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The AI boom has pushed SF's residential rents up by the most in the US over the past year, as AI companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to employees (Natallie Rocha/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10…

Renting a San Francisco Apartment in the A.I. Boom? Good Luck.
The artificial intelligence gold rush has pushed San Francisco’s residential rents up by the most in the nation, as A.I. companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to employees.

"Russia can be pushed — and Ukraine knows how!" – states Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/14/quotrussia-can-be-pushed-and.html

More than 50 Amazon employees seeking to unionize
walked off the job early Tuesday morning at a Riverside delivery facility, according to the Teamsters.
The overnight walkout marked what union leaders say is the beginning of a new organizing drive for Amazon workers in the Inland Empire,
under which workers are demanding better working conditions and pay for the value they bring to the e-commerce giant.
Workers at the Krameria Avenue facility in Riverside, dubbed DJT6 …

RivCo Amazon Warehouse Workers Have Walked Off The Job. Here's Why
Dozens of employees say they have been pushed to their limit and are demanding better working conditions and pay.

Trump taps Yale doctor who pushed unproven covid treatment to lead U.S. cancer effort (Ariana Eunjung Cha/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/17/trump-risch-cancer-covid/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p102#a251217p102

We're all really used to an FBI that is incredibly evil, but generally pretty competent. They have no problem using child sex offenders to infiltrate groups of clowns. They have no problem trying to convince civil rights leaders to commit suicide. They have no problem with sowing confusion within leftists groups and trying to get them to kill each other. They've always been radically anti-left, but they've also always been competent.
Fabricating evidence in a really obvious way would always have been off the table because they wouldn't be willing to throw a case. But those competent people have been pushed out of the FBI. It's now Kash Patel's clown show. It serves the whims of the regime above all else. It will sacrifice decades of hard built trust for a quick win, because no one involved is competent enough to understand the consequences of such actions.
In the past, they may have used torture to elicit a confession. They may have entrapped people. They could have deleted exonerating evidence, but they would probably not have just completely manufactured obviously fake evidence just to forward the regime's narrative. I don't think that we've seen anything like this, at the very least in our lifetimes.
We have to foster a new level of skepticism, far beyond what we have been used to... and this is especially true of Liberals, who still don't understand the level of corruption and incompetence in local law enforcement today.
#USPol #CharlieKirk

Driven by a boom in #ArtificialIntelligence startups #SanFrancisco’s rising rent rate now tops the nation ... again.
🟢 Apartment #Rents that now avg well over $3000 a month are up 6% this yr , more than double t…

Renting a San Francisco Apartment in the A.I. Boom? Good Luck.
The artificial intelligence gold rush has pushed San Francisco’s residential rents up by the most in the nation, as A.I. companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to employees.

Chargers RB Kimani Vidal aiming to build on impressive first start: 'I was pretty ready' https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-rb-kimani-vidal-aiming-to-build-on-impressive-first-start-pretty-ready

Circana: US game console spending fell 27% in November to $695M, the lowest in the pivotal month for holiday shopping since 2005, after a tough year for makers (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

US Game Console Sales Crater in Worst November in Two Decades
US spending on video game consoles fell 27% last month, marking the worst November in two decades as tariffs and rising component costs pushed prices to record highs.

Shutdown Suffering is affecting more Americans.
Trump Doesn’t Seem to Mind.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/us/politics/trump-democrats-shutdown-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSour…

The Shutdown Is Stretching On. Trump Doesn’t Seem to Mind.
As the shutdown nears a fourth week, President Trump has pushed his political opponents to further dig in.

Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan's defense argues 'top levels of government' pushed to bring charges (Todd Richmond/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/dugan-judge-wisconsin-immigrant-arrested-trial-09cd6fc722058ca2e191d66bda720ac4
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p138#a251218p138

Sounds like we need to find where the Cluely CEO is illegally living in his office in SoMa and throw him out. He's the guy who started the company with the motto "cheat on anything". https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/technology/san-francisco-rent-ai-boo…

Report: at an xAI meeting, Elon Musk and his executives said the Grok chatbot has 64M monthly users; OpenAI said in August that ChatGPT had 700M weekly users (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musks-xai-says-gr…

Elon Musk’s xAI Says Grok Has 64 Million Monthly Users
Elon Musk’s xAI told staff this week that its Grok chatbot has 64 million monthly users, the New York Times reported on Thursday. By contrast, OpenAI said in August that ChatGPT had hit 700 million weekly users, while Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in July that its Gemini app had 450 million monthly users. xAI also has a much smaller enterprise business than OpenAI or Google. Musk pushed

We can't trust Trump with regard to BigTech, we can't trust BigTech itself and the USA is breaking down it's cybersecurity capabilities, plenty of reasons to start walking away from hyperscalers where you can....
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/ne…

Layoffs, reassignments further deplete CISA
Some CISA staffers have been pushed out, while others are being told to move across the country for jobs outside their skill sets.

"We did not leave because we wanted to.
We were forced to leave.
Pushed away from our own doorsteps, from our quiet mornings, from dreams that were growing gently inside us.
We did not abandon our homeland, we are still within it.
But we became displaced inside its borders, moving through its wounds, searching for a place where the heart could breathe without fear, only to find that no corner felt safe, and every space we turned to seemed empty" --

We carry our homeland in our eyes, even as we walk away from the cities that...
We did not leave because we wanted to. We were forced to leave. Pushed away from our own doorsteps, from our quiet mornings, from dreams that were growing gently inside us. We did not abandon our homeland, we are still within it. But we became displaced inside its borders, moving through its wounds, searching for a place where the heart could breat...

The latest npm attacks & changes have pushed me to set up Trusted Publishing via GitHub Actions, and honestly it's actually fantastic.
Didn't realise how much hassle & friction manual publishing was. npm version push --tags is incredibly convenient (and safer more verifiable for everyone!)

The research team drilled ice cores in the Allan Hills (the region of Antarctica closest to New Zealand).
In this location,
Layers of ancient ice have been pushed toward the surface by slow currents within the ice sheet itself.
Consequently, the team had only to drill about 300-600 feet to find the oldest ice.
The team, which included researchers from OSU and the University of Washington,
determined the age of the ice by measuring the concentrations of partic…

Pam Bondi Builds a Gun Registry MAGA Swore Democrats Would Create #guns

Pam Bondi Builds the Gun Registry MAGA Swore Democrats Would Create
A conspiracy theory pushed by 2nd Amendment nuts for years has now become reality under Trump.

Just pushed a new version of https://thi.ng/genart-api (v0.31.0) with these updates:
- (Art) platform adapters can now have an optional `.configure({...})` method to customize platform-specific behaviors. To ensure future portability of your artwork (between different art platforms), calls to this method shoul…

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New missile that pushed Trump to leave nuclear treaty fired by Russia at Ukraine, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/31/new-missile-that-pushed-trump.html

The half-hearted proprietary bs from Synology (and their so-called listening to the community, but not really doing anything) has finally pushed me over. No more lemmingin'. TrueNAS here we come!

Cowboys Pushed to Bench Struggling Kenneth Murray for $36 Million LB https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/bench-kenneth-murray-play-logan-wilson/?adt_ei=[email]

‘I couldn't go to anybody's rally’: Since Oct. 7, some Black Jews struggle to find belonging
https://religionnews.com/2025/12/03/just-being-pushed-to-the-margins-since-oct-7-black-jews-struggle-to-find-belonging/

Me on Wednesday (pasted verbatim):
“low maintenance on the 4xe Jeep, too, but I do expect their servers to require me to do some stupid update and brick it at some point because they're terrible.”
Stellantis on Friday: pushed update that bricked probably thousands of Wranglers.
Fortunately, mine seems fine so maybe I was safe from the update in Canada. Or mine was late so didn’t get it before they cancelled.
Friday of a long weekend. They don’t have a rollback pla…

It is an interesting data point that the "resonant computing" thing was pushed on Bluesky by a lot of people and it's basically non-existent on the Fediverse.

Sources say Monzo CEO TS Anil, who announced his exit and handover to ex-Googler Diana Layfield in October, was pushed out by the board over an IPO timing clash (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5aa2f310-d023-441d-97e4-a23ba6ad0874

Mike McDaniel shares fans' frustrations in latest loss, which pushed Dolphins to 2-7: 'It sucks' https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-mcdaniel-shares-fans-frustrations-in-latest-loss-which-pushed-dolphins-to-2-7-it-sucks

From BC Humanists
Last fall, we pushed the government to finally fulfill a longstanding promise to regulate dangerous and deceptive unregulated (crisis) pregnancy centres.
These fake clinics cloak their religious agenda to deny people their reproductive autonomy and freedom. Many of these groups are registered charities, meaning your taxes subsidize their donations.
Now, the government has let religious anti-choice groups off the hook with its lack of action in Budget 2025.…

Okay, never mind, I am like an hour late, cooked, and sick. Streams pushed to whenever I wake up

So, we had we had the Chez Dallman Pecan Chicken Bok Choy again. I wanted to take my wife's picture, but she protested and said she never looks good under the glaring kitchen light. I pushed the settings button in the camera app and said wryly, "Ah, there it is: turning on 'Make My Wife Beautiful' mode!" And I pushed at the screen.
My wife cracked up. (I did too.) It worked. She likes the photo, or at least she doesn't hate it. I can't post it here, though…

This #AI shit pushed into everything without consent is such a waste of time an energy.
In a #Gmail account, I am searching for "ptarmigan". I get results for emails that contain "grouse".
#WTF

Sources: Atlas Obscura's co-founders were pushed out of the company amid clashes with CEO Louise Story, who has trimmed staff and changed editorial strategy (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/04/2025/staff-cut…

Exclusive: Staff cuts and strategy squabbles split Atlas Obscura leadership
The relationship between the company’s founders and some of its investors appears to have soured.

i have pushed to production and now will disappear into the weekend.

So Coupang didn't know it had been breached until one of its customers reported it to them.
This customer, surnamed Park, was informed of the breach by a stranger via email, who showed Park's 15 most recent emails with the retailer.
https://<…

A customer reported a suspicious email to Coupang. Then the platform announced a breach.
A suspicious email with the subject line “Your personal information may have been leaked” pushed Park, a software developer, into a decision he still describes as surreal: he reported it to Coupang.

"...the conservative writer William F Buckley Jr’s boundaries for the conservative movement: expunge all antisemitism and “expel the lunatics”."
Buckley also opposed racism and white supremacists.
Yes, there was a time when, while disagreeing with conservatives & Republicans on many issues, I at least felt I understood the basic premises and that we shared at least some values. It's amazing how the John BIrch wing has dominated, and how a reality show snake-oil…

"...the conservative writer William F Buckley Jr’s boundaries for the conservative movement: expunge all antisemitism and “expel the lunatics”."
Buckley also opposed racism and white supremacists.
Yes, there was a time when, while disagreeing with conservatives & Republicans on many issues, I at least felt I understood the basic premises and that we shared at least some values. It's amazing how the John BIrch wing has dominated, and how a reality show snake-oil…

"Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth, said:
“Kemi Badenoch’s desperate attempt to sound like Donald Trump on climate change is taking her party further away from the interests of future generations, businesses, and the needs of ordinary people.
"Millions of lives are already being ruined and nature is being pushed to the brink. An act of political vandalism of this scale will not be easily forgiven or forgotten."

Replacing Climate Change Act is political vandalism that would abandon future generations | Friends of the Earth
Kemi Badenoch’s plan to replace the Climate Change Act is anti-science, anti-business and turns its back on those at the sharp end of climate breakdown now and future generations, says Friends of the Earth.

Saw something unremarked in the background of a YouTube video, spent 5 minutes in CAD, walked to the 3D printer and pushed the button. An hour later my life was just that little bit better.
I like that that is possible nowadays, much as I dislike so much else about the modern world.

deep-REMAP: Probabilistic Parameterization of Stellar Spectra Using Regularized Multi-Task Learning
Sankalp Gilda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09362 https://…

deep-REMAP: Probabilistic Parameterization of Stellar Spectra Using Regularized Multi-Task Learning
In the era of exploding survey volumes, traditional methods of spectroscopic analysis are being pushed to their limits. In response, we develop deep-REMAP, a novel deep learning framework that utilizes a regularized, multi-task approach to predict stellar atmospheric parameters from observed spectra. We train a deep convolutional neural network on the PHOENIX synthetic spectral library and use transfer learning to fine-tune the model on a small subset of observed FGK dwarf spectra from the MARV…

I watched the kitty pecking order in action today. I was giving the sweet house panther some scritchies which she enjoyed until the orange spaz pushed her off and took all the scritchies for herself. Then Mr. Bastard showed up, chased her off, accepted two or three token scritchies and sauntered off. A job well done in his estimation.

Guided Query Refinement: Multimodal Hybrid Retrieval with Test-Time Optimization
Omri Uzan, Asaf Yehudai, Roi pony, Eyal Shnarch, Ariel Gera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05038 htt…

Guided Query Refinement: Multimodal Hybrid Retrieval with Test-Time Optimization
Multimodal encoders have pushed the boundaries of visual document retrieval, matching textual query tokens directly to image patches and achieving state-of-the-art performance on public benchmarks. Recent models relying on this paradigm have massively scaled the sizes of their query and document representations, presenting obstacles to deployment and scalability in real-world pipelines. Furthermore, purely vision-centric approaches may be constrained by the inherent modality gap still exhibited…

My big gripe with "AI" is that a big reason why it's sold as the second coming of Jesus is that most tech people fundamentally do not understand how it actually works.
Their reasoning goes something like, "It works sort of ok for code generation, and programming is the hardest possible thing in the world to do, every other human endeavor is trivial compared to writing code, therefore it must excel at anything else!".
So it ends up being pushed due to a mixture of ignorance and hubris; and especially being stuffed into things it should never be used for (usually when users don't have a say which software they need to use for work).
The finbros are happily along for the ride because they just need something that can be hyped to pump and dump.

Here’s the lightning sketch of Paul’s Treatise Against Efficiency that I’ve never written:
1. Efficiency is asymptotically inefficient: as costs approach zero, the cost of further reducing them approaches infinity.
2. Efficiency prioritizes the measurable over the difficult-to-measure.
3. Efficiency prioritizes what those in power see (or imagine) over on-the-ground reality.
4. Following from 2 and 3, efficiency reduces the amount and quality of information flowing into a human system.
5. Efficiency foments institutional inflexibility.
6. By removing slack, efficiency causes small failures to cascade more readily and increases the risk of catastrophic failure.
7. Following rom 4, 5, and 6, efficiency trades small costs for massive risks: from failures, from missed opportunities, and from inability to adjust.
8. Efficiency, when pushed, strangles the emergent phenomena that in the long term create all new things of value.
9. Thus, although it can be a by-product of evolution, efficiency as a goal in itself strangles evolution.
10. Efficiency as a goal strangles joy.

How Oracle's massive Stargate deal with OpenAI has pushed Oracle to the center of the AI boom, turning its market cap into a barometer on AI sentiment (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-…

Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
The chemical industry finally got its wish.
Industry lobbyists have long pushed the federal government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the
💥cancer risk 💥from chemicals,
one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
Last week, in a highly unusual move,
👉the Environmental Protection Agency embraced that approach
in announcing that it is revi…

Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.

...but AI audiences raved...
#TillyNorwood

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Juno:
🎵 The Great Salt Lake / Into the Lavender Crevices of Evening the Otters Have Been Pushed
#Juno

I spent the weekend making a fun DevOps pipeline because I felt like it and am now quite pleased.
I'm hosting gitea, n8n and docker registry in my lab. I now have a webhook in gitea for certain repos so that when I push to them, it triggers n8n to pull the repo and build the dockerfile. This image is then pushed to the registry, and watchtower will pull it when it runs.
Naturally have all my own DNS things for these app web guis which go through nginx. All of this is in pro…

This courtroom sketch seems oddly meme-able.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/03/sean-diddy-combs-trial-sentence

love when a trans woman's completely culturally disconnected from cis women due to muh anxiety or whatever, yet inevitably pushed with the same tides due to being a woman in the same circumstances, so she winds up repeating mainstream instagram feminist platitudes as if they were fresh, but with the word "trans" tacked on for no reason. "if you're a trans woman you need to learn how to trust your gut feeling on things"

"Carbon tax on buildings and transport delayed to 2028 under EU climate deal"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Climate #ClimateChange

EU climate law delays carbon tax on buildings and transport to 2028
An EU law setting a 2040 emissions reduction target of 90% has been backed by lawmakers, closing a controversial political debate on the bloc's green transition – but the introduction of a carbon tax on construction and road transport has been pushed back.

After a fun weekend and way too little sleep for whatever reason (lolsiez), I've already pushed out a bunch more PRs for https://github.com/platform-system-interface/intel_fw including docs.
I will probably get initial ME cleaning done and tag a new prerelease today. All…

GitHub - platform-system-interface/intel_fw: Modern Intel Firmware Tool and Library
Modern Intel Firmware Tool and Library. Contribute to platform-system-interface/intel_fw development by creating an account on GitHub.

Exploring the Most Extreme Blazars: New Insights from MAGIC
L. Foffano (for the MAGIC Collaboration), C. Arcaro (for the MAGIC Collaboration), A. Arbet-Engels (for the MAGIC Collaboration), F. D'Ammando (for the MAGIC Collaboration), P. Da Vela (for the MAGIC Collaboration), J. Jormanainen (for the MAGIC Collaboration), D. Linder (for the MAGIC Collaboration), S. Menon (for the MAGIC Collaboration), E. Prandini (for the MAGIC Collaboration), S. Ventura (for the MAGIC Collaboration)…

Exploring the Most Extreme Blazars: New Insights from MAGIC
Extremely high-peaked BL Lac objects (or extreme blazars) are unique extragalactic laboratories where particle acceleration processes are pushed at their physical limits. In these blazars, synchrotron emission peaking above keV energies is reprocessed to very-high-energy (VHE, energies > 100 GeV) gamma rays, often resulting in very hard TeV spectra. Over the past two decades, they have attracted a growing interest from the scientific community, both experimentally and theoretically, as crucial …

Just pushed an update for https://thi.ng/genart-api (v0.29.0) which now supports dynamic switching of time providers. This is useful for situations where you want to switch from realtime animation to offline-based timing, e.g. to export high-resolution image sequences and give the browser time to grab & encode e…

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Pete Carroll’s desperation is dragging the Las Vegas Raiders down https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/05/pete-carrolls-desperation-is-dragging-the-las-vegas-raiders-down/

Ugh the new Funeral Vomit got pushed to December 19 from the 10th. Which makes more sense, probably, since it's a Friday and not the Wednesday of the 10th, but it'll bump my favorite 20 of the year list to the next week in December probably. At least til after I've heard it.
The crazy thing is, I already have five things I'm looking forward to in January of the new year 🤯

Sources: Oracle has pushed back completion dates for some data centers it is building for OpenAI from 2027 to 2028, largely due to labor and material shortages (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Climate justice took center stage at Pre-COP30 as African and Global South advocates made their case clear: adaptation finance isn't charity—it's survival.
CSOs pushed for locally-rooted indicators in the Global Goal on Adaptation, fair compensation for communities displaced by green projects, and recognition of food sovereignty in climate policy.
h…

Lemmy rocked so hard he went right through rock, out beyond it to parody, and then pushed beyond parody all the way back to rock god. #TOTP

AI Forensics: 354 AI-focused TikTok accounts pushed 43K posts made with GenAI tools that hit 4.5B views, including posts with anti-immigrant and sexual material (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Jaguars HC Liam Coen: 'Very premature' to decide whether Travis Hunter will remain two-way player https://www.nfl.com/news/jaguars-hc-liam-coen-very-premature-to-decide-whether-travis-hunter-will-remain-two-way-player

#today I pushed out two podcast episodes from the (previous) #KEHS talks, attended an AGM of an org that wants to merge with a couple of others for better lobbying clout, and remembered to do most of my daily exercise...

Right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel recently told an audience that he pushed Tesla CEO and fellow billionaire Elon Musk not to give money to charity and instead horde it so it could be used to battle a future “Antichrist.”
According to a Thursday Reuters report, Thiel told attendees of closed-door event in San Francisco last month that he pressed Musk to rescind his commitment to the Giving Pledge, the charitable campaign cofounded by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates that asks signatories…

Instead of Charity, Peter Thiel Told Elon Musk to Use Billions for Right-Wing Crusade Against 'Antichrist' | Common Dreams
Billionaire Peter Thiel urges Elon Musk to hoard wealth to battle future "Antichrist." Thiel warns against giving to left-wing nonprofits.

Four ways Republicans pushed back on Trump this week
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/republicans-trump-tariffs-venezuela-romania-beef

Bombshell report alleges Biden team forced airports to house migrants, risking safety (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/bombshell-report-alleges-biden-team-pushed-airports-house-migrants-risking-safety
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p40#a251125p40

Crypto markets crashed after Trump threatened an extra 100% tariff on China, triggering $19.1B in liquidations, 10x the liquidations during the FTX crash (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/1…

Crypto Price Drop Continues: $16B in Longs Liquidated as BTC, ETH Sell-Off Extends
Trump’s 100% tariff warning on China ignited a global sell-off that wiped out $16 billion in leveraged crypto longs and pushed Ethena’s USDe to a rare sub-$1 print.

Manchester, Woodhouse Park ward by-election (Thursday 25/9)
Greens held the seat on a very low turnout in this predominantly white 'working class 'ward. Reform POX (who didn't campaign) pushed Labour into 3rd place.
The Green Party – 826 (43.8% -5.7)
Reform UK – 556 (29.5% New)
Labour – 386 (20.5% -23.2%)
Conservative – 72 (3.8% -1.6%)
Liberal Democrat – 47 ( (2.5% 1.2)
Turnout 16.29%

I know it was 3000 years ago now, but I want everyone to remember that Portland beat Trump last time because normal people came out every night to resist.
Portland made Trump look weak once. He pulled out everything he had to terrorize and intimidate people, and federal agents got pushed out of the city anyway. He was embarrassed. Now he can do more and he probably thinks that he has more time, but Portland maybe able to prove him wrong.
Portland ended Trump's presidency once, and it can happen again... especially if Portland keeps doing a good job of reminding everyone that the whole invasion is an attempt to distract from #Epstein.
#USPol

House GOP committees have issued new subpoenas to ActBlue,
intensifying their probe of the Democratic fundraising platform.
The subpoenas are an attempt to force cooperation as ActBlue has pushed back on the congressional investigation,
questioning its intentions and constitutionality after the White House launched a similar probe.
Reps. James Comer (R-Ky.), Bryan Steil (R-Wisc.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who lead the committees investigating ActBlue, issued the subpoe…

Judge rejects NFL attempts to dismiss Gruden suit against the league https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/judge-rejects-nfl-attempts-to-dismiss-gruden-suit-against-the-league-3590276/

The Trump administration told states to
“immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families,
threatening financial penalties if they do not comply.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/09/us

Trump Live Updates: Airport and SNAP Benefit Disruptions Amid Government Shutdown
The procedural vote on Sunday night could clear the path for a spending deal to end the government shutdown. Senator Angus King of Maine said the shutdown’s duration had pushed some Democrats to support the deal.

Mike McDaniel: Dolphins owner Stephen Ross 'really frustrated' after loss to Panthers https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-mcdaniel-dolphins-owner-stephen-ross-really-frustrated-after-loss-to-panthers

Four ways Republicans pushed back on Trump this week (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/republicans-trump-tariffs-venezuela-romania-beef
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p4#a251031p4

President TACO to announce $12 billion tariff relief for farmers
Farmers nationwide have been grappling with low crop prices and challenging TARIFFS that have pushed many into bankruptcy.
Some 181 farmers filed for bankruptcy protection in the first half of the year,
a 60 percent increase from the previous year
and the highest six-month reading since 2020, according to U.S. court records.

The new assistance package is expected to particularly help soybean farm…

Trump to announce $12 billion tariff relief for farmers
Farmers — particularly those who produce soybeans — have felt the impact of the president’s tariff policies.

Wave of anti-science bills pushed by Kennedy allies hits statehouses, endangering health protections | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/associated-press-people-indiana-trump-health-and-human-services-b2849352.html

How rising unemployment in computer-related fields in the US, where foreign nationals make up ~20% of 2.3M software devs, pushed the H-1B issue to the forefront (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/bu…

Why Are H-1B Visas Suddenly a Big Deal? One Reason: Tech Jobs Disappeared
The president’s decision to charge employers $100,000 per visa for skilled workers seemed to come out of nowhere. But the grievance behind it has been simmering.

For months, the Trump administration has been accusing its political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence.
Donald Trump branded one foe who did so “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
He called another “CROOKED” on Truth Social and pushed the attorney general to take action.
But years earlier, Trump did the very thing he’s accusing his enemies of, records show.
In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a “Bermuda style” home in Palm Beach,…

Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”

Are officials tush pushed out? Plus rookie evals for Shedeur Sanders, Abdul Carter. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6821763/2025/11/19/nfl-tush-push-ban-missed-calls-officials-scoop-city/

FBI official connected to Trump 2020 election investigation being pushed out, sources say (MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/kash-patel-fbi-arctic-frost-san-antonio-rcna241007
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p144#a251030p144

AI Forensics: 354 AI-focused TikTok accounts pushed 43K posts made with GenAI tools that hit 4.5B views, including posts with anti-immigrant and sexual material (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Shares of Asian AI-linked companies fall, tracking declines in US peers, as investors worry about stretched valuations; SoftBank falls 9% , Advantest 7% (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/softbank-ai-stocks-slide-on-valuation-jitters-.ht…

SoftBank shares plunge 10% as Asian AI-linked stocks slide on valuation jitters
The AI-led rally has pushed the S&P 500's forward P/E above 23—its highest since 2000, according to FactSet.

Jets GM Darren Mougey rejects talk of 'teardown' after trade deadline deals https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-gm-darren-mougey-rejects-talk-teardown-trade-deadline-deals

Cinemas, unions sound alarms over Netflix deal
For Netflix, having films launch on its platform allows the company to attract new users, as well as keep existing customers engaged.
But that stance has led to a testy relationship between Netflix and some exhibitors, which have pushed in general for more films to be released on the big screen.
Theater owner trade group Cinema United has voiced staunch opposition to the deal, saying it represented an “unprecedented threat to…

Trump officials pushed US attorney Erik Siebert to bring criminal charges against NY Attorney General James
Now Trump is poised to fire Siebert for resisting Trump's overreach
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poised-fire-us-attorney…

Trump poised to fire US attorney for resisting effort to charge NY AG Letitia James: Sources
Trump officials had pushed Erik Siebert to bring criminal charges against James.

Loss hikes Dallas' desperation as deadline nears https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46842581/cowboys-mull-potential-deals-27-17-loss-cardinals

How Steve Witkoff pushed Ukraine sympathizers out of White House, and led the US into Russia's arms (Tim Zadorozhnyy/The Kyiv Independent)
https://kyivindependent.com/exclusive-is-trump-envoy-working-with-russia-witkoff-runs-operation-to-sideline-pro-ukraine-officials-inside-white-house/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p48#a251122p48

The DOJ plans to have staff from its Civil Rights Division stationed at polling sites
– many of them in areas with significant Hispanic populations
– purportedly to ensure compliance with federal voting laws.
State officials however have pushed back.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that the state would be deploying its observers to “monitor the monitors,” the Times reported,
And New Jersey’s attorney general, Matt Platkin, called the deployment …

'They may be arrested': ICE makes startling admission on election monitoring operation - NewsBreak
With millions of voters expected to descend to the polls Tuesday in a series of off-year elections, including in California where voters will vote on a con

Roger Goodell reveals NFL's stance on possible Super Bowl in London: What to make of commissioner's comments

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rog…

How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged ahead of models from OpenAI and other competitors on benchmark tests, has pushed Google ahead in the AI race (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-gemini-3-ai-behind-scenes-e1787729?st…

Super Micro's shares drop 5% after the server maker reports it expects $5B in Q1 revenue, down from its $6B to $7B guidance, due to "design win upgrades" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/super-micro-stock-preliminary-earnings.htm…

Super Micro shares fall 6% on weak preliminary results
Super Micro said "design win upgrades" pushed some expected first-quarter revenue to the second quarter.

Donald Trump’s justice department has asked a judge to shut down a Vermont law which holds major polluters financially responsible for climate damages.
In a brief filed on Monday in a federal court in Burlington, the administration said the policy was “unlawful on its face” and pushed the court to “end Vermont’s lawless experiment.”
“The Court should deny the motions to dismiss, grant the United States’ motion for summary judgment, declare the Superfund Act unconstitutional and u…

Trump DOJ seeks to kill Vermont law that makes Big Oil pay for climate harm
The Justice Department asked a judge to shut down the ‘Superfund’ law that requires major polluters to pay for carbon emissions.

An interview with Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz, who expects a 2025 profit of $170M to $200M, about the company's $300M round that pushed its valuation above Rippling's (Matt Durot/Forbes)
http://www.

Deel Vs. Rippling: Alex Bouaziz On Deel’s Latest Fundraise And Why He’s Not Worried About Litigation
HR software rivals have accused each other of corporate espionage in lawsuits filed earlier this year. A funding round announced Thursday boosted Deel’s valuation just above Rippling’s for the first time since 2022.

Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was "manipulated by adversarial prompting" (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligen…

Grok’s Elon Musk worship is getting weird
X’s Grok chatbot is full of bizarrely effusive praise for Elon Musk, after an apparent change to the chatbot pushed it into relentless flattery.

The Trump administration faced a string of four significant legal defeats this week
as federal and state courts pushed back on a range of initiatives spanning immigration enforcement,
deportation authority,
voting policy,
and the use of the National Guard.
The rulings, delivered in quick succession, highlight the extent to which judges across multiple jurisdictions are scrutinizing the administration’s procedural compliance,
statutory interpretations,

Donald Trump Suffers Four Legal Setbacks in a Week
A string of four court setbacks this week highlighted growing judicial pushback on Trump’s use of executive power.

Circana: EA's Battlefield 6 became 2025's best-selling US game less than a month after its October 10 debut; Pokémon is 2025's fastest-selling physical game (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is running a shadow operation inside the White House
in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials, the Kyiv Independent has learned.
Witkoff
— a real estate mogul with no diplomatic background before his appointment
— has emerged as one of the central architects of a new Washington "peace proposal"
that Ukrainian officials say revives the Kremlin's most sweeping demands.
A source in Ukraine's President…

How Steve Witkoff pushed Ukraine sympathizers out of White House, and led the US into Russia's arms
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is running a shadow operation inside the White House in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials, the Kyiv Independent has learned. Witkoff — a real estate mogul with no diplomatic background before his appointment — has emerged as one of the central architects of a new Washington peace proposal that Ukrainian officials say revives the Kremlin's most sweeping demands. A source in Ukraine's President's Office earlier said that Witkoff is shaping the plan…

In a censored society everyone needs debates about harmless topics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/21/fascism-women-homemaker-trad-wife?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Donald Trump on Saturday heaped pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,
saying he can either agree to the White House’s peace proposal by Thursday,
or “continue to fight his little heart out.”

The comment, made to reporters in Washington, is part of a White House push to get Ukraine’s leaders to agree to a 28-point plan to end the war that began with Russia’s invasion in February 2022.
It has drawn criticism, including from Republican lawmakers,
for…

Trump says Zelensky can agree to peace plan or ‘fight his little heart out’
President Trump on Saturday heaped pressure on Volodymyr Zelensky, as he pushed Ukraine’s leaders to agree to a 28-point plan to help bring an end to the war.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas' 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Trump likely discriminates on the basis of race.
The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito will remain in place at least for the next few days while the court considers whether to allow the new map favorable to Republicans to be used in the midterm elections.

The Trump administration and the Republican majority in Congress recently pushed through more tax giveaways to the ultra-rich and big corporations,
while slashing essential services like Medicaid, food assistance, and other programs that tens of millions of ordinary people rely on.
We must keep fighting back. 
Urge lawmakers to enact bold tax reforms that put people over profits
and ensure the ultra-rich and corporations pay their fair share. 

Tax the ultra-rich
Urge lawmakers to enact bold tax reforms that put people over profits and ensure the ultra-rich and corporations pay their fair share.

The White House on Thursday emailed HHS leadership asking for the resignation of a top aide to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary whom he had sought to promote, according to two administration officials granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive personnel matter.
Makary pushed back on the request to force policy and research staffer Sanjula Jain-Nagpal out of the agency, officials told POLITICO.
“She is an employee at the FDA, and that has not changed,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon sai…