit. The B Corp became employee-owned, built an electrical apprenticeship program, and focused on community relationships rather than transactional sales.
Now they're seeing a surge in demand as tax credits expire.

US solar installer adapts business model as policy support shifts
ReVision Energy leverages a relationship-driven model and workforce innovation to navigate evolving clean energy policies and sustain long-term growth across the northeastern United States.

ICE has policies??? That IS news!😏
Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/ice-hidden-detention-sites

Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks
Guardian analysis finds ICE increasingly keeps people in holding rooms with little oversight, as some facilities see a 600% rise in detention length

UN report: Israel silently tolerates torture and murder in its prisons
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/29/israel-has-de-facto-state-policy-of-organised-torture-says-un-reportses

A rave from the grave (2009) here!
https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-UK-policy-modelling-tool.html
I think I was asked by David Mackay to think about this stuff, but did not run with it...

On a Possible UK Policy Modelling Tool (2009)
What-Ifs and Goal-Seeking for policy makers and the rest of us in the UK?

Debating changing the ngscopeclient AI policy to be a bit more practically enforceable.
Basically, vibe coded / LLM generated code will continue to be prohibited as it tends to be low quality slop of unclear copyright provenance that is both legally risky and full of bugs.
But there won't be a explicit prohibition on trivial autocomplete usage, whether LLM based or classical dictionary based.
The rationale is based on practicality of enforcement of the current hard-line…

Putin playing Trump,
"Kremlin foreign policy Yuri Ushakov said that on the call with Putin today, Trump had been “shocked” by the Russian claim that the Ukrainians had targeted Putin’s Novgorod residence, in northwestern Russia."
https://diplom…

‘Complete fabrication’: Zelenskyy denies attack on Putin residence, Kremlin threatens to escalate
“This alleged ‘residence strike’ story is a complete fabrication intended to justify additional attacks against Ukraine,” Ukraine President Zelenskyy.

If you’re fed up with Meta right now,
you’re not alone.
Google searches for deleting Facebook and Instagram spiked last week
after Meta announced its latest policy changes.
These changes, seemingly designed to appease the incoming Trump administration,
included loosening Meta’s hate speech policy to allow for the targeting of LGBTQ people and immigrants. 
If these changes
—or Meta’s long history of anti-competitive, censorial, and invasive practice…

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect and profit from your personal data, here’s what you need to know.

“This is a complete failure of government policy, and a failure of its duty to protect the wellbeing of people seeking sanctuary. People should be housed in communities, not camps.”
Campaigners slam Labour’s ‘cruel’ plan to move asylum-seekers into military camps | Morning Star
https:…

Climate policy should reduce greenhouse gas emissions (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring)
https://www.slowboring.com/p/climate-policy-should-reduce-greenhouse
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p42#a251030p42

So I hacked my way into being Cyber Policy Initiative Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. I'm workin on rural water critical infrastructure cybersecurity.
Do you even hack utilities? Please chat w me. I need to quickly find out where I"m wrong about some of my assumptions.
Still very entertained by the fact that I *finally* got into the University of Chicago. :D

3-star Lt. Gen. Joe McGee steps down amid reported friction with Pete Hegseth, Dan Caine
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5581245-three-star-general-mcghee-retires/

Die weiße Zukunft des Westens https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10221

Hear about the bombshell discovery of a report that U.S. govt officials had ordered burned that has the potential to expose the truth about one of the most radical policy decisions in all of American history.
Listen to:
✅ Burn Order | Rachel Maddow
https://www.rachelmaddow.com/burn-order/<…

As a non-binary person living in #Bergen, #Norway, this video made me cry from pure euphoria, a wave of relief knowing I am seen just as I am.
I hope it brings you the same confidence and happiness, showing that you are truly seen and celebrated for who you are.

At least I got the day job to implement a "no AI browsers on work machines" policy.
If you CISO has not released a policy forbidding AI browsers at your company they are asleep at the wheel.
https://mstdn.social/@Hackread/115448122449051028

TikTok names veteran government affairs executive Ziad Ojakli as its head of public policy for the Americas, replacing longtime policy lead Michael Beckerman (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/25/tiktok-public-policy-ziad-ojakli

Exclusive: TikTok hires Ziad Ojakli as new head of public policy for Americas
Ojakli will become the public face of TikTok's policy strategy as it looks to get sold and save itself from a ban.

Minor kerfuffle with #evlife charging at my parents means it's going to be a two stop strategy getting home today. At least my policy of always having my #steamdeck when travelling pays off. To get to 80% charge is about one round of Vampire Survivors 😉

😲 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 […]

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Based just on anecdotal evidence: it seems surprisingly common for scientists to be told by funders, managers, or policy people that mentioning #uncertainty or limitations “complicates” the message or weakens its impact [1]. (Days ago, yet another colleague shared a story on this, with other scientists nodding along, recalling similar moments happened to them)
But here's the …

"Protestival". Wat een geweldig concept ('geweldig' natuurlijk in strikt figuurlijke zin).
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/28/australia-protestival-newcastle-rising-tide-music-climate…

Australia’s ‘protestival’: kayaks, music, a push for climate change action – and the risk of arrest
Fossil fuel protesters are making their annual pilgrimage to the NSW city of Newcastle to draw attention to climate policy failure. Police will be there too, with a ‘zero tolerance approach’

I didn’t mind reading the article, the headline says it all: “OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/openai-says-dead-teen-violated-tos-when-he-used-ch…

OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide
OpenAI’s response to teen suicide case is “disturbing,” lawyer says.

Tarah Wheeler has joined the initiative as Senior Fellow and Board Member, where she will direct research to guide CPI’s development of a first-of-its-kind Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) model tailored for rural water utilities across the United States
https://

This brings to mind Gladstone's quote about judging a society based on how it treats its dead. We've got to do better. #JusticeReform #PrisonReform

These Families Wanted to Lay Their Loved Ones to Rest. They Had to Bring Them Home From Prison First.
Policies that dictate what happens after a death behind bars often add new layers of pain — and financial and logistical challenges — for those left behind.

British Airways pulls sponsorship from Louis Theroux's podcast after he interviewed Bob Vylan about his Glastonbury comments, saying it "breaches" its policy (Harry Taylor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct

New (very minimal) Internet-Draft submitted: ASN Prefix-based Addressing for IPv6
"This document describes a method and policy for ASN prefix-based addressing for IPv6."
If this goes anywhere I expect it will change, and grow, markedly.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/dra…

Transatlantische Weltraumrivalen https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10179

Klobuchar says Senate ACA vote 'will happen' before New Year (Max Rego/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5627171-klobuchar-predicts-aca-senate-vote/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p40#a251130p40

NFL reminds players to adhere to gambling policy https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46714355/nfl-reminds-players-protect-shield-obey-gambling-policy

Resilience of Ukraine’s Small and Medium Businesses Amid the War: Challenges, Policy, and the Future: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/resilience-of-ukraines-small-and.html

Job yield from industrial renewable capture systems is low. There's a need for a coherent policy approach using community and public ownership to build the ecological replacement economy.
Wind energy jobs ‘one in a million’ warns STUC | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk…

“Openness to technology is not industrial policy” – interview with MAN CEO Alexander Vlaskamp
https://www.electrive.com/2025/10/23/openness-to-technology-is-not-industrial-policy-interviw-with-man-ceo-alexander-vl…

“Openness to technology is not industrial policy” – interview with MAN CEO Alexander Vlaskamp - electrive.com
German Chancellor Merz hosted an auto summit this month and delivered the catchy line that “the electric car drives on the main road”. But where does the

DOGE staffer set to replace admiral leading Navy's research office (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5581695-navy-chief-research-replaced/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p126#a251030p126

Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a Meta policy excluding rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, broadening the scope of a probe started in July (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/italys-competi…

Italy’s Competition Watchdog Broadens WhatsApp AI Policy Probe
The regulator began probing Meta over its WhatsApp AI messaging tool in July

“Opening locks” might not sound like scintillating social media content,
but Trevor McNally has turned lock-busting into online gold.
A former US Marine Staff Sergeant, McNally today has more than 7 million followers and has amassed more than 2 billion views
just by showing how easy it is to open many common locks by slapping, picking, or shimming them

10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.

Oz: Coming spike in ACA premium payments 'not the big issue' (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5580142-affordable-care-act-premiums-increase-dr-oz/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p45#a251030p45

Breaks the law: "the policy is aimed primarily at organizations that work with immigrants and transgender youth"
Trump administration completes new rules on public service loan forgiveness | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/public-service-loan-forgiveness-debt-cancellation-62536bdb25f04b5138d2d0a2aeec4e58

Trump sides with Russia on claims that Ukraine targeted Putin residence (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5665629-russia-ukraine-putin-drone-attack-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p72#a251229p72

„Wunsch nach klarer Friedenspolitik“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10176

The Trump administration’s bid to systematically lock up nearly all immigrants facing deportation proceedings has led to a fierce
— and mounting
— rejection by courts across the country.
That effort, which began with an abrupt policy change by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on July 8,
has led to a tidal wave of emergency lawsuitsafter ICE’s targets were arrested at workplaces, courthouses or check-ins with immigration officers.
Many have lived in the U.S. …

Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI (Lydia Wheeler/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-doj-dei-fraud-investigations-93213d52
http://www.memeorandum.com/251228/p41#a251228p41

NFL reminds teams of its gambling policy in wake of federal NBA betting scandal

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-reminds-teams-of-its-gambling-p…

YouTube will age-restrict more video game content showing "graphic violence" and stop creators from directing users to gambling sites involving digital goods (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/808545/youtube-graphic-video-ga…

YouTube will restrict more content showing ‘graphic violence’ in video games
YouTube’s new policy will age-restrict more content showing “scenes of torture or mass violence against non-combatants” in video games.

Pentagon's new rules ease firing of civilian workers
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5577739-pentagon-civilian-personnel-rules/

ICE's forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, lawmakers say (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ices-forced-face-scans-to-verify-citizens-is-unconstitutional-lawmakers-say/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p119#a251029p119

Chuckling about "Coinbase" teaching people how to <checks notes> "detect & avoid scams". 🤨
☑️ Coinbase Institute: Detecting and Avoiding Scams
https://www.coinbase.com/public-policy/advocacy/documents/detecting-and-avo…

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

I don't usually post articles from the Telegraph but this from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is worth a read. A key point is that the emphasis should be on decarbonising the sources not yet electified. Tories mis-estimate costs of a return to gas, not including capital costs.
The Tories are even bigger fools than Labour on energy policy

The Tories are even bigger fools than Labour on energy policy
If the UK acts unilaterally, British companies will face a carbon border tax nightmare

The UK proposes a "no gain, no loss" tax rule for crypto lending and liquidity pools in DeFi, deferring capital gains tax until a true economic disposal occurs (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/11/27/uk-p…

Rezension: Gewerkschaften in der Zeitenwende https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10175

David Sacks,
the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar,
has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends
and many of his own tech investments.
Since January, Mr. Sacks, 53, has occupied one of the most advantageous moonlighting roles in the federal government,
influencing policy for Silicon Valley in Washington while simultaneously working in Silicon Valley as an investor.
Among his actions as the White House’s artificial intelligen…

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.

The leading vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a far stricter course for federal vaccine approvals,
following claims from his team that Covid vaccines were linked to the deaths of at least 10 children.
Experts suggest the announcement will make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
Dr Vinay Prasad, whose vaccine policy direction has been supported by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, told FDA staff that…

YouTube will age-restrict more video game content showing "graphic violence" and stop creators from directing users to gambling sites involving digital goods (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/808545/youtube-graphic-video-ga…

YouTube will restrict more content showing ‘graphic violence’ in video games
YouTube’s new policy will age-restrict more content showing “scenes of torture or mass violence against non-combatants” in video games.

Trump directs Pentagon to test nuclear weapons, just before meeting China’s Xi
Donald Trump on Thursday morning said he directed the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons
“on an equal basis” with Russia and China,
-- abruptly inserting nuclear issues into the discussion just before meeting his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, for a high-stakes trade summit here.

The announcement signaled a reversal of decades of United States nuclear policy that could have far-re…

Trump directs Pentagon to test nuclear weapons for first time since 1992
The president said he wanted testing to occur “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, just before he met his Chinese counterpart for high-stakes trade talks.

Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/ice-hidden-detention-sites
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p43#a251030p43

I've only just learned of the death of our former colleague Chris Gathercole last April. I knew him as an advocate for learning disabled people, taking their place, with support, in the life of the community. He had a profound influence on provision in the North West, where with Tom Mclean, who died the previous year, and others, he steered into being a radical policy framework that shaped the pattern of de-institutionalisation in the region.

Die ultrarechte Renaissance des Westens https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10173

Five Questions About American Foreign Policy (Daniel W. Drezner/Drezner's World)
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/five-questions-about-american-foreign
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p26#a251130p26

"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.

Trump, HHS target Seattle hospital in transgender care crackdown
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5663898-hhs-rfk-jr-seattle-transgender-care/

Trump's comments on nuclear testing upend decades of US policy. Here's what to know about it (Jon Gambrell/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-us-nuclear-tests-explainer-e641db1a4c99721bbd4ecd187d7dff65
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p41#a251030p41

TikTok pushes merchants to use a new ad-buying tool that promotes videos linking to TikTok Shop rather than merchants' own sites, frustrating some merchants (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-shops-new-…

TikTok Shop’s New Ad Policy Risks Alienating Merchants
As TikTok readies itself for the expected sale of its U.S. business to a new venture controlled by American investors, the company is trying to boost its commerce business, TikTok Shop. But the measures it has taken risk alienating merchants who sell on the shopping service. TikTok Shop in ...

Nasal spray as noninvasive brain tumor treatment developed by researchers
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5663293-nasal-drops-fight-deadly-brain-cancer-research/

The triumph of bullshit -- Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy. (Liz Dye/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-tylenol-autism-lawsuit-texas
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p34#a251029p34

House Republican: 'You cannot be America first and pro-Russia' (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5664765-turner-russia-war-aggression-ukraine/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251228/p29#a251228p29

Poland's antitrust office UOKiK is probing whether Apple's ATT limits third-party data collection in mobile ads while giving Apple's own ads service an edge (Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sus…

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, according to a transcript of the Oct. 14 call published by the Bloomberg news service,
advised Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov that Putin should call Trump to congratulate him for the Gaza peace deal,
say Russia had supported it and that he respects the president as a man of peace.
“From that, it’s going to be a really good call,” Witkoff said according to the transcript.
When asked by Russian state media to comment on Bloomberg’s…

How Witkoff coached Putin's aide on pitching Trump, according to a Bloomberg report
President Donald Trump’s chief interlocutor with the Russian government last month advised a senior aide to Vladimir Putin on how the Russian leader should go about pitching the U.S. president on a Ukraine peace plan. That's according to a transcript of the Oct. 14 call published Tuesday by Bloomberg News. The news agency said it reviewed a recording of the call. It said Trump envoy Steve Witkoff advised Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov that Putin should call the U.S. leader to c…

New mpox cases in California raise concerns among experts
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5572528-california-mpox-concerns/

Am kürzeren Hebel https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10171

Medicare staffing raises alarm with open enrollment underway (Lee Ann Anderson/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5577102-medicare-staffing-raises-alarm-with-open-enrollment-underway/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p126#a251028p126

Trump Pushes for 'Reverse Migration' as He Seeks to Widen Crackdown (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-pushes-for-reverse-migration-as-he-seeks-to-widen-crackdown-9a131da3
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p57#a251128p57

Pentagon removes key protections for civilian workers, moves to fire with 'speed and conviction' (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5577739-pentagon-civilian-personnel-rules/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p153#a251028p153

Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future launches a $10M media campaign to push Congress to craft a national AI policy that will override a patchwork of state laws (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/ai-pac-trump-congress-midterms.html

AI super PAC launches $10 million campaign pushing 'uniform' national policy
The PAC is mobilizing as President Donald Trump's White House and congressional Republicans are working to suppress states' ability to implement AI laws.

How Trump Became the Unlikely Champion of Easing Marijuana Restrictions (Josh Dawsey/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/how-trump-became-the-unlikely-champion-of-easing-marijuana-restrictions-54ce34f8?st=9yuhct&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p41#a251227p41

Last week, the Department of Justice announced it will be monitoring elections in
• Passaic County, New Jersey
• Kern County, California
• Riverside County, California
• Fresno County, California
• Orange County, California
• Los Angeles County, California
You’ll note that the announcement offers no explanation as to why those particular jurisdictions were chosen or what authority the DOJ is invoking.
Instead, we have an empty statement from Attorne…

The DOJ's "election monitoring" is really voter suppression
Trump's Big Lie has become government policy.

Sources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October (Kiran Rathee/The Economic Times)
https://econom…

Concern over misuse extent even as WhatsApp bans 1 cr numbers a month
The Indian government is concerned about the widespread misuse of Indian mobile numbers on platforms like WhatsApp, with millions of accounts banned monthly for violations. Officials are discussing with WhatsApp how to curb this, as the platform's refusal to share banned numbers hinders efforts to combat cyber fraud and scams.

A US judge decertifies a class action that accused Apple of monopolizing the market for iPhone apps, citing errors in the plaintiffs' damages model (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Chegg plans to cut 388 roles, or about 45% of the workforce, citing the "new realities of AI", and says executive chairman Dan Rosensweig returns as CEO (Vallari Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainab…

What's on the GOP menu for ObamaCare reform, subsidy extensions (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5624197-aca-subsidies-republican-options/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p9#a251127p9

ICE says it no longer has to allow Democrats access to facilities due to shutdown (Brady Knox/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3865705/ice-democrats-access-facilities-shutdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p135#a251027p135

Trump administration pledges to 'surge' ICE operations after recruitment spike (Emily Hallas/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3864880/trump-administration-dhs-surge-ice-operations-recruitment-spike/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p74#a251027p74

Trump says midterm elections will be 'about pricing' despite calling affordability a 'dead' issue (David Zimmermann/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/4362763/trump-midterm-elections-pricing-despite-calling-affordability-dead-issue/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p22#a251227p22

3 policy heavyweights endangered by redistricting (Benjamin Guggenheim/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/24/three-policy-heavyweights-endangered-by-redistricting-00704852
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p5#a251224p5

Prosecuting the Powerful -- Historical data shows putting leaders on trial is a healthy democratic practice. (Foreign Policy)
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/democracy-prosecution-crimes-sarkozy-trump-berlusconi/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p82#a251028p82

Turkey says it arrested 115 suspected ISIS militants (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5663301-turkey-isis-arrests/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251225/p28#a251225p28

Former congressmen launch super PACs backing AI safeguards (Julia Shapero/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5624317-ai-safeguards-super-pacs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251126/p118#a251126p118

Ground stop issued for LAX flights due to staffing issues: FAA (Lily Dallow/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5573849-lax-ground-stop-shutdown-staffing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p31#a251026p31

Paul floats bipartisan commission amid Affordable Care Act subsidies battle (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5573921-rand-paul-affordable-care-act-subsidies-commission/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p46#a251026p46

How Trump Barreled Through D.C.'s Bureaucracy to Get His White House Ballroom (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-white-house-ballroom-construction-d1616a3e
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p61#a251025p61

Seven in 10 ICE arrests under Trump have criminal histories (Anna Giaritelli/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3916231/seven-in-10-ice-arrests-under-trump-criminal-histories/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p14#a251226p14

The Lone House Democrat Who Thinks His Party Has the Shutdown All Wrong (Olivia Beavers/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/jared-golden-maine-democrat-shutdown-f18bb2fb?st=zR3aN3
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p7#a251026p7

Trump, Long Erratic on the World Stage, Reaches a New Level (David E. Sanger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/us/politics/trump-erratic-foreign-policy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p50#a251026p50