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South Carolina has decided not to get involved in Donald Trump’s redistricting war.
The state Senate voted 24–20 Tuesday to leave their House districts alone for the upcoming midterm elections.
Twelve Republicans broke ranks to join all Democrat state senators in the decision -- which will likely save the state’s one blue seat held by Representative James Clyburn.
A few Republican legislators, such as state Senator Richard Cash, changed their votes due to timing.
Earl…

12 Republicans Break Ranks to Deal Major Loss to Trump
Some South Carolina state senators changed their position at the last minute.

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Performance tuning PostgreSQL for SquareSpace's TLS certificate service.
https://engineering.squarespace.com/blog/2019/performance-tuning-postgres-within-our-tls-infrastructure
saved 2019-08…

Performance Tuning Postgres within our TLS Infrastructure — Squarespace Engineering Blog
At Squarespace, the Edge team manages the TLS infrastructure, which handles the life cycle of millions of SSL certificates used by our customers. This makes us one of the largest users of Let’s Encrypt , a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA).

The NSA was red-teaming Mythos 5 before losing access amid the Anthropic dispute; the tests showed Mythos identified cybersecurity flaws in classified systems (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/us/p…

N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute
A recent episode underscored the Trump administration’s increasing reliance on advanced A.I. systems for cybersecurity even as it battles a leading U.S. developer.

Donald Trump has approved an agreement with Saudi Arabia that could provide the kingdom with uranium enrichment capability, according to news reports citing people familiar with the matter.
Trump is expected to announce that he will ask Congress to approve the agreement with Saudi Arabia.
The timing of the announcement is controversial as the US’s war with Iran is being fought in part to prevent Tehran enriching uranium domestically and make it near-impossible for Iran to build a…

Saudis and US strike deal for kingdom to enrich uranium, reports say
Donald Trump said to have approved agreement to help kingdom make fuel for civilian nuclear programme

This sounds important: Electrophysiological responses reveal a dedicated learning mechanism to process salient consonant sounds in human newborns https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-026-02911-w

This sounds important: Electrophysiological responses reveal a dedicated learning mechanism to process salient consonant sounds in human newborns - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Isolating relevant sounds in the auditory stream is a crucial feat accomplished by human infants and a pivotal ability for language acquisition. It is therefore reasonable to postulate the existence of early mechanisms that reorient attention toward salient acoustic stimuli. Previous studies suggest that infants tend to allocate more attention to consonant sounds because they resemble human vocalizations. However, systematic evidence on the neural processes underlying consonance tuning in newbo…

Is there anyone Trump wouldn't throw under a bus?
Trump Says He Will ‘Try and Make’ Don Jr's Wedding, but the Timing is ‘Not Good’
President Trump said the war with Iran and “other things” would make it difficult for him to attend his son's wedding this weekend.
“He’s got a very — a person who I’ve known for a long time,”
Mr. Trump said Thursday of his son’s bride-to-be. “And hopefully they’re going to have a great marriage.”

Trump Says He Will ‘Try and Make’ Son Don Jr.’s Wedding, but Timing ‘Not Good’
President Trump said the war with Iran and “other things” would make it difficult for him to make the wedding this weekend.

Donald Trump has offered few details about the “really big news” he plans to announce
during a primetime address Thursday,
beyond saying the speech will focus on voting machines and what he considers “free and fair elections.”
But the timing of the address and leaks to the media
— as well as the Trump administration’s recent actions
— offer clues about what he may try to accomplish.
The White House is considering releasing intelligence about foreign access…

Five ways Trump could use his primetime speech to undermine our elections
The timing of the address and leaks to the media — as well as the Trump administration’s recent actions — offer clues about what the president may try to accomplish.

Britain’s biggest community solar project has been forced to shut for the duration of its first summer by the government’s energy system operator to avoid overloading the local grid with renewable energy.
The north Devon solar farm was ordered to shut weeks before record high temperatures across Europe
led to power supply warnings, due to concerns that the large amount of rooftop solar in the area could destabilise the power grid by triggering a “thermal overload”.

Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears
Timing of Devon switchoff ‘could not be worse’, says board, as members face an estimated £2m in lost revenue

It was a plan House G.O.P. leaders hoped would satisfy everyone in their party:
With a special budget bill, they would bypass Democratic opposition and provide tens of billions for the Iran war while imposing new election restrictions Trump has demanded.
Instead, a day after the leaders released the plan, which hews closely to a spending request the White House sent to Capitol Hill last month,
it became clear it is a product that no one really likes.
The measure, whic…

Republican Rifts Deepen Over $95 Billion Budget Plan for Iran War and SAVE Act
A House panel approved the measure. But Republicans are divided over its size, cost and policy provisions, and many are concerned about the timing before the midterm elections.

Whatever the expectations for the July 7-8 NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey,
the geopolitical situation favors Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan so heavily that he is all but guaranteed to emerge the winner
—if NATO summits can have winners at all.
In the wake of the disastrous Iran war,
both the timing and the venue are highly auspicious.
Donald Trump told reporters that he was coming to Ankara solely for Erdogan
—another small, symbolic victory.
The…

Erdogan Has Laid a Trap in Ankara
No matter what happens at the NATO summit, the Turkish strongman wins.