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Why Fentanyl Smuggling isn't War and Cannot Justify Extrajudicial Killing (Ilya Somin/Reason)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/26/why-fentanyl-smuggling-isnt-war-and-cannot-justify-extrajudicial-killing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p25#a251026p25

#Vinaigrette is the most absurd "ingredient". I reject the whole concept of it.
How is it legal? What reasons can possibly justify its existence, let alone its usage in a food establishment? What admissible purpose was ever achieved by using/listing it as ingredient, instead of its constituents directly?
Mayonnaise at least does something you can't easily reproduce. Vinaig…

Why do people hate?
#politics

Why do people hate? | CBC Radio
Even in the name of love, we can justify hatred, even murder, of the other. But why do we hate others? Scholars from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) have identified a list of 10 reasons why one group may hate another group. They also have suggestions on how to break the cycle of hate.

On the asymptotic limit for the dynamic isotropic-nematic phase transition with anisotropic elasticity
Dong Huan, Ren Siqi, Wang Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18800 https://

On the asymptotic limit for the dynamic isotropic-nematic phase transition with anisotropic elasticity
In this paper, we consider the isotropic-nematic phase transition with anisotropic elasticity governed by the Landau-de Gennes dynamics of liquid crystals. For $-\frac{3}{2}< L<0,$ we rigorously justify the limit from the Landau-de Gennes flow to a sharp interface system characterized by a two-phase flow: The interface evolves via motion by mean curvature; In the isotropic region, $Q=0$; In the nematic region, $Q=s_+(nn-\frac{1}{3}I)$ with $n\in \mathbb{S}^2$ and $s_+>0$, where the alignment ve…

Automakers and suppliers urged the Trump administration to end “unpredictable expansions” of tariffs,
🔥 saying they’re making it harder to justify investments in the U.S.
https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/an-trump-tariffs-suppliers-auto…

‘Unpredictable’ tariff expansions make it harder to justify U.S. investments, automakers and suppliers warn
When there is little warning about tariffs it's difficult for companies to plan investments in the U.S., automakers and suppliers said in a letter to the Trump administration.

I watched this and at the beginning I was like “Why is he talking about that?!” but I whole-heartedly believe in the conclusion! 🧠
„And here's the one thing I know about #leadership. If you're the boss and you have to order someone to do something, you've already failed.“
„Why doesn't everyone just explain and justify their decisions? *Because they can't…

DOJ Lied About Report To Justify Soros Investigation - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/doj-lied-about-report-to-justify-soros-investigation/

One thing I always try to do as a reviewer/editor when recommending a change is to think about whether or not the resulting improvement to the paper/software justifies the amount of time I think it will take the author to address it. The bigger the ask, the greater the need in order to justify it.

Jerry Jones confirmed an incredible reason to justify why the Dallas Cowboys traded Micah Parsons to the Packers https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/nfl-news-jerry-jones-confirms-incredible-reason-to-justify-why-the-c…

Netanyahu invokes 9/11 to justify Qatar strike and threatens further attacks despite Trump warning (Emily Hallas/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/3803518/benjamin-netanyahu-invokes-9-11-justify-qatar-strike/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p146#a250911p146

"For starters, like shark attacks, the number of events attributed to left-wing terrorism this year is so low in absolute terms that it simply does not justify inducing panic with eye-popping headlines."
Correctly Assessing U.S. Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence
https://www.justsecurity.org/122278/correctly-assessing-left-wing-terrorism-and-political-violence-in-the-united-states/

There's a handy list of quotations from Charlie Kirk here. His own words are chilling and certainly justify the description of extreme right.
That doesn't mean that he should have been murdered. Just shunned by anyone with any trace of decency.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/…

You know how the US government is describing US cities as "war zones" in order to justify sending in the military?
That's also where the "Wild West" comes from. Exaggerated propaganda that was created to justify the use of government force. The idea of the Wild West is now so culturally pervasive we can use it as a metaphor without questioning its origin.

An LLM-based multi-agent framework for agile effort estimation
Thanh-Long Bui, Hoa Khanh Dam, Rashina Hoda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14483 https://arxiv.o…

An LLM-based multi-agent framework for agile effort estimation
Effort estimation is a crucial activity in agile software development, where teams collaboratively review, discuss, and estimate the effort required to complete user stories in a product backlog. Current practices in agile effort estimation heavily rely on subjective assessments, leading to inaccuracies and inconsistencies in the estimates. While recent machine learning-based methods show promising accuracy, they cannot explain or justify their estimates and lack the capability to interact with…

U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador
The United States plans to repatriate two alleged fishermen to Colombia and Ecuador after military forces attacked their vessel in the Caribbean on Thursday.

Facing questions about the legality of the strikes, the Trump administration has sought to justify the killings by claiming the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with Latin American drug cartels that are linked to Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro’s alleged e…

U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador
It is unclear if the two surviving alleged drug smugglers have any links to Venezuelan criminal organizations.

People keep trying to point to an event where the "right/left" political violence thing got out of hand. You cannot point to anywhere in US history where the right hasn't been murdering leftists. It has never happened.
They've been talking about civil war since they lost the last one, and most of US politics before that was just trying to prevent the first one.
There isn't a wave of right/left violence. Right wing violence has just gone unchecked for so long, and been so accepted, that now they're killing each other regularly. The Trump assassination attempts were all from the right. #CharlieKirk was killed by another fascist for not being fascist enough.
Fascists have so completely taken over that they see each other as legitimate targets because they've run out of "leftists" worth murdering. That's the story. That's what people can't wrap their heads around.
Everyone is worried about the right wing response, worries about right wing escalation, but they called for civil war over the cracker barrel logo. They're already maxing out their base. All the proud boys and other Nazis are already hired by ICE. They're also already going as hard as they can. They don't need any excuses. They have total control of everything. This bumbling mess is *the best they can do.* They call for civil war every few days.
We're not seeing a war between the left and the right. We're seeing a war between the right and the far right, where both side opportunistically punch left when they can and liberals help them justify their actions.
#USPol

Heged\"{u}s Szil\`agyi Fixed Point Theorem by Hardy Rogers and Interpolative approach
Anuradha Gupta, Rahul Mansotra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15624 https://

Hegedüs Szilàgyi Fixed Point Theorem by Hardy Rogers and Interpolative approach
In this article, three new types (I), (II), (III) of Hegedüs Szilàgyi contraction on metric spaces by interpolative and Hardy-Rogers methods have been introduced. Moreover, we give the fixed point theorems in this setting, along with examples to justify the novelty of these contractions.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
C.Y.M.:
🎵 Justify
#CYM
https://cymofficialmusic.bandcamp.com/track/justify

Sonnet 139 - CXXXIX
O! call not me to justify the wrong
That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;
Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue:
Use power with power, and slay me not by art,
Tell me thou lov'st elsewhere; but in my sight,
Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside:
What need'st thou wound with cunning, when thy might
Is more than my o'erpressed defence can bide?
Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knows <…

‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/11/charlie-kirk-trump-maga-allies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Does anyone remember the Reinhart-Rogoff affair? The paper that was widely used to justify austerity policies, but where the main result was only an artifact due to the researchers screwing up their Excel formulas?
So yeah, can't see how putting the random number generator called "AI" in Excel will cause any harm!
https://social.coop/@eb/115328355039744280

"At root, stock buybacks are just wash-trading, the company buying its own shares to move their price, without doing anything to justify that price movement. Before Reagan legalized stock buybacks, companies returned capital to their investors through dividends. Why would companies prefer buybacks to dividends? Because corporate executives hold *tons* of shares in their employer's company, and it's *much* better for them to push those share prices higher even as they gut the company's ability to function."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/06/computer-says-huh/#invisible-handcuffs

Remember how grumpy I was with CSS making things `inert` (for CSS carousels)?
Well, CSSWG is doubling down, using it to justify more wrongness.
Brian notes the false equivalency:
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13040#issuecomment-3487102861

[css-ui] `interactivity: focusable` · Issue #13040 · w3c/csswg-drafts
Motivation The ability to make elements focusable via CSS has come up before by @frivoal. There is already precedent in controlling focusability via CSS, just not directly, but as a side effect of ...

Imagine a threat intelligence report that concludes, ‘The target is three hops away, therefore it is the correct one.’ This is the method the Pentagon reportedly uses today: not only to identify targets, but also to justify and execute strikes.
🔗 https://theweek.com/politics/pentagon-

Counterfactual Identifiability via Dynamic Optimal Transport
Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro, Ainkaran Santhirasekaram, Ben Glocker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08294 https://

Counterfactual Identifiability via Dynamic Optimal Transport
We address the open question of counterfactual identification for high-dimensional multivariate outcomes from observational data. Pearl (2000) argues that counterfactuals must be identifiable (i.e., recoverable from the observed data distribution) to justify causal claims. A recent line of work on counterfactual inference shows promising results but lacks identification, undermining the causal validity of its estimates. To address this, we establish a foundation for multivariate counterfactual …

fucking clowns

What do you think? Did Venezuela just “thwart” a false flag?
“Venezuela says it has thwarted what it calls a CIA-linked plot to attack a US warship anchored in Trinidad.
It claims the US would have blamed Venezuela for the attack on the USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer, to justify aggression against it.”
Australia Broadcasting reporting: #usa #venezuela #war
Yup. Trump wants a confrontation.
No. Venezuela likely faking the false flag.

It would seem that colonialism and imperialism are also features of late stage communism.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/09/28/china-draft-ethnic-unity-law-tightens-ideological-control

A Bayesian Framework for Regularized Estimation in Multivariate Models Integrating Approximate Computing Concepts
Jan Kalina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10045 https://

A Bayesian Framework for Regularized Estimation in Multivariate Models Integrating Approximate Computing Concepts
This paper discusses regularized estimators in the multivariate statistical model as tools naturally arising within a Bayesian framework. First, a link is established between Bayesian estimation and inference under parameter rounding (quantization), thereby connecting two distinct paradigms: Bayesian inference and approximate computing. Next, Bayesian estimation of the means from two independent multivariate normal samples is employed to justify shrinkage estimators, i.e., means shrunk toward t…

Optimal Stopping in Latent Diffusion Models
Yu-Han Wu, Quentin Berthet, G\'erard Biau, Claire Boyer, Romuald Elie, Pierre Marion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08409 https://

Optimal Stopping in Latent Diffusion Models
We identify and analyze a surprising phenomenon of Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) where the final steps of the diffusion can degrade sample quality. In contrast to conventional arguments that justify early stopping for numerical stability, this phenomenon is intrinsic to the dimensionality reduction in LDMs. We provide a principled explanation by analyzing the interaction between latent dimension and stopping time. Under a Gaussian framework with linear autoencoders, we characterize the conditi…

I estimated that my current bag will last half a year more — one that's slightly torn, sewed, with broken main zipper. However, today another zipper broke, and that one is important enough to justify replacement.

Guehi will still ultimately move on, just not this window and it will hurt Crystal Palace financially in the end. I have doubts that their aborting the deal because another deal collapsed will justify both the loss of the fee and the hit to their front office’s reputation. Who now will approach them without extreme reservations?
Guehi, for what it’s worth, still looks classy in the interim. He will likely move to #LFC

Definition: DESPOT
noun ['despət,ˈdesˌpät]:
a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way
"acting illegally would give the despot an excuse to justify his criminality"
See:
#autocrat #dictator…

For too long, "excited delirium" has been a tool in the back pockets of police, medical examiners, and coroners used to cover up killings in police custody,
— leaving families without answers
or justice.
Maryland’s audit is a good start at righting this wrong, but a national reckoning is needed.
That’s because this is not just a Maryland problem.
Excited delirium was cited by police and other officials in the widely known police-perpetrated killings of…

“Excited Delirium” Is Pseudoscience. Police Often Cite It to Justify Brutality.
For decades, police, medical examiners, and coroners have used the term used to cover up killings in police custody.

#AppealsCourt #overrules federal judge who wanted rogue #BorderPatrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino to appear daily in local courtroom to justify activities..
Previously Bovino has sicced his forces on civilians and been rampa…

Localized states of BFSS super quantum mechanics
Oscar J. C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07379 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07379…

Localized states of BFSS super quantum mechanics
We analyze the recently discovered localized and non-uniform phases of the Banks-Fischler-Shenker-Susskind (BFSS) matrix quantum mechanics. Building on [1], we provide first-principles derivations of their properties and extend the results with new analytic and numerical insights. We show that strongly coupled BFSS dynamics emerge from a specific Carrollian transformation of 11-dimensional supergravity, which we justify in detail. In this framework, the uniform BFSS phase corresponds to a black…

Sonnet 139 - CXXXIX
O! call not me to justify the wrong
That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;
Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue:
Use power with power, and slay me not by art,
Tell me thou lov'st elsewhere; but in my sight,
Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside:
What need'st thou wound with cunning, when thy might
Is more than my o'erpressed defence can bide?
Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knows <…

Addiction (Speculatve)
Kind of a fucked-up metaphor, but I was thinking yesterday that parenting is a lot like addiction. If you separate me from my child, I'll take completely irrational and desperate actions to get them back, driven by a deep instinct that goes well beyond "love." I'll also make self-disadvantageous long-term decisions like forgoing sleep, working an extra job, or quitting a job to do some combination of providing for and/or being present with my child.
Even in parenting situations where love is absent, and beyond, I think, the possessiveness that sometimes festers in those situations, there's often (although not always) a craving for simple presence of the child.
In a healthy relationship, there's a whole lot more than this, but it's interesting to me that the same obsessive craving and absolute priority that we think of as diseased and/or monstrous in someone addicted to a hard drug can be healthy in the right context (that is, when it doesn't contribute to abusive or twisted parental relationships but instead exists alongside a healthy amount of love and respect).
Makes me wonder if there are ways to have a truly healthy drug addiction, although I recognize the answer might well be "no" and that even if it's "technically/theoretically yes" it might still be harmful to hype up or even merely discuss that possibility since it might help addicted people in harmful addictions more easily justify inaction. At minimum I think any "yes" answer here involves assuming utopian-level differences from our current society.
#Parenting #Addiction

Double Orthogonal Factorization Systems
C. B. Aberl\'e, Elena Caviglia, Matthew Kukla, Rub\'en Maldonado, Luca Mesiti, Dorette Pronk, Tanjona Ralaivaosaona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26343

Double Orthogonal Factorization Systems
We define strict and lax orthogonal factorization systems on double categories. These consist of an orthogonal factorization system on arrows and one on double cells that are compatible with each other. Our definitions are motivated by several explicit examples, including factorization systems on double categories of spans, relations and bimodules. We then prove monadicity results for orthogonal factorization systems on double categories in order to justify our definitions. For fibrant double c…

On Convergence Rates of General $N$-Player Stackelberg Games to their Mean Field Limits
Alain Bensoussan, Ziyu Huang, Sheng Wang, Sheung Chi Phillip Yam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02380

On Convergence Rates of General $N$-Player Stackelberg Games to their Mean Field Limits
In this article, we establish precise convergence rates of a general class of $N$-Player Stackelberg games to their mean field limits, which allows the response time delay of information, empirical distribution based interactions, and the control-dependent diffusion coefficients. All these features makes our problem nonstandard, barely been touched in the literature, and they complicate the analysis and therefore reduce the convergence rate. We first justify the same convergence rate for both t…

Trump repeatedly promised that his mass deportation efforts would target “the worst of the worst” criminals,
yet the government’s own data reveals that immigrants with no criminal record are the largest group in US immigration detention today.
How can the Trump administration justify its deployment of federal agents, and even the military, to US cities based on the factually disprovable fictions?

‘Spectacle of disorder’: How ICE creates the chaos ICE, cops, and the military are called in to ‘fix’
"Trump has been able to make this spectacle where you have disorder on one side and him on the other, and he can constantly encroach upon the civil rights of Americans by convincing us that this disorder is so systemic that only he can fix it."

Causal mechanism and mediation analysis for macroeconomics dynamics: a bridge of Granger and Sims causality
Jean-Marie Dufour, Endong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05284 https…

Causal mechanism and mediation analysis for macroeconomics dynamics: a bridge of Granger and Sims causality
This paper introduces a novel concept of impulse response decomposition to disentangle the dynamic contributions of the mediator variables in the transmission of structural shocks. We justify our decomposition by drawing on causal mediation analysis and demonstrating its equivalence to the average mediation effect. Our result establishes a formal link between Sims and Granger causality. Sims causality captures the total effect, while Granger causality corresponds to the mediation effect. We con…

Ethical considerations in infectious disease modelling for public health policy: the case of school closures
Diego S. Silva, Sara Y. Del Valle, Michael J. Plank
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05146

Ethical considerations in infectious disease modelling for public health policy: the case of school closures
Mathematical models of infectious diseases are frequently used as a tool to support public health policy and decisions around implementation of interventions such as school closures. However, most publications on policy-relevant modelling lack an ethical framework and do not explicitly consider the ethical implications of the work. This creates a risk that unintended consequences of interventions are overlooked or that models are used to justify decisions that are inconsistent with public healt…

"In a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) opinion piece published Sunday, the founder/CEO of investment behemoth Citadel criticized Trump's attacks on the Federal Reserve and challenged the credibility of economic data used by the administration to justify the firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics."
'Shame on the administration': Top GOP megadonor rallies investors against Trump - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/gop-megadonor-trump/

Convergence in probability of numerical solutions of a highly non-linear delayed stochastic interest rate model
Emmanuel Coffie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04092 https://

Convergence in probability of numerical solutions of a highly non-linear delayed stochastic interest rate model
We examine a delayed stochastic interest rate model with super-linearly growing coefficients and develop several new mathematical tools to establish the properties of its true and truncated EM solutions. Moreover, we show that the true solution converges to the truncated EM solutions in probability as the step size tends to zero. Further, we support the convergence result with some illustrative numerical examples and justify the convergence result for the Monte Carlo evaluation of some financia…

Adding another post. This one is a bit less polished, but I want to get it out. As things get harder for everyone, I'm seeing a greater tendency to want to grasp onto revolutionary fiction such as #Andor. I think there's value in that, but it has to come with an informed critique.
> We are so thirsty for hope that we will drink it up, even when that hope comes from a fiction and the truth behind the hope is poison. In Andor, we see the worst elements sacrifice themselves for some of the best. The revolution goes through a process of purification, the complicated elements weeding themselves out to make room for the simplified good, as the rebellion unifies. In reality, this tends to be the opposite how things actually work.
> [...]
> [The Urban Guerilla movement of the 60's through the 80's] centered militant revolution. In doing so, they omitted or cut themselves off from the logistic support needed to sustain such revolutionary activity. The trauma of carrying out violence further isolated and radicalized them. Lacking infrastructure for trauma healing, their decay escalated and became unrecoverable. Ultimately, their revolutionary movements both emulated and reinforced the status quo they were trying to resist.
> There emerges a strange historical parallel that is difficult to see from within the dominant paradigm. The competitive politics of electoralism derives from heroic competition, where people (typically men) compete (often violently) for control over a territory or people. Thus the insurrectionary enters into the very same competition as a challenger, not against the system of domination but for control over it. The success of the revolution, then, does not abolish the system of violent domination but changes rather replaces its management.
> Many modern anarchists will be quick to point out the disconnect between ends and means. While authoritarian projects often assert that "the ends justify the means," and Andor implies the same, anti-authoritarian projects assert the ends and the means are not only united but are, in fact, the same.
This is still very much something I'm actively editing, but I'd still love feedback to help me refine it to it's final form. Typo catches and clarifying questions welcome.
#USPol

"Trump reports distort science to justify rollback of key climate protections, experts warn"
#US #USA #America #Climate

Experts slam Trump climate reports for errors and misinformation
From sea ice mix-ups to wildfire distortions, scientists say the reports misled on climate dangers.

Trump and his allies are using
“page one of the authoritarian playbook”
in their accelerating attacks on political foes”,
said Harvard government professor Steven Levitsky,
who co-authored the book
How Democracies Die.
“You use political violence as a pretext to go after your political enemies.
Some of them have been chomping at the bit to do this.
They’re going after mainstream opponents and other critics.
They’re defining unacceptable b…

Trump demands drugmakers 'justify' COVID treatment success (Tara Suter/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5480506-trump-drugmakers-covid-vaccines-treatment/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p71#a250901p71

MolErr2Fix:Benchmarking LLM Trustworthiness in Chemistry via Modular Error Detection, Localization, Explanation, and Revision
Yuyang Wu, Jinhui Ye, Shuhao Zhang, Lu Dai, Yonatan Bisk, Olexandr Isayev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00063

MolErr2Fix:Benchmarking LLM Trustworthiness in Chemistry via Modular Error Detection, Localization, Explanation, and Revision
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown growing potential in molecular sciences, but they often produce chemically inaccurate descriptions and struggle to recognize or justify potential errors. This raises important concerns about their robustness and reliability in scientific applications. To support more rigorous evaluation of LLMs in chemical reasoning, we present the MolErr2Fix benchmark, designed to assess LLMs on error detection and correction in molecular descriptions. Unlike existing be…

What is in a Price? Estimating Willingness-to-Pay with Bayesian Hierarchical Models
Srijesh Pillai, Rajesh Kumar Chandrawat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11089 https://

What is in a Price? Estimating Willingness-to-Pay with Bayesian Hierarchical Models
For premium consumer products, pricing strategy is not about a single number, but about understanding the perceived monetary value of the features that justify a higher cost. This paper proposes a robust methodology to deconstruct a product's price into the tangible value of its constituent parts. We employ Bayesian Hierarchical Conjoint Analysis, a sophisticated statistical technique, to solve this high-stakes business problem using the Apple iPhone as a universally recognizable case study. We…

I’m not _in_ Mississippi, god damnit and thank god. I have an IP with a tn.comcast.net PTR, which comes from a /17 with an ARIN netname of “MEMPHIS9.” Your geolocation provider sucks ass, because _all_ geolocation providers suck ass, which is ultimately your problem and not mine because now I’m posting somewhere else. And fuck red states for getting us all into this censorious shitshow.
#Bluesky

High-friction limit for bipolar Euler-Riesz systems
Nuno J. Alves, Jan Haskovec
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05742 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05742

High-friction limit for bipolar Euler-Riesz systems
We consider a bipolar Euler-Riesz system and rigorously justify the high-friction limit of weak solutions towards a bipolar aggregation-diffusion system with Riesz interactions. The analysis is carried out via the relative entropy method in the regime where smooth solutions of the limiting equations exist. This extends previous results on the high-friction limit of bipolar Euler-Poisson systems to a more general class of interactions, and extends the one-species Euler-Riesz case to the bipolar …

**Senate Republican joins demand for Trump admin to justify deadly drug boat strikes** - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2674255669/

Zuggerfugger's #Meta wins epic #SocialMedia #antitrust case filed by #FTC years after purchase of

Meta wins antitrust fight over Instagram and WhatsApp
A judge shut down the FTC’s push to unwind Meta’s Instagram and WhatsApp buys, saying the deals didn’t choke competition or justify a breakup

Over the weekend, federal judge Karen Immergut blocked Trump from deploying the National Guard in Portland.
The ruling cited Trump’s own tweet, which described Portland as “war ravaged,”
in determining that he does not have unlimited authority to wildly invent facts on the ground wholesale as a pretext to justify any use of the military he wants.
“The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts,”
this Trump-appointed judge declared.
“This is…

Trump’s Own Tweet on Portland Backfires as Judge Deals Him Harsh Loss
As a judge’s blunt ruling blocks Trump from deploying troops in Portland, Oregon’s attorney general tells us in an interview that Trump’s lawless threats are working against him—and discusses what comes next.

Observers worry that Trump might abuse the power of the Insurrection Act.
Given his propensity to lie and exaggerate about the immigration crisis
-- such as the false rumors he helped spread about Haitian immigrants in 2024
-- Trump might use similar false claims to justify sending troops into American cities.
During his first term, he reportedly threatened to use military force against protestors after the murder of George Floyd.
Now that Trump has purged top …

Is Trump About To Use The Insurrection Act? Here's Why Some People Believe So - Blavity

"Marks ... said the government is “attacking” immigration courts “on all fronts” in order to prove they’re “dysfunctional” and thus justify eliminating them entirely.
She called the courts “canaries in the coalmine,” warning, “what’s happening to them is an illustration of what might happen to other court systems if we don’t stop it.”"
**'Acting like the Gestapo': Former judge rips Trump admin** - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-judges-2674048942/

Amid turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Former President Trump on Monday called on pharmaceutical companies to "justify the success" of their COVID vaccines.
"I have been shown information from Pfizer, and others, that is extraordinary, but they never seem to show those results to the public.
Why not???
They go off to the next 'hunt' and let everyone rip themselves apart,
including Bobby Kennedy Jr. and CDC,
tr…

Donald Trump has figured out the cheat code for authoritarianism:
Fake emergencies bring real power.
The president has invoked emergency authority in three distinct contexts
—declaring a public-safety emergency to defend his takeover of the District of Columbia;
claiming an “invasion” to justify an immigration crackdown, including sending the National Guard to Los Angeles;
and invoking “extraordinary” factors to support his tariff war.
Although Trump is no…

Fake Emergencies—Real-World Power
Today, the structure of law granting exceptional emergency powers is a grave threat to democracy and an avenue toward authoritarian rule.

Initial boundary value problems for 3-d Navier-Stokes equations with hyperbolic heat conduction
Yuxi Hu, Reinhard Racke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22029 https://

Initial boundary value problems for 3-d Navier-Stokes equations with hyperbolic heat conduction
We study an initial boundary value problem for the 3-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations with hyperbolic heat conduction, where the classical Fourier law is replaced by the Cattaneo-Christov constitutive relation. We focus on spherically symmetric solutions. We establish the existence of uniform global small solutions to the resulting system. Furthermore, based on uniform a priori estimates, we rigorously justify both the relaxation limit and the vanishing viscosity limit.

A US appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Donald Trump’s new tariffs are illegal,
upholding a ruling from the federal court of international trade
that the president’s declaration of an economic emergency to justify sweeping tariffs violates a 1977 law and the US constitution,
which reserves taxation for the Congress.
The New York-based US court of international trade previously ruled against Trump’s tariff policies in May,
saying the president had exceede…