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House Oversight Committee to subpoena DOJ for Epstein files (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-oversight-committee-subpoena-doj-epstein-files-rcna220387
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p175#a250723p175

Russia frees Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, detained since March 2021, and Belarus frees Belarusian journalist Ihar Karnei, detained since July 2023 (Lauren Wolfe/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/russia-and-bel

Russia and Belarus release two journalists who had been detained for years - Committee to Protect Journalists
Paris, June 23, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko and Belarusian journalist Ihar Karnei, who had been unjustly detained for years by Russia and Belarus, respectively.   Russia freed Yesypenko on June 20 after he served a five-year prison sentence on charges of possessing and transporting explosives, which he denied. Karnei, detained for nearly 2...

Happening now: CISA Director nominee Sean Plankey is finally getting his confirmation hearing. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/nominations-11/

Nominations - Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
Nominations of Pedro Allende to be Under Secretary for Science & Technology, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Sean Plankey to be Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Paul Ingrassia to be Special Counsel, Office of Special Counsel; Charles Arrington to be a Member, Federal Labor Relations Authority; Christopher Fox to […]

Democrats to choose new House Oversight Committee leader to take on Trump (Scott Wong/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-choose-new-house-oversight-committee-leader-trump-rcna214491
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p110#a250623p110

Robust Committee Voting, or The Other Side of Representation
Gregory Kehne, Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin, Krzysztof Sornat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18643 htt…

Robust Committee Voting, or The Other Side of Representation
We study approval-based committee voting from a novel perspective. While extant work largely centers around proportional representation of the voters, we shift our focus to the candidates while preserving proportionality. Intuitively, candidates supported by similar voter groups should receive comparable representation. Since deterministic voting rules cannot achieve this ideal, we develop randomized voting rules that satisfy ex-ante neutrality, monotonicity, and continuity, while maintaining s…

Compatibility of Max and Sum Objectives for Committee Selection and $k$-Facility Location
Yue Han, Elliot Anshelevich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17063 https://

Compatibility of Max and Sum Objectives for Committee Selection and $k$-Facility Location
We study a version of the metric facility location problem (or, equivalently, variants of the committee selection problem) in which we must choose $k$ facilities in an arbitrary metric space to serve some set of clients $C$. We consider four different objectives, where each client $i\in C$ attempts to minimize either the sum or the maximum of its distance to the chosen facilities, and where the overall objective either considers the sum or the maximum of the individual client costs. Rather than…

"Bondi received at least 22 fraud complaints against Trump U. Her office announced she would consider joining a lawsuit initiated by the AG of NY involving potential tax fraud charges against Trump. 4 days later, And Justice for All, a political action committee established by Bondi to support her re-election, received a $25k donation from Trump. Bondi subsequently declined to join the lawsuit."
**Haunted by Epstein, Trump spirals further out of control**- Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/17/haunted-by-epstein-trump-spirals-further-out-of-control/

🎉 Meet the new GÉANT Community Committee (GCC) - Part 1
Announced at the latest GÉANT Community Programme workshop in Prague, the committee guides & strengthens our vibrant community.
🔗 Read the workshop highlights & meet the members: https://connect.gean…

House Dems launch multi-committee Epstein attack on Republicans on last day before recess (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/23/congress/house-democrats-committee-markups-epstein-attack-republicans-recess-00471666
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p150#a250723p150

Azerbaijan gives eight journalists prison sentences ranging from 7.5 to 15 years, as part of a series of media trials set to obliterate independent reporting (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/8-journalists-g…

8 journalists given lengthy jail terms as Azerbaijan crushes free press - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, June 23, 2025— Eight Azerbaijani journalists have received prison sentences ranging from 7 ½ to 15 years, as part of an ongoing series of media trials likely to obliterate independent reporting in the Caucasus nation. In a closed-door trial on Monday, columnist and peace activist Bahruz Samadov was sentenced by a court in...

Ex-Biden aide Neera Tanden tells Oversight Committee she was authorized to use autopen (Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3452415/neera-tanden-house-oversight-committee-authorized-autopen/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p170#a250624p170

Cassidy, in Break With Kennedy, Calls for Vaccine Meeting Delay (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/cassidy-kennedy-vaccine-committee.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p93#a250624p93

dnc: DNC emails (2016)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Democratic National Committee, in the email data leak released by WikiLeaks in 2016.
This network has 2029 nodes and 12085 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dnc

2025 Molecular Ecology Prize goes to Rosemary Gillespie, for harnessing molecular phylogenetics to understand community assembly and ecology
https://www.molecularecologist.…

US Senate committee backs $500 million in Ukraine aid in 2026 defense budget: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/us-senate-committee-backs-million.html

Provisions Continue to Violate the Byrd Rule in the Republicans' "One Big, Beautiful Bill" (U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget)
https://www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-member/newsroom/press/provisions-continue-to-violate-the-byrd-rule-in-the-republicans-one-big-beautiful-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p1#a250624p1

Live updates: House committee to subpoena Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-philippines-tariffs-trade-epstein-immigration-live-updates-rcna219810

"One Big, Beautiful Bill" Has More Provisions That Violate the Byrd Rule, According to Senate Parliamentarian (U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget)
https://www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-member/newsroom/press/one-big-beautiful-bill-has-more-provisions-that-violate-the-byrd-rule-according-to-senate-parliamentarian
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p6#a250623p6

HPE unveils several business changes, including forming a strategy committee and appointing a new board member, as it agrees to work with Elliott to boost value (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/…

Rep. Andrew Garbarino elected chair of the House Homeland Security Committee (Mia McCarthy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/21/congress/andrew-garbarino-chair-house-homeland-security-committee-00466699
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p8#a250722p8

"This is American Lysenkoism." -Steven Novella
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-sacks-entire-cdc-vaccine-committee/?utm_source=rss&utm_medi…

RFK Jr. Sacks Entire CDC Vaccine Committee
I'm sure you are as sick of reading about RFK Jr. as we are of writing about him, but this is the world we live in. We cannot let outrage fatigue cause us to take our eye off the ball. If nothing els

My family (like many) has been broadly impacted by cancer. This analysis from Bernie Sanders office on the impacts of the current administration's failure to continue the crucial work to cure something that impacts so many is infuriating.
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/HELP-Committee-Minority-Report-Trumps-War-on-Science.pdf

🪦 “It’s killing us”: Following workplace death, Amazon worker at JFK8 in Staten Island speaks out on unsafe working conditions
#work

“It’s killing us”: Following workplace death, Amazon worker at JFK8 in Staten Island speaks out on unsafe working conditions
The WSWS is urging workers to take matters into their own hands and organize a rank-and-file committee to investigate this and other needless incidents at JFK8 and fight for workers’ control over safety.

NFLPA’s interim executive director not expected to get full-time job: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6502014/2025/07/18/nflpa-executive-director-howell-tretter/

SF folks: please call your supervisor and ask them not to redirect permanent affordable housing funds to temporary shelter
it’s likely illegal and it’s nonsense: the shelters would free up if people could exit to permanent housing!
https://dsasf.org/ocoh/

San Francisco is About to Defund Solutions to Homelessness
After a late-night session on June 26, the Budget & Appropriations Committee of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is moving forward with a set of proposed resolutions regarding the budget. T…

dnc: DNC emails (2016)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Democratic National Committee, in the email data leak released by WikiLeaks in 2016.
This network has 2029 nodes and 12085 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dnc

Olivia Chow found her spine again and now asking the Executive Committee to support a full RapidTO project on Bathurst and Dufferin, not just the shorten version to Bloor
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/ex/comm/communicationfile-194886.pdf

Designs for Queen Elizabeth’s Memorial Reflect a ‘Quietly Monumental’ Life Close to Nature https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/designs-for-queen-elizabeths-memorial-reflect-a-quietly-monumental-life-close-to-nature/

Designs for Queen Elizabeth's Memorial Reflect a 'Quietly Monumental' Life Close to Nature
Organized by the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee, the chief aim is to design “an emotionally powerful place” in St. James' Park.

More Provisions in Republicans' "One Big, Beautiful Bill" Are Subject to Byrd Rule, Parliamentarian Advises (U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget)
https://www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-member/newsroom/press/more-provisions-in-republicans-one-big-beautiful-bill-are-subject-to-byrd-rule-parliamentarian-advises
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p53#a250622p53

Plastics threaten ecosystems and human health, but evidence‑based solutions are under political fire https://phys.org/news/2025-07-plastics-threaten-ecosystems-human-health.html

Plastics threaten ecosystems and human health, but evidence‑based solutions are under political fire
Negotiations toward a global, legally binding plastics treaty are set to resume this summer, with the United Nations Environment Program announcing that the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution will reconvene in August.

Department of Justice Honors Senate Judiciary Committee Request for Information Related to Clinton Email Investigation (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-honors-senate-judiciary-committee-request-information-related-clinton
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p96#a250721p96

In this moment when equity & inclusion efforts are being hindered & erased, the DLF Committee on Equity & Inclusion is creating a Zotero library of related resources for the GLAM community. Let us know what topics would be most helpful to you: https://docs.google.com/f…

ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) Comments on Draft Governance Document for the
Recognition, Maintenance, and Derecognition of RIRs
https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/security-and-stability-advisory…

Reykjavík Grapevine provides answers to questions you were too afraid to ask
https://grapevine.is/mag/2025/07/07/help-call-charlie-campsites-expensive-vegetables-beautiful-but-harmless-eruption-more/…

From Iceland — Help? Call Charlie! Campsites, Expensive Vegetables, Beautiful But Harmless Eruption & More
Unsolicited advice from an unreliable advisor Help is a four-letter verb meaning “to make it easier or possible for someone...

House committee sets CISA budget cut at $135M, not Trump’s $495M
https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-budget-135m-dhs-2026-house-appropriations/

House committee sets CISA budget cut at $135M, not Trump’s $495M
A House panel approved a fiscal 2026 funding bill Monday that would cut the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency by $135 million from fiscal 2025, significantly less than the Trump administration’s proposed $495 million.

Is this enough to shake some American lawmakers out of their foolishness and dump Musk and all his businesses?
Probably not, honestly, but one can hope.
“Dmitry Novikov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs
"I think that Musk has a completely different game, [so] he will not need any political asylum, although if he did, Russia, of course, could provide it," Novikov said, in remarks translated from Russian.”
#russiaukrainewar #musk #starlink
https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/114636458312326546

Will Ashton Jeanty be part of Raiders RB by committee? Why Pete Carroll's comments don't mesh with his history

https://www.cbssports.c…

Methodological Advances and Challenges in Indirect Treatment Comparisons: A Review of International Guidelines and HAS TC Case Studies
Matthias Monnereau, Ana Jarne, Axel Benoist, Cl\'emence Fradet, Maurice Perol, Thomas Filleron, Louise Baschet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11587

Methodological Advances and Challenges in Indirect Treatment Comparisons: A Review of International Guidelines and HAS TC Case Studies
To evaluate methodological challenges and regulatory considerations of indirect treatment comparisons (ITCs) with the analysis of international health technology assessment guidelines and French Transparency Committee (TC) decisions. We conducted a pragmatic review of ITC guidelines from major health technology assessment (HTA) bodies and multistakeholder organizations. Then, we analyzed TC opinions published between 2021-2023. We extracted data on ITC methodology, therapeutic areas, acceptabil…

Newly appointed CDC vaccine advisory committee holds first meeting, stirs more controversy: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/newly-appointed-cdc-vaccine-advisory-committee-holds-first-meeting-stirs-more-controversy

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04327 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Fishing for the Optimal Roman High Latitude Time Domain Survey: Cosmological Constraints for 1,000 Possible Surveys
The upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to conduct a generation-defining SN Ia cosmology measurement with its High Latitude Time Domain Survey (HLTDS). However, between optical elements, exposure times, cadences, and survey areas, there are many survey parameters to consider. This work was part of a Roman Project Infrastructure Team effort to help the Core Community Survey (CCS) Committee finalize the HLTDS recommendation to the Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee. We sim…

House Dems to force another committee vote on Epstein (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/21/congress/rules-epstein-mcgovern-massie-00465814
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p106#a250721p106

Here's a document that deserves to be remembered, resurrected, and read (hey, that's 3 "R's!).
"Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens: Report of the HEW Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems" July 1973
https://epic.org/documents/hew1973repo

ICYMI some positive news from this week: 'UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds'
'Climate Change Committee says current targets could be met provided country takes ‘steps forward’ to achieve them'
https://www.theguardian.co…

Saudi Arabia executes prominent Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, who was arrested in 2018 over Twitter posts alleging corruption within the Saudi royal family (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/saudi-arabia-e

Saudi Arabia executes journalist Turki al-Jasser on treason, terrorism charges  - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., June 14, 2025 — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior announced the Saturday execution of prominent Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, who had been detained for seven years on charges of treason, foreign collaboration, funding terrorism, and endangering national security and unity.  Saudi authorities arrested al-Jasser in 2018 and seized his devices, believing that he...

Yes!
https://bsky.app/profile/repjasmine.bsky.social/post/3lqpvhi537k2o

Trump’s national cyber director nominee clears Senate committee https://therecord.media/trump-national-cyber-director-pick-clears-senate-panel

Yes!
https://bsky.app/profile/repjasmine.bsky.social/post/3lqpvhi537k2o

Opinion | Kennedy’s purge of a key vaccine committee is a power grab - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/10/kennedy-purge-vaccine-committee-cdc-acip/

Slovakia continues to block EU's 18th Russia sanctions package, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/slovakia-continues-to-block-eus.html

The Raiders Have Taken 'By-Committee' Approach to Another Level https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/ashton-jeanty-john-spytek-las-vegas-maxx-crosby-christian-wilkins

EVENT: Online event "Jewish-Catholic Relations in a Volatile World: A Conversation on the Legacy of Pope Francis and Future Directions under Pope Leo XIV" (July 24)
https://ift.tt/0LBHupV
REPOSTING: Lecture by Wiebke Denecke (MIT) on ‘How Can We Leverage Our Cultural Wiring Around Nature…
vi…

A voice for minorities: diversity in approval-based committee elections under incomplete or inaccurate information
Feline Lindeboom, Martijn Brehm, Davide Grossi, Pradeep Murukannaiah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10843

A voice for minorities: diversity in approval-based committee elections under incomplete or inaccurate information
We study diversity in approval-based committee elections with incomplete or inaccurate information. As standard in the literature on approval-based multi-winner voting, we define diversity according to the maximum coverage problem, which is known to be NP-complete, with a best attainable polynomial time approximation ratio of $1-1/\e$. In the incomplete information model, voters can vote on only a small portion of the candidates. We suggest a greedy algorithm and a local search algorithm that q…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15575 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nuc…

NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024 for European Nuclear Physics
The Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee ( NuPECC, http://nupecc.org/ ) hosted by the European Science Foundation represents today a large nuclear physics community from 23 countries, 3 ESFRI (European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures) nuclear physics infrastructures and ECT* (European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas), as well as from 4 associated members and 10 observers. As stated in the NuPECC Terms of Reference one of the major ob…

Senate Parliamentarian Advises Several Provisions in Republicans' "One Big, Beautiful Bill" Are Not Permissible, Subject to Byrd Rule (U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget)
https://www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-member/newsroom/press/senate-parliamentarian-advises-several-provisions-in-republicans-one-big-beautiful-bill-are-not-permissible-subject-to-byrd-rule
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p74#a250620p74

NFLPA executive committee backs director Lloyd Howell following concerns about conflict of interest https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6491352/2025/07/13/lloyd-howell-nflpa-carlyle-group/

"Mary Maxwell Gates, Bill’s mother, was appointed to the board of directors of the national United Way in 1980. And guess who else was in that committee? The late John Opel, president, chairman, and CEO of…, you guessed it, IBM, between 1974 and 1986."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/gary-

The House Rules Committee advances a bill that would claw back $1.1B in funding for public broadcasting, including $535M for CPB, over the next two fiscal years (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/pbs-npr-funding-rescinded-congress-12364…

House Committee Advances Bill To Rescind Funding For Public Broadcasting Stations, NPR And PBS
The legislation is expected to make it to the floor later this week.

"Staff who provide data to the vaccine panel have been pushed aside, according to health officials, raising doubts about the availability of coronavirus and other vaccines."
RFK Jr's vaccine panel overhaul sparks chaos, uncertainty about access - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/13/rfk-jr-vaccine-committee-overhaul/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20956 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_…

Hybrid Disagreement-Diversity Active Learning for Bioacoustic Sound Event Detection
Bioacoustic sound event detection (BioSED) is crucial for biodiversity conservation but faces practical challenges during model development and training: limited amounts of annotated data, sparse events, species diversity, and class imbalance. To address these challenges efficiently with a limited labeling budget, we apply the mismatch-first farthest-traversal (MFFT), an active learning method integrating committee voting disagreement and diversity analysis. We also refine an existing BioSED da…

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.GA. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.GA/new
[2/2]:
- HOLISMOKES XVI: Lens search in HSC-PDR3 with a neural network committee and post-processing for f...
Schuldt, Ca\~nameras, Shu, Andika, Bag, Grillo, Melo, Suyu, Taubenberger

Trump's pardons cost victims and taxpayers $1.3 billion, House Judiciary Committee Democrats' review says (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-pardons-cost-victims-and-taxpayers-1-3-billion-house-judiciary-committee-democrats-review/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p126#a250617p126

Not a #social #media researcher, but this seems wrong on many levels.
https://fediscience.org/@tsch…

CDC workers in walkout protest call on Kennedy to resign - Axios Atlanta
https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2025/06/10/cdc-workers-protest-walk-out-advisory-committee-rfk

New Judiciary Democrats Analysis Reveals Trump's Corrupt Pardon Spree Cheated Crime Victims of $1.3 Billion (House Committee on the Judiciary)
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/new-judiciary-democrats-analysis-reveals-trump-s-corrupt-pardon-spree-cheated-crime-victims-of-13-billion
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p4#a250619p4

NFLPA leaders backs director Howell amid reports https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45733132/nflpa-leadership-backs-director-lloyd-howell-jr-amid-reports

EVENT: Online event "Jewish-Catholic Relations in a Volatile World: A Conversation on the Legacy of Pope Francis and Future Directions under Pope Leo XIV" (July 24)
https://ift.tt/IvwspXq
CFP: Failure: Understanding Art as Process, 1150-1750 (Florence, 15-17 Oct 20) Call for…
via Input 4 REL…

Cosmology Constraints from Type Ia Supernova Simulations of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Strategy Recommended by the High Latitude Time Domain Survey Definition Committee
Richard Kessler, Rebekah Hounsell, Bhavin Joshi, David Rubin, Masao Sako, Rebecca Chen, Vivian Miranda, Benjamin. M. Rose
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.0…

Cosmology Constraints from Type Ia Supernova Simulations of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Strategy Recommended by the High Latitude Time Domain Survey Definition Committee
Within the next few years, the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be gathering data for the High Latitude Time Domain Survey (HLTDS) that will be used to significantly improve the Type Ia supernova measurement of the dark energy equation of state parameters w0 and wa. Here we generate a catalog-level simulation of the in-guide strategy recommended by the HLTDS definition committee, and determine dark energy parameter constraints using a detailed analysis that includes light curve f…

Randi Weingarten leaves DNC, citing conflict with chair Ken Martin (Hannah Knowles/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/15/randi-weingarten-democratic-national-committee/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p87#a250615p87

Journalist Mario Guevara's lawyer says ICE has not allowed Guevara's family to post bond, leaving Guevara in custody despite a federal judge's order (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-outraged-a

CPJ outraged at ICE refusal of judge’s order to release journalist Mario Guevara - Committee to Protect Journalists
Atlanta, July 2, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the decision by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities not to comply with a federal immigration judge order that granted bail to Atlanta-based Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara, who was originally arrested on First Amendment-related charges. Those charges were dropped on June 25. CPJ calls for Guevara’s immediate...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13720 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_…

Distortion of Multi-Winner Elections on the Line Metric: The Polar Comparison Rule
We study the problem of selecting a committee of size $k$ from a set of $m$ alternatives, based solely on the ordinal preferences of voters. Both voters and alternatives lie on the line metric, and the goal is to minimize a social cost function based on metric distances. While the distances to committee members fully determine the social cost, voting rules only have access to the ordinal preference list of each voter. The distortion of a voting rule is the worst-case ratio between the cost of t…

We've added our reviewing criteria to our Frequently Asked Questions on the #AI4LAM #FF2025 Fantastic Futures 2025 conference page https:/…

ai4lam - Fantastic Futures 2025
Call for Proposals AI Everywhere, All at Once AI4LAM’s annual conference, December 3 – 5, 2025, British Library, London The British Library and the Programme Committee for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference are delighted to invite proposals for presentations and workshops. Submissions are

Human rights committee blames Guatemala for forcing girl who was raped to carry out her pregnancy
https://www.yahoo.com/news/human-rights-committee-blames-guatemala-024206489.html

Former Jan. 6 committee lawyer running for Congress in Trump district (Caroline Vakil/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5401503-robin-peguero-challenges-salazar/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p46#a250715p46

dnc: DNC emails (2016)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Democratic National Committee, in the email data leak released by WikiLeaks in 2016.
This network has 2029 nodes and 12085 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dnc

Kennedy has caused irreparable harm to vaccines (Leana S. Wen/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/13/kennedy-vaccines-acip-committee/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ5Nzg3MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUxMTY5NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDk3ODcyMDAsImp0aSI6IjYwNjNjM2NlLTIwMzktNGJkOS05YWRiLTA5ZmM4ZGM1NWRkMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI1LzA2LzEzL2tlbm5lZHktdmFjY2luZXMtYWNpcC1jb21taXR0ZWUvIn0.lYX1c3fHBA0dbHfXPwt8AsmRK0A7w3tS0qLDlh2fgTc&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p137#a250613p137

Balancing incentives in committee-based blockchains
Arian Baloochestani, Leander Jehl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24482 https://arxiv.…

Balancing incentives in committee-based blockchains
Blockchain protocols incentivize participation through monetary rewards, assuming rational actors behave honestly to maximize their gains. However, attackers may attempt to harm others even at personal cost. These denial of profit attacks aim to reduce the rewards of honest participants, potentially forcing them out of the system. While existing work has largely focused on the profitability of attacks, they often neglect the potential harm inflicted on the victim, which can be significant even …

Since November 2024, Serbia had a sharp rise in attacks on journalists amid political unrest, including 23 physical assaults and 128 total attacks and threats (Attila Mong/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/alarming-escal

Alarming escalation in attacks on journalists amid political crisis in Serbia - Committee to Protect Journalists
Berlin, June 3, 2025—What journalists called a “witch hunt” atmosphere against government critics in Serbia one year ago has since escalated into a rise in attacks and threats against the press, following a deadly railway station collapse in November 2024 that triggered a widespread anti-corruption movement. Initial protests demanding accountability for the tragedy have turned...

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Kennedy's new CDC panel includes members who have criticized vaccines and spread misinformation (Mike Stobbe/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/cdc-acip-vaccine-committee-9f58e1f004075b081718ff078de88d76
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p173#a250611p173

Republican-led House committee opens investigation into handling of LA protests by governor and mayor - live (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/13/donald-trump-national-guard-los-angeles-ice-protests-military-parade-us-politics-live-news-updates
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p131#a250613p131

dnc: DNC emails (2016)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Democratic National Committee, in the email data leak released by WikiLeaks in 2016.
This network has 2029 nodes and 12085 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dnc

Fishing for the Optimal Roman High Latitude Time Domain Survey: Cosmological Constraints for 1,000 Possible Surveys
David Rubin, Greg Aldering, Andy Fruchter, Lluis Galbany, Rebekah Hounsell, Rick Kessler, Saul Perlmutter, Ben Rose, Masao Sako, Dan Scolnic, Jannik Truong, the Roman Supernova Cosmology Project Infrastructure Team
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Fishing for the Optimal Roman High Latitude Time Domain Survey: Cosmological Constraints for 1,000 Possible Surveys
The upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to conduct a generation-defining SN Ia cosmology measurement with its High Latitude Time Domain Survey (HLTDS). However, between optical elements, exposure times, cadences, and survey areas, there are many survey parameters to consider. This work was part of a Roman Project Infrastructure Team effort to help the Core Community Survey (CCS) Committee finalize the HLTDS recommendation to the Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee. We sim…

The UK government rejects a proposed 5% levy on streaming services and a 25% tax rebate on ad costs for indie films, among other committee recommendations (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/uk-government-rejects-streamin…

U.K. Government Formally Rejects Streaming Levy
U.K. government rejects streaming platform levy and multiple film industry recommendations while emphasizing benefits of international investments.

Chairman Rand Paul Releases Final Report Detailing Secret Service Failures in Attempted Assassination of President Donald J. Trump (Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs)
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/reps/chairman-rand-paul-releases-final-report-detailing-secret-service-failures-in-attempted-assassination-of-president-donald-j-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p27#a250713p27

Stefanik returns to influential House intel committee (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/06/stefanik-house-intel-committee-00392168
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p118#a250606p118

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RFK Jr. purges every vaccine adviser on CDC panel; will pick replacements (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/09/rfk-ousts-vaccine-advisory-committee-acip/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p144#a250609p144

CDC purges career officials from oversight of vaccine committee (Alexander Tin/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-purges-career-officials-vaccine-recommendations-process/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p171#a250611p171

Following Supreme Court Order on Federal Employee Layoffs, Ranking Member Markey Introduces Legislation to Prevent Workforce Cuts at the Small Business Administration (Bill Text/U.S. Committee on Small Business ...)
https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=005D76A0-BF59-4406-B83F-1F85BA0AC2CD
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p89#a250711p89

dnc: DNC emails (2016)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Democratic National Committee, in the email data leak released by WikiLeaks in 2016.
This network has 2029 nodes and 12085 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dnc

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On the Distortion of Multi-winner Election Using Single-Candidate Ballots
In this paper, we study the distortion bounds for voting mechanisms in multi-winner elections in general metric spaces. Our study pertains to the case in which each voter only reports her favorite candidate amongst $m$ possible choices. Given that candidates' locations are undisclosed to the mechanism, the mechanism has to form a $w-$winner committee based solely on the number of votes received by candidates. We establish distortion bounds for both truthful and non-truthful mechanisms. Our rese…

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Testifying before Congress, Kari Lake said reform at USAGM "was not possible" but the CEOs of RFE/RL, RFA and MBN said she had not met with them even once (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/06…

At committee hearing, Kari Lake defends dismantling VOA
Trump’s senior adviser to USAGM said that she’s rooting out waste and abuse. Democrats railed against her for weakening America’s soft power abroad.

Generative Social Choice: The Next Generation
Niclas Boehmer, Sara Fish, Ariel D. Procaccia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22939 https://…

Generative Social Choice: The Next Generation
A key task in certain democratic processes is to produce a concise slate of statements that proportionally represents the full spectrum of user opinions. This task is similar to committee elections, but unlike traditional settings, the candidate set comprises all possible statements of varying lengths, and so it can only be accessed through specific queries. Combining social choice and large language models, prior work has approached this challenge through a framework of generative social choic…

Chairman Comer Expands Investigation into Biden Mental Decline Cover-Up (United States House Committee on Oversight ...)
https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-expands-investigation-into-biden-mental-decline-cover-up/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p184#a250604p184

"You have no credibility": Lake grilled by House Committee over Voice of America cuts (Garrett Owen/Salon)
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/25/you-have-no-credibility-lake-grilled-by-house-committee-over-voice-of-america-cuts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p149#a250625p149

CONFERENCE> California Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Conference, UCLA, Oct. 10-12
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House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Penn, Brown in price-fixing probe (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/01/congress/house-judiciary-penn-brown-00435108
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p85#a250701p85

Lake's unsubstantiated attack on Voice of America (SaveVOA)
https://savevoa.com/fact-check/kari-lake-at-house-committee-on-foreign-affairs-june-25.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p73#a250625p73

Wyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft (The United States Senate Committee on Finance)
https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-statement-on-new-cbo-numbers-showing-more-than-930-billion-in-medicaid-cuts-in-new-senate-draft
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p66#a250628p66