Tootfinder

Joint Statement of the United States of America, Republic of Lebanon, and State of Israel on the Latest High-Level Trilateral Meeting (United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/06/joint-statement-of-the-united-states-of-america-republic-of-lebanon-and-state-of-israel-on-the-latest-high-level-trilateral-meeting/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p48#a260604p48

Trump announced a fresh crackdown on “fraud” in Democratic states
and tapped JD Vance to lead the charge.
Officials swiftly announced a string of arrests in California.
In a Truth Social post on Friday, the US president announced that his vice-president was now
“in charge of ‘fraud’ in the United States”,
claiming the problem is “massive and pervasive”
and that Vance’s new role as “fraud czar” will be “a major factor in how great the future of our country …

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 673534 nodes and 845087 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Thanks to the extremist agenda of the richest tycoons supporting the authoritarians agenda, American tech companies are going to see a collapse in revenues and growth in these markets. Was it worth it just to support a bunch of child sexual predators? https://techpolicy.press/almost-two…

Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds
EU leaders are pursuing digital sovereignty plans to reduce the 27-country bloc’s dependence on the United States, writes Mark Scott.

Did she give tips on how to kill them, like the 165 little girls the US and Israel murdered just this week in Iran?
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1167067

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Melania Trump presides over historic session on children in conflict
The UN Security Council convened in New York under extraordinary circumstances Monday: amid escalating conflict in the Middle East and repeated calls from the UN for restraint by all sides, the Council turns its attention to a long-standing but under-addressed crisis facing children in war zones. The United States, which holds the rotating presidency for March, decided to have First Lady Melania Trump chair the meeting. Usually, the UN ambassador or senior official takes the gavel. While there …

"The moral here is that the United States retains a vital interest in seeing the Strait of Hormuz reopened. Much as Trump would like to declare victory and insist that the blockade is other countries’ problem, reality won’t oblige him."
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/4-g

The Fifth Circuit would like to run the United States
https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-fifth-circuit-would-like-to-run-the-us

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Liam Lynch:
🎵 United States of Whatever
#LiamLynch
https://jacobrabin.bandcamp.com/track/united-states-of-whatever-liam-lynch
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Jub05dvpbF4Im83NqMCUg

Young men are souring on Donald Trump (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/05/03/young-men-are-souring-on-donald-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p4#a260504p4

"The Comey Threat Indictment Is A Grave Embarrassment To The United States Department of Justice And The Rule of Law." It also shows no company or person is safe with Trump in power and DOJ as his tool.
https://www.popehat.com/p/the-co…

The Comey Threat Indictment Is A Grave Embarrassment To The United States Department of Justice And The Rule of Law
The Department of Justice Is Dead; Long Live The Department of Trump

To the US?!
LOL!
ICE's gonna take him soon enough.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/05/03/russian-minister-dodges-putins-security-service-flees-us-sacking-28218311/

Russian minister 'dodges Putin's security service and flees to US' after sacking
Denis Butsaev has reportedly fled to the United States after dodging Vladimir Putin's high-profile security service.

This Morning’s Listening:
Monday mornings deserve a challenge!
Björk - Medúlla
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mCIxzeCP7j9gJu8WG-S25joCtcjfQdWus&si=ioXNJ9fTholtZxpZ

Medúlla - Album by Björk
Medúlla is the fifth studio album by Icelandic recording artist Björk. It was released on 30 August 2004 in the United Kingdom by One Little Indian and in the United States by Elektra Entertainment. After the release of her electronic-influenced previous album Vespertine, Björk intended to make an album almost entirely constructed with human vocals, in contrast to the previous album's intense process of composition and multiple layers of instrumentation. The album's title derives from the La…

Secondo un sondaggio, quasi due terzi degli europei sostengono la sostituzione della tecnologia statunitense
Secondo una ricerca di YouGov condivisa con Tech Policy Press, quasi due terzi degli europei intervistati ritengono che sostituire i servizi tecnologici americani con alternative europee sia una buona idea, ma gli intervistati sono divisi se questo cambiamento è realistico.
L'analisi arriva mentre i leader dell'Unione Europea portano avanti piani di sovranitŠ digit…

Samsung rolls out blood pressure monitoring for Galaxy Watch 4 and newer models in the US, requiring a traditional upper-arm blood pressure cuff and a new app (Vanessa Hand Orellana/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/samsung-galaxy…

Samsung Galaxy Watch Gets Blood Pressure Monitoring in the US, With One Major Caveat
The globally available feature is finally rolling out in the US, but you'll need to buy extra hardware to use it.

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 4. Mai 1966 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 36. #Atombombe "Traveler". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests

Trump's latest war may end with the United States and its allies
(or, rather, countries that used to be allies)
worse off than when the war started.
His feckless and irresponsible secretary of defense acknowledged on Tuesday that Iran retains the ability to launch missiles and drones.
(Pete Kegsbreath is mystified that the MAGA base, which was told Trump opposed regime-change wars, is upset.)
He also insisted regime change has already occurred, a sign of h…

Trump Is Serious About Accepting a Humiliating Defeat
The disastrous war could end in a geopolitical nightmare.

POTUS: Pedo Of The United States
bot by @…
This is satire, not sedition: let's not have humor lead to homicide.
#satire #potus45

ON JAN. 20, 2025, his first day back in office,
President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that the United States would henceforth recognize only two sexes, male and female.
Trump framed the move as one meant to protect the dignity, safety, and well-being of women. But the order also upended a long-standing policy at the National Institutes of Health
— one that was crafted to ensure that females are adequately represented in biomedical research.
Imple…

The Future of Sex as a Biological Variable in Health Research
An executive order upended an NIH policy requiring researchers to account for both sexes in preclinical animal studies.

I've eaten at a lot of fish and chips places in England and Wales, and around the US. In the UK I like plaice, a kind of fish we don't get here on the west coast of the US.
For some reason, I believe that fish and chips are best consumed outside when the weather is nice, even a bit warm.
My favorite two fish and chips places are:
Scrumptious Fish and Chips - A food truck here in the Santa Cruz area. Their rockfish is especially good.
And the Sea Pal Cove in …

Fish and Chips | Scrumptious Fish & Chips | United States
Scrumptious Fish & Chips is a mobile food trailer that serves authentic British style scatch-made fish & chips in the Santa Cruz CA community.

A look at fights by journalists at McClatchy, ProPublica, EdSource, and the NYT to shape their newsrooms' policies around the use of AI (Riddhi Setty/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/fighting-the-machine-contr…

Fighting the machine.
Journalists across the United States are fighting for contracts that address AI use: “We don’t want it to be done in our name, literally.”

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

Feds charge foreign nationals working at the National Institutes of Health with smuggling monkeypox into the United States and lying about it (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/feds-charge-foreign-nationals-working-national-institutes-health-smuggling-monkeypox
http://www.memeorandum.com/260602/p118#a260602p118

🚨Job Alert 🚨 ! summer job suitable for undergraduate geology or environmental as Hydrologic Technician with the US Geological Survey (USGS)
Kansas, Michigan Minnesota Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming
⚒️🧪
Short Deadline! Apr 6, 2026
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/863100500

USAJOBS connects job seekers with federal jobs across the United States and around the world as the official employment site for the federal government
What General Information Do I Need To Know About This Position?

Salary dependent upon the agreed upon duty location of the position.

**Locality pay tables can be found here

NOTE: First time hires to the Federal Government are typically hired at the Step 01.

Heute vor 16 Jahren: Am 3. Mai 2010 gaben die Vereinigten Staaten #USA bekannt, dass sie über 5.113 #Atomsprengköpfe verfügen, die aktiv eingesetzt, in Reserve oder im Lager sind.

Reducing the presence of the US military in Germany would be a top ten failure of military, national security and international relations not only in US history, but quite possibly world history.
The US abandoning our German allies and Europe would be so catastrophic as to strain the meaning of the word.
potus is so clearly unfit to lead. potus endangers every American, and human on earth, even by posting this.

:::RESCUE UPDATE::: 7:04 AM
The two stranded fishermen near Holman Flats on the South Fork Skokomish River have been successfully rescued by the United States Coast Guard and transported to Sanderson Field for medical evaluation.
We are grateful for the coordinated efforts of all responding agencies, communications personnel, and volunteers whose teamwork helped bring this incident to a safe conclusion.
~40
:::UPDATE::: 6:35AM 5/30/26
Overnight, Guardian One success…

San Francisco immigration judge Jeremiah Johnson, 52, learned that he had been firedwhen he got an email from Attorney General Pam Bondi on a Friday in November.
Thirty seconds later, administrators locked his email.
He became one of the 104 judges fired by the Trump administration.
No reason was given, though immigration attorneys and advocates hypothesize that the administration targeted judges because of “perceived bias.” 
“It was surreal and also made me feel di…

Fired judge goes to the border, searching for what he missed on the bench 
After being fired from his post as immigration judge, Jeremiah Johnson decided to venture to the United States - Mexico border to better understand the experience of migrants crossing over.

Last September, the Trump administration imposed a $100,000 fee on new H-1B applicants,
stirring confusion around the program.
Then in late February, another hurdle was introduced:
The Department of Homeland Security turned this game of chance into one that prioritizes higher salaries.
Now, if there are more H-1B applicants than spots available, U.S.C.I.S. will conduct a weighted lottery system based on new criteria:
wage levels that are calculated with governme…

As H-1B Visa Program Changes, Skilled Foreign Workers Consider Leaving U.S.
As the Trump administration cracks down on the H-1B visa program, which allows skilled workers like software engineers to work in the United States, foreign professionals are debating whether to stay and build careers or quit the American Dream.

Google plans to open its first physical Google Store outside of the US, in Tokyo's Omotesando district "this summer", marking Google's 11th physical store (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/06/01/goog

Google Store Tokyo to be first physical store outside US, opens this summer
After being exclusive to the United States, the first physical Google Store outside of the region is coming to Tokyo, Japan, this summer.

The Iran War Could Collapse the United States in the Next Six Months
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/the-iran-war-could-collapse-the-united

À propos of nothing, #GitLab Inc. financial statements are always an interesting read.
https://

Heute vor 72 Jahren: Am 4.5.1954 testen die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Castle eine weitere #Wasserstoffbombe. #Yankee explodierte oberirdisch u. entwickelte eine Sprengkraft von 13,5KT - die zweit…

#USPolitics #USPol #WhoCouldHaveSeenThisComing
Amazing what can happen in a week.
Ref:

Your regular reminder that the Supreme Court of the United States is an illegitimate institution that should not be listened to or rulings adhered to. https://www.rawstory.com/samuel-alito-conflict-of-interest/

Samuel Alito hit by new scandal as son found secretly working for Trump's Treasury: report
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's son has been secretly working as a political appointee attorney at the U.S. Treasury Department, raising serious conflict of interest questions as high-stakes cases involving the agency have made their way to the nation's highest court, according to a report.Phil...

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116342190603256550
Since the United States and Israel began bombing Iran in late February,
the pope has consistently called for an end to the violence and a return to dialogue to resolve the conflict.
Without naming Mr. Hegseth,…

The utterly massive immigration detention system in the United States is a historic anomaly.
Every time a politicians says "of course" it's necessary or without "we wouldn't have a country," they are lying to you.

Did you miss our pop-up exhibition developed by Katelyn Stauffer’s spring 2026 class POLS 4575H: Women in US Politics? You can now experience “Pretty Politics: Women as Symbols, Women as Subjects” on our website, preserving the work of these students and finding new ways to look at our collection.
https…

Trump keeps winning:
US embassy tells all Americans to leave Iraq immediately after Iran managed to hit its air defence system in Baghdad. Overland, because the country's airspace is closed.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/united-stat

U.S. Embassy Urges Americans To Leave Iraq
The U.S. embassy in Baghdad was struck by an overnight missile attack.

When presidents go on television in wartime, they do not merely describe events.
They try to impose meaning on them.
On Wednesday night, President Trump presented the war with Iran as a stern but necessary undertaking that is nearing a favorable conclusion.
The threads of this victory narrative have been coming together since the United States launched Operation Epic Fury in late February.
Elements of it are undoubtedly true:
American and Israeli forces have b…

Opinion | Trump Has Lost Control of the Iran War
The pain inflicted on Iran has not forced it into submission. It is not clear what will.

Heute vor 42 Jahren: Am 2. Mai 1984 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von #Fusileer die #Atombombe "Orkney". Fusileer war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 83/84 bei der insgesamt 17 unterirdische #Kernwaffentests

Detail on voting for the #UnitedNations #Resolution UN A/80/L.48: “Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialised Chattel Enslavement,” recognising the Transatlantic #slave trade as amongst our…

Giants QB Jaxson Dart on his decision to introduce Donald Trump at rally https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7318088/2026/05/29/jaxson-dart-donald-trump-new-york-giants/

Screening Workers with Affirmative Action
Charles Po-Cheng Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00615 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.00615 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.00615
arXiv:2604.00615v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper examines the optimal contracts in a two-dimensional screening model where one dimension(group identity) is verifiable by agents but not falsifiable. A principal offers contracts to agents who differ in cost types and group membership. Motivated by the United States Federal policy, Work Opportunity Tax Credit, the principal receives tax benefits for hiring agents from protected groups. Under the assumption that the protected agents tend to have higher cost types, the optimal contract induces full separation across both dimensions: agents reveal the cost type and the group identity through contract choice. Furthermore, the principal is willing to hire the trait agents with a higher cost threshold than the non-trait agents, and this threshold increases with the tax credit. Conversely, when the protected agents tend to have lower cost types, the optimal design without tax credits pools groups while separating by cost type. These results demonstrate that both affirmative action and non-discrimination can be optimal depending on the cost distribution ordering across groups.
toXiv_bot_toot

The Comey Threat Indictment Is A Grave Embarrassment To The United States Department of Justice And The Rule of Law (Ken White/The Popehat Report)
https://www.popehat.com/p/the-comey-threat-indictment-is-a-grave-embarrassment-to-the-united-states-department-of-justice-and
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p118#a260428p118

Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran is so unpopular, his own former spokesperson is calling him out.
During an appearance on Fox News Monday night, #Caroline #Sunshine pointed to a statement from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine,
who said that the United States could “expect to take additional los…

Former Trump Spokeswoman Turns on Him Over Iran War
Caroline Sunshine, who was a spokeswoman for Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, is not thrilled with his recent decisions.

I thought that I would reiterate a few proposals that I have made about repairing our Federal judicial system...
1. "Building A Firewall Around A Radical Supreme Court " (First URL below)
2. "Reformation of the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS)" (2nd URL below)
3. "Do We Need Rubber Rooms for Federal Judges? Two Plans To Reduce The Long Tailed Impact of Trump Judicial Appointees" (3rd URL below)

States whose campaign spending laws were overturned by "Citizens United" enacted more extreme gerrymandering and intensified barriers to voting than states that did not have such laws overturned by the ruling. 
🔥The Rise of Oligarchic Politics
💥Big money, few donors:
Since 2010, billionaire election spending has increased over 160-fold, the vast majority through means that were once closed by laws prior to Citizens United. Meanwhile, a tiny donor class dominates…

15 Years After Citizens United: Big Money’s Grip on Our Democracy - Roosevelt Institute
As ultra-wealthy interests gain power, public trust in government has cratered. Roosevelt’s latest report draws on new research demonstrating how corporate actors benefited from Citizens United to the detriment of Americans’ faith in democracy.

POTUS: Pedo Of The United States
bot by @…
This is for tee hee, not treason: let's not make entertainment lead to internment.
#satire #potus45

Secretary of State, National Security Advisor Secretary of Defense, Vice President, Attorney General and President of the United States mere hours after what no one could say wasn’t a decapitation strike on the US (attack meant to remove the leadership of a country all at once) are optionally all within 20 feet of each other during a war because the US Secret Service is inexplicably behaving as if the threat has passed.
Because they planned it? Or they’re horrifyingly reckless?
…

Good but depressing analysis of the war with Iran. Must-read.
#iran

How America's War on Iran Backfired
Seventeen years ago, while serving as an Iran desk officer in the U.S. State Department, I asked a more veteran colleague about the latest inflammatory statement by Mahmood Ahmadinejad, then the Iranian president. My colleague responded: “Stop paying attention to Ahmadinejad. Only focus on Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. He makes the important decisions.” He added: “But don’t worry. Change is coming. Khamenei”—who was then 69 and widely believed to have cancer—“could die at…

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

RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116653621744686968
The United States is not a democracy. This is absolute proof of it.

“Every year, the United States #Mint sells more than $1 billion of investment-grade #gold #coins. Each is stamped with an icon like the bald eagle, signifying the government’s guarantee, required by law, that the gold is 100 per…

U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’
As prices for the precious metal soar, the industry’s guardrails have broken down.

Now that the FCC has banned foreign made routers...
I wonder if they realize that pretty much every mobile phone that can support tethering has routing capability?
And many cars similarly provide routing access/NAT/firewall function to support passengers inside the vehicle.
Pretty much any laptop - running Windoz or MacOS or Linux or Freebsd - can be quickly turned into a "router".
This FCC panic reminds me of the days when the Feds were induced to try to bl…

Hush-A-Phone Corp. v. United States - Wikipedia

Most say the United States' recent military actions against Iran have gone too far (AP-NORC)
https://apnorc.org/projects/most-say-the-united-states-recent-military-actions-against-iran-have-gone-too-far/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260325/p73#a260325p73

Trump threatened on Wednesday to pull the United States out of NATO
due to its European members' refusal to send ships to unblock the Strait of Hormuz near Iran,
as he intensified his denunciations of the military alliance.
Experts say it ‌is not clear whether Trump could act unilaterally to leave the 77-year-old trans-Atlantic coalition,
even though he frequently makes major decisions without congressional approval, some of which are held up by U.S. courts.

Donald Trump is crushing America's farmers--yet they back him (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/04/27/donald-trump-is-crushing-americas-farmers-yet-they-back-him
http://www.memeorandum.com/260427/p105#a260427p105

Republicans Scrub Their Ken Paxton Insults From the Internet - NOTUS — News of the United States
https://www.notus.org/campaigns/paxton-nrsc-makes-content-disappear

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.…

Americans have been waiting for their president and commander in chief to address the nation
and explain why the country is at war.
For weeks, Donald Trump has offered only snippets and sound bites about his decision to lead the United States into another conflict in the Middle East;
his prime-time address this evening was,
one assumes,
aimed at informing and reassuring the American public.
Maybe he’d have been better off not trying.
Trump’s criti…

Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech
His address raised more questions than it answered about the war in Iran.

"It is becoming painfully clear that not only the United States and Israel are losing this war, but that this is one of the biggest strategic failures of the west, with the most significant consequences for regional geopolitics and the global economy since world war two.” He said the US was nowhere near meeting its original strategic goals and had only created new problems."

A war of regression: how Trump bombed the US into a worse position with Iran
Analysts fear Iran has played a weak hand well and the US has blundered into a defining strategic failure

The Dutch government blocks the acquisition of authentication IT supplier Solvinity by US-based Kyndryl, citing "a possible risk to the public interest" (Pieter Haeck/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-vit…

Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier
BRUSSELS — The Dutch government is blocking a United States-based company’s attempts to acquire a key online identification IT supplier. Dutch firm Solvinity runs a platform for the country&#…

POTUS: Pedo Of The United States
bot by @…
This is satire, not sedition: tell the black helicopters to return to base.
#satire #potus45

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 01. April 1966 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 29. #Atombombe "Lime". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests

This judge's decision is, to my mind, moldy rubbish - and I hope the appeals courts feel the same way.
The judge threw out Virginia's redistricting (election just yesterday) - on the grounds of the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution.
The clause:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; …

"Makes sense because they were total frauds,” noted another. “Milli Vanilli were German lol,” noted another, pointing out the irony of a foreign performer headlining an event celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States."
'Total fraud' music act Milli Vanilli 'perfect' for White House extravaganza - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-music/

America’s spending on the war in Iran will far outlast active combat.
The U.S. government has already made contracts and other commitments to repair damaged bases, field counter-drone platforms, feed and shelter thousands of troops and replenish munitions.
Even if President Trump signs a deal ending the war tomorrow, we will harden bases in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Turkey,
by reinforcing aircraft shelters, building blast walls arou…

Opinion | We Will Be Paying for the Iran War for a Very Long Time
The Iran conflict resembles others the United States has been involved in recently: easy to start and hard to end.

We Will Be Paying for the Iran War for a Very Long Time (Haider Ali Hussein Mullick/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/opinion/iran-cost-united-states-iraq-ukraine.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260426/p12#a260426p12

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 519157 nodes and 635436 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

"Iran sees American demands as reaching far beyond what the United States achieved in war. Tehran is gambling that it can withstand further bombardment more than Washington is willing to sustain economic chaos, experts say.
In Pakistan Talks, Iran Saw a U.S. Trying to Dictate, Not Negotiate - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/world/middleeast/iran-united-states-negotiations.html

Webster Announces Retirement (United States Congressman Daniel Webster)
https://webster.house.gov/press-releases?id=E1866E6D-882A-4442-85F7-176E0B1EB438
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p120#a260428p120

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 265912 nodes and 317624 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Heute vor 42 Jahren: Am 31. Mai 1984 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von #Fusileer die #Atombombe "Bellow". Fusileer war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 83/84 bei der insgesamt 17 unterirdische #Kernwaffentests

What we know and don't know about the emerging deal to end the Iran war (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-united-states-deal-explainer-war-b1659232611edc10808612e30647c17d
http://www.memeorandum.com/260525/p60#a260525p60

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

One of the clearest examples of an uninsurable area to date comes from California.
In 2024, State Farm, one of the largest home insurers in the United States, chose not to renew 72,000 home insurance policies across the state due, in part, to unsustainable wildfire risk.
It was not alone, as six of California’s twelve largest insurers had already paused or heavily restricted new policies.
Homeowners who can no longer find private coverage are directed to California’s insure…

Climate change: how fires and floods are creating uninsurable areas across Europe
From California to France and the UK, traditional private markets are buckling under the weight of climate claims.

Heute vor 42 Jahren: Am 31. März 1984 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von #Fusileer die #Atombombe "Agrini". Fusileer war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 83/84 bei der insgesamt 17 unterirdische #Kernwaffentests

The SunZia Wind project in Central New Mexico, set to be completed in 2026, will be the largest wind farm in the western hemisphere, with a generating capacity of 3,500 megawatts.
Currently, the largest completed wind farm in the U.S. is the Alta Wind Energy Center in California, with a capacity of about 1,550 megawatts
https://…

Wind power in the United States - Wikipedia

How the Supreme Court both checks and empowers Donald Trump (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/05/24/how-the-supreme-court-both-checks-and-empowers-donald-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260524/p65#a260524p65

The 1898 Supreme Court case of "United States v. Wong Kim Ark" established an important precedent in its interpretation of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
-- in that it cemented birthright citizenship for children of all immigrants.
For over a century, anyone born on U.S. soil has automatically been conferred citizenship at birth regardless of their parents’ immigration or citizenship status.
While most legal scholars across the political spec…

King Charles and Queen Camilla Arrive in the United States (Michael D. Shear/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/politics/king-charles-washington-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260427/p76#a260427p76

I feel like—from all sides—this case is The Big Moment for SCOTUS.
Have they completely abdicated or is there any semblance of separation of powers and rule of law?
If they side with Trump it feels like a death knell of sorts.
... If we aren’t there already.
-- Kendyl Hanks
https://

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
NEW: The birthright citizenship arguments will show what Donald Trump has done to the United States. Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship is at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The case will test his anti-immigrant authoritarian project — and the court. Today, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/birthright-citizenship-arguments-preview

Secretary of State Marco Rubio With Trey Yingst of Fox News Channel (Marco Rubio/United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/04/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-with-trey-yingst-of-fox-news-channel/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p10#a260428p10

Over the two and a half years
following the 2022 rollout of the 988 national suicide prevention hotline,
the rate of suicides among young people in the United States dropped 11 percent below projections,
decreasing most sharply in states with a higher volume of answered 988 calls, a new study has found.

Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline
Suicides among young adults dropped most sharply in states that actively embraced the 988 crisis line, new research has found.

District Court, M.D. Alabama (CourtListener)
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73223865/1/united-states-v-southern-poverty-law-center-inc/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p146#a260421p146

Immigrants already in the United States under temporary status seeking to become legal permanent residents will now have to return to their home country to begin the application process, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced in a memo released on Friday.
The policy memo, addressed to USCIS officers, says that immigrants seeking a green card must return to their country of origin to apply, except in “extraordinary circumstances.”
For years, immigrants have been able …

Most Immigrants Seeking U.S. Residency Must Apply Back Home, USCIS Says
Forcing immigrants to return to their country of origin is a “backdoor, family-separation policy,” advocate says.

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is usually a place of optimism, if not, triumph.
It was on its stage last year that Elon Musk pumped a chainsaw in the air amid his abortive foray into clear cutting government bureaucracy,
and where JD Vance named undocumented immigration as the “greatest threat” facing the United States and Europe.
Trump is a regular, regaling the audience with lengthy monologues about his accomplishments.
Not this year. F…

An executive order signed with little fanfare by Donald Trump on Friday could have a huge impact on the health of US children,
as it instructs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to cut the number of recommended childhood vaccines almost in half.
The vague language of the order, which refers to “a scientific assessment that compared United States childhood immunization recommendations with those of peer nations” published in January by anti-vaccine activist Rober…

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116313733072432493
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees citizenship to any child born within the United States, with limited exceptions.
Revoking this right would require amending the U.S. Constitution,
or for…

The United States is destroying itself (Rebecca Solnit/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction
http://www.memeorandum.com/260412/p36#a260412p36

As CBS set the stage for Sunday evening’s Elite Eight game between UConn and Duke,
the network aired a feature segment on Huskies forward Alex Karaban and his family, who are immigrants from the Eastern European country of Belarus.
In an emotional, off-script response to the Karabans’ story, TNT Sports commentator Charles Barkley used the opportunity to call for fairer treatment of immigrants in the United States

Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing.bsky.social)
"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

How can one not admire history’s exquisite dark sense of humor?
As part of a “delegation” of sanctioned Russian State Duma deputies visiting the United States,
there was none other than the actual grandson of USSR's Vyacheslav Molotov, there to discuss a Trump–Putin pact.
-- ‪Sally Luxmoore€
‪@sallyl.bsky.social€
·
Sadly, this point may be lost on many people.
So:👇🏽
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact - Wikipedia

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact - Wikipedia

Trump vowed to “take” Cuba
as the Caribbean island plunged into darkness under a total power blackout
linked to a crippling oil embargo imposed by Washington.
After nearly seven decades defying the United States,
Havana’s communist authorities are under massive pressure from a Trump administration.
“You know, all my life I’ve been hearing about the United States and Cuba. When will the United States do it?” Trump said.
“I do believe I’ll be…having the honor…

Trump vows to 'take' Cuba as the island reels from US-imposed oil embargo
Donald Trump said he thinks he can ‘do anything’ he wants with the island as it suffers with power blackouts.

The Trump administration is advancing plans to resettle an additional 10,000 white South Africans in the United States as refugees.
Under Trump’s proposal, which was submitted to Congress on Monday, the U.S. would lift its record-low refugee admissions figure from 7,500 to 17,500,
with the additional openings reserved for Afrikaners.
This comes as the administration continues to block the entry of refugees from other countries.
The U.S. has resettled just over 6,000 …

“Clear Racism”: Trump Admin Blocks Refugee Resettlement, Except for White South Africans
The Trump administration is advancing plans to resettle an additional 10,000 white South Africans in the United States as refugees. Under President Trump’s proposal, which was submitted to Congress on Monday, the U.S. would lift its record-low refugee admissions figure from 7,500 to 17,500, with the additional openings reserved for Afrikaners. This comes as the administration continues to block the entry of refugees from other countries. The U.S. has resettled just over 6,000 refugees between…

California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a lawsuit against Chrome Holding Co.,
-- formerly known as 23andMe
-- for failing to protect its customers’ sensitive personal information and genetic data related to their health, genetic predispositions and risk factors, biological relatives, ancestry, and ethnicity.
In 2023, 23andMe experienced a data breach that affected nearly 7 million users across the United States,
including 855,541 Californians.
While 23…

After spending nearly half her life in the United States,
41-year-old Brazilian Amanda Ungaro was deported from the country last October.
She endured three hellish months in a detention center until she was expelled,
like more than 600,000 immigrants since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025 and set out to carry out “the largest deportation in history.”
What is unusual in the case of this former model who worked at the United Nations is that,

Amanda Ungaro: From sharing soirées with the Trumps to being deported by ICE
The former Brazilian model and ex-ambassador to the United Nations speaks in an interview about her expulsion from the United States, which she attributes to maneuvers by her former partner, and about a flight on Epstein’s plane

At Turkey’s showcase diplomatic conference in the Mediterranean resort town of Antalya over the weekend, the United States was rarely the official topic of conversation.
But coursing through the discussions among the thousands of participants
— including dozens of heads of state and other senior officials from Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia
— were questions about how to respond when the United States disregards its allies and the global order it long professed to …

The 250th birthday of the United States is coming up and many of us are having a tough time feeling celebratory because
*waves hands around at everything*.
To mark the occasion in a decidedly non-jingoistic manner, historian Heather Cox Richardson is producing a series of one-minute videos,
each featuring one of “the many people, places, and events that have built our country
and remind us of the power of each person to make history

250 to 250
A series of one-minute stories of the many people, places, and events that have built our country and remind us of the power of each person to make history. ...

The United States was not ready for this war.
Secretary of State Rubio publicly acknowledged the structural mismatch before the operation began:
Iran produces more than 100 ballistic missiles per month,
against six or seven interceptors that the United States can manufacture in the same period.
The Shahed-136 drone costs between twenty and fifty thousand dollars to produce.
-- The PAC-3 interceptor that destroys it costs four million.
The THAAD intercep…

The Hormuz Trap: How Beijing Won a War Without Firing a Single Missile
On June 15, 1900, Major General Stessell sent a dispatch to Vice Admiral Alexeyev reporting the successful storming of the Eastern Arsenal…

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is appealing to the public for help
after launching a website to report data center concerns as the rapid expansion of AI-driven facilities across the United States increasingly clashes with local communities.
The website, brockovichdatacenter.com,
lists several “key concerns” surrounding such data centers,
including high energy consumption that drives environmental impacts and costs,
substantial water use for cooling that …

Erin Brockovich Asks Americans For Help As She Launches Data Center Map
The activist has launched a website to track community concerns as AI data centers proliferate across the country.