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People Before Profit's bill to sanction the state of Israel is coming to the Dšil this week. There's a petition here calling on the TDs in the Dšil to back the bill. I've signed, please join me: https:…

Pass the Sanctions Against the State of Israel Bill
Dear Deputies, We call on you to vote in favour of the Sanctions Against the State of Israel Bill 2026 when it comes before the Dáil.  The bill is being proposed by Richard Boyd Barrett (People Before Profit) but it comes from the long-held mass movement demand for sanctions on the state of Israel.  It will be debated on 14 May and the vote in the Dáil is due to take place on 20 May. For almost three years, the world has witnessed the genocidal destruction of Gaza  - the mass killing of...

Guess Which State Just Compared Abortion Pills to Fentanyl & Guns!?
https://www.jezebel.com/guess-which-state-just-compared-abortion-pills-to-fentanyl-guns

State Department reviewing all Mexican consulates in U.S. as tensions grow (Olivia Gazis/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-department-reviewing-all-mexican-consulates-in-u-s-as-tensions-grow/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p111#a260507p111

CETI is a nonprofit organization
applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics
to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.
Our research focus is in Dominica
in the Eastern Caribbean
https://www.projectceti.org/

Project CETI •-- Home
CETI is a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.

US State Department orders mandatory departure for US Embassy staff in Saudi Arabia. Apparently after a request from the Saudi government.
#SaudiArabia #USEmbassy #evacuation

State Dept. Said to Order Diplomats in Saudi Arabia to Leave
The ordered departure of U.S. employees in the kingdom indicates that senior diplomats are bracing for a possible surge in violence in the war with Iran, officials say.

The only thing worse than "it doesn't work and I don't understand why" is "it works and I don't understand why".
As best I can tell, the several months ago state (which worked and gave correct output) and the current state (which worked and gave correct output) both being correct are mutually exclusive, because they swap the forward and reverse FFT inputs.
So either it was broken all along and occasionally worked due to the race I still don't f…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/116193283985618904
I spent enough time building e-commerce platforms to know US ZIP codes do not guarantee a city, county, and state (nor are they guaranteed unique to the US).
Anyway, absolutist statements anno…

from my link log —
Async Rust never left the MVP state.
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/237/async-rust-never-left-the-mvp-state
saved 2026-05-04

Async Rust never left the MVP state - Blog - Tweede golf
I've previously explained async bloat and some work-arounds for it, but would much prefer to solve the issue at the root, in the compiler. I've submitted a Project Goal, and am looking for help to ...

The Ambassador for #Iran, Ardeshir Zahedi, hosted a party at the Iranian embassy 50 years ago, April, 1976. Sen. Edward Brooks (Mass) danced "The Hustle" w Elizabeth Taylor; Sen. Humphrey (Minnesota) and Sec. State Kissinger visited with Polly Bergen. Fargo Forum Newspaper. "It's Party Time" (AP)

Today is the time to remind everyone of our piece a year ago on the threat from the far right.
The right wing threat and a viable future | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/05/13/the-right-wing-threat-and-a-viable-futu…

The right wing threat and a viable future
A statement from Steady State Manchester Introduction With horror we see the electoral success of POX, The party of Xenophobes and Fascists (which, without irony, actually calls itself Reform UK1).…

The only thing better than bison manure is free bison manure. https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2026/03/06/colorado-state-offering-gardeners-free-bison-manure-how-to-get-yours/89015192007/

CSU offering free bison manure for gardens ahead of spring planting
This year's free bison manure day will be held 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 7 at the CSU Foothills Campus.

State Department Bypasses Congress to Send Israel More Than 20,000 Bombs - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/us/politics/state-department-bomb-sale-israel.html

Abby Martin: “The world sees Israel for what it is and it can’t last for long in its current state. You cannot expect change in a society this far gone. It is full-throated fascist. And that’s why they act the way they do, with full… total impunity. Because they have no humanity left.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQbPCvV8W8

NFL Draft rumors: Jets rethinking No. 2 pick, Ohio State could own top five, Bain and Tyson falling?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/nfl-draft-rumors-20…

Virginia State Supreme Court Strikes Down Dem Redistricting Proposal (Khaya Himmelman/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/virginia-state-supreme-court-strikes-down-dem-redistricting-proposal
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p42#a260508p42

What a quote.
"O’Leary, a Canadian, said in his video that 'people who live in Utah aren’t stupid,' and they 'see this happening and realize, "Why am I letting people who don’t even live in my state make decisions for me?"'"
#Utah #utpol

The Rehearsal State: When Governance Becomes Performance
There is a scene in every disaster movie where the official steps to the podium, adjusts the microphone, and assures the public that resources are being mobilized, plans are being activated, and the full weight of the institution is being brought to bear. The audience in the theater knows the official is lying or incompetent or both. The audience at home, watching the real version of the same press conference…

The Rehearsal State: When Governance Becomes Performance | David Boles, Blogs
There is a scene in every disaster movie where the official steps to the podium, adjusts the microphone, and assures the public that resources are being mobilized, plans are being activated, and th…

A very worthwhile long read on how different State actors are trying to undermine European democratic values.
"small, deniable physical actions are rapidly followed by coordinated online activity designed to confuse the public, assign blame and undermine trust in authorities and the wider system."
https://ecfr.eu/publication/from-shield-to-sword-europes-offensive-strategy-for-the-hybrid-age/#lessons-from-then-and-now

State Department will delete all its tweets sent prior to second Trump presidency.
In many ways this is bad, but it's also understandable - there's a balance between continuity and demonstrating change when administrations change. In many ways it's a failure of X to not provide a labelling system to automatically mark posts as being from a previous administration and not necessarily reflecting policy.

Iran's official TV networks and aligned social media accounts are blending fact and fiction about the war, often using unproven claims and fake AI videos (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/business/media/iran-state-tv-social-media…

Iranian TV and Social Media Project Defiant and Distorted View of the War
State media and online propagandists are striking a confident posture, despite heavy losses. Some of the content was generated by artificial intelligence.

Voted in the state elections against anti-democratic fascists and for the future of our children and the planet. ✅💚

Pretty good sticker haul from @… State of the Browser last week! #SotB #SotB26

A bunch of countries issued a joint advisory highlighting a Russian state-sponsored cyber campaign targeting Western logistics entities and technology companies.
https://media.defense.gov/2025/May/21/2003719846/-1/-1/0/CSA_RUSSIAN_GRU_TARGET_LOGI…

A hacker claims to have stolen 10PB of data, including classified defense docs and missile schematics, from China's National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin (Isaac Yee/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/08/china/china-supercomputer-hackers-hnk-intl

A hacker has allegedly breached one of China’s supercomputers and is attempting to sell a trove of stolen data
A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data – including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics – from a state-run Chinese supercomputer in what could potentially constitute the largest known heist of data from China.

I've started my development log for May. It's really mostly about tooling -- specifically, editors and debuggers.
#PostScarcitySoftware
#Lisp

"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening."
—Julianne Moore
#acting

🇫🇷 state-owned energy giant EDF celebrates its 80th anniversary by supporting electrification (such as heat pumps for low-income households, electric 🚚🚛 public charging and industrial electrification)
It’s a bit like your local dealer handing out ‘free’ 🍭, only this time it brings a social benefit

If these claims are true, the biggest loser might be nation state actors and the zero-day market. Think how many decades old vulns could be the secret sauce of many governments' spy programs.
https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

“It is a DOJ power grab,”
said Stephen Gillers,
a legal ethics scholar at New York University School of Law.
In a notice posted online in the Federal Register,
the Justice Department proposed a new regulation that would let it intervene in state bars’ disciplinary investigations,
-- including with the authority to review any allegations against DOJ lawyers first.
It would amount to a request for state bar authorities to suspend their probes until Attorney…

This is looks really great https://boxd.sh

This reminds me of another quote, courtesy of the statistician and sociologist Adolphe Quételet:
“Society prepares the crime, and the guilty are only the instruments by which it is executed.” https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/115006479446719860

"The figures show this: a child born this morning in Britain can expect to be in good health only until they are 61. The last 20 years of their life will be blighted by illness: dodgy hearts, painful joints, an inability to get about. Our healthy life expectancy has been dropping for years; it is now the lowest since 2011, when records began."
This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet? | Aditya Chakrabortty

"The BJP was formed by members of what was basically a Hindu religious fascist party, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an organisation modelled on Mussolini’s Black Brigades. Modi was a long-time member of the RSS who then moved seamlessly into the BJP. "
India: a further swing to the right – Michael Roberts Blog

India: a further swing to the right
In the recent state elections in India, the ruling BJP-led coalition government won resounding victories in some key states previously held by opposition parties. In the highly populated West Benga…

Former Head of State Border Guard Serhii Deineko mobilized, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/03/former-head-of-state-border.html

BREAKING: Tennessee State Republicans Are Voting to Eliminate Only Black-Majority District (Prem Thakker/Zeteo)
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-tennessee-state-republicans
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p71#a260507p71

RE: https://mas.to/@cascadepine/116035369303913193
america eyeing a petro-state

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116533120069023831
The quoted toot is dismal and true
But know that if you want to learn, people are willing to show you. You have to bring the will to learn because the temptation to skip learning will be everywhere. But if you're curious when the curmudgeonly old techie who's holding the system together says something surprising, ask them about it. We will tell you.
If you want to learn and you're not employed, I cannot state this enough, _build something_. Start with AI, that's fine, but _get under the hood_. Get your hands dirty. Understand what's going on. Your curiosity is the ONLY thing that will get you that experience now.

Wow things are going great.
#uspol

[OT, Forbes] The state of the $1.7 trillion AI bubble: the end of thinking https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2026/02/27/the-state-of-the-17-trillion-ai-bubble-the-end-of-thinking/

The State Of The $1.7 Trillion AI Bubble: The End Of Thinking
Writing is thinking and thinking is understanding. Like understanding that the AI bubble has been around for a long time and that it's better to call it the data bubble.

"According to Iranian state media, the ten-point proposal includes a number of conditions that the US has in the past rejected. Among them are controlled transit through strait of Hormuz coordinated with Iranian armed forces and withdrawal of all US forces from regional bases. The plan would also require the lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions, payment of full compensation to Iran and release of all frozen Iranian assets." @…

I love it when a state gets something right.
https://reason.com/2026/04/03/colorado-becomes-first-state-to-protect-defendants-against-faulty-roadside-drug-tests/

Colorado becomes first state to protect defendants against faulty roadside drug tests
A 2024 study estimated that 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongly arrested due to unreliable roadside drug tests used by police.

I've emailed him to suggest that he takes a look at the Fediverse.
How I've learned that certainty is the thing to really fear - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w5z1d447lo

Brazil prosecutors launch suit against meatpacking giant JBS over beef tied to slavery-like labor https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/04/brazil-prosecutors-launch-suit-against-meatpacking-gi…

Brazil prosecutors launch suit against meatpacking giant JBS over beef tied to slavery-like labor
SAO PAULO (AP) — Labor prosecutors in Brazil filed a lawsuit Wednesday against meatpacking giant JBS, accusing the company of buying cattle from farms where workers were held in slavery-like conditions. The civil action suit before a labor court in the northern Brazilian state of Para seeks nearly 119 million reais (about $24 million) in compensation, an […]

Scents From 3,500 Years Ago Recreated to Give Museum Visitors a Whiff of History https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scents-from-3500-years-ago-recreated-to-give-museum-visitors-a-whiff-of-history/

Scents From 3,500 Years Ago Recreated to Give Museum Visitors a Whiff of History
Scents from the past are being recreated using state of the art technology to give museum visitors a whiff of Egyptian history.

I've just started reading "Seeing Like a State" and wow, this book is quite something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State
I got my copy from the Parliament's library. The notes on the margins from previous readers are interesting too.

Seeing Like a State - Wikipedia

Pleased to live in a place where this is true (enough):
Eight states received “A” grades for LGBTQ safety based on their comprehensive pro-equality laws and low rates of hate crimes against LGBTQ people. **Only Rhode Island nabbed an A mark.**
https://www.safehome.org/data-lgbtq-state-

2025 LGBTQ+ State Safety Report Cards | SafeHome.org
Eight states got A's for LGBTQ+ safety, with Rhode Island topping the list. Florida ranked lowest, with a failing grade due to discriminatory laws.

Cowboys Pass Rush Specialist Working With Ohio State Superstar https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/dallas-cowboys-pass-rush-specialist-working-ohio-state-superstar

The State Dept. said it would start revoking the passports of Americans who owe substantial child support payments. “Any American with significant child support debt should arrange payment to the relevant state or states now to prevent passport revocation if a person owes more than $2,500 in child support, adding that it is coordinating with the DHS to pinpoint people who might be candidates for passport revocation.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/07/us/trump-news/f57df81e-2bd2-5039-9571-2d46ba171704?smid=url-share

Minnesota GOP state lawmaker pushes House Oversight panel to subpoena Rep. Ilhan Omar (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/08/us-news/minnesota-state-lawmaker-pushes-house-oversight-to-subpoena-rep-ilhan-omar/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p78#a260508p78

I'm so confused I've tried to find any persistent state across de-embed filter invocations and i *think* I've cleared everything out.
If i blow away the fft plan i get no output which is weird and needs further investigation (something not being initialized until the second filter execution or something?).
Wiping all of the VkBuffer's i could find had no effect. I tried adding submits after each shader in case of anything strange happening in command buffers wrt b…

"When Syrian government accounts were hijacked in March, the breach looked chaotic. But it revealed something more troubling: a state struggling with the most basic layer of cybersecurity."
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-hack-that-exposed-s…

The Hack That Exposed Syria’s Sweeping Security Failures
When Syrian government accounts were hijacked in March, the breach looked chaotic. But it revealed something more troubling: a state struggling with the most basic layer of cybersecurity.

Passport Revocations Due to Significant Child Support Debt (United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/05/passport-revocations-due-to-significant-child-support-debt/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p50#a260508p50

Most of California's Democratic congressional delegation sent a letter to state AG Rob Bonta urging him to "closely scrutinize" the Paramount-WBD deal (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/rob-bonta-paramount-warner…

California Attorney General Urged to Scrutinize Paramount-W.B. Merger
A group of 34 Congressional Democrats urged Attorney General Rob Bonta on Thursday to carefully scrutinize the Paramount-W.B. merger.

Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection point for coding, exhaustion due to managing coding agents, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny's Newsletter)
https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/an-ai-state-of-the-union
…

An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison
Listen now | Simon Willison on why November 2025 changed software engineering forever, the lethal trifecta, his top agentic engineering patterns, and much more

Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill allowing Florida to label groups as domestic terror organizations
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5819449-desantis-law-targets-student-groups/

@… @…
Yeah. I got that. Wasn't trying to criticize. Just sharing my take.
When you're poorer, how you do really is Bishop lottery. Some bishops are freer with funds and the bishop's storehouse (food bank) …

Governor Pritzker urges Secretary of State Marco Rubio to help stranded Americans in the Middle East
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2026/03/04/…

Pritzker urges Secretary of State Marco Rubio to help stranded Americans in the Middle East
In a letter to the State Department, the governor mentioned "immediate actions" he wants in place to help U.S. citizens, including a public commitment to use charter flights, military aircraft or both to assist Americans trying to leave the region.

Heinberg:
"The current sharp spike in diesel fuel prices is likely to be a significant drag on the construction and installation of renewables—as well as to increase the cost of food and most other things. People tend to forget that, despite all the solar panels and wind turbines, the heavy work of the global economy is still mostly being done by diesel fuel."
20 Years after «The Oil Depletion Protocol».

20 Years after «The Oil Depletion Protocol». An interview with Richard Heinberg
A conversation about the current state of oil geopolitics, from the protocol point of view, and about its present day validity.

Interview with the author on the 20th anniversary of the publication of The Oil Depletion Protocol: a Plan to Avert Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse (2006), the book by Richard Heinberg.
(Interviewed by @…)
20 Years after «The Oil Depletion Protocol». An interview with Richard Heinberg - 15/15\15

20 Years after «The Oil Depletion Protocol». An interview with Richard Heinberg
A conversation about the current state of oil geopolitics, from the protocol point of view, and about its present day validity.

"Public health is not a government bureaucracy. It is the reason most of us are alive. It is clean water, childhood vaccines, and food safety inspections. ... And women — often overlooked, often working without recognition — built much of it." 🧪💉
https://www.

Guest column: A Fargo daughter proved that women’s health matters. We’re still proving it.
Professor Michelle A. Williams will deliver the Mary Jaylene Berg Memorial Lecture at North Dakota State University on April 7.

You know how you’re in the middle of a process and you refresh a web page and it loses state?
So that sucks.
With Kitten¹ – when using the new state-maintaining/class-based and event model-based component model – it’s easy to have flowing interfaces that animate between states, etc., that don’t lose state if you refresh the page (or open another tab).
What you can’t do on the Web, however, is restore the state of any cross-origin iframes. (As you have no visibility into th…

Minnesota governor orders emergency support for cyberattack disrupting county’s ‘critical systems’
https://statescoop.com/minnesota-winona-county-cyberattack-emergency-order/

Minnesota governor orders emergency support for cyberattack disrupting county’s ‘critical systems’
“Swift coordination between state and local experts matters in these moments," Tim Walz, Minnesota's governor, said after a disruptive cyberattack in Winona County.

How the Ohio State Buckeyes can help the Commanders in the draft https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48083665/washington-commanders-ohio-state-buckeyes-sonny-styles-arvell-reese-2026-nfl-draft-combine

So I've solved the coupler de-embed issue but am even more confused than when I started.
I updated to the latest upstream VkFFT and, after fixing a shader caching issue that caused problems the first time I tried this, have it working.
The race condition or whatever it was seems to be gone, although I don't have push descriptors working (that's a separate issue).
But it seems to now be behaving consistently in the inverted state: forward to tempBuf1 and reverse …

Inside Palantir Foundation's Atlantic and Pacific Forum at Yale for invited students: State Dept. and Palantir staff share a vision of mixing AI and state power (Alex Bronzini-Vender/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/palantir-yale-confere…

Palantir Comes to Campus
At a quiet conference at Yale, Palantir and its allies sketched a vision for AI, state power, and how to mix the two.

Democratic state attorneys general sue Trump over tariffs

The lawsuit accuses the president of trying to “sidestep” a Supreme Court ruling that overturned many of his previous levies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/05/tariffs-lawsuit-democr…

Democratic state attorneys general sue Trump over tariffs
In a lawsuit, Democratic officials from more than 20 states say that Trump’s new tariffs are illegal and that he is trying to “sidestep” a Supreme Court ruling.

Oz alleges Maine 'looks a lot like Minnesota' regarding entitlement fraud (Sarah Davis/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5728249-trump-oz-allege-maine-fraud/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p21#a260208p21

We are close to peak infosec news volume this week, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--US taps Microsoft, Google, xAI for pre-release AI testing as threat worries grow,
--FTC to ban Kochava from selling location data,
--State officials urge AI companies to include them in early-access testing,
--CISA wants CI firms to plan for essential service disconnection,
--DAEMON Tools software delivered backdo…

US taps Microsoft, Google, xAI for pre-release AI testing as threat worries grow
FTC to ban Kochava from selling location data, State officials urge AI companies to include them in early-access testing, CISA wants CI firms to plan for essential service disconnection, DAEMON Tools software delivered backdoor to thousands, Breach forced Coupang to lose money, much more

Israeli media: the IDF destroyed the HQ of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting; the English-language site of Iran's official news agency is offline (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/iran-state-broadcaster-irib-de…

Israel Says It Has Destroyed Iranian State Broadcaster HQ  But Islamic Republic Regime Denies Reports
Israel has said the IRIB Iran State Broadcaster has been destroyed following the death of Ali Khamenei, but Iran has pushed back.

US will start revoking passports for thousands of parents who owe child support, AP learns (Matthew Lee/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/passports-unpaid-child-support-penalty-state-department-42d90cfa8a06ee349bb9145f668919b6
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p98#a260507p98

Finally some progress. But it's baffling.
The very first step of the de-embed filter is to execute FFTs of dinFwd to vectorTempBuf3 and dinRev to vectorTempBuf1.
It appears that somehow the FFTs trade places in the failure scenario, with the frequency domain version of dinFwd being written to vectorTempBuf1 and dinRev going to vectorTempBuf3.
I don't even know where to start debugging this, it smells like something going wrong in the depths of vkFFT with some state …

Chef Sam Kass recounts planning a meal consisting of food waste for heads of state like Xi Jingping and Angela Merkel.
Author of "The Last Supper,"
he provides his plan for making the food system more sustainable.
Watch this Sunday at 1 PM ET
on C-SPAN 2's Book TV.
https://

Iran's state media says Iran targeted Amazon's Bahrain data center on Sunday because of the company's support of "US military and intelligence activities" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/amazon-bahrain-data…

Amazon's Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says
Amazon said the Bahrain facility was damaged due to a nearby drone strike, and two data centers in the UAE were directly hit by drones.

Costs too much to operate.
Federal and State Officials Discuss Closing Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/us/florida-alligator-alcatraz-possible-closure.html

The DHS shooting of a
third U.S. citizen went
unnoticed for months

No state or federal agency disclosed that a Homeland Security Investigations agent had
killed Ruben Ray Martinez
until it was revealed in a
public records request
https://www.wash…

How a DHS shooting of a third U.S. citizen went unnoticed for months
No state or federal agency disclosed that a Homeland Security Investigations agent had killed Ruben Ray Martinez until it was revealed in a public records request.

Brian Mast questions State Department official on Biden administation's 'queer' maps project (Rena Rowe/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/4483979/brian-mast-state-department-biden-queer-maps-project/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260306/p111#a260306p111

Religion Clause: Texas AG Sues to Close Down CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood in State
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2026/02/texas-ag-sues-to-close-down-cair-and.html

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it will deliver a "regret-inducing response" if Israeli strikes on Lebanon don't stop immediately, state media reports

Israel and the US say Lebanon is not included in a two-week ceasefire deal with Iran. PM Benjamin Netanyahu says today Israel delivered "the greatest blow" to Hezbollah since the start of its ground operation in Lebanon

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Vice-President JD…

Trump agrees to two-week ceasefire if Iran opens Strait of Hormuz - follow live
Pakistan had proposed the ceasefire after the US president threatened that "a whole civilisation will die tonight" if Iran did not agree to a deal.

The United States Proposes a UN Security Council Resolution to Defend Freedom of Navigation and Secure the Strait of Hormuz (Marco Rubio/United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/05/the-united-states-proposes-a-un-security-council-resolution-to-defend-freedom-of-navigation-and-secure-the-strait-of-hormuz/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p102#a260505p102

State of AI safety: as capabilities grow and models can monitor other models, issues like adversarial robustness persist and society is still not ready for AI (Boaz Barak/Windows On Theory)
https://windowsontheory.org/2026/03/30/the-state-of-ai-safety-in-fo…

The state of AI safety in four fake graphs
Here is a quick overview of my intuitions on where we are with AI safety in early 2026: So far, we continue to see exponential improvements in capabilities. This is most visible in the famous “METR…

"Hungary seized two Ukrainian cash transport vehicles with $40M, 35M euros and 9kg of gold,
detaining seven Oshchadbank staff.
FM Sybiha calls it "state terrorism and racketeering."
GPS puts the vehicles in central Budapest near a security agency."
https://bsky…

WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social)
Ukraine's central bank chief showed the freed cash transport workers after their release from Hungarian detention. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

"A three-judge panel for the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals ruled that gender-affirming care for minors constitutes an essential medical treatment for trans youth and that the ban on gender-affirming care is in violation of a state constitutional amendment. "
Republicans passed an amendment to curtail Obamacare. It just backfired in a surprising way. - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/republicans-passed-an-amendment-to-curtail-obamacare-it-just-backfired-in-a-surprising-way/

JD Vance will visit Hungary on Tuesday
in an 11th-hour attempt to boost key MAGA ally Prime Minister Viktor Orbšn
before an all-important election on Sunday, but the U.S. vice president’s trip appears unlikely to swing an increasingly bitter race.
Trump has already issued several endorsements of Orbšn
— a Kremlin-aligned proponent of “illiberal democracy”
— but polls suggest those interventions have done little to boost the struggling prime minister,
who …

Vance in Budapest: Viktor Orbán’s last throw of the MAGA dice
U.S. interventions by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have so far failed to reverse the Hungarian leader’s flagging fortunes.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio Remarks to Press (Marco Rubio/United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/03/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-remarks-to-press-6/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p82#a260303p82

“The circus has left the town square, that’s for sure,” said Brian Reisinger, a former Republican strategist in Wisconsin.
On Tuesday, voters in Wisconsin will choose another justice to join the State Supreme Court.
Except this election has arrived with little of the fanfare that Wisconsin voters have come to expect from these court races:
the national frenzy, a cameo from a tech billionaire, incessant television ads, partisan debates and a deluge of campaign cash.
M…

Without Elon Musk, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Justice Election Goes Quiet
Elections for the Wisconsin Supreme Court have previously brought record-breaking spending and national attention. Tuesday’s race has been a more muted affair.

Groundwater contamination was top of mind when Medcalf heard about a new draft bill crafted by the House of Representatives in January.
The bill would amend large portions of the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act
— a series of EPA regulations meant to police the manufacturing, processing and use of chemical substances,
including such contaminants as those found at Jones Road.
In 2016, Congress reformed the act, commonly referred to as

After Years of Gains, GOP Pushes to Roll Back Chemical Regulations
In Texas, environmental activists and experts raise the alarm about the impact on the state's petrochemical industry.

Federal and State Officials Discuss Closing Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/us/florida-alligator-alcatraz-possible-closure.html?unlocked_article_code=1.glA.g8wu.s8St5yyb-0gr
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p104#a260507p104

Trump admin sues Minnesota over state climate lawsuit | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-admin-sues-minnesota-over-state-climate-lawsuit/

Democrats watched with mouths agape this week as Latino voters,
many of whom have sat out previous primary seasons,
turned out in droves for James Talarico in Texas.
But the push to win back the elusive and swingy coalition that proved pivotal to Donald Trump’s 2024 victory goes way beyond the closely watched Lone Star State.
This is a story that kicked off last year as Democrats overperformed in Latino-dominant districts across Virginia and New Jersey.
It’s o…

Middle East crisis live: Iranian state media reports that US destroyers have been targeted near strait of Hormuz (Lucy Campbell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/may/07/middle-east-crisis-iran-trump-us-negotiations-deal-war-peace-proposal-hormuz-latest-news-updates
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p95#a260507p95

The Secret History of the Deep State (James Rosen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/opinion/trump-nixon-watergate-radford.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KlA.jyVZ.dyIlbsiUt8oq&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p22#a260208p22

Last week, Trump called for the culmination of a 45-year Republican dream
and did so in a way designed to do maximum damage to the GOP
— not to mention the country.
That dream is the utter destruction of the US safety net
and the unlimited expansion of the US military.
“The United States can’t take care of daycare,” Trump blustered during a speech to faith leaders on Wednesday.
“That has to be up to a state.
We’re fighting wars.
Medicaid, Medi…

Trump's Total War Budget
“More bombs, less of everything else” is a tough campaign platform.

Tennessee passes new congressional map that splits state's only majority-Black district (ABC News)
https://abcnews.com/Politics/tennessee-passes-new-congressional-map-splits-states-majority/story?id=132753080
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p17#a260508p17

AFSA Statement on State Department Reductions in Force (afsa.org)
https://afsa.org/afsa-statement-state-department-reductions-force
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p84#a260505p84

Bonus 214: Emergency Relief from State Courts (Steve Vladeck/One First)
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-214-emergency-relief-from-state
http://www.memeorandum.com/260305/p47#a260305p47

Wisconsin judicial race spotlights state GOP's struggles (Caroline Vakil/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5815729-wisconsin-republicans-state-supreme-court-race/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260404/p59#a260404p59

7 Indiana legislators face Trump-backed primary challengers after bucking him on redistricting (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/indiana-legislators-primary-election-trump-redistricting-state-senate-rcna343321
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p116#a260505p116

Trump DOJ Pushes to Sideline State Bar Ethics Investigations (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/trump-doj-pushes-to-sideline-state-bar-ethics-investigations
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p52#a260304p52