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Trump obliterating USAID,
the Dept of Education, and CFPB,
plus arbitrarily refusing to pay appropriations to states, cities, and grant recipients,
should all have been non-starters
—but SCOTUS jumped in to make clear the laws passed by Congress don't matter.
https://bsky.a…

Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social)
I will once again remind folks that a very sizable chunk of what looks like Congress not doing anything to push back against the president is in fact a consequence of the Court disabling/destroying all the ways Congress has tried to push back.

NYC-based Pace, whose AI agents automate back-office operations for insurance companies, raised a $46M series B led by Thrive and Sequoia at a $375M valuation (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026

Thrive And Sequoia Back Pace With $46 Million To Automate Insurance’s Back Office
Thrive and Sequoia have invested $46 million into Pace, a startup that says its AI agents can handle the dull work insurers have long shipped to offshore operators.

learn 👇
https://ridero.ru/books/energii_neproyavlennogo_mira_1/freeText/
(English in alt text)

Et alors… ?

The brand-new 360-or-so-page book "Testing Einstein: One Hundred Years of Experimental #Relativity" is completely open access as a series of PDF files at https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/6160/Testing-EinsteinOne-Hundred-Years-of-Experimental (and talking about OA science & tech books: at https://www.nasa.gov/history/history-publications-and-resources/nasa-history-series/ NASA has countless more).

I should buy a boa– i mean, meow!

Fonoa, which helps enterprises manage indirect tax compliance, raised a $110M Series C led by Headline and acquired PwC's Indirect Tax Edge platform (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/05/28/fonoa-110m-pwc-tax-platform-buy…

Exclusive: Fonoa raises $110M, buys PwC tax platform
Global tax compliance is becoming real-time, creating risk for cross border sellers.

Left-wing Democratic primary wins pose a test for a Jeffries speakership
There are warning signs for Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries,
-- who already faces frustration from the Democratic base that he is not fighting back hard enough against Trump.
If Democrats win only a narrow majority in the heavily gerrymandered chamber in November,
it will give each vote outsize importance
and Jeffries critics more opportunities to influence policy.
Two of the thr…

Left-wing Democratic primary wins pose a test for a Jeffries speakership
If Democrats win back the House, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York could face a restive caucus.

OFF UR BACK

From the basement of the Sandusky library, page 29 of the book Sandusky of To-Day proclaims the town to be the
“largest fresh water fish market in the world”.
Two pages later, an image of the lake whitefish, referred to as “Sandusky’s pride”, takes up the entire page.
But the book was published in 1888.
Lake whitefish was a delicacy in this part of North America for centuries.
Indigenous communities centered their lives and traditions on the fish.
By the …

The Great Lakes’ most emblematic fish could be consigned to history books
A delicacy for centuries and a key part of Native tradition, the lake whitefish has seen its population crash. Researchers know why … but stopping it is another matter