@kctipton@mas.to2026-01-27 01:07:51
Pam Bondi’s Letter to Minnesota Could Unravel Entire ICE Crackdown | The New Republic #bondi
@kctipton@mas.to2026-01-27 01:07:51
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-27 04:15:50
Letter: 100 Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/tech…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-25 09:29:50
Dear (neo)liberals,
I’m not here to make you feel better about yourselves and gloss over your hypocrisies that are at the heart of the mess that we find ourselves in. I’m not here to pat you on the back when you write a strongly-worded letter to a fascist asking him to please limit his persecution to the Other. I’m here to remind you that your willingness to perpetuate an unjust system as long as it benefits you personally IS the reason the problem exists in the first place.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-25 13:56:32
AG Pam Bondi’s letter to Gov. Walz
What we know, according to Fox News:
In a letter obtained by FOX News, AG Pam Bondi dangled a path for ICE and other federal agents to leave Minnesota.
Here is that path:
🔸Walz’s office must share state records on Medicaid and Food and Nutrition Service programs, including SNAP, with the federal government.
🔸Repeal sanctuary policies. All state corrections facilities must cooperate with ICE, and permit ICE to interview detaine…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-25 16:30:39
Foreign correspondents at WaPo send a letter to Jeff Bezos raising alarm over impending layoffs, which are expected to "land hard" on international coverage (@erikwemple)
https://x.com/erikwemple/status/2015432558851301380
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2025-12-27 02:30:45
Content warning: Quartiles spoiler 12/26/25
I found all the words in #Quartile today. Yay me! My win streak is over a year but I rarely get all the words. I settle for getting down to 4 or 5 unknowns and if that’s the best I can do when it’s time to go to bed, I’ll give up and reveal them. I’m not proud of that, but here we are. What I feel worse about is when one of the missed words is a 2-letter tile. 😤 I’ve been fooled by gi twice in the…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-27 00:01:14
Pam Bondi's Letter to Minnesota Could Unravel Entire ICE Crackdown (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/205697/pam-bondi-letter-minnesota-ice-crackdown-case
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p134#a260126p134
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-02-25 15:47:03
Some wing ding on the Internet replied to one of my comments and said “are you on drugs” and yes, I am, but I still know how to use a question mark and capitalize the first letter of the first word of a sentence.
(My comment was about how Capitalism harms people.)
@jswright61@ruby.social2026-01-25 20:17:07
Just got an email from one of my Senators, Jon Ossoff, GA with some welcomed news:
Good afternoon,
On Sunday, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff demanded civil liberties protections before further funds are appropriated to ICE and announced he will oppose the measure scheduled for a vote this week.
(Full text of letter in the image alt-text)
#UsPol
@deabigt@universeodon.com2026-01-26 23:32:58
Bondi saying the quiet bit out loud.
Minnesota Lawmaker Calls Bondi Letter “Extortion,” Says “We Won’t Comply” https://ground.news/article/pam-bondi-basically-tells-tim-walz-to-hand-over-voter-rolls-if-he-wants-federal-agents-to-stop-killing-americans
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-26 13:05:40
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon releases statement in response to U.S. AG Pam Bondi letter (Ryan Paris/KTTC-TV)
https://www.kttc.com/2026/01/25/minnesota-secretary-state-steve-simon-releases-statement-response-us-ag-pam-bondi-letter/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p18#a260126p18
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-25 17:55:52
A group of 11 state AGs, led by two Republicans, send a letter to the DOJ opposing Netflix's proposed acquisition of WBD, saying it will harm consumers (Rob Golum/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-02-18 15:35:09
Let's get a new hashtag going - #ArchivalCoffeeRings.
These are from a letter written in January 1831, though I suspect a clerk in the receiving office - the Canadian Indian Department - left the stains. Also, I am probably undercutting the hashtag as I create it - these are more likely tea than coffee rings.
@mlawton@mstdn.social2025-12-23 17:35:35
In a groundhog day loop of explaining why this hierarchical model cannot effectively be represented in the unified flat format they're trying to push. You can absolutely represent it in a flattened way, but it requires breaking out the child components into their own collection.
We end, once again, with the telling pause of disinterest and multitasking, followed by a distracted "mmm hmm" and promises to circle back on it later.
@roelgrif@mstdn.social2026-02-17 12:22:26
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-12-17 00:30:01
Metropolitana VI - Asymmetry ✅
城 VI - 非对称 ✅
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2026-02-21 16:40:01
So I look through my pile of 8" floppies for @… thinking I'll have a few random ones to send him, and I find a motherload of Perq floppies!
#retrocomputing
@rafa_font@mastodon.online2025-12-21 11:18:16
I'm a proud financial supporter of Ukraine's war efforts through the #NAFO initiative. The badge I received is just perfect. I hope Jake Broe keeps on hitting the Bingo. Stay strong, defend democracy, protect Europe, slava ukraini!
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-25 19:10:42
Read Bondi's Letter to Minnesota's Governor (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/24/us/pam-bondi-walz-doc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.pUqz.7vFB3fjxl7h1&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p47#a260125p47
@rberger@hachyderm.io2026-01-19 23:02:02
"Yet what matters isn’t the specific phrases, but the overall message: Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, not the Norwegian government and certainly not the Danish government, determines the winner of that prize. Yet Trump now not only blames Norway for failing to give it to him, but is using it as a justification for an invasion of Greenland."
#GiftArticle #USPolitics
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/?gift=E9o0y7Rlfcfv2OQ1sSVCEm2HqWTlvBG_uUPQ_7tcOpI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social2026-02-23 15:07:16
Shuffalo, 3m 51s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/02/23
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-12-21 11:26:16
I've written to my own MP this morning about Qesser Zurah's #HungerStrike, and I've added the text of my letter to him to the end of this post.
Please could I humbly urge everyone in the UK to write, today, to their own MP urging for her immediate release on bail? This is now very urgent indeed.
Please, also, boost this post.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-21 23:15:46
A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran,
who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian,
is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and now on the brink of war with the United States.
She is one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of a fracture at the intersection of adoption and immigration law.
The woman, who The Associated Pres…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-12-23 17:49:04
From newly released Epstein files, a letter allegedly from Epstein to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar in prison around the time of Epstein's death:
“Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls.”
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cxrua
@edintone@mastodon.green2026-01-23 07:57:10
From Sat 24 Jan: Love Letters exhibition reveals the lengths we go for love https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/from-sat-24-jan-love-letters-exhibition-reveals-the-lengths-we-go-for-love/
@davej@dice.camp2026-01-18 22:35:00
Content warning: CW: ukpol, teen social media bans.
Take it from me, as an Australian who’s worked in politics: strongly reconsider following Australia’s lead in *any* sort of policy. Learn from our egregious mistakes. Please. #ukpol #SocialMediaBan
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-17 00:35:45
Open letter to President Trump: Protect legal Ukrainian workers in US: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/17/open-letter-to-president-trump.html
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-12-19 14:53:05
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Thievery Corporation feat. Racquel Jones:
🎵 Letter To The Editor
#NowPlaying #ThieveryCorporation #RacquelJones
https://thieverycorporation.bandcamp.com/track/letter-to-the-editor-ft-racquel-jones
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kw3rUFrQVSUKawR23fa6m
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-23 16:50:49
Jeffrey Epstein's letter to Larry Nassar before committing suicide revealed | Marca
https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/us-news/2025/12/23/694aba8722601d861d8b4583.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-24 17:15:44
BAFTA tells members a "comprehensive review" is underway after a Tourette's campaigner involuntarily said a racial slur during the ceremony (Zac Ntim/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/bafta-comprehensive-review-film-awards-1236734487/…
@cjust@infosec.exchange2026-02-13 02:15:27
This was from a veterinarians office, but
♫ to be fair ♪
this coulda been my old place of employment
#Shitpost #Shitposting
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-01-20 20:27:27
Tech workers ask their bosses to ‘call the White House’ over ICE raids
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-01-19 12:02:05
This feels like a massive insult to the FIFA Peace Prize.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/19/donald-trump-greenland-threats-nobel-prize-snub-letter
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-02-18 19:15:06
San Francisco's leaders say we need to act on #climate. So why does #MayorLurie propose gutting San Francisco Environment's climate team? Please tell the SF Supervisors not to do foolhardy cost-cutting - the climate work is URGENT. Here's an explainer and draft letter to send:
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-02-18 19:15:06
San Francisco's leaders say we need to act on #climate. So why does #MayorLurie propose gutting San Francisco Environment's climate team? Please tell the SF Supervisors not to do foolhardy cost-cutting - the climate work is URGENT. Here's an explainer and draft letter to send:
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-01-19 11:58:59
There's a three year old at the controls.
Trump links Greenland dispute to not getting Nobel Peace Prize - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7mev35x2lo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-12-05 06:40:15
The Perverse Beauty of Regex: A Love Letter to the World’s Most Efficient Torture Device
— by @…
🔣 https://www.<…
@smashtie@mas.to2026-01-10 14:09:05
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-21 14:11:01
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan publishes his annual letter, saying the platform wants to fight "AI slop" and strengthen parental tools, and touts new AI Shorts tools (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@kctipton@mas.to2026-01-19 23:44:45
Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3rpNrLbDmyZux5B6U-o115Y
@tarah@infosec.exchange2026-01-11 14:41:04
It's always lovely to have the doubters get their asses academically kicked when it comes to Ada Lovelace's actual mathematical capabilities, but at the same time, I am so, so, so tired. Just so very tired. From an open access 2017 Historia Mathematica article debunking the idea that Lovelace was not a competent mathematician.
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-02-17 15:02:34
I went to another running event in Barton Hall this weekend with the goal of shooting nothing but group portraits
https://www.behance.net/gallery/244247917/February-Flash-Dash-2026-Group-Portraits
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-02-12 14:49:34
Following federal cuts to history-focused organizations, the president of the Canadian Historical Association, Colin Coates, sent this letter to Marc Miller, the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture.
One thing might not be obvious: Coates's reference to Carney's recent Quebec City speech suggests Canadians' need for historical context right now. He doesn't agree with Carney's claims. In fact, most Canadian historians would dispute them.
@barijaona@mastodon.mg2026-01-20 02:46:37
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw - The Atlantic
@dichotomiker@dresden.network2026-02-16 20:13:41
Was haben Influenza, Influenzer und Künstliche Inteligenzia gemeinsam? (2004)
#sociolgy
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-01-13 10:00:18
For #TextModeTuesday, some fonts from my old demoscene days, recreated in 2022 for an example project of my opensource libraries:
Figlet style text generator using big fonts:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/big-font/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-20 12:06:04
Tech workers ask their bosses to lobby Trump over ICE crackdowns
Silicon Valley staffers at some of the world’s most valuable companies
are among hundreds of technology workers who called on their employers to lobby the White House
to withdraw federal immigration agents from U.S. cities in a letter published with more than 200 signatures on Tuesday.
The letter, signed by people who work at companies including Google, Amazon and TikTok,
pointed to how tech chief…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-24 16:40:46
Colorado leaders mobilize bipartisan congressional coalition to protect NCAR (Olivia Doak/Denver Post)
https://www.denverpost.com/2025/12/23/congress-bipartisan-coalition-letter-ncar-neguse-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p40#a251224p40
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2026-01-19 17:40:51
Sources for my claims!
🧵1/ (Diplomatic tension = interpretation based on below sources)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK36YjEx6PWcaiwVCToEIk3KY
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-02-12 01:23:17
AvBrief has what looks like the real scoop on the AOPA board firing Darren Pleasance. By all accounts, he was actually effective as a CEO, turning the organization around significantly during his short tenure. Maybe some board members were threatened by having someone more competent than themselves, or maybe just more honest, in the CEO seat.
#aviation
@jdrm@social.linux.pizza2026-01-19 09:46:32
No deja muy tranquilo que una persona con este razonamiento esté en la jefatura de cualquier gobierno, menos aún en uno con armas nucleares y que estš rodeado de advenedizos y lameculos https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mj5h6johygkjaoo3dg5q23lm/post/3mcr3a3wqq22f…
@jensilber@mastodon.social2026-01-12 14:37:06
I am trying to find a primary source for this, because if it's not wishful thinking it's pretty good.
(Seen on https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-dfd)
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-22 09:10:35
A look at Google's TPU evolution, its decision to sell chips to competitors after 12 years of internal use, the TPU vs. GPU architecture showdown, and more (The Chip Letter)
https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/tpu-mania
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-01-12 19:50:17
Do You Write Your Name In Books? via @… https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/01/09/Write-Name-In-Books/?u…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-02-21 02:13:33
Open Letter To Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS Subpoenas | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/20/open-letter-to-tech-companies-protect-your-users-from-lawless-dhs-subpoenas/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-07 20:58:06
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Stars:
🎵 Elevator Love Letter
#Stars
https://starsband.bandcamp.com/track/elevator-love-letter-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1XlG975pL1kYwq3GwHyP2g
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-02-13 17:25:56
Long weekend coming and want to avoid it? I’ve got recent posts!
New this month:
• https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-20 21:26:05
The MPA has sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, demanding it add safeguards against infringement on Seedance 2.0 and stop AI training on studios' IP (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/motion-picture-assoc…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-02-12 11:24:23
Government proposes yet another revision to the NPPF (Planning Framework) for England and Wales.
Here's what we said about the last one.
Open Letter about NPPF to GM Labour MPs | Steady State Manchester https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/01/1…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-19 16:36:13
Let's begin by quoting, in full, a letter that the president of the United States of America sent yesterday to the prime minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr StŸre.
The text was forwarded by the White House National Security Council to ambassadors in Washington, and was clearly intended to be widely shared.
Here it is:
"Dear Jonas:
Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to …
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social2026-02-20 15:27:56
Shuffalo, 1m 41s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/02/20
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-23 03:30:41
It's Time to Talk About Donald Trump's Logorrhea (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/its-time-to-talk-about-donald-trumps-logorrhea
http://www.memeorandum.com/260122/p152#a260122p152
@deabigt@universeodon.com2026-01-19 15:23:04
Weird on so many levels.
Trump sends weird angry letter to Norway’s Prime Minister https://ground.news/article/trump-cites-nobel-snub-to-justify-greenland-demand-in-letter_fe8f31
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-02-19 11:10:15
«dCode - Online Ciphers, Solvers, Decoders, Calculators:
dCode is the universal site for decipher coded messages, cheating on letter games, solving puzzles, geocaches and treasure hunts, etc.»
This data-collecting website is often suggested to me when I am looking for something for data security and encryption. Are there any data-saving online alternatives in this regard?
🔑
@cjust@infosec.exchange2026-01-07 07:25:43
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-17 15:55:52
Micron signs a letter of intent to buy a fabrication site in Taiwan from Powerchip for $1.8B to expand DRAM memory chip production, expected to close in Q2 2026 (Valentine Baldassari/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-23 16:56:10
Text of the Epstein/Nassar letter (Nassar was the creep who molested gymnasts):
"Dear L.N. as you know by now, I have taken the “short route” home. Good Luck! We share one thing … our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they’d reach their full potential. **Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to “grab snatch**,” whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein."
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-21 14:10:47
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan publishes his annual letter, saying the platform wants to fight "AI slop" and strengthen parental tools, and touts new AI Shorts tools (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2025-12-16 14:37:32
It's fun seeing the old amateur radio licensing paperwork my dad had; one of his early (not quite earliest) from 1965, from the GPO (General Post Office) - typed header and hand filled in. Later ones in the 60-70s are still hand filled in; As it moves from one ministry to another. So much hand written/typed stuff - must have been hell!
#hamradio
@kctipton@mas.to2026-01-12 17:45:37
More than 160 Texas faith leaders urge school boards to oppose setting aside time for prayer, Bible readings – Houston Public Media https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/article
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-20 23:02:28
Twin Cities postal workers with the "National Association of Letter Carriers" (NALC) Branch 9
gathered at the post office on
Lake Street in South Minneapolis on January 18 to demand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) discontinue its use of postal property—and leave Minnesota
Postal workers are seeing the effects of ICE’s activity on the communities they serve.
“People are scared to shovel the snow, to grab a package.
No one deserves to be t…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-01-09 21:39:12
The abominations by #ICE continue to increase. #CHN_Action has simple letter to Congress asking them not provide more funding to ICE and DHS until they take responsibility for their abusive behavior - and change their approach. It's easy to send to your Congresspeople; it's easy to customize. You …
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-22 19:45:37
Epstein survivors criticize DOJ for failure to release all files (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/22/trump-jeffrey-epstein-files-letter-congress-survivors
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p78#a251222p78
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-13 23:15:58
Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming it infringed on Disney's works to train its Seedance 2.0 video generation model without pay (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/13/disney-bytedance-seedance
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-22 02:46:04
NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to the agency’s website on January 16.
The affected groups have historically offered feedback to the space agency on science efforts
-- ranging from the exploration of Mars and ocean worlds to the storage of extraterrestrial samples, and more.
The decision has taken many in the scientific community by surprise, says Jack Kiraly,
director of governme…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-13 06:05:53
In a letter to the Trump administration, the GOP Senatorial Committee Chair Sen. Tim Scott said the Netflix-WBD deal raises "significant antitrust problems" (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/12/2025/opposition-to-netfli…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-20 22:25:41
Trump's weird text to Norway's prime minister renews 25th Amendment talk (Steve Benen/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-weird-letter-to-norways-prime-minister-renews-25th-amendment-talk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p111#a260120p111
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-20 23:25:59
In a letter to Sen. Mike Lee, Ted Sarandos defends Netflix's WBD bid against James Cameron's criticism and reiterates his pledge for a 45-day theatrical window (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-17 17:03:22
"The attorneys general of California and nearly 20 other states to submit a comment letter on the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) proposed rule that would reverse HHS regulations concerning the definition of “disability” under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to exclude gender dysphoria, which is the underlying diagnosis for transgender individuals."
‘We Strongly Support The Rights Of Transgender People’
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/we-strongly-support-the-rights-of
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-17 02:01:40
Letter and sources: Starboard plans to nominate a majority slate to Tripadvisor's board; Starboard holds a 9% stake, and TRIP has dropped ~46% in the past year (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bus…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-11 05:47:50
The annual meeting of the nation’s governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling
after Donald Trump excluded Democratic governors from White House events.
The National Governors Association said it will no longer hold a formal meeting with Trump when governors are scheduled to convene in Washington later this month,
after the White House planned to invite only Republican governors.
On Tuesday, 18 Democratic governors also announced they …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-20 02:50:53
James Cameron blasts Netflix's proposed acquisition of WBD, in a letter to Senator Mike Lee, calling it "disastrous for the theatrical motion picture business" (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/19/netflix-wbd-james-ca…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-13 06:06:11
In a letter to the Trump administration, the GOP Senatorial Committee Chair Sen. Tim Scott said the Netflix-WBD deal raises "significant antitrust problems" (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/12/2025/opposition-to-netfli…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-15 00:55:47
The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide
to cease processing passport applications,
-- disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on
and that has run smoothly for years.
The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall,
informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport Acceptance Fac…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-11 14:59:29
Disney sends Google a cease-and-desist, accusing Google of copyright infringement on a "massive scale" and using AI to "exploit and distribute" the content (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-13 23:14:25
Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming it infringed on Disney's works to train its Seedance 2.0 video generation model without pay (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/13/disney-bytedance-seedance
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-11 05:57:42
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is
refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine
made with Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology.
The news is the latest sign of the FDA’s heightened scrutiny of vaccines under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
particularly those using mRNA technology,
which he has criticized before and after becoming the nation’s top health official.
Moderna received what’s called a “refusal-to-file” letter from…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-18 06:25:52
In a letter, Rocket Internet minority shareholder Scherzer & Co accuses the company of marking down startup valuations to buy out backers at "bargain prices" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cbe24118-1c60-4f3c-acb8-9ace586246fa
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-19 17:01:34
In a letter, six Democratic senators ask David Ellison to save communications with Trump, his family, lobbyists, and the DOJ about Paramount's pursuit of WBD (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/19/2026/senate-democrats-th…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-16 23:50:53
California's AG sends a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, demanding the company halt the generation and distribution of non-consensual intimate images and CSAM (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/16/xai-california-elon-musk-deepfakes-child…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-17 06:06:29
The debate regarding the “Goldwater rule” has intensified
following President Trump’s recent rambling presentation in Pennsylvania
(Trump rails on affordability ‘hoax’ and flings racist attacks in rally-style speech, 10 December).
As a physician with decades of experience in health policy, I believe the current discourse misses a vital distinction:
the difference between prohibited diagnosis and legitimate observation.
The Goldwater rule was designed to prevent …
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-13 18:40:47
Read the Clintons' Legal Letter to Comer (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/13/us/politics/clinton-legal-letter-comer.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p92#a260113p92
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-15 15:10:08
This week, ProPublica published a story I wrote
based in part on interviews with parents and children being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
I had asked some of the parents to see if their children would be willing to write to me about their experiences inside.
-- More than three dozen did.
One of those letters came from 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya from Colombia.
Her letter was written on…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-11 15:01:44
Disney sends Google a cease-and-desist, accusing Google of copyright infringement on a "massive scale" and using AI to "exploit and distribute" the content (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-16 04:25:40
Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/par
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-10 18:01:40
Democrats warn that their party, when it returns to power, may attempt to block or unravel any Paramount acquisition of WBD due to national security concerns (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/10/2025
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-10 17:55:54
The Trump administration announced it is #suspending $129m in federal benefit payments to #Minnesota amid allegations of widespread fraud in the state.
The secretary of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Brooke Rollins, shared a letter on Friday on social media that was addressed to Minnesota’s governor,…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-15 17:20:45
Letter: a top House Republican warns severe DRAM and HBM3E supply shortages may constrain H200 export licenses; Nvidia says it "can serve all approved" orders (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-29 15:01:40
To avert layoffs, WaPo's White House correspondents, not considered at risk, write a letter to Jeff Bezos highlighting collaborations among the paper's sections (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/29/2026
