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NATO military leaders to meet on Aug. 20 to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/nato-military-leaders-to-meet.html

Europe’s Leaders Avoided A Giveaway to Putin, but Emerged Without a Clear Path
The leaders dropped everything to travel to Washington
to ensure President Trump didn’t force a bad deal on Ukraine.
A road map for peace remains elusive.
The seven European leaders put forward a show of support for Mr. Zelensky and unity with each other.
They won a potentially vital, if vague, expression of support from Trump for postwar security guarantees for Ukraine
and sid…

Europe’s Leaders Headed Off Giveaway to Putin, but Emerged Without a Clear Path
The leaders dropped everything to travel to Washington to ensure President Trump didn’t force a bad deal on Ukraine. A road map for peace remains elusive.

2025 NFL season: Projecting stat leaders in 11 major categories https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-season-projecting-stat-leaders-in-11-major-categories

Europe's Leaders Headed Off Giveaway to Putin, but Emerged Without a Clear Path (Mark Landler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/world/europe/ukraine-trump-meeting-europe-leaders-war.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p61#a250819p61

Trump rules out sending US troops to Ukraine as part of security guarantees;
...because they're busy in DC which is more violent, no doubt... 😏
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/19/european-leaders-ukraine-russia-trump

Trump's tactics against the media resemble approaches used by authoritarian leaders in other countries, such as Hungary and Serbia, to curtail critical coverage (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-dictators-medi…

Trump's attacks on media echo authoritarians who silence dissent
Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against the media unlike any in modern U.S. history, making moves similar to those of authoritarian leaders that he has often praised. On Wednesday, Trump cheered ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after the comedian made remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk that criticized the president’s MAGA movement. It was the latest in a string of attacks against n…

"For all his manifest inadequacies, "
"Trump understands Putin’s position better than European leaders"
| Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/trump-understands-putins-position-better-european-lead…

HHS staff speaking out against the shooting at the #CDC offices earlier this month:
https://www.savehhs.org/read-the-letter

Democratic leaders will support resolution honoring Charlie Kirk
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5510491-democratic-leaders-charlie-kirk-resolution/

LIVE: Israel ‘burning the ground’ in Gaza City assault, thousands flee
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/9/16/live-israel-pounds-gaza-city-muslim-leaders-condemn-strike-on-qatar

LIVE: Israel pounds Gaza City; Muslim leaders condemn strike on Qatar
Israeli forces intensify attacks on Gaza City as Arab and Muslim nations denounce Israel’s attack on Doha.

Sources: Anthropic has rehired Boris Cherny and Cat Wu, who developed Claude Code, just two weeks after they left for Cursor developer Anysphere (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/anthr…

Anthropic Hires Back Two Coding AI Leaders From Cursor Developer Anysphere 
In a surprising reversal, two leaders of Anthropic’s coding product who joined rival Anysphere two weeks ago have returned to Anthropic, according to people with direct knowledge of the move. In early July, Boris Cherny and Cat Wu left Anthropic, where they had developed a fast-growing artificial intelligence coding service, Claude Code, to join the maker of Cursor in more senior roles,

#jukeboxfridaynight
#Leaders
Sometimes, leaders aren't recognized as such until later and may at first be perceived as outcasts or renegades.
Renegades by X Ambassadors
https://youtu.be/8j741TUIET0?si=aioo0DuuEvuwX1w7

Nice, Trump gives Putin the red carpet treatment, european leaders don't even get a handshake when arriving.
"European leaders were greeted by the Chief of Protocol and former Fox News personality Monica Crowley rather than the president."
#trump #EU

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D)
is telling political allies that she is
likely to run for the Senate,
with some expecting an official announcement in the coming weeks.
Party leaders have been pressing the term-limited Mills to challenge Sen. Susan Collins,
the only GOP senator representing a state carried by former Vice President Kamala Harris

Scoop: Mills "likely" to run for Senate to try to defeat Susan Collins
Party leaders have been pressing the term-limited Mills to challenge GOP Sen. Susan Collins.

Learning to speak with therapy words or other 'gentle' ways of relating does not in fact change the power balance of a situation.
Leaders beware.

The BBC's "Verify" team has done a good job in explaining that this viral image of European leaders waiting for Trump has been generated by AI.
But quite why they've slapped an "AI GENERATED" warning over the image, rather than just simply "FAKE" is puzzling.

Rubio denies European leaders coming to White House to 'keep Zelensky from being bullied': https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/rubio-denies-european-leaders-coming.html

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence as a Strategic Growth Catalyst for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Oluwatosin Agbaakin (Indiana University Indianapolis)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14532

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence as a Strategic Growth Catalyst for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a futuristic concept reserved for large corporations to a present-day, accessible, and essential growth lever for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). For entrepreneurs and business leaders, strategic AI adoption is no longer an option but an imperative for competitiveness, operational efficiency, and long-term survival. This report provides a comprehensive framework for SME leaders to navigate this technological shift, offering the found…

Great piece by Nik Suresh from last year, 'I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again'
"I started working as a data scientist in 2019, and by 2021 I had realized that while the field was large, it was also largely fraudulent. Most of the leaders that I was working with clearly had not gotten as far as reading about it for thirty minutes despite insisting that things like, I dunno, the next five years of a ten thousand person non-tech organization should be entir…

We're all really used to an FBI that is incredibly evil, but generally pretty competent. They have no problem using child sex offenders to infiltrate groups of clowns. They have no problem trying to convince civil rights leaders to commit suicide. They have no problem with sowing confusion within leftists groups and trying to get them to kill each other. They've always been radically anti-left, but they've also always been competent.
Fabricating evidence in a really obvious way would always have been off the table because they wouldn't be willing to throw a case. But those competent people have been pushed out of the FBI. It's now Kash Patel's clown show. It serves the whims of the regime above all else. It will sacrifice decades of hard built trust for a quick win, because no one involved is competent enough to understand the consequences of such actions.
In the past, they may have used torture to elicit a confession. They may have entrapped people. They could have deleted exonerating evidence, but they would probably not have just completely manufactured obviously fake evidence just to forward the regime's narrative. I don't think that we've seen anything like this, at the very least in our lifetimes.
We have to foster a new level of skepticism, far beyond what we have been used to... and this is especially true of Liberals, who still don't understand the level of corruption and incompetence in local law enforcement today.
#USPol #CharlieKirk

It is going to be the end of the human race that we elect leaders whose overriding motive in life is to cause others pain.
That’s what set him apart from most of his electoral opponents in both parties. He doesn’t really have any affirmative ideas for helping anyone (other than his fellow billionaires.) He is entirely focused on punishing those whom he deems enemies.

Trump rants that Washington Commanders should change name back to ‘Redskins’
President Donald Trump apparently isn't done renaming things this year. After rebranding the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America earlier this year, …

Carry the Tail in Consensus Protocols
Suyash Gupta, Dakai Kang, Dahlia Malkhi, Mohammad Sadoghi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12173 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508…

Carry the Tail in Consensus Protocols
We present Carry-the-Tail, the first deterministic atomic broadcast protocol in partial synchrony that, after GST, guarantees a constant fraction of commits by non-faulty leaders against tail-forking attacks, and maintains optimal, worst-case quadratic communication under a cascade of faulty leaders. The solution also guarantees linear amortized communication, i.e., the steady-state is linear. Prior atomic broadcast solutions achieve quadratic word communication complexity in the worst case. …

Playbook: How Trump and Zelenskyy hit reset (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/08/19/9-world-leaders-6-key-takeaways-and-1-big-promise-00513928
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p11#a250819p11

Je moet echt dapper zijn als rechter bij het ICC
Trump administration sanctions Canadian judge who sits on International Criminal Court | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-judge-icc-trump-1.7613704

NYC tech-scene sanguine about Mamdani
https://www.wired.com/story/tech…

Judge Zia Faruqui, a former federal prosecutor,
said leaders of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office have tarnished its reputation with how they are handling their deluge of cases.
He said Pirro’s office is routinely bringing cases that don’t belong in federal court and needlessly keeping people in jail for days while they evaluate charges.
“It’s not fair to say they’re losing credibility. We’re past that now,” Faruqui said.
He later added, “There’s no credibility left…

Judge upbraids prosecutors for handling of DC surge cases, saying they have 'no credibility left'
A federal magistrate judge has angrily accused top Justice Department prosecutors of trampling on the civil rights of people arrested during President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital. Judge Zia Faruqui said Thursday that leaders of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office have tarnished its reputation with how they are handling the cases. He said Pirro’s office is routinely bringing cases that don’t belong in federal court and needlessly keeping people in jail…

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
URGENT UPDATE: ZELENSKYY WITH FLAMINGO MISSILE IN WHITE HOUSE Vlog 1140: War in Ukraine
#Zelenskyy and #EU leaders were very producti…

In a paper, AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and others recommend further research into chain-of-thought monitorability for AI safety (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/research-leaders-urge-tech-i…

Research leaders urge tech industry to monitor AI's 'thoughts' | TechCrunch
Research leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are urging tech companies and research groups to monitor AI's "thoughts."

This seems significant.
"As well as the UK prime minister, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, Italy’s PM, Giorgia Meloni, and the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, will all accompany Zelenskyy in the Oval Office."

Richard Sherman: These are the 4 best leaders I played with in the NFL https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6637259/2025/09/18/richard-sherman-leadership-nfl-marshawn-lynch/

Hill: Boise State stars, coach can’t stop raving about ‘perfect’ Jeanty https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/adam-hill/hill-boise-state-stars-coach-cant-stop-raving-about-perfect-jeanty-3398466…

Most predictable headline ever. 🤦‍♀️
#ukpolitics

VCs and founders warn that the $100K fee will make H-1B sponsorship prohibitively expensive for startups, not Big Tech, and drive talent outside the US (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/startup-leade…

∩️ Leftist lawmakers gather to answer a question: How to beat the global right?
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-07-31/leftist-lawmakers-from-across-the-hemisphere-gather-to-ask-a-questi…

A conference of leftists wants to know: How to beat the global right?
Political leaders from a dozen countries have gathered in Mexico City to discuss a key question: How can the left win?

LIVE: Trump meets with Zelenskyy and European leaders at White House: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/live-trump-meets-with-zelenskyy.html

All European leaders will praise Trump tomorrow but that is all theater. Inside, with doors closed all those European leaders will be much harder to bully then Zelensky alone.
#geopolitics #trump #zelensky

'Upending American church life': Religious leaders slam Trump for 'inciting fear' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/send/trump-religious-leaders/

Workshop on authoritarianism, law, and the remaking of society
https://ift.tt/PX6BivW
Date: 19 June 2025 to 20 June 2025 Time: 10:00 am Venue: Room S312 (Paul Webley Wing), SOAS,…
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Workshop on authoritarianism, law, and the remaking of society
Date: 19 June 2025 to 20 June 2025Time: 10:00 amVenue: Room S312 (Paul Webley Wing), SOAS, University of LondonEvent type: ConferenceRegistration: The event is free to attend. Click here to register. Join us for a 2 day workshop that seeks to draw attention to the social life of laws used by authoritarian states and leaders to change the composition of societies.Download programmeScheduleRegister here to attend.

PBS leaders meet in Amarillo to discuss future funding following federal funding cuts : Amarillo Tribune https://amarillotribune.org/2025/08/06/pbs-leaders-meet-in-amarillo-to-discuss-future-funding-following-federal-fun…

PBS leaders meet in Amarillo to discuss future funding following federal funding cuts
Leaders from all 10 Texas Public Broadcasting Stations from across the state met at Amarillo College on Wednesday as Panhandle PBS began its annual two-day meeting, which will run through Thursday.

Regardless of the weather, the cyber world is always hot, so check out today's Metacurity for the crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--M&S and Qantas leaders remain mum on ransomware payments,
--M&S chairman says two other British companies' ransomware attacks have gone unreported,
--5.7m customers impacted by Qantas attack,
--US sanctions DPRK man for IT worker scheme,
--DoJ seeks to bring COVID hacker to US,
--Rubio im…

M&S and Qantas leaders remain mum on ransomware payments
M&S chairman says two other British companies' ransomware attacks have gone unreported, 5.7m customers impacted by Qantas attack, US sanctions DPRK man for IT worker scheme, DoJ seeks to bring COVID hacker to US, Rubio impersonated in AI voice effort, MSFT patches 137+ flaws, much more

These European leaders will accompany Zelensky to meet with Trump (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/17/zelensky-trump-meeting-european-leaders
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p48#a250817p48

EU's von der Leyen urges leaders to 'swiftly' adopt sanctions against Russia after Estonia incident
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has now weighed in on the Estonian incident too, linking it with the need to “swiftly” approve the new package of sanctions against Russiaproposed earlier today

Trump phones Putin, prepares for direct talks between Russian and Ukrainian leaders: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/trump-phones-putin-prepares-for.html

I don't get it. Don't these fools realize that San Francisco Bay lacks sharks and killer whales, and there are even swimming competitions from Alcatraz. It's just not secure.
Now on the other hand, building a jail on the Farallons, 26 miles into the Pacific, great white shark territory, killer whales now and then. Much more challenging to escape from than Alcatraz...

I don't get it. Don't these fools realize that San Francisco Bay lacks sharks and killer whales, and there are even swimming competitions from Alcatraz. It's just not secure.
Now on the other hand, building a jail on the Farallons, 26 miles into the Pacific, great white shark territory, killer whales now and then. Much more challenging to escape from than Alcatraz...

“Former Capitol police officers attacked on January 6 dismissed Trump’s new law-and-order stance in DC, recalling his failure to deploy the National Guard during the riot and criticizing his sudden use of troops against what city leaders say is a nonexistent crime wave.”
https://aaronparnas.substack.c…

"you have to try to build that strong organizational structure; one that isn’t so fragile that when one or two senior leaders change, things fall apart. But it’s very difficult and many organizations have weak management systems..."
https://

By failing to sanction Israel, EU leaders are complicit in its crimes. They must act now. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/01/israel-failure-eu-leaders-complicit-crime-genocide?CMP=Share_iO…

US Health and Human Services centralized medical database – Uh oh
 
This week the Health and Human Services (HHS) agency and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are announcing an initiative to create a centralized database of individual’s health information. The stated rationale for this effort is to improve access to innovative health solutions and improve user access and security. A part of this initiative will include updates to the HIPAA regulations. The effort…

Time-delayed opinion dynamics with leader-follower interactions: consensus, stability, and mean-field limits
Young-Pil Choi, Chiara Cicolani, Cristina Pignotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08157

Time-delayed opinion dynamics with leader-follower interactions: consensus, stability, and mean-field limits
We study a time-delayed variant of the Hegselmann-Krause opinion formation model featuring a small group of leaders and a large group of non-leaders. In this model, leaders influence all agents but only interact among themselves. At the same time, non-leaders update their opinions via interactions with their peers and the leaders, with time delays accounting for communication and decision-making lags. We prove the exponential convergence to consensus of the particle system, without imposing sma…

'We could reach an agreement that could deter any future aggression against Ukraine,' Trump tells European leaders: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/we-could-reach-an-agreement.html

A lot of MAGA anger is performative and dictated to them by their leaders.
Demonstrating that ours isn't is one of the more powerful things we can do right now.
#canceldisney
https://bsky.a…

🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social)
Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

Keir Starmer to join European leaders for Zelenskyy-Trump meeting at White House on Monday - live (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/17/trump-putin-meeting-european-leaders-ukraine-peace-deal-latest-updates-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p6#a250817p6

Ukraine war latest: Trump to meet with Zelensky, European leaders in Washington on Aug. 18 after US-Russia summit ends without agreement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/ukraine-war-latest-trump-to.html

I am wondering where the afterparty is planned for the European leaders 🤔

The two top Democrats in Congress on Saturday demanded a meeting with President Trump ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline to fund the government,
warning him that Republicans would be blamed for a painful shutdown if he refused to negotiate with them.
“It is now your obligation to meet with us directly to reach an agreement to keep the government open and address the Republican health care crisis,”
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York and Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York,…

Top Democratic Leaders Ask Trump for Meeting to Avert a Shutdown
After a Republican plan to keep funding flowing foundered in the Senate, Representative Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Chuck Schumer accused the president of standing in the way of a solution.

In the Not-News Department: Some people are really slow.
World leaders, moguls and even journalists have realized that to deal with the president, they must speak glowingly. Duh.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/15/trump-art-of-the-fawn-praise

Israel says ‘Gaza is burning’ as it begins ground offensive
Ground offensive begins after UN probe finds Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-qatar-strikes-n…

Israel ‘launches Gaza City ground offensive’ after Netanyahu threatens Hamas leaders
Rubio says only Qatar has the ability to mediate in Gaza as he heads to Doha to thaw tensions with Israel

Trump raises topic of Ukraine's EU membership with Orban, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/trump-raises-topic-of-ukraines.html

The Budapest Memorandum was a security guarantee…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cev28rvzlv1t?post=asset:afef6662-78a9-4f0e-a475-867d00ca16b9#post

Putin has agreed to 'robust' security guarantees for Ukraine, US envoy says - latest updates
Steve Witkoff describes the proposal as "game-changing" as Zelensky joins a call with European leaders ahead of his White House visit.

Sources: Anthropic scrapped plans to hire a Republican for its top policy role, instead choosing an Obama alumn as it adopts a cooler stance towards Trump (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/te

As Tech Leaders Flatter Trump, Anthropic Takes a Cooler Approach
In June, the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic was finally getting close to hiring a candidate—a Republican—for its top government relations jobafter months of searching for someone. That decision marked a shift: Anthropic had hired several former Biden staffers earlier in the year, ...

"Trump's federalization of the Metropolitan Police Department has a 30-day limit unless Congress extends it — and the president indicated on Wednesday he'll push for a "long-term extension" in a crime bill that'll initially concern D.C. but will serve as a roadmap for other cities."
DC 24/7 federal patrols start: Religious leaders slam Trump crime crackdown
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/14/trump-dc-national-guard-police-religous-leaders-photos

The Italian port of Ravenna on Thursday refused to load two containers filled with explosives for shipment to Israel,
following a request by local authorities,
according to a statement issued by the city’s municipality.
Ravenna’s mayor, Alessandro Barattoni, said in a statement: 
“Thanks to courageous dockers,
we were informed last night of the scheduled arrival today of two containers to the Ravenna port” 
Ravenna, along with provincial leaders and the re…

Italian port refuses to load containers of explosives bound for Israel
The Italian port of Ravenna on Thursday refused to load two containers filled with explosives for shipment to Israel, following a request by local authorities, according to a statement issued by th…

So Zelensky does the first meeting with Trump, he surely has prepared this fully with the european leaders which will join in the second meeting. My guess, they first of all don't want to leave with a fight, no outcome is better then a heated argument. The best outcome is probably some kind of common approach, no matter how vague. If it gets the Putin approach from the table it is a win.
#Zelensky

Warm words, thin results: White House meeting lifts Ukraine, but tough road ahead: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/warm-words-thin-results-white.html

European leaders to join Ukraine's Zelenskyy for White House meeting with Trump (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/european-leaders-white-house-meeting-zelenskyy-trump-d7b082bae4136ef8932e16ac2d166303
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p8#a250817p8

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
#ALASKA UKRAINE REACTION: ZELENSKY FLIES TO TRUMP WITH #EU NATO LEADERS Vlog 1139: War in

'Borders must not be changed by force' — European leaders back Trump's peace effort but say Ukraine must decide its territory: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/borders-must-not-be-changed.html

Meta shareholders suing Mark Zuckerberg and Meta leaders over Facebook's Cambridge Analytica privacy violations reach a settlement deal, ending an $8B trial (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

'A slap in the face’: EU leaders, industry reel from Trump's tariff shock - Euractiv
https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/a-slap-in-the-face-eu-leaders-industry-reel-from-trumps-tariff-shock/

Rich Lyons,
the University of California, Berkeley, chancellor,
challenged US House Republicanson Tuesday
as they questioned Lyons and leaders of Georgetown University and the City University of New York
in the latest hearing on antisemitism in higher education.
The committee accused the schools of failing to respond adequately to allegations of bias or discrimination,
however the university leaders said that disciplinary action had been taken where approp…

Browns QB Shedeur Sanders organizes, hosts community event in Cleveland after tragic fire https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45763616/shedeur-sanders-cleveland-browns-community-event-fire

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, Faith Leaders Denounce Trump Threat to Deploy National Guard to American Cities (Office of the District Attorney)
https://phillyda.org/news/philadelphia-district-attorney-larry-krasner-faith-leaders-denounce-trump-threat-to-deploy-national-guard-to-american-cities/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p41#a250814p41

"Donald Trump cannot perform on the world stage because he simply does not have the intellect to match up with these world leaders. He's not Barack Obama, he's not Hillary Clinton, he's not even George [W.] Bush when it comes to being able to maneuver in these environments.”"
'Trump does not have the intellect': GOP strategist schooled after blaming Russia on Obama - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/send/trump-putin-obama/

Mamdani Says He Will 'Discourage' the Term 'Globalize the Intifada' (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/business/mamdani-globalize-intafada-business-leaders.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p14#a250716p14

Top House Democrats are calling on Brendan Carr,
chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
to resign over the indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show.
The congressional leaders accuse Carr – who runs the US’ media watchdog
– of engaging in a “corrupt abuse of power”
by “bullying ABC” and forcing the media company to “bend the knee to the Trump administration”.
Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, Minority whip Katherine Clark, Demo…

The trial for an $8B lawsuit by Meta investors against Mark Zuckerberg and other leaders opens over claims tied to the 2018 Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-privacy-cambridge-analyti…

"Forget cards, Zelenskyy's bringing the whole deck to Washington"
'Pathetic and humiliating': MAGA fury erupts as world leaders unite to thwart Trump 'trap' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pathetic-maga-outrage-ukraine/

Ukraine war latest: 'We'll give them very good protection, very good security' — Trump says in White House meeting with Zelensky: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/ukraine-war-latest-well-give.html

Interesting move. "EU leaders try to out-bully Trump, floating world trade club without US"
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-leaders-donald-trump-us-trade-tariffs-ursula-von-der-leyen/

EU leaders try to out-bully Trump, floating world trade club without US
Ursula von der Leyen suggests EU could join forces with the Asian-Pacific trade bloc as Europe tries to up its game.

""A great and very successful day in Alaska!" Trump began. "The meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia went very well, as did a late night phone call with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, and various European Leaders, including the highly respected Secretary General of NATO.""
'Self-own of embarrassing proportions': Critics mock Trump's failed summit spin - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-failed-summit/

Mexico to extradite 26 top cartel leaders to US in Trump administration deal (Brie Stimson/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mexico-extradite-26-top-cartel-leaders-us-trump-administration-deal
http://www.memeorandum.com/250812/p144#a250812p144

'Extremely dangerous' — European leaders condemn Russia after drones shot down over Poland: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/extremely-dangerous-european-leaders-condemn.html

Sources: Meta Superintelligence Labs' leaders have discussed using Google or OpenAI's models to power Meta AI and other AI features in Meta's social media apps (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/metas-ai-lead…

Meta’s AI Leaders Discuss Using Google, OpenAI Models in Apps
Meta Platforms’ plans to improve the artificial intelligence features in its apps could lead the company to partner with Google or OpenAI, two of its biggest AI rivals. Leaders in Meta’s new AI organization, Meta Superintelligence Labs, have discussed using Google’s Gemini model to provide ...

European, NATO leaders to present united front with Zelensky in Trump meeting (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/17/trump-zelensky-meeting-europe/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p34#a250817p34

State leaders brace for ‘heavy lift’ from Medicaid, food stamp changes • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/08/16/medicaid-food/

Attendees of Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit erupted in boos over the Trump administration’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein,
the deceased child predator.
Top MAGA leaders criticized the White House from stage and on their wide-reaching social media accounts throughout the weekend,
-- attacking not only Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, for declining to release more on the investigation and potential Epstein associates,
-- but raising questi…

MAGA leaders sound alarm about discontented Trump base: ‘A huge risk’
At the Turning Point USA conference in Tampa, the young MAGA faithful boils over the Epstein memo saga and boos talk of protecting immigrant workers.

Republican House leaders anticipate passing the GENIUS Act along with considering two other crypto bills, as the House kicks off a regulatory Crypto Week (Yash Roy/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/s…

Update: Ukrainian, Slovak leaders disagree over Russian pipeline attacks at top-level meeting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/05/update-ukrainian-slovak-leaders-disagree.html

Former CDC leaders rip into Kennedy in upcoming Senate testimonies (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5506179-vaccine-skeptics-kennedy-cdc/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250916/p116#a250916p116

ICC arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over alleged persecution of women | Women's Rights News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/8/icc-arrest-warrants-for-taliban-leaders-over-alleged-persecution-of-women?traffic_source=rss

After his summit with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia,
Trump adopted Putin’s preference for pursuing a sweeping peace agreement
-- instead of the urgent cease-fire Trump said he wanted before the meeting.
Doing so would give Russia an advantage in the talks,
which are due to continue on Monday when President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine visits Trump at the White House.
It breaks from a strategy Trump and European allies,
as well as Zelensky, had ag…

After Putin Summit, Trump Backs Plan to Cede Land in Ukraine: Live Updates
After meeting the Russian president, President Trump told European leaders he now favors giving up unoccupied Ukrainian land to Russia to end the fighting, a concession Ukraine has long opposed.

GOP leaders shrug off Trump's possible note in Epstein birthday book (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/09/congress/gop-leaders-shrug-off-birthday-book-00552309
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p82#a250909p82

ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders as Russia recognizes their legitimacy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/icc-issues-arrest-warrants-for.html

Recently departed officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( #Fema )
say the organization is dangerously underresourced
and overstretched in the event of further natural catastrophes.
A mass staff exodus, plunging morale and a loss of key leaders
has left the main US disaster-relief organization ill-equipped to cope with an anticipated deadly spate of storms in the curren…

UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts (Jaweed Kaleem/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/university-of-california-faculty-sue-trump-over-ucla-fine-research-cuts
http://www.memeorandum.com/250916/p123#a250916p123

Zelensky, Trump to meet in Washington next week after US-Russia summit ends without agreement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/zelensky-trump-to-meet-in.html

On the Jan. 6 attack, Republican leaders keep failing basic tests of self-awareness (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jan-6-attack-republican-leaders-keep-basic-tests-self-awareness-rcna217527
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p92#a250708p92

French, German, Polish leaders to visit Moldova amid fears of Russian election interference: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/french-german-polish-leaders-to.html

Rubio, Lavrov meet in Malaysia as European leaders gather for Ukraine Recovery Conference in Italy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/rubio-lavrov-meet-in-malaysia.html