Tootfinder

'Question of self-preservation' — Baltic states move to curb Moscow's sway over their Russian speakers: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/19/question-of-selfpreservation-baltic-states.html

No Taxation Without Representation. No Kings.
How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/19/blue-states-fight-back-against-trump

The Tangerine Tyrant is a clear and present danger to the American People and the national security of the United States.
"The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and 'respect for human rights.'"

Dutch intelligence services cut back on sharing information with U.S
The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and "respect for human rights."

Official Says 11 States Open to Stopping Residents From Voting at DOJ’s Request | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/official-says-11-states-open-to-stopping-residents-from-voting-at-dojs-request/

How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience (Eric Reinhart/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/19/blue-states-fight-back-against-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p71#a251019p71

The US and the UK and Australia are going after bulletproof hosting companies.
United States, Australia, and United Kingdom Sanction Russian Cybercrime Infrastructure Supporting Ransomware
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0319

United States, Australia, and United Kingdom Sanction Russian Cybercrime Infrastructure Supporting Ransomware
.caption > figcaption { text-align: center; font-style: italic; } WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the United Kingdom’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office are announcing coordinated sanctions targeting Media Land, a Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) service provider, for its role in supporting ransomware operations and other forms of cybercrime.  OFAC is a…

contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states
that would require election officials to
🆘 remove any
🔸alleged 🔸
ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls.
The agreement
— called a memorandum of understanding, or MOU
— would❌ hand the federal government a major role in election administration,
a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution.…

A profile of Wang Jian, a journalist who has moved to the US in 2018 due to increasing press restrictions in Hong Kong and has built a news operation on YouTube (Lauren Hilgers/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct

I'm still seeing calls for the blue states to withhold federal taxes. Stop being silly. That is NOT how it works. Federal income taxes are withheld from paychecks by employers, not states, and sent directly to the federal government.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Liam Lynch:
🎵 United States Of Whatever
#NowPlaying #LiamLynch
https://jacobrabin.bandcamp.com/track/united-states-of-whatever-liam-lynch
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Jub05dvpbF4Im83NqMCUg

Just finished "Dreams from Many Rivers" by Margarita Engle. It's a Latin-American history of the United States, written in poems that take on the points of view of a number of both fictional and actual people. It starts with the arrival of Spanish colonists in Puerto Rico, which was in fact the first part of the present-day States to experience European colonialism.
Its super informative and a great read to appreciate the complexities of history that ICE and the US white supremacist movement are trying to sweep under the rug. Like how the fuck do you deport a person whose indigenous and then Mexican ancestors lived in Arizona for centuries but now that it's claimed by the US since they speak Spanish they're "foreign."
It's a pretty quick read since it's a lot of short poems, and it's got lovely illustrations by Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

The Womp Womp States of America. If they didn’t have nukes, we’d all be laughing. https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/115583563233894883

George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (@georgetakei@universeodon.com)
Attached: 1 image It’s like third graders are running our government.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein

Dak Prescott states the painfully obvious regarding Cowboys' playoff hopes https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/dak-prescott-states-painfully-obvious-regarding-cowboys-play…

Trump directs federal disaster aid along partisan lines, granting relief to red states & denying blue states in a display of political favoritism and control.
☑️ #Trump Denies #Disaster #Aid for Bl…

Trump Denies Disaster Aid for Blue States While Approving It for Red States
Trump directs federal disaster aid along partisan lines, granting relief to red states and denying blue states in a display of political favoritism and control.

Food-stamp fraud numbers expose which states are draining the most taxpayer dollars (Amanda Macias/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/food-stamp-fraud-numbers-expose-which-states-draining-most-taxpayer-dollars
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p145#a251119p145

Philadelphia will open historic Pride visitors center to mark 250th anniversary of the United States - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/philadelphia-will-open-historic-pride-visitors-center-to-mark-250th-anniversary-of-the-united-states/

DraftKings launches DraftKings Predictions, a new app that lets customers in 38 states trade contracts on sports and financial events through prediction markets (Ira Boudway/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI: "States have been the only effective line of defense against AI harms."
On the topic of states rights, Donald Trump doesn’t exactly follow the party line. During his first term, he couched himself in populist, small-government rhetoric — even as he attacked individual states that dared to defend migrants and legalize marijuana.

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI
Donald Trump recently signed an executive order allowing his administration to attack states that try to regulate artificial intelligence.

contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Escalating the friction between Washington and one of its closest allies in Latin America,
Donald Trump said Sunday, the United States will slash assistance to Colombia because its leader, Gustavo Petro,
“does nothing to stop” drug production"
The U.S. president warned that Petro “better close up” drug operations “or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”
Hours later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the latest U.S. strik…

Trump announces an end to US aid to Colombia
It's a war of words between President Donald Trump and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro over illegal drugs, with hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid hanging in the balance. Trump says he'll slash U.S. assistance and enact tariffs because Colombia's leftist president “does nothing to stop” drug production and is an “illegal drug leader.” Petro is rejecting the accusations and defending his work to fight narcotics in Colombia, the world’s largest exporter of cocaine. Colombia …

Ofcourse Trump is lying about his criminal acts....
#Trump

Officials, locals undercut Trump claims about Venezuela drug boats
Trump says the U.S. is blowing up boats carrying deadly fentanyl to the United States. U.S. and other officials say the route under attack carries cocaine and marijuana to Europe and Africa.

Anyone want to guess the time?
Hints:
1. Base three
2. Look at the state of the teeth
P.S. Full explanation:
#WristCheck

When #OVH states their event is held entirely in English but then you come to the two hour keynote and it's entirely in French without any bullet points or subtitles. So that was a damn lie. Hardest listening comprehension exercise of this year.
Very French, I'll have to make sure to take @…

Trade in marine fish for aquariums includes threatened species, lacks oversight: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/trade-in-marine-fish-for-aquariums-includes-threatened-species-lacks-oversight-study/

Trade in marine fish for aquariums includes threatened species, lacks oversight: Study
The United States is the main market for “ornamental” marine fish, those that end up as pets in aquariums. Now, a new study of U.S.-based online retailers has found that nearly 90% of traded species are sourced exclusively from the wild, including a number of threatened species, and that the trade is poorly tracked. The […]

Finished Altered States (1980) and it's a cool movie, but I can't get over how ridiculous it is to suggest tripping and using a sensory deprivation tank would cause genetic changes 😂 Definitely has the feel of some almost paranormal type stuff. The worst part might be how badly he treats his wife 😒
https://boxd.it/1TBi

Altered States (1980)
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.

Jesus fuck. Now you’re just embarrassing the species.
#uspol

Fact Check: Is Mamdani Introducing Arabic Numerals To New York Schools?
Arabic numerals are simply the digits 0 through 9—the standard number symbols used in every classroom in the United States.

@… setting a password in single user mode can be … ahem … entertaining, if your keyboard is not the United States standard.
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show

No, please, tell me again how the United States of America is not a fascist country. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115583505315668293

Fuck me … have you ever sat on a call with a Lloyds mortgage advisor? This woman states the obvious multiple times and also says really stupid shit like ‘you’re on a fixed rate of 2.2% for the next 5 years, would you like to take this opportunity to switch to our current fixed rate of 5%’? I have no words.
#finance

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115753827172958693
How many opportunities like this exist in other states?
How many hidden "taxes" - mandated fees - that benefit the fossil fools are out there? Things we pay for without realizing it? Where…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Froggie
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ukM1JODB2ud78JvpGYYG7

Watched 12 Angry Men last night and it had me wondering if it was legal in the USA in 1957 for women to serve on a jury — looks like it was state-by-state starting with Wyoming in 1870 all the way up to Mississippi in 1968.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_United_States_jur…

Dollar General agrees to pay $15m to settle price-gouging claims | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/20/dollar-general-settlement-price-gouging

Theory for the Rydberg states of helium: Results for $2 \le n \le 35$ and comparison with experiment for the singlet and triplet $P$-states
G. W. F. Drake, Aaron T. Bondy, Oliver P. Hallett, Benjamin C. Najem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17495

Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and other Republicans publicly oppose President Trump's proposal to restrict US states from regulating AI (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e087e732-5f71-4db3-b613-830f3cee313d

“The sitting President of the United States is now amplifying calls for the death of elected officials for urging the military to follow the law.”
He must be stopped.
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/bre

Bound on entanglement in neural quantum states
Nisarga Paul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11797 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11797

Bound on entanglement in neural quantum states
Variational wavefunctions offer a practical route around the exponential complexity of many-body Hilbert spaces, but their expressive power is often sharply constrained. Matrix product states, for instance, are efficient but limited to area law entangled states. Neural quantum states (NQS) are widely believed to overcome such limitations, yet little is known about their fundamental constraints. Here we prove that feed-forward neural quantum states acting on $n$ spins with $k$ scalar nonlinearit…

Lula at climate summit: US might not be gone for good (Sara Schonhardt/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/20/brazil-lula-united-states-cop30-00661415
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p54#a251120p54

Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 20. Oktober 1958 führte die USA mit "San Juan" den 20. Atomtest der Operation Hardtack II, eine Serie von 37 #Atomtests auf der #Nevada Test Site, NTS, durch. Von Ballontests bis zu unterirdischen Explosionen wurden verschiedene Methoden erprobt.

Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/research-cuts-fuel-scientific-brain-drain-american-science-shattered/ "A large part of what we loved about the United States i…

Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind
“A large part of what we loved about the United States is no longer there”: Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave the U.S. behind.

I CANNOT WAIT for this book. Emilie is brilliant and her work has been an inspiration and beyond helpful as I try to write a very similar history but of Canada, rather than the US. Out next week!!!
Emilie Connolly, Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States (2025)
https://

Vested Interests
How a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capital

I'm on my third passport. I've visited 27 foreign countries, including China and Russia, plus some territories. I have to admit that the United States leads the world when it comes to xenophobic ignoramuses.

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
You've likely watched a police procedural where the lab states the drowning was suspicious because of algae. The shells of diatoms have long been used in forensic #limnology because they are made of glass, so preserve very well.

power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…

A draft EO shows President Trump plans to grant the federal government sole power to regulate AI and create an "AI Litigation Task Force" overseen by the AG (Tina Nguyen/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/82…

Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws
Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations.

Nearly two dozen states are suing the Trump administration
over its cancellation of a $7bn grant program aimed at expanding solar energy in low-income communities.
In a statement on Thursday, California’s attorney general,
Rob Bonta, announced two lawsuits
by a group of states that received grants under the Environmental Protection Agency’s
Solar for All program.
The EPA’s administrator,
Lee Zeldin,
announced the termination of the program in …

❝Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth. They were born into democracy and have no appreciation of what life is like without it.❞
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/14/wang-jian-china-journalist-reports-united-states-donald-trump-xi-jinping

Vos is a stinky piece of shit.
#wisconsin

He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms.
Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving care for up to a year after giving birth.

Hallucination Detection via Internal States and Structured Reasoning Consistency in Large Language Models
Yusheng Song, Lirong Qiu, Xi Zhang, Zhihao Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11529

Hallucination Detection via Internal States and Structured Reasoning Consistency in Large Language Models
The detection of sophisticated hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) is hampered by a ``Detection Dilemma'': methods probing internal states (Internal State Probing) excel at identifying factual inconsistencies but fail on logical fallacies, while those verifying externalized reasoning (Chain-of-Thought Verification) show the opposite behavior. This schism creates a task-dependent blind spot: Chain-of-Thought Verification fails on fact-intensive tasks like open-domain QA where reasonin…

Routine hearings turned into deportation trap for migrants | AP News https://apnews.com/article/immigration-courts-deportations-trump-administration-8b9fab5475c0da4c0f13f3381de91448

Routine hearings turned into deportation trap for migrants
The nation's immigration courts have undergone a fundamental change under the administration of President Donald Trump. He pledged to impose hardline immigration policies, an issue that was popular with his voters. In practice, the administration has resorted to unusually aggressive tactics, many of which have played out in immigration courts in the United States. Judges have churned out rulings in an assembly-line like fashion. For many immigrants, the courtrooms have also become deportation t…

We're in deep trouble when joke memes have to be explained with a fact check.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-mamdani-arabic-numerals-new-york-schools-11079540

Coinbase sues Connecticut, Illinois and Michigan over state attempts to regulate prediction markets, arguing that they fall under the jurisdiction of the CFTC (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Speaker Johnson should be ashamed of himself.
He should also have gone to one of the rallies in his congressional district
—there appear to have been three of them, and two more right nearby
—and seen for himself the flags
and the “I love my country” signs
and talked to some of the good and decent people from all walks of life who attended.
In Leesville, he might have met people like organizer Bradley Hesson, who told KALB-TV:
“We’re out here to show…

Mike Johnson Understands Nothing About the United States of America
The speaker led a rogues’ gallery of Republicans impugning the patriotism of the No Kings rallygoers. On Saturday, the real Americans had their say.

Heute vor 63 Jahren: Am 20. Oktober 1962 führte die USA den Checkmate Test durch als Teil von Operation #Fishbowl. #Checkmate war ein Waffeneffekt-Höhentest des Nuklearsprengkopfes W-50. Da Checkmate außerhalb der Atmosphäre explodierte, entstand kein Feuerball.

RFK Jr. wants states to ban junk food. No one knows what counts. (Marcia Brown/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/20/rfk-snap-state-junk-food-bans-00698790
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p40#a251220p40

Seven EU states increase Russian energy imports in 2025, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/seven-eu-states-increase-russian.html

States Are Already Rebelling Against Trump’s New Hemp THC Ban | High Times
https://hightimes.com/news/politics/states-are-already-rebelling-against-trumps-new-hemp-thc-ban/

It all should have been stopped the instant he started openly monetizing his hotel blocks from the White House
and sending his children to represent the United States of America at international meetings.
But we decided none of the laws, rules, or norms apply this One Special Boy 🤷‍♂️
https://

power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…

Shutdown could halt SNAP benefits for millions, states say (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/20/snap-shutdown-november-ebt-food-stamps
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p50#a251020p50

Preparation of initial states with open and periodic boundary conditions on quantum devices using matrix product states
Yibin Guo, Manuel Schneider, Takis Angelides, Karl Jansen, C. -J. David Lin, Yao Ting Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07125

Preparation of initial states with open and periodic boundary conditions on quantum devices using matrix product states
We present a framework for preparing quantum states from matrix product states (MPS) with open and periodic boundary conditions on quantum devices. The MPS tensors are mapped to unitary gates, which are subsequently decomposed into native gates on quantum hardware. States with periodic boundary conditions (pbc) can be represented efficiently as quantum circuits using ancilla qubits and post-selection after measurement. We derive an exact expression for the success rate of this probabilistic app…

Heute vor 90 Jahren: Am 21. Oktober 1935 startete die #USA ihr #Nuklearprogramm. Sie war das erste Land, das Atomwaffen herstellte und im Krieg einsetzte (Hiroshima, Nagasaki). Bis zum Ende des Kalten Krieges führten sie 1.054 Nukleartests durch.

Kentucky Republican Rand Paul raised concerns about the legality of the Trump administration’s strikes on boats that it claims are carrying drug traffickers,
as well as Trump's statement that the United States might conduct direct attacks on Venezuela’s territory.
“When you kill someone, you should know, if you’re not at war, not in a declared war,
you really need to know someone’s name at least,” Paul said.
“You have to accuse them of something.
You have …

Sea level rise and flooding of hazardous sites in marginalized communities across the United States (Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65168-2
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p76#a251120p76

Trump's AI EO directs federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding for states that introduce "burdensome" AI regulations (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/11/trump-executive-ord…

Trump defies GOP critics by signing controversial order threatening states over AI laws
Trump’s latest executive order attempts to punish states that regulate artificial intelligence technology, a policy that has triggered division in the GOP.

Minnesota receives federal approval on their final BEAD
(Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) proposal
-- Christopher Terry
https://blandinonbroadband.org/2025/12/20/minnesota-…

Minnesota receives federal approval on their final BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) proposal
Broadband Breakfast reports… Five more states have received federal approval on their final spending plans under the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program. Idaho, Ma…

Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 21. September 1958 führte die USA mit "Luna" den 4. Atomtest der Operation Hardtack II, eine Serie von 37 #Atomtests auf der #Nevada Test Site, NTS, durch. Von Ballontests bis zu unterirdischen Explosionen wurden verschiedene Methoden erprobt.

How to Topple Maduro -- And Why Regime Change Is the Only Way Forward in Venezuela (Elliott Abrams/Foreign Affairs)
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/how-topple-maduro?s=EDZZZ005ZX
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p61#a251120p61

I wrote this this morning:
"Tomorrow, about 2,600 protests plan to peacefully show the world, the administration and themselves that the United States remains a nation predicated on having No Kings.
Can the president come down hard on these protests with the military?"
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/no-su…

No Surrender
No Soldiers in the Streets, No Kings in This Land For all the military violence there has been in the world during my life, my tactic for surviving it has taken me next to no effort: not being there at the time. By largely luck, I have not yet been

power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…

Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/12/trump-states-defiant-ai-executive-order

States defiant in face of Trump's AI executive order
States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.

Unemployment rose in half the states in September • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/12/12/repub/unemployment-rose-in-half-the-states-in-september/

Health insurance prices for next year under the Affordable Care Act
are now available in about a dozen states,
giving Americans their first look at the sharp increases many will pay for coverage
if Congress does not extend subsidies that have made some plans more affordable.
The annual enrollment period for Obamacare is expected to begin Nov. 1,
but the costs for some Americans are becoming publicly available piecemeal through some state marketplaces.
The…

Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States
Consumers are facing greater costs for their 2026 A.C.A. health coverage as Congress continues to debate whether to extend subsidies that help people afford their premiums.

Meta, TikTok, Google, and YouTube sue California over a new law that prohibits personalized feeds for minors without parental consent, claiming it violates 1A (Bernie Pazanowski/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/states-of-p…

Tech Giants Sue California Over Social Media Access Law (2)
Meta Platforms Inc., TikTok Inc., Google LLC, and YouTube LLC are challenging a California law that forbids social media platforms from allowing minors to access personalized feeds without parental consent.

Trump diverts anti-terror funds from Democratic strongholds to Republican states (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-diverts-anti-terror-funds-democratic-strongholds-republican-states-2025-10-16/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p67#a251016p67

power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…

DOJ Hires Another Election Denier To Sue Blue States - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/doj-hires-another-election-denier-to-sue-blue-states/

In the United States, more than 2,500 demonstrations against US President Donald Trump are planned nationwide for Saturday.
The organizers expect millions of participants under the motto
"No Kings".
The first protests are underway in Ann Arbor and other places.
Demonstrations against the growing US authoritarianism also gathered in European capitals.

"No Kings": Hunderte Demonstrationen gegen Trump laufen an - Hubu.de - News & FreeMail
In den USA sind für Samstag landesweit über 2.500 Demonstrationen gegen US-Präsident Donald Trump geplant.

The US FTC, along with 21 states and DC, files an amended complaint against Uber, alleging deceptive billing and cancellation practices related to Uber One (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-ftc-21-states-file-…

The American patrol satellite had the targets in its sights:
two recently launched Chinese spacecraft flying through one of the most sensitive neighborhoods in space.
Like any good tactical fighter,
the American spacecraft, known as USA 270, approached from behind,
so that the sun would be at its back, illuminating the quarry.
But then one of the Chinese satellites countered by slowing down.
As USA 270 zipped by, the Chinese satellite dropped in behind its…

Military satellites dogfighting as tensions escalate in orbit
U.S. and Chinese satellites routinely spy on each other in orbit, rehearsing for more aggressive operations in the event of war.

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 34613 nodes and 202167 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

States battle with Education Department over school mental health funds | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/states-battle-with-education-department-over-school-mental-health-funds/

Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-18-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251018/p56#a251018p56

U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador
The United States plans to repatriate two alleged fishermen to Colombia and Ecuador after military forces attacked their vessel in the Caribbean on Thursday.

Facing questions about the legality of the strikes, the Trump administration has sought to justify the killings by claiming the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with Latin American drug cartels that are linked to Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro’s alleged e…

U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador
It is unclear if the two surviving alleged drug smugglers have any links to Venezuelan criminal organizations.

Twenty-two U.S. states are either on the brink of an economic recession or already in one,
according to a new analysis from Moody's Analytics.
Moody's Chief Economist Mark Zandi shared the findings,
saying that states making up nearly a third of the national gross domestic product
are either in or at high risk of recession,
with another third just holding steady, and the remaining third growing.

a16z releases a nine-pillar AI policy framework for Congress, including restricting AI use for under-13s without parental consent and keeping a role for states (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/a16z-ai/

Here are a16z’s ideas for Congress on AI
Andreessen Horowitz is laying out a framework on Wednesday that it wants Congress to take up for artificial intelligence.

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 261155 nodes and 311043 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

From Long Island to the Baltics: Drop Site Investigation Reveals New Details About Canary Mission's Operations (Jacqueline Sweet/Drop Site News)
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mission-funding-funders-networks-transactions-doxxing-united-states-deportation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p71#a251016p71

Online influencer Andrew Tate,
a self-described misogynist who has millions of young male followers,
was facing allegations of sex trafficking women in three countries
when he and his brother left their home in Romania to visit the United States.
“The Tates will be free,
Trump is the president.
The good old days are back,”
Tate posted on X before the trip in February
— one of many times he has sung the president’s praises to his fans.
But…

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-united-states-is-eating-trumps-tariffs-2025-10-13/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p52#a251013p52

Dr. Kirk Moore had been on trial for five days,
accused of falsifying COVID-19 vaccination cards and throwing away the government-supplied doses.
The Utah plastic surgeon faced up to 35 years in prison if the jury found him guilty
on charges that included conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Testimony had paused for the weekend when Moore’s lawyer called him early one Saturday this July
with what felt to him like unbelievable news.
U.S. Attorney Gener…

Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.
A Utah surgeon’s victory in a vaccine fraud case has encouraged other “medical freedom” advocates to consider seeking leniency for similar charges. “This undermines every layer of the system that protects us from infectious disease,” an expert said.

New York City housing advocate
Patrick Markee’s new book,
"Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age,"
looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability.
Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States,
“has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,”
explains Markee.
“There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels…

Homelessness Is About Affordability: Author Patrick Markee on the Housing Crisis in “New Gilded Age”
New York City housing advocate Patrick Markee’s new book, Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age, looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability. Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States, “has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,” explains Markee. “There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels of homelessness that we have, and that’s b…

Justice Department sues 4 more states for access to detailed voter data (Rebecca Boone/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-voter-registration-states-lawsuit-privacy-6d8a6712b463c7d505cb4f30611a239f
http://www.memeorandum.com/251212/p117#a251212p117

The central problem for American national security:
By itself the United States cannot keep up with China’s soaring industrial capacity,
which translates directly into military might.
China has close to a 28 percent share of global manufacturing,
while the United States has around 17 percent.
By one count, it is acquiring advanced weapons systems and equipment five to six times faster than America is.
One Chinese shipyard can build more than all Americ…

Opinion | To Outbuild China, America Needs Friends
For the sake of global security and freedom, the world’s democracies must collaborate better.

After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year,
the Trump administration is now reportedly considering granting protection to members of far-right European parties.
According to the New York Times, the proposal that Donald Trump is now weighing would prioritize Europeans who are allegedly
“targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”
The pro…

Trump could soon make America’s refugee program a tool for white nationalism
The White House is considering a plan to overhaul refugee admissions in favor of right-wing whites.

A bipartisan group in the Senate is planning to force a vote on legislation that would
bar the United States from engaging in hostilities inside Venezuela without explicit authorization by Congress.
The measure faces long odds given the unwillingness of most Republican lawmakers to challenge Donald Trump,
who would be all but certain to veto it.
But a vote on the legislation, which is required, would put Congress on the record on whether to rein in Trump’s escalating…

Senators Move to Force Vote to Bar Ground Strikes in Venezuela
The bid comes after the Senate rejected a similar measure to curb President Trump’s attacks against alleged drug runners in the Caribbean Sea.

Treasury Secretary Bessent,
a former hedge fund manager,
is orchestrating a $20 billion lifeline to prop up the Argentine peso,
which has been declining in value.
The backstop is intended to support Argentina’s economy
and its president, Javier Milei.
On Friday, Mr. Bessent said the Treasury Department had intervened for at least a second time to buy pesos
At the center of his bet is that the currency of Argentina
— a debt-ridden country whose…

Bessent Stakes Credibility and Taxpayer Money on Argentina Bet
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s multibillion-dollar bailout of a serial defaulter raises the specter of losses for the United States.