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Friday Links 25-08
Pocket is a big part of how I collect the links for the Friday Links. Sadly, Mozilla has decided to shut Pocket down. My plan is to migrate to Readwise Reader, which seems to be a reasonable replacement. I am now migrating some of my helper scripts to make the change easier. You will see next week if I will be successful. :-)

On Friday, Right Wing Watch reported that President Donald Trump's religious-right activists have been nearly unanimous in their demand that the Trump administration lend its full support to Israel in its growing conflict with Iran because they believe that it is key to bringing about the End Times and the return of Jesus Christ.
On Saturday, after Trump ordered U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, MAGA cultist and self-proclaimed Christian nationalist Lance Wallnau immed…

Lance Wallnau Says Trump's Strike On Iran Is Setting The Stage For 'The Antichrist Emerging'
Christian nationalist Lance Wallnau is excited about Trump's military strikes on Iran because it is setting the stage for "the Antichrist emerging."

I'm sure @… will like this Climate Bench made from recycled garden furniture, by Jilles Verspoor (PlaSTiEK Breda), as displayed and used at the start of Friday's Climate Classic! I do :)
#ShowYourStripes

Bessent: Senate on track for Friday vote on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5366959-bessent-senate-gop-bill-vote/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p128#a250624p128

He's the one demanding more apprehensions...
What WSJ Said about Stephen Miller at 9PM on a Friday - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/21/what-wsj-said-about-stephen-miller-at-9pm-on-a-friday/

It's Friday, it _is_ 19:30.
And here's the Natalie requested!
(Mrs Jaffa is going to see Natalie Imbruglia, The Corrs and Remember Monday at Blenheim Palace in a few weeks)
#TOTP

International #degrowth conference starts in #Oslo later today, til Friday.
You can watch plenaries on the #livestream. Looks like Gustavo Petro will not now be giving the inaugural address but Irene Vélez…

Good time for Xi to create a crisis around Taiwan.
https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-china-planes-center-line-british-ship-b1618804e7a4bc66c411cb3cb171480a

China sends scores of planes across central line in Taiwan Strait
China has sent 74 warplanes toward Taiwan between late Thursday and early Friday, 61 of which crossed the central line in the Taiwan Strait unofficially dividing the sides. China considers Taiwan its own territory and uses such deployments to advertise its threat to encircle and possibly invade the self-governing island. It wasn't clear why so many planes were scrambled between late Thursday and early Friday, as tabulated by Taiwan's Defense Ministry. The planes were sent in two separate tranch…

This should really be called "tax the rich more and the poor less" More money for a wealthy person won't mean they drink more coffee or eat more pub meals.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-21/can-aust…

Can Australia still afford the pub, our coffee addiction or Friday night takeaway?
From our coffee addiction to a weekend pub tradition, some of the simple pleasures many Australians have taken for granted now feel like luxuries. But if patrons can no longer afford to visit the pubs and cafes we love, there may be something bigger at stake.

NFL news roundup: Texans sign former first-round CB Damon Arnette https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-friday-june-20

Uber Eats: We Miss You
Me: I can’t afford takeaways that often. I just used you on Friday.

Feds: Just change your State's whole way of doing things and make your ID's "Real ID". That way we can be sure they aren't fake.
Also Feds: This "Real ID" looks fake, we're deporting you!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-ci…

U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed in Alabama immigration raid and held before release
A U.S.-born citizen who was wrestled into the dirt, handcuffed and detained in a vehicle as part of an immigration raid had a REAL ID on him that was dismissed as fake, the man's cousin said Friday.

US enters first major heat wave of 2025 #UnitedStates #USA

US enters first major heat wave of 2025
The United States is experiencing its first significant heat wave of the year, beginning Friday across the Great Plains and expanding into parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead open their summer ’85 tour on a rainy evening at alpine valley in wisconsin.
sometimes distorted soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd85-06-21

Chrono Odyssey (Playtest)
Requested access to CO's Playtest this weekend and got the notification on Friday I was in. Installed and launched the game. Game defaulted to Epic settings. Left it there and started the game. Right off the bat, the cinematics had strange artifacting on them. Almost looked like the Steam browser in the background was ghosting into the game somehow.
Created a character. Decent customization. Male doesn't look absurdly buff. Femme isn't overl…

The Republican Majority on the Senate Banking Committee released a press release Friday confirming that they were intentionally eliminating
the “duplicative Office of Financial Research (OFR)”.
According to sources I’ve talked to in the Senate, Republican committee members have shown little concern with the elimination of the Office of Financial Research.
They also seem aware of the concerns over SOFR, because both their “one pager” and “section by section” documents clai…

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Eliminates the Office of Financial Research—Threatening the Stability of the Treasury Market
Early last week I started working on a piece on why the Federal Reserve didn’t step in during the Trump Tariff Financial Panic. The basic idea of that piece is simply that “repo rates”- the interest rate at which you can, in essence, borrow funds with treasury securities

Bishop Pham casts "turn evil" and applies his charisma bonus!
https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/114718205055131519

It's Friday, it's a billion degrees outside, and I wanted to, so I walked up to the Dairy Queen.

Not what it seems ...
#blogging

Investigation: pages affiliated with RT, Sputnik, and other entities remained part of Facebook's ad revenue program months after being subject to EU sanctions (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/sanctioned-russian-med…

Sanctioned Russian media still partnered with Facebook
Sanctioned pro-Russian media are still part of Facebook’s advertising revenue program, new research out Friday showed. Russian state broadcasters, including Rossiya Segodnya — the organizatio…

#Python Friday #280: Sentiment Analysis With #Bert of #Goodreads Reviews - #ai

#280: Sentiment Analysis With Bert of Goodreads Reviews - Python Friday
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Just about to install Ubuntu Studio on my younger boy's clapped out (munted) school BYOD Thinkpad (purchased refurbished 5 yrs ago) so I can use it for music recording. Maybe. If it works.
How's your Friday night going?

NFL's unluckiest players: Diving into best 'bad luck' stats of 2024 in honor of Friday the 13th https://www.nfl.com/news/friday-the-13th-unluckiest-players-bad-luck-stats-2024

New Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle couldn't wait to show up for work https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/new-dallas-cowboys-defensive-tackle-couldn-t-wait-to-show-up-for-work

"Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles"
#Glass #Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics

Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles
Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles, according to a surprising study released by France's food safety agency Friday.

Friday Links 25-10
This week I enjoyed the podcasts about Lise Meitner and Korea.
OpenRailwayMap is also nice to play around with, if you are interested in railways all over the world.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/06/friday-links-25-10.html

Friday Links 25-10
This week I enjoyed the podcasts about Lise Meitner and Korea.  OpenRailwayMap is also nice to play around with, if you are interested in ra...

Amazon plans to hold Prime Day 2025 from July 8 until July 11, lasting four days instead of the usual two and open for Prime members (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685299/amazon-prime-day-2025-dates-when

Amazon Prime Day stretches to four days of deals this year
Amazon’s 2025 Prime Day will begin Tuesday, July 8th, and lasts through Friday, July 11th. There will be a ton of smart home, headphone, TV, laptop deals.

on my way to the optional friday meeting of early arrivers to RetroNetConf, our small German-language meeting of various #retronetworking enthusiasts https://osmocom.org/projects/retronetw…

sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata

⚠️ Please BE AWARE that there is a chance that if you transfer your save file from Switch to Switch 2, you may lose it. This person lost 20 years of data that they'd had since their Game Boy Advance. Totally brutal. It's a huge gamble, and to me, might not be worth it if you really value your save data.

'There's nothing I can do. I don't even know if I wanna play anymore' — Pokémon fan left devastated after '20 years worth of data' lost in Switch to Switch 2 transfer
‘My Scarlet save file is gone,’ sobs gamer. They say no error messages popped up during their Friday the 13th transfer attempt.

Vance to visit Los Angeles on Friday amid tension over ICE raids (Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/20/jd-vance-los-angeles-00415121
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p51#a250620p51

“Noor, who made so many friends on Bluesky since she started an account there in the summer of 2023, had her account suddenly suspended on Friday. Bluesky did not send a reason for the suspension, so while she wrote an appeal, she did not know what actions she was appealing, so as of now it's still suspended. She’s been silenced, and effectively disappeared.”

A Future for Noor and Her Children
Hello! I'm Meave, a U.S. citizen sponsoring this fundraiser on behalf of my dear friend Noor Hassan and her children. Noor and her son Abdul Rahman are kind, generous people; though their original fundraiser succeeded last summer, supporting themselves and their extended family cost them everything. This fundraiser will allow them to support themselves and save up to buy passage to Egypt and pursue a better future.

Sen. Padilla claps back after JD Vance calls him ‘Jose’:
‘ He knows my name'
Sen. Alex Padilla blasted the Trump administration Saturday,
-- calling it “petty and unserious”
after Vice President JD Vance referred to him as “Jose” during a news conference in Los Angeles the previous day.
“He knows my name,” Padilla said in an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning.
Vance visited Los Angeles on Friday for less than five hours
after several weeks o…

Sen. Padilla claps back after JD Vance calls him 'Jose': 'He knows my name'
Sen. Alex Padilla insisted the vice president knows his name, calling the misnaming a reflection of a "petty and unserious" administration. The dustup arrives as federal immigration raids continue to roil Los Angeles and surrounding communities.

Rolling into Friday like...
#DailyWhippet #DogsOfMastodon

Charm physics
David Friday, Evelina Gersabeck, Alexander Lenz, Maria Laura Piscopo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15584 https://arxiv.org…

Charm physics
50 years after the discovery of the first charmed particle, charm physics continues to be an extremely lively field of research and a cornerstone in particle physics. The study of charm, with its unique properties, is characterised by many challenging but also exciting peculiarities, making it an ideal testing ground for Standard Model (SM) predictions and a very sensitive probe of new physics. This chapter is intended to provide a pedagogical introduction to the physics of the charm quark and …

The Way, and the Truth, and the Life - Pray As You Go
https://prayasyougo.org/prayer/the-way-and-the-truth-and-the-life-2684
Image generated by Wes Fryer using ChatGPT, edited with Canva for iOS.

The way, and the truth, and the life - Pray As You Go
Today is Friday the 16th of May, in the 4th week of Eastertide.    The Kyiv Chamber Choir sing the Credo: “I believe in one God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.” As I start this prayer today, can I join in with this strong...

It is after all Friday the 13th. Nevertheless, surgery left the old NUC battered and bruised, but working fine again, with VoidLinux.
The cheapo-beapo n150 started up without a hitch, with Slackware Current Mate. Gentoo dwm and Slackeroni KDE still solid as a rock.
My pants are on properly in one go.
I promise I won't tamper with any of them today, after 4 days of messing about.
It is after all Friday the 13th.

Going to a quick event today at the local school on this fine Friday the 13th. And what do we say to the hellmouth under the school? Not today!

My sympathies to the data protection authority officer who's sending me information about one of my GDPR cases at 17 on a Friday (hopefully just before leaving for the weekend).

What's coming up during #TNC25 - Part 3
Get a first look at the programme highlights in the carousel below 👇
📌 Explore the full programme − https://tnc25.geant.org/programme/

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Yeah ok but met gala was great and the soup at #ferrari kitchen is to die for
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article

Ferrari's braking issues 'a lottery' as Lewis Hamilton reflects on FP2 struggles in Imola | Formula 1®
Lewis Hamilton believes that ongoing braking issues with Ferrari's SF-25 are "a lottery" as the seven-time World Champion and team mate Charles Leclerc struggled for pace on Friday ahead of the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix.

Happy Friday!

As always: #ACAB. And especially fuckers who lead your local PD, even if they come from other departments (like sanitation). https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/30

Trump, Netanyahu spoke Friday amid Israel-Iran conflict, White House official says (Steve Holland/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-netanyahu-spoke-friday-amid-israel-iran-conflict-white-house-official-says-2025-06-13/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p126#a250613p126

#Python Friday #279: Sentiment Analysis in Python - #ai
https://pythonfriday.dev/2025/05/279-s

#279: Sentiment Analysis in Python - Python Friday
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Today I called a business partner of ours and immediately "Friday" by Riton x Nightcrawlers started playing as their Ringing tone... I thought those were long gone but no, all german providers still offer them! 😂

Here's a great modern version of the classic "Join or Die" cartoon from the American Revolution to prepare for Friday.
#NoKings #uspol

Spagnola: Searching for some one-year wonders https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-searching-for-some-one-year-wonders

EchoStar's stock jumps 45% after a report said EchoStar's chairman met Trump, a day after meeting FCC's Carr; EchoStar faces FCC spectrum license uncertainty (Monica Alleven/Fierce Network)
https://www.fierce-network.com/wireless/he

EchoStar's Ergen reportedly met with Trump. Here's the latest
Charlie Ergen, the billionaire chairman of EchoStar, met with President Trump at the White House on ThursdayTrump called FCC Chairman Brendan Carr into the me | Shares of EchoStar were up more than 45% today after a report surfaced Friday that President Trump intervened in the dramatic conflict involving EchoStar Chairman Charlie Ergen and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr.

It should become a very, very black Friday the 13th for Netanyahu and his #TerrorRegime in #Israel.

Wondering how to make Bluesky work for you to expand your social media reach? Join me today at 1pm AEST to learn what works for me and how to maximise your presence on this platform.
FRIDAY 13 June, 1PM AEST – “Exploring Bluesky”
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On many issues, Americans are deeply polarized.
War with Iran isn’t one of them.
An Economist/YouGov poll of U.S. adults taken in the days after Israel’s attack last Friday found that Democrats opposed entering the conflict by a margin of 50 points and Republicans opposed entering it by a margin of 30 points.
Given these numbers, you might think Democratic leaders would be doing everything they can to prevent President Trump from striking Iran without the approval of Cong…

Opinion | Schumer and Jeffries Need to Step Up and Challenge Trump on War Powers
Failing to aggressively defend Congress’s role in authorizing war would be a serious blunder for Democrats.

My turn for the baby lurgy. Had to cancel tonight's and tomorrow's plans including spending time with my friend who's here for a few days from country Victoria. Have gone to bed. Going to take it easy tomorrow so hopefully better by Friday. Not happy, Jan. 😠

This friday, I will be speaking at @… in Hamburg. I'll be showing a neat cryptography-based vulnerability that we found in a project a while back, and discuss what it can teach us about defensive software architecture. If you're there, come say hi :).
Really looking forward to the event, had some great discussions last year.

the depth of the rabbit hole is directly proportional to the number of open browser tabs. And I did close most of the old ones on Friday.

NFL news roundup: Rams signing veteran OT D.J. Humphries as Alaric Jackson deals with blood clots https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-friday-june-13

It's not Bandcamp Friday, so the perfect day to check out my Mirlo treasure trove.
For example, my most recent release, "Ritual & Mayhem", is here!
#Mirlo #NowPlaying

Must prise myself out of bed. This is one of our new 'no need to get up early to drive a child to school' mid-#GCSE days and very welcome they are too when they coincide with my days off. Just exams on Friday and Monday to go and then we're freeeeeeeeeee!

Spagnola: Searching for some one-year wonders https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-searching-for-some-one-year-wonders

The WNBA and E.W. Scripps renew their media rights deal, ensuring Friday night WNBA matchups will continue on Ion, along with a new weekly studio show (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/wnba-scripps-media-rights-deal.html

WNBA renews media rights deal with Scripps
The new agreement comes after Ion has seen huge growth with the WNBA and as the league gains in popularity thanks to stars like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.

Friday Links 25-09
First post curated via Readwise Reader. I am creating some scripts to help replicate what I did with Pocket.
I enjoyed the Komoot goodbye video this week. It is lovely and a bit sad.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/05/friday-links-25-0…

Friday Links 25-09
First post curated via Readwise Reader . I am creating some scripts to help replicate what I did with Pocket.  I enjoyed the Komoot goodbye...

What's coming up during #TNC25 - Part 2
Get a first look at the programme highlights in the carousel below 👇 From Community Hub sessions to beloved Lightning Talks—here’s what not to miss!
📌 Explore the full programme − https://t…

As always: #ACAB. And especially fuckers who lead your local PD, even if they come from other departments (like sanitation). https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/30

#Python Friday #283: Play Audio Files in Python
https://pythonfriday.dev/2025/06/283-play-audio-files-in-python/

#283: Play Audio Files in Python - Python Friday
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"In her press conference Friday announcing the unsealing of DOJ criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, AG Pam Bondi put on a clinic—in how to make such announcements improperly. In her excess of zeal, she tarred Abrego Garcia with external allegations and may well have undermined the prospects for conviction."
Pam Bondi Shows How It's Not Done - National Memo
https://www.nationalmemo.com/pam-bondi-2672349935

sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata

President Trump's 2024 financial disclosure report shows he earned ~$57M from his stake in World Liberty Financial and $1.2M from an NFT licensing deal (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-disclosure-cryptocu…

Trump Was Already a Crypto Czar in 2024
Financial disclosures for 2024 filed by the president on Friday show that digital coins had already become one of his family’s most successful ventures.

Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday, with explosions booming across Tehran as Israel said it targeted nuclear and military sites.
The attack comes as tensions have reached new heights over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Israel is targeting Iran’s nuclear sites:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel targeted Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz and the country’s ballistic missile program,
as well as top nuclear scientists…

Live updates: Israel attacks Iran’s capital with explosions booming across Tehran
Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday, with explosions booming across Tehran. The attack comes as tensions have reached new heights over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Cowboy Roundup: Offensive and defensive rankings, Dallas youth movement https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/offensive-defensive-rankings-dallas-cowboys-youth-movement

NFL news roundup: Ravens RB Keaton Mitchell (knee) back healthy, plans to return kickoffs https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-friday-june-6

What's coming up during #TNC25 - Part 1
Get a first look at the programme highlights in the carousel below 👇 From digital inclusion to quantum—here’s what not to miss!
💬 What sessions are you most excited about? Let us know via #TNC25
📌 Explore the full programme −

#Python Friday #274: Working With Excel Files in #Pandas
https://pythonfriday.dev/2025/04/274-w

#274: Working With Excel Files in Pandas - Python Friday
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sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata

The UK High Court warns lawyers of possible criminal charges for using AI-generated fake legal material, citing two recent cases with hallucinated content (Lizzie Dearden/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/world/europe/england-high-court-…

UK Court Warns Lawyers Can Be Prosecuted Over A.I. Tools That ‘Hallucinate’ Fake Material
A senior judge said on Friday that lawyers could be prosecuted for presenting material that had been “hallucinated” by artificial intelligence tools.

A federal judge Friday issued a second preliminary injunction blocking some provisions of the sweeping executive order on elections that Donald Trump signed in March.
Judge Denise Casper blocked provisions ordering the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to take steps to require documentary proof of citizenship from people registering to vote and requiring federal voter registration agencies to “assess” the citizenship of individuals who receive public assistance before providing them …

Parts of Trump’s executive order on elections blocked by a federal court
A federal court granted a coalition of states an injunction halting implementation of parts of Trump’s executive order on elections.

NFL news roundup: Bills promote Terrance Gray to assistant general manager https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-friday-may-30

Can’t make it to Brighton? No problem, join us online for #TNC25!
We know not everyone can travel—so we’re bringing TNC25 to you with a free online pass! Tune in live for keynotes and sessions, explore on-demand content, and join the conversation in the chatroom.
Whether you're logging in from your campus office or your kitchen table, there’s a place for you at TNC25.
💻 Streamin…

X names Polymarket as its official prediction market partner, with plans to combine Polymarket predictions with X data to deliver live insights (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/x-names-polymarket-as-its-offi…

X names Polymarket as its official prediction market partner | TechCrunch
X announced on Friday that it has partnered with Polymarket, naming it the platform’s official prediction market partner.

Iran said Israel’s deadly attacks on Friday underscored its need to advance uranium enrichment and missile capabilities.
“One should not speak to such a predatory regime except in the language of power,”
the Iranian government said in a statement.
“The world now better understands Iran’s insistence on the right to enrichment, nuclear technology, and missile power.”

#Python Friday #282: Working With Temporary Files
https://pythonfriday.dev/2025/06/282-working-with-temporary-files/

#282: Working With Temporary Files - Python Friday
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What to Watch for in Abrego Garcia’s Hearing on Potential Pretrial Detention on Friday
The government will want to focus on Abrego Garcia’s alleged links to MS-13,
he will respond that no detention hearing is warranted,
and the magistrate judge may end up relying on his immigration detention.

Virtual chronic care company Omada Health closed up 21% in its Nasdaq debut after raising about $150M in its IPO, valuing the company at just over $1B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/omada-shares-open-at-23-in-na…

Omada shares pop 42% in Nasdaq debut after health tech company's IPO
Omada Health became the latest tech company to hit the Nasdaq on Friday, as the IPO market picks up steam.

#Python Friday #273: Query Excel Files With #DuckDB
https://pythonfriday.dev/2025/04/273-q

#273: Query Excel Files With DuckDB - Python Friday
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Saints sign RB Akers to 1-year deal after tryout https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45508612/new-orleans-saints-sign-rb-cam-akers-1-year-deal

You won’t hear this on the news but Scotland and other countries have declared their economy will be based on wellbeing, not GDP.
And They’re not alone.
Countries worldwide are making the same shift.
But here’s the thing: people aren’t waiting for governments.
EThey’re building wellbeing economies themselves through cooperatives, people’s assemblies, and businesses that put purpose over profit.
-- J Friday

A federal judge ruled on Thursday that Donald Trump illegally deployed the California national guard to suppress protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles
and ordered the force to be returned to the control of the state governor, Gavin Newsom.
The order by the US district judge Charles Breyer will not take effect until noon on Friday,
but it marked a stinging defeat for the Trump administration that is sure to touch off a pitched legal battle destined for the US supr…

New survey data out Friday shows that Republicans are wrong if they remain unconcerned about public sentiment as it relates to the evisceration of Medicaid or healthcare support systems that would result from passage of their colossal legislation now making its way through Congress
— a bill that, if passed, would see coverage stripped from an estimated 11-16 million people in the coming years.

Poll Shows GOP Senators Who Vote to Cut Medicaid Could Face Political Peril
A KFF Health Tracking Poll shows anxiety is high about looming Medicaid cuts among voters across the political spectrum.

On Friday, Trump’s border czar,
Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles
to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city.
“We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what?
We are already mobilizing.
We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,”
Homan told Fox News.
California Governor Gavin Newsom respo…

LA protests live: National Guard to arrive within 24 hours after being deployed by Trump over immigration demos
Demonstrators clash with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in hours-long stand-off

As many as 44 people were detained on Friday throughout Los Angeles during chaotic, protest-inducing raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials,
and a local congressman claims raids by federal officials are being conducted “outside the bounds of the law.” 
U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) said that he and his federal counterparts are being barred from entering the downtown Los Angeles facility in which people who were detained are believed to be held.
Rep. Gom…

The US supreme court on Friday permitted DOGE, the so-called ‘department of government efficiency’, broad access to personal information on millions of Americans in Social Security Administration data systems while a legal challenge plays out.
At the request of the Justice Department, the justices put on hold US district judge Ellen Hollander’s order that had largely blocked Doge’s access to “personally identifiable information”
in data such as medical and financial records while …

ICE arrested a California union leader. Does Trump understand what that means?
The arrest of David Huerta, president of SEIU-USWW and SEIU California,
by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday
is going to have a major impact on the coming months as deportations continue.
Unions in California are different from those in other places.
More than any state in our troubled country, their ranks are filled with people of color and immigrants.
Whi…

ICE arrested a California union leader. Does Trump understand what that means?
Unions in California are different from many in the U.S. because they are predominately people of color and immigrants. The arrest of a union president in L.A. will likely activate these unions to become powerful forces of nonviolent protest.

The South Coast Air Quality Management District will hold a public hearing Friday on two proposed regulations designed to limit key pollutants that form smog.
If adopted, the rules would phase out the sale of gas-powered furnaces and water heaters in the region.
Officials say the plan is crucial for reducing air pollution and improving public health, while opponents fear higher consumer costs.

Regulators seek to phase out gas-powered appliances in Southern California
The South Coast Air Quality Management District is poised to vote on regulations that would limit emissions of nitrogen oxides — the key pollutants that form smog.

Immigration protests last overnight in Los Angeles following surprise ICE detainments
Protests lasted through the night in Los Angeles after ICE conducted surprise immigration operations on Friday.
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