Greens ‘on track’ to supplant Labour as favourite party in London
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/04/greens-on-track-to-supplant-labour-as-favourite-party-in-london-says-zack-polanski
Anisotropic spin fluctuations in the triangular Kondo lattice compound CePtAl$_4$Ge$_2$ probed by site-selective $^{27}$Al NMR
H. Sakai, S. Shin, S. Kambe, Y. Tokunaga, H. Harima, E. Pomjakushina, T. Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03007
Chipmaker Cerebras Systems raised a $1.1B Series G from Fidelity, Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital, and others at an $8.1B post-money valuation ahead of its planned IPO (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/a-year-…
Over the past month, federal prosecutors in D.C. have failed at least five times to persuade a grand jury to indict a D.C. resident for allegedly attacking federal law enforcement.
These are not the only embarrassments suffered recently by federal prosecutors in the District,
and judges have begun to lose their patience over missteps and sloppy cases.
Despite the president’s promise to “take our capital back,” his law-enforcement surge is struggling in court.
The most …
Living inside the Capital Beltway, I have absolutely felt this. https://prospect.org/politics/2025-09-30-government-has-been-shut-down-for-months/
#Gig workers in #Indonesia are coming together to demand fair compensation and better working conditions, despite immense challenges & an anti-#labor government.
Read more in my latest at @…
I think we might have locked ourselves into a professionalization trap. Shocking revelation: It's capitalism's fault.
(Original title: The Professionalism Trap)
https://tante.cc/2025/09/24/the-professionalism-trap/
Education software maker Anthology files for bankruptcy, listing $1B to $10B in both assets and liabilities after its Blackboard merger debt became unmanageable (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/v…
If you love Marshal Kim Jong Un, the so-called "beloved" dictator of North Korea, where people are forced to bow down not out of respect but because the regime literally outlaws standing upright for more than three seconds to prevent neck strain then I see you as enforcers of authoritarian misery not my comrade.
Real solidarity means rejecting all hierarchies and authoritarian rule, dismantling the capitalist states that oppress workers under the pretense of loyalty, and buil…