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An interview with Terry Moran on why he does not regret his X post criticizing Stephen Miller, how ABC News "bailed" on an "oral agreement", Substack, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/business/media/te…

Terry Moran Says He Doesn’t Regret Posts Criticizing Trump Administration
In his first interview since losing his job at ABC News, the longtime TV correspondent, newly popular on Substack, says he does not regret his social media post criticizing the Trump administration.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#InternationalSpiritsASongOrPoem

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by G Zevin
Was captivated by the people, the changing narrative style and a new world for me, gaming.
New York Times "100 Best Books of the 21st Century"
#bookstodon

In the digital age, misinformation spreads rapidly, making it increasingly difficult to ensure the integrity of information. AI presents new opportunities to support fact-checking and news classification. Join Giovanna Monti and Lucian Precup as they share insights from their work developing an AI-driven platform integrating search capabilities, an intelligent assistant and a RAG system.
Learn more:

Two new NERDS papers: Bias in LLM populations, recommending routes
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/05/16/two-new-nerds-papers-bias-in-llm-populations-recommending-routes/

Our Advice to Voters in a Vexing Race for New York Mayor (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opinion/new-york-mayor-election-advice.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p17#a250616p17

TIL that go language server gopls can generate the boilerplate for a unit test of a function.
#go #golang #gopls

New poll on "abundance agenda" shows majority still support local decision-making.
Do you support or oppose limiting local zoning rules to build more homes? Yes 28% No 43%
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-approval-at-42-democrats-up
BUT…

Nielsen: in May, Americans watched more TV on streaming than on cable and broadcast networks combined, the first time that has happened over a full month (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/business/media/streaming…

It’s Official: Streaming Is Now the King of TV
In May, more Americans watched television on streaming than on cable and network television combined, Nielsen said. It is the first time that has happened over a full month.

YDS professor Miroslav Volf on the Christianity Today podcast talking about his new book, "The Cost of Ambition"! https://www.christianitytoday.com/podcasts/the-bulletin/170-cost-of-ambition-miroslav-volf/

The Cost of Ambition with Miroslav Volf
The Bulletin welcomes the new week with headline commentary and a conversation with theologian Miroslav Volf.

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…

William Langewiesche, who wrote complex, long-form articles for The Atlantic and Vanity Fair on national security, Iraq, and aviation, died of cancer at 70 (Trip Gabriel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/business/media/william-lang…

William Langewiesche, the ‘Steve McQueen of Journalism,’ Dies at 70
He was a master of long form narratives, often involving high-stakes topics. He reported for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#UninvitedGuestASongOrPoem

I am always fascinated by the list sizing in #dotnet. At some point, it doubles in capacity enough to relieve some memory pressure. Obviously, the reprieve depends on the collection's rate of growth.
If you're watching perf tools and a list causes the leak, it may flatline after a while.

LEGO is officially doing a Godzilla set- this one's gonna be tough to avoid wanting to grab. I usually don't go for new LEGO (too pricey). But I already have a bit of a zilla collection. And wow, damn.
More: https://www.fangoria.com/official-godzilla-lego-set-d…

An Official GODZILLA LEGO Set Is Coming Our Way
The LEGO Ideas team has confirmed that a fan-created GODZILLA set is becoming an official product that you will soon be able to get your hands on.

Want to shape the future of the GÉANT Community Programme (GCP)?
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Call for new GÉANT Community Committee (GCC) Members – Apply by 14 AprilGÉANT CONNECT Online
Submissions are now open for you to join the GÉANT Community Committee (GCC). What are the duties of a GCC member? As a GCC member , you will support the GÉANT Community Programme (GCP) to ensure we continue to maintain a thriving community for years to come, and all relevant subjects are covered within the

and well here's a brand new example of why i feel weird about liking any of this tech because:
- is it cool? yeah
- is it scary and probably ripe for abuse? also yeah.
https://flausch.social/@piegames/114352447253793517

Salesforce Tower x Valkyries
#WNBA #Valkyries

Burnout leave, day negative 9:
🧟‍♀️
I met new stakeholders today. They spent the entire time asking questions about my teams of the security engineer (man) on the call, who answered the questions to the best of his ability.
He is not one of my reports, not on my teams. He did not redirect. I did not say anything.
#BurnoutRecovery

New Max Planck Center for Particle Physics, Cosmology and Geometry: #Universe at all scales.

Looking into buying new laptop for our lab.
Apparently laptops now are called "AI Laptop" and have a Copilot Key on the keyboard?! Like, with the copilot logo and all? This was from the Dell website which is an approved supplier of the university... Also we have to use #Outlook, #Teams

Building a product as an engineer is quite annoying when it comes to marketing. It's a must do step. Every time I do an email announcing new features, reach out to users, or post information on reddit I nearly always either get a new subscriber, sometimes a premium one, and at the very least increase the exposure of my product. Yet it's so annoying to do :) My only solution for this right now is discipline and not allowing myself to write code until I do something on the marketing si…

"MediaMatters for America" is good to read. ALWAYS. Here's their story about how media is reporting on, and ignoring, our own governments plans to implement NAZI "ethnic cleansing" deportations.
https://www.mediamatt…

Mainstream media ignore Trump’s planned Office of Remigration, a term for ethnic cleansing
Mainstream media outlets almost entirely ignored news that the Trump administration is reportedly reorganizing the State Department to include a new “Office of Remigration.” “Remigration” is a term long used by far-right extremists to describe ethnic cleansing. 

‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans | Trump administration | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients

BunnyBall !
I am super exited to announce my latest game: BunnyBall.
Super cute and cozy action in this arcade mix of pinball and breakout!
You can collect new animal balls to play in over 50 levels!
Available on Steam Next Fest June 9th! Wishlist now!
https://store.steampowered.com…

UK appoints first-ever female chief of foreign intelligence service MI6 https://therecord.media/blaise-metreweli-new-mi6-chief

Oh snap! `YARR - Yet Another RSS Reader` has a new version and I missed it in March!
https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr/releases/tag/v2.5
YARR is like Feedly or NewsBlur, except more like TinyRSS or FreshRSS - you can self-host.
UNLIKE those, you can tell yarr…

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
‭‭John€ ‭15€:‭12€ ‭NRSV€€
https://bible.com/bible/2016/jhn.15.12.NRSV
Abide in My Love - Pray As You Go

John 15:12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
It's Customer Experience Day. Let's play!
#ComplaintsAtFictionalBiz

I was handed a bucket full of lego worm gears https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=4716 a few weeks ago and came up with this model:

Nielsen: in May, Americans watched more TV on streaming than on cable and broadcast networks combined, the first time that has happened over a full month (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/business/media/streaming…

It’s Official: Streaming Is Now the King of TV
In May, more Americans watched television on streaming than on cable and network television combined, Nielsen said. It is the first time that has happened over a full month.

One of the highlights of my WWDC week was playing keyboard for @…'s new song, Source of Truth:
https://www.youtube.com/live/RJdJMmfIENo?s

My dog Huck 3rd week of recovery. He is doing very well and the new hip is working out very well. The first two weeks consumed pretty much all my available time and then some, but that's what you do for your Best Friend.
#SmallThings

Resistance and The Courts work. Keep resisting.
#Resist
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-14-2025

May 14, 2025
On May 8, political scientists Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt published an op-ed in the New York Times reminding readers that most modern authoritarian leaders are elected.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
MAGPIE: Multi-Task Media-Bias Analysis Generalization for Pre-Trained Identification of Expressions

New release: FlowIntel 1.6.0 — an open-source case management tool — now with extended support for importing MISP events as cases, a timeline view for attributes, a new templating system for notes, and many other new features!
🔗 https://github.com/flowintel/flowintel/releases/tag/1…

Release Flowintel release version 1.6.0 with new features, modifications on analyzer and dashboard · flowintel/flowintel
This release introduces several new features, including: Templates for notes that can be reused across cases Importing a Flowintel template into a case Creating a case from a MISP event A timeline...

Home-goods companies prepare new Trump-linked products (Shelby Talcott/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/16/2025/home-goods-companies-prepare-new-trump-linked-products
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p164#a250616p164

On the diffusion of hard sphere fluids in disordered porous media: New extended Enskog theory description
M. F. Holovko, M. Ya. Korvatska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13483

On the diffusion of hard sphere fluids in disordered porous media: New extended Enskog theory description
We proposed a new extended version of Enskog theory for the description of the self-diffusion coefficient of a colloidal hard-sphere fluid adsorbed in a matrix of disordered hard-sphere obstacles. In a considered approach instead of contact values of the fluid-fluid and fluid-matrix pair distribution functions, we introduced by input the new functions that include the dependence on the fraction of the volume free from matrix particles and from fluid particles trapped by matrix particles. It is …

I was given new shorts as a gift. And they still had the security tag. This seems to happen to me too often. They are easy enough to break off but this one had the dye capsules. The trick is to not pry against the tag. Slip the crowbar in between the two halves of the tag and use a screwdriver to pry the back off against the metal bar.

Started running some cables into the basement for the PiKVM. Got the network patch keystone installed in the patch panel, and ran the network connection along with the first two MS-A2 server HDMI cables. Unfortunately, I'm still waiting on the third HDMI cable, all of the USB-A to C cables, and a few replacement cables for the PiKVM KVM Switch. Things progress though...
#homelab

It is so obvious. Why isn't a new, liberal Democratic Party being founded in the #USA?
Forget the #Democrats. They have shown themselves to be completely incapable in the current enormous crisis. They are afraid for their sinecures, act tactically and the welfare of the citizens is as little important …

It’s time for something new. So: what do you think I should do next? I want to be of service. https://anildash.com/2025/06/11/time-for-something-new/

It's Time for Something New
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

The Atlantic launches a new games hub, available on the web and in the app, featuring a mix of already available games, as well as some new puzzles (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/687721/the-atlantic-games-hub-bracket-city

The Atlantic is making a big push into games
The publication is launching a new hub for its games, including titles like Bracket City and Caleb’s Inferno Crossword Puzzle.

Masked Feds Arrest New York City Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/masked-agents-arrest-new-york-mayoral-candidate-brad-lander-1235366717/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p117#a250617p117

Apache Flink is uniquely positioned to serve as the backbone for AI agents, equipping them with the powerful new tool of stream processing. Join Steffen Hoellinger at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to explore how Flink jobs can be transformed into “Agents”—autonomous, goal-driven entities that dynamically interact with data streams, trigger actions, and adapt their behaviour based on real-time insights.
Learn more:

BeIN Sports extends its three-year Premier League live TV rights deal in MENA for ~£550M, up 10% over the last cycle; League's total overseas rights rose 27% (Matt Slater/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6432549/2025/06/17/p…

Premier League extends Middle East TV deal, overseas media rights value up 27%
The new three-year deal runs from next season through until the end of 2027-28 and is worth approximately £550m.

Watch Associate Professor of New Testament Yii-Jan Lin deliver her sermon, "A People of God during an Apocalypse" at The Riverside Church https://www.youtube.com/live/y6YDYRle3w4?si=t83LMsECHZ4BSBoy&t=4070

Amazon Ads and Roku sign a new ad initiative to give media buyers access to 80% of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/amazon-ads-roku-set…

Amazon Ads & Roku Set Landmark Pact Giving Brands Access To 80% Of Connected-TV Households
Amazon Ads and Roku are teaming on a landmark initiative that will give advertisers access to more than 80% of connected-TV households in the U.S.

My new post for #HealOurCulture: “Trust and Democracy”
https://healourculture.org/2025/05/15/trust-and-democracy/
Also on Substack:

O.k., more screencaps from Michael Zeiler's #SolarEclipse Conference talk: stills from animations of the umbra moving over Spain in 2026 and 2027, setting the stage for tomorrow when most of the sessions will deal with future eclipses and planning. This summer a new website, EclipseAtlas.com (not up yet) will collect all old and new eclipse maps material. 9/n

ICE Faces Cash Crisis as Trump Orders New Crackdown in Dem-Led Cities (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-faces-cash-crisis-as-donald-trump-orders-new-crackdown-in-dem-led-cities/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p85#a250616p85

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#WeatherInterruptsUsAnything

Amazon Ads and Roku sign a new ad initiative to give media buyers access to 80% of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/amazon-ads-roku-set…

Amazon Ads & Roku Set Landmark Pact Giving Brands Access To 80% Of Connected-TV Households
Amazon Ads and Roku are teaming on a landmark initiative that will give advertisers access to more than 80% of connected-TV households in the U.S.

William Langewiesche, the 'Steve McQueen of Journalism,' Dies at 70 (Trip Gabriel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/business/media/william-langewiesche-dead.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p147#a250616p147

Welcome to Berlin Buzzwords 2025! 
Be sure not to miss our keynote speaker, @…, who will be giving a talk on „Unpacking Digital Sovereignty: How to avoid fueling the nationalist rise," which commences at 9:35 am at stage Kesselhaus.
 
Learn more:

Unpacking Digital Sovereignty: How to avoid fueling the nationalist rise
With the new ruling coalition of Trump, Musk and Big Tech, European digital sovereignty seems to be the widely accepted solution to break free from US companies that are used to threaten European governments. The EU is reviving industrial policy and is willing to invest a lot of money into digital sovereignty - but which problems exactly should it address, and what should be part of the solution? This talk shows that digital sovereignty is prone to open the door to a nationalist agenda which fa…

Is Christianity losing its religion? In the new issue of Reflections, YDS-related scholars and ministers take up this question and declare their own reasons for Christian faith. https://reflections.yale.edu/

Reddit unveils two ad tools with "community intelligence": Reddit Insights and Conversation Summary Add-on, which lets brands show positive user posts under ads (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/16/reddit-ai-community-intelligence…

Exclusive: Reddit releases new "Community Intelligence" ad tools
The new insights tool and ad format draws from Reddit's 22 billion posts.

Terry Moran Says He Doesn't Regret Posts Criticizing Trump Administration (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/business/media/terry-moran-abc-substack.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU8.Fc6D.Qpc_gOFry2Ze&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p79#a250616p79

Next at the #SolarEclipse Conference Nick James talked about new (and finally amateur-affordable) polarization-sensitive cameras in which each pixel comes with a polarizer: since it's a while til the next solar eclipse he demonstrated it with the #Moon where the #polarization of the maria is higher than of the highlands, matching expectations. 2/n

Tegna adds 100 hours of new daily programming across 50 markets with dedicated 7am-9am streaming of local newscasts to meet increased demand on CTV platforms (Mark K. Miller/TVNewsCheck)
https://tvnewscheck.com/journalism/article/tegna-anno…

Tegna Announces Major Local News Expansion
Tegna Inc. today announced that its stations will be “significantly expanding” their local news programming by launching live and on-demand, local newscasts from 7 to 9 a.m. daily in 50-plus markets through streaming, connected TV apps and station websites.  Tegna said: “This unprecedented expansion of local news programming is designed to meet audiences’ growing demand for coverage of their communities wherever they want to watch and will deliver over 100 hours of daily breaking news,…

YouTube announces "open call", a new feature to let brands broadly request sponsored content from creators who are part of the YouTube Partner Program (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/youtube-open-…

YouTube Open Call Lets Marketers Solicit Branded Content From Creators
YouTube announced Open Call, which will let brands broadly request sponsored content from creators who are part of the YouTube Partner Program.

Fed's 'Wait and See' Approach Is Intact as New Risks Cloud Economic Outlook (Colby Smith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/business/federal-reserve-interest-rates.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p44#a250617p44

Politico ramps up its podcast investments, aiming to compete with broadcasters through video podcasts on YouTube, including by launching Sunday talk shows (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/politico-podcast-push…

Politico Bets on New Podcast Push to Take on TV's Sunday News Cycle
Politico is investing more heavily in podcasts, and hopes 'The Conversation' with Dasha Burns can grab some of mainstream TV's Sunday news audience

Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training starting July 1, and enforces a new age limit of 16 for users globally (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/mastodon-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-ai-model-tra…

Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training | TechCrunch
Days after Elon Musk-owned X updated its terms to explicitly prohibit AI model training, decentralized social network Mastodon updated its own rules to bar any kind of model training, as well.

Patreon plans to consolidate its Pro and Premium plans starting August 5, taking a 10% commission, rather than the current 8% for Pro and 12% for Premium users (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/687570/patreon-standard-pr…

Patreon is raising its fees for new creators soon
Patreon is raising the rate it charges to most creators, but existing users won’t see an increase — nor will anyone who signs up by August 4th.

Threads launches a fediverse feed and a way to search for fediverse users, with support for Mastodon and others, for users who turned on fediverse sharing (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/688267/threads-fediverse-feed-search

Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds
A new ‘Fediverse feed’ in your Following section will show posts from Mastodon, Flipboard, and elsewhere.

New poll: Trump and deportations unpopular with voters, Dems up 8 in House vote (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-approval-at-42-democrats-up
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p27#a250616p27

Meta launches generative AI tools in its Advantage suite for advertisers and agencies at Cannes, including to turn still images into videos and Virtual Try-On (Mark Mwachiro/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/meta…

Meta’s Advantage+ Adds Gen AI Tools for Advertisers and Agencies
The new features include the ability to transform still images into video.

WhatsApp rolls out ads in its Updates tab, a first for the app, and will collect some data to target the ads, but says it has no plans to put ads in chats (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/technology/whatsapp-ads.html

WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App
They will appear in only one part of the Meta-owned messaging service, it said. The move is potentially lucrative, while raising questions about user privacy.

Trump Organization eyes a new Trump-branded wireless service, complete with gold phones (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-mobile-phone-service-t1-rcna213261
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p76#a250616p76

Some conservative authors are turning to podcasts to promote their books; publishers say Joe Rogan can boost book sales by 3,000 to 4,000 copies immediately (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/books/conservative-books-podca…

Trying to Sell a Conservative Book? Go on a Podcast.
Many of the most popular shows welcome right-wing arguments and freewheeling conversation. Publishers of other political stripes are noticing, too.

'Extremely disturbing and unethical': new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans (Aaron Glantz/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p29#a250616p29

Trump Wants You to Get Used to This (Ruth Ben-Ghiat/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/opinion/trump-military-parade-protest.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU8.0H_r.r-3Ka8cZPrra&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p82#a250615p82

36 More Countries May Be Added to Trump's Travel Ban (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p142#a250616p142

TikTok rolls out new AI ad features, including the ability for marketers to use text or images to create AI-generated video, as part of its Symphony ad suite (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump Has Reawakened the Resistance (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opinion/trump-has-reawakened-the-resistance.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p138#a250616p138

'The Age of Trump' Enters Its Second Decade (Peter Baker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/trump-escalator-10-years.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p73#a250616p73

Trump Is Daring Us to Impeach Him Again (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/opinion/trump-third-impeachment.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p128#a250617p128

At G7, Trump Renews Embrace of Putin Amid Rift With Allies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/world/canada/trump-g7-russia-ukraine.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p168#a250616p168

Randi Weingarten Quits D.N.C. Post in Dispute With Chairman (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/politics/randi-weingarten-dnc-ken-martin.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p79#a250615p79

How to Beat Back Trump on Trans Rights -- and Much Else (Ezra Klein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-sarah-mcbride.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p59#a250617p59

The WNBA and E.W. Scripps renew their media rights deal, ensuring Friday night WNBA matchups will continue on Ion, along with a new weekly studio show (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/wnba-scripps-media-rights-deal.html

WNBA renews media rights deal with Scripps
The new agreement comes after Ion has seen huge growth with the WNBA and as the league gains in popularity thanks to stars like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.

A Senator's Fall From Grace Ends in a Grim Federal Lockup (Tracey Tully/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/nyregion/prison-robert-menendez.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p40#a250617p40

WGA East-affiliated Vox Media Union voted to authorize a strike starting June 12 if its demands for higher pay and protections against AI abuse are not met (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/vox-media-union-authorize-strike-vote/

Vox Media Union Members Vote to Authorize Strike With Midnight Deadline
The WGA East-affiliated Vox Media Union voted to go on strike if a deal on a new contract is not reached by 90%.

Starmer Picks Up Trump's Papers, and 2 Small Political Wins (Mark Landler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/world/europe/trump-starmer-trade-uk-g7-summit.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p45#a250617p45

When Rights Erode for Some of Us, Something Corrodes in All of Us (Dara Lind/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opinion/trump-immigration-deportations-rights.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU8.BINY.oqGypsJFsJrW&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p19#a250616p19

How Tough Is Iran? A String of Military Losses Raises Questions. (Vivian Yee/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/world/middleeast/iran-military-defense.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p148#a250616p148

Trump's Own Staff Don't Think He's Fit to Be President (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/196917/donald-trump-think-unfit-president-damning-interview
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p131#a250617p131

Trump's Strategy in Law Firm Cases: Lose, Don't Appeal, Yet Prevail (Adam Liptak/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/trump-strategy-law-firms-appeals.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p22#a250616p22

Watchdog Finds Trump Administration Broke Law by Withholding Library Funds (Tony Romm/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/trump-watchdog-library-funds.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p83#a250616p83

The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE's Chaotic Takeover of Social Security (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p20#a250616p20

Live Updates: Man Charged in Minnesota Assassination Could Face Federal Death Penalty (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/16/us/minnesota-shootings
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p77#a250616p77

MyPillow Founder Mike Lindell Defamed Election Security Expert, Jury Finds (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/business/mypillow-mike-lindell-defamation.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p5#a250617p5

Trump's Cuts to N.I.H. Grants Focused on Minority Groups Are Illegal, Judge Rules (Zach Montague/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/trump-nih-grants-cut.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p139#a250616p139

South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It. (Stephanie Nolen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/health/south-africa-medical-research-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Pk8.ZEjN.PrSZsqsRX0m6&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p46#a250617p46

'I'm an American, Bro!': Latinos Report Raids in Which U.S. Citizenship Is Questioned (Jennifer Medina/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/hispanic-americans-raids-citizenship.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p33#a250616p33

Minnesota suspected assassin Vance Boelter captured alive after intense manhunt for fatal shooting of Dem pol, spouse (Nicholas McEntyre/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/15/us-news/minnesota-suspected-assassin-vance-luther-boelter-captured-by-police-after-allegedly-killing-rep-hortman-and-injuring-sen-hoffman/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p1#a250616p1

Crimes of the Century -- How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law. (Suzy Hansen/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/israel-palestine-gaza-war-crimes-genocide.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p1#a250617p1

Fox News Hosts Gushed Over the Parade, With No Protests in Sight (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/business/media/trump-parade-tv-coverage.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p95#a250614p95

RFK Jr. says his new vaccine panel has a GW University professor. The school says he doesn't work there (Aimee Cho/NBC4 Washington)
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/rfk-jr-says-his-new-vaccine-panel-has-a-gw-university-professor-the-school-says-he-doesnt-work-there/3935974/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p72#a250615p72