Tootfinder

Hot on the heals of the last land grab on US National Park land, there is a proposal to build a number of 15,000 square foot mansions with a private access road in the Cumberland Island National Seashore.
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news

Economic dignity in old age should be a promise — not a luxury.
We must strengthen Social Security.
It is the only large program that guarantees seniors a fixed monthly payment until they die,
but it is expected to become insolvent in just over six years.
That means raising taxes to shore it up.
And rather than encourage average Americans to sink their money into private equity funds and other exotic investments,
we should allow the Social Security Admini…

Opinion | This Trump Proposal is Good for Private Equity — and Not Good for Our Retirement Accounts
A win for private equity. A loss for our retirement assets.

Raiders Get Intriguing Trade Proposal for Bengals’ 18-Pressure DT https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/bengals-intriguing-trade-proposal-kris-jenkins/

#GW goes #LOD (via #wikidata) 👉

Democratic lawmakers are pushing a bill to disapprove of a nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia
in a bid to strike down the proposal during a three-month period of congressional review.
Democratic Reps. Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
along with Brad Sherman, John Garamendi and Don Beyer
introduced a Joint Resolution of Disapproval on Wednesday,
shortly before lawmakers left Washington to…

Democrats propose bill to strike down controversial Saudi nuclear deal
Congress has 90 days to review the agreement on nuclear energy projects.

Document: Samsung and SK Hynix rejected KEPCO's proposal to prepay ~$18.7B of chip cluster power bills, citing uncertainty over long-term chip demand (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/s…

Memo: Reach plans to cut ~220 editorial jobs, create 60 new roles, and close three online-only brands, as it shifts focus away from page views and volume (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-

Reach to cut editorial team by further 160 jobs as key metric becomes 'active engaged time'
Proposal also includes closure of Kent Live, Aberdeen Live and Galway Beo websites.

Cowboys Trade Proposal Lands Super Bowl Corner https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jerry-jones-trade-proposal-christian-gonzalez/

Also from Codeberg:
"You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as *Claude*, *OpenAI Codex*).
Such projects having an unclear copyright status and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code."

Merge pull request 'Proposal Assembly 2026: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions' (#1253) from gedankenstuecke/org:20260629-llm-proposal into main · 71149c7fc9
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday he wants to see
“dramatic reform” to the Supreme Court,
heeding a growing clamor within the Democratic Party for changes.

Speaking on “Meet the Press,” Jeffries said an overhaul could start with the creation of an ethical code of conduct for justices,
but he stopped short of backing a proposal popular with some Democrats to expand the number of justices on the court.

Jeffries said that Rep. Jamie Raskin (Maryland…

Hakeem Jeffries says he wants to see ‘dramatic reform’ of Supreme Court
Hakeem Jeffries supports aggressive changes to the Supreme Court.

Yay!
Today I had my talk for YAPC::Tokyo 2026 accepted! 🚀
Title: "What is an OSS Ecosystem Steward, and can we have one?"
Looks like I'll go on a trip! 😄
https://fortee.jp/yapc-tokyo-2026/proposal/71b322a4-14f5-42d9-bac6-18a995…

The #SantaBarbaraCounty Board of Supervisors took the first step of what promises to be a protracted and historic pivot to pull the plug on all onshore oil development anywhere in Santa Barbara County.
This Tuesday, the supervisors narrowly approved
— by a 3-2 vote —
⭐️a ban on any new onshore oil drilling. 
The last time a new drilling proposal was approved took place in…

OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House proposal, that would require AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/15/o

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

Lite version of New Municipalism proposal from Ballot Box Scotland in response to the Scottish Government's Programme for Government
https://newmunicipalism.ballotbox.scot/lite
A sensible-looking way to enhance democracy and accountability in Scotland.

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

Billionaire Mark Cuban Blasts 'Insane' Ro Khanna Wealth Tax Proposal (Felipe Marques/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-17/wealth-tax-mark-cuban-blasts-ro-khanna-for-proposing-founders-get-loan
http://www.memeorandum.com/260817/p77#a260817p77

Interesting proposal from Australia: 'The federal government's proposed digital duty of care could let Australians opt in or out of algorithmically recommended social media content.' https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/labour…

Australians could get the power to switch off social media algorithms
Labor wants to make social media platforms proactively reduce foreseeable harms while giving users control over whether algorithms shape their feeds. 

A design proposal for a five-euro note (€5) bank note
#MariaCallas

Vulkanised 2027 talk proposal for ngscopeclient submitted, wish me luck!

Codeberg is now disallowing cryptocurrency projects...
https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/commit/f383b648fd733ab88083dc390b91e77cd7589980
Hell Yeah!

Merge pull request 'Proposal for Assembly 2026: Disallow cryptocurrency projects' (#1254) from gusted/2026-assembly-cryptocurrency into main · f383b648fd
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254

The billionaire tax proposal in California is so controversial, and I wish they could’ve come to a compromise. Like maybe a billionaire tax, but with means-tested exemptions in case you’re a low-income billionaire. That would have gotten the billionaires on board, I bet.

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.

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."

Sources: Uber and Rapido discussed merging their India ride-hailing operations in May; talks collapsed after disagreements over the proposed deal's structure (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Uber, Rapido held talks to combine India ops; deal collapsed over control: sources
Uber and Rapido discussed merging their India ride-hailing operations in May, sources told us. Talks collapsed after disagreements over the proposed deal's structure. Uber sought to combine operations with Rapido running the combined entity while Rapido countered with an acquisition proposal which Uber rejected. The failed merger highlights intense competition in India's mobility market.

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…

These are human children, damn you, not units of production for your grey and soulless mills and offices. They should be playing, not being assessed, psychologically profiled and assigned to the optimal task to extract the maximum profit from them for your #kleptocrat masters.
This is a monstrous, abhorrent, inhuman proposal.

Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment
Exclusive: Neet crisis review to call for teachers to be asked to spot those at risk of leaving education jobless at 16

Mexico's media regulation proposal, under which officials determine whether news coverage is sufficiently true or balanced, sparks censorship fears (Jeronimo Gonzalez/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/20/2026/mexico-regulation-propo…

Mexico regulation proposal sparks censorship fears
Under the plan, officials would be able to determine whether news coverage was sufficiently true or balanced, with breaches potentially costing companies as much as 1% of their annual revenue.

A small proposal:
I propose that formally vowing to abjure certain harmful practices may be very good for you and the community around you, and if we treat it not as a lifestyle choice but an ethical stance comparable to Conscientious Objection ( the refusal to bear arms in war, as for example Quakers do) then it may have more legal protection and political force.
As an initial list of four deeply inconvenient practices to give up for the sake of yourself and all other living bei…

trust
"Because of the unusual procedure, voting in Strasbourg was confused and chaotic. One member told Parliament Vice President Sophie Wilmès: We don't know what we are voting on."
#chatcontrol

@… 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.

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.

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

Carney says Canada will decide its own partnerships after Trump calls EU proposal 'laughable' (Sam Meredith/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/17/carney-canada-eu-associate-member.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260917/p24#a260917p24

CADA: An (E)U-turn on AI regulation
https://fpf.org/blog/cada-an-eu-turn-on-ai-regulation/
@…
The new EU Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA)…

However two new problems came:
the nascent German V2G industry complains that the regulator’s latest proposal is limiting the viable business case: either V2G must be combined with solar and a stationary battery on top, or a second German ‘smart meter’ with all its costs and complexity is required
https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachthemen/ElektrizitaetundGas/ErneuerbareEnergien/EEG_Aufsicht/MiSpeL/start.html

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.

“Blanche formally withdraws Trump fund plan, ahead of AG confirmation vote”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w05gx32d4o
Meh, Trump hasn’t:
“Trump Threatens to Revive $1.8 Billion Fund for Allies Over Blanche Standoff”

Blanche withdraws Trump fund plan in writing, ahead of AG confirmation vote
Two Republican senators wanted a written guarantee that Trump would not revive a controversial proposal.

Just heard that NSF panels now cannot have anyone on panel from the same institution as any of the PI's. This is going to make assembling panels really challenging going forward. Folks with these conflicts used to be able to serve, but step out when a proposal from their institution was discussed.

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/

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

Were you aware of…
Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day, yesterday July 31st?
Or did you miss it like I did?
I was busy all day, turning in a book proposal to re-launch my #AccordionRevolution book with an audiobook version
So at least I was observing I guess
😊 @…

Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day | Days Of The Year
Take some time to research the many varied and unique instruments in the world, and consider picking up an uncommon instrument yourself to expand your horizons.

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…

Shelves, reading activity etc | decisions.joinbookwyrm.com
"Looking through our Issues log, one of the most consistent sources of both confusion and frustration seems to be both the user interface and the mental model for the related concepts of shelves and readthroughs."
-- Hugh
https://

Shelves, reading activity etc
Looking through our Issues log, one of the most consistent sources of both confusion and frustration seems to be both the user interface and the mental model for the related concepts of shelves and readthroughs.@Mouse has had a draft PR for this since 2022. We all seem to agree in principle that the current arrangement needs to be fixed, but whilst I personally agree with the gist of Mouse's proposal there (deprecate default/functional shelves completely and use ReadThroughs to hold all reading…

State tax incentives for film and TV production fail to generate much tax revenue or new jobs, experts say, casting doubt on a proposal for a federal incentive (Tosin Akintola/Reason)
https://reason.com/2026/09/03/state-film-subsidies-los…

State film subsidies lose money. Trump wants to try the idea nationally.
The president's proposal to further subsidize the film and TV industry is a solution in search of a problem.

“The quality of the assessed criterion is weak, meaning it is not challenging relative to the international standard in the scientific domain. Many weaknesses or flaws can be identified and deserve absolutely to be addressed.”
Unfortunately, that perfectly describes the proposal I just spent 3½ hours reviewing.
#ReviewerDuty

“The quality of the assessed criterion is weak, meaning it is not challenging relative to the international standard in the scientific domain. Many weaknesses or flaws can be identified and deserve absolutely to be addressed.”
Unfortunately, that perfectly describes the proposal I just spent 3½ hours reviewing.
#ReviewerDuty

“The quality of the assessed criterion is weak, meaning it is not challenging relative to the international standard in the scientific domain. Many weaknesses or flaws can be identified and deserve absolutely to be addressed.”
Unfortunately, that perfectly describes the proposal I just spent 3½ hours reviewing.
#ReviewerDuty

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

Epic v. Apple: Apple proposes commissions on US linked-out purchases of 15% for standard apps, 10% for partner programs and renewals, 5% for Small Business apps (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/13/apple-proposes-…

Apple proposes commissions of up to 15% for off-App Store purchases in the US - 9to5Mac
Apple has submitted its proposal for the fees it should be allowed to charge for purchases made outside of the App Store system in the Epic Games case.

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…

Inside Drake London's proposal to Sofia Gabay -- that included Taco Bell https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49489536/drake-london-atlanta-falcons-engagement-sofia-gabay-taco-bell

Carney houdt zijn rug recht.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/world/canada/carney-tariffs-trade-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7VA.7_kO.vlEtK4jvBTxD&smid=nytcore-android-shar…

Carney Slams U.S.-Canada Trade Proposal and Vows Retaliation
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a powerful speech to Canadians on Saturday morning, hours after ordering negotiators to suspend U.S. trade talks despite President Trump’s punishing tariffs.

"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…

"Tories accused of ‘living in fantasy land’ as party lays out plans to ditch net zero"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero

Tories accused of ‘living in fantasy land’ as party lays out plans to ditch net zero
Green campaigners branded the Conservative’s plan to ditch net zero as a proposal that ‘flies in the face of all the real-world evidence’

A proposal from Mexico's government would require ombudsmen for broadcasters, ethics codes, and more, under threat of sanctions; public comments close Friday (Silvia Higuera/LatAm Journalism Review)
https://latamjournalismreview.org/arti

Audience rights or media control? Government proposal sparks debate in Mexico
The proposed guidelines would impose new obligations and penalties on radio and TV broadcasters. Media outlets and experts warn they could lead to sanctions and censorship.

730 Stanyan, the affordable housing on the old Haight McDonald’s site, is complete! And it rises to eight stories instead of six thanks to @…, housing 20 more families than the original proposal.
Vote Yes on I to build more like this!

Spain proposes 23 new marine protected areas in the Canary Islands and Mediterranean https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/spain-proposes-23-new-marine-protected-areas-in-the-canary-islands-and-mediterranean/

Spain proposes 23 new marine protected areas in the Canary Islands and Mediterranean
The Spanish government has launched a consultation process to establish 23 new marine protected areas (MPAs) in Canary Islands waters and the Mediterranean Sea as part of efforts to meet a national commitment to protect 30% of its waters by 2030. The proposal, put forward by Spain’s Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic […]

There is no end to their evil.
#NeoNazis
Far-right Israeli minister outlines plan for removal of all Palestinians from Gaza | Israel | The Guardian
https://www.

Far-right Israeli minister outlines plan for removal of all Palestinians from Gaza
Itamar Ben-Gvir claims proposal for illegal forced displacement of 2 million people is ‘realistic’ and ‘concrete’

There's a fundamental clash between the granularity of digitised items online and traditional archival records. Delivering Archives and Digital Objects: a Conceptual Model (DadoCM) is an interesting proposal to bridge that gap https://dadocm.github.io/

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…

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…

The Accordionist (French: L’accordéoniste) is a 1911 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso
(Working on a book proposal to resubmit my #AccordionRevolution for a 2nd edition and got distracted by this classic painting)
https://

The Accordionist - Wikipedia

Flood of comments on White House grantmaking overhaul is largely negative, analysis shows (STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2026/07/15/trump-omb-grant-funding-proposal-comments-95-percent-opposed/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260715/p9#a260715p9

Today we’re talking about California’s Proposition 39,
a bid to turn Trump’s election conspiracy fantasies into California law,
and a proposal so disingenuous it’s caused Democratic legislators to sue the Democratic secretary of state in an attempt to stop the misinformation surrounding it.
As these lawsuits move forward and the November election rolls closer, we’re going to hear a lot about Proposition 39
— a measure that would require
in-person voters to pres…

Prop. 39 would turn Trump conspiracy into California law.
A legal fight has broken out around Proposition 39, a proposal to require voters to prove their citizenship at polls with ID. It's a partisan attempt to recycle the election conspiracy lies of President Donald Trump into California law -- and it has a chance of passing.

@… Good point. I haven't looked at the semi-annual reporting proposal, or the underlying statute, but I assume there is authority for this bad idea.

"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

@… 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…

The Trump administration has unrolled a plan to potentially restrict voting by mail
by placing new requirements on states,
just before the election.
That plan remains frozen by the courts, at least for now.
Since the administration announced the proposal, a legal fight over the plan has made its way through the federal courts.
The legal developments have been dizzying, confusing both voters and local officials.
But the legal fight may now be coming to a…

Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Is Coming to a Head. Here’s What to Know.
The administration’s plan to screen mail-in ballots remains blocked as the Supreme Court considers challenges to new U.S. Postal Service ballot rules.

Jerry Jones has one George Pickens question he can't escape https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/george-pickens-maxx-crosby-cowboys-trade-rumor/89c38e4ceac595a550202c98

BBC staff fear strike action inevitable as unions reject the corporation's proposal of a 1% or £500 pay increase, whichever is higher (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/01/bbc-staff-fear-strike-action-p…

BBC staff fear strike action inevitable after 1% pay rise offer prompts anger
Unions reject proposed below-inflation increase which comes as corporation prepares to cut thousands of jobs

For decades, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, known as DRL,
has supported  human rights in some of the most oppressive countries in the world.
Now, our reporting found,  it’s planning to direct funds to controversial groups supporting right-wing causes in Europe and elsewhere. 
Our full story lays out some of the groups the government has considered funding, which includea British free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion ther…

What Is the Trump Administration Doing With Foreign Aid Money?
The billions of dollars Congress has allocated for foreign aid programs must be spent. One proposal from the Trump administration suggested funding research on crime against Afrikaners in South Africa.

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

EU antitrust regulators sent publishers a questionnaire in July on Google's proposal to let them opt out of AI search without affecting search rankings (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/e…

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…

Under a new rule proposed by the Trump administration,
American scientists might be forced to watch groundbreaking discoveries from the sidelines.
The proposal would restrict international collaboration
and give political appointees the ability to decide the most important research to fund,
and the power to pull the plug at any time, for any reason.
As soon as he learned about the proposal, one of the U.S. scientists who took part in the landmark project which …

How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery
A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled that breakthrough.

Netanyahu Rejects Hamas Disarmament Proposal Touted by Trump (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-09/netanyahu-rejects-us-backed-proposal-for-hamas-disarmament
http://www.memeorandum.com/260809/p16#a260809p16

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.

Sources: Meta has submitted a proposal to Canada that includes a path to restoring news on its platforms but does not include payments to publishers (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/canada-playbook/2026/07/27/no-easy-way-out-01012410

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

From January 2026:
“Trump called me down to the Oval Office,” John Bolton, national security adviser in 2018, told the Guardian.
“He said a prominent businessman had just suggested the US buy Greenland.”
It was an extraordinary proposal. And it originated from a longtime friend of the president who would go on to acquire business interests in the Danish territory.
The businessman, Bolton learned, was Ronald Lauder.
Heir to a makeup fortune
– the global cosm…

How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory
US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island

The EPA plans to eliminate a federal rule that US states must publicize and solicit public input on air pollution permit applications for data centers (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/climate/epa-data-centers-public-comment.ht…

E.P.A. Moves to Curb Public Input on Air Pollution Permits for Data Centers
Under the proposal, states would no longer need to provide public notice or solicit comments on air pollution permits for data centers and other projects.

Israel’s far-right national security minister has set out a plan for the
illegal forced expulsion of all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip,
with the intention of sending them abroad.
Speaking in the run-up to close-fought Israeli elections,
Itamar Ben-Gvir said the plan aimed to remove 250,000 Palestinians from Gaza in the first year,
followed by the rest of its population of roughly 2 million over the next six years.
“It’s realistic,” Ben-Gvir said,
…

Far-right Israeli minister outlines plan for removal of all Palestinians from Gaza
Itamar Ben-Gvir claims proposal for illegal forced displacement of 2 million people is ‘realistic’ and ‘concrete’

EPA to Loosen Methane Rules, Boosting Pollution From Oil and Gas Wells (Alex Cuadros/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/methane-gas-epa-proposal-stripper-wells
http://www.memeorandum.com/260911/p26#a260911p26

Wikipedia editors vote to bar co-founder Larry Sanger from editing articles for canvassing outside users to sway internal votes, per the Wikipedia Foundation (Adeel Hassan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/business/media/wikipedia-larry-s…

Larry Sanger, a Wikipedia Founder, Is Barred From Editing on the Site
A vote to bar Larry Sanger indefinitely from the volunteer community of Wikipedia came days after he submitted a proposal on “intellectual diversity.”

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 ...

he UK proposal to use “solar bonds”
to make rooftop solar more affordable
is a smart solution to a fundamental problem:
the rising cost of capital
A household that can pay for solar upfront saves money from day one.
For everyone else, high-interest financing can consume much of those savings
and ultimately deter people from installing the technology.
A solar bond structure changes that equation:
investors receive a modest, guaranteed return,

Cut cost of loans for solar panels on UK homes, ministers urged
Report says ‘solar bonds’ could fund wider access to clean energy, reducing household bills

Despite hundreds of public comments opposing a giant space mirror that would shine a beam of light roughly five kilometres wide back down to Earth,
the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has given it the green light.
The company building the space mirror, Reflect Orbital, is touting its proposal as "sunlight on demand,"
which could be used for any number of reasons, it says, such as agriculture, solar farms or for search and rescue. 
Astronomers a…

ANALYSIS | U.S. FCC approves giant space mirror to deliver 'sunlight on demand,' but what are the legal implications? | CBC News
Despite hundreds of public comments opposing a giant space mirror that would shine light roughly five kilometres wide, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has given it the green light. What could this mean for Canadians?

The US government released its anxiously awaited plan for how to manage the Colorado River crisis on Friday,
which includes the potential for harsh cuts in water supplied to California, Arizona and Nevada.
Under the proposal, the so-called lower basin states stand to lose up to 3m acre-feet (3.7bn kiloliters) a year
– enough water annually to serve more than 25 million people and roughly 40% of their collective total.
The so-called upper basin states
– Colorado…

Water cuts loom as US unveils long-awaited response to Colorado River crisis
Federal government plan outlines cuts of roughly 40% to California, Arizona and Nevada but fix is likely to be only temporary

The US government released its anxiously awaited plan for how to manage the Colorado river crisis on Friday
-- outlining cuts in water supplied to California, Arizona and Nevada.
The proposal from the US Bureau of Reclamation spares Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming from facing mandatory cuts, for now.
But it is a temporary fix as the states that rely on the river continue to fight over a long-term management plan for the dwindling resource that supplies huge swaths of…

Water cuts loom as US unveils long-awaited response to Colorado river crisis
Federal government plan outlines cuts to California, Arizona and Nevada but fix is likely to be only temporary

California voters will get to decide in November whether billionaires should pay a one-time 5% tax,
after a deadline passed on Thursday for its backers to withdraw the measure.
“Enthusiasm for the billionaire tax is unlike anything we have seen before,”
Debru Carthan, vice-president of the union sponsoring the measure, said during a Thursday-evening press conference.
“The billionaire tax will be on the November ballot and we intend to win.”
The so-called billio…

California billionaire tax will appear on ballot after deadline for deal passes
Proposal to introduce one-time tax of 5% will go to voters in November after backers decline to withdraw measure

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