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Today's Trump v. CASA decision screams for an expansion of SCOTUS.
Why?
Because this opinion means more cases will come to SCOTUS to be resolved to achieve national consistency.
Yet SCOTUS is overworked.
This was mentioned in the SistersInLaw podcast from last week, "Pretzel Logic" where it was said:
"I mean, this is maybe grounds for we need a bigger court. We need two Supreme Courts so that they can handle enough cases."
I ha…

Shoot First laws in the United States lead to substantial increases in violence
and the senseless loss of hundreds of lives every year.
Research shows that these laws have increased gun homicides by up to 11 percent nationally,
translating to more than 700 deaths annually.
Some Shoot First states have seen even steeper increases, with those rates rising by 30 percent or more in Alabama, Florida, and Missouri.
Adolescents experience higher rates of gun homicides…

The Dangers of Shooting First: "Stand Your Ground" Laws Are a License to Kill
Shoot First laws, also known as Stand Your Ground laws, allow a person to use deadly force in a confrontation without any duty to retreat.

Daylight #fireball over the U.S. Southeast - and there may have been a related meteorite hit of a house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_OaYXxB7Z8. Visual reports: https://fireballs.imo.net/members/imo_view/event/2025/3455. Detections by radar and from a satellite: https://x.com/spann/status/1938367055368970461. An article: https://eos.org/research-and-developments/fireball-passes-over-southeastern-united-states. More TV reports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq7THmDUCfg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcTk-Sg1uSA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d8HbC4zjKw

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hawaiian-airlines-discloses-cyberattack-flights-not-affected/
Hawaiian Airlines discloses cyberattack, flights not affected

Hawaiian Airlines discloses cyberattack, flights not affected
Hawaiian Airlines, the tenth-largest commercial airline in the United States, is investigating a cyberattack that has disrupted access to some of its systems.

The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness (Matt Watkins/Slate)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/06/scotus-analysis-amy-coney-barrett-texas-babies-stateless.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250627/p149#a250627p149

I think the thing people confuse re: Israel and the United States is, just because Israel is a colonial outpost of the United States, doesn’t mean the leaders of the United States aren’t *also* utter fools with fucking rocks for brains

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Die aktuelle #Hitzewelle in den #USA betrifft über 150 Millionen Menschen und ist ein deutliches Zeichen für den Einfluss des menschengemachten #Klimawandel​s.
Die Nächte bleiben ungewöhnlich …

Heat waves are getting more dangerous with climate change — and we may still be underestimating them
The intensifying and expansive heat wave affecting around 150 million people in the United States from Wisconsin to Washington, DC, bears the hallmarks of human-caused global warming.

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 116920 nodes and 133415 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

"U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he's terminating all trade discussions with Canada effective immediately.
"We will let #Canada know the #Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period," Trump said in …

Every year, hundreds of children in the United States gain access to loaded guns that are unsecured in closets and nightstand drawers, in backpacks and purses, or just left out in the open.
With tragic regularity, children pick up these unsecured guns and unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else.
Everyone has a role to play in preventing these tragedies.
Although unintentional shootings by children are a heartbreaking part of America’s gun violence epidemic,
no…

We must make sure no more children are added to this list
Every year, hundreds of children in the US gain access to firearms and unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else. This is #NotAnAccident.

Secure Energy Transactions Using Blockchain Leveraging AI for Fraud Detection and Energy Market Stability
Md Asif Ul Hoq Khan, MD Zahedul Islam, Istiaq Ahmed, Md Masud Karim Rabbi, Farhana Rahman Anonna, MD Abdul Fahim Zeeshan, Mehedi Hasan Ridoy, Bivash Ranjan Chowdhury, Md Nazmul Shakir Rabbi, GM Alamin Sadnan
https://arxiv.or…

Secure Energy Transactions Using Blockchain Leveraging AI for Fraud Detection and Energy Market Stability
Peer-to-peer trading and the move to decentralized grids have reshaped the energy markets in the United States. Notwithstanding, such developments lead to new challenges, mainly regarding the safety and authenticity of energy trade. This study aimed to develop and build a secure, intelligent, and efficient energy transaction system for the decentralized US energy market. This research interlinks the technological prowess of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) in a novel way to solve lon…

HAHAHAHAHA!
Marvellous! 😂
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/114908945676154083

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL in 1816, the United States built a fort to protect itself from invasion by Canada. There was only one small problem: due to a surveying error, it was built in Canada. It was later known as "Fort Blunder" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Montgomery_%28Lake_Champlain%29 #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1m87dq9/til_in_1816_the_united_states_built_a_fort_to/

Heute vor 69 Jahren: Am 27. Juli 1956 ereignete sich ein Beinahe-Unfall in der #RAF #Lakenheath, als ein B-47-Bomber in ein Lager mit drei Mark-6 #Atombomben krachte. Die Explosion hätte beinahe die B…

The Role of Partisan Culture in Mental Health Language Online
Sachin R. Pendse, Ben Rochford, Neha Kumar, Munmun De Choudhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20377

The Role of Partisan Culture in Mental Health Language Online
The impact of culture on how people express distress in online support communities is increasingly a topic of interest within Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). In the United States, distinct cultures have emerged from each of the two dominant political parties, forming a primary lens by which people navigate online and offline worlds. We examine whether partisan culture may play a role in how U.S. Republican and Democrat users of online mental heal…

Monday Aug 4th. Breathe new life into your old laptop/desktop. Stop E-waste and Windows 11 bloat-ware, and try Linux. #Linux #linuxmint #EndOf10

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

USA, you're about 85 years behind Germany.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

DirecTV experiments with discontinuing satellite TV subscriptions for new customers in several US regions and directing subscribers toward its streaming option (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/directv-stop…

DIRECTV Stops Selling Satellite TV for New Customers in Select Areas | Cord Cutters News
DIRECTV, a leading provider of television entertainment, has announced a significant shift in its service offerings, discontinuing satellite TV subscriptions for new customers in several regions across the United States. The company is now directing new subscribers toward its streaming option, as part of a broader strategy to adapt to evolving consumer preferences and technological […]

Google launches its virtual clothes try-on feature, letting users upload photos of themselves, in the US and updates price alerts to let users specify an amount (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/googles-new-ai-feature-lets-…

Google's new AI feature lets you virtually try on clothes | TechCrunch
The feature is launching in the United States today, letting users try on apparel items in Google's Shopping Graph across Search, Google Shopping and product results on Google Images.

Journal of Ecumenical Studies: Religious Pluralism, Freedom, and the Founding of the Nation
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"The British used parts of North America as a penal colony. Convicts were transported by private companies and sold by auction to plantation owners. Between 1718 and 1776, it is estimated that 30,000-50,000 convicts were transported for penal labor to at least nine of the continental colonies." -- https://

Penal labor in the United States - Wikipedia

The Climatological Relationship Between United States Tornadoes and Extratropical Cyclones
Lauren Kiefer, Daniel Chavas, Michelle Gore, Daniel Dawson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16975

The Climatological Relationship Between United States Tornadoes and Extratropical Cyclones
Tornadoes have caused billions of dollars in damage and are one of the leading causes of weather-related deaths in the United States each year. Tornadoes are known to frequently form in the warm sector of extratropical cyclones (ETCs), yet relatively little research exists quantifying the climatological relationship between the two phenomena and their covariability. This work analyzes the climatology of F/EF1+ tornadoes relative to ETCs (ETCTORs) using historical databases of tornadoes and hour…

American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran
The United States is well down the road to dictatorship. Imagine what Trump would do with a state of war.
#GiftArticle #USPolitics
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/democracy-iran-israel-war-trump/683269/?gift=E9o0y7Rlfcfv2OQ1sSVCEglNGkNaOm3ulZvY2L-kUho&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Organ donation saves lives and enjoys widespread public support,
but many people are unsure what they agree to when they sign up.
People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs.
Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.

A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk
People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.

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.

The justification that Trump used to claim (illegally) federalize the California National Guard and deploy the marines is from 10 U.S. Code § 252:
> Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.
Specifically he's called out the "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States."
Trump cannot legally hold office because of his participation in an insurrection. Trump should have been impeached and removed on day 1 of his first administration based on the Emoluments clause. Trump colluded with Russia to manipulate the election, so even his swearing in was a failure of the US government to "enforce the laws of the United States." The supreme court justices he appointed explictly undermined and continue to "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States," as with all of his appointees. The troops he has federalized remain deployed, even after being declared illegal.
When, then, do we call the entire time since January 20th, 2017 to now an insurrection and his government an illegal assembly? Who will order them to "disperse?"
#NoKingsDay

Finally: the United States sanctions Israeli officials for their ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
And by that I mean the United States sanctions the United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for criticising and calling for an end to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
“Are we the baddies?”
What a silly question. When did you stop?

US sanctions UN expert Francesca Albanese, critic of Israel's Gaza offensive
Secretary of State Marco Rubio linked the move to her support for the International Criminal Court (ICC).

District Court, M.D. Tennessee (Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr/CourtListener)
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70476164/55/united-states-v-garcia/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p122#a250625p122

Why 2025 became the summer of flash flooding in America #America

Why 2025 became the summer of flash flooding in America
The National Weather Service has already issued more than 3,600 flash flood warnings across the United States in 2025, and that number is increasing as torrential downpours continue in late July. There's a good chance the U.S. will exceed its yearly average of around 4,000 flash flood warnings soon.

From Press Progress
Convoy founding organizer says he is seeking asylum in the US
https://pressprogress.ca/freedom-convoy-founding-organizer-says-he-is-seeking-political-asylum-in-the-united-states/

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 27. Mai 1966 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 42. #Atombombe "Discus Thrower". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Justice Department to tell her more
about a deal struck between the Trump administration and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador
to imprison immigrants deported from the United States in a Salvadoran maximum-security facility
in exchange for the return of top leaders of the MS-13 gang who are in U.S. custody.
The order by the judge, Joan M. Azrack,
came as she was considering a request by federal prosecutors on Long Island…

Judge Demands Answers About Deal to Return MS-13 Gang Leaders to El Salvador
Federal prosecutors are seeking to drop narco-terrorism charges against a man they have alleged is one of the gang’s leaders.

Desperate idiot
#Trump
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@Ulfh3dnar/114…

Republicans have a plan to add trillions of dollars to the national debt
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/05/13/republicans-have-a-plan-to-add-trillions-of-dollars-to-the-national-debt…

A Century of Evolution in the Complexity of the United States Legal Code
Dawoon Jeong, James Holehouse, Jisung Yoon, Chris Kempes, Geoffrey B West, Hyejin Youn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14342

A Century of Evolution in the Complexity of the United States Legal Code
As societies confront increasingly complex regulatory demands in domains such as digital governance, climate policy, and public health, there is a pressing need to understand how legal systems evolve, where they concentrate regulatory attention, and how their institutional architectures shape capacity for adaptation. Yet, the long-term structural dynamics of law remain empirically underexplored. Here, we provide a versioned, machine-readable record of the United States Code (U.S. Code), the pri…

Kagan warnt: Trumps Iran-Politik bedroht nicht nur Teheran, sondern auch die US-Demokratie – Illiberale profitieren, Demokratie bleibt außen vor
American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/international/

American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran
The United States is well down the road to dictatorship. Imagine what Trump would do with a state of war.

“A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk”
“People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.”
A chilling read about an absolutely galling failure of the most basic bioethical concerns. The process around circulatory death donation is clearly broken and requires reform and better oversight. It’s ghoulish in its present state.

A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk
People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.

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

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/23/apple-better-off-taking-tariff-hit/

Kuo: Apple Better Off Taking 25% Tariff Hit Than Move iPhone Production to US
It would be more financially viable for Apple to absorb a 25% import tariff on iPhones sold in the United States than to relocate its assembly...

I respect a principled stand.
“Public Broadcasting, the FCC, and Why I Turned Down the FCC Chairman’s Award for Advancement in Accessibility (by Larry Goldberg)”
https://www.lflegal.com/2025/07/larry-goldberg-fcc-award/

Attacks on Public Broadcasting Lead US Accessibility Champion to Reject Prestigious Award
Lainey's Introduction As the republican attacks on rights, benefits and democracy continue in the United States, resistance takes many forms. One problem in the country right now is that main stream media normalizes trump and republican activity, as if we are not creeping toward fascism with ever

On Saturday he ate 6 United States Nimitz-Class Super-carriers, but he was still hungry.

Truly a make or break moment for the franchise: if they have another launch a la V/2042 EA will put the franchise to sleep like they did with Medal of Honor.
@… https://meta.masto…

Gaming News (@GamingNews@meta.masto.host)
Attached: 1 image Destructoid just posted: With grime, grit, war, and destruction, Battlefield 6’s reveal trailer sure looks promising Battlefield 6 has finally been officially revealed with a flashy new, Hollywood-esque trailer. Featuring the United States President (fictional), all-out war, a lot of grime and grit, this is the best BF trailer we've had since Battlefield 1 dropped, and it's not even close. Though only two minutes long, Battlefield 6's reveal ... https://www.destructoid.c…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is doubling down on his threat to overhaul the state's independent redistricting process,
escalating a political standoff with Texas Republicans that's becoming a flashpoint in the fight for control of Congress.
This week, the Texas Legislature kicked off a special session where redistricting is on the table,
🆘as Republicans reevaluate their congressional maps to help the GOP retain its slim House majority after the 2026 midterms.
A…

Newsom calls GOP's push to redraw TX congressional maps an 'existential crisis to democracy'
Newsom told reporters the GOP's push to redraw congressional maps in Texas is a "five-alarm fire for democracy in the United States" and is doubling down on his threat to overhaul California's redistricting process.

See my new Substack post for “Resist and Heal” - Lies About South African “White Genocide“
https://open.substack.com/pub/resistandheal/p/lies-about-south-african-white-genocide?r=4u…

Lies About South African “White Genocide“
The United States is in a fascist political crisis.

Irony. The "land of the free" has driven out a worldwide meeting of #humanists. So much for #religiousfreedom.

Announcing Relocation of the 2026 World Humanist Congress
American Atheists, in close coordination with Humanists International and Humanist Canada, announces the 2026 World Humanist Congress will no longer be held in Washington, D.C., but will instead take place in Ottawa, Canada, August 7-9, 2026. The decision to relocate comes after a thorough assessment of the social, political, and economic environment in the United States under the current administration. Escalating religious nationalism and executive actions restricting movement, targeting civi…

if you do not reside in the United States, do not come here. *I* want you here, but i also do not want you to be harmed or killed.

Journal of Ecumenical Studies: Religious Pluralism, Freedom, and the Founding of the Nation https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20121201/journal-ecumenical-studies-religious-pluralism-freedom-and-founding…

Trump officially violates Emoluments clause by taking a bribe… again.
https://flipboard.com/@npr/u.s.-news-aspd61boz/-/a-WZ2HYSHPR3WMNXB1Zz2RYw:a:3195441-/0

Trump administration officially accepts jet from Qatar for use as Air Force One
The United States has officially accepted a Boeing 747-8 luxury jetliner as a gift from the Qatari government, and the Air Force has been tasked with upgrading it to be used as a new plane for President Trump, according to an Air Force spokesperson. The spokesperson, who spoke on the condition of …

This The Beaverton article is so funny, and not funny.
https://thebeaverton.com/2025/06/canadians-travelling-to-the-us-advised-to-not-fucking-do-that/

Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that
OTTAWA - Canadians thinking of planning a trip to the United States are being advised by the Government of Canada to perhaps consider going anywhere else on the entire fucking planet for their summer vacations. 

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United States wondered how China had made such progress in the field of microchips. Huawei and Xiaomi are the answer, with massive development.
https://farmingdale-observer.c…

In the United States, the power to use military force, including ordering airstrikes, is not granted explicitly to the President in the U.S. Constitution. Rather, this authority comes from Congress's power to declare war and grant the President the authority to take military action under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution. This authority is further developed through the War Powers Resolution of 1973, which places limits on the President's ability to deploy U.S. forces into hos…

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

XRISM Pre-Pipeline and Singularity: Container-Based Data Processing for the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission and High-Performance Computing
Satoshi Eguchi, Makoto Tashiro, Yukikatsu Terada, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Ken Ebisawa, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Tessei Yoshida, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, Shoji Ogawa, Matthew P. Holland, Michael Loewenstein, Eric D. Miller, Tahir Yaqoob, Robert S. Hill, Morgan D. Waddy, Mark M. Mekosh, Joseph B. Fox, Isabella S. Brewer, Emily Aldoretta, Y…

XRISM Pre-Pipeline and Singularity: Container-Based Data Processing for the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission and High-Performance Computing
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) is the seventh Japanese X-ray observatory whose development and operation are in collaboration with universities and research institutes in Japan, the United States, and Europe, including JAXA, NASA, and ESA. The telemetry data downlinked from the satellite are reduced to scientific products using pre-pipeline (PPL) and pipeline (PL) software running on standard Linux virtual machines (VMs) for the JAXA and NASA sides, respectively. OBSIDs iden…

How Israel deceived the United States about its nuclear weapons program (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/23/israel-nuclear-weapons-iran-united-states/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p12#a250623p12

Holy fuck.
"**President Trump announced the United States had struck Fordo, Iran’s heavily fortified nuclear facilities, as well as two other sites.**"
Live Updates: U.S. Enters War With Iran, Bombing Key Nuclear Sites - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/21/world/iran-israel-trump

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Liam Lynch:
🎵 United States Of Whatever
#LiamLynch
https://jacobrabin.bandcamp.com/track/united-states-of-whatever-liam-lynch
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Jub05dvpbF4Im83NqMCUg

Ah, dus *de* manier om Iran te dwingen een oorlog te beëindigen is zelf die oorlog te starten?

The justification that Trump used to claim (illegally) federalize the California National Guard and deploy the marines is from 10 U.S. Code § 252:
> Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.
Specifically he's called out the "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States."
Trump cannot legally hold office because of his participation in an insurrection. Trump should have been impeached and removed on day 1 of his first administration based on the Emoluments clause. Trump colluded with Russia to manipulate the election, so even his swearing in was a failure of the US government to "enforce the laws of the United States." The supreme court justices he appointed explictly undermined and continue to "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States," as with all of his appointees. The troops he has federalized remain deployed, even after being declared illegal.
When, then, do we call the entire time since January 20th, 2017 to now an insurrection and his government an illegal assembly? Who will order them to "disperse?"
#NoKingsDay

I never thought I’d see the day where China seems to be on a better trajectory, in terms of bringing the world together, than the US. 🤔
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/21/china-who-donation-500-million/?utm_source=…

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

The United States Bombed Iran. What Comes Next? (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/united-states-bombed-iran-now-what/683276/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p2#a250622p2

Yue-Sai Kan is a Chinese-American television host, producer, author, entrepreneur and humanitarian. Renowned for her work in bridging the gap between China and the United States, she has been nicknamed "The Oprah of China". People, The Observer and ABS News have called her "the most famous woman in China".

CHRONEX-US: City-level historical road network expansion dataset for the conterminous United States
Johannes H. Uhl, Keith A. Burghardt, Stefan Leyk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16625

CHRONEX-US: City-level historical road network expansion dataset for the conterminous United States
Geospatial datasets on the long-term evolution of road networks are scarce, hampering our quantitative understanding of how the contemporary road network has evolved over the course of the 20th century. However, such information is crucial to better understand the dynamics of road network growth and expansion, and to shed light on the consequences of (sub-) urbanization processes, such as increasing mobility, traffic congestion, land take and transportation inequality. Herein, we describe CHRON…

US enters first major heat wave of 2025 #UnitedStates #USA

US enters first major heat wave of 2025
The United States is experiencing its first significant heat wave of the year, beginning Friday across the Great Plains and expanding into parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday that he is formally rescinding the use of thimerosal in vaccines distributed throughout the United States
— despite the fact that there is no evidence of harm from the ingredient.
The move was recommended by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) committee last month.
-- Upon taking office earlier this year, Kennedy had dismissed the entirety of the existing board and replaced them with individuals harboring anti-va…

RFK Jr. Bans Thimerosal in Some Flu Vaccines, Despite Experts, Studies Noting Its Safety
“Banning vaccine ingredients without cause increases the perceived risk of vaccines,” one prominent health group said.

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 25. Juni 1966 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 48. #Atombombe "Vulcan". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests

🇺🇦 #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

Conditions are perfect in the Maine woods for moose-killing ticks - United States
https://www.europesays.com/us/2776/

Americans agree with Trump that Iran poses threat to United States: poll (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/americans-agree-trump-iran-poses-threat-united-states-poll
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p31#a250621p31

Trump’s statement tonight was a farrago of contradictions:
He said, for example, that the main Iranian nuclear sites were “completely and totally obliterated”
—but it will take time to assess the damage, and he has no way of knowing this.
He claimed that the Iranian program has been destroyed
—but added that there are still “many targets” left.
He said that Iran could suffer even more in the coming days
—but the White House has reportedly assured Iran thro…

The United States Bombed Iran. What Comes Next?
President Trump is taking an enormous risk.

Heute vor 72 Jahren: Am 25. Mai 1953 wurde im Rahmen der Upshot-Knothole-Testserie die #Atomkanone M65, auch bekannt als Atomic Annie, auf dem Nevada Testgelände erfolgreich getestet. Dieses US Artilleriegeschütz feuerte als erstes und einziges eine nukleare Granate ab.

Social homophily predicts evacuation destination choice and long-term displacement decisions after the Marshall Fire
Vaidehi Raipat, Takahiro Yabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18270

Social homophily predicts evacuation destination choice and long-term displacement decisions after the Marshall Fire
Rapid urbanization and climate change have contributed to a significant rise in the frequency and intensity of disasters, which have resulted in three million adults being displaced from their homes in the United States during the past year. Using large-scale mobility data, it is now possible to observe and analyze post-disaster mobility dynamics across a longer time period, compared to household surveys which are often limited in scale. However, much of the mobility data-driven research on eva…

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

Heute vor 41 Jahren: Am 25. Juli 1984 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von #Fusileer die #Atombombe "Normanna". Fusileer war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 83/84 bei der insgesamt 17 unterirdische #Kernwaffentests

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aflac-incorporated-discloses-cybersecurity-incident-302487036.html
Likely another Scattered Spider incident

Aflac Incorporated Discloses Cybersecurity Incident
/PRNewswire/ -- On June 12, 2025, Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL) identified suspicious activity on our network in the United States. We promptly initiated our...

A United States Army veteran who was forced to self-deport to South Korea has told Newsweek he will only return once President Donald Trump leaves office.
Purple Heart veteran Sae Joon Park, who has lived in the U.S. for 48 years, was told by immigration authorities that he had three weeks to leave the country.
"President Trump sucks. I will try to come back after Trump leaves," Park told Newsweek in a statement.

Purple Heart Veteran Forced to Deport After Green Card Revoked
"President Trump sucks. I will try to come back after Trump leaves," Purple Heart vet Sae Joon Park told Newsweek in a statement.

Three ways Trump's attack on Iran could spin out of control (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/417478/iran-bomb-united-states-trump-fordow-natanz-escalation
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p74#a250622p74

Coca-Cola confirms it will launch cane sugar version in US amid Trump 'enthusiasm' (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/business/5413175-coca-cola-cane-sugar-united-states/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p66#a250722p66

The United States is moving B-2 bombers to the Pacific island of Guam,
as Donald Trump weighs whether the United States should take part in Israel’s strikes against Iran.
It was unclear whether the bomber deployment is tied to Middle East tensions.
The B-2 can be equipped to carry America’s 30,000lb GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator,
designed to destroy targets deep underground.
That is the weapon that experts say could be used to strike Iran’s nuclear program, i…

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.…

How the United States Helped Create Iran's Nuclear Program (Michael Crowley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/us-iran-nuclear-program.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p20#a250624p20

A Qantas Airlines flight that left from Perth, Australia, on Monday night
returned to the same city the next morning after more than 15 consecutive hours in the air
— thanks to turmoil in the Middle East.
The flight, QF33, which was supposed to land in Paris,
was among a number of airplane journeys that were disrupted
after attacks in the region involving the United States, Israel and Iran prompted officials to temporarily close air space in the region.

15-Hour Qantas Flight Takes Passengers From Perth to Perth Amid Mideast Closures
Flights on Monday and Tuesday were delayed and diverted because of temporary air space closures in the region.

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

A panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed with a lower court’s ruling that Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to redefine birthright citizenship is unconstitutional.
The executive order, signed by Trump in his first week in office,
is “invalid,”
the majority opinion of the court explained in its ruling,
“because it contradicts the plain language of the Fourteenth Amendment’s grant of citizenship to ‘all persons born in the United States and subj…

Appeals Court Finds Trump’s Order Seeking to End Birthright Citizenship Is Unconstitutional
Trump’s executive action ignored the “ordinary meaning” of the 14th amendment, the court found.

There are far more ways for an air strike on Iran to go wrong than for it to go the way it is being sold to Trump.
The illegal attack launched by Israel against Iran already set off a war that raises the stakes -- and brings the U.S. increasingly closer to getting directly involved -- even if it doesn’t strike.
But if it does strike, it sets off a series of consequences that likely lead to a long, drawn-out commitment with no clear exit strategy, again.
An American strike…

Can the United States Really Be Marching Toward This Madness Again?
The eerie echoes of Iraq and 2003 are numerous. But there are some key differences—and they make going into Iran an even greater act of folly.

There seem to be constant reminders of the disastrous mistakes that led up to the most catastrophic American foreign policy decision in recent memory -- the war on Iraq.
Despite the costly lessons of the past and the flashing warning signs before us today,
Trump seems poised to press the button on joining Israel’s attack on Iran.
Doing so could be an even bigger mistake.
The echoes are numerous:
A complete disregard for international law and diplomatic alternativ…

Can the United States Really Be Marching Toward This Madness Again?
The eerie echoes of Iraq and 2003 are numerous. But there are some key differences—and they make going into Iran an even greater act of folly.

REGARDING THE PROPOSED ACQUISITION OF UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION BY NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/regarding-the-proposed-acquisition-of-the-united-states-steel-corporation-by-nippon-steel-corporation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p153#a250613p153

Across the Northeast this month, states will mark the complicated history of anointing a singular Black leader to represent their community,
-- a settler colonial tradition that persists today
Negro Election Day,
or Negroes Hallowday,
dates back to 1639 in Massachusetts,
making it the the earliest known Black voting system in the United States.
The day was celebrated throughout the Northeast to mark the day that African people elected a “king” or “governo…

Negro Election Day may seem like ancient history, but it remains as prescient as ever
Across the Northeast this July, states will mark the complicated history of anointing a singular Black leader to represent their community

By deporting foreign nationals to often unstable third countries,
the Trump administration is not only creating a novel class of exiles with little hope of returning to either the United States or their country of origin,
but also explicitly using these vulnerable populations as bargaining chips in a wider strategy of diplomatic and geopolitical deal making.

Opinion | Trump Is Building a Machine to Disappear People
The president’s use of migrants as bargaining chips will corrode international politics.

Imposing Sanctions in Response to the ICC's Illegitimate Actions Targeting the United States and Israel (United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/imposing-sanctions-in-response-to-the-iccs-illegitimate-actions-targeting-the-united-states-and-israel/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p52#a250606p52

“Between enabling Israel in Gaza and all of its operations across the Middle East,
and now these strikes in Iran,
we are setting the foundation for the next generation’s ‘War on Terror,’”
said Wes Bryant, who served until earlier this year as the senior analyst and adviser on precision warfare, targeting, and civilian harm mitigation at the Pentagon’s Civilian Protection Center of Excellence.
He questioned the Trump administration’s abrupt shift from negotiating with I…

Self-Proclaimed “Peacemaker” Drags U.S. Into Another War
Heeding the request of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump dispatched U.S. warplanes to bomb Iran.

The federal government raised the price of stamps on Sunday.
The price of first class forever stamps is increasing by 5 cents, rising from 73 cents to 78 cents, according to Senior U.S. Postal service representative Marti Johnson.
It will also cost more to send a postcard in the United States -- that's going to run you 62 cents, up from 56 cents.
An international postcard went up by 5 cents to $1.70.

Cost of higher stamp prices now in effect, USPS says: Here's how much
The cost of stamps has gone up. A senior U.S. Postal Service representative called the jump a "rational and realistic approach."

Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/06/canadians-travelling-to-the-us-advised-to-not-fucking-do-that/

Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that
OTTAWA - Canadians thinking of planning a trip to the United States are being advised by the Government of Canada to perhaps consider going anywhere else on the entire fucking planet for their summer vacations. 

Netanyahu said:
“There’s so many false reports of conversations that never happened, and I’m not going to get into that.”
“But I can tell you, I think that we do what we need to do, we’ll do what we need to do.
And I think the United States knows what is good for the United States,”
Anonymous administration officials had claimed that the Israelis reported they had an opportunity to kill the top Iranian leader, and that Trump waved them off of the plan

Sheltering in a Bunker, Iran’s Supreme Leader Names Potential Successors
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not only picked replacements in his chain of military command in case they are killed in Israeli strikes,
he has also named three senior clerics to replace him should he, too, be slain.
Ayatollah Khamenei, 86, is aware that either Israel or the United States could try to assassinate him,
an end he would view as martyrdom, the officials said.
Given the possibility…

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Planning for His Possible Assassination, Picks Successors
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not only picked replacements in his chain of military command in case they are killed in Israeli strikes, he has also named three senior clerics to replace him should he, too, be slain.

The chief executive of the
United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency
left the nonprofit’s Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray,
full of water damage, rats, and roaches, according to a new sworn statement first reported by Court Watch.
The statement from the executive, George Moose, comes just a few days after a federal judge ruled that DOGE’s takeover of the nonprofit was illegal.
And this week, Mu…

DOGE left United States Institute of Peace office with water damage, rats, and roaches | TechCrunch
The chief executive of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says Elon Musk's DOGE left the nonprofit's Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray.