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Sources detail how the Trump admin bypassed the DOJ trial team and pushed to settle the Live Nation case, after CEO Michael Rapino met White House officials (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/trump-l

When I don't have a laptop with me, I sometimes do server admin stuff using my smartphone. It's a reasonably secure phone because it runs a hardened Android distribution called #GrapheneOS. Or so I thought. Shoddy apps can of course violate your security and privacy on any operating system.
As a matter of fact, I once set up a Mastodon server via SSH using my smartphone as a terminal. My te…

Sources detail how the Trump admin bypassed the DOJ trial team and pushed to settle the Live Nation case, after CEO Michael Rapino met White House officials (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/trump-live-nation-antitrust-doj-f82b2c55

I've never been so "delighted," at least not on email, as since I've taken on an admin role.

#today I have fitted an extra circuit-breaker to an experimental doohickey that I have going, I have checked some documents for friends, and I am about to do some admin including for a meeting next week. All wrapped around a nice warm relaxing bath*.
*Except for some HUGE knots in my hair!

Ninth Circuit: Trump admin can't defund LA homeless services agency | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/ninth-circuit-trump-admin-cant-defund-la-homeless-services-agency/

Democrats sue Trump admin to keep armed agents from polls during midterms (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/democrats-sue-trump-admin-to-keep-armed-agents-from-polls-during-midterms/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260924/p3#a260924p3

Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:
Donald J. Trump (President)
Melania Trump (1st Lady)
Howard Lutnick (Sec. Commerce)
John Phelan (Sec. Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (Sec. HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nominee)
Mehmet Oz (Admin. for CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE Appointee)
Steve Bannon (Fmr Senior Advisor)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Sec. Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Brett Ratner (Film Director "Melania")

Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #3: sw-expect-packages — let your integration fail fast
Here is a support ticket I have seen in about five different costumes: a middleware pushes orders into Shopware via the Admin API. One day the payloads start failing — or worse, they don't fail, they just silently write incomplete data. After an hour of digging it turns out someone deactivated a plugin on the shop side, or updated it to a version with a different custom field layout.

Assistant Treasury Secretary Kenneth Kies will be leaving the Trump administration after reportedly warning that it might be breaking the law.
✅ Top Tax Official Pushed Out After Clashes With Trump Administration: Report
https://www.

Treasury Official Reportedly Forced Out After Stern Warning To Trump Administration
Assistant Treasury Secretary Kenneth Kies will be leaving the administration after reportedly warning that it might be breaking the law.

It's been a while since I had bother with my Wordpress but today I had a visit from the wp2shell exploit. I saw additional "garbage" output on both the website frontend and the admin login page. A rogue plugin had been added, and I also had a new admin user. I've removed those and upgraded to newest wordpress (wp cli allows upgrade within your current major version if needed). Be careful out there, folks.

Die #Weko schaut sich an, ob #Google durch Abschaltung des «Choice Screens» für die Schweiz ihre Suchmaschine wettbewerbswidrig priorisiert.
Ach, wäre es schön, DMA/DSA zu haben, dann wäre der Fall viel einfacher …

Morning!
Just three working days left before I head off for five weeks of summer holidays in Japan/Mexico.
As always, there's nothing like an impending holiday deadline to ramp up my focus and productivity! Lots of writing and podcast admin in my immediate future. Plus I'm running an online masterclass at midday.
But first, coffee ☕️

Exchange Web Services: Admin-Hilfestellung vor API-Aus
Microsoft erinnert an das Aus der EWS-API und liefert IT-Verantwortlichen Hilfestellung bei der Suche betroffener Apps.
https://www.…

Exchange Web Services: Admin-Hilfestellung vor API-Aus
Microsoft erinnert an das Aus der EWS-API und liefert IT-Verantwortlichen Hilfestellung bei der Suche betroffener Apps.

States sue Trump admin for withholding $148M in disaster aid over 'unlawful' election demands (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/states-sue-trump-admin-for-withholding-148m-in-disaster-aid-over-unlawful-election-demands/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260723/p110#a260723p110

As calls mount for accountability over the ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston,
we speak with Democratic Congressmember Al Green,
who represents Texas’s 9th Congressional District.
He demands an independent investigation into the shooting to stop
“an attempt to cover up” the killing by the Trump administration.
Democratic lawmakers led by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus will hold a public hearing in Houston on Friday
to gather testimony from…

Texas Rep. Al Green Accuses Trump Admin of Attempting to Cover Up ICE Killings
As calls mount for accountability over the ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, we speak with Democratic Congressmember Al Green, who represents Texas’s 9th Congressional District. He demands an independent investigation into the shooting to stop “an attempt to cover up” the killing by the Trump administration. Democratic lawmakers led by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus will hold a public hearing in Houston on Friday to gather testimony from community members about Salgado …

Draft: the Trump admin plans to use the UN General Assembly to push a global "freedom of expression" declaration that EU lawmakers call an attack on tech rules (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-admi…

Trump administration will push ‘free speech’ declaration at UN that takes aim at European tech regulation
The White House and Republican party allies have repeatedly attacked EU rules that govern online platforms as censorship. Now they want the world to put the critique into writing.

Während des Admin-Meetings gelang die Zubereitung rasch improvisierter Tagliatelle Vongole mit Artischocken und Tomaterln. #nommention

Institute’s websites are unavailable due to a certificate error. ⛔️ Admin is on vacation. 😱 Great opportunity to check the state of the documentation. 📑 Spoiler: It was fairly good, another person (yours truly) was able to renew the certificates, just a few small necessary updates to the docs surfaced. ✅️

US officials discussed firing Stars & Stripes publisher Max Lederer ahead of his Sept. 30 retirement, which was provoked by differences with the Trump admin (Jennifer Jacobs/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-considers-firing-stars-stripes-pub…

Pentagon officials considering firing longtime Stars and Stripes publisher, sources say
Max Lederer, who has served as the publisher of Stars and Stripes for 19 years, this week announced to colleagues his decision to retire on Sept. 30, citing fundamental differences with the Trump administration.

Sehr guter Überblick mit vielen Details zur #Trockenheit, Vegetation, Wasserstände, etc. Auf eine Region klicken und weiter explorieren
Das Monitoring ist beim Bund gehostet, wenn Rösti jetzt noch irgendwie ins Handeln käme …
https://www.

Trockenheit - Nationale Trockenheitsplattform
Aktuelle Situation der Trockenheit in der Schweiz.

#today I am *slowly* getting some admin done and doing some tinkering. My order with 12 Volt Planet was dealt with this morning, hurrah!
(I have also run the dishwasher and have laundry out on the line, and I think I shall go for a quick walk...)

«Lazyjournal vereinfacht den Zugriff auf Log-Dateien:
Nur ein fauler Admin ist ein guter Admin. In diesem Sinne vereinfacht Lazyjournal die Arbeit mit Log-Dateien, indem es sie in einer TUI bündelt. Damit lassen sich Protokolle von lokalen und entfernten Rechnern unter einer Oberfläche gezielt anschauen, filtern und auswerten.»
Ich muss zugeben, ich als TUI-Fanboy, dass ich #Lazyjournal

Lazyjournal vereinfacht den Zugriff auf Log-Dateien
Logdateien auszuwerten ist ein Job, den nur Masochisten gut finden. Lazyjournal erleichtert die Aufgabe durch Bündelung vieler Logs unter einer Oberfläche.

Here's a tip for #Mastodon admins to manage spammy (likely AI-generated) account requests:
a lot of those seem to come from disposable emails. The mastodon admin menu allows you to block specific email domains. So if you're getting obvious spam from specific domains (

disposable-email-domains/disposable_email_blocklist.conf at main · disposable-email-domains/disposable-email-domains
a list of disposable email domains. Contribute to disposable-email-domains/disposable-email-domains development by creating an account on GitHub.

Additional grandparenting admin accomplished in the last 10 days...
Organised initial appointments for the wee one for:
OT
Speechie
ADHD/Autism
Teams meetings with:
OT
Kinship assessment
Phoned Centrelink:
Child Care Subsidy has the 3yo attending primary school??? (different rate) - now fixed
Emailing CYF multiple times to keep them updated as required

Took the outage over at Bluesky as a call to donate to my trusty Mastodon admin 🙂‍↕️
That instance hasn't been down in years 😁

The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) put out a new opinion earlier this week
arguing that President Donald Trump can assert executive privilege over communications with advisors
-- even if they do not work at the White House or within the government at all.
Experts tell TPM that the legal opinion is likely an effort from the Trump administration and his DOJ
to preemptively interfere with congressional investigations that Democrats plan to launch if t…

OLC’s New Opinion on Executive Privilege Is a ‘Devious Tactic’ to Cover Up Trump Admin Corruption
The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) put out a new...

Penn Station *and* Dulles Airport:
Trump admin quietly revives crusade to slap his name on major NYC landmark: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-penn-station-2677265430/

Draft: the Trump admin plans to use the UN General Assembly to push a global "freedom of expression" declaration that EU lawmakers call an attack on tech rules (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-admi…

Trump administration will push ‘free speech’ declaration at UN that takes aim at European tech regulation
The White House and Republican party allies have repeatedly attacked EU rules that govern online platforms as censorship. Now they want the world to put the critique into writing.

A look at AI's potential impact on insurance-coverage decisions like prior authorization as the Trump admin starts to pilot using AI to evaluate Medicare claims (Joshua Cohen/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/will-ai-fix-prior-authoriza…

Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?
The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.

Do every neighborhood has their Facebook Group drama?
#Willowdale had 2 main facebook groups, one where politics is banned, the other one was actually created by our current councillor.
Our councillor eventually stopped moderating this FB group and gave admin access to a team, while she still kept admin access.
Some community famous people got banned from those 2 FB G…

Ouch. Just found out that I am the ONLY admin for a site. Team member didn't have security access and couldn'tgrant our directorwith edit access to the site.. Fixed that so I am not the sole point of failure.
Note to me: make sure I have backup admin when I create a new site.

RE: https://social.gamefan.net/@techwire/117077541096453228
Good news boasting from the Trump admin, so certainly to be taken with a grain of salt and skepticism. Fixing the ATC shortage would still be a good thing, though, and good press for gamers do…

The Internet is forever, you morons. What a bunch of losers.
#trump
From: @…
https://ma…

Kid2 has a friend over which is great, not only because of friends (yay!), but also because bits of improvised soap opera drift in now and then - a significant improvement on the tedious admin work I've got in front of me this morning.

RE: https://journa.host/@gilduran/116998658687603164
That feeling when you write about “tech fascism” but couldn’t care less about tech fascism when told the admin of your Mastodon instance is complicit in genocide.

Morning all! Spending this morning working on a couple of courses for my clients (goal-setting, clarifying and using values) plus a ton of admin that I've let pile up this week.

A small #ThingUmbrella code snippet for a current shop admin task, to help me with preparing different print size options in both inches and centimeters, grouped by landscape, portrait or square format.
The script illustrates how to functionally iterate over all possible sizes in a min/max range, converting & formatting units and grouping sizes based on their aspect ratio. All mo…

Trump Admin Denies Colluding With Taylor Farms Over Cyclospora: 'FAKE NEWS' - Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-denies-colluding-taylor-farms-cyclospora-outbreak-12221624

Es ist schade, wenn eine Instanz aufhört. Und dann gibt es Leute, die noch auf das Ende hinzufiebern scheinen.
https://mastodon.cloud/@TheAdmin/116880479865941905
Was ist da im Hintergrund los?

“The Trump administration faced embarrassment this week over the Reflecting Pool debacle and dismissal of criminal charges, with one Trump ally saying the episode made the administration ‘look like a monkey having intimate relations with a football.’”
https://

A concerning development surrounding an incredibly obscure process Congress set up to deport some people with connections to terrorism.
It comes as the Trump admin has reclassified many gangs as “terrorists,” and accused some innocent people of being gang members.
https://bsky.app/profile/kyledch…

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)
NEWS: The Trump administration has activated a secretive and never-before-used legal process to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be “alien terrorists” or their immediate family members. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/18/trump-alien-terrorist-deportation-court-01004184

#today have not yet gotten back into my main research topic. Will get some admin done that I have put off for a couple of days.

NHTSA proposes eliminating the mandate for manual brake pedals in "vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems" (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/trump-admin-…

Trump admin proposes axing brake-pedal requirement for AVs in a boost for Tesla | TechCrunch
The Department of Transportation wants to remove the brake-pedal requirement for vehicles "designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems."

Sources: a US judge granted NYT temporary reprieve from Trump admin subpoenas targeting three reporters, ahead of a July 23 hearing over confidential sources (Jon Passantino/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/new-york-times-subpoenas-trump-qatar-air-force-one

The Times’ Source Standoff
A federal judge granted The NYT a temporary reprieve from Trump administration subpoenas targeting three of its reporters, Status has learned, setting up a high-stakes hearing next week over confidential sources.

Angenommen ich kenne eine Seite mit folgenden Eigenschaften:
- tausende Nutzer:innen angemeldet, oft sehr (!) sensible Daten hinterlegt.
- Server mit längst veraltetem PHP
- Admin hat keinen Bock mehr.
Risiko eines Einbruchs ist aus meiner Sicht sehr hoch. Das würde mutmaßlich auch Bekannte von mir treffen.
Was kann man da machen? Ist das möglicherweise auc rechtlich relevante Fahrlässigkeit?

RE: https://fedifreu.de/@chpietsch/117059348761270115
Die Welle an höchst dubiosen Registrierungsversuchen mit zufälligen Usernames, seltsamen E-Mail-Adressen und sturzlangweiligen od…

I am finally running some Mastodon admin / mainteanence commands that I have not run *ever* since starting the server in 2022.
Perhaps we can bring that storage bill down a little, a single user instance probably shouldn't need 20 GB for DB and ~700 GB for attachments xD

Happy #SysAdmin Day!
https://sysadminday.com/
Thank your IT administrators because the less you do have to deal with them, the better they do their job.

Shopware 6: "We need the admin's duplicate button, but from code, with a different name and its own SKU" — sound familiar? Delete your hand-rolled cloning code. Shopware has one call that deep-duplicates any entity with overrides, plus an API endpoint doing the same thing for free.

Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #16: CloneBehavior — entity duplication with overrides, one call - Winkelwagen GmbH - an ecommerce agency
You know the admin's "duplicate" button on products. Now the ticket says: "We need that, but from code — duplicate a product per sales channel, with adjusted

US officially considered unreliable: "Die USA bleiben ein Unsicherheitsfaktor."
https://www.admin.ch/de/newnsb/jyRmuld1hBVy

Secretary of State Marco Rubio
and top White House adviser Stephen Miller
are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations.
The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit
“on the resurgence of political terrorism,”
where Miller described the LEFT as
“enemies of civilization”
and described efforts to
“disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.”
Rubio …

“Disrupt, Identify, Defund, Debank, Arrest & Prosecute”: Trump Admin Threatens Leftist Groups
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and top White House adviser Stephen Miller are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations. The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit “on the resurgence of political terrorism,” where Miller described the left as “enemies of civilization” and described efforts to “disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.” Rubio announced the U.S. would soon designate more l…

Can't commandeer local resources in furtherance of a federal goal (Printz v. USA)
Judge bars effort to 'conscript' locals into ICE cooperation
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/district-judge-tosses-trump-admin-lawsuit-attempting-to-conscript-local-officials-to-cooperate-with-ice-in-michigan/

Während des Admin-Meetings gelang die Zubereitung rasch improvisierter Tagliatelle Vongole mit Artischocken und Tomaterln. #nommention

Happy Friday!
In the office today, working on podcast edits, next month's newsletter, copy for my new website and a whole bunch of admin. Started nice and early so I can wrap up early afternoon and start enjoying my weekend.

Sources: Trump admin and industry groups have discussed streamlining releases of US open models of equal or lesser capability than leading Chinese open models (Benjamin Guggenheim/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-intellig

AI & Tech Brief: Exclusive | An open-source framework
Plus, data centers could end up consuming less energy than we expect

University admin at some point cleary thought to themselves, "human resources is insufficiently dystopian, we really ought to come up with something better." After years of meetings, they congratulated themselves on a job well done. "Yes," they purred, "'people strategy' is so much worse."

A federal judge rules that two statutes Marco Rubio used to try to deport legal immigrants for their speech violate the First Amendment and are unconstitutional (The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression)
https://www.fire.org/news/breaking-…

BREAKING: Federal court rules the statutes the Trump admin used in its speech-based deportation scheme are unconstitutional
A federal court ruled that the provisions Secretary of State Marco Rubio used in an attempt to deport legal immigrants for their speech are unconstitutional.

A recently revealed memo issued by the Interior Department late last year
directs staff of the department,
including within the National Park Service (NPS),
not to alert or even confirm to the public when deaths have occurred at national parks
https://trut…

New Trump Admin Policy Prevents Public From Knowing About Deaths at National Parks
“Transparency can save lives, and keeping park deaths quiet may put visitors at risk,” one critic wrote.

#today I should do more admin and #research but also I'm going to prep some ideas for adding a little bit of #plugInSolar now that our

Sources: US officials estimate unauthorized distillation costs US AI labs up to $6B/year; Silicon Valley told the Trump admin it could be an existential threat (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Die Direktorin eines benachbarten Institutes frug, ob ich denn die Anwesenheit aller Mitarbeiter*innen kontrollieren würde, da ihre Admin-Kräfte der Auffassung wären, sie müsse das tun. Meine Antwort bestand in einem Blick.

Morning all!
A day of podcast edits, blog writing, client meetings and online community admin. I also need to make some progress on a new guide to beating #procrastination that I'm writing.
(Grateful for my coffee machine ☕️)

New term starts in 2 weeks. Everyone is busy preparing classes incl. updating module descriptions. We have a new system for this, freshly programmed, according to “our” needs. Which have been communicated by people from administration, not by instructors. We already had some rounds of “WTF”s
New spin? This system does not have a search function. Admin provides a list with the link to the module description for EACH course
1/2

Judge bars Trump from conditioning disaster relief funding
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/judge-torches-trump-admin-for-anti-dei-crusade-and-bars-dhs-from-conditioning-disaster-relief-funding-on-vague-and-unrelated-efforts-to-combat-gender-ideology/

Trump admin fires new Seattle US attorney Roger Rogoff minutes after his swearing-in (Samuel Chamberlain/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/07/16/us-news/trump-admin-fires-new-seattle-us-attorney-roger-rogoff-minutes-after-his-swearing-in/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260716/p43#a260716p43

Trump order on police chases led to death of man: Attorney
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/dangerous-executive-order-high-speed-chase-policy-called-so-much-fun-by-trump-admin-led-to-innocent-moped-drivers-death-mans-family-says/

Sources detail the Trump admin's heavy-handed intervention to aid Intel, including pushing it to expand local capacity and pressuring Apple to use Intel's fabs (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-white-house-i

I liked screamy music before. But the carthasis it offers has become all the more important since taking on an admin role.
#academia

The court’s decision to block the Trump administration from including a “loyalty question” on federal job applications
was a win not only for the nonpartisan civil service,
but also for the communities public employees serve, said one labor leader whose union was among the plaintiffs in the case against the Office of Personnel Management.
Patrick Moran, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union, said Friday that
the …

Federal Court Blocks Trump's 'Loyalty Question' on Civil Service Job Applications | Common Dreams
Court blocks Trump admin's loyalty question on job apps, a win for nonpartisan civil service & communities served. Was it right to prioritize loyalty over qualifications? Should public servants be hired based on allegiance to an administration or merit alone? #ProtectTheConstitution

Trump admin freezes more than $1 billion in Medicaid funds (Adriel Bettelheim/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/trump-medicaid-freeze-california-minnesota
http://www.memeorandum.com/260721/p65#a260721p65

Trump admin unfairly pursuing Tesla vandal case: Lawyers
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-admin-aggressively-sticking-its-nose-in-tesla-vandals-case-pushing-for-20-year-sentence-while-allowing-loyalists-to-walk-free-for-far-worse-lawyers-say/

The Trump administration is seeking to scrap a decades-old radiation safety principle
that requires companies and institutions using radioactive materials to keep radiation exposure as low as reasonably possible,
even when it is already below legal safety limits.
The proposed change by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was published in the Federal Register on July 15.
It would replace the long-standing
"As Low As Reasonably Achievable" (

Trump Admin Moves To Scrap 50-Year US Radiation Safety Standard
The Trump administration is backing a major overhaul of U.S. radiation safety rules.

Shopware 6: "Can the Store API read this internal field? Can the Admin API write it?" A plugin's answers were "yes" and "yes, and then it gets overwritten anyway." Two undocumented flags solve this declaratively, with zero subscribers — the core uses them for order totals.

Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #14: WriteProtected & ApiAware — field-level security without a single subscriber - Winkelwagen GmbH - an ecommerce agency
A code review scenario. A plugin adds a purchasePrice-style field to a custom entity — internal margin data. The review question: "Can the Store API read

#today I have done some admin chores, noticed that my journal paper has had one reviewer respond so far, and would really like to get back to my #research #3D building

Exclusive: These international observers have monitored US elections for decades. This time, the Trump admin didn't invite them (Matt Cohen/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/exclusive-these-international-observers-have-monitored-us-elections-for-decades-this-time-the-trump-admin-didnt-invite-them/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260916/p168#a260916p168

The Trump administration is seeking to scrap a decades-old radiation safety principle
that requires companies and institutions using radioactive materials to keep radiation exposure as low as reasonably possible,
even when it is already below legal safety limits.
The proposed change by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was published in the Federal Register on July 15.
It would replace the long-standing
"As Low As Reasonably Achievable"

Trump Admin Moves To Scrap 50-Year US Radiation Safety Standard
The Trump administration is backing a major overhaul of U.S. radiation safety rules.

Trump admin debuts arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake clone and a Tetris-like wall-building clone; Tetris says it takes IP infringement "very seriously" (ABC News)
https://abcnews.com/Politics/white-house-launches-arcad…

White House launches Arcade.gov with computer game that lets players 'deport' migrants
The White House announced the launch of what it called "Arcade.gov," a website of five versions of classic computer games promoting the president's agenda. 

While admin duties are taking up most of my time this summer, I continue to edit the journal. This week, we received a wave of new submissions. At least some people are finding the time to write.

‘More illness lie ahead' as food outbreaks tied to Trump admin just the beginning: expert - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/food-outbreak/

Morning all! Another office-based day lies ahead: podcast admin, blog writing, a lovely in-person meeting, and a ton of writing for my new website. Whew!

"the same company responsible for the glitch also works in federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration."
Trump's election security boogeyman revealed to be embedded across admin - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-election-2677259847/

JD Vance tells Joe Rogan Israel wants to keep Iran war going 'indefinitely,' Trump admin 'screwed up' on Epstein files (Victor Nava/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/07/15/us-news/vance-tells-joe-rogan-israel-wants-to-keep-iran-war-going-indefinitely-trump-admin-screwed-up-on-epstein-files/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260715/p127#a260715p127

Sources: the Trump admin is weighing a $100K fee for foreign students seeking to work in the US after graduation; a judge blocked Trump's $100K H-1B fee in June (Michelle Hackman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy…

Write a paper in 24 hours and other academic challenges brought to you by why the hell did I agree to take on this admin position?!

#today I caught up on some admin around one project in advance of a Zoom call for it, had the next stage of a slow-mo fight with insurers for a proposed new #RepairCafé, and two of us had to wrestle with the cable TV company cancellations folk for an hour to avoid home phone cut off AND price …

Trump Admin Activates Secretive Deportation Court - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/07/trump-admin-activates-secretive-deportation-court/

Mamdani, Letitia James sue to block Trump admin from refusing immigrants over welfare status (Anders Hagstrom/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mamdani-letitia-james-sue-block-trump-admin-from-refusing-immigrants-over-welfare-status
http://www.memeorandum.com/260914/p99#a260914p99

Sources: OpenAI has discussed giving a 5% stake to the US government as the company seeks to clear political obstacles by securing buy-in from the Trump admin (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7c803eab-8e80-4431-9a87-e943bf00e00b

OLC's New Opinion on Executive Privilege Is a 'Devious Tactic' to Cover Up Trump Admin Corruption (Emine Yücel/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/olcs-new-opinion-on-executive-privilege-is-a-devious-tactic-to-cover-up-trump-admin-corruption
http://www.memeorandum.com/260814/p58#a260814p58

OpenAI's Hugging Face incident report says AI agents used exploits to gain full admin access to OpenAI's own research cluster supporting its VM environments (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English

Sources: Apple is lobbying the Trump admin for clearance to buy memory chips from US-blacklisted Chinese company CXMT to ease pressure from rising chip prices (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d72a25e2-7bde-4aa9-bd8d-0c4f3d6cb2cb

Top Tax Official Pushed Out After Clashes With Trump Administration: Report (Marco Margaritoff/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/assistant-treasury-secretary-kenneth-kies-pushed-out-clashes-with-trump-admin_n_6a5a334fe4b0f033db1b91f1
http://www.memeorandum.com/260718/p1#a260718p1

The Trump administration is proposing a sprawling shelter facility that can detain up to 3,000 unaccompanied migrant children who arrived in the U.S. without a parent or guardian.
Officials have started to outline plans for the project as federal agencies escalate efforts to detain and remove tens of thousands of people from the country,
including children, while effectively closing off the U.S.-Mexico border to people seeking asylum.
Unaccompanied immigrant children
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Exclusive: Trump admin reveals plan to lock 3,000 migrant children in massive new detention facility
Officials are looking for operators for an ‘emergency influx facility’ that can hold thousands of unaccompanied migrant children and pack eight kids into a room sharing one toilet, shower and sink

Trump admin declassifies 9/11 documents on info presidents knew in lead-up to terrorist attacks (Emily Goodin/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/09/11/us-news/trump-admin-declassifies-9-11-documents-on-info-presidents-knew-in-lead-up-to-terrorist-attacks/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260911/p90#a260911p90

Medicaid ends funding for child sex-change procedures as Trump admin slams 'experimental' treatments (Peter D'Abrosca/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/medicaid-ends-funding-child-sex-change-procedures-trump-admin-slams-experimental-treatments
http://www.memeorandum.com/260811/p88#a260811p88

"Colorado’s second-largest school district, Jefferson County Public Schools (Jeffco), has made history as one of the few local school districts to sue the Trump administration for its threats to cut off federal education funding unless the district drops its policies accommodating transgender students."
School district won't back down in "impressive" legal battle with Trump admin over trans rights - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/school-district-wont-back-down-in-impressive-legal-battle-with-admin-over-trans-rights/

Source and draft press release: the Trump admin will lend $100M to Africell, Africa's only US-owned telecom company, aiming to counter Huawei's Africa expansion (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-