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Texas National Guard troops arrive in Illinois over leaders’ objections
Photographs Tuesday showed Texas National Guard troops carrying rifles and riot shields at the Joliet Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, Illinois,
about 50 miles southwest of downtown Chicago.
In a statement over the weekend, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said 400 Texas troops were ordered to deploy to Illinois and other states,
calling the move an “invasion.”

The Trump administration…

Texas National Guard troops arrive in Illinois over leaders’ objections
The arrival of Texas National Guard troops came ahead of a Thursday hearing in Illinois’s lawsuit seeking to stop the Trump administration from deploying into the state.

🛖 Warming triggers unprecedented carbon loss from tropical soils, study finds
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/warming-triggers-unprecedented-carbon-loss-from-tropical-soils-study-finds/

Warming triggers unprecedented carbon loss from tropical soils, study finds
Climate warming could cause much greater soil carbon losses in the tropics than previously predicted, with potentially dire consequences for the global climate, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Tropical forests store around a third of the world’s soil carbon and exchange more CO2 with the atmosphere than any other land biome. […]

Hmmm, he want want to chat with farmers on this one.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariffs/article/trump-says-he-will-put-very-severe-tariffs-on-canadian-fertilizer-if-needed/

Ukrainian troops pull back from positions near Pokrovsk to avoid encirclement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/09/ukrainian-troops-pull-back-from.html

Meanwhile, in other "No shit, Sherlock" news:
☑️ Majority of companies hiking prices to cover tariffs: KPMG
https://www.newsweek.com/majority-companies-hiking-prices-cover-tariffs-kpmg-10840802

Majority of Companies Hiking Prices to Cover Tariffs: KPMG
KPMG LLP found that many companies are passing costs onto customers while adopting other strategic changes to cope with the duties.

Uber launches Uber Intelligence, an insights platform that lets advertisers tap into Uber's data about customer trips and deliveries (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-ads-launches-intelli…

Uber is turning trip and takeout data into insights for marketers
Uber has said its ad business is on track to generate $1.5 billion in revenue in 2025. It's hoping a new insights platform will encourage more spend.

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new_guinea_tribes: New Guinea Highlands tribes (1954)
A network of friendships among tribes of Gahuku-Gama alliance structure of the Eastern Central Highlands region in New Guinea. Edge sign indicates either friendship ("rova") or enmity ("hint”).
This network has 16 nodes and 58 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Signed
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The US supreme court agreed on Tuesday to decide the legality of Trump’s sweeping global tariffs,
setting up a major test of one of the Republican president’s boldest assertions of executive power that has been central to his economic and trade agenda.
The justices took up the justice department’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that
Trump overstepped his authority in imposing most of his tariffs under a federal law meant for emergencies.
The court acted swiftly aft…

Judge rules Trump administration failed to meet legal requirements for deploying troops to Portland
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-11-07/judge-rules-trump-administration…

Judge: U.S. failed legal requirements for deploying troops to Portland
A federal judge in Oregon has ruled that President Trump’s administration failed to meet the legal requirements for deploying the National Guard to Portland, Ore.