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Ja'Marr Chase criticizes Bengals' effort in blowout loss to Broncos: 'Didn't look like we wanted it'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jamarr-

Jaguars Sharpen Focus on the Run Game: A Full-Team Offensive Effort https://www.jaguars.com/news/k000469-jaguars-sharpen-focus-on-the-run-game-a-full-team-offensive-effort

One excavator,
10,000 bodies,
a sea of rubble:
inside Gaza’s effort to retrieve and bury its dead
Under the relative calm of a ceasefire,
Civil Defense crews in Gaza are undertaking the monumental feat of recovering thousands of bodies still trapped under the rubble.
The level of decomposition in the bodies is very high,
which makes it difficult for families to identify them.
The lack of tools and technology for advanced DNA testing has also …

One excavator, 10,000 bodies, a sea of rubble: inside Gaza’s effort to retrieve and bury its dead
Under the relative calm of a ceasefire, Civil Defense crews in Gaza are undertaking the monumental feat of recovering thousands of bodies still trapped under the rubble.

Glenn: Jets owner behind me despite struggles https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47438531/jets-glenn-feels-ownership-support-questions-players-effort

Unit 42: suspected Chinese hackers, known as Phantom Taurus, have breached foreign ministers' email servers as part of a years-long effort targeting diplomats (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

DraftMarks: Enhancing Transparency in Human-AI Co-Writing Through Interactive Skeuomorphic Process Traces
Momin N. Siddiqui, Nikki Nasseri, Adam Coscia, Roy Pea, Hari Subramonyam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23505

DraftMarks: Enhancing Transparency in Human-AI Co-Writing Through Interactive Skeuomorphic Process Traces
As generative AI becomes part of everyday writing, questions of transparency and productive human effort are increasingly important. Educators, reviewers, and readers want to understand how AI shaped the process. Where was human effort focused? What role did AI play in the creation of the work? How did the interaction unfold? Existing approaches often reduce these dynamics to summary metrics or simplified provenance. We introduce DraftMarks, an augmented reading tool that surfaces the human-AI …

NIST, MITRE announce $20 million research effort on AI cybersecurity
https://cyberscoop.com/nist-mitre-announce-20-million-dollar-research-effort-on-ai-cybersecurity/

Die US-Regierung unter #Trump plant, die angeschlagene #Kohleindustrie mit umfangreichen Maßnahmen zu stützen.
Dazu gehören 13,1 Millionen Hektar neue #Bergbauflächen, gelockerte…

Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal
The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining and eliminating pollution limits, aims to save an industry that has been declining for decades.

Louisiana Republicans delay election calendar to prepare for possible redistricting effort (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/louisiana-republicans-delay-election-calendar-possible-redistricting-rcna240296
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p97#a251029p97

Seriously, the worst ones are nodejs and rust: they fundamentally break the nodejs dependency model, flattening everything. They've chosen _controlling_ dependencies instead of _annotating_ them for understanding. Metadata about what's in a package and a package-build-time mechanism for substituting things in lockfiles would be far far simpler for forcing security updates than rewriting everything to use system dependencies, and versions that are not reconcilable.
Heck, both npm and cargo have put a lot of effort into repeatability though not actual hermetic builds, so it's very much Good Enough if you're using lock files. The problems are in updating those, not building packages. Mirror the registries if you need to. That's a much more tractable problem than _rewriting parts of everything you package_ or _eagerly packaging every dependency as a separate [human] task_

Good effort from George. Not 10s, but he's definitely a ballroom boy. #strictly

🏆 Counting down to the European Digital Connectivity Awards 2025!
Next week, the winners will be announced—and we’re honoured that GÉANT’s GN4-3N project is a finalist in the “Cross-border and international connectivity” category.
This recognition reflects the collaborative effort of the EU, GÉANT and our community of European NRENs to build a more inclusive, terabit-ready, and fully sovereign network infrastructure for Europe’s

In an effort to avoid becoming a boomer, I bought some Dubai chocolate. Verdict: it’s fine. Don’t understand the fuss.
Next up, I’ll buy a Labubu, I guess.

@… pkgbasify is not stupid.
Merges occur automatically. Effort should be minimal, close to zero.
In my experience, manual attention to a merge conflict is very rarely required.
cc @…

State AG's team up to troll #Shopify website for $elling vapes to unauthorized underage teens
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-offi…

Arizona AG wants Shopify to crack down on teen vape sales
It's the latest move in Kris Mayes' effort to keep vapes away from teens, and vice versa.

Source: Meta is acquiring AI chip startup Rivos, as it seeks to reduce reliance on Nvidia; Rivos was reportedly seeking new funding at a $2B valuation in August (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/met…

"Après l'effort, le réconfort!"
(Following-up on this: #TombRaider2 works on

Is it talent?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQM0-w2jEOd/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Duaa Izzidien - Visual Storyteller & Artist on Instagram: "I had far too much fun creating this reel and couldn’t bring myself to delete any of it to make it shorter and more algorithm friendly 🙈 If you watched it all the way to the end - well done! You’ve just demonstrated the very thing the reel is about - showing up is the only talent that matters. My arrows don’t always hit the target. My paintings don’t always turn out how I planned. And honestly? Life rarely goes the way I intend. But really that isn’t what matters. In Islam we say that actions are by intentions and that sometimes means letting go of controlling our outcomes. We can control our intentions, our effort, showing up - but we have to remember that the result doesn’t actually come from those actions. Sometimes the arrow misses because there’s a better lesson waiting or perhaps it’s to remind you to stay humble and remember that ‘you’ are not the architect of your success. Sometimes the painting goes “wrong” because it’s becoming something more beautiful than you imagined. Sometimes life doesn’t work out the way you planned because there’s something different, better, round the corner for you. A huge thank you to @thabitoon_archers and @mamluk.academy for teaching me. You’ve taught me far more than just archery - you’ve taught me a rich history and life lessons that bring peace. (any mistakes in my form are entirely mine!). Want to learn how to use art as a tool for trusting and letting go of control? DM me ‘CREATE’ and I’ll show you these techniques. #showingisenough #trusttheprocess #archery #archerygirl #traditionalarchery #archerylife #overwhelm #personalgrowth #innerstrength #growthmindset #breakthrough #findingmyself #resilience #transformation #letgoofcontrol"
24K likes, 763 comments - duaaizzidien on October 24, 2025: "I had far too much fun creating this reel and couldn’t bring myself to delete any of it to make it shorter and more algorithm friendly 🙈 If you watched it all the way to the end - well done! You’ve just demonstrated the very thing the reel is about - showing up is the only talent that matters. My arrows don’t always hit the target. My paintings don’t always turn out how I planned. And honestly? Life rarely goes the way I …

David Brooks calling for a general strike or nonviolent civil disobedience 
was not on my bingo card.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

After costly personal foul, Schottenheimer calls out Cowboys penalty issues https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/30/dallas-cowboys-penalties-vs-packers-brian-schottenhei…

Towards Reliable Generation of Executable Workflows by Foundation Models
Sogol Masoumzadeh, Keheliya Gallaba, Dayi Lin, Ahmed E. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25117 https://…

Towards Reliable Generation of Executable Workflows by Foundation Models
Recent advancements in Foundation Models (FMs) have demonstrated significant progress in comprehending complex natural language to perform intricate tasks. Successfully executing these tasks often requires orchestrating calls to FMs alongside other software components. However, manually decomposing a task into a coherent sequence of smaller, logically aggregated steps, commonly referred to as workflows, demands considerable effort and specialized domain knowledge. While FMs can assist in genera…

NIST, MITRE announce $20 million research effort on AI cybersecurity
https://cyberscoop.com/nist-mitre-announce-20-million-dollar-research-effort-on-ai-cybersecurity/

S&P Global Ratings puts Rothermere Continuation Holdings, The Daily Mail's parent company, on a credit watch over its effort to buy The Telegraph Media Group (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/

Welcome to the world of the field, engineering.
For a long time, we've hired very few into sales, mktg, support or consulting that don't already gobs of experience elsewhere.
✅ How #Microsoft’s developers are using #AI - The Verge

How Microsoft’s developers are using AI
Microsoft is pushing its software developers to use AI internally. It’s part of an effort to get more AI agents doing the boring developer tasks.

Outcomes-over-outputs is one thing — but even outcomes aren't always impactful.
Investing in any outcome carries opportunity cost. Any effort you expend means not spending that effort elsewhere.
And when there's a bottleneck in the system, effort upstream of the bottleneck has diminishing returns. Typically, that bottleneck is your process.
Since the process is made up of people, technical solutions won't help.

All your problems are people problems (Don't Just Do Things, Part 2)
If you want to do strategy, you must be willing to do process transformation first.

You only hate on Gemini until you need it to write for you a PowerShell script that generates a Kodi .nfo file for each of the ~50 extras of 'Friends' that don't have entries on TheTVDB.
At least I reviewed the final script and understood / learned how things are done. Shout-out to the excellent Bulk Rename Utility, which made the prepping easier. It was a team effort.
God this was a humbling experience 😑

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. …

"Don't be evil" is so far in the past, it's not even a memory anymore
(Original title: Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort)
https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-ef…

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”

Cyber volunteer effort for small water utilities announces new MSSP effort https://therecord.media/cyber-volunteer-water-utility-mssp

Bills sign veteran Brandin Cooks in effort to boost WR room https://www.nfl.com/news/bills-sign-veteran-brandin-cooks-in-effort-to-boost-wr-room

It's frustrating to see such high turnover in the city planning office. I encourage the city to take the complaints of its exiting planners more seriously and put greater effort into their retention. It shouldn't be taking this long to get form-based zoning in place. We could have hundreds more units in place by now if our planners were allowed to simply do their jobs.
#NHPolitics #NHHousing

'This Is About Voter Intimidation': Gavin Newsom Is Calling Out Trump's Bid to Control Elections (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/newsom-trump-effort-control-election-doj-monitors/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p71#a251027p71

There are reports ice morale is low. Proud boys or not, cleaving them away from the organization by encouraging them to see the downsides of staying is doable and worth pursuing.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politi

ICE agents face burnout and frustration amid Trump's aggressive enforcement
As ICE launches a recruitment effort to hire 10,000 more officers, existing staff struggle with long hours, growing public outrage.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/115635779318419465
"The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses."
And in this case the things they are using to kill it have radio transponders that regularly transmit their geolocation, and these can be looked up on sites that also generally track their Intended destination.
Frog suit Luigi jokes aside, I do feel like it would be possible to blockade some of these ships or at least make their stays in some ports uncomfortable. There are some problems with tracking boats to specific owners, but any giant yacht should probably just be resisted on principle.
I hope someone with more organizing time than me thinks about this a bit. It would definitely take international effort, but an international org like XR could actually probably pull something like that off... If they actually wanted to do something.

The Trump administration has sought to punish its enemies through mortgage fraud investigations overseen by the Federal Housing Finance Agency
and through criminal probes that Trump personally demanded the attorney general pursue.

Enlisting the Pentagon in this effort poses a unique threat to American democracy, according to historians, retired military officers and legal experts.
Long-standing taboos against using the armed forces to further a president’s political machi…

Hegseth conscripts the Pentagon for Trump’s ‘retribution campaign’
In threatening to deploy the military justice system against Democrats, Hegseth has joined Trump’s norm-shattering bid to punish political foes.

A night of weird, vivid dreams, mostly about personal loss, but over it all a sense of an utterly weary God, disillusioned with humanity, tired of our vanity and our heedlessness, no longer thinking that it's either possible to save us, or that we merit the effort of trying.

Syracuse's Alijah Clark made best effort play in NFL this season to help Cowboys beat Eagles https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/syracuse-alijah-clark-best-effort-play-nfl-season-cowboys…

Opposition Filed Against DOJ Effort to Strike Context from Complaint About Qatar’s ‘Gifted’ Jet to Trump Administration - American Oversight
https://americanoversight.org/opposition-filed-against-doj-effort-to-strike-context-from-complaint-about-qatars-gifted-jet-to-trump-administration/

'Archivist fired by Trump launches a national effort to strengthen democracy': 'On Constitution Day, Shogan launched a national bipartisan effort called "More Perfect" to work on strengthening democracy' https://www.pbs.org/newsho…

Archivist fired by Trump launches a national effort to strengthen democracy
Colleen Shogan made history when she became the first woman to serve as Archivist of the United States in 2023. In February, President Trump fired her with no reason given. On Constitution Day, Shogan launched a national bipartisan effort called "More Perfect" to work on strengthening democracy. Amna Nawaz reports for our series, Art in Action, and our arts and culture coverage, CANVAS.

The effort required to maintain a house does not increase linearly.
It increases geometrically with the number of adults, and exponentially with the number of children.
#DadLife

George's corrupt Republican party finally gets its way and kills the election interference case against Donald Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/politics/georgia-prosecutor-drops-trump-election-interference-case

As fun as the previous face was, I decided I wanted a bit more information displayed.
So I switched to this alternate ternary dial (also made by my friend).
The colours are all customisable. I have the minutes in a different colour to the hour so that I can locate them quickly at a glance, as I tend to decode them first (given I usually know the hour already).
This face can also show a step count but that is way too much effort to decode right now! 🤣

"More than 97% of immigrants detained in the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago had no criminal conviction, according to federal court records.
The data, released on Friday and first reported by the Chicago Tribune, sharply contradicts the Trump administration’s portrayal of the immigration sweeps as an effort to fight crime" #Trump

Fantasy Takeaways from Raiders Surprising Effort vs. Texans https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-fantasy-takeaways-from-surprising-effort-texans

MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler says the news channel will officially rebrand from MSNBC to MS NOW on November 15, ahead of the planned spinoff into Versant (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/msnbc-rebr…

“Same Mission. New Name”: MSNBC Switching to MS NOW Next Month
The rebrand of the cable news channel will take place Nov. 15, with a marketing effort launching next week.

German has a unique problem: the default noun for any job is male. Every effort to include the female or neutral form is fought tooth and nail by conservative parties. So when a mayor was forced to remove the mention of both genders in the statute for firefighters.... he kept just the female form of every job title 😈
"That's not what we meant!" the city council is now crying. "Not every person is female, after all!" they lament without noticing the irony.
…

Here's another business AI fail. Check out the subject line from today's newsletter:
"Claude to suggest subject line"
A very disappointing effort from Her Canberra.
#AI #Email #Newsletter

"Endangered Palau Ground Doves Thriving After Restoration Effort"
#Environment #Restoration

Endangered Palau Ground Doves Thriving After Restoration Effort
With the pressure of invasive species removed, however, signs of recovery in this unique ecosystem are already emerging

Why put effort into writing your thesis when you can put in the same amount of effort into making it look as if you had written it?
#AcademicChatter

Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…

As beautiful as a sailboat looks. In my eyes it's totally not worth the effort to own one (on lakes in Germany). While I enjoy helping my friends with their boats occasionally ... the amount of maintenance just confirms my bias every time :D

“Make the seats adjustable” is a thought I bring to teaching, for example: Does the context I’m creating for learning accommodate people with all different kinds of minds? What variations am I not accommodating? Can I make some things more individually adjustable to better embrace those variations? Can multiple instructors / learning environments / schools offer the flexibility that I can’t offer myself?
Total adjustability is impossible; infinite flexibility is impossible. But as an ongoing effort, as a •direction•, this work is both feasible and useful.
9/

Our new DDEV Gally addon has made it significantly easier to set up Gally, reducing the complexity and manual effort required.
Read more in our latest blogpost: https://blog.bitexpert.de/blog/ddev_gally_addon

Introducing the DDEV Gally Addon | bitExpert
The DDEV Gally Addon simplifies Gally integration into DDEV environments, reducing setup to just two commands. It offers easy management, convenient access, and streamlined interaction, making it easier for developers to work with Gally.

«Kovid betrayed us with Calibre 8.16.2, and we as a community never should have let that happen, never have placed such a burden on individual generosity. The synthesis of these two truths, then, is nearly self-evident. There must be a new effort, free from AI encumbrances, that is built from the ground-up as a community effort. Something that can outlive the decisions of any one participant»
Glad to see more efforts on community-based FOSS governance!
https://blog.rereading.space/rereading-because-books-are-art-and-art-is-labor

Your daily reminder that @… are only cunts on days with names ending with day.
“The European Commission will launch its long-awaited bid to simplify digital rules in an effort to reduce the regulatory burden on businesses and to promote European start ups in the global artificial intelligence race.”

Gingerbread Quick Soak Overnight Oats #plantbased

Gingerbread Quick Soak Overnight Oats
These gluten-free and vegan gingerbread quick soak overnight oats make a cozy, festive breakfast that takes almost no effort

Cowboys' George Pickens 'not from this planet'; powers Dallas to win over Eagles with another 140-yard effort

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/new…

Lawsuit, threat of criminal charges part of GOP effort to block vote on Missouri map | News From The States
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/lawsuit-threat-criminal-charges-part-gop-effort-block-vote-missouri-map

US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty https://therecord.media/us-declines-signing-cybercrime-treaty

Quick Hits: Pete Carroll talks Ashton Jeanty's dynamic performance, all-around team effort versus Houston Texans https://www.raiders.com/news/quick-hits-pete-carroll-talks-ashton-jeanty-s-dynamic-perfor…

Pic 6: Jadeveon Clowney shines, o-line keeps Dak Prescott clean, more https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-jadeveon-clowney-shines-o-line-keeps-dak-prescott-clean-more

The National Association of Broadcasters launches a campaign to support live sports on free broadcast channels as more big games move to streaming services (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/platform/broadcast/n…

NAB Launches Effort to Keep Live Sports on Broadcast Channels
The campaign comes at a time when fans are increasingly complaining about the cost of accessing games behind paywalls and the complexity of accessing the games

Jets QB Justin Fields unbothered by owner's criticism amid 0-7 effort: 'Everybody knows I need to play better'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…

Sources: OpenAI is working with Arm to develop a CPU designed to work with the AI chip OpenAI is developing with Broadcom, which will be manufactured by TSMC (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-working-softbanks-arm-br…

OpenAI Is Working With SoftBank’s Arm on Broadcom AI Chip Effort
OpenAI’s development of its own artificial intelligence chip will benefit SoftBank, one of its biggest shareholders, which is also helping the ChatGPT maker develop and finance its ambitious data center plan. OpenAI is working with SoftBank’s Arm subsidiary to develop a central processing unit ...

Quick Hits: Pete Carroll talks Ashton Jeanty's dynamic performance, all-around team effort versus Houston Texans https://www.raiders.com/news/quick-hits-pete-carroll-talks-ashton-jeanty-s-dynamic-perfor…

Pic 6: Jadeveon Clowney shines, o-line keeps Dak Prescott clean, more https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-jadeveon-clowney-shines-o-line-keeps-dak-prescott-clean-more

“What began as an effort to identify individual officers has evolved into a far more ambitious accountability tool. Soon, organizers say, every incident will be mapped to who was there, which ICE facility or federal agency they came from, what vehicle they used, who led the team, and how many times they’ve appeared in other operations.”

NEWS: ICE List Launches Wiki to Expose Enforcement Network
The Europe-based volunteer-built database links raids, agents, vehicles, and legal structures, aiming to break the cycle of official secrecy.

Pro-Trump billionaire Bill Ackman gives $1M to anti-Mamdani effort (Jeff Coltin/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/bill-ackman-donates-to-anti-mamdani-effort-00609490
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p139#a251015p139

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is running a shadow operation inside the White House
in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials, the Kyiv Independent has learned.
Witkoff
— a real estate mogul with no diplomatic background before his appointment
— has emerged as one of the central architects of a new Washington "peace proposal"
that Ukrainian officials say revives the Kremlin's most sweeping demands.
A source in Ukraine's President…

How Steve Witkoff pushed Ukraine sympathizers out of White House, and led the US into Russia's arms
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is running a shadow operation inside the White House in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials, the Kyiv Independent has learned. Witkoff — a real estate mogul with no diplomatic background before his appointment — has emerged as one of the central architects of a new Washington peace proposal that Ukrainian officials say revives the Kremlin's most sweeping demands. A source in Ukraine's President's Office earlier said that Witkoff is shaping the plan…

‘This veers into propaganda’: Inside the massive effort of Noem’s DHS to push deportation arrests on social media | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-arrests-social-media-videos-noem-dhs-b2889915.html

Apple's DMA compliance isn't "malicious", but an effort to balance Apple's privacy focus with the EU's mandate, as iOS 26.2 iPhone/Watch Wi-Fi sync changes show (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2025/11/apple_eu_d…

Exploring, in Detail, Apple’s Compliance With the EU’s DMA Mandate Regarding Apple Watch, Third-Party Accessories, and the Syncing of Saved Wi-Fi Networks From iPhones to Which They’re Paired
The bottom line is that users setting up new Apple Watches in the EU will now get a somewhat slightly worse experience in the name of parity with accessories made by third-party companies. It remains to be seen whether users of third-party iPhone accessories and peripherals in the EU will see any benefit at all.

Raiders report: Patrick Graham defends team’s effort, work ethic https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-report-patrick-graham-defends-teams-effort-work-ethic-3597528/

Podcast: A Massive Archiving Effort at National Parks (with Jenny McBurney and Lynda Kellam) https://www.404media.co/podcast-a-massive-archiving-effort-at-national-parks-with-jenny-mcburney-and-lynda-kellam/

Trump blasts 'weakened' Schumer as Democrats again block GOP effort to reopen government (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-blasts-weakened-schumer-democrats-again-block-gop-effort-reopen-government
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p145#a251014p145

Sanctuary cities sue over Trump bid to strip federal funding
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/blatantly-unconstitutional-sanctuary-cities-scorn-trumps-vindictive-effort-to-strip-jurisdictions-of-millions-in-federal-grant-funds-for-refusing-to-help-immigration-raids/

A federal judge in Washington DC has halted the Trump administration’s effort to keep more than 2,000 National Guard troops deployed across the city,
finding that D.C. is likely to prove the deployment unlawful.
Thank you, Judge Jia M. Cobb!
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.s

Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social)
A federal judge in Washington has halted the Trump administration’s effort to keep more than 2,000 National Guard troops deployed across the city, finding that D.C. is likely to prove the deployment unlawful. Thank you, Judge Jia M. Cobb! https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.284495/gov.uscourts.dcd.284495.88.0_2.pdf

Report: Cowboys rebuffed in trade efforts for Raiders, Bengals star defenders https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/10/26/dallas-tried-to-trade-for-hendrickson-crosby-told-no-by-afc-teams/8…

Judge blocks Trump effort to strip security clearance from attorney who represented whistleblowers (Joey Cappelletti/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-whistleblower-security-clearance-mark-zaid-2a6f7d23dc85d7e1db2ac9a38e548b8e
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p42#a251224p42

The near deadlock on land has led to an alternative Ukrainian effort to win by economic means.
While Russia has stepped up bombing of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure
and residents of the country’s cities endure electricity outages,
Kyiv is still able to get power to the front,
its defences not obviously impaired.
And despite the regularity of Russian drone and missile attacks,
civilian morale appears not to have been significantly affected.
In retu…

Cowboys' Brian Schottenheimer not worried about WR George Pickens' effort after Lions loss https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-not-worried-about-wr-george-pickens-effort-after-lions-loss

Momentum is building to tap more of Russia’s central bank reserves
— immobilized after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine
— to help fund Kyiv's war effort.
As the U.S. moved to wash its hands of Ukraine’s fate,
the gradual realization Russia’s war would not end any time soon
and that Kyiv would continue to need large amounts of external funding
has spurred European initiative to unlock the cash tied up in Russia’s frozen assets.

The EU's ambitious plan for frozen Russian assets, explained
Momentum is building to tap more of Russia’s central bank reserves — immobilized after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine — to help fund Kyiv's war effort. As the U.S. moved to wash its hands of Ukraine’s fate, the gradual realization Russia’s war would not end any time soon and that Kyiv would continue to need large amounts of external funding has spurred European initiative to unlock the cash tied up in Russia’s frozen assets. And Kyiv will need all the money it can get. Recent …

Internal memo: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declares a "code red" to shift more resources into improving ChatGPT amid rising competition, delaying other plans like ads (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI CEO Declares ‘Code Red’ to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday told employees he was declaring a “code red” to marshall more resources to improve ChatGPT as threats rise from Google and other artificial intelligence competitors, according to an internal memo. As a result,OpenAI plans to delay other initiatives, such as ...

Exclusive: Trump administration plans meeting over House effort to force release of all of DOJ's Epstein files (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/politics/trump-administration-meeting-house-effort-epstein-document-release
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p74#a251112p74

"the prosecutors provided *selected pages* from the grand jury transcript"
'Big trouble': Legal expert says Trump DOJ's effort to fix 'screw up' just 'made it worse' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/james-comey-halligan-big-trouble/

Cowboys deliver best defensive effort of the season vs. the Commanders -- and reinforcements are on the way

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-injury-updates-…

NFL Insiders Blast Cowboys WR George Pickens for ‘Unacceptable’ Lack of Effort https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/george-pickens-inexcusable-bad-effort-loss/?adt_ei=[email]

A languid spiral galaxy appears draped against deep space in a stunning new image from the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope.
Euclid launched in 2023 on a six-year mission to map the cosmos at scale,
observing billions of galaxies stretching as far away as 10 billion light-years from Earth.
The effort could reveal how galaxies form and evolve and how the universe has expanded over its 13.8-billion-or-so-year history.

Sparkling Galaxy Merger Shines in New Euclid Space Telescope Image
The Euclid Space Telescope is decking the halls with boughs of starlight

Cowboys' Jerry Jones in denial over George Pickens' effort issues vs. Lions https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-jerry-jones-denial-george-pickens-effort-issues-lions/2…

Inside Turning Point's effort to take over Arizona's Republican Party (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/22/turning-point-usa-arizona-republican-party-00702306
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p75#a251222p75

USDA Secretary Says
All SNAP Recipients Must Reapply,
Dubiously Citing Fraud
“Forcing millions to reapply is a deliberate effort to shrink the program and leave families hungry,” said one lawmaker
https://truthout.org/articles/usda-sec

USDA Secretary Says All SNAP Recipients Must Reapply, Dubiously Citing Fraud
“Forcing millions to reapply is a deliberate effort to shrink the program and leave families hungry,” said one lawmaker.

Cowboys preach 'team effort' for stellar Javonte Williams run game https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-preach-team-effort-stellar-javonte-williams-run-game/5b155f50de92…

North Carolina Senate Approves New Map in Effort to Add G.O.P. Congressional Seat (Eduardo Medina/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/north-carolina-congressional-map-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p3#a251022p3

Jaguars HC Liam Coen on Trevor Lawrence's stumble to six: 'That's an unbelievable individual effort' https://www.nfl.com/news/jaguars-hc-liam-coen-on-trevor-lawrence-s-stumble-to-six-that-s-an-unbelievable-i…

Trump unveils a new class of Navy battleship -- named after himself
Donald Trump on Monday said he will oversee the development of a new class of Navy battleship
— named after himself.

The move was cast in part as an effort to give the nation’s stagnant shipbuilding industry a shot in the arm,
but also will upend the Navy’s ship-naming norms and thrust presidential politics firmly into the program from its genesis.
The announcement follows a flurry of recent …

Trump unveils a new class of Navy battleship named after himself
President Donald Trump on Monday said he will oversee the development of a new class of Navy “battleship” — named after himself.

Jerry Jones confirms if Dallas Cowboys saw lack of effort from George Pickens during loss to Lions https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/nfl-news-jerry-jones-confirms-if-cowboys-saw-lack-of-effort-from-george-pickens-during-loss-…

The National Shooting Sports Foundation boasts of raising awareness about suicide,
but it uses deceptive numbers to promote its efforts
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/gun-industry-suicide-pr…

The Gun Industry’s Suicide Prevention Effort Isn’t What They Say It Is
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a top gun industry trade group, has been using deceptive numbers to tout its suicide awareness efforts.

Republicans struggle to explain shutdown of the House
“This shutdown strategy is old and Republicans need to have new tactics,”
Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas)
told House Republicans on a private call Tuesday afternoon,
as federal agencies passed their third week without funding.
Her critique highlighted the growing struggles that House Republicans face in their effort to try to force Democrats into opening up the federal government.

Ahead of the shutdown,…

Republicans struggle to explain shutdown of the House
Speaker Mike Johnson’s initial strategy to jam the Senate has not worked, but he refuses to change tactics.

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly,
nominated by former President Bill Clinton,
said on Friday that the I.R.S. plan to share information with ICE was too broad.
She said that federal law only allows for the I.R.S. to share tax information with other government officials who are directly involved in an ongoing investigation.
The I.R.S. sent the thousands of addresses to a single ICE official, who Judge Kollar-Kotelly said could not have been personally conducting so many i…

Judge Places Hold on IRS Data Sharing With ICE
A judge halted a federal deportation effort Friday, writing that the tax agency had illegally disseminated the data of some migrants.

Obama:
"When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act,
that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m3436lfc7c2a

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

Six of nine universities that were asked to sign an agreement in exchange for funding advantages have rejected the offer ahead of Today’s deadline for response
Within a day of the call,
University of Virginia and Dartmouth College rejected the compact,
joining ranks with MIT,
Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania and the
University of Southern California.
The University of Texas at Austin was invited to sign on and the chair of the University o…

White House hits road block in effort to get top colleges to sign deal
Six of nine universities that were asked to sign an agreement in exchange for funding advantages have rejected the offer ahead of Monday’s deadline for responses