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French lawmakers vote to raise France's digital services tax on US tech giants to 6%, up from 3%; the French government opposes the move, fearing US retaliation (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/french-lawmakers-progress-tax…

French lawmakers progress tax on American Big Tech amid huge pushback
PARIS — French lawmakers are moving ahead with plans to double a tax on big tech firms — backing away from a more aggressive push amid fears of provoking U.S. trade retaliation. France’s National A…

GOP lawmaker levels Trump admin report: 'Churchill and Reagan are turning in their graves' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-lawmaker-trump-churchill-grave/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Lime Garden:
🎵 I Want To Be You
#LimeGarden
https://limegarden.bandcamp.com/track/i-want-to-be-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/5lsOCgH5G9juAJiPyO7xVh

ICE's forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, lawmakers say (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ices-forced-face-scans-to-verify-citizens-is-unconstitutional-lawmakers-say/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p119#a251029p119

Asteroid Launcher — a asteroid simulator
☄️ #astroid #simulator

SEC filing: Meta says it is no longer facing a CFPB investigation over advertising for financial services on its platforms (Evan Weinberger/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/meta-escapes-cfpb-probe-into-financial-se…

Meta Escapes CFPB Probe Into Financial Services Advertising
Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms Inc. said it is no longer facing potential penalties from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over advertising for financial services on its platforms.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Cranberries:
🎵 Linger
#TheCranberries
https://nathanielozuski.bandcamp.com/track/the-cranberries-linger
https://open.spotify.com/track/0gEyKnHvgkrkBM6fbeHdwK

"GOP has abolished Congress": Pelosi says Republican lawmakers do nothing without Trump's say-so - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/28/gop-has-abolished-congress-pelosi-says-republican-lawmakers-do-nothing-without-trumps-say-so/

OpenAI faces rising pressure from rivals three years after ChatGPT's debut; Similarweb says Gemini users chat longer per visit than ChatGPT and Claude users (Financial Times)

A look at the FGC-9, a 3D-printed semiautomatic gun created by a German incel that scholars and lawmakers say is the most popular "ghost gun" outside the US (Samanth Subramanian/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20