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Cowboys Ryan Flournoy Trade Proposal Makes No Sense for Dallas https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-ryan-flournoy-trade-proposal-makes-no-sense-dallas

Members of #Codeberg decided to ban repositories that uses #ai:
"You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools [...]. Such projects having an unclear copyright status [...] and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include h…

WATCH: Brock Bowers leaves longtime GF Cameron Rose Newell in tears with surprise emotional proposal https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-watch-brock-bowers-leaves-longtime-gf-cameron-rose-newell-tears-surprise-emotio…

EU project proposals have become a bureaucratic endurance test.
The application process is painfully long, the evaluations often opaque, and rejection letters can feel almost dismissive. Even when a proposal succeeds, far too much of the budget disappears into compliance, coordination, reporting, controls, and audits.
When roughly 60% of resources go to administration rather than impact, something is fundamentally broken.
Europe cannot afford to turn innovation into paperwo…

Bus cap proposal ‘throws global south countries under the bus’, says ActionAid UK director.
Funding bus fare cap from aid budget will hit world’s poorest, Burnham told | Transport policy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/

Bus fare cap coming from aid budget will hit world’s poorest, Burnham told
Funding proposal for cost of living policy ‘throws global south countries under the bus’, says ActionAid UK director

"A staffer at the Maine SOS office said more than 12,000 signatures supporting the measure’s inclusion should be invalidated, because signature gatherers did not adhere to collection procedures, according to the Maine Morning Star. If those signatures are rejected, the proposal would fall below the threshold required to appear on ballots this November."
Maine conservatives’ anti-trans ballot measure push unraveling after signature controversy | Advocate.com
https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/maine-bathroom-ban-ballot-invalidated

GLAAD and more than 40 advocacy groups submit a public comment calling the FCC's proposed LGBTQ TV warning label "unnecessary, unhelpful and discriminatory" (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/publ

GLAAD, Human Rights Campaign Oppose FCC's Potential New LGBTQ ‘Warning Label’
More than 40 advocacy groups warn that the FCC's latest LGBTQ+ TV proposal would be "unnecessary, unhelpful and discriminatory"

"The Extractive Midwest"
Call for Proposals
for Edited Volume
Proposal Deadline: 30 August 2026
https://niche-canada.org/2026/06/08/call-for-proposals-the-extractive-midwest/

Call for Proposals - The Extractive Midwest
Proposals should examine the relationship between extraction in its manifold forms and the history of the Midwest, broadly defined.

Design G suggests the most modern, banknote-looking front sides for the future #Euro banknotes. Though, I really don't like the corporate-like vector stock images on the backs.
Design B, on the other hand, features very clean and informative illustrations of the European institutions' buildings on the backs. Architecture and banknotes are a dream team. Though, I'm not a fan of th…

This Cowboys-Vikings trade proposal is necessary with Jordyn Brooks off the table https://fansided.com/nfl/this-cowboys-vikings-trade-proposal-necessary-with-jordyn-brooks-off-table

The Trump administration is advancing plans to resettle an additional 10,000 white South Africans in the United States as refugees.
Under Trump’s proposal, which was submitted to Congress on Monday, the U.S. would lift its record-low refugee admissions figure from 7,500 to 17,500,
with the additional openings reserved for Afrikaners.
This comes as the administration continues to block the entry of refugees from other countries.
The U.S. has resettled just over 6,000 …

“Clear Racism”: Trump Admin Blocks Refugee Resettlement, Except for White South Africans
The Trump administration is advancing plans to resettle an additional 10,000 white South Africans in the United States as refugees. Under President Trump’s proposal, which was submitted to Congress on Monday, the U.S. would lift its record-low refugee admissions figure from 7,500 to 17,500, with the additional openings reserved for Afrikaners. This comes as the administration continues to block the entry of refugees from other countries. The U.S. has resettled just over 6,000 refugees between…

A profile of Sarah Polcz, the UC Davis law professor that Bernie Sanders' team consulted while developing his AI sovereign wealth fund proposal (Eli Rosenberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/law-professor-behind-…

The Law Professor Behind Bernie’s AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Idea
A couple of weekends ago, Sarah Polcz, a University of California, Davis, law professor, and her husband, Adam Brown, a top scientist at Google’s DeepMind, hosted a party at their Portola Valley home that had all the trappings of a geeky good time. One guest piloted a drone that rained down ice ...

Green Card Holders Face 75% Citizenship Fee Increase Under New DHS Proposal (Newsweek)
https://www.newsweek.com/naturalization-fee-increase-dhs-proposed-rule-12104025
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p77#a260622p77

Proposal for alternative text attribute for video poster images:
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12585
From @…:

Enable Responsive Images and Alternative Text for HTML Video Poster Images by scottjehl · Pull Request #12585 · whatwg/html
This proposal follows "Approach 1" in #10378 to: Add a new HTML video element posterfromimg attribute, opting a video element into allowing a child img element to govern poster image sel...

"Europe’s most effective tool to cut greenhouse gas emissions ‘risks being weakened’"
#Europe #Emissions #Climate

Europe’s most effective tool to cut greenhouse gas emissions ‘risks being weakened’
European Commission proposal to overhaul emissions trading system would give companies less demanding pathway to reductions

Trade Proposal Has Raiders Land Disgruntled $120 Million WR https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/brandon-aiyuk-trade-rumors-49ers-br/

Themis Consensus Extension v1: MEV Mitigation by Randomized Delayed Execution and Intent-Hiding Transactions in Application-Specific Blockchains
Shoeb Siddiqui, Mateusz Nowakowski, Stanislav Vozarik, Gleb Urvanov, Peter Kris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21406 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.21406 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.21406
arXiv:2607.21406v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Maximal extractable value (MEV) arises when privileged participants select, exclude, insert, or reorder pending transactions for private gain. We specify and analyze the Themis Consensus Extension v1, first published by Mangata in 2021. The design separates value extraction by reordering (VER) from value extraction by denial (VED). For VER, block construction and execution occur across consecutive producers: one producer commits a transaction set, and the next derives a publicly verifiable, deterministic, previously un- predictable seed and executes a seed-determined, dependency-preserving permutation. For selective VED, a user may encrypt a transaction for a designated builder and executor. The builder removes an outer layer and commits the opaque inner ciphertext; the executor reveals and executes the plaintext only after commitment. Under selfish but non-colluding validators, an adversary below the underlying consensus fault threshold, secure cryptography, and accountable role performance, the construction limits unilateral post-commit ordering control and hides transaction intent from relays and the builder. It does not provide send-order or receive-order fairness, complete censorship resistance, resistance to builder-executor collusion, or per-transaction price guarantees. We analyze probabilistic extraction, spam, dependent transactions, decryption liveness, session boundaries, total denial, and threshold coalitions. We also document the initial Aura-based Substrate implementation and its subsequent transition to a BABE-based sr25519/VRF seed path, together with delayed execution, Fisher-Yates shuffling, and Xoshiro256 . The result preserves the original proposal while narrowing its claims to explicit assumptions.
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What If the Universe Had No Beginning? Part 4: The Reckoning
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/what-if-the-universe-had-no-beginning-part-4-the-reckoning

US rejects new Iranian proposal to end war: Report (Tara Suter/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5883535-iran-peace-proposal-rejected/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p98#a260518p98

Shock??? If you're experiencing shock, you've been living under a rock since at least 2016.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/20/trump-grant-funding-attack-scientists

‘Complete shock and dismay’: scientists unite against Trump’s $1tn grant attack
OMB proposal would upend entire grant-making system – and put vast sums into hands of political appointees

@… Thanks for the reference!
If your business proposal is selling “metered intelligence,” ideally in an oligopoly, you’ll fight anything that could threaten this goal by any means necessary…

@… Thanks for the reference!
If your business proposal is selling “metered intelligence,” ideally in an oligopoly, you’ll fight anything that could threaten this goal by any means necessary…

"Former Turkish PM & Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s proposal to establish a joint maritime security force—composed of Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey—to secure and temporarily administer the waterway offers this alternative precisely. By leveraging the unique reservoir of political trust these specific nations enjoy ... this formula provides a pragmatic, honor-saving way out of the current quagmire."
Can the Davutoglu "Middle Powers Plan" Reopen Hormuz?
https://www.juancole.com/2026/05/davutoglu-middle-powers.html

De USA is niet alleen de grootste veroorzaker van klimaatverandering, de huidige regering werkt voorstellen van landen die daar iets aan proberen te doen, in dit geval Vanuatu ook actief en agressief tegen.
Avaaz, wie anders, voert een internationale handtekeningenactie die daar weer tegenin gaat.
Teken en deel!

Don't let Trump drown our future
He’s trying to force governments to reject a key climate proposal. Speak up now!

Samsung Electronics rejects a labor union-accepted mediation proposal, raising the prospect of a workers' strike; a general work stoppage will proceed on May 21 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05…

Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Proposal to Protect Puppies in Florida https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2025/governor-ron-desantis-announces-proposal-protect-puppies-florida

Swiss vote against proposal to cap population at 10 million by cutting migration, projections say - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20ygjem17zo

Swiss vote against proposal to cap population at 10 million by cutting migration, projections say
Not all votes have been counted, but the current trend suggests 55% of participants voted against the proposal.

When the power of love beats the love of power the ‌world knows peace.
I proposed to @… in the middle of the ice skating rink in Rockefeller Square, then went to Empire State Building.
Congratulations to Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus.

Two people arrested in apparent marriage proposal atop Empire State Building
Pair also unfurled a large black banner displaying a message of peace on top of New York City landmark

from my link log —
A proposed fix for C/C relaxed atomics in practice.
https://lukegeeson.com/blog/2023-10-17-A-Proposal-For-Relaxed-Atomics/
saved 2023-11-05

Terrestrial #SpaceWeather Protection Through Human-Produced Mass-Loading: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025SW004846 -> "The results demonstrate that with modern technology, the intensity of a major geomagnetic storm [...] could be actively reduced by 50% or more, protecting technology and human life" -> Radical proposal would block solar storms with orbital ‘airbag’: https://www.science.org/content/article/radical-proposal-would-block-solar-storms-orbital-airbag

Inside the Trump administration’s rapid rollback of gun regulations
An ATF proposal would allow people to buy guns even if they have been deemed unfit to handle Social Security or Veterans benefits,
with officials saying that someone being deemed incompetent to handle their finances does not mean that they cannot responsibly handle firearms.

The proposal would also clarify that people who are involuntarily committed to a mental health institution would be barred from own…

Inside the Trump administration’s rapid rollback of gun regulations
There’s been win after win for the nation’s most ardent gun rights groups, but backers of tighter limits say the push could endanger the public.

Is no one reading the article? Bernie's proposal is for the government to seize ownership of 50% of these companies, not buy it. It's a wonderful idea. #USPol #UBI

RE: https://toad.social/@KimPerales/116567664078107026
We all knew the Terminator movies were a fictional version of the takeover of AI, but fans rejected the historically-accurate plot proposal for being too boring

Towards Relating Ciao Assertions and LPTP Theorems
Marco P\'erez (IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain), Pedro L\'opez-Garc\'ia (IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain), Jose F. Morales (IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain), Manuel V. Hermenegildo (IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain), Fred Mesnard (Universit\'e de La R\'eunion)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20249 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20249 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20249
arXiv:2607.20249v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Abstract interpretation-based verification is a central component of the Ciao Prolog system, enabling expressive specifications of properties of programs, predicates, and execution states. Independently, the LPTP (Logic Programming Theorem Proving) framework offers a first-order logical formalism for expressing and proving properties of predicates. In this paper, we address a fundamental issue in relating these two frameworks: studying the translation of Ciao assertions into LPTP formulae and identifying a partial correspondence between assertion-based and logic-based specifications. We introduce a systematic translation scheme, characterize assertion classes according to their logical encodability, and propose approximation strategies and auxiliary constructs for non-translatable cases, and finally analyze the resulting soundness and completeness trade-offs. We argue that our proposal enables a tight integration of Ciao's assertion checking with LPTP-based deductive verification, thereby leveraging their complementary capabilities.
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Given how Zug has become crypto central, it would have been genuinely funnier if they'd set the cap at 21 million.

The CfP of code.talks is still open - the first-wave deadline closes May 31.
And an older version of the person in this picture is curator - send us your talk proposal, and hopefully see you in Hamburg Nov 4/5!
https://codetalks.com/call-for-paper

BBC: US officials present proposal where 3 new military bases in Greenland will be "formally designated as US sovereign territory." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx21669452lo
To agree to that formulation would probably be as close as you can get to political suicide -…

US in closely guarded talks to open new bases in Greenland
Negotiations have progressed in recent months, according to multiple officials familiar, with the White House optimistic of reaching a deal.

New Iran peace proposal triggers tense Trump-Netanyahu call (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/20/trump-netanyahu-call-iran-peace-plan
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p105#a260520p105

Given Sam Altman's description of the government as the 'insurer of last resort' who will bail out the industry when it fails, I think Bernie Sander's proposal to nationalise the US 'AI' industry is spot on. https://www.reuters.com/commentary/reuter…

The Dissociated Universe: Bernardo Kastrup’s Analytic Idealism and the Mind That Contains the World
This essay completes a sequence. The first article considered Iain McGilchrist's panpsychist proposal that matter is a phase of consciousness, the way ice and vapor are phases of water. Its companion examined Daniel Dennett's illusionism, which argued that consciousness as we ordinarily conceive it is a user illusion the brain stages for itself. The third position, the…

The Dissociated Universe: Bernardo Kastrup’s Analytic Idealism and the Mind That Contains the World | David Boles, Blogs
This essay completes a sequence. The first article considered Iain McGilchrist’s panpsychist proposal that matter is a phase of consciousness, the way ice and vapor are phases of water. Its c…

RE: https://gruene.social/@jon/116567764912688041
Many thanks to Jon for his tireless efforts to improve cross-border rail travel in Europe. Here are his specific improvements to the – rather disappointing – proposal from the European Commission. As a frequent i…

Feature-Guided Diffusion for Non-Differentiable Inverse Rendering
Andrei-Timotei Ardelean, Michael Fischer, Tim Weyrich, Tom\'a\v{s} Iser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17411 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.17411 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.17411
arXiv:2607.17411v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Inverse rendering is traditionally solved via differentiable renderers and gradient descent, which requires substantial problem-specific engineering and is prone to getting stuck in local minima due to ambiguities. Derivative-free approaches alleviate engineering requirements, but often heavily depend on a good problem initialization. In this work, we propose Feature-Informed Diffusion Evolution (FIDE), a fully black-box framework that requires no gradients or specific initialization: the renderer is treated as an opaque function whose only requirement is to produce images. Our key insight is feature guiding: rather than reducing each candidate rendering to a scalar loss value, we use a Vision Transformer (ViT) to extract dense visual features from it. We subsequently use these features to train a diffusion-based candidate proposal model, allowing the network to use visual cues to predict parameters that would match the target image. The candidate solutions proposed by this diffusion model are then refined in a closed loop with a CMA evolution strategy, continuously narrowing the proposal region as optimization progresses. We validate across diverse inverse problems from path tracing, vector splines, Voronoi shaders, and robotics, and demonstrate that feature-guiding substantially improves convergence over scalar-loss baselines and reliably escapes local minima where gradient-based methods stall.
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#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Californians: call Gavin Newsom to save Cap & Invest Transit & Housing Funding!
916-445-2841
"Hi, my name is ____ and I'm a resident of ____.  I'm calling to urge you to tell your CARP appointees to vote no on the cap and invest proposal. The proposal gives billions to oil companies and guts funding for public transit, affordable housing, and clean air and clean water programs. This matters speaks to me because [speak from your heart about why you care]. Thank …

#ReleaseFriday Triggered by a recent feature proposal[1], I went ahead and polished & published a closely related, already work-in-progress (but still private) feature in https://thi.ng/rdom to support something I c…

Boy, why don't our legislators understand that we can't get adequate profits if we don't exploit the workers? Why, the average REIT is barely paying investors a 7% return per year, and doing better than 12% is very rare. /s (Based on past 3 years data)
Friend turned foe? Travel industry faces off with Matt Haney over labor bill | The San Francisco Standard

Friend turned foe? Travel industry faces off with Matt Haney over labor bill
Investment trusts own hotels but don’t get to run them. A proposal by the assemblymember aims to ensure they can’t have it both ways.

Boy, why don't our legislators understand that we can't get adequate profits if we don't exploit the workers? Why, the average REIT is barely paying investors a 7% return per year, and doing better than 12% is very rare. /s (Based on past 3 years data)
Friend turned foe? Travel industry faces off with Matt Haney over labor bill | The San Francisco Standard

Friend turned foe? Travel industry faces off with Matt Haney over labor bill
Investment trusts own hotels but don’t get to run them. A proposal by the assemblymember aims to ensure they can’t have it both ways.

"the Financial Times reported that Trump has suggested to Xi that the United States, China and Russia “co-operate against the International Criminal Court (ICC),” the only intergovernmental organization with the authority to prosecute individuals for certain crimes, including genocide and crimes against humanity."
Onlookers floored as Trump's astounding proposal to Xi revealed: 'Of course he did' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-xi-2676912260/

Cowboys Urged to Sign DeAndre Hopkins in Head-Scratching Proposal https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-urged-sign-deandre-hopkins-head-scratching-proposal

The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech companies scan for CSAM, reviving a proposal rejected in March, with an exemption for E2EE services like WhatsApp (Sam Clark/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-conservatives-revive-zo…

Europe’s conservatives revive zombie bill on child abuse scanning
Top-level pressure and obscure procedures breathe new life into a controversial proposal to allow scanning for online child sexual abuse material.

I love it when a plan comes together… The @… has approved my Scientific Exchanges proposal “Models and Narratives: Computational and Historical Thinking in Dialogue,” so I now look forward to spending 6 months in #Brussels working on the theory and epistemology …

Happy to learn our seed grant proposal to bioleach REEs from #NorthDakota lignite is accepted. ND State / U of ND / ND Geological Survey (NDGS) collab. Great way to start the summer! ⚒️🧪

Hundreds of millions of dollars for securing the White House ballroom cannot be included in a Republican spending bill as currently written,
the Senate parliamentarian ruled Saturday.

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s proposed immigration enforcement bill includes $1 billion for security measures related to what the administration calls the
“East Wing Modernization Project”
— which includes President Donald Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom
— and other …

Hundreds of millions of dollars for Trump’s ballroom ruled out of order in Senate
The Senate parliamentarian determined that a proposal to fund $1 billion for White House security cannot be included as written.

@… I am hoping the SEC proposed this only because Trump talked about it, and now with major industry pushback the proposal will die a quiet death.

Ted Lieu slams bipartisan AI proposal (Riley Rogerson/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/09/congress/lieu-slams-ai-proposal-00954452
http://www.memeorandum.com/260609/p109#a260609p109

Cowboys insider sparks chaos with bold Maxx Crosby trade proposal https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/03/cowboys-insider-sparks-chaos-with-bold-maxx-crosby-trade-proposal/

Making cancer great again:
RFK Jr withdraws proposal banning teens from tanning beds as skin experts warn of cancer risks | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-tanning-beds-teenagers-proposal-b2971873.html

Interesting proposal on splitting the single German bidding zone: joining the North with western Denmark.
What I find appealing about it (alongside the reality of ⚡ flows): a smaller role for national politics, whilst strengthening pan-European planning and independent regulatory oversight.

Vorstoß für gemeinsame Stromzone mit Westdänemark

Jerry Jones would only trade George Pickens if Cowboys season goes sideways https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-george-pickens-chiefs-trade-rumors-2026/10ee42941f00cc99e4b5c898…

BonkDAO, which oversees the Bonk memecoin, says it was the target of a "malicious governance proposal" that resulted in a loss of $20M worth of Bonk tokens (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/407343/bonkda…

Virginia State Supreme Court Strikes Down Dem Redistricting Proposal (Khaya Himmelman/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/virginia-state-supreme-court-strikes-down-dem-redistricting-proposal
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p42#a260508p42

House Speaker Mike Johnson is hoping to get all of his members on board a new reconciliation package and pass it next week.
House Republican leaders released the text of their $95 billion third reconciliation bill on Wednesday morning and aim to pass it next week.
The bill provides $10 billion to the House Administration Committee to give in grants to implement the SAVE Act -- a voter ID bill that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote.
It directs $60 bill…

House Republicans Outline $95 Billion Reconciliation Package
The proposal includes money for defense and provisions to require proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

Micron-Scale #Technosignatures - How a Cubic Metre of Lunar Regolith May Begin to Constrain the Number of Past Technological Civilisations in the Galaxy: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24028 -> "Building on Arkhipov's proposal that technogenic artefacts may survive natural interstellar transport and accumulate on airless Solar System bodies, we examine the prospects for identifying micron-scale engineered particulate material within the lunar regolith. We analyse the transport of micron and submicron grains through the interstellar medium, including gas drag, sputtering, and ISM phase-dependent survival, and show that refractory particles with characteristic radii of order 0.3 microns may traverse kiloparsec scales over residence times of 0.1-1 Gyr."

New Trade Proposal Has Raiders Give up on Jackson Powers-Johnson https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jackson-powers-johnson-trade-seahawks/

Ah, yes - #MayorLurie and his cronies 100% support the #Abundance hypothesis. Why are they so fond of the #RentierEconomy? Maybe when you can afford market rate prices, it'll work for you? But it …

SF was headed for Mamdani-style grocery stores. Those plans have been spiked
Supervisor Bilal Mahmood introduced a proposal last month to fund affordable grocery stores, but last minute political wrangling has effectively nixed it.

Ah, yes - #MayorLurie and his cronies 100% support the #Abundance hypothesis. Why are they so fond of the #RentierEconomy? Maybe when you can afford market rate prices, it'll work for you? But it …

SF was headed for Mamdani-style grocery stores. Those plans have been spiked
Supervisor Bilal Mahmood introduced a proposal last month to fund affordable grocery stores, but last minute political wrangling has effectively nixed it.

I love it when a plan comes together… The @… has approved my Scientific Exchanges proposal “Models and Narratives: Computational and Historical Thinking in Dialogue,” so I now look forward to spending 6 months in #Brussels working on the theory and epistemology …

I love it when a plan comes together… The @… has approved my Scientific Exchanges proposal “Models and Narratives: Computational and Historical Thinking in Dialogue,” so I now look forward to spending 6 months in #Brussels working on the theory and epistemology …

Bizarre proposal to cut all federal funding for tribal colleges and universities - extra ironic for #NorthDakota, as the Secretary of the Interior is the former ND governor, Burgum 🧪

Iran submits 14-point response to U.S. proposal to end war : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/02/nx-s1-5808924/iran-response-trump-proposal

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the bloc is set to propose a "social media start date for minors", with a proposal after a summer break (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b3d94d79-e045-40bd-a1f3-4df0c365ce9a…

Iran submits 14-point response to U.S. proposal to end war (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/02/nx-s1-5808924/iran-response-trump-proposal
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p60#a260502p60

How might Congress depoliticize the Court, should the Democrats ever take control?
There is a proposal that should be harder to demagogue than expanding the size of the court,
although Congress has already fiddled with the size of the Court seven,
no eight, times.
That proposal would be creating staggered terms plus 18-year limits
which also constrains the number of nominees any president could make.
Would it surprise you to learn that no other major democr…

Cowboys Ryan Flournoy Trade Proposal Makes No Sense for Dallas https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-ryan-flournoy-trade-proposal-makes-no-sense-dallas

Trade Proposal Has Raiders Land Former 49ers First-Round Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/mykel-williams-maxx-crosby-trade-49ers/

Fox's deranged reaction to NYC Mayor Mamdani's affordable housing proposal | Media Matters for America
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-deranged-reaction-nyc-mayor-mamdanis-affordable-housing-proposal

Iran Offers Reply to US Peace Plan as Hormuz Crisis Rages On (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-10/iran-submitted-response-to-us-peace-plan-proposal-irna-reports
http://www.memeorandum.com/260510/p16#a260510p16

Switzerland’s right-wing SVP party is urging voters to “send a clear signal” to policymakers to curb what it calls “overwhelming” population growth.
If Swiss voters back the population curb proposal, the country’s Federal Council and parliament will have to roll out measures to curb population growth until 2050.
Immigration systems would be tightened if the population exceeded 9.5 million at any point over the next 24 years,
with asylum and family reunification programs fir…

Switzerland is voting on whether to cap its population at 10 million. Here's what to know
Switzerland votes on a population cap that could tighten immigration and put its EU free-movement agreement under pressure.

FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears (Ken Macon/Reclaim The Net)
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-fcc-wants-your-id-before-you-get-a-phone-numbe…

The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number
The FCC just proposed fixing your robocall problem by building the kind of phone-user registry that privacy advocates have spent decades trying to prevent.

US strikes Iranian oil tankers while awaiting Tehran response on peace plan (Leonie Cater/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-forces-strike-iran-oil-tankers-while-waiting-tehran-peace-proposal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p21#a260509p21

Interest in a gasoline tax holiday is growing on Capitol Hill following President Donald Trump’s endorsement earlier Monday
— but the proposal is also facing pushback from some key Republicans balking at cutting a major source of federal funding.
High energy prices stemming from the ongoing conflict in the Middle East prompted Trump to suggest pausing fuel tax collections
“till it’s appropriate.”
He said, “It’s a small percentage, but it’s still money.”
Sen. Jos…

Middle East crisis live: Iranian state media reports that US destroyers have been targeted near strait of Hormuz (Lucy Campbell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/may/07/middle-east-crisis-iran-trump-us-negotiations-deal-war-peace-proposal-hormuz-latest-news-updates
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p95#a260507p95

Anyone truly interested in negotiation would at minimum try to find one smidgen of common ground...
Trump rejects Iran peace proposal as Tehran vows to confront 'enemies'
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/iran-war-trump-negotiation-hormuz-nuclear-talks.html

Key Democrats urge House to reject kids' safety proposal (Gabby Miller/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/26/congress/key-democrats-urge-lawmakers-to-reject-the-houses-kosa-proposal-00978748
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p121#a260626p121

Trump wants to help ‘forgotten American workers’ retire.
Don’t be fooled.
Details remain in flux, but support is building for creating new after-tax savings accounts for working Americans who do not have an employer-sponsored retirement plan.
If the accounts are modeled on a bipartisan proposal in Congress,
those who earn less than the national median income would be automatically enrolled in the plans and would receive matching funds from the government.

An estima…

Trump wants to help ‘forgotten American workers’ retire. Don’t be fooled.
The proposal ignores how people save money and does nothing to save Social Security.

An EU draft proposal dated June 30 shows the bloc is weighing weaker climate impact rules for gas-powered data centers, after heavy lobbying from tech groups (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/21358a9a-b93b-443c-8a68-6fed89c8b3a6

Iran mediators push new ceasefire as Trump eyes all-out war (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/iran-war-ceasefire-proposal-trump-troops
http://www.memeorandum.com/260721/p3#a260721p3

The Trump administration moved to further limit legal immigration Thursday
with a new proposal that would place more restrictions on who can work legallyin the United States and for how long.
In a yet unpublished Federal Register filing, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it was looking to tighten rules around work authorizations,
known as EADs,
-- particularly for those with humanitarian parole and non-DACAdeferred status,
as well as those facing po…

US Visa Update: Nearly 1M Migrants Could Face New Work Permit Restrictions
The Trump administration said it was cutting the incentives for illegal immigration and giving Americans greater job security.

Senate Democrat proposes universal health care for children (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/5980026-sen-andy-kim-medikids-proposal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260721/p70#a260721p70

Another day, another hairpin turn in the world of Donald Trump’s foreign policy.
The weekend was all about war,
and Trump insisting Iran had not yet “paid a big enough price”.
Tuesday was Project Freedom,
styled as a grand “humanitarian gesture” to allow trapped ships and their crews to escape the Gulf,
but also aimed at weakening Iran’s chokehold on the strait of Hormuz.
By the early hours of Wednesday we were back to peace.
The president announced:…

Sources detail AI companies' engagement with US FERC as the energy regulator readies a June proposal to speed up data center connections to regional power grids (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/29/how-big-tech-learned-to-speak-ferc-009…

"The engineers spoke at a Seattle City Council meeting, where officials unanimously passed a proposal to limit new mega data center developments for one year."
Amazon engineers in Seattle slam employer for AI data amid layoffs
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/amazon-engineers-in-seattle-slam-employer-for-ai-data-amid-layoffs.html

Postal Service Issues Proposal to Block Mail Ballots in States That Don't Turn Over Data (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/politics/usps-mail-voting-democratic-resistance.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260611/p101#a260611p101

"Mail-in ballots could be more easily thrown out, under new NC proposal" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157525

The rulebooks that decide how your national forests get run, who gets a grazing permit, how a timber sale gets reviewed for damage to water and wildlife, what deadline you have to object before a decision goes final, aren’t written by Congress.
They’re written inside the Forest Service, in a system of manuals and handbooks most people never see.
And for decades, the law has treated the important parts of that system as public business, something the agency can’t change without …

Forest Service to Remove Your Voice from Public Lands Decisions
A new proposal would shrink the public’s right to comment on the rulebooks that govern grazing, logging, and permits across the national forests. Comment now.

Trump Is Dissatisfied With Iran's Plan to Reopen Strait of Hormuz (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/trump-iran-proposal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p9#a260428p9

Iran offers U.S. deal to reopen strait but postpone nuclear talks (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/27/iran-us-hormuz-strait-nuclear-talks-proposal-pakistan
http://www.memeorandum.com/260426/p77#a260426p77

G.O.P. Toiling to Defeat Proposal Barring Trump From Creating Compensation Fund (Annie Karni/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/politics/trump-payout-fund.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p73#a260604p73