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FPF Releases Updated Report on the State Comprehensive Privacy Law Landscape
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-updated-report-on-the-state-comprehensive-privacy-law-landscape/
@…

In his EO, Trump orders US AG Pam Bondi to create an "AI Litigation Task Force" that meets regularly with David Sacks to challenge "inconsistent" state AI laws (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/trump-orders-c

Trump orders creation of litigation task force to challenge state AI laws
On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for a single regulatory framework governing artificial intelligence in the US...

🧩 The state of the Rust dependency ecosystem
#rust

“The US State Department’s Font Flip-Flop: Guest Article by Dr. Aina G. Irbe on A Step Backward for Accessibility”
https://www.lflegal.com/2026/01/font-flip-flop/
The guest author worked for the State Department when it replaced Times New Roman in 2023.

The US State Department's Font Flip-Flop
Amidst the cruelty and chaos of president trump and the current federal administration in the United States, December 2025 brought news of a font change for documents in the State Department. A font change of course is small in comparison to the local, national, and global harms of the administratio

Trump said Thursday evening he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters,
a former Colorado county clerk who is serving a nine-year state sentence for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines
— even though the president's pardon power ionly applies to federal crimes. 
https://www.

Trump pardons jailed ex-Colorado election official Tina Peters, but she was charged in state court
President Trump said he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who was convicted of allowing unauthorized access to voting machines — even though the pardon power is widely understood to only apply to federal crimes.

Why in the hell is the state of Texas so hellbent on killing Robert Roberson?
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2025/11/11/state-pushes-back-on-evidentiary-hearing-in-robert-robersons-death-penalty-case/<…

Robert Roberson update: State fights evidentiary hearing call
Robert Roberson’s legal team has long sought to present a deluge of evidence compiled since his 2003 capital murder trial that they say will prove his...

Hillbilly state cancels PBS:
https://apnews.com/article/arkansas-public-television-sever-ties-56ec111ffcc4de431d6fd06ba0df8e40

US State Department threatens UK over probe into Elon Musk's X (Mizy Clifton/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-state-department-threaten-uk-probe-elon-musk-x-grok/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p39#a260113p39

I want to remind everyone of the Montana Plan - a viable approach to diminish the force of the Citizens United decision.
I myself have written about the power of each separate State to regulate corporations operating under the laws of that state - especially those corporations created under the laws of that state. This means that each state has the power and authority to regulate and restrict how corporations created under that state's laws spend money, and for what purpose.

Transparent Election Initiative - Our Fight Against Corporate Money in Politics
Join our fight for transparent elections. The Montana Plan uses state constitutional authority to keep corporate money out of politics and restore democracy to the people.

Dammit, I thought this was satire! 🤣
Marco Rubio orders US State Department to revert to Times New Roman font, calling Calibri adoption 'wasteful'
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-10/us-state-department-reverts-times-new-roma…

Marco Rubio orders US State Department to revert to Times New Roman font, calling Calibri adoption 'wasteful'
In a leaked internal cable, Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls the department's decision to adopt Calibri in 2023 a "wasteful" diversity move.

You can't make this stuff up https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html

Friends in #Gaza/#Palestine:
Obviously a one-state solution is impossible while Netanyahu still leads #Israel. But could you imagine ever feeling safe in a unitary secular state in which Islamic, Christian, Jewish and other citizens had real equality under the law, if all land seized since 1950 was re…

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson plans to invest $124M on venue space and a production campus in Louisiana; the state agreed to provide $50M in infrastructure funding (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

50 Cent’s Studio Plans $124 Million Investment In Louisiana Complex
The 'Power' producer's G-Unit Film & Television has finalized a deal with the state on a development plan for three entertainment venues.

"**A proposal to reopen the U.S. government that passed the Senate on Monday contains language that would outlaw the sale of consumable hemp products across the nation.**"
Federal action may end fight over intoxicating hemp products in Texas
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5600856-federal-action-may-end-fight-over-intoxicating-hemp-products-in-texas/

From direct attacks on the press by a fascistic federal government
to the explosion of AI and the closure and consolidation of news outlets around the country,
truth itself is under direct, relentless assault,
as are the journalists who have committed their lives to reporting the truth about what’s happening in and to our world.
The intended result of these attacks is to create a more atomized, alienated, ignorant, disempowered public
that is easier to divide…

The state of the free press in the US is… not good
“In the United States of America, here in the Year of Our Lord 2025, the state of the free press is not good… But you need to understand: They are going after us to disempower YOU.”

Watch: 2025 NIAA State Championship games at Allegiant Stadium https://www.raiders.com/video/watch-2025-niaa-state-championship-allegiant-stadium

NABU raids Ukraine’s State Tax Service amid probe linked to ‘Midas’corruption case: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/10/nabu-raids-ukraines-state-tax.html

Doet me denken aan de Epstein files
US launches new retaliatory strikes against ISIS in Syria after deadly ambush | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/united-states-syria-islamic-state-411cab1d15b646cf30c4084ba2838fe4

More than 340,000 impacted by cyberattack on library in large Washington county https://therecord.media/over-340000-impacted-washington-state-library-hack

Sen. Scott Wiener, proposes #California bond measure to take $23 billion to fund an in-state program to counter #GOP budget cuts and restore taxpayer funding for vital #scientific research programs in the state.
Devastating

Calif. leaders propose $23B plan to protect science research
A proposed 2026 ballot measure aims to offset federal funding cuts amid hundreds of canceled grants.

Republican congressman proposes bill to make Greenland 51st state (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/greenland-randy-fine-bill-51st-state/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p36#a260113p36

Washington state overestimates climate law's emission reductions by a long shot #Washington

Washington state overestimates climate law's emission reductions by a long shot
Projects funded by Washington's Climate Commitment Act have not been nearly as effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions as previously thought, state officials acknowledged this week.

Working on getting my office sorted (sifting through piles of stuff and mounting new shelves among other things).
I found the project to tackle once I had the office in a working state again…

The inside beef on how and why the US (a developing gangster state on this evidence) managed to delay Shipping's Big Plan for Decarbonization, What Now? Tristan Smith
#GreenTransition
Episode webpage: https://cleaning-up-leadership-in-the-age-of-climate-change.simplecast.com/episodes/e229-tristan-smith-1JfVRjj3

Keith Ellison, hell yeah
(ETA: This is regarding the state of Minnesota suing feds to end the ICE invasion)
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/12/latest-monday-on-ice-shooting-in-minneapolis

contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

So, Micro Rubio marco-managing everything, declaring that sans-serif is woke but Times New Roman is politically correct.
A silly story, but the read should be that Rubio is entirely sidelined, if he has to pull stunts like this to keep busy, to keep in the public eye.
https://www.

At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts.

The criminals have taken over our society. We are now living in a failed state. If we don’t reverse it this year, we’re done for https://mastodon.seattlematrix.org/@mousey/115885378534677502

Paul Krugman compares the current US policy on digital media to a country trying to sell you illegal drugs: They know that what they sell harms people, but they have the money and power to make sure you will not intervene.
Very powerful comparison. #MustRead
"America has, in practice, become a digital narco-state."

"Strip away the rhetoric and what remains is simple: there is no military option that delivers what Trump has promised. The symbolic strike is too weak to matter. Decapitation risks installing a junta. The sustained campaign courts state collapse and regional conflagration"
https://time.com/7345293/…

Trump Has No Good Options On Iran
"As brave Iranians challenge the repressive regime in Tehran, the U.S leader faces three paths, each worse than the last," writes Bobby Ghosh

Nice to see Gov. Newsom speaking fluently about climate at #COP30 and representing the continuing state/city climate action in the *real* US, while the Trump team didn't even show up as it tries to deny and ignore reality to please its fossil fuel owners. https:/…

merrychristmas, separation of church and state be damned
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115713162753161483

Lurie admin "blamed the plan to stall housing at 101 Hyde on the state’s designation of the Tenderloin as a low-resourced area, which puts it down on the priority list for state funding."
SF has the third most billionaires of any city in the world. One of them is our mayor. Not having funds for affordable housing is a choice.

Plans for affordable housing at shuttered S.F. food hall site stuck in limbo 
La Cocina’s space in the Tenderloin was pitched as a community hub with cheap eats, and eventually affordable housing. Neither is happening.

In the 1960s, the Swedish comedy radio program Mosebacke Monarki satirically introduced ättestupa, abbreviated ÄTP, as an alternative to ATP, a state-provided pension.

My opinion - Foreign media in countries like #Australia, where this piece ran, shouldn't publish #Chinese government op-eds unless #China's state media publishes foreign diplomat op-eds.

Oh no, not Aspeyyy again, the Western influencer recycling bourgeois propaganda about the DPRK. North Korea is a Marxist-Leninist state; I oppose Marxism-Leninism in the form that produces a vanguardist state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhA5ljeyx84

Supreme Court weighs state restrictions on transgender student-athletes (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-transgender-athletes-girls-sports-state-bans-argument-rcna252377
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p18#a260113p18

Ohio State LB Arvell Reese announces intention to enter 2026 NFL Draft https://www.nfl.com/news/ohio-state-lb-arvell-reese-announces-intention-to-enter-2026-nfl-draft

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying "we want to have one central source of approval" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-will-sign-order-curbing-state-…

Multi state neurons
Robert Worden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08815 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08815 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.08815
arXiv:2512.08815v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Neurons, as eukaryotic cells, have powerful internal computation capabilities. One neuron can have many distinct states, and brains can use this capability. Processes of neuron growth and maintenance use chemical signalling between cell bodies and synapses, ferrying chemical messengers over microtubules and actin fibres within cells. These processes are computations which, while slower than neural electrical signalling, could allow any neuron to change its state over intervals of seconds or minutes. Based on its state, a single neuron can selectively de-activate some of its synapses, sculpting a dynamic neural net from the static neural connections of the brain. Without this dynamic selection, the static neural networks in brains are too amorphous and dilute to do the computations of neural cognitive models. The use of multi-state neurons in animal brains is illustrated in hierarchical Bayesian object recognition. Multi-state neurons may support a design which is more efficient than two-state neurons, and scales better as object complexity increases. Brains could have evolved to use multi-state neurons. Multi-state neurons could be used in artificial neural networks, to use a kind of non-Hebbian learning which is faster and more focused and controllable than traditional neural net learning. This possibility has not yet been explored in computational models.
toXiv_bot_toot

RE: https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/115705131669115328
Wow! They stole sooo much less ($2.2 million) than Home Depot stole from its own employees in wage theft in just one state ($72.5 million).
Imagine if we went after the biggest thieves instead. …

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU(just keep going)
https://locusmag.com/2025/12/john-varley-1947-2025/

John Varley (1947-2025)
John Varley (78) died December 10, 2025 in his home in Beaverton OR. He had COPD and diabetes. John Herbert Varley was born August 9, 1947 in Austin TX. He attended Michigan State University. His f…

#RedHat Enterprise #Linux 10.1 is out. It among others brings:
* Soft-reboots. This new systemd capability cuts downtime by letting administrators alter system state without fully rebooting.
* Reproducible builds for container tools in image mode.
* Cloud-crossing consistency w…

Now I've cleared my notes file, it's time for the Well State of the World 2026. These discussions are always intriguing... https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/561/State-of-the-World-2026-with-Bru-page01.html

Really excited to see that my #book on the #MsMarvel is on sale for $26, for the hardcover and softcover each.
https://www.

Ms. Marvel's America
Contributions by José Alaniz, Jessica Baldanzi, Eric Berlatsky, Peter E. Carlson, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Antero Garcia, Aaron Kashtan, Winona Landis, A. David Lewis, Martin Lund, Shabana Mir, Kristin ...

This looks like some pretty cool technology - I'd say it was too good to be true if it weren't for their track record and that it's actually in production.
https://interestingengineering.com/ces-2026/donut-lab-solid-state-battery-o…

Donut Lab puts five minute charging solid state batteries on the road
Donut Lab launches solid-state batteries ready for OEM use, powering 2026 Verge Motorcycles with fast charging and high energy density.

Grand Egyptian Museum Finally Opens in Sight of the Pyramids After Decades of Setbacks https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/grand-egyptian-museum-finally-opens-in-sight-of-the-pyramids-after-decades-of-setbacks/

Grand Egyptian Museum Finally Opens in Sight of the Pyramids After Decades of Setbacks
Fireworks and drone spectacles lit up the Saharan night above a gala of Egyptian elite, heads of state, and foreign dignitaries.

Republican Indiana State Senator:
We don't want to be redistricting every 2 years at the whim of the president.
It makes the legislative process just too transactional.
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3m7sobkh65e2v

FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social)
Republican Indiana State Senator: We don't want to be redistricting every 2 years at the whim of the president. It makes the legislative process just too transactional.

This might qualify as a "sophisticated" cyberattack, no?
North Korean state-sponsored hackers hijacked Google accounts to remotely control and wipe smartphones and tablets held by individuals in South Korea, then exploited their KakaoTalk messenger as a channel to spread malware to their contacts

North Korean hackers hijack Google, KakaoTalk accounts to control South Korean phones: Report
The attack marks the first confirmed case of a North Korean state-sponsored hacking group compromising Google accounts. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

US lifts sanctions on Belarusian potash, state media cite Trump envoy as saying (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-lifts-sanctions-belarusian-potash-state-media-cite-trump-envoy-saying-2025-12-13/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p18#a251213p18

This is insane. Does Little Marco not have enough to do?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html

Lithuania declares state of emergency over smuggler balloons from Belarus: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/09/lithuania-declares-state-of-emergency.html

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

"These deals represent the corporate capture of the UK state including, our cloud capacity, National Health Service, and now our military establishment...
Starmer’s inability to speak the truth is not diplomacy. It’s evidence." @…

Peter Thiel's New Model Army
The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster

WATCH: Hidden camera catches red-state university admins admitting how they 'cleverly' disguised DEI agenda (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watch-hidden-camera-catches-red-state-university-admins-admitting-how-they-cleverly-disguised-dei-agenda
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p75#a251112p75

Palantir co-founder #Peter #Thiel has donated 👉$3m to a California lobbying group advocating AGAINST a proposed wealth tax that would target billionaires in the state.
The seven-figure contribution comes as several ultra-wealthy tech moguls have left or threatened to leave California over the tax.
Thiel, worth so…

Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M membership cost (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/business/media/arkansa…

Arkansas Public Television Drops PBS
The loss of federal funding forced a difficult decision, the executive director of Arkansas TV said: Cut PBS, or go off the air entirely.

Unemployment rose in half the states in September • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/12/12/repub/unemployment-rose-in-half-the-states-in-september/

Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/12/trump-states-defiant-ai-executive-order

States defiant in face of Trump's AI executive order
States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.

A great chasm in the gorge at Treman State Park which was cut by a waterfall
#photo #photography #waterfallwednesday

General Assembly Heeds President Trump's Call to Thwart Blue State Attempts to Take Congress (Senator Berger Press Shop)
https://bergerpress.medium.com/general-assembly-heeds-president-trumps-call-to-thwart-blue-state-attempts-to-take-congress-4cecd10f5582
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p117#a251013p117

Ohio State's Reese, likely top-5 pick, enters draft https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/47552889/ohio-state-lb-arvell-reese-likely-top-5-pick-enters-nfl-draft

Just a reminder:
Each of you ought to take a look at your state's "unclaimed property" website. You may find something owed to you or to someone you know.
The amounts can be trivial or they can be large - and you won't know until you check.
Usually getting the funds owed to you is as simple as filling out a government form on a web page (and perhaps submitting something that proves you are who you say you are.)
Here is the link for California:

Putin’s personal ENT doctor’s family secures posts and subsidies, with his father becoming a State Duma lawmaker: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/13/putins-personal-ent-doctors-family.html

Beijing's High Court rejects an appeal by veteran Chinese state media journalist Dong Yuyu to overturn a seven-year jail term for "espionage", per his family (James Pomfret/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13-state power grid across the US, expects 4.8% average annual power growth over the next decade driven by the AI boom (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/po

Proposed ban on police face coverings gains momentum in WA Legislature • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/01/13/proposed-ban-on-police-face-coverings-gains-momentum-in-wa-legislature/

🫵 Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/hackers-bullet-proof-hosts-deliver-malware-from-blockchains/

Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains
Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB blockchains are immune to takedowns.

Boston-based Teradar, which aims to launch a solid-state sensor for autonomous cars in 2028 that it says can outperform lidar and radar, raised a $150M Series B (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/tera

Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar and radar | TechCrunch
Teradar's sensor uses the terahertz part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and combines the best traits of radar and lidar sensors without some of the drawbacks.

Former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich dies at age 59 (ABC15 Arizona in Phoenix)
https://www.abc15.com/news/state/former-arizona-attorney-general-mark-brnovich-dies-at-age-59
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p150#a260113p150

So far, we've been lucky; no one's died. Fingers crossed it stays that way
Historic rains and flooding trigger dramatic rescues in Washington state | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/burlington-seattle-donald-trump-cities-helicopters-b2883784.html

A Maryland lawmaker proposed ✅ banning agents recruited and hired to carry out Trump's mass deportations
from ever working in state public safety jobs.

“It says something about the morals of the person
— the character of the person
— if they see what’s happening on TV,
they see what happening in the streets
and say, ‘You know what? I want to join that,’ ”
said Del. Adrian Boafo
(D-Prince George’s),
the bill’s sponsor.

“Something…

Maryland bill seeks to ban Trump’s ICE agents from joining state police
The legislation is part of a host of bills across the country seeking to counteract aggressive immigration enforcement efforts that lawmakers say has terrorized communities and incited violence.

Despite talk of an existential US-China AI race, the Chinese state and its major companies are spending more to dominate other domains, such as EVs and robotics (Tim Wu/Financial Times)

Another happy runner at the Pinnacles, the high point of the Danby State Forest which is one of those rare places in southern Tompkins County where you almost have a commanding view
#photo #photography #forest

Zoom says its "federated AI" model, combining its SLM with open- and closed-source models, got 48.1% on Humanity's Last Exam vs. 45.8% for Gemini 3 Pro w/ tools (Xuedong Huang/Zoom)
https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/humanitys-last-exam-zoom-ai-breakthrough/

Zoom AI sets new state-of-the-art benchmark on Humanity's Last Exam
Federated innovation driving breakthrough results in complex AI testing

Kansas officials to pay $3M over raid on Marion newspaper
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5601069-police-raid-newspaper-homes/

Delaware's acting U.S. Attorney Julianne Murray
resigned her post on Dec. 12,
and the courts appointed her successor immediately,
an unusual turn of events after months of questions about the legality of Donald Trump's attempts to fill federal prosecutor roles around the country with loyalists.
Murray, who has served as both "interim" and "acting" U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware since the summer,
posted her resignation on …

State's top federal prosecutor resigns; court quickly names successor
Delaware's top federal prosecutor resigned Friday morning and the courts appointed a successor, capping months of controversy about the position.

Trump signs order to fight state AI laws (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5645562-executive-order-limits-state-ai/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p146#a251211p146

A profile of China's CXMT, whose $4.2B IPO goal would rank among the century's biggest chip debuts, as the state-backed company faces US and South Korean curbs (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-chinese-company-t…

Former Alaska representative
❤️#Mary #Peltola announced on Monday she is running for Alaska’s US Senate seat,
handing Democrats a major recruitment victory as the party battles to reclaim the chamber’s majority in this year’s midterm elections.
Peltola, who served as Alaska’s sole House member from 2022 un…

Google Bankrolled Secret Summit For Key State Lawmakers (Luke Goldstein/The Lever)
https://www.levernews.com/google-bankrolled-secret-summit-for-key-state-lawmakers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p144#a251211p144

President Trump says "we may speak to Elon" about using Starlink to restore the internet in Iran, after the state imposed an internet blackout amid protests (Rachael Levy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he…

U.S. Launches Major Strikes on Islamic State Targets in Syria (Eric Schmitt/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/us/politics/us-strikes-islamic-state-syria.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260110/p59#a260110p59

The Biden administration may have shot the serif,
switching from Times New Roman font on the grounds that serif-less fonts such as Calibri are more accessible to readers with disabilities.
That’s all over now.
The State Department Action Request reads:
“To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department’s written work products
and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility] program,
the Department is return…

Marco Rubio Has Spoken! Please Remove All of Your Woke Fonts.
Marco Rubio has spoken—get out of here, Calibri!

Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $37B in 2025, up from $11.5B in 2024; Anthropic's share of enterprise LLM spend grew from 24% to 40% YoY (Menlo Ventures)
https://menlovc.com/perspective/2025-the-state-of-generative-ai-in-the-enter…

2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise | Menlo Ventures
For all the fears of over-investment, AI is spreading across enterprises at a pace with no precedent in modern software history.

Maryland Democratic state leaders say redistricting won't be on the special session agenda (Brakkton Booker/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/11/maryland-redistricting-state-legislature-00687992
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p130#a251211p130

A late-2025 amendment to California's wealth tax proposal treats founder control as ownership, a move that could end founder-controlled startups in the state (Mike Solana/Pirate Wires)
https://www.piratewires.com/p/californias-tech-industry-kill-switch

California's Tech Industry Kill Switch
it’s not a tax on “wealth,” the union’s ballot prop is designed to target the very

Pete Buttigieg and Robert Reich have highlighted our plan to
✅ defeat Citizens United:
“Interesting things are happening across the country…
Montana is trying to address this through attention to what a corporation can and can’t do,
because that’s actually decided at the state level.
So instead of working it at the ‘speech’ side of the equation,
💥they’re working at the
‘what is a corporation’ side of the equation.” --Secretary

Donate to Transparent Election Initiative
Show your support with a contribution.

Days of demonstrations against immigration agents left Minnesota tense on Tuesday,
a day after federal authorities used #tear #gas to break up crowds of whistle-blowing activists
and state and local leaders #sued to fight the enforce…

Tensions flare in Minnesota as federal agents and protesters square off
Days of demonstrations against immigration agents and a new lawsuit have left Minnesota tense. Federal officers sprayed eye irritant and dropped tear gas at a swarm of activists Tuesday in Minneapolis. Students, meanwhile, walked out of a suburban school, part of the ongoing tension over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement sweeps. Minnesota and its two largest cities are suing the government to try to halt or limit the enforcement surge that led to the fatal shooting of a woman…

Coinbase plans to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, saying Delaware "once provided companies with consistency" but now has "unpredictable outcomes" (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/coinbase-m

Coinbase moves incorporation to Texas from Delaware, following Musk's lead
Coinbase's legal chief wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the crypto platform is moving its state of incorporation to Texas.

David Sacks says Trump's AI EO aims to ease companies' compliance burden and that the administration is working with Congress on a common AI oversight standard (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12…

Trump -- openly fearful that a Congress controlled by Democrats could investigate him, impeach him and stymie his agenda
-- is using every tool he can find to try to influence the 2026 midterm elections
-- and, if his party loses, sow doubt in their validity.
Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion,
challenging long-established democratic norms.

They include unprecedented demands that Republican state lawmakers redraw congressional di…

Trump is trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted
Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, challenging long-established democratic norms.

U.S. Forces Attacked in Syria, Syria State Media Says (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/world/middleeast/us-forces-attacked-syria.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8U8.xvRl.w5xuFBhdGTpN&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p45#a251213p45

Public defender and DSA organizer challenges Ritchie Torres (Rebecca C. Lewis/City & State New York)
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/11/public-defender-and-dsa-organizer-challenges-ritchie-torres/409463/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p82#a251112p82

Governor Pritzker Signs Bill Expanding End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients (The State of Illinois Newsroom's pressreleases)
https://gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/governor-pritzker-signs-bill-expanding-end-of-life-options-for-terminally-ill-patients
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p46#a251213p46

State and local leaders say
they do not believe that the FBI-investigation of the shooting death of #Renee #Nicole #Good will be fair and impartial,
and are sounding alarms about the 💥impact of federal officials holding onto evid…

A group of state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others warning their chatbots' "delusional outputs" could be violating state laws (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-…

December 12, 2025 -- Today former Alabama senator Doug Jones launched his campaign to become the state's next governor. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-12-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p26#a251213p26

Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-national-artificial-intelligence-policy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p143#a251211p143

Trump's redistricting effort fails in Indiana as GOP lawmakers deliver rare rebuke (Patrick Marley/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/11/why-these-red-state-republicans-are-resisting-trumps-efforts-expand-gop-power/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p152#a251211p152