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Ship $1 billion of Chinese goods straight to an American port, and the duty can run to several hundred million dollars.
Send the identical goods through Vietnam, Malaysia or Thailand, and most of that bill disappears.
Send them through Mexico wearing U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement paperwork that they have not earned, and the bill can disappear entirely.

Opinion | It Was a Great Scam While It Lasted
U.S. tariff rates are not for rent.

Malaysia implements total e-waste import ban to curb toxic trade https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/malaysia-implements-total-e-waste-import-ban-to-curb-toxic-trade/

Malaysia implements total e-waste import ban to curb toxic trade
In April 2026, Malaysia enacted an absolute ban on the import of electronic waste, moving to end its role as a primary destination for the world’s hazardous electrical and electronic scrap. The regulation aims to shutter a black market of illegal recycling yards that use falsified paperwork to smuggle toxic materials into the country, reports […]

Federal authorities investigating the Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar
seized the Democratic lawmaker’s phone
and have issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas,
including to some of her relatives, according to a person briefed on the inquiry.
The subpoenas were issued for a grand jury collecting evidence in Minnesota
as federal authorities probe potential fraud in Omar’s immigration paperwork,
said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymit…

Ilhan Omar’s phone seized and relatives subpoenaed in criminal inquiry, source says
Federal authorities issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas in inquiry into potential immigration fraud

TFW the plumber's paperwork gives an email address "first_last@yahoo.com".
"Well, I got this email thingie back in 1997, set it up and forgot about the details, and it still works. I ain't touching that!"

Sources: Kalshi plans to seek US regulatory approval to start offering single-stock perpetual futures; Coinbase filed similar regulatory paperwork last week (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/kalshi-looks-to-expand-a-rapi…

The federal investigation that prompted the search of
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. residence on Monday
centers on claims that she or her late father may have lied on decades-old immigration paperwork to secure legal status and eventually U.S. citizenship,
three people familiar with the matter said.

Omar — a Minnesota Democrat who was born in Somalia and fled civil war there with her family before eventually immigrating to the United States in 1995
— has repeatedly rej…

U.S. probe of Rep. Ilhan Omar focuses on birth date, citizenship papers, people familiar say
The Department of Homeland Security declined to move forward with an investigation years ago based on similar allegations, said one person, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss information that has not been made public.

Running old photos from the control room today -- heading off-grid for a week later this month I also need to catch up on corporate identity, paperwork, sysadmin, R&D and whatnot
#photo #photography #selfie

Outmarket, which uses AI to help insurance agencies and brokers automate their tedious paperwork, raised a $34.5M Series B, a source says at a $335M valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/insuretech-outmarket-…

Insuretech Outmarket raises $34.5M just months after prior round | TechCrunch
The startup uses AI to automate tedious paperwork for insurance agencies and brokers.

“We live a double life. During the day, I deal with paperwork. At night, I shoot down drones,”
said Oleksandr, a lawyer, standing beside his truck-mounted machine gun in a field outside Kyiv.
“It’s a strange duality. With time you get used to it.”
But warfare in Ukraine evolves at extraordinary speed
and units such as Mriya are struggling to keep up.
Since the summer, Russia has increasingly deployed jet-powered drones that crews say can travel at about 600km/h …

‘A life-or-death race’: the volunteers protecting Kyiv’s skies from new jet-powered drones
Russia’s latest weapons have left Ukraine’s civilian air defence teams frantically trying to adapt as winter approaches

Working on the bass tab for _Battle With Magus_, mostly because the song is awesome and partly because I've caught up on all the paperwork for the new job. Also might be a smidge of time signature changes...
#chronoTrigger #bassTablature

Was reviewing my Medicare part B paperwork and noticed the primary care provider has used this "low level of decision making if using tim 99213"
I'm scratching my head and my wife is making demented nerb jokes.
But it turns out that is just code for a routine office visit with no special problems noted.
That could be worded better!!

i left a couple mixtapes and a tape player at the post office prepaid counter (to be received with surprise by someone i barely know who least expects it 🤪 )
#mixtape #cassette #cassettetapes

The government agency that administers Medicaid has created a new criterion,
‘medically frail,’
which must be met to qualify for the program without working
— even if you only have weeks to live.
It didn’t exist prior to the passage of the "Big Beautiful Bill".
Before that landmark legislation was signed into law, Medicaid was primarily a means-tested program,
accessible to those with low enough incomes to qualify.
But the new rule means even…

Trump wants to deny healthcare to impoverished cancer patients. Welcome to the great American cruelty regime.
A new Medicaid rule could leave poor Americans with cancer, HIV, and other serious illnesses fighting paperwork instead of fighting for their lives.

If you're a resident of California, make a DROP request.
(That's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform).
This one bit of paperwork lets you tell every data broker registered in the state of California that you'd like them to delete your information from their databases and request they stop selling and sharing your information. 
Head to the California Privacy Protection Agency's DROP website to start your request.
Before you start, there are a few piece…

Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP)
The free and fast tool that helps Californians delete the information data brokers have about them.

Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/us/politics/snap-food-stamps-arizona.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260721/p1#a260721p1