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National Review: "The SAVE Act's Virtuous Goals Are Not Worth the Cost" (Rick Hasen/Election Law Blog)
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=154397
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p47#a260218p47

The United States has a tendency to overestimate what political outcomes can be engineered using overwhelming military power
while underestimating the fallout,
said Caitlin Talmadge,
a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specializes in Gulf security issues.
“Air power is the U.S. drug of choice
— we love to believe that it can achieve big political effects and also big military effects,
yet the historical record doesn’t support that…

For U.S., Unmet Expectations in Iran Fit a Familiar Pattern in the Region
Iran’s military retaliation, along with the political defiance of its new leaders, evokes a decades-old pattern of unrealized goals for American interventions in the region.

"UK opening new oil and gas fields would imperil global climate goals, experts say"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

Minority of voters identify with MAHA despite some support for its goals: poll (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5830132-make-america-healthy-polling-results/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p54#a260414p54

RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116064657955859408
I love the sentiment, but this is actually exactly what law enforcement has always been. It's always been political, always racist, always arbitrary, always genocidal.
ICE is just what happens when they think they can get away with it. The other abuses require a lot more investigation. Abolishing ICE is a good first step.
For all folks who have just now become enraged with the brutality of law enforcement agencies like ICE: I hope we can walk together, and learn from each other, until our ways part... But I do hope you'll walk a little farther with me after we achieve our shared goals.

"Across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension, we find that although AI assistance improves performance in the short-term, people perform significantly worse without AI and are more likely to give up."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth over immediate results. In contrast, current AI systems are fundamentally short-sighted collaborators - optimized for providing instant and complete responses, without ever saying no (unless for safety reasons). What are the consequences of this dynamic? Here, through a series of randomized contro…

"Greggs tweaks packaging, food waste and climate goals"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Greggs #Climate

Greggs tweaks packaging, food waste and climate goals
Greggs is scrapping an ambition to reduce packaging weight by 25%, focusing instead on improving recyclability.

In the two weeks since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran,
Donald Trump increasingly has been knocked on his political heels.
He’s grown more agitated with news coverage
and has failed to find a way to explain why he started the war
— or how he will end it
— that resonates with a public concerned by American deaths in the conflict,
surging oil prices
and dropping financial markets.
Even some of his supporters are questioning his pla…

How mixed messaging on Iran may have Trump reeling politically
Two weeks of war in Iran has President Donald Trump increasingly knocked back on his political heels. He has struggled to sell the Iran war at home as oil prices rise, his polling numbers fall and his own electoral coalition shows signs of splintering. In response, Trump has fumed at news coverage and sent mixed signals on goals. On Saturday, he posted that other countries may need to help keep the Strait of Hormuz open, but it was unclear how or when that might happen. Iran says it will keep u…

Trump shifting goals, expectations for Iran war: dangerous! (Lindsey Granger/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/lindseys-lens/5765250-trump-iran-war-uncertainty/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p103#a260303p103

Trump DOJ's own goals could stymie its efforts to undermine midterms (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/trump-dojs-own-goals-could-stymie-its-efforts-to-undermine-midterms/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p94#a260225p94