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From its outset, Trump 2.0 has been grounded on systemic illegality and unilateral executive actions,
a course of (mis)conduct the administration has succeeded in pursuing because of pliant GOP majorities in Congress the Supreme Court.
It’s all but certain that the administration’s authoritarian conduct will grow in scope and intensity over the succeeding months,
in no small part because the GOP reconciliation bill will hand over a staggering $170 billion to the Department…

The emerging coup
Lawless authoritarian regimes don't give up power willingly.

'One more': Senate Republicans eye tackling another reconciliation bill (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/one-more-senate-republicans-eye-tackling-another-reconciliation-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p95#a250714p95

Arbitrarily-high-dimensional reconciliation via cross-rotation for continuous-variable quantum key distribution
Jisheng Dai, Xue-Qin Jiang, Tao Wang, Peng Huang, Guihua Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06338

Arbitrarily-high-dimensional reconciliation via cross-rotation for continuous-variable quantum key distribution
Multidimensional rotation serves as a powerful tool for enhancing information reconciliation and extending the transmission distance in continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD). However, the lack of closed-form orthogonal transformations for high-dimensional rotations has limited the maximum reconciliation efficiency to channels with 8 dimensions over the past decade. This paper presents a cross-rotation scheme to overcome this limitation and enable reconciliation in arbitrarily hi…

Investigating aerosols as a reconciliation mechanism for K2-18 b JWST MIRI and NIRISS/NIRSpec observations
Adam Yassin Jaziri, Thomas Drant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13932 http…

Investigating aerosols as a reconciliation mechanism for K2-18 b JWST MIRI and NIRISS/NIRSpec observations
Recent JWST observations of the temperate sub-Neptune K2-18 b with NIRISS SOSS/NIRSpec G395H and MIRI LRS have yielded apparently inconsistent results: the MIRI spectra exhibit spectral features nearly twice as large as those seen at shorter wavelengths, challenging the high-metallicity, CH4-rich non-equilibrium model that fits the NIRISS/NIRSpec data. We perform a suite of atmospheric retrievals on both datasets, including free-chemistry, non-equilibrium, and aerosol models, using laboratory-d…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has called for
every member of Congress who voted for Republicans’ reconciliation bill to be
ousted from their seat,
saying that the bill is “disastrous” and will only make the U.S. health care system even worse.
“Our broken health care ‘system’
is the most expensive and inefficient in the world.
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will make it even worse,”
Sanders said in a press release on Monday.
He went on to say tha…

Sanders: Members of Congress Who Voted for “Big Beautiful Bill” Must Be Ousted
Democrats must make the bill “the defining issue of the 2026 campaign,” Sanders said.

https://www.highereddive.com/news/higher-ed-reaction-reconciliation-bill-obba-passage/752380/

‘One big mistake’: Higher ed sounds warning over GOP budget law
From higher endowment taxes to student loan limits, colleges and students will face a dramatically new landscape with the passage of a new spending law.

Civil service, federal union provisions removed from Senate reconciliation bill
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2025/06/civil-service-federal-union-provisions-removed-from-senate-reconciliation-bill/

Performance Evaluation of Intent-Based Networking Scenarios: A GitOps and Nephio Approach
Saptarshi Ghosh, Ioannis Mavromatis, Konstantinos Antonakoglou, Konstantinos Katsaros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13901

Performance Evaluation of Intent-Based Networking Scenarios: A GitOps and Nephio Approach
GitOps has emerged as a foundational paradigm for managing cloud-native infrastructures by enabling declarative configuration, version-controlled state, and automated reconciliation between intents and runtime deployments. Despite its widespread adoption, the performance and scalability of GitOps tools in Intent-Based Networking (IBN) scenarios are insufficiently evaluated. This paper presents a reproducible, metric-driven benchmarking, assessing the latency and resource overheads of three wide…

If you haven't yet called your rep to oppose this disastrous budget bill, it's urgent to do it today! 5calls.org makes it easy: https://5calls.org/issue/hr1-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-budget-reconciliation/

How the 2025 Reconciliation Act (Public Law 119-21) Will Affect the Distribution of Resources Available to Households (CBO Publications)
https://www.cbo.gov/interactive/2025-reconciliation-act
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p84#a250811p84

En Syrie, quatre mariages pour une réconciliation
https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2025/06/26/en-syrie-quatre-mariages-pour-une-reconciliation_6615936_4500055.html

En Syrie, quatre mariages pour une réconciliation
A Lattaquié, sur le littoral syrien, théâtre de tueries visant la minorité alaouite dont est issu le clan Assad, quatre couples de confession sunnite et chiite se sont unis lors d’un mariage collectif. Une façon de lutter contre les divisions communautaires qui déchirent le pays, comme vient encore de le montrer l’attentat du 22 juin contre une église à Damas.

Joint parameter estimation and multidimensional reconciliation for CV-QKD
Jisheng Dai, Xue-Qin Jiang, Peng Huang, Tao Wang, Guihua Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05558 https://…

Joint parameter estimation and multidimensional reconciliation for CV-QKD
Accurate quantum channel parameter estimation is essential for effective information reconciliation in continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD). However, conventional maximum likelihood (ML) estimators rely on a large amount of discarded data (or pilot symbols), leading to a significant loss in symbol efficiency. Moreover, the separation between the estimation and reconciliation phases can introduce error propagation. In this paper, we propose a novel joint message-passing scheme t…

Gibt es Empfehlungen für eine gute Analyse der Causa #LahavShani? Z.B. fände ich es aufschlussreich wer die #MünchnerPhilharmoniker wann eingeladen hat? Und was der Satz "Lahav Shani has spoken out in favour of peace and reconciliation several times in the past, but in …

Flanders Festival Ghent cancels the concert on Thursday 18 September

A number game reconciliation
Prem Kant, Urban Larsson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04717 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04717

A number game reconciliation
Number games play a central role in alternating normal play combinatorial game theory due to their real-number-like properties (Conway 1976). Here we undertake a critical re-examination: we begin with integer and dyadic games and identify subtle inconsistencies and oversights in the established literature (e.g. Siegel 2013), most notably, the lack of distinction between a game being a number and a game being equal to a number. After addressing this, we move to the general theory of number games…

Closing the HPC-Cloud Convergence Gap: Multi-Tenant Slingshot RDMA for Kubernetes
Philipp A. Friese, Ahmed Eleliemy, Utz-Uwe Haus, Martin Schulz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09663

Closing the HPC-Cloud Convergence Gap: Multi-Tenant Slingshot RDMA for Kubernetes
Converged HPC-Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm that aims to support increasingly complex and multi-tenant scientific workflows. These systems require reconciliation of the isolation requirements of native cloud workloads and the performance demands of HPC applications. In this context, networking hardware is a critical boundary component: it is the conduit for high-throughput, low-latency communication and enables isolation across tenants. HPE Slingshot is a high-speed network …

Modeling the uncertainty on the covariance matrix for probabilistic forecast reconciliation
Chiara Carrara, Lorenzo Zambon, Dario Azzimonti, Giorgio Corani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19554

Modeling the uncertainty on the covariance matrix for probabilistic forecast reconciliation
In forecast reconciliation, the covariance matrix of the base forecasts errors plays a crucial role. Typically, this matrix is estimated, and then treated as known. In contrast, we propose a Bayesian reconciliation model that explicitly accounts for the uncertainty in the covariance matrix. We choose an Inverse-Wishart prior, which leads to a multivariate-t reconciled predictive distribution and allows a completely analytical derivation. Empirical experiments demonstrate that this approach impr…

The gargantuan budget bill Republicans passed through Congress will do its part to damage the American economy, at a moment of fear and instability.
In the broadest terms, the bill is an enormous upward transfer of wealth — perhaps the largest in history — taking from those with lower incomes and giving to the rich. And in its details there are dozens

The Republican budget is an attack on the American economy
Everywhere you look, it delivers blows to America's economic future.

Tree algorithms for set reconciliation
Francisco L\'azaro, \v{C}edomir Stefanovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02373 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.023…

Tree algorithms for set reconciliation
In this work, a set reconciliation setting is considered in which two parties have similar sets that they would like to reconcile. In particular, we focus on a divide-and-conquer strategy known as partitioned set reconciliation (PSR), in which the sets to be reconciled are successively partitioned until they contain a number of differences below some predetermined value. Borrowing techniques from tree-algorithms for random-access protocols, we present and analyze a novel set reconciliation sche…

SimpleQA Verified: A Reliable Factuality Benchmark to Measure Parametric Knowledge
Lukas Haas, Gal Yona, Giovanni D'Antonio, Sasha Goldshtein, Dipanjan Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07968

SimpleQA Verified: A Reliable Factuality Benchmark to Measure Parametric Knowledge
We introduce SimpleQA Verified, a 1,000-prompt benchmark for evaluating Large Language Model (LLM) short-form factuality based on OpenAI's SimpleQA. It addresses critical limitations in OpenAI's benchmark, including noisy and incorrect labels, topical biases, and question redundancy. SimpleQA Verified was created through a rigorous multi-stage filtering process involving de-duplication, topic balancing, and source reconciliation to produce a more reliable and challenging evaluation set, alongsi…

A group of 17 GOP governors write to Senate majority leader and House speaker urging for the state AI bill moratorium to be removed from the reconciliation bill (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025

Exclusive: Republican governors want state AI pause out of budget bill
Many Republican-run states have passed AI-related laws and don't want to see them knocked down.

Most fed-targeting provisions in Senate reconciliation bill don’t pass Byrd muster - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/06/most-fed-targeting-provisions-senate-reconciliation-bill-dont-pass-byrd-muster/406252/

Its clear that Trump is effectively if not literally a Russian agent hell bent on destroying the USA...
"As president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO Chrissy Lynch said in July after the Republicans passed the budget reconciliation bill cutting clean energy tax credits: “Working families shouldn’t have to purchase energy from billionaire oil tycoons and foreign governments or let them set the price of our energy bills.”
Her observation hit home earlier this week, when Joe Wallace, Costas Paris, Alex Leary, and Collin Eaton of the Wall Street Journal reported that the comments of Russian president Vladimir Putin and Trump at their meeting in Alaska on August 15 in which they talked about doing more business together were not vague goodwill. ExxonMobil and Russia’s biggest energy company, Rosneft, have been in secret talks to resume a partnership to extract Russian oil, including in the Arctic, that had been severed by Russia’s attack on Ukraine in 2022."
#USPolitics #RenewableEnergy
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-30-2025?r=103mi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Trump and Republicans in Congress will do their part to damage the American economy, at a moment of fear and instability.
In the broadest terms, their Big Bad Budget bill is an enormous upward transfer of wealth
— perhaps the largest in history
— taking from those with lower incomes and giving to the rich.
And in its details there are dozens if not hundreds of blows to the economy.

The Republican budget is an attack on the American economy
Everywhere you look, it delivers blows to America's economic future.

TRANSCRIPT: Leader Schumer Holds Press Conference Following Passage Of Reconciliation Bill (The Senate Democratic Caucus)
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/transcript-leader-schumer-holds-press-conference-following-passage-of-reconciliation-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p128#a250702p128

Do you think Democratic Party politicians are the same as Republican politicians?
For the budget reconciliation bill, all 45 Dem Senators ( independents King & Sanders) voted against it.
Vote was split 50/50, requiring VP Vance to break the tie.
If just one of the 50 Rs that voted for it had been replaced in the last election with a D, it's clear the bill in its current form would not have passed.

Planned Parenthood Gets Cut Off (Matthew Hennessey/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/planned-parenthood-gets-cut-off-republican-reconciliation-bill-trump-thune-johnson-f4ed3cdf
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p164#a250708p164

AFGE | Major AFGE Victory: Senate Parliamentarian Drops GOP Plans Gutting Civil Service in Reconciliation Bill
https://www.afge.org/article/major-afge-victory-senate-parliamentarian-drops-gop-plans-gutting-civil-service-in-reconciliation-bill/

The Subset Sum Matching Problem
Yufei Wu, Manuel R. Torres, Parisa Zehtabi, Alberto Pozanco Lancho, Michael Cashmore, Daniel Borrajo, Manuela Veloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19218

The Subset Sum Matching Problem
This paper presents a new combinatorial optimisation task, the Subset Sum Matching Problem (SSMP), which is an abstraction of common financial applications such as trades reconciliation. We present three algorithms, two suboptimal and one optimal, to solve this problem. We also generate a benchmark to cover different instances of SSMP varying in complexity, and carry out an experimental evaluation to assess the performance of the approaches.

How the reconciliation bill would change America (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-reconciliation-bill-would
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p4#a250630p4

I think it's really underappreciated that solar panels are now about as cheap per unit area as mass-produced building materials like wood, siding, shingles/shakes, etc.
The Republican reconciliation bill aims to make solar expensive again in the US through tariffs and taxes.
https://bsky…

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I thought kalman filter was for reconciliation between multiple sensors to find a truth among noisy sources. I haven't dove into it, but I didn't realize it could apply to a single source of data. I suppose you can have a noise profile for just one source.

Wait-free Replicated Data Types and Fair Reconciliation
Petr Kuznetsov, Maxence Perion, Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18193 https://ar…

Wait-free Replicated Data Types and Fair Reconciliation
Replication is a standard way to maintain availability of shared data in fault-prone distributed systems. To make sure that the data replicas are up-to-date, they need to synchronize, which typically means engaging the replicas in waiting for coherent responses from each other. The amount of waiting depends on the consistency and availability guarantees we impose on the system. The folklore CAP theory states that strong consistency (the set of replicas create an illusion of one correct server) …

Last month, Republicans passed a reconciliation bill that is expected to kick millions of Americans off of Medicaid and other forms of health insurance.
The legislation includes over $800 million in cuts to Medicaid spending over the next 10 years,
the largest in the program’s history.
Now, as Republicans gear up for next year’s midterm elections,
vulnerable lawmakers who supported the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill”
are attempting to recast themselves as prote…

Vulnerable Republicans Are Claiming They Love Medicaid After Voting to Gut It
Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Tom Kean Jr., and Gabe Evans introduced a resolution supporting Medicaid after voting for cuts to the program. 

Republican Lawmakers Call for Senate Parliamentarian to Be Fired Over Reconciliation Rulings (Oriana Gonzšlez/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/congress/senate-parliamentarian-reconciliation-ruling
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p84#a250626p84

The Reconciliation Timeline Is Slipping as Trump Struggles to Flip Votes (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/congress/reconciliation-timeline-slipping-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p108#a250702p108

Ahead of a vote on Republicans’ budget reconciliation package expected as soon as noon Saturday,
U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee revived his effort to sell off public lands.
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has blocked multiple provisions of the GOP megabill,
including several under the jurisdiction of the Utah Republican’s panel.
Among them is his attack on public lands.
“Here we go again,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) …

Mike Lee Tries to Sneak Public Land Sale Back Into 'Big, Ugly Bill' Ahead of Senate Vote | Common Dreams
Ahead of an expected vote on Republicans' budget reconciliation package, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee revived his effort to sell off public lands.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: "If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/post/3lsp64jee722u

During a closed-door meeting of Republican senators on Tuesday, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) tried to tamper down fears of voter blowback against the proposed cuts to Medicaid spending in the GOP’s budget reconciliation bill,
⭐️claiming that voters will ultimately “get over it.”
The former Republican Senate leader’s comments came after Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina), one of the most vulnerable Senate GOP incumbents in the 2026 midterm elections, expressed concern that

Voters Will “Get Over It,” McConnell Tells GOP Colleagues Scared That Medicaid Cuts Will Hurt Them in Midterms
Polling consistently shows that voters strongly object to the Medicaid cuts proposed in the GOP reconciliation package.

Senate Takes Up Trump's Policy Bill, as G.O.P. Scrounges for Votes to Pass It (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/us/politics/senate-republicans-reconciliation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Sk8.biK_.7BdCGPeLtonK&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p17#a250629p17

Trump’s budget reconciliation bill could reduce the speed of your Wi-Fi | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/694479/senate-bill-reduce-capacity-6ghz-wifi-band

Fresh megabill text overnight: what's in and what's out (Katherine Tully-McManus/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/28/megabill-reconciliation-parliamentarian-00431082
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p40#a250628p40

What will our billionaire overlords get out of the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill that narrowly cleared the Senate this week?
Higher interest rates, for one,
because the bill more than doubles the budget deficit;
this will benefit billionaire creditors but hurt billionaire borrowers.
The top marginal rate won’t rise from the present 37 percent to 39.6 percent, as it would have done in a Harris administration,
which is excellent news if you actual…

The Oligarchs’ Big Prize in Trump’s Budget-Busting Bill
Avoiding an income-tax increase is nice, but that’s not the bill’s greatest gift to the rich.

The Republican budget measure that Donald Trump signed into law late last week contains a provision that analysts say will
🔥allow private jet owners to write off the full cost of their aircraft in the first year of purchase,
❌a boon to the ultra-rich that comes as millions of people are set to lose healthcare under the same legislation.
FlyUSA, a private aviation provider, gushed in a blog post that with final passage of the unpopular budget reconciliation package,
…

The Return of 100% Bonus Depreciation: How 2025 Made Private Aircraft Ownership More Valuable Than Ever
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1) was permanently reinstated 100% bonus depreciation for capital equipment, including business & aviation aircraft.

An email sent by the US Social Security Administration (SSA) that claims Donald Trump’s major new spending bill has eliminated taxes on benefits for most recipients is misleading, critics have said.
Jeff Nesbit, who served as a top SSA official under Republican and Democratic presidents, posted on X: “The agency has never issued such a blatant political statement. The fact that Trump and his minion running SSA has done this is unconscionable.”
The reconciliation bill – which the p…

Senate Parliamentarian Blocks Republican Attacks on SNAP, CFPB in Reconciliation Bill | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-parliamentarian

The Trump administration has quietly fast-tracked a massive oil expansion project that environmentalists and Democratic lawmakers warned could have a destructive impact on local communities and the climate.
As reported recently by the Oil and Gas Journal,
👉 the plan “involves expanding the Wildcat Loadout Facility, a key transfer point for moving Uinta basin crude oil to rail lines that transport it to refineries along the Gulf Coast.”
🔥The goal of the plan is to transfer an …

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With congressional approval and Trump's subsequent signature July 4, the 2025 tax reconciliation bill offers expanded opportunities for the oil and gas industry.

Last night just before midnight, Republicans released their new version of the omnibus budget reconciliation bill. ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-28-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p22#a250629p22

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders condemned the Republican budget reconciliation package in stark terms during a floor speech late Sunday -- calling the measure
“the most dangerous piece of legislation in the modern history of our country”
and warning that its massive cuts to Medicaid, federal nutrition assistance, and other programs would have deadly consequences nationwide.
“Over 50,000 Americans will die unnecessarily every year,” said Sanders (I-Vt.),
referring to a recent…

Sanders Calls Trump-GOP Budget Bill 'Most Dangerous Piece of Legislation' in Modern US History | Common Dreams
"In my view, nobody in the Senate or the House should vote for this legislation," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
h…

When Ashley Robinson and her mother took DNA tests 10 years ago and began meeting long lost cousins,
they stumbled across a surprising family history that changed their lives.
Robinson’s lineage traced back to the 272 West Africans who were enslaved by Jesuits
and sold to plantation owners in the southern US in 1838.
The sale of the enslaved Africans helped fund Georgetown University,
the oldest Jesuit higher education institution in the US,
and served a…

Estimated Budgetary Effects of Public Law 119-21, to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Relative to CBO's January 2025 Baseline (CBO Publications)
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61570
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p101#a250721p101

Senate Republicans are under mounting pressure from
doctors and medical associations
to reject massive cuts to health care and food assistance
as they rush to complete a draft of the budget reconciliation bill
designed to implement Trump’s agenda.
Despite an ongoing debate over deep cuts to Medicaid
— cuts experts say would devastate already underfunded health systems especially in rural areas
— Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) pus…

Doctors Warn Medicaid Cuts in Senate Budget Bill Will Kill Their Patients
Protests against Medicaid cuts continued on June 25, which led to the arrests of 60 activists at the Senate.