The Justice Department on Friday refused to issue a signed declaration from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche verifying that it no longer intends to pursue President Donald Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund."
The DOJ's refusal comes after a federal judge last week gave the administration seven days to verify in a declaration that it wouldn't create the controversial fund.
"Such declarations are unnecessary and the compelled testimony of senior official…
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Rapsody:
🎵 Nina
#Rapsody
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Freedom of the Press Foundation says Paramount refused to air an ad criticizing Paramount's merger with WBD during the stream of the UFC White House event (Miles Klee/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/paramount-refused-to-air-an-ad-cri…
TSMC CFO Wendell Huang says TSMC will use its new $100B US commitment, announced last week, to expand its Arizona capacity amid a "multi-year demand mega trend" (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/20/tsmc-arizona-fab-capacity-ai-chip-demand.h…
#3goodthings
- Temperatures comping down.
- Did some refactoring on my project (allowing me to slowly decouple my code from a specific upstream library).
- Doggo back from holiday.
For group builds of my 3d-printed single-paddle Morse code key, I have revised my spreadsheet for calculating costs. It now has all the detailed breakdown I have considered.
Because it's not effectively inexpensively possible to buy exa…
World Cup trivia:
Donald Trump is the first convicted rapist and pedophile to fondle the World Cup trophy.
Once in Russia, recruits are shown contracts in Russian,
threatened if they refused to sign,
have their passports taken away,
and are sent to the front lines with little training.
Get all the details here:
https://skywriter.blue/@africacenter.bsky.socia…
The debate between the spelling and pronunciation of Molokaʻi or Molokai
(with or without the glottal stop,
or ʻokina, between the “a” and “i”)
has been ongoing for decades.
Speakers, who were born and raised on Molokaʻi, all pronounced the name of their island as Molokaʻi with the ʻokina letter,” Kimura recently told ASD by email.
“Also, all the Native Hawaiian speakers not from Molokaʻi who interacted in conversation with them pronounced Molokaʻi with the ʻok…