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Alabama on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections
-- despite a lower court’s rulingthat the redistricting plan intentionally discriminates against Black people.
The state’s Republican leadership filed an emergency appeal with the justices a day after a three-judge court refused to let the state use a map it adopted three years ago that has a majority Black population in just one of its seven congressio…

Alabama asks Supreme Court to allow use of congressional map helping GOP
Alabama is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections, despite a lower court's ruling the map intentionally discriminates against Black people. The state filed an emergency appeal with the justices Wednesday, a day after a three-judge court blocked a map with a Black majority in just one of Alabama's seven congressional districts. The judges ordered Alabama to use a court-ordered map with two districts with large Black populat…

The Economist says President Luke Bradley-Jones will become group CEO on August 1, as Lara Boro steps down after seven years; he became president in 2024 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news…

Economist president Luke Bradley-Jones to become group CEO
The Economist president Luke Bradley-Jones will become group CEO as Lara Boro steps down after seven years.

Memo: NBC News Chief Digital Officer Chris Berend is leaving NBCUniversal after seven years and will be replaced by Technology EVP Kyri Sarantakos on July 3 (JD Knapp/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/nbc-news-c…

NBC News Chief Digital Officer Chris Berend Exits After 7 Years
NBC News' Chief Digital Officer Chris Berend is exiting NBCUniversal after seven years with the company, TheWrap has learned.

"Justice Roberts delivered a key decision in the 2019 case Rucho v. Common Cause. Roberts siding with conservatives on a 5-4 decision seven years ago kept constitutional limits away from partisan gerrymandering"
John Roberts' landmark 2019 decision just backfired spectacularly on GOP: legal analysts - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/virginia-2676813108/

Seven years of running FreeBSD on ThinkPads alongside Linux — lessons I'd give my younger self
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tedyva/seven_years_of_running_freebsd_on_thinkpads/>
＂I daily-drive Linux at wo…

A South Korean court sentences a former Samsung researcher to seven years in prison for leaking semiconductor tech to China's CXMT, helping it develop HBM (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/f

A former U.S. Marine reservist and seven others were sentenced Tuesday to decades in prison over a shooting last year that wounded a police officer during a demonstration at a Texas immigration detention center.
Prosecutors called the crime an act of terrorism and said the eight were linked to a leftist militant group, antifa.
The defendants’ attorneys denied any antifa ties and family members expressed shock and anger over the stiff sentences.
Benjamin Song, the Marine reser…

8 convicted in Prairieland shooting and protest are sentenced to decades in federal prison
Eight protesters accused by the Justice Department of having ties to antifa have been sentenced to decades in federal prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center. A police officer was wounded in the July 4 shooting outside the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas. A former U.S. Marine Corps reservist convicted of attempted murder in the shooting was sentenced Tuesday to 100 years in prison, which is the maximum punishment. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, one of …

A Singapore man has been arrested and may face seven years in jail for allegedly leaking The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender after accessing a media server (Calista Wong/The Straits Times)
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/man

Man arrested for unreleased film leak in Singapore
A 26-year-old man has been arrested in Singapore for allegedly accessing a content server, downloading an unreleased film, and leaking it online. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

"Torazine was the most extreme magazine that has ever been published in Italy. Born in Rome in 1995 as an offshoot of the local rave scene and fueled by the most rigorous "chemical diet" of the time, for the next seven years it would infest the worst underground nightmares of distorted visions and degenerate accelerationisms, infecting with its "polychrome capsules of pop counterculture" an imagination which, at the turn of the millennium, even risked overflowing int…

Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its chip business seven years after the US cut Huawei off from advanced chips, as it bets on logic-stacking tech (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/234c9aeb-33aa-469e-844d-f721e81296cf

So not a single Israeli war criminal is standing trial, but thanks to Brooke Jenkins, people who protested the genocide are. Disgraceful.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/05/trial-golden-gate-protesters/

Trial kicks off for 7 pro-Palestine protesters facing up to 14 years for Golden Gate Bridge demonstration
Seven protesters facing up to 14 years in prison in connection to a 2024 pro-Palestinian demonstration saw their first day in court.

I love this premise:
"It has been 62 years since the last Federation contact with the planet."
It sounds real, gloomy, and plausible in the grander scale of the Star Trek universe compared to the usual warping about the Alpha Quadrant.
It's from TNG's 1x14 (Angel One) Memory Alpha:
https://

Angel One (episode)
While Riker leads an away team to a female-dominated planet, a mysterious virus spreads among the Enterprise crew. The USS Enterprise-D has discovered the wreckage of the Odin, a freighter that disappeared seven years earlier. It was disabled by a collision with an asteroid, and there are no life signs on board, but three escape pods have been discovered missing. The Enterprise travels to Angel I, the nearest class M planet, to search for the freighter's survivors. Angel I is a...

The US military has significantly depleted its stockpile of key missiles during the war with Iran
and created a “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in a future conflict should one arise in the next few years,
according to experts and three people familiar with recent internal Defense Department stockpile assessments.
Over the last seven weeks of war,
the US military has expended at least 45% of its stockpile of Precision Strike Missiles;
at least half …

Last Rounds? Status of Key Munitions at the Iran War Ceasefire
The United States has depleted its missile inventories but still has enough to continue fighting this war under any plausible scenario. The risk is with future wars—particularly against a peer competitor like China.

NFL Insider Suggests Jerry Jones, Cowboys Could Pick Controversial Texas-born QB https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brendan-sorsby-jerry-jones-cowboys/

Exterior of the Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota, 2026. The design is remade yearly, using corn cobs of different colors, cut in half and attached to the façade, along with native grasses. 1/2

Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its chip business seven years after the US cut Huawei off from advanced chips, as it bets on logic-stacking tech (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/234c9aeb-33aa-469e-844d-f721e81296cf

"Nurseries backed by private equity have sprouted up across the UK over the last five years, taking over independent businesses and merging them into gigantic chains. To an outside eye, many of these look the same as before, but they report profits that are as much as seven times greater than the surplus made by non-profit nurseries, spend up to 14% less on staff, and have far higher rates of staff turnover than nurseries run from schools."

#NowPlaying And now it’s time for seven hours of Fluxus celebrating 30 years from 1962 – 1992. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ry5eHu29pM

As Eagles trade A.J. Brown to Patriots, a lingering question: Why couldn't this work out? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6988689/2026/06/01/eagles-aj-brown-trade-analysis/

EFF says it is leaving X, as "X is no longer where the fight is happening" and an X post now gets less than 3% of the views a tweet got seven years ago (Kenyatta Thomas/Electronic Frontier Foundation)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

EFF is Leaving X
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@OpenMediaOrg/116376199482346548
"… an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago. …"
"… Our presence on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok is not an …

Harry S. Truman was the first U.S. president to formally propose a comprehensive, national universal health insurance plan
In 1945 he proposed a single, federally run system for all Americans.
While Truman is the most prominent historical advocate, Presidents Richard Nixon and Theodore Roosevelt also supported different forms of universal healthcare coverage. 

69 years ago, a president pitches his idea for national health care
Back in 1945 -- a mere seven months into a presidency he inherited from Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Truman proposed a “universal” national health insurance program. In his remarks to Congress, he declared, “Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. The time has arrived for action to help them attain that opportunity and that protection.”

Source: Nvidia is marketing its first corporate bond sale since 2021, seeking to raise $20B across seven tranches with maturities ranging from two to 30 years (Brian W Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

#NowPlaying Leave it to #Excepter to release a record they spent seven years making on this May Day 2026, International General Strike Buy Nothing Day, but that’s the lane we’re all fated to drive.

AI made it easy to start work.
It did not make it easy to finish it.
Daily Pull Request contexts per developer are up 67.4%.
Work restarts, tasks that return to in-progress after moving to another stage, are up 13.8%.
26% more in-progress tasks show no activity for seven or more days:
i.e. work was started, claimed capacity, and then stalled.
The developer productivity picture that AI tools present at the individual level is one of acceleration.
The w…

The AI Engineering Report 2026: The AI Acceleration Whiplash - Ten Takeaways
What two years of telemetry data from 22,000 developers reveals about AI's real impact on developer productivity, code quality, and business risk in 2026.

A look at Amjambo Africa, an immigrant-founded publication in Maine that focuses on immigrant life and news from Africa with coverage in seven languages (Tandy Lau/Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/h…

How one immigrant newsroom is connecting Maine’s communities
When Georges Budagu Makoko arrived in Maine in 2002 after fleeing violence in Central Africa, he spoke five languages — but English wasn’t one of them. Finding housing, healthcare or even basic services in his new home proved frustrating and often confusing. Years later, those early struggles inspired him to launch Amjambo Africa, a multilingual newsroom dedicated to helping new Mainers navigate life in the United States while sharing the stories of immigrant communities too often overlooke…

The Electronic Frontier Foundation @… is Leaving #X:
> The Numbers Aren’t Working Out (…) To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago.
April 9, 2026: #Reichweite #Musk #SocialMedia #Marketing #DigitalRights #Kommunikation