Tootfinder

Paul Ingrassia—a 30-year-old former right-wing blogger and newly minted lawyer who was admitted to the bar in 2024—is Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel.
Ingrassia has called Jack Smith a “disgusting man,” accused him of “election interference,” and said he should be jailed.

Office of Special Counsel launches investigation into ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency, is investigating former special counsel Jack Smith for alleged political violations of the Hatch Act

"2025 was the hottest spring on record and driest in over 50 years, Met Office says"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

2025 was the hottest spring on record and driest in over 50 years, Met Office says
The remarkable season unfolded month by month, beginning with a record-breaking sunny March that set the tone

Military leaders aghast as Meta founder Zuckerberg crashes classified Oval Office meeting on fighter jets: report | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-oval-office-mark-zuckerberg-security-b2781215.html

GOP bill for Trump's agenda would add $2.4 trillion to the debt, budget office says (Sahil Kapur/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-bill-trumps-agenda-add-24-trillion-debt-budget-office-says-rcna210749
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p52#a250604p52

Maoyan: China's 2025 summer box office hit $1.67B, up 2.7% YoY; average ticket prices fell to $5.04, driven by reduced distribution fees and ticket subsidies (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/china-summer-box-office-2-123…

China Summer Box Office Climbs to $1.6 Billion, Maoyan Reports
China’s 2025 summer box office season generated $1.67 billion, up 2.7% from last year, with admissions reaching 321 million.

Tokyo-based LayerX, which uses AI to help enterprises automate back-office workload, raised a $100M Series B led by TCV, taking its total funding to $192.2M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/01/layerx-uses-a…

LayerX uses AI to cut enterprise back-office workload, scores $100M in Series B | TechCrunch
This Japanese AI startup just raised $100M to cut businesses’ admin burden.

Russian strike on Poltava kills 2, injures 11, Ukrainian officials say, conscription office set on fire: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/russian-strike-on-poltava-kills.html

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars -

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency
Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars

The IRS is rescinding layoffs at its civil rights office, an early target in its plans to slash its total headcount.
IRS Commissioner Billy Long, in a memo obtained by Federal News Network, told employees in the Office of Civil Rights and Compliance that the agency is “reversing” reduction-in-force notices they received in April.

IRS rescinds layoffs at civil rights office, an early target of workforce cuts
The IRS sent RIF notices to nearly 80% of staff at the Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, but kept layoffs on hold after a recent Supreme Court ruling.

Pennsylvania AG says recovery continues after office refused to pay ransomware gang https://therecord.media/pennsylvania-attorney-general-office-ransomware-attack-recovery

Microsoft says LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will now manage its Office group, reporting to EVP of Experiences and Devices Rajesh Jha; he will remain LinkedIn CEO (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Nepo baby or late bloomer? Former 6th rounder has front office, Cowboys coaching connect https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/03/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-42-rb-deuce-vaughn/85…

Like "a professional wrestler’s dressing room."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/01/trump-oval-office-gold-before-after-decor-white-house-makeover?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Government unable to calculate Afghan data breach cost, watchdog says
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2k25dx1z3o

Government unable to calculate Afghan data breach cost, watchdog says
The National Audit Office says it has not been given enough information to have "confidence" a relocation scheme cost £850m.

The C.B.O. estimate is all but certain to inflame debate within the G.O.P. about the spending bill.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that the broad Republican bill to cut taxes and slash some federal programs
👉would add $2.4 trillion to the already soaring national debt over the next decade,
in an analysis that was all but certain to inflame concerns that President Trump’s domestic agenda would lead to excessive government borrowing.
The C.B.O…

Trump’s Policy Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Budget Office Says
The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is all but certain to inflame an already intense debate inside the G.O.P. about the fiscal consequences of its bill to enact President Trump’s agenda.

I’m still working but can hear the Downtown Hoedown starting outside my office, I’m going to have to join this event one time, it sounds like a lot of fun.

Downtown Hoedown on Front St. July 3rd | 4-9pm
Every First Thursday: Line Dancing, Country Music, and More Country-Western Fun on Front St.

Budget Office: Trump's Spending Bill Raises Deficit By $2.4 Trillion, Will Cause 11M To Lose Health Insurance - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/budget-office-trumps-spending-bill-raises-deficit-by-2-4-trillion-will-cause-11m-to-lose-health-insurance/

@… Thanks! I have this Philips Series 800 in my office, which is light enough to carry, but a bit impractical.

Having the roof of our Family Room/Office replaced today. It’s a ~55yo addition with a flat roof that we did not have re-roofed when we had the rest of the house done a dozen years ago. It desperately needed replacement. We had no interior leaks, but our latest vermin genocider pointed out that our refractory raccoon problem was enhanced by rotting roof wood that they can smell out and scratch holes through.
It’s very distracting to have all this noise above my head.

Sanctions on Oil Smugglers Exporting Iranian Oil (United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/sanctions-on-oil-smugglers-exporting-iranian-oil/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p97#a250703p97

How to use the internet badly:
- I did a search on opening hours for the Scotrail ticket office in my town, got 6 different answers, 2 of them from Scotrail sources
- I tweeted to their twitter acct, telling them abt the variety of answers online, and could they please tell me the correct opening hours
- They tweeted back with what turned out to be incorrect information
- I thanked them and said they should contact the other travel sites and update their info /1

The office last night

Astronomy as a strategic driver for sustainable development: #Astronomy for Development is to direct astronomy towards addressing urgent societal needs.

Low-Power Laptop/Server (2007) - Read how I slimmed Web-facing servers in my office from 670W to less than 20W... #frugal - https://www.earth.org.uk/low-power-laptop.html

Low-Power Laptop/Server (2007)
Read how I slimmed Web-facing servers in my office from 670W to less than 20W... #frugal

Dang it! Apparently I forgot and missed the deadline to apply to be a NASA astronaut.
Again.
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/779261100

Astronaut Candidate
Astronaut candidates will spend approximately two years training on the basic skills required to be an astronaut - from spacewalking and robotics to leadership and teamwork skills. Upon completing training, they will join the active astronaut corps and become eligible for spaceflight assignment. Until assigned a spaceflight, they will have responsibilities within the astronaut office ranging from supporting their fellow astronauts in space to advising on the development of new spacecraft.

sp_office: Workplace contacts (2013)
A temporal network of contacts between individuals, measured in an office building in France, from June 24 to July 3, 2013.
This network has 92 nodes and 9827 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_offi

📣 Beim diesjährigen Culture Community Plenary 5
(24.–26.09.2025, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz) bieten wir erneut beim Markt der Möglichkeiten ein Austauschformat vor Ort an, bei dem sich Projekte, Services von NFDI4Culture, aber auch Participants und Partner:innen des Konsortiums vorstellen können.
📨 Bis zum 15.07.2025 können Interessierte eine kurze Beschreibung des Posters an uns senden: coordination-office@nfdi4culture.de

View out my office window

Companies House have just sent me an email telling me that because of new laws, I need to verify my identity. So I leapt into action. There follows an open letter.
Dear Companies House.
The questions "Do you have a passport?" and "Do you have your passport on you in the office right now?" are different fucking questions and you should clarify which you mean before you direct me down an irreversible cul-de-sac in your application's verification logic.

Back in the office after two weeks of holiday in #Japan and re-learning how to do my job! Think it might take a few more days to get fully back into the swing of things...
On a positive note, I'm taking it that I really managed to switch off from work while I was away ✅

It is time to make use of solar panels. My office faces south so lots of sun. I hooked up the solar panels in the window. The bonus to charging the batteries is that I don't have to pay hydro for that!

16 AFC teams, 16 offseason awards: Sizing up each front office's moves with one superlative https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45164455/2025-nfl-offseason-afc-teams-best-worst-deals-contracts-draft-picks-…

Comscore: US and Canada summer box office revenue was $3.67B, down slightly from $3.68B in 2024, and well short of the $4B from the Barbenheimer-fueled 2023 (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Summer Box Office Clobbered by Kryptonite: Domestic Revenue Barely Matches Last Year
The May to Labor Day season initially soared, but global grosses took a nosedive as foreign movie ticket sales plunged further and a glut of male-skewing tentpoles battled for scraps in the U.S.

Update after talking to the student office: The student had called the student office and then chose to ignore essentially everything they had been told; and then they basically lied to us about having officially submitted the thesis.
Good thing I don’t trust anyone anymore.
#AcademicChatter

Summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be UK’s warmest on record, Met Office says https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/26/summer-2025-almost-certainly-uk-warmest-record-met-office

Seeing as potus may leave office soon, I want to transition @… when it happens (my bot that posts a nickname for potus every hour) when he does.
But, I only have 32 nicknames for the Creepy Veepy.
(I currently have 178 for the Orange Menace.)
Can you help me grow the list for Mister Vaguely Sentient Eyeliner by sharing any nicknames you know o…

Survey for the management of undersea asset geodata.
https://ukhodigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/08/04/furthering-collaboration-on-uk-sub-surface-infrastructure-data/

Furthering collaboration on UK subsea infrastructure data – UK Hydrographic Office
News and updates from the UKHO

"Met Office should name storms after fossil fuel companies, say campaigners"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/26/met-office-should-name-storms-after-fossil-fuel-companies-say-campaigner…

Exploring Privacy and Security as Drivers for Environmental Sustainability in Cloud-Based Office Solutions
Jason Kayembe, Iness Ben Guirat, Jan Tobias M\"uhlberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23866

Exploring Privacy and Security as Drivers for Environmental Sustainability in Cloud-Based Office Solutions
In this paper, we explore the intersection of privacy, security, and environmental sustainability in cloud-based office solutions, focusing on quantifying user- and network-side energy use and associated carbon emissions. We hypothesise that privacy-focused services are typically more energy-efficient than those funded through data collection and advertising. To evaluate this, we propose a framework that systematically measures environmental costs based on energy usage and network data traffic …

Found sorting out my office: A brand new USB-A to RJ-45 cable.
As Mr. Spock used to say, "Its origin and purpose remains a total mystery."
@…

Internal Docs Raise Questions About Trump IRS Pick Billy Long’s ‘No-Show Jobs’ And ‘Strange’ Schedule
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/billy-long-office-of-personnel-management-irs

Hup Microsoft werknemers
https://www.theverge.com/news/766324/microsoft-building-34-lockdown-protesters-brad-smith-office

I'm working from the office today and there's some absolute maniac in the kitchen who pours the milk into their mug before taking the tea bag out. We are all agog and aghast. #tea #VeryBritishProblems

https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/08/senate-confirms-sean-cairncross-be-national-cyber-director-under-trump/407178/
Senate confirms Sean Cairncross to be national cyber director under Trump

Senate confirms Sean Cairncross to be national cyber director under Trump
Sean Cairncross, a former RNC official, is the first person to head the Office of the National Cyber Director under Donald Trump.

The brazen partisan redistricting underway in Texas,
with Republicans attempting to entrench themselves in office and Democrats weighing a counter-offensive in blue states,
👉 was greenlit by the US Supreme Court six years ago.
Chief Justice John Roberts, in an opinion for a 5-4 court,
💥declared that federal judges could not review extreme partisan gerrymanders to determine if they violated constitutional rights.
Roberts’ opinion reversed cases that would have all…

Chief Justice John Roberts enabled Texas’ gambit to gerrymander the state for the GOP
The brazen partisan redistricting underway in Texas, with Republicans attempting to entrench themselves in office and Democrats weighing a counter-offensive in blue states, was greenlit by the US Supreme Court six years ago.

Die Fahrt mit der Deutschen Bahn von Kiel nach Hamburg ist mal wieder die Erinnerung, das die tschechische Bahn ein schnelleres und stabileres Internet anbietet als das bei mir im Home Office. Und das ist auch nicht gerade schlecht.
Warum ich das erwähne: die Bahntechnik ist nicht der begrenzende Faktor - die kann lange sehr viel mehr als wir in Deutschland auf die Schiene bringen. Es ist schlicht die Politik, die die eingesetzte Technik rückständig hält.

checking in online every few hours to see if he's dead yet

Latest release of Cabinet Office and Prime Ministers’ papers https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/cabinet-office-records-released/

Latest release of Cabinet Office and Prime Ministers' papers - The National Archives
We have digitised 200 files which have been released by the Cabinet Office. This release includes previously retained files from the Prime Minister’s Office covering Tony Blair’s administration. It also includes records from the administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major. The files will be available to search in due course via our online catalogue […]

Bottled my cold brew coffee for the office today. Also a box of dried bananas. Now off to start heat survival game

Not just the CDC. Needlessly fight traffic to do what months ago was multiple people’s jobs, plus handle constant institutional shake-ups and potential violence. A surefire way to lose your best people.
CDC Workers Told to Return to Office on September 15, Weeks After Gunman Attacked Headquarters https://ground.news/article/cdc-asks-all-staff-to-return-to-office-sept-15-five-weeks-after-shooting-at-headquarters

I would really like to understand the productivity claims of "AI" for normal office workers.
If you summarize all emails with unreliable technology, you will miss important things; so in order to not fail at your job when your company now pays for "AI" you will have to read "AI" summaries _and_ all the whole emails?
Where's the savings in time and money there exactly? Last time I checked addition makes things larger?
I guess I'm a naive luddite.

Court suspends PM Paetongtarn from office in Hun Sen phone call case (Bangkok Post)
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/3061392/court-suspends-pm-paetongtarn-from-office-in-hun-sen-phone-call-case
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p143#a250701p143

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars -

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency
Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars

Source: ~1,000 people have left the CISA during the second Trump administration, including 750 taking a buyout, cutting CISA's workforce by nearly a third (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/cisa-staff-layoffs-resignations-trump-cuts…

Exclusive: One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
Trump wanted to cut 1,000 people. They're already gone.

Cowboys teammates have been voicing support of Micah Parsons for past 24 hours https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/01/teammates-are-supportin…

When Bloodshed and Chaos Arrived at 345 Park Avenue https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/nyregion/park-avenue-shooting-manhattan.html

Morning all! Back in the office for another week of it all.
No client appointments today, so I'm going to be getting stuck into some writing, course design and video scripting. Hope everyone has an excellent day.

IRS rescinds layoffs at civil rights office, an early target of workforce cuts
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/08/irs-rescinds-layoffs-at-civil-rights-office-an-early-target-of-workforce-cuts/

The F1 movie gives Apple its first box office hit, opening to $144M worldwide and $55.6M in the US; it was pushed on Apple Music, Podcasts, Fitness , and Wallet (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/box-office-f1-megan-2-0-1236444277/

‘F1’ Zooms To $10M Previews, An Apple Original Films Record; ‘M3GAN 2.0’ $1.5M – Friday AM Box Office
F1' the Brad Pitt Apple Original Films is expected to deliver an opening north of $40M-$50M while Universal/Blumhouse's 'M3GAN 2.0' is expected to crash. Previews of $10M were a record for Apple Original Films.

IRS rescinds layoffs at civil rights office, an early target of workforce cuts (Jory Heckman/Federal News Network)
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/08/irs-rescinds-layoffs-at-civil-rights-office-an-early-target-of-workforce-cuts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p127#a250801p127

Update after talking to the student office: The student had called the student office and then chose to ignore essentially everything they had been told; and then they basically lied to us about having officially submitted the thesis.
Good thing I don’t trust anyone anymore.
#AcademicChatter

"Summer 2025 was hottest on record in UK, says Met Office"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

> When I was in the other place, my opposite number the Australian Chief Whip presented me with a 12-foot bullwhip, and the Ministerial Code required me to find out its value. When my private office went online to try to find its value, they were blocked for accessing inappropriate adult material.
Bants.
https://www.

The US Senate confirms Sean Cairncross to serve as National Cyber Director, making him the first Senate-approved cybersecurity official of Trump's second term (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/08/sen

Senate confirms Sean Cairncross to be national cyber director under Trump
Sean Cairncross, a former RNC official, is the first person to head the Office of the National Cyber Director under Donald Trump.

A survey of (UK home) heat-pump experiences that I responded to, and that you might too if you have had a heat pump for at least one heating season:
https://forms.office.com/e/c5XafcNpMP

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is threatening to remove Democratic lawmakers from office
for fleeing the state
and claiming they could be charged with crimes,
-- escalating tensions overnight
in a showdown over redrawing congressional lines
ahead of the midterm elections.

Most of the Democrats in the Texas state House exited the state Sunday
— many of whom arrived in Chicago in the evening
— to prevent Republicans from overhauling the state’s map t…

Abbott threatens to try to expel Democrats who fled Texas, escalating tensions
The Texas state House is set to reconvene at 3 p.m. CT Monday. Democrats have left the state to try to stop Republicans from moving ahead with enacting a new congressional map that would give the GOP five more safe seats.

sp_office: Workplace contacts (2013)
A temporal network of contacts between individuals, measured in an office building in France, from June 24 to July 3, 2013.
This network has 92 nodes and 9827 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_offi

The F1 movie gives Apple its first box office hit, opening to $144M worldwide and $55.6M in the US; it was pushed on Apple Music, Podcasts, Fitness , and Wallet (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/box-office-f1-megan-2-0-1236444277/

‘F1’ Zooms To $10M Previews, An Apple Original Films Record; ‘M3GAN 2.0’ $1.5M – Friday AM Box Office
F1' the Brad Pitt Apple Original Films is expected to deliver an opening north of $40M-$50M while Universal/Blumhouse's 'M3GAN 2.0' is expected to crash. Previews of $10M were a record for Apple Original Films.

* He exploits public office for private gain, enriching himself and the billionaire class while abandoning the poor and working people.
* He undermines justice, ignores the rule of law, and places himself above accountability.
* He disregards science, endangering lives in times of crisis and sacrificing the planet for profit.
* He fans division and incites violence to maintain power, wielding fear as a weapon against the people.

Netflix's theatrical debut of KPop Demon Hunters is estimated to earn $18M-$20M this weekend, topping the domestic box office; it came out on Netflix in June (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/…

'Kpop Demon Hunters' Tops Box Office in Theatrical Debut
In a box office twist, "Kpop Demon Hunters," a film from the theatrical-averse Netflix appears to be No. 1 on North American charts.

Governor Abbott Statement On House Democratic Quorum Break (Office of the Texas Governor)
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-statement-on-house-democratic-quorum-break
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p1#a250804p1

America’s democratic collapse has been coming for years, always just over the horizon.
But when everything that happened during Trump’s first three months in office happened and
(here’s the important part)
shockingly little was done by the few groups
(Congress, the Supreme Court, the Democratic Party, American corporations & other large institutions, media companies)
who had the power to counter it,
I knew it was over.
And over in a way that is…

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars -

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency
Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars

The current holder of high office has shown himself to be unfit to lead a free and just society.
* He disrespects women, mocking survivors of violence and stripping away their rights.
* He fuels racism and white supremacy, scapegoating communities of color and denying their equality.
* He assaults free speech, attacking the press, punishing dissent, and spreading disinformation.

A website developed for the UK Home Office's 2022 "flop" anti-encryption campaign has seemingly been hijacked to push a payday loan scheme.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/home_office_antiencryption_campaign_website/?m…

UK govt dept website that campaigns against encryption hijacked to advertise ... payday loans
: Company at center of findings blamed SEO on outsourcer

Roger Goodell addresses NYC office shooting in emotional interview ahead of NFL Hall of Fame game https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6528172/2025/07/31/nfl-hall-of-fame-game-goodell-nyc-shooting/

Discharge Petition No. 9, Bill Number: H.Res. 581, 119th Congress (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)
https://clerk.house.gov/DischargePetition/2025090209
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p105#a250902p105

"Study reveals surge in illegal arachnid trade via Facebook in Philippines"
#Philippines #Spiders #Facebook

Study reveals surge in illegal arachnid trade via Facebook in Philippines
In 2019, customs officers at a post office in the Philippine capital Manila unwrapped what looked like an ordinary parcel from Poland. Inside, they found 757 live tarantulas stuffed inside plastic containers, neatly packed like a twisted birthday surprise. Far from an isolated incident, this seizure reflects a long-running issue. Between 2010 and 2019, arachnids […]

The Online Safety Act, which went into effect in the U.K. on July 25, requires any website that might have adult content to conduct age-verification checks.
According to the U.K.’s Office of Communications, or Ofcom,
users must provide proof of age
in the form of photo IDs, credit cards, photos for facial recognition software, and other so-called age gates,
or else be denied access.
Though often heralded by parents as a way to keep kids from accessing sexually…

‘Anonymity Online Is Going to Die’: What Age-Verification Laws Could Look Like in the U.S.
As controversy around the U.K.’s Online Safety Act continues, experts warn about similar legislation thriving in the U.S.

Comscore: US box office revenue from May 1 have reached $3.53B, making it clear sales will be short of the $4B summer threshold, last attained in 2023 (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/summer-box-office-wont-reach-4-b…

Summer Box Office Won't Reach $4 Billion
Heading into the summer, several promising films looked to propel ticket sales above $4 billion. But popcorn season will fall short of that benchmark.

Microsoft locks down a building at its headquarters after protesters got inside Brad Smith's office, demanding that it cut ties with the Israeli government (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/766324/microsoft-building-34-l…

Microsoft locks down a building after protesters get inside president’s office
Current and former Microsoft employees performed a sit-in protest inside vice chair and president Brad Smith’s office.

Economic fears of investors are here — and fed by Trump’s reaction
Friday’s disappointing jobs report revealed a labor market that is much weaker than either the White House or Federal Reserve understood.
Inflation, the voter irritant that helped return Trump to the Oval Office, is proving newly stubborn.
And consumers are growing more cautious with their spending.

Economic fears of investors are here — and fed by Trump’s reaction
President Donald Trump’s economic policies have sparked controversy and uncertainty, with a recent jobs report fueling concerns about the economy’s health.

White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge
The White House does not plan to require health insurers to provide coverage for in vitro fertilization services,
two people with knowledge of internal discussions said,
even though the idea was one of Donald Trump’s key campaign pledges.

Last year, Trump said that if he returned to office, the government would either pay for IVF services or issue rules requiring insurance companies to cover treatme…

White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge
President Donald Trump has said he wants a “baby boom,” but critics say his administration has yet to make significant family policy changes — and that Medicaid cuts will hurt.

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon Office (2008) - Read how my home office became zero-carbon in 2008, and the whole building zero-carbon from 2010! #lowCarbon #office #microgen -

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon Office (2008)
Read how my home office became zero-carbon in 2008, and the whole building zero-carbon from 2010! #lowCarbon #office #microgen

How Palantir has benefited since President Trump took office, securing new and expanded government contracts and becoming the S&P's top-performing stock of 2025 (Washington Post)

In Trump’s Washington, Palantir is winning big
From warfighting and tracking deportations to writing State Department cables with AI, the company is benefiting from a new technology-driven cost-cutting ethos.

Microsoft says it agreed to give the US GSA $6B in potential savings on Office, Azure, 365, and other tools over three years, including $3.1B in the first year (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/microsoft-offers-us-…

Microsoft offers U.S. government over $6 billion in savings on cloud services over 3 years
Microsoft is the latest company to discount the cost of its software to the General Services Administration.

Sanctioning Officials of the Palestinian Authority and Members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/sanctioning-officials-of-the-palestinian-authority-and-members-of-the-palestine-liberation-organization/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p104#a250731p104

Republican senators propose slashing size of intel office led by Tulsi Gabbard
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/republican-senators-propose-slashing-size-intel-office-led-tulsi-gabba-rcna214330

Trump maintains control over and can profit from his businesses while in office through a revocable trust, of which he is both the sole donor and sole beneficiary.
In his first term, those looking to support Trump financially could lend him money against his real estate, license his name, buy his assets, join one of his clubs or book a hotel.
Since leaving office in 2021, Trump’s business empire expanded into the digital realm, where the products are often intangible, but the rev…

Truth Social, the $Trump meme coin and World Liberty Financial Give Supporters And Favor Seekers New Ways To Pay Trump
Foreign firms, crypto whales and political allies are using Trump’s newest ventures to route millions into companies he profits from while in office.

Pete Hegseth has discussed running for political office in Tennessee, sources say (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/pete-hegseth-discussed-running-political-office-tennessee-rcna221681
http://www.memeorandum.com/250729/p148#a250729p148

Ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith under investigation by Office of Special Counsel after claims of playing politics: 'No one is above the law' (Lydia Moynihan/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/01/us-news/official-investigation-into-trump-prosecutor-jack-smith-launched/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p131#a250801p131

Public defender’s office seeks removal of Trump’s top federal prosecutor in L.A.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-29/public-defender-moves-to-disqualify-bill-essayli

Public defender's office seeks to remove L.A.'s top federal prosecutor
In a filing Friday, the federal public defender's office in Los Angeles argued acting U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli should be removed because he is unlawfully occupying his post.

Former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith faces investigation by Office of Special Counsel (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/02/jack-smith-trump-prosecutor-investigation-special-counsel/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250802/p45#a250802p45

Congresswoman Nydia Velšzquez on Saturday held a rally outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in New York City to promote her recently introduced "No Masks for ICE Act".
“We would never accept it if the NYPD operated in masks without names or badges
— and we shouldn’t accept it from ICE either,”
Velšzquez (D-N.Y.) said in a statement, referring to the New York Police Department.
“When agents hide their faces and identities they creat…

Velázquez Leads 'No Masks for ICE Act' Rally at NYC Field Office | Common Dreams
"When agents hide their faces and identities they create chaos, fear, and open the door to abuse. Immigrant communities are left wondering if they're being arrested or kidnapped."

Caracas on the Potomac -- What I wrote just before Trump took office (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/caracas-on-the-potomac
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p114#a250801p114

JD Vance is being lambasted for dismissing social safety net rollbacks under the Trump tax bill currently making its way through Congress.
On Monday night, Vance attempted to rally support for the bill in a post on X, writing,
“Everything else—the CBO score [the Congressional Budget Office cost estimate], the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.”
Many were rubbed the wrong way by…

Vance Says It Doesn’t Matter How Many People Lose Medicaid in Budget
JD Vance is being slammed after a twisted post on the costs of Republicans’ budget bill.

U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights Finds Denver Public Schools Violated Title IX (U.S. Department of Education)
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-finds-denver-public-schools-violated-title-ix
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p3#a250829p3

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The Trump administration
illegally withheld funding
from the federal child care program, according to congressional investigators.
It’s the third time this year that
investigators from the Government Accountability Office
have determined the administration
defied Congress on spending.

Trump Administration Illegally Withheld Head Start Funds, Watchdog Finds
It’s the third time this year that investigators from the Government Accountability Office have determined the administration defied Congress on spending.