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AG Pam Bondi’s letter to Gov. Walz
What we know, according to Fox News:
In a letter obtained by FOX News, AG Pam Bondi dangled a path for ICE and other federal agents to leave Minnesota.
Here is that path:
🔸Walz’s office must share state records on Medicaid and Food and Nutrition Service programs, including SNAP, with the federal government.
🔸Repeal sanctuary policies. All state corrections facilities must cooperate with ICE, and permit ICE to interview detaine…

Minneapolis shooting: AG Pam Bondi gives Gov. Walz conditions for ICE to leave Minnesota
The United States Attorney General is urging Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to support federal law enforcement efforts and immigration policy, hours after a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident was fatally shot a Border Patrol agent.

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📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

A US judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from detaining CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed, one of the Europeans the US barred on claims of promoting censorship (Aishvarya Kavi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/us/politics/imran-ahmed-judge-order.…

Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate
Imran Ahmed, who runs an organization that chronicles disinformation, was among five Europeans the State Department had barred, claiming they promote censorship.

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

A US judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from detaining CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed, one of the Europeans the US barred on claims of promoting censorship (Aishvarya Kavi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/us/politics/imran-ahmed-judge-order.…

Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate
Imran Ahmed, who runs an organization that chronicles disinformation, was among five Europeans the State Department had barred, claiming they promote censorship.

Scattering in Time-Varying Drude-Lorentz Models
Bryce Dixon, Calvin M. Hooper, Ian R. Hooper, Simon A. R. Horsley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19322 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19322 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.19322
arXiv:2511.19322v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Motivated by recent experiments, the theoretical study of wave propagation in time varying materials is of current interest. Although significant in nearly all such experiments, material dispersion is commonly neglected in theoretical studies. Yet, as we show here, understanding the precise microscopic model for the material dispersion is crucial for predicting experimental outcomes. Here we study the temporal scattering coefficients of four different time-varying Drude-Lorentz models, exploring how an incident continuous wave splits into forward and backward waves due to an abrupt change in plasma frequency. The differences in the predicted scattering are unique to time-varying media, and arise from the exact way in which the time variation appears in the various model parameters. We verify our results using a custom finite difference time domain algorithm, concluding with a discussion of the limitations that arise from using these models with an abrupt change in plasma frequency.
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PG-rated movies dominate the US Box Office, driven by films like A Minecraft Movie; an NRG study finds kids want a social experience with friends and family (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/wicked-

Hollywood Is Reeling—and PG Movies Have Never Been So Popular
The PG rating has become the king of the box office. The entertainment business now relies on kids dragging their parents to theaters.

#TIL about CYBATHLON #cybathlon

CYBATHLON
The official YouTube channel of CYBATHLON, an initiative of ETH Zurich. CYBATHLON of ETH Zurichoffers a platform to advance research in the field of assistive technology suitable for everyday use and to promote dialogue with the public about the inclusion of people with disabilities in daily life. Main driver is a unique championship in which people with physical disabilities compete against each other to complete everyday tasks using state-of-the-art technical assistance systems. For more inf…

More Republican lawmakers join calls for full investigation into Alex Pretti’s killing
Some elected officials condemn Trump’s federal surge in Minnesota and say DHS agents should leave state
Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony
Calls mount on Trump administration to fully investigate killing
Minnesota workers pressure employers to take action against ICE operations
Vermont’s governor Phil Scott earlier issued a statement calling…

The Parenti text challenges students, perhaps for the first time,
to critically assess the dominant pluralist paradigm;
that it invites students to consider the ubiquity of politics in their lives;
that they confront the struggle and inevitable conflict between democracy and capitalism, which is usually ignored.
—Christopher A. Leu, 
California State University, Northridge

Book: Democracy for the Few — The Michael Parenti Political Archive