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The Justice Department is accelerating its efforts to undo decades of civil service protections intended to insulate the work of law enforcement officials from political interference.
A new batch of more than 20 career employees at the department and its component agencies were fired on Friday,
including the attorney general’s own ethics adviser, Joseph W. Tirrell.
Others who were dismissed included a handful of senior officials at the U.S. Marshals Service, as well as pros…

Dismissals at Justice Dept. Would Bypass Civil Service and Whistle-Blower Laws
In court filings and dismissal letters, the Justice Department’s political leadership claims sweeping authority to fire career law enforcement officials without cause.

Electronic localization on the structural inhomogeneities formed due to Bi and Te deficiency in the MBE grown films of AFM topological insulator MnBi2Te4: Evidence from spectroscopic ellipsometry and infrared studies
N. N. Kovaleva, D. Chvostova, T. N. Fursova, A. V. Muratov, S. I. Bozhko, Yu. A. Aleshchenko, A. Dejneka, D. V. Ishchenko, O. E. Tereshchenko, K. I. Kugel

Electronic localization on the structural inhomogeneities formed due to Bi and Te deficiency in the MBE grown films of AFM topological insulator MnBi2Te4: Evidence from spectroscopic ellipsometry and infrared studies
The intrinsic substitutional and antisite defects cause unintentional doping and shift of the E_F position above the conduction band minimum in the AFM topological insulator (TI) MnBi2Te4. This prevents measurements of the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAH) and investigation of the topological Dirac states. In the present study, the Mn-Bi-Te films grown by the MBE technique onto Si(111) substrates with decreasing Bi and Te contents and increasing Mn content were investigated by 0.5-6.5 eV spec…

Commanders' Jayden Daniels suffered knee sprain vs. Packers; status for Week 3 in doubt https://www.nfl.com/news/jayden-daniels-commanders-qb-knee-injury-packers-loss

Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit found dead in suspected suicide following dismissal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/russian-transport-minister-roman-starovoit.html

A quantitative stability result for regularity of optimal transport on compact manifolds
Micah Warren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09035 https://

A quantitative stability result for regularity of optimal transport on compact manifolds
We use a Korevaar-style maximum principle approach to show the following: Fixing a $C^{2}$ bound on the log densities of a set of smooth measures, there is a quantifiably-sized Wasserstein neighborhood over which all pairs of such measures will enjoy smooth optimal transport. \ We do this in spite of unhelpful MTW\ curvature, by showing that when the gradient of the Kantorovich potential is small enough, the Hessian ``bound" places the Hessian in one of two disconnected regions, one bounded and…

A judge in Michigan dismissed the felony charges against a slate of electors who falsely signed on to documents claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election
in the latest blow to efforts to hold the president and his allies accountable for attempting to overturn the results of the White House race he lost to Joe Biden.
Sixteen people were initially charged with eight felonies each related to forgery and conspiracy by the Democratic attorney general, Dana Nessel, in 2023,
tho…

A federal judge dismisses Newsmax's antitrust lawsuit against Fox News as a "shotgun complaint" and gives Newsmax until September 11 to refile (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/newsmax-fox-news-antitrust-complaint-1236509021/

Judge Dismisses Newsmax’s “Shotgun Complaint” Against Fox News But Will Allow New Filing
The judge will allow the case to be refiled.

Trump is recklessly shredding our economic advantages in the global economy.
Companies that are looking to make investments shouldn’t have to worry if Trump has cooked the books on economic data--but that’s exactly what’s happening following his decision.
-- Katie Porter

Firing of labor statistics head undermines trust in key data, ex-Trump official warns
President Trump is expected to nominate a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week, days after firing Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following the release of a disappointing jobs report. The president dismissed the data as “rigged” and “manipulated for political purposes.” Geoff Bennett discussed more with William Beach, the commissioner of labor statistics during the first Trump term.

The United Nations General Assembly will convene its September session in Geneva instead of New York,
following the United States’ refusal to grant entry visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and dozens of senior Palestinian officials
President Abbas is expected to address the Assembly in Geneva,
where he will call for international protection, recognition of Palestinian sovereignty,
and accountability for war crimes.
The Geneva session is expected to amp…

UN Assembly Moves to Geneva After U.S. Bars Palestinian Delegation | – IMEMC News
The United Nations General Assembly will convene its September session in Geneva instead of New York, following the United States’ refusal to grant entry visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abba…

Over the first months of the second Trump presidency, we have watched the guardrails of democracy come off rapidly in real time.
Mass firings of civil servants,
the dismissal of government watchdogs,
the weaponization of the military against our citizens,
the use of the national budget as a cudgel,
and the dehumanization of immigrants. 
💥Donald Trump and his allies are following what we believe is a similar path as autocrats abroad,
with an American…

We Can Stop the Rise of American Autocracy
Stacey Abrams and Kim Lane Scheppele argue that we must act now to stop autocracy from taking over America.