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European VC funding rose 9% YoY to hit $58B in 2025, below North America's 46% YoY rise; AI led with $17.5B, followed by biotech's $13.4B and hardware's $10.8B (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/european-funding-nudged…

European Venture Funding Nudged Higher In 2025, While AI Led For The First Time
Venture funding to Europe-based startups last year gained only slightly, around 9% year over year, reaching $58 billion, with AI emerging as the region’s leading sector for startup investment for the first time, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows. 

2025 NFL fantasy football waiver wire, Week 17: Trevor Lawrence carrying teams to championship https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-fantasy-football-waiver-wire-week-17-trevor-lawrence-carrying-teams-to-championship

Auch deswegen kommt Inklusion in Deutschland gibt voran.
https://www.lto.de/karriere/jura-referendariat/stories/detail/7l81925wi-vg-wiesbaden-staatsexamen-nachteilsausgleich-pruefu…

Democrats Demand DOJ Investigate Caribbean Boat Strikes as Crimes (Jose Pagliery/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/congress/democrats-doj-investigate-caribbean-boat-strikes-war-crimes
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p96#a251222p96

The world is heading towards its most severe memory chip shortage in decades, with the explosive growth of datacentres set to squeeze supplies for everything from smartphones and cars to household appliances.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/data

Datacentre growth triggers global memory chip crunch
The world is heading towards its most severe memory chip shortage in decades, with the explosive growth of datacentres set to squeeze supplies for everything ...

Cambio, creator of AI-powered commercial real estate software for institutional investors, raised an $18M Series A led by Maverick Ventures at a $100M valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/real-estat

Exclusive: Cambio Lands $18M At $100M Valuation For AI-Powered Commercial Real Estate Software
The startup, which has built AI-powered commercial real estate software for institutional investors, has raised $18 million in a Series A round at a $100 million valuation.

Holy shit

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/12/21/documents-reveal-harvard-salient-complaint/

Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that later became central to the board’s decision to suspend the magazine.

I feel the need to stress, even though it should go without saying, that the person who was kidnapped out of their car was not obstructing or interfering. They were doing nothing illegal, and nothing wrong. They were part of a caravan following ICE at a safe distance, driving legally, not even stopping their crimes, not even slowing them down — just making sure their crimes were recorded.

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Legal activist Emily Galvan Almanza chronicles the many ways in which the justice system targets the poor.
It’s not news that judicial outcomes are often tied to the wealth and influence of a defendant:
Not only do the well-to-do have the resources to hire good lawyers,
but juries themselves tend to be made up of older, wealthier, white people.
A predictable result, writes Galvin Almanza, is that defendants of color, represented by appointed public defenders, pull lo…

THE PRICE OF MERCY | Kirkus Reviews
A legal activist chronicles the many ways in which the justice system targets the poor.