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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

A Student/Worker’s Guide to European Google Docs / Office 365 Alternatives https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2025/05/20/docs-office-alternatives/

Cowboys front office is going to cost themselves once again https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-front-office-is-going-to-cost-themselves-once-again

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

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

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.

Today I met a thirtyish brother wearing a purple Billionaire Boys Club track suit in an office job. IN AN OFFICE JOB. Coolest guy ever. The GOAT of Cool.

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 …

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.

Last call, back in the office, and tomorrow off to Brussels to talk @… with the EU commission. Slightly wishing I was back in Greenland..
https://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/24/field-diary-2025/

“Remigration”—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-office-r

The Trump Administration Wants to Create an ‘Office of Remigration’
"Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department.

A former leader of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights during the Obama and Biden administrations
called the Trump administration’s targeting of undefined diversity, equity and inclusion legally spurious
and urged colleges and universities to stand up for their values.
At a panel last week at the annual Education Writers Association conference here,
Catherine Lhamon said it’s “enormously frustrating to me to see the federal government use its voice to sa…

Biden Civil Rights Chief: Trump Anti-DEI Orders Aren’t Law
Catherine Lhamon joined the American Council on Education’s president and a student in criticizing the current federal administration’s targeting of universities over diversity, equity and inclusion.

US sanctions Russian IT company Aeza Group over ransomware operations: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/us-sanctions-russian-it-company.html

#lol

Idag är det ett längre inslag jag är med i på ett hörn i Ekonomiekot Extra om svårigheterna med hanteringen av data mellan EU och USA i en tid där Trumpregimen monterat ner de mekanismer satta att garantera skydd mot EU-medborgares data.
https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsni…

Opinion | Operation Spiderweb’s drone attack on Russia exposes all air bases - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/01/ukraine-drone-attack-russia-bombers/
Ukraines massage again to generals all…

Moving day 📦📦📦 Except most of our stuff is still in customs 😅 But at least the view to the mountains from the bedroom/office is already there!

"The National Audit Office warns that the cost to replace the UK’s nuclear arsenal will rise by more than £99 billion over the coming decade."
https://cnduk.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ADR-digital.pdf
"The Resolution Foundation think t…

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

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

"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 […]

from my link log —
How common is multiple invention?
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-often-do-inventions-have-multiple
saved 2025-06-06

How Common is Multiple Invention?
When Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent for the telephone on February 14th, 1876, he beat competing telephone developer Elisha Gray to the patent office by just a few hours.

The portable aircon unit is struggling to get the home office below 27°C this morning. I don't know why as the end of the hose that's out the window is belching out lots of hot air, and the front is blowing out cold.
I turned it on just before 7am and cranked it to full around 8.30 as it wasn't doing much.
Outside it's 33.6°C.

I just updated the prints on my office door to reflect the kind of photos (particularly event photos) that I am taking now -- as well the the new system which supersedes "three sided cards" that attains better branding in every respect except that it doesn't have a name (yet) #photo #photography

"My vision of a world with computers is a world in which people have a lot more time to do what they like. Playing tennis, jogging… they’ll have plenty of time to go to the shore. I’d go to the library. I could do my work at home. I could have a computer at home and talk to my office. I could live up on top of a nice mountain in New Hampshire and smell pine trees and it would be the same as if I were here in the sub-sub-subbasement of the Pentagon."
– Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper & David Letterman
Among the many documents available at the Computer History Museum website there is an interesting artifact: a commercial brochure published in 1957 by the Remington Rand UNIVAC, "a division of Sperry Rand Corporation", titled "introducing a new language for automatic programming". In it, we learn about the advantages of the new (at the time) FLOW-MATIC programming language, the brainchild of United States Navy Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper.

Today I put Windows 10 LTSC on an old work desktop I wasn't using for anything. It's amazing how fast computers go when they don't have all the shit installed on them.
Tomorrow I will dig up an old graphics card from a drawer in the office to put in it, because the other thing I have learned today is that the number of games you can play with an Intel HD 4600 graphics chipset is zero.

"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…

Germany's Federal Cartel Office warns Amazon that its price controls for marketplace retailers likely violate national and EU laws, in preliminary findings (Karin Matussek/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Hegseth gutted Pentagon office that said it would oversee testing of Golden Dome missile defense system (Natasha Bertrand/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/05/30/politics/hegseth-pentagon-office-gutted-golden-dome
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p36#a250531p36

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

Now I understand the reason why my neighbours wanted WiFi in the garage.
Maybe an idea worth exploring when I'm back home and we have 43°C.

It's on days like today that @…'s rain radar really comes into it's own - I've been trying to clear some admin from home, but I need to bike to the office to print a poster for this week's @… meeting in Brussels - guess I'm going to wait an hour or so then..
https://www.dmi.dk/#radar

I called my congressional representative to urge a vote against the Let Them Die, I mean, Big Beautiful Bill. His main line's voicemail was full. Already. At 7:50pm.
I left a message on his district office line.
NY District 1 voters: let's see how many messages we can send @NickLalota.
#USPol

PSA: If you use OneDrive on Mac, and your company has changed how it identifies the OneDrive folder, you might get more than one OneDrive folder which you cannot remove, not even using sudo.
The way to reset things — assuming nothing is pending from uploading to OneDrive — is to follow the instructions in this Microsoft support page.
You're welcome!

One upside of Trump being in office is how the left have suddenly rediscovered the 10th Amendment. Sadly, they already took the teeth out of it over the last few decades while they were in charge, so it's useless...

When I switch on the giant fan in my office, the temperature goes up ☹️

You need to report results from your R analyeses in Word or powerpoint? Your organisation requires the use of very speccific formating? The packages in the officeverse might be of help: https://ardata-fr.github.io/officeverse/

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.

Disney's live-action Lilo & Stitch grossed $610M globally in just 10 days, and could reach $950M; the film cost $100M and may make $300M in box office profit (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/busines

How ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Became One of the Most Profitable Movies in Years
The film was originally aimed for Disney+. But it was rerouted to a theatrical release and is on pace for at least $950 million in ticket sales.

We're also listing some beautiful furniture. We haven't made much use of any of this since we started working remotely five years ago, so we figure it's time to let others have a chance to enjoy it!
https://mastodon.omnigroup.com/@OmniGroup/114592451404745568

It's been 7 months since the D-party lost the easiest-to-win election the US has ever had. And it's been 4 months since FFOTUS took office and became a modern Caligula.
And what has the D-party done?
Nada. Nada. Nada. The old faction is spinning in useless circles defending Biden's inexcusable decision to continue to run until too late. The younger element still shows no sign of engaging in the voting part of politics. Our middle-age element still looks first at t…

People keep yapping to me at work while I wear my earplugs (them not realizing I have earplugs in) so I got earmuffs instead so people can more easily see that I might not hear them well (also means I can leave my house keys in my locker at the office).
Also some different filters (a bit less dampening and less damping on the higher-ends) for my earplugs (that I mostly use for driving my car n stuff).

Earlier this month, the Copyright Office issued the third part of its report on on AI: this one covering how generative AI may infringe on copyright and whether that's fair use (short answer: maybe, maybe not). I have a new article up summarizing the report.
https://www.…

Copyright Office's report discusses whether generative AI use is fair use
Earlier this month, the Copyright Office issued the third part of its report on AI. As with the first two parts, the Copyright Office discusses arguments from people who responded to its call for comments and then provides its analysis. The three main sections in this part focus on infringement, fair use, and licensing regimes. Here, I’m going to cover what the report says about the first two items: whether using copyrighted material in generative AI infringes on owners’ rights and whether…

#tbt Years ago my school interviewed me for an alumni piece. The interviewer was so amused by my “filing system” that he insisted on a wider shot of the office. Funniest part is that I had actually tidied the place up for the interview. Never had a compulsive bone in my body.
😁😁😁

Lyon ditching Microsoft.
#microsoft

French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools
: Ingredients of future software salade Lyonnaise will include Linux, PostgreSQL, and OnlyOffice

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

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

Unmasking My Office Part 1 - This Isn't Overthinking
#Unmasking

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I had a drive fail in an array today. We have 'next day' replacement parts. Neat. Our loading dock is open between 7am and 3pm. "The part should arrive at the designated destination at approximately 06/30/2025 08:02 PM." Umm... thanks for speedy service but no one is at the office at 8pm. Yeesh logistics, do better.

Uh oh, does Kash know his agency is warning people about Trumpers?
“Parents in Marshall County, Mississippi are being warned of a satanic, neo-Nazi terrorist group that is targeting children online.”
https://www.f…

Ich bedankte mich bei der Office-Managerin und dem Publikationskoordinator für die persönliche Besorgung von Getränken für die Buchpräsentation nächste Woche, regte jedoch an, in Hinkunft Getränke liefern zu lassen, denn die Office-Managerin hätte durchaus das Pouvoir eine Getränkelieferung zu beauftragen, die nicht die Muskelkraft des Publikationskoordinators erfordern würde.

Is the Home Office so inhumane, or is it just some rogue, cynical (un)civil servant who made this judgement?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/18/uk-home-office-brazilian-family-children-return-alone?CMP…

How will the next #pope be chosen? YDS/ISM professor Teresa Berger explains the process in this new "Rose Walk and Talk" prepared by Yale University's communications office. https://

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

This was a disappointment, but I got out and did it, just a few breaks here and there. I was hoping to get more energy after this, but returned to the office and had to push myself heavy to finish the workday. Very fatigued and in a lot of pain, definitely turned out to be a #longcovid crash. Thankfully, I do not feel much pain while

This one is for the Brits, abbreviated from Simon Clark:
"The Met Office is currently looking for people to suggest up to 5 names for storms.
It would be great if thousands suggested the same 5 names (in alphabetical order as that's how storm names appear):
BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, Shell.
Met Office page:

Name our Storms

Today optional meeting so boring that office paid sushi for the entire office to make us participate

Questions But Not Chaos at the USA #Copyright Office https://illusionofmore.com/questions-but-not-chaos-at-the-copyri…

Questions But Not Chaos at the Copyright Office - The Illusion of More
Yes, the details are hard to follow through the fog, but I would not describe the Copyright Office as being in a state of chaos.

Great visit to the doctor's office this morning. Me: What's [this weird thing]?
Hmmm, let me take a look.
Uh huh...
Ok, let me just look at your chart...
*tap* *tap* *tap*
(sigh) Yep, just as I thought...
*tap* *tap* *tap*
(shakes head sadly) Yep...
*tap* *tap* *tap*
(shakes head sadly) Yep...
*tap* *tap* *tap*
(shakes head sadly) Yep...
*tap* *tap* *tap*
That's just [completely harmless and boring].

The office on Thursday
#guitar #music

Art house streaming service and distributor Mubi raised $100M led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation; Mubi has about 20M registered users worldwide (Christopher Grimes/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e0645d5-054e-4b00-a545-b95a1e2b261a

Sequoia bets on indie films with $100mn Mubi fundraising
Capital infusion led by Silicon Valley firm comes after box office success of ‘The Substance’

NERDS faculties move into new 4F11 office
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/04/07/nerds-faculties-move-into-new-4f11-office/

In Wall Street-kringen gaat rond dat Trump een ‘chicken’ is. ‘Dat heet onderhandelen’, snauwt de president (wiens tere zieltje weer eens niet tegen kritiek opgewassen blijkt)
#TrumpChicken

The chief executive of the
United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency
left the nonprofit’s Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray,
full of water damage, rats, and roaches, according to a new sworn statement first reported by Court Watch.
The statement from the executive, George Moose, comes just a few days after a federal judge ruled that DOGE’s takeover of the nonprofit was illegal.
And this week, Mu…

DOGE left United States Institute of Peace office with water damage, rats, and roaches | TechCrunch
The chief executive of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says Elon Musk's DOGE left the nonprofit's Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray.

Denmark's Agency for Digital Government has announced plans to phase out Microsoft software across its offices in favour of open source alternatives, joining a growing European movement challenging the dominance of American tech giants.
https://www.co…

Denmark to replace Microsoft Office with open source alternatives
German state of Schleswig-Holstein also turns its back on Microsoft as Europeans fear being ‘blackmailed’ by Big Tech

Schön war die heutige äh gestrige #CriticalMass in #Zürich. Und mit 25km auch etwas länger als sonst. Mit An- und Abreise waren's für mich 33.5km, die wegen Home-Office heute gut aufs #BikeToWork…

Way: ‪Überlandpark‬ (‪1386852445‬)
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

TL;DR: Before the US bullied the International Criminal Court chief prosecutor its office was about to submit international arrest warrants against racist Israeli government members Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.
"ICC reportedly weighed arrest warrants for Ben-Gvir, Smotrich before prosecutor's leave"

Während Drogenskandals - Verabschiedung von Trump: Musk mit blauem Auge #News #Nachrichten

I wonder where Ireland’s regulator got this idea?
https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/114751272606146547

First day in the office since 2 weeks. Really looking forward to see @… again.

Art house streaming service and distributor Mubi raised $100M led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation; Mubi has about 20M registered users worldwide (Christopher Grimes/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e0645d5-054e-4b00-a545-b95a1e2b261a

Sequoia bets on indie films with $100mn Mubi fundraising
Capital infusion led by Silicon Valley firm comes after box office success of ‘The Substance’

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."

"Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux"
https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux/

Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux
Before the Danish government announced its move, Denmark's largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already announced plans to phase out Microsoft software and cloud services. Here's why.

"The Office of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high-risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects user data, absence of stored data encryption, and potential security risks involved with its use."
This follows Iran's ban on WhatsApp.
https://www.axi…

Scoop: WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices
The House's cybersecurity office deemed the messaging app "high risk" due to its treatment of user data.

Portnov reportedly met controversial Zelensky staffer, Ukraine's investigations chief before being killed in Madrid: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/portnov-reportedly-met-controversial-zelensky.html

Sources: in 2024, OpenAI considered document collaboration features but lacked the staff to create them, but has since made some unreleased collaboration tools (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-…

OpenAI Quietly Designed a Rival to Google Workspace, Microsoft Office
OpenAI has been gearing up to take on Google and Microsoftwith features that let people collaborate on documents and communicate via chat in ChatGPT, according to two people who have seen the designs. Launching these features would pit OpenAI more directly against Microsoft, its biggest ...

"Met Office should name storms after fossil fuel companies, say campaigners"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels #Climate

Where the Cowboys' Front Office ranks in the NFC East https://insidethestar.com/where-the-cowboys-front-office-ranks-in-the-nfc-east

Senate Bill Would Add at Least $3.3 Trillion to Debt, Budget Office Says (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/us/politics/senate-bill-trump-cbo-score-debt.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p49#a250629p49

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

Ontario to give education minister power to more easily take over school boards - because as we all know Centralization is the Future because everyone already knows absolutely everything is already monitored and directed by a very busy single old bearded man living somewhere in heaven¹, so the method must be sound? #BurlingtonNews
https://www.burlingtontoday.com/ontario-news/ontario-to-give-education-minister-power-to-more-easily-take-over-school-boards-10729990
¹ actually he lives in Tokyo, operating out of a small office on the 13th floor.

Während Drogenskandals - Verabschiedung von Trump: Musk mit blauem Auge #News #Nachrichten

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 Justice Department on Friday 👉fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases,
the latest moves by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack,
according to two people familiar with the matter.
Those dismissed include two attorneys who worked as supervisors overseeing the Jan. 6 prosecutions in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington
as well as a line attorney who pro…

Justice Department fires 3 lawyers involved in Jan. 6 cases
The Justice Department has fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases, according to two people familiar with the matter. It’s the latest move by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Those dismissed include two attorneys who worked as supervisors overseeing the Jan. 6 prosecutions in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington as well as a line attorney who prosecuted cases stemming from…

Pro-LGBTQ Florida Church Bills Sheriff's Office $10,000 For Using Their Parking Lot Without Permission [VIDEO] - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/pro-lgbtq-church-bills-ice-10k-for-using-parking-lot/

CDC to hire former head of anti-vaccine group founded by RFK Jr. (Alexander Tin/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-vaccine-safety-office-hire-former-head-anti-vaccine-group-founded-rfk-jr/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p145#a250625p145

The Republican Majority on the Senate Banking Committee released a press release Friday confirming that they were intentionally eliminating
the “duplicative Office of Financial Research (OFR)”.
According to sources I’ve talked to in the Senate, Republican committee members have shown little concern with the elimination of the Office of Financial Research.
They also seem aware of the concerns over SOFR, because both their “one pager” and “section by section” documents clai…

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Eliminates the Office of Financial Research—Threatening the Stability of the Treasury Market
Early last week I started working on a piece on why the Federal Reserve didn’t step in during the Trump Tariff Financial Panic. The basic idea of that piece is simply that “repo rates”- the interest rate at which you can, in essence, borrow funds with treasury securities

Texas passes a bill distributing $150M/year to movies and TV shows through 2035; the film office can reject incentives for shoots with "inappropriate content" (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busi…

Hollywood South? Texas Makes Its Bid With Major Film Incentive Expansion
Texas is slated to give productions $150 million annually across the next decade. The program includes some quirks that will give the film office some say in movies and TV shows that qualify for the cash grant.

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

How was Joe Biden forced out of a presidential race for a disastrous debate and for looking frail and for confusing names,
but this man, one of the most ignorant men to ever be elected to any office, allowed to continue on as president and treated as a normal, serious leader??
https://bsky.app/pr…

Sources: Apple execs discussed starting their own theatrical distribution unit; Warner Bros. is distributing the F1 movie and getting a share of the box office (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/f1-movie-apple-brad-pitt-0b2afaee…

Filing: Disney's EMEA revenue rose 4.4% YoY to £3.97B in the year to September 2024 and profits rose 3% YoY to £589K after the launch of Disney ad tier (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/disney-ad-tier-boosts-overseas-revenue-1…

Disney+ Ad Tier Boosts Overseas Revenue, Offsetting Drop In Box Office Takings
Disney's revenues in Europe, the Middle East and Africa rose 4.4% to £3.97B last year following the launch of an ad tier on streaming.

According to a report published late Saturday night, the Senate version of the GOP budget bill would leave 💥 11.8 million more Americans uninsured by 2034.
Federal spending on Medicaid, Medicare and Obamacare would be reduced by more than💥 $1.1 trillion over that period
— with more than $1 trillion of those cuts coming from Medicaid alone.
The fresh estimates make official what many analysts had already predicted -- and some Republican lawmakers had feared.
The size an…

Senate Version of Trump’s Policy Bill Would Slash Medicaid Spending Even More
Analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that Republicans’ new version of the legislation would make far deeper cuts and lead to more people becoming uninsured than previous proposals.

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

I’ve treated kids with gunshot wounds, vaccine-preventable infections and chronic diseases..
I’m Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews and today I’m launching my campaign for U.S. Senate. 
I’ve been a doctor for almost 20 years. I’m no stranger to tough fights. 
But honestly, I never thought about running for office. But with MAGA chaos in the White House, I’m fed up and I’m taking a stand to stop the BS.
I’m taking on Senator Lindsey Graham, the posterboy for Washington corrupt…

Elect Annie Andrews
Donate to send Annie to the Senate!

The Trump administration has expanded #Palantir’s work with the government,
spreading the company’s technology
— which could easily merge data on Americans
— throughout more agencies.
The company has received more than $113 million in federal government spending since Trump took office, including additional funds from existing contracts as well as new contracts with the Department …

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

Mamdani follows in AOC’s footsteps,
having defeated an entrenched figure of the establishment with grassroots progressive support.
So this was a sweet moment.
Mamdani has received supportive words from both Senator Chuck Schumer…
And Governor Kathy Hochul…
Hopefully, formal endorsements are forthcoming.
An unintended, but hopeful consequence of Mamdani’s win is that, at 33 years old, he has inspired other young people to want to run for office themselves.…

Good News For Progressive Views The Week Of 6/20-6/26
On Tuesday, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani shocked New York politics by defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for NYC mayor.

Democrats have an age problem
House Republicans managed to pass their draconian budget bill,
-- which promises to make massive cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and food assistance,
-- early Thursday morning by a narrow one-vote margin
💥that was only possible due the deaths of three Democrats in this current Congress. 
The latest Democrat to pass away was 75-year-old Representative Gerry Connolly of Virginia, who died on Wednesday after battling esophageal cancer.

Republicans Pass Horrid Tax Bill Thanks to Democrats Dying in Office
Republicans passed their terrible tax bill by one vote. Guess how many Democrats died in office this year.