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My partner asked for a last minute sign today. 3D printing to the rescue!
Made a sign for today… 3D printed letters, foam core, spray paint… then added a 3D printed handle.
#noKings #resist #resistFascism

Word-Representability of Split Graphs with Independent Set of Size 4
Suchanda Roy, Ramesh Hariharasubramanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08483 https://

Word-Representability of Split Graphs with Independent Set of Size 4
A pair of letters $x$ and $y$ are said to alternate in a word $w$ if, after removing all letters except for the copies of $x$ and $y$ from $w$, the resulting word is of the form $xyxy\ldots$ (of even or odd length) or $yxyx\ldots$ (of even or odd length). A graph $G = (V (G), E(G))$ is word-representable if there exists a word $w$ over the alphabet $V(G)$, such that any two distinct vertices $x, y \in V (G)$ are adjacent in $G$ (i.e., $xy \in E(G)$) if and only if the letters $x$ and $y$ altern…

Seriously, who decided that "request," "response," and "result" should all begin with the same two letters? Damnit, English, could you spare *one* second for folks trying to write HTTP handling logic?
#Programming #PHP

July 13, 2025 -- This weekend saw the development of an extraordinary rift in MAGA world. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-13-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p46#a250714p46

I enjoyed this one. #NoKings #Queens

New simulations show how much colder European winters would get if AMOC collapses #Europe

New simulations show how much colder European winters would get if AMOC collapses
A pair of meteorologists in the Netherlands has used new simulations to show just how cold many of Europe's cities could get if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) were to collapse due to global warming. In their study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, René van Westen and Michiel Baatsen developed a climate model based on a range of ocean temperature changes that could arise due to global warming.

Millie #Baci
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYilndGb0v8

The least friendly tea place
#humor

Trump and his top aides initially said they would launch negotiations with scores of countries on tariffs, but the U.S. president has soured on that process after repeated setbacks.
"I signed some letters and they’ll go out on Monday,” Trump said, when asked about his tariff plans.
“The letters are better ... much easier to send a letter,” Trump said.

Trump says tariff letters to 12 countries signed, going out Monday
Trump says tariff letters to 12 countries signed, going out Monday

Rhetorical Analysis of an Open Letter
I want to talk first about the effects of genre on rhetorical analysis. Let’s start with two main categories. Primary sources: These are texts from a writer or an organization to a specific audience or audiences with a persuasive purpose. Such texts include op-eds, letters, press releases, blog posts, tweets, and emails. These texts provide an opportunity for a straightforward rhetorical analysis because the rhetorical situation is…

"Our love is history, gonna burn the letters you've been sending me"
When you ghosted someone in the 80s, you really had to take action. #TOTP

We got one of those stupid "Survey" letters from the D-party. It was dressed up as a ballot. It had one question, sort of like "do you obey gravity?" The rest was a big request for donations.
Hell no!! We are not donating to a party that managed to loose the easiest-to-win election in two and a half centuries!
The D's still have no plan to deal with FFOTUS and his klan of kookoos.
The D party still thinks we are in the 1950s under nice-guy Eisenho…

2 years ago i was working on a game i planned maps for using lines between single letters for rooms, and now when i look at shit like this i imagine wandering around a ribonucleotide

President Trump announces 25% tariffs on Japan and South Korea, starting August 1 (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/07/trump-tariffs-trade-letters-japan.html

Trump announces steep tariffs on five more countries starting Aug. 1
The United States will impose 25% blanket tariffs on imports from Japan and South Korea starting Aug. 1, President Donald Trump revealed.

July 14, 2025 -- Trump appointees insist they have a "mandate" to drive undocumented immigrants ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-14-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p62#a250715p62

These pieces are much harsher than Fred’s, much more in the LLM-bashing camp, but feel relevant here:
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/
Fred’s point is that a bad interaction model creates hidden work, then humans do that work and “the machine claims the praise.” These other two pieces make the point that this phenomenon of giving the machine credit for unrecognized human work is age-old, taps into some deep trapdoors in human cognition.
10/

Large Cu endowment in the Tibetan Plateau as a result of dual stage mantle fertilisation | Geochemical Perspectives Letters #copper #geology
h…

Bigoli in salsa
live large! Buon appetito ! '
#veneto

Public lecture “The Circulation of Pure Land Imaginaire in Medieval East Asia: Focusing on Yuanzhao's Pure Land Maṇḍala.”
https://ift.tt/zWoZbei
REPOSTING: Lecture by Wiebke Denecke (MIT) on ‘How Can We Leverage Our Cultural Wiring Around Nature…
via Input 4 RELCFP

#Wordle 1,455 4/6*
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 216,477 (13)
🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ 8% of 25 (4)
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 41% of 233 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 82/99
Luck 69/99
So close. Had to go through remaining letters 1 at a time to find the answer because it just didn't pop out at me.
Getting it down to 13 words on my 1st guess didn't really help me get it quicker. If I were the bot and knew what those 13 words were, it would help, but I've gotta muddle my way through. I'm ok w/ that though.

China Mieville contra Perry Anderson: Anti-Streeck
»On immigration, socialist demands should include full labour and civic rights for migrants, full entitlement to benefits, unionisation across the economy, and an undoing of vulnerabilities that contribute to the super-exploitation of migrants.«
https://www.

I just wrote a letter demanding a fair contract for @Writers Guild of America East members at Vox Media! Write one here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/help-union-members-at-vox-media-win-a-fair-contract

In recent months, UnitedHealth has targeted traditional journalists and news outlets, a prominent investor, a Texas doctor and activists like Ms. Strause and her father, who complained about a UnitedHealth subsidiary.
In legal letters and court filings, UnitedHealth has invoked last year’s murder of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of the company’s health insurance division,
to argue that intense criticism of the company risks inciting further violence.

UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics
The company has invoked the murder of an executive last year to complain about coverage in news outlets, on streaming services and on social media.

Replaced article(s) found for hep-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/hep-ph/new/
[1/1]:
Symbol letters of Feynman integrals from Gram determinants
https://…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Cumulus:
🎵 Boxes & Letters
#Cumulus
https://cumulus.bandcamp.com/track/boxes-and-letters
https://open.spotify.com/track/64U8S3iG4gsx6pYjTTWLxU

“And note the rare special case illustrated by Harry S Truman: the S in this name never takes a full stop, because it's not an abbreviation for anything; President #Truman's parents actually gave him the middle name S.”
Wow, just wow. Didn't know. My world view is crumbling.

#ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Autistic #Humor

Wie o wie helpt mij van deze krankzinnige vertalingen af (door Youtube? door Chrome?)

I just love :vim: #vim for its macros 🤩
(vim macro in the #AltText)
#TexLaTeX

Great Letters to the Editor #action initiative by students at Cornell!
https://blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-initiatives/the-mcclintock-letters/

July 12, 2025 -- On July 5, the day after the Texas floods hit, the Federal Emergency Management Agency ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-12-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p24#a250713p24

I'm happy hosting #LanguageTool rather than dealing with Grammarly, but I love when LanguageTool recommends I replace a word with the same word or I accept the replacement and it repeats letters in the replacement. What do you expect for free? 🙂

This.
"The Utah Legislature bears responsibility for the death of Arthur Folasa Ah Loo."
#StandYourGround #PermitlessCarry #OpenCarry

Face to face with solar telescopes, meteorites and exoplanets: For the 6th Night of Science on June 21st 2025 in Göttingen, the MPI for Solar System Research is offering a full program of hands-on activities, lectures, guided tours, and unique exhibits.
Infos by MPS: https://www.mps.mpg.de/night-of-science-20

Donald Trump recently said Canada could freely participate in his Golden Dome in exchange for annexation. The US president’s post came on the heels of Mark Carney expressing interest in the missile ‘defense’ initiative, betraying his election promise to distance Canada from the US.
Take a minute to email Carney and defence minister David McGuinty to reject Canadian participation in Trump’s Golden Dome.

Dr Turing's Imitation Game makes a sort of sad sense as a closeted gay intellectual, trying to find his people through writing letters
So, in an environment where all money decisions are made through digital communication artifacts ("pitch decks" and "presentation to the VCs")
…it makes a similar sort of sad sense that "being able to imitate digital communication artifacts" is the *only* measure of "intelligence" that matters

Temporary freebie: A shooty, slashy, RPG-y game mixing retro and modern sensibilities. A blend of influences from Gauntlet & Smash TV to Zelda & Angband, Ampersat is a handcrafted adventure but with appeal to Roguelite fans. Battle ASCII creatures in colorful areas & free letters to return language to the village! https://

She’s got the #peeTape.
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/opinion/letters/2025/06/19/melania-trump-first-lady-president/84…

Melania shows President Trump the contempt he deserves. What's her secret? | Letter
The first lady seems to be the only one who can do anything she wants regarding President Donald Trump and suffer no ill will from him.

Victims report receiving fraudulent physical letters in the mail, exploiting their exposed personal information to advance a credit protection scam.
Coinbase data breach spills offline as victims get scam mail
https://cryptoslate.com/coinbase-data-b…

Coinbase data breach spills offline as victims get scam mail
Victims of the Coinbase data breach face a new threat as scammers exploit stolen information in a bold offline phishing campaign.

'Aaron Fritschner, deputy chief of staff for Rep. Beyer (D-Va.) observed that Trump's tariff letter to S. Korea was a violation of the KORUS trade agreement between S. Korea and the U S that was ratified by Congress in 2007, under Bush's administration. "The Constitution gives control of trade policy entirely to Congress, POTUS has no legal authority to do this"'
'Utter buffoon': 'Senile' Trump mocked over letters he had 'no legal authority' to send - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump/trump-mocked-senile/

"Academic workers across the country are calling 📞 Legislators to ask them to sign on to bipartisan letters ✉️ in support of robust NIH funding and opposing the 15% indirect cost caps. Take 5 minutes to call your legislators today. Deadline is May 19th."
#Science #Research #Funding #NIH #NSF

Saw a guy with this in big letters on the back of his hoodie: “Dirty Hands Clean Money”. I like it.

#SeriouslyIfYoureStillUsingInternetExplorerYouShouldStop

#Wels

Less Drake, More Tupac, Patrick Martinez’s 2011 neon sculpture that Drake bought for $6,000
#Art #Neon

#Openstreetmap people, how would you tag a greek restaurant that only has a greek name in greek letters? In this case, the restaurant is called ΑΝΕΜΟΣ, so I tagged `name=ΑΝΕΜΟΣ` and `name:de=Anemos` as that would be the name in my locale, but Osmosis whines about "Name with uppercase" and "Default and local language name not the same". Should the name be the local one…

Always like to have a look at the ACOBA letters when former ministers go though the ol' revolving door.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sunak-rishi-prime-minister-acoba-advice

Sunak, Rishi - Prime Minister - ACOBA advice
Advice to the Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, former Prime Minister, on business appointments after leaving Crown service.

The president of El Salvador would not recognize Justice if it indicted him in The Hague and sentenced him for his crimes.
But let’s do it anyway just to be sure.
Context: https://apnews.com/article/kilmar-abrego-…

Jump Complexity of Deterministic Finite Automata with Translucent Letters
Szil\'ard Zsolt Fazekas, Victor Mitrana, Andrei P\u{a}un, Mihaela P\u{a}un
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18393

Jump Complexity of Deterministic Finite Automata with Translucent Letters
We investigate a dynamical complexity measure defined for finite automata with translucent letters (FAwtl). Roughly, this measure counts the minimal number of necessary jumps for such an automaton in order to accept an input. The model considered here is the deterministic finite automaton with translucent letters (DFAwtl). Unlike in the case of the nondeterministic variant, the function describing the jump complexity of any DFAwtl is either bounded by a constant or it is linear. We give a polyn…

✒️ Scientists have found a way to 'tattoo' tardigrades
... I think there will be a lot of competition for Ig Nobels this year
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-scientists-tattoo-tardigrades.html

Scientists have found a way to 'tattoo' tardigrades
If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: freezing temperatures, near starvation, high pressure, radiation exposure, outer space and more. Researchers reporting in the journal Nano Letters took advantage of the tardigrade's nearly indestructible nature and gave the critters tiny "tattoos" to test a microfabrication technique to build microsc…

Very satisfying one today:
#CellTower 1128
➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️
https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/?p=1128

Cell Tower
Find the hidden words in the stack of random letters

Public lecture “The Circulation of Pure Land Imaginaire in Medieval East Asia: Focusing on Yuanzhao's Pure Land Maṇḍala.”
https://ift.tt/a4WIDzV
CFP: Failure: Understanding Art as Process, 1150-1750 (Florence, 15-17 Oct 20) Call for…
via Input 4 RELCFP

02:53—Good night #Fediverse! 😴💤
#GoodNight #Night #Sleepy

KEEP CALM
and
SUBMIT #EECONF
Call for papers
#ExpressionEngine

Stopped off at the mall to pick up some chicken teriyaki & walking out of the mall, I saw a kid in his 20, black swat style jumpsuit wearing a tactical harness “LOSS PREVENTION “ in white “police” style letters
That poor kid 😂
Like, I’d rather wear a pirate costume on the job
He looked so sad

@… maybe consider doing a feature on tone indicators? http://toneindicators.carrd.co
they’re incredibly helpful when communicating on fedi and online in general,…

a guide to tone indicators
what do those slashes and letters mean?

@… maybe consider doing a feature on tone indicators? http://toneindicators.carrd.co
they’re incredibly helpful when communicating on fedi and online in general,…

a guide to tone indicators
what do those slashes and letters mean?

Last night 8 of us got together for Call of Cthulhu. First RPG for one of us, and a couple of us with decades of experience gaming together. Went off without a hitch. Other than my reporter getting killed by a swarm of vermin (one of two deaths).

No lolly for me! Today’s #NYTSpellingBee felt like a bit of a slog as I brute-forced a handful of holdouts to reach #QueenBee—and grumbled at the irritating omissions. 🍭

I got Queen Bee!
How many words can you make with 7 letters?

"My advice to young students today is to study language and mathematics. When you talk to a chatbot, you’re using everyday language to talk to a mathematical system that, in turn, talks back to you. Technical skills won’t be enough to deal with the unpredictable results in markets, so a broad-based knowledge of math and language will be the only way to adapt."

June 11, 2025 -- While President Donald Trump is trying to project strength by ordering ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-11-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p13#a250612p13

Any email address is a valid email address once it has at least one character before the @, one character after the @ and a character after the full stop (.)
You should _not_ be doing any checks beyond that. (Unless the domain name is a known spammy domain/TLD, of course, but that doesn't appear to be the case here)
My email address is a 1 character before the @, 2 characters after the @ and 2 letters after the full stop(.)
It is valid.
#noxp

At a certain age, the paperwork you have at home is enormous. Official letters, invoices, prescriptions... But, of course, there is a self-hosted application that helps you manage all that clutter.
At the moment, I already have Paperless installed on the server using Docker. I'll leave for the weekend its configuration, testing its ocr (wow!) and its app for Android.
#selfhosting

Some old, some new, in Cowboys’ greats from K-O https://insidethestar.com/some-old-some-new-in-cowboys-greats-from-k-o

FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
https://www.nyt…

How the Trump Administration Justified Ignoring the TikTok Ban
In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.

Why is the D-party so amazingly lame about communicating to (or with) voters?
Why are they using FFOTUS' terminology of "tariff" rather than the more clearly understood "Federal Sales Tax"?
"Trump to send 12 more tariff letters after announcing 25% levies on Japan and South Korea"

U.S. stocks extended losses after Donald Trump on Monday posted tariff letters to Japan and South Korea, respectively, on Truth Social,
❌threatening each country with a 25% tariff rate effective Aug. 1.
💥The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 478 points, or 1.1% to 44,345, nearing its session low;
💥The S&P 500 declined 54 points, or 0.9%to around 6,225;
💥The Nasdaq Composite lost 185 points, or 0.9% to 20,411.

Today President Donald J. Trump made it clear that the provocations he and his administration ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-10-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p16#a250611p16

#Wordle 1,450 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 216,757 (721)
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 0 of 45 (20)
⬜🟨🟩⬜🟩 0 of 0 (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 89/99
Luck 41/99
I like these starts when I eliminate 5 letters right off the bat

Public lecture “The Circulation of Pure Land Imaginaire in Medieval East Asia: Focusing on Yuanzhao's Pure Land Maṇḍala.”
https://ift.tt/v2GezuH
24 February Asia-Pacific Studies Seminar at Osaka U.: Normative power and parliamentarians - the…
via Input 4 RELCFP

One of the things I like about the #Quartiles puzzle game in the Apple News app, is how many non-words there are that could very well be words, but aren’t. The sequence of letters follow basic general conventions that look & sound like a word, but nobody’s used it yet. With just the right buzz that sounds profound.

In German, the letters 's', 'ss', and 'ß' all represent a voiceless 's' sound,
but their usage depends on the preceding vowel's length and the word's structure.
Generally, 's' is used when the vowel before it is long,
'ss' is used after a short vowel,
and 'ß' (eszett or sharp s) is used after a long vowel or diphthong. 

Had all 5 letters but couldn't see it. Had to start writing out all the possible options until I got to it. #Wordle
Wordle 1,474 5/6
🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛
🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Tariffs return to April rates on August 1 without deals, Bessent says (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/06/trump-tariffs-letters-trade-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p21#a250706p21

My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries
#Gay #LGBTQIA

The Art of The Deal
" Donald Trump's White House had grandly promised "90 deals in 90 days" after partially pausing the process of levying what the US president called "reciprocal" tariffs.
In reality, there won't even be nine deals done by the time we reach Trump's first cut-off date on 9 July......
However, the real takeaway here has been the Trump administration's inability to strike deals. The letters are an admission of failure. &…

Trump delays tariffs as the rest of the world plays hardball
The US president reveals his poker "tell" by showing he is open to delays to secure trade deals.

"Cutting funding for science research will have far-reaching consequences" - "We are on the precipice of losing an entire generation of scientists."- InForum | #Fargo #NorthDakota

Letter: Cutting funding for science research will have far-reaching consequences
"The loss of these training programs harms the students of North Dakota - they are losing opportunities to explore possible careers as scientists. We are on the precipice of losing an entire generation of scientists," writes Jenni Momsen of Fargo.

So, Sheboygan only has a population of 50K yet the city is sending breach notices to 70K?
https://therecord.media/ransomware-sheboygan-breach-notice

Nearly 70,000 impacted by ransomware attack on Sheboygan, Wisconsin
The city filed breach notification letters with regulators seven months after a ransomware gang accessed systems.

If you're on Steam and wanna grab a game I really dig a lot, Ampersat is currently free (grab it now!) - I've played the demo - it's a twin stick shooty, slashy, RPG-ish roguelite type game with Gauntlet, Smash TV and Angband influences. Psyched I have the full game now. 🔥
https://store.steampow…

Save 100% on Ampersat on Steam
A shooty, slashy, RPG-y game mixing retro and modern sensibilities. A blend of influences from Gauntlet & Smash TV to Zelda & Angband, Ampersat is a handcrafted adventure but with appeal to Roguelite fans. Battle ASCII creatures in colorful areas & free letters to return language to the village!

A diverse group highlights the all-time best Cowboys from F-J https://insidethestar.com/a-diverse-group-highlights-the-all-time-best-cowboys-from-f-j

Public lecture “The Circulation of Pure Land Imaginaire in Medieval East Asia: Focusing on Yuanzhao's Pure Land Maṇḍala.” https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20120306/public-lecture-circulation-pure-land-imag…

June 9, 2025 -- At 10:19 last night, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on social media: "Stand with ICE. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-9-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p13#a250610p13

Heather Cox Richardson:
Under Trump, the NSC has gone from being a body that can give the president advice to one designed simply to advance the president’s agenda.
And that is the point of the dismantling of modern government systems under Trump
-- to give him and his loyalists the power to control the country.
On July 3, Charlie Savage of the New York Times reported on letters Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote to companies like Google and Apple,
claiming Trump …

July 6, 2025
At least 80 people are dead and more than 40 are still missing in Central Texas after almost a foot (30 centimeters) of rain caused flash floods overnight on Friday.

what a day what a night ...ends at 8pm or 10 ;-)

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Defendant accused of faking Trump death threats so witness would be deported (Victoria Craw/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/03/trump-threat-letters-wisconsin-migrant-morales-reyes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p142#a250603p142

Hey gang - if any of you are going to be in DC and attending the FFOTUS imperial march on June 14.
Remember, try to gather, early (so you get into the front row) across from the viewing stand (which will probably be on the south end of the white house lawn).
I recommend that when FFOTUS appears that you give him a full Braveheart mooning.
You can wear underwear - and I suggest that on the left side it has the letters "T A" and on the right "C O".
I…

June 8, 2025 -- Flatbed train cars carrying thousands of tanks rolled into Washington ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-8-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p11#a250609p11

#Wordle 1,448 4/6*
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 <1% of 206,400 (26)
⬜⬜🟩🟨🟨 11% of 193 (5)
🟨🟨🟩⬜🟩 34% of 145 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 86/99
Luck 57/99
Spelling of the answer looked wrong, but felt like it was the answer so I let wordle decide on the spelling.
I was pretty certain my 2nd guess wasn't the answer, but I liked the letters used, so I went with it anyway.

Attorney General Pam Bondi told tech companies that they could
lawfully violate a statute barring American companies from supporting TikTok
based on a sweeping claim that Trump has the constitutional power to set aside laws.
In letters to companies like Apple and Google,
Ms. Bondi wrote that Trump had decided that shutting down TikTok would interfere with his
“constitutional duties,”
so the law banning the social media app must give way to his
“core …

How the Trump Administration Justified Ignoring the TikTok Ban
In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.

#tdf2025 starts tomorrow
#TdF
https://shop.globalcyclingnetwork.com/

July 6, 2025 -- At least 80 people are dead and more than 40 are still missing in Central Texas ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-6-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p33#a250707p33

#Wordle 1,446 3/6*
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ <1% of 215,555 (151)
🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 0 of 60 (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 71/99
Hah, I could think of 3 words for my 3rd guess, they didn't share any new letters, so I went with the NYT being the NYT, and lucked out!
And I had thought of all the remaining words!

July 5, 2025 -- Yesterday afternoon, President Donald J. Trump signed the nearly 1,000-page ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-5-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p18#a250706p18

Trump Claims Sweeping Power to Nullify Laws, Letters on TikTok Ban Show (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/politics/trump-bondi-tiktok-executive-power.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Tk8.cwes.GGYdG9AILg_A&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p126#a250703p126

June 1, 2025 -- Even as government agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-1-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p9#a250602p9

U.S. will send tariffs letters in coming days, deals not needed, Trump says (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/29/trump-tariffs-pause
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p46#a250629p46

Last night just before midnight, Republicans released their new version of the omnibus budget reconciliation bill. ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-28-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p22#a250629p22