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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 308401 nodes and 385164 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Heartbreaking.
“This essentially says the United States is no longer your ally, that the United States doesn’t see clearly beyond the rhetoric of your regime,”
https://www.

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

A democratic nation actually can overcome deep polarization and division
and punish politicians who undermine democracy.
Just not the United States,
even though our leaders have spent decades beating their chests about the wonders of American democracy.
The Brazilian Supreme Court’s recent conviction of Jair Bolsonaro
on five charges related to his attempt to overturn the 2022 election results there and stay in power
is a great illustration that democrat…

Brazil Stopped Its Trump. It’s Pathetic that We Couldn’t Stop Ours.
Brazil barred Bolsonaro from running again and is sending him to jail. Other countries have done it, too. Why is the United States a unique failure?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Human Dogfood:
🎵 The United States Of Trump
#HumanDogfood
https://punknloud.bandcamp.com/track/the-united-states-of-trump
https://open.spotify.com/track/1mGJa72Mi572JQYq09f82O

Help Ban Foie Gras in the United States! #AnimalRights…

From David Suzuki
We need real solutions for affordability, energy security and responding to the threats from the United States.
Canada’s electricity demands are set to triple in the coming decades. We have an opportunity to build shovel-ready, made-in-Canada projects by upgrading Canada’s power grid with renewable power, not fossil fuels.
Did you know Canada’s provincial electricity grids are more connected to the United States than with each other?
1/n

So, they don’t have anything against *that* type of gender-affirming care https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/07/08/american-men-are-hungry-for-injectable-testosterone

This is amusing. In a story about Laufey’s upcoming concert in North America, it states that 400,000 tickets were sold and that’s the same as 80 of the big arena in Reykjavík.
Unmentioned: this is the equivalent of every person in Iceland buying a ticket!
https://icelandmonitor.mb…

A major achievement for Laufey
Leifur Björnsson, head of exports at the Iceland Music Office, says the demand for tickets to Laufey Lín’s upcoming concert tour in the United States and Canada is almost without precedent in Icelandic music history.

Kremlin: Russian-American dialogue to continue despite diplomatic tensions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/kremlin-russianamerican-dialogue-to-continue.html

One of Utah's Own -- Before the president of the United States announced on this morning's broadcast ... (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/charlie-kirk-murder-suspect-arrest/684202/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250913/p17#a250913p17

"It was a comment he couldn't take back, even though he deleted the words and never sent the email. School administrators saw it within an hour because of a monitoring software installed on school laptops."
I've had challenging kids and have dealt with school systems that don't give a fuck about protecting kids. They just hide behind the rules once they've decide you're a bad kid. I really feel for this guy. HE DIDN'T EVEN SEND THE EMAIL?!? Just p…

Today's 20m #HamRadio #POTA activation of US-3844 Jordan Lake State Recreational Area. The first 10 QSOs (conversations) were 2-operator on SSB with my wife doing her first-ever activation, then once she successfully activated and called it quits, I went on to hunt another 10 park-to-p…

(Bicycle) Speed and safety
For years I've heard people talking about how motor-assisted bicycles "are safer" because they can "match traffic speed", but I think this is mistaken.  Here's three reasons why. For me the most compelling reason comes from a 2007 paper by Laurie F. Beck, Ann M. Dellinger, and Mary E. O’Neil in the American Journal of Epidemiology, "Motor Vehicle Crash Injury Rates by Mode of Travel, United States: Using Exposure-Based Methods…

(Bicycle) Speed and safety
For years I’ve heard people talking about how motor-assisted bicycles “are safer” because they can “match traffic speed”, but I think this is mistaken.  Here’s t…

🫧 Mexican cartels’ new money laundering businesses: Cryptocurrencies, concerts and timeshares
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-30/mexican-cartels-new-money-laundering-businesses-…

Mexican cartels’ new money laundering businesses: Cryptocurrencies, concerts and timeshares
Accusations from the United States Department of the Treasury reveal new forms of money laundering being used by organized crime

#Brightline , the only privately run inter-city rail route in the United States that keeps getting handouts from government is in bad financial position.
They mainly offer service in Florida right now but are planning extension in California/Nevada
Turns out private rail might be hard to make money from, what a surprise.

Brazil Stopped Its Trump. It’s Pathetic that We Couldn’t Stop Ours. | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/200428/brazil-bolsonaro-trump-coup-constitution

Brazil Stopped Its Trump. It’s Pathetic that We Couldn’t Stop Ours.
Brazil barred Bolsonaro from running again and is sending him to jail. Other countries have done it, too. Why is the United States a unique failure?

due to the crackdown of any leftist discourse surrounding charlie kirk's assassination, bringing into context his own statements, viewpoints, and what they had to do with his demise, huge social media accounts are being banned on twitter, instagram, and bluesky.
for a friend of mine who's running “punkwithacamera” on Instagram, this also meant having the identity and address of doxxed, to the degree where even a member of the house of representatives of the united states of ame…

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, has filed a criminal complaint against
#Alejandro #Orellana,
a local immigration activist in Los Angeles.
They’ve charged him for distributing face masks to protestors.
They specify that the masks are supposed to prot…

Only Criminals Don’t Want To Be Gassed By The Government
The Tellingly Pathetic Case Against Alejandro Orellana

The Impact of Device Type, Data Practices, and Use Case Scenarios on Privacy Concerns about Eye-tracked Augmented Reality in the United States and Germany
Efe Bozkir, Babette B\"uhler, Xiaoyuan Wu, Enkelejda Kasneci, Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Faith Cranor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09285

The Impact of Device Type, Data Practices, and Use Case Scenarios on Privacy Concerns about Eye-tracked Augmented Reality in the United States and Germany
Augmented reality technology will likely be prevalent with more affordable head-mounted displays. Integrating novel interaction modalities such as eye trackers into head-mounted displays could lead to collecting vast amounts of biometric data, which may allow inference of sensitive user attributes like health status or sexual preference, posing privacy issues. While previous works broadly examined privacy concerns about augmented reality, ours is the first to extensively explore privacy concern…

Heute vor 75 Jahren: Am 13. Juli 1950 stürzte ein #USAF B-50 Flugzeug auf einer Trainingsmission von der Biggs Air Force Base ab. Es führte eine nukleare Waffe ohne Kern mit sich. Die #Detonation der hochexplosiven Ladung verursachte keine nukleare Explosion.

"2024 was the third year in a row in which all of the extremist-related killings in the United States were carried out by… right-wingers."
Charlie Kirk Killing and How Political Violence Comes From the Right
https://zeteo.com/p/charlie-kirk-killing-political-violence

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Peaches
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://toiletmusic.bandcamp.com/track/peaches-the-presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5huLMzIzFEdVcvEzt2hfk1

Justice Department Releases Guidance on Implementing President Trump's Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of the United States (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-releases-guidance-implementing-president-trumps-executive-order
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p99#a250714p99

Assembling the 2028 Olympic roster for U.S. flag football: Our 10-player roster -- and one go-to play https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45590064/nfl-best-united-states-flag-football-team-roster-2028-olympics-los-angeles

Research reveals how microplastics threaten Gulf of Mexico marine life #GulfOfMexico

Research reveals how microplastics threaten Gulf of Mexico marine life
Critical wildlife habitats are exposed to pollution risk in the seas off the southern United States, with implications for human health and food security. "Most of the pollution comes from rivers and not from wastewater treatment plants," says CMCC scientist Annalisa Bracco, co-author of the study that used advanced computer models to track tiny plastic particles across three years.

"We associate your Google Account with a region so that we can better provide our services to you. Your region association will change within 30 days.
Current: Spain
New: United States — Virginia"
What? The? Fuck?
#Google

Tariff chaos is forcing America’s allies closer together,
-- and further from the United States.
As that happens, the European Union is trying to position itself at the center of a new global trade map.
https://www.nytim…

Amid Tariff Chaos, U.S. Allies Try to Redraw the Trade Map
Facing growing chaos, the European Union and numerous other countries are seeking to forge a global trading nexus that is less vulnerable to American tariffs.

PRANZO DI FERRAGOSTO
"I was utterly charmed the first time I saw Pranzo di Ferragosto just after its release in the early fall of 2008. I was enchanted, as were the critics, and Pranzo di Ferragosto was distinguished with a number of important Italian film awards. Luckily, an English-language subtitled version would also be produced and it was released in the United States about a year and a half later with the title Mid-August Lunch. "
not to be missed
I watch …

Economy and Geography Shape the Collective Attention of Cities
Ke-ke Shang, Jiangli Zhu, Junfan Yi, Liwen Zhang, Junjie Yang, Ge Guo, Zixuan Jin, Michael Small
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08907

Economy and Geography Shape the Collective Attention of Cities
Complex networks are commonly used to explore human behavior. However, previous studies largely overlooked the geographical and economic factors embedded in collective attention. To address this, we construct attention networks from time-series data for the United States and China, each a key economic power in the West and the East, respectively. We reveal a strong macroscale correlation between urban attention and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). At the mesoscale, community detection of attention…

It is unclear to what extent Wicab's BrainPort Vision Pro tongue display (sensory substitution device) is still on the market https://www.wicab.com/brainport-vision-pro because there has been very little news about it since around 2019, judging also from their own website. Note that the BrainPor…

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.…

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/09/pakistan-mass-surveillance-and-censorship-machine-is-fueled-by-chinese-european-emirati-and-north-american-companies/

Pakistan: Mass surveillance and censorship machine is fueled by Chinese, European, Emirati and North American companies
Pakistan’s unlawful mass surveillance and censorship expansion is powered by a nexus of companies based in Germany, France, United Arab Emirates (UAE), China, Canada, and the United States, Amnesty International said today in a new report “Shadows of Control”. The year-long investigation was carried out in collaboration with Paper Trail Media, DER STANDARD, Follow the […]

I go on Facebook
An Irishman in Ireland has posted a picture of his Irish flag flying outside his house (in response to some sports thing, apparently?)
The comments are exclusively full of Irish people spouting vitriol about the United States
...
The Anglosphere mind has been fully reverse-colonised by its biggest boi. They define themselves in opposition to it; without it, they would have no identity at all. Very sad state of affairs.

“Excursion (same-day) travel to the United States by automobile dropped abruptly at the start of 2025, after holding consistently positive throughout 2024. Same-day returns fell by 40.3% year over year in May 2025”
That is an extremely high amount of change. After September 11, it was in the 30% range.
I miss my cross-border trips, but it’s just a bad risk reward calculation right now. #canada

Oura, the smart wearable ring I've been wearing for several years, entered into a business agreement with Palantir.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/09/smart-ring-maker-ouras-ceo-addresses-recent-backlash-says-fut…

Smart ring maker Oura's CEO addresses recent backlash, says future is a 'cloud of wearables' | TechCrunch
Oura CEO Tom Hale is trying to set the record straight about the smart ring maker's partnership with the Department of Defense (DoD) and data miner Palantir, which is used by defense, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies in the United States and elsewhere.

For all of its efforts to drive a domestic manufacturing boom in key industries,
the United States remains heavily reliant on Asian expertise to build batteries -- the powerful technologies that underpin drones, electric vehicles, and much more. 
It’s a reality that was laid bare last week when U.S. immigration officials raided an EV battery plant construction site in Georgia
and detained around 475 workers,
most of whom were South Korean nationals.
The plant i…

Trump’s Hyundai Raid Drains U.S. Battery Brains
The United States can’t build the powerful technologies on its own.

Zelensky signals major cabinet reshuffle, calls for defense reforms: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/zelensky-signals-major-cabinet-reshuffle.html

TIL that Arab people are considered “White” because U.S. laws have been and are always messed up. Enjoy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_v._United_States

Dow v. United States - Wikipedia

Google Search Advertising after Dobbs v. Jackson
Yelena Mejova, Ronald E. Robertson, Catherine A. Gimbrone, Sarah McKetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06640 …

Google Search Advertising after Dobbs v. Jackson
Search engines have become the gateway to information, products, and services, including those concerning healthcare. Access to reproductive health has been especially complicated in the wake of the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, splintering abortion regulations among the states. In this study, we performed an audit of the advertisements shown to Google Search users seeking information about abortion across the United States during the year following t…

Goodbye rooftop solar panels - the future of clean energy could be in lakes and reservoirs thanks to this Indian innovation - United States
https://www.europesays.com/us/60728/

A new wave of climate research is sounding a stark warning:
Human activity may be driving drought more intensely
– and more directly
– than previously understood.
The southwestern United States has been in a historic #megadrought for much of the past two decades,
with its reservoirs including lakes Mead and Powell dipping to record lows
and legal disputes erupting ov…

Climate models reveal how human activity may be locking the Southwest into permanent drought
The drought has been linked to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a natural climate pattern. A new study finds global warming is now influencing that natural phenomenon.

🔥 Climate-driven wildfires reversing pollution progress in N. America: study
#usa

Climate-driven wildfires reversing pollution progress in N. America: study
Global air pollution is worsening, with the United States and Canada experiencing the sharpest increases due to record-breaking, climate-supercharged wildfires that are undoing decades of progress, a study said Thursday.

Yesterday's incredibly dunce-like decisions from SCOTUS reminded me once again why I am refusing to become a member of the US Supreme Court bar.
"I will not be joining the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Bar"
https://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/no-…

"Research reveals how microplastics threaten Gulf of Mexico marine life"
#Mexico #Plastic #Plastics #Microplastics

Research reveals how microplastics threaten Gulf of Mexico marine life
Critical wildlife habitats are exposed to pollution risk in the seas off the southern United States, with implications for human health and food security. "Most of the pollution comes from rivers and not from wastewater treatment plants," says CMCC scientist Annalisa Bracco, co-author of the study that used advanced computer models to track tiny plastic particles across three years.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Presidents Of The United States Of America:
🎵 Lump
#NowPlaying #ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStatesOfAmerica
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

It was midnight. Billions of dollars in tariffs are now flowing from the wallets of US citizens into the pockets of the Trump regime.

President Trump announces 25% tariffs on Japan and South Korea, starting August 1 (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/07/trump-tariffs-trade-letters-japan.html

Trump announces steep tariffs on five more countries starting Aug. 1
The United States will impose 25% blanket tariffs on imports from Japan and South Korea starting Aug. 1, President Donald Trump revealed.

CBD, ingen evidens för att det gör något bra som tillskott, men massor av reklam och rekommendationer från influensers då de tjänar en fin summa per försäljning.
Och folk tror till sist det fungerar för "alla influensers säger ju att det hjälper mot x, y och z" 🤷🏼‍♂️
Low doses of CBD may cause harm to the liver, FDA study finds

Low doses of CBD may cause harm to the liver, FDA study finds
From capsules, gummies and other edibles, to oils and lotions, CBD products have become increasingly popular in the United States.

ReNiL: Relative Neural Inertial Locator with Any-Scale Bayesian Inference
Kaixuan Wu (School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China), Yuanzhuo Xu (School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China), Zejun Zhang (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States), Weiping Zhu (School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China), Steve Drew (Department of Electrical and Soft…

ReNiL: Relative Neural Inertial Locator with Any-Scale Bayesian Inference
Pedestrian inertial localization is key for mobile and IoT services because it provides infrastructure-free positioning. Yet most learning-based methods depend on fixed sliding-window integration, struggle to adapt to diverse motion scales and cadences, and yield inconsistent uncertainty, limiting real-world use. We present ReNiL, a Bayesian deep-learning framework for accurate, efficient, and uncertainty-aware pedestrian localization. ReNiL introduces Inertial Positioning Demand Points (IPDPs)…

GIC--Related Observations During the May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm in the United States
L. A. Wilkerson, R. S. Weigel, D. Thomas, D. Bor, E. J. Oughton, C. T. Gaunt, C. C. Balch, M. J. Wiltberger, A. Pulkkinen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07009

GIC--Related Observations During the May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm in the United States
The May 2024 geomagnetic storm was one of the most severe in the past twenty years. Understanding how large geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) impact geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) within power grid networks is key to ensuring their resilience. We have assembled and synthesized a large and diverse set of GMD-related data, compared model predictions with measurements, and identified empirical relationships for GICs in the contiguous United States for this storm. Measurement data include …

GB News launches on Truth , Trump Media's streaming TV platform, as part of the free basic package (GB News)
https://www.gbnews.com/news/us/gb-news-truth-plus-launch

GB News launches into United States on Truth+
GB News has today embarked on an exciting new venture in the US after launching onto Truth+.The sister platform to Truth Social announced today that it has added the People's Channel to Truth+, a TV streaming platform focusing on family-friendly live TV channels and on-demand content.

Donald Trump is taking the fight to Vladimir Putin. Sort of. For now.
Trump’s deference to Russia’s authoritarian leader has been one of the most enduring geopolitical subplots of the past decade.
But his frustration with Putin has grown.
Last week, the president said the United States was taking “a lot of bullshit” from Putin.
Today, he authorized a significant shipment of U.S. defensive weapons to Ukraine via NATO and threatened Russia with new tariffs if the war…

Why Trump Suddenly Sounds Tougher on Russia
The real reason the president suddenly sounds tougher on Russia

🌹 Zohran Mamdani Is Part of Municipal Socialism’s Long History
#politics

Zohran Mamdani Is Part of Municipal Socialism’s Long History
If he wins the New York City mayoral election, Zohran Mamdani will not be in totally uncharted territory. A long line of municipal-level socialists in the United States and around the world have been in his position before.

This is crazy.
At U.S. request, France jails Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin on suspicion of ransomware conspiracy
https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/10/at-u-s-request-france-jails-…

At U.S. request, France jails Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin on suspicion of ransomware conspiracy
A court in Paris has jailed Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin on suspicion of involvement in a hacker group’s extortion activities. The 26-year-old was arrested on June 21 at Charles de Gaulle airport at the request of the United States, which has charged him with conspiracy to commit computer fraud. According to American investigators, Kasatkin acted as an accomplice in a hacker group’s ransomware attacks on roughly 900 companies, including two federal institutions, between 2020 an…

'Aid shipments have been restored,' Zelensky says amid halt of US weapons deliveries: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/aid-shipments-have-been-restored.html

Miss United States Lindsey Langston accuses Rep. Cory Mills of threatening to publish her nude pics, sex videos (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/06/us-news/miss-united-states-lindsey-langston-accuses-rep-cory-mills-of-threatening-to-publish-her-nude-pics-sex-videos/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p138#a250806p138

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 540981 nodes and 664215 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Miss United States Files Restraining Order Against GOP Rep. Cory Mills
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/miss-united-states-lindsey-langston-files-restraining-order-rep-cory-mills

the united states is so hastily moving towards fascism, it's rarer than ever to find someone who a) thinks everything is going okay and b) isn't a complete nutjob

@40zetrel@mastodon.social it is not a crime to be in the United States without documentation; it is a civil violation.
Thank you in advance for checking your facts before speaking (or voting) in any place at any time with bad info in the future.
Please consider it your patriotic duty!
I’m sure you wouldn’t want to damage the United States by spreading bad info, again.
🫡🇺🇸

Albany mayor: being undocumented in the U.S. is not a crime
Albany Mayor Kathy M. Sheehan said in a national television interview that it’s not a crime for immigrants to live in th

Politically Motivated Violence is Rare in the United States (Alex Nowrasteh/Laissez-Faire ...)
https://www.alexnowrasteh.com/p/politically-motivated-violence-is
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p184#a250911p184

The proportion of the U.S. population who are Latino or Asian American is expected to rise to 33% by 2050,
and will number over 135 million people.
Understanding rates of Age Related Macular Degeneration, #AMD, in these groups is imperative,
so that clinicians can have better insight into who is most at risk for developing this disease and health policy-makers can use this information to he…

Racial Differences in Age-Related Macular Degeneration Rates in the United States: A Longitudinal Analysis of a Managed Care Network

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 463652 nodes and 553599 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/armenian-national-extradited-united-states-faces-federal-charges-ransomware-extortion
Four members of the Ryuk gang have been indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Portla…

Armenian National Extradited to the United States Faces Federal Charges for Ransomware Extortion Conspiracy
An Armenian national extradited from Ukraine to the United States faces federal charges for his role in Ryuk ransomware attacks and extortion conspiracy targeting companies throughout the United States, including a technology company operating in Oregon.

Zelensky urges US senators to 'increase sanctions pressure on Russia': https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/zelensky-urges-us-senators-to.html

Terrorist Designation of The Majeed Brigade (Marco Rubio/United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/2025/08/terrorist-designation-of-the-majeed-brigade/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p126#a250811p126

Trump demands new US census excluding undocumented immigrants
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/united-states/article/2025/08/07/trump-demands-new-us-census-excluding-undocumented-immigrants_6744162_133.html

Most of the returnees declined to talk to reporters as they were whisked away by their families.
A handful answered questions, providing the first accounts of what had happened from the perspective of those who had been detained.
Two of them described hearing about the raid before it happened.
Some said they had gone to the United States on a visa waiver program or had traveled on a business visa,
and expressed confusion about why they had been detained.
The …

Freed South Korean Workers Return From the U.S. to Tearful Cheers
The workers, whose detention in a workplace immigration sweep set off outrage in South Korea, expressed both relief and anger.

The president did say that under the new order of things in Washington,
the police will be “allowed to do whatever the hell they want”
to secure the streets.
But that’s just performative pro-police rhetoric, right?
It may sound like the actual legitimization of police brutality.
But that couldn’t happen here.
After all, the leaders of our major institutions would speak out,
forcefully and in unison, against it.
Here in the United States of Ame…

Trump Isn’t Liberating D.C. He’s Subduing It.
We’ve seen this happen in other countries. We thought it couldn’t happen here. It is.

Miss United States Files Restraining Order Against GOP Rep. Cory Mills (Roger Sollenberger/Drop Site News)
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/miss-united-states-lindsey-langston-files-restraining-order-rep-cory-mills
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p124#a250805p124

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.…

Ukraine and the United States to build joint facility for ammunition production: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/ukraine-and-the-united-states.html

Countries are going to have to compete with one another in order to attract not just the most qualified doctors, engineers and things like that, but workers of all kinds.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/opinion

Opinion | The World’s Best and Brightest Are Moving, but Not to America
Immigration isn’t a crisis. It’s the future.

The sinister brilliance of Donald Trump's security theatre (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/09/07/the-sinister-brilliance-of-donald-trumps-security-theatre?taid=139484df-8e74-4643-95a6-562ab5abd278
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p132#a250908p132

The lawsuit violates the anti-commandeering doctrine of the Tenth Amendment. See United States v. California, No. 18-16496 (9th Cir. 2019) (sanctuary cities) and Murphy v. NCAA (feds can't tell the states what laws they can write).
DOJ manufactures another lawsuit to block in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
https://www.lawdork.com/p/doj-manufactures-another-lawsuit

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 467967 nodes and 525995 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Trump plans to announce on Wednesday that Apple Inc. is pledging $100 billion in additional investment in the United States, the company’s latest move to ramp up its domestic production and avoid the president’s threat of tariffs on its iPhones.

What the White House is calling the American Manufacturing Program, will focus on bringing more of Apple’s supply chain and advanced manufacturing to the United States.
The company said in February that it planned to spend $500 billi…

Trump to Announce Additional $100 Billion Apple Investment in U.S.
The White House said the pledge would bring more of the company’s supply chain and advanced manufacturing to the United States.

Implementing The United States-Japan Agreement (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/implementing-the-united-states-japan-agreement/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p114#a250904p114

US only has 25% of Patriot missiles needed for war plans, Guardian reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/us-only-has-of-patriot.html

What Can I Do Right Now to Defend Democracy and Fight Fascism?
https://www.peoplefor.org/what-can-i-do-right-now-defend-democracy-and-fight-fascism

What Can I Do Right Now to Defend Democracy and Fight Fascism?
Learn about ways you can take action right now to combat the spread of fascism in the United States.

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.…

Ukraine's ambassador to US will be replaced, foreign minister confirms: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/ukraines-ambassador-to-us-will.html

In July, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France plans to recognize a Palestinian state
—joining the ranks of more than 100 global states, mostly non-European, that have already done so.
His decision was a clear shot across the bow to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israeli conduct in Gaza.
The point was made even more blunt in the following days by the news that the United Kingdom also intends to recognize a Palestinian state if no progress is…

What Was the Tipping Point on Gaza?
After almost two years of war, Israel is feeling the growing weight of governmental opprobrium.

The United States Withdraws from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/the-united-states-withdraws-from-the-united-nations-educational-scientific-and-cultural-organization-unesco
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p151#a250722p151

A federal appeals panel on Friday terminated district-court judge James E. Boasberg’s plan to assess whether Trump administration officials were guilty of criminal contempt
for sending flights of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, despite the judge’s verbal order that they turn around and return to the United States.
The ruling by the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will make it far more difficult for Judge Boasberg to determine the de…

Appeals Court Blocks Judge Boasberg’s Contempt Inquiry Into Trump Officials
The case involves deportation flights to El Salvador and whether the administration ignored the judge’s order that they return to the United States.

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Forty-five billion will build a lot of stuff.
As a point of comparison: In 2023, the United States budgeted $12.8 billion to build new affordable housing.
We’re about to spend nearly four times on detention centers as we spend on housing.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197619…

Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.

Oversight Committee Releases Records Provided by the Epstein Estate, Chairman Comer Provides Statement (United States House Committee on Oversight ...)
https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-releases-records-provided-by-the-epstein-estate-chairman-comer-provides-statement/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p10#a250909p10

Saturday, March 15, 2025, may have seemed unremarkable to most Americans.
But in time, history will remember it as Black Saturday
—the moment the United States ceased to function as a constitutional democracy.
For the first time in modern American history, a sitting president openly defied a direct federal court order
—and nothing happened.
No intervention. No enforcement. No consequences.
A legal ruling was issued, and the White House simply ignored it

Black Saturday: The Day the United States Ceased to Be a Constitutional Democracy
Black Saturday, March 15, 2025, will be remembered as the day the U.S. ceased to function as a constitutional democracy. A sitting president defied a federal court order, proving that judicial authority no longer constrains executive power. This is not a warning—it is confirmation that democracy has already collapsed.

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 25417 nodes and 216738 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance broader trade negotiations with the United States (Government of Canada)
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/06/canada-rescinds-digital-services-tax-to-advance-broader-trade-negotiations-with-the-united-states.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p7#a250630p7

I never thought I'd be proud to have been arrested.
But I also never thought that I'd be in a situation where the President of the United States is trying to make questionably legal power grabs.
He knows if he loses Congress, it's over.
It's Isaiah Martin,
and my election isn't in a year,
it's in 89 days,
which means vote by mail ballots are coming sooner than later.
First and foremost, thank you for your support.
I…

Isaiah Martin For Congress
​​Isaiah Martin is a proud Houston native, loyal brother and son, and a dedicated advocate. ​Isaiah’s upbringing instilled in him the values of service, resilience, and a deep commitment to his community. He believes in a Democratic Party that has a spine and fights back against Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans as they try to tear down programs that lift up the most vulnerable.

Many legal specialists,
including retired top military lawyers,
have rejected the idea that Trump has legitimate authority to treat suspected drug smuggling as legally equivalent to an imminent armed attack on the United States.
Even if one accepted that premise for the sake of argument, they added,
if the boat had already turned away, that would further undermine what they saw as an already weak claim of self-defense.
“If someone is retreating, where’s the ‘imm…

Venezuelan Boat Suspected of Drug Smuggling Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Strike
The Trump administration has argued that the summary killing of 11 people it accused of running drugs was legal under the laws of war.

The United States has reached its highest annual measles case tally in 33 years,
hitting at least 1,277 confirmed cases across 38 states and the District of Columbia.

The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease
as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.

U.S. measles cases reach 33-year high as outbreaks spread
Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000.

What Vance expressed to the friendly Claremont audience was a dramatically reduced vision of American citizenship.
It’s one in which having ancestors who have lived here for generations entitles you to more;
a vision of citizenship that’s long existed around the world, with a notable and aspirational exception in the United States.
“Identifying America just with agreeing with the principles, let’s say, of the Declaration of Independence — that’s a definition that is way ove…

JD Vance: Some Americans Are More American Than Others
The day after President Trump signed a bill that throws unprecedented amounts...

A November 2024 report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) reflects staggering numbers:
There are an estimated 96 million #birders in the United States
—more than a third of U.S. adults
—who together spent more than $107 billion in 2022.
In total, that’s more money than the 2022 gross domestic product of New Hampshire (and 10 other U.S. states).

Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers are trapped in a digital cage,
barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes
by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus.
Most of this technology came from companies in a country that has long claimed to support freedoms worldwide -- the United States.
⚠️ Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state,…

How Silicon Valley enabled China's digital police state
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known. Firms including IBM, Dell, and Cisco sold billions in technology to Chinese police and government agencies, despite repeated warnings that such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities. Critically, American surveillance technologies allowed a b…

Forthcoming book
by Bernie Sanders:
Fight Oligarchy.
“Sanders explains how the United States today is an oligarchic society in which a small handful of multibillionaires exercise enormous economic and political power.”
https://bookshop.org/p/books/fight-oli