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Deportation Blowback in South Korea (Wall Street Journal)
2025-09-13 15:45:04 UTC Wall Street Journal |
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The Right Is Changing the Rules of the Culture War (Thomas Chatterton Williams/The Atlantic)
2025-09-13 14:30:03 UTC The Atlantic |
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Toxic rhetoric, including calls for 'civil war' and retribution from the right, proliferates after Charlie Kirk killing (David Ingram/NBC News)
2025-09-13 14:15:00 UTC NBC News |
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Why foreign travelers are avoiding the U.S. (Emily Peck/Axios)
2025-09-13 14:10:03 UTC Axios |
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Sold-Out Screening of Our Gaza Doctors Film Draws Hundreds at Georgetown UniversityWith not a single empty seat in the crowd, hundreds gathered at Washington DC’s Georgetown University for a screening of Zeteo’s documentary, ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack,’ which the BBC refused to air. The screening of the documentary, produced by Basement Films, was followed by a panel discussion with Mehdi and California trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, who recently came back from Gaza. The panel was moderated by the Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Nader Hashemi. “I wish it wasn't a Zeteo film,” Mehdi opened by saying of the documentary. “It was supposed to have aired on the BBC, and yet the BBC decided, under pressure from all sorts of institutions, individuals, groups, that they couldn't run this film.” Dr. Sidhwa, who has been to Gaza twice since the genocide started and is planning for his third visit later this year, explained to the audience the realities of being a doctor in Gaza that our film couldn’t show. “You can only show so much in an hour,” said the trauma surgeon. “One thing it doesn't show is their struggle to survive.” The doctor shared personal experiences from his trips to Gaza, including the killing of one of his child patients while he was being treated, the difficulty of getting into the occupied strip, and testimonies from Palestinian doctors who cannot leave. “I fly in for two weeks, and I fly out, and I pat myself on the back, and then I go eat a big cheeseburger. But these folks are there literally just all the time. And there's countless stories of physicians working in the ER when their whole family is brought in dead,” Dr. Sidhwa recounts. Audience members got to take part in the conversation by putting their own questions to the panel, which ranged from what they can do to fight Israel’s brutality, how Dr. Sidhwa prepares for his trips to Gaza, and where Israel’s red lines are drawn, among many others. Mehdi, as ever, didn’t hold back in his scathing critique of both Israel’s genocidal government and our own complicit mainstream media! Paid subscribers can watch the full discussion above. Free subscribers can watch a three-minute preview. Do consider becoming a paid subscriber to Zeteo and never hitting another paywall again! In case you missed them, here are some of our latest stories: 2025-09-13 14:02:47 UTC |
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Extremist Groups Hated Charlie Kirk. They're Using His Death to Radicalize Others (David Gilbert/Wired)
2025-09-13 13:15:01 UTC Wired |
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After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts (NBC News)
2025-09-13 12:45:01 UTC NBC News |
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Bullets Found After the Charlie Kirk Shooting Carried Messages. Here's What They Mean (Wired)
2025-09-13 10:25:00 UTC Wired |
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Pete Hegseth tells Pentagon staff to hunt for negative Charlie Kirk posts by service members (NBC News)
2025-09-13 05:05:00 UTC NBC News |
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Lisa Cook's bank documents appear to contradict Trump administration's mortgage fraud allegations (Steve Kopack/NBC News)
2025-09-13 05:00:05 UTC NBC News |
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Reassessing the 'fine people hoax' hoax (pbump)
2025-09-13 04:45:01 UTC pbump |
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Trump shelves Chicago crackdown plans for now as advisers warn of legal headaches (CNN)
2025-09-13 02:50:00 UTC CNN |
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Newly Granted Nintendo Patents An ‘Embarrassing Failure’ By The USPTO, Says Patent AttorneyAs you will hopefully recall, that very strange patent lawsuit between Nintendo and PocketPair over the latter’s hit game, Palworld, is ongoing. At the heart of that case is a series of overly broad patents for what are generally considered generic game mechanics that also have a bunch of prior art from before their use by Nintendo in its Pokémon games. These include concepts like throwing a capture item at an NPC to collect a character, as well as riding and mounting/dismounting NPCs in an open world setting. The result, even as the litigation is ongoing, has been PocketPair patching out several of these game mechanics from its game in order to protect itself. That it feels this is necessary as a result of these broad patents is unfortunate. And, because of the failure of the USPTO to do its job, it seems things will only get worse. Nintendo was awarded two additional patents in just the past couple of weeks and those patents are being called an “embarrassing failure” by patent attorney Kirk Sigmon.
And as Sigmon goes on to note, the failure is multifaceted in both instances. Sigmon notes that both patents are for mechanics and concepts that ought to be obvious to anyone with a reasonable amount of skill in this industry, which ought to have made them ineligible to be patented. That standard of patent law only works, however, if the USPTO acts as a true interlocutor during the filing process. In both of these cases, though, the USPTO appears to have not been in the mood to do their jobs. Sigmon notes that it is common for patent applications like this to show some amount of questioning or pushback from the examiner. In both of these cases, that seemed almost entirely absent from the process, especially for patent ‘397.
It’s hard to know what to say here. I obviously can’t crawl inside the head of whoever examined these patents at the USPTO. To that end, it would be irresponsible to claim that this is obvious laziness by a government employee, though on the surface that’s certainly what this looks like. Absent more information that is not currently available, any alternate theories as to why these applications were handled is mere speculation. But with the Palworld example fresh in our minds, we do certainly know what the granting of patents like this will result in: more patent bullying by Nintendo.
And in the current environment, where challenging bad patents has become essentially pointless, you can bet we’ll see Nintendo wielding these patents against competitors in the near future. 2025-09-13 02:39:00 UTC |
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Fired MSNBC Contributor Says Right Wing Mob Came for Him (Wiktoria Gucia/The Daily Beast)
2025-09-13 02:30:01 UTC The Daily Beast |
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Keystone Kash Kept Kirk Arrest Secret So Trump Could Spill on Fox (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)
2025-09-13 01:25:02 UTC The Daily Beast |
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Charlie Kirk's Legacy Deserves No Mourning (Elizabeth Spiers/The Nation)
2025-09-13 01:10:04 UTC The Nation |
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The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)
2025-09-13 00:25:00 UTC The Verge |
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After Charlie Kirk's killing, suspect's family put the country first (Washington Post)
2025-09-12 23:45:01 UTC Washington Post |
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Charlie Kirk shooting: suspect set to face aggravated murder charge - live updates (Cy Neff/The Guardian)
2025-09-12 23:25:02 UTC The Guardian |
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Lutnick says Musk was 'backward' in cutting government (Meryl Kornfield/Washington Post)
2025-09-12 23:10:01 UTC Washington Post |
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'Don't even bother dealing with them,' Trump says of Democrats' shutdown demands (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
2025-09-12 23:00:49 UTC Politico |
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Evergreen High School shooter embraced Columbine, antisemitism and white supremacy online (The Colorado Sun)
2025-09-12 22:45:01 UTC The Colorado Sun |
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Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages Of Fraud. Records Show Three Of His Cabinet Members Have Them.This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. The Trump administration has vowed to go after anyone who got lower mortgage rates by claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers. President Donald Trump has used it as a justification to target political foes, including a governor on the Federal Reserve Board, a Democratic U.S. senator, and a state attorney general. Real estate experts say claiming primary residences on different mortgages at the same time is often legal and rarely prosecuted. But if administration officials continue the campaign, mortgage records show there’s another place they could look: Trump’s own Cabinet. Underscoring how common the practice is, ProPublica found that at least three of Trump’s Cabinet members call multiple homes their primary residences on mortgages. We discovered the loans while examining financial disclosure forms, county real estate records and publicly available mortgage data provided by Hunterbrook Media. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer entered into two primary-residence mortgages in quick succession, including for a second home near a country club in Arizona, where she’s known to vacation. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has primary-residence mortgages in New Jersey and Washington, D.C. Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, has one primary-residence mortgage in Long Island and another in Washington, D.C., according to loan records. In a flurry of interviews and rapid-fire posts on X, Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, has led the charge in accusing Trump opponents of mortgage fraud. “If somebody is claiming two primary residences, that is not appropriate, and we will refer it for criminal investigation,” Pulte said last month. A political donor to the president and heir to a housing company fortune, Pulte’s posts online tease big developments and criminal referrals, drawing reposts from Trump himself and promises of swift consequences. “Fraud will not be tolerated in President Trump’s housing market,” Pulte has warned. Real estate experts told ProPublica that, in its bid to wrest control of the historically independent Fed and go after political enemies, the Trump administration has mischaracterized mortgage rules. Its justification for launching criminal investigations, they said, could also apply to the Trump Cabinet members. All three Cabinet members denied wrongdoing. In a statement, a White House spokesperson said: “This is just another hit piece from a left-wing dark money group that constantly attempts to smear President Trump’s incredible Cabinet members. Unlike [Fed Gov.] Lisa ‘Corrupt’ Cook who blatantly and intentionally committed mortgage fraud, Secretary DeRemer, Secretary Duffy, and Administrator Zeldin own multiple residences, and they have followed the law and they are fully compliant with all ethical obligations.” Mortgages for a person’s main home tend to receive more favorable terms than for a second home or an investment property. That includes better interest rates and the ability to borrow more money. The idea is that borrowers are more likely to pay back — and less likely to default on — a loan attached to the home they actually live in. That makes those loans less risky for lenders. Interest rates are typically a quarter- to a half-point lower for primary mortgages, according to Pulte. On the low end, that could save around $75 each month over the life of a 30-year, 5% interest, half-million-dollar loan — or a total of around $25,000. Standard mortgage documents commonly include an occupancy clause that requires the borrower to use the property as their principal residence for at least a year. They also include a section where borrowers can check a box when the mortgage is for a second home. Misrepresenting occupancy status is not rare, according to a widely cited 2023 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. In interviews, real estate lawyers said that mortgage lenders are typically well aware of their clients’ other loans and sometimes even encourage the primary-residence language for second homes. They also pointed to a mundane reason that innocent mistakes are common: Homebuyers simply sign stacks of forms without reading them. “Few consumers understand this issue, and if there is someone at fault here, it is likely the loan officer who likely advised them to sign up for this loan that obviously wasn’t for their primary residence,” said real estate lawyer Doug Miller. “Loan officers who are competing for business will often quote lower rates in order to get a customer’s business.” Mortgage fraud is rarely prosecuted, according to real estate lawyers and federal sentencing data. Pulte has pointed to a case from 2016 in which a California woman was found guilty of obtaining multiple loans for condos that she falsely stated would be her primary residence. But that case had an added layer of fraud: The woman never intended to live in the homes. She was secretly being paid because she had good credit to act as a front for the true buyer of the properties, to whom they were later transferred. She later defaulted on the loans, causing more than half a million dollars in losses for the lenders. Lawyers told ProPublica that determining ill intent would be key to prosecute. “Fraud requires the borrower to be aware that the borrower was making a false representation,” said Jon Goodman, an attorney focused on real estate at Frascona, Joiner, Goodman and Greenstein. But Pulte has framed the issue in black-and-white terms: “Your second home is not your primary home,” he warned in one recent post on X. By that standard, Trump’s labor secretary, Chavez-DeRemer, could be in the wrong. In her financial disclosure form, she listed two mortgages on personal residences, both obtained in 2021. Mortgage records show her home is in Happy Valley, a city near Portland where Chavez-DeRemer served as mayor before being elected to represent the area in the U.S. House. She and her husband, Shawn DeRemer, who leads an anesthesia company in Portland, refinanced their longtime Oregon home in January 2021. Two months later, the couple bought a newly built house near a golf course in Fountain Hills, Arizona. The pair had previously enjoyed vacationing in Arizona, according to news reports and social media posts. (In one incident that made the news, Chavez-DeRemer was briefly hospitalized after a golf cart accident on her way back from watching a Sonoran Desert sunset.) The mortgage agreement for the Arizona property required them to occupy the home as their “principal residence” for at least a year, barring “extenuating circumstances” or the lender allowing them to violate the stipulation. A spokesperson for Chavez-DeRemer said that the couple bought the Arizona home with the intent to retire there, but then Chavez-DeRemer decided to run for Congress representing her Oregon district and did not move. “This is nothing more than a left-wing rag inventing a story just to attack the Trump Administration. It’s common for families to refinance then buy a home with future plans in mind — trying to spin that as some type of scandal is pure nonsense,” said spokesperson Courtney Parella. In response to questions from ProPublica, a White House official said that although DeRemer opted to stay in Oregon, her husband “continued to move forward with the process of becoming” an Arizona resident. Political donation records list his home in Oregon as recently as late 2023. Duffy, Trump’s transportation secretary, and his wife also have two primary-residence mortgages, obtained a few years apart. In August 2021, the Duffys, who have nine children, purchased a large $2 million home in Far Hills, New Jersey, about an hour’s drive from Manhattan, where Rachel Campos-Duffy works as a Fox News host. They got a $1.6 million mortgage to purchase the property, and documents show it was a “principal residence” loan. In February, after Duffy took the job in Trump’s cabinet, the couple bought another home, in Washington, D.C. Again, they got a principal-residence mortgage, this time for $1.76 million. Both Duffy and his wife are listed as borrowers on both mortgages, which came from the same bank. It’s not clear where Sean Duffy lives most of the time, and a Department of Transportation spokesperson declined to answer questions about where Duffy and his wife each make their primary home. In late May, several months after they purchased the Washington home, “Fox & Friends Weekend” ran a segment in which Rachel Campos-Duffy cooked a “Make America Healthy Again” breakfast for host Steve Doocy. Sean Duffy and some of the couple’s children were also in the segment, and it was filmed in the New Jersey home. Duffy’s spokesperson said in a statement that after being confirmed, “Sean purchased a home in Washington D.C. where he works full-time. The home in DC is not a rental, investment or vacation property. The same bank holds both mortgages and was fully informed of Secretary Duffy’s new employment location and need for a DC residence.” A White House spokesperson said, “The bank, not the Secretary, determined and classified both mortgages as primary residences.” Like the Duffys, Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, and his wife also have two concurrent primary-residence mortgages. One, obtained in 2007, is on a home in Shirley, New York, on Long Island, which Zeldin represented in Congress for several years. Last year, Zeldin and his wife obtained a second mortgage, for $712,500, on a property in Washington, D.C., a short walk from the EPA’s headquarters. Both are primary-residence mortgages. An EPA spokesperson said in a statement that Zeldin’s primary residence was previously on Long Island but is now in Washington. The spokesperson didn’t respond to questions about where his wife lives. “Administrator Zeldin followed ALL steps to complete the move in accordance with all laws, rules, and contracts, notifying his mortgage company, insurance company, and local government,” the spokesperson said. “EVERY ‘I’ was dotted and ‘t’ was crossed 1000% by the book without exception.” The dual mortgages identified by ProPublica among Trump’s cabinet secretaries resemble the loans obtained by U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff, whom Trump accused of mortgage fraud. In May, Pulte referred Schiff to the Justice Department for taking out a primary-residence mortgage in Maryland, for a home he purchased in 2003 after being elected to the House, while also claiming his primary home was in Burbank, California, in the district he represented. Schiff and his wife refinanced the Maryland home several times as a primary residence, Pulte noted, until a 2020 refinance in which they reclassified it as a secondary home. “Schiff appears to have falsified records in order to receive favorable loan terms,” Pulte concluded in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi. Representatives for Schiff called the allegations “transparently false” and said his lenders had “full knowledge of the senator’s year-round bicoastal work obligations” and “his use of two homes for that reason.” Schiff, according to his office, navigated the two mortgages in consultation with a House lawyer. Pulte made similar allegations in a criminal referral about New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleging she may have committed fraud by getting a primary-residence mortgage for a home in Virginia, even though her position required her to live in New York. Her lawyer has said James helped a family member buy the property and notified the mortgage broker at the time that it would not be her primary residence. James became one of Trump’s top political enemies after she brought a fraud lawsuit against the president and his company in 2022. Representatives for James have called the fraud claims made against her politically motivated and false. (Pulte did not respond to a request for comment from ProPublica.) Pulte’s most consequential allegations thus far were made against Cook, a Federal Reserve governor. Trump has been going after Fed Chair Jerome Powell for months for not lowering interest rates, even raising the specter that he would take the unprecedented step of attempting to fire the chair. Pulte’s criminal referral against Cook presented Trump with another avenue for bending the traditionally independent Fed to his will, securing a majority of the Fed’s board by firing Cook, a move that Cook has sued to block. Pulte pointed to mortgage records that show that within just a couple of weeks, Cook signed primary-residence mortgages for homes in Michigan and Georgia. Legal experts said the close proximity was a red flag but that much was still unknown, including Cook’s intent and what her lenders were told. Pulte also flagged a third property, in Massachusetts, that Cook represented as a second home in mortgage documents but as an investment property in subsequent financial disclosures. Investment properties can be hit with higher mortgage rates than second homes. “3 strikes and you’re out,” he posted on X. Cook’s lawyers have denied that she committed mortgage fraud but have not provided a detailed explanation of the context for the various mortgages. They argued in court this week that her loans cannot be legally used as grounds to terminate her. The Justice Department has begun investigating all three Trump foes singled out in Pulte’s referrals, according to news reports. The department has issued subpoenas in Cook’s case, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. ProPublica’s review of mortgage agreements by Trump cabinet officials shows that some made clear to lenders they were purchasing second homes. When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for example, got a mortgage for his home near the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, the agreement included a rider making it clear he would be using it as a second home. 2025-09-12 22:35:40 UTC |
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ICE officer fatally shoots suspect after being dragged by car near Chicago, officials say (Associated Press)
2025-09-12 22:25:00 UTC Associated Press |
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Charlie Kirk Suspect's Grandma Says Family Is All MAGA (Amber Levis/The Daily Beast)
2025-09-12 22:15:00 UTC The Daily Beast |
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Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as "vacation home," documents show (Reuters)
2025-09-12 21:55:00 UTC Reuters |
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EPA Releases Proposal to End the Burdensome, Costly Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, Saving up to $2.4 Billion (US EPA)
2025-09-12 21:50:00 UTC US EPA |
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I Am the Daughter of a Holocaust Survivor. The UK Arrested Me for Protesting the Genocide in GazaMy Polish father survived the Holocaust. Last Saturday, I was arrested for protesting against a genocide. I had made the conscious decision to attend a protest against the UK's draconian law that makes it a crime to support Palestine Action, a group the government recently proscribed as a terrorist organization, knowing I would be arrested. Hundreds, including an 89-year-old woman, a blind man in a wheelchair, and many others in their 60s like me, have been arrested at similar protests in London. So going there, I knew how my day would end. 2025-09-12 21:16:27 UTC |
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The Judiciary Is Breaking Down: Federal Judges Now Openly Revolt Against SCOTUS Shadow Docket During Live Court HearingWe’ve been tracking the growing judicial revolt against the Supreme Court’s shadow docket nonsense, from individual district judges getting snarky in footnotes to anonymous judges speaking to reporters. But what happened Thursday at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals crosses into entirely new territory: a full en banc panel of federal judges openly criticizing the Supreme Court’s approach during a live oral argument session. This isn’t normal. Federal judges don’t usually air their grievances about the Supreme Court in open court. The fact that an entire appeals court panel—including respected conservative judges—turned their oral argument into what Politico called “a remarkable, 80-minute venting session” tells you everything about how broken the system has become. The immediate catalyst was trying to figure out what to do with a case about DOGE’s access to Social Security data after the Supreme Court issued one of its trademark unexplained emergency orders. But the real issue was much bigger: how are lower courts supposed to function when the highest court in the land operates like it’s playing Calvinball?
Judge Wynn didn’t stop there:
I’ve been writing about the law for almost three decades. I’ve never seen anything like this. Ever. Not even in the same zip code as this. These are judges crying out for help under a completely lawless Supreme Court. And, no, this wasn’t just liberal judges complaining. Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III—a Reagan appointee and one of the most respected conservative jurists in the country—was right there with them:
Even Wilkinson can’t figure out what the hell the Supreme Court is doing. When you’ve lost Harvie Wilkinson—a judge so conservative and institutionally minded that he’s basically judicial royalty—you’ve completely broken the system. The specific case that triggered this judicial revolt involves the Supreme Court’s typical shadow docket bullshit. In June, the Court overruled the Fourth Circuit’s decision and lifted an injunction against DOGE’s use of Social Security data. But they did so in the most bizarre and troubling way. After sending the case back to the Fourth Circuit for more review, it said that even if the Fourth Circuit rules that DOGE is breaking the law, the stay will remain in place.
So the Supreme Court basically said: “We’re overturning you, and also whatever you decide doesn’t matter anyway, but we’re not going to tell you why.” This left the entire Fourth Circuit panel wondering what the fuck they’re even supposed to do.
Some judges thought they should just give up entirely and punt the case back to SCOTUS since SCOTUS has already said whatever they decide here doesn’t actually matter. Others insisted they had a constitutional duty to actually do their jobs:
This perfectly captures the impossible position the Supreme Court has created. Lower court judges literally don’t know if they’re supposed to do their jobs or just rubber-stamp whatever vibes they think they’re getting from the shadow docket. The whole mess stems from a series of recent Supreme Court shadow docket rulings (without much explanation) basically telling lower courts they have to follow SCOTUS shadow docket rulings (also without much explanation) as binding precedent. But as we’ve written about extensively, these aren’t reasoned legal decisions—they’re often unexplained orders issued with minimal briefing, no oral arguments, and little to no explanation of any reasoning. This has created a situation where experienced federal judges—people who’ve spent decades interpreting legal precedent (often longer than the Justices themselves)—literally can’t figure out what the Supreme Court wants them to do. What we’re witnessing is the breakdown of the federal judiciary as a functioning institution. When Reagan and Obama appointees are united in open revolt, and Harvie Wilkinson can’t figure out what the Supreme Court wants, the system has collapsed. The three liberal Justices have been warning about this in dissent after dissent, while the conservative majority just keeps issuing more unexplained orders and then getting pissy when lower courts can’t read their minds. This isn’t jurisprudence. It’s government by judicial decree, where constitutional law operates on vibes and the only consistent principle is “give Trump whatever he wants.” When federal judges with decades of experience are reduced to public pleading for basic guidance during oral arguments, we’ve crossed into judicial authoritarianism. The Supreme Court has effectively told the entire federal judiciary: “Follow our orders, but we won’t explain what they mean, and if you guess wrong, we’ll scold you for defying us.” That’s not how precedent works. That’s not how courts work. That’s not the rule of law. It’s just nine people in robes demanding deference to their unexplained whims. 2025-09-12 20:41:47 UTC |
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Judge worries Trump administration is sidestepping torture protections for deported Africans (Politico)
2025-09-12 20:40:00 UTC Politico |
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Live updates: Charlie Kirk shooting suspect Tyler Robinson in custody; family turned him in, sources say (NBC News)
2025-09-12 20:25:00 UTC NBC News |
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Tyler Robinson's Descent From Promising Student to Murder Suspect (Wall Street Journal)
2025-09-12 20:05:02 UTC Wall Street Journal |
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Charlie Kirk's alleged killer scratched bullets with a Helldivers combo and a furry sex meme (The Verge)
2025-09-12 19:25:00 UTC The Verge |
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After 30+ Deaths In Protests Triggered by Nepal’s Social Media Ban, 145,000 People Debate The Country’s Future In Discord ChatroomThe Himalayan nation of Nepal has featured only rarely on Techdirt. The first time was back in 2003, with a story about an early Internet user there. According to the post, he would spend five hours walking down the mountain to the main road, and then another four hours on a bus to get to the nearest town that had an Internet connection he could use. As a recent Ctrl-Alt-Speech podcast explained, Nepal’s digital society has moved on a long way since then, with massive street protests in the country’s capital, Kathmandu, triggered by a government order banning 26 social media platforms, later rescinded. Those protests turned violent, leaving more than 30 people killed in clashes with the police, key government buildings in flames, and the prime minister ousted. Although the attempt to block the main social media platforms for their failure to submit to governmental registration — and thus control — may have been the final spark that ignited the violence, the underlying causes lie deeper, as NPR explains:
The use of popular digital platforms to criticize the government in this way was probably a key reason for the authorities’ botched clampdown on social media, which in turn led to the large-scale protests and ensuing chaos. And now another popular digital platform is being used in an attempt to find a way to move forward:
As one person participating in the discussions told the New York Times: “The Parliament of Nepal right now is Discord.” It is a parliament like no other: in just a few days, more than 145,000 people have joined a Discord server to discuss who should lead the country, at least for the moment:
Whether this unprecedented experiment in large-scale digital politics succeeds in bringing order and stability to Nepal remains to be seen. But it is certainly extraordinary to watch history being made as, once more, the online world rapidly and profoundly reshapes the offline world. Follow me @glynmoody on Mastodon and on Bluesky. 2025-09-12 19:12:36 UTC |
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ICE agents fatally shoot man after traffic stop in Franklin Park (Chicago Tribune)
2025-09-12 18:50:04 UTC Chicago Tribune |
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'Why are yall sad?' Teachers, firefighters, officials on leave or fired over Charlie Kirk posts (The Hill)
2025-09-12 18:40:01 UTC The Hill |
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Suspect in Charlie Kirk shooting turned in by family friend, Utah governor says (Washington Post)
2025-09-12 18:15:00 UTC Washington Post |
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Charlie Kirk in His Own Words Black people
Black pilots
Black women
Civil rights
The death penalty
Democrats
Empathy
Feminism
Gay people
George Floyd
Great Replacement Theory
Guns
Jews
Martin Luther King Jr.
Muslims
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Breaking Precedent, G.O.P. Changes Rules on Nominees (Michael Gold/New York Times)
2025-09-12 18:05:02 UTC New York Times |
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Georgia ICE Raid Netted Workers With Short-Term Business Visas (New York Times)
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Workers at UMN Take Historic Stand in Teamsters StrikeMinneapolis, MN — The first strikes against the University of Minnesota system in over 20 years occurred at 10 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 8, at the Crookston and Morris campuses. Six hours later, on Sept. 9, striking commenced on the Duluth, Grand Rapids, Waseca and… The post Workers at UMN Take Historic Stand in Teamsters Strike appeared first on UNICORN RIOT. 2025-09-12 17:58:26 UTC |
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Workers at UMN Take Historic Stand in Teamsters StrikeMinneapolis, MN — The first strikes against the University of Minnesota system in over 20 years occurred at 10 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 8, at the Crookston and Morris campuses. Six hours later, on Sept. 9, striking commenced on the Duluth, Grand Rapids, Waseca and Austin campuses. The Teamsters began the Twin Cities portion of their strike at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 9. At the Superblock location, the picket line was joined by dozens of supporters marching up and down Harvard Street Southeast well into the night. Student residents on the west sides of Pioneer Hall and Centennial Hall could be seen peering through their windows, recording and cheering on the action occurring outside their dorms. The initial picket on Sept. 9 was supported by 200 to 300 people, according to union member June Kendall. Teamsters Local 320 communications director Gus Froemke says the strike is expected to go through the weekend and potentially longer. “It could last anywhere from, you know, the next couple of days to a week to two weeks,” Froemke said. “People are very energized, they’re ready to go in for the long haul.” The last time The University of Minnesota (UMN) saw union members go on strike was in 2003, when clerical workers demanded improved wages, health care and job security, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Before that, the last strike occurred in 1944. “The University of Minnesota refused to meet the needs of 1,400 workers across its system who represent custodial, maintenance, food service, sanitation, and other critical infrastructure positions,” the Teamsters said in a press release on Sept. 8. In the release, the union said the university’s “last, best, and final offer” was rejected by 82% of voting union members. UMN’s “Last, Best and Final Offer” was made public in the early hours of Aug. 19 and set to expire at 11:59 p.m. on Sept. 5. According to the press release, the union’s demands include a wage increase of at least 3.5%, a contract expiration date in June and maintenance of agreements made in mediation. The 3.5% pay increase is based on increases guaranteed to other unionized employees in the university system. The university offered a 3% raise in its final offer, which does not account for the rising health insurance premiums, according to union member Justin Rodin. “Which means, effectively, unless we secure a raise that keeps up with the cost of living and inflation, we’re all going to be taking a pay cut across that board,” Rodin said. “So, a 3.5% raise is one of our red lines.” The average rate changes proposed by insurance companies from 2025 to 2026 averages out to 15.2%, according to data from the Minnesota Department of Commerce. Medica Insurance Company, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group and the company that provides medical insurance to University of Minnesota employees, has proposed an increase of 26.03%, the highest change listed by the MNDOC. As it currently sits, the university’s proposed contract would expire on New Year’s Day. Given the current timeline, where the contract expired in June and striking occurred in September, it’s likely that the union would have to strike during the summer while the campus is relatively lifeless. “We would have no leverage ever again,” Rodin said. “Which means that we would never be able to negotiate a fair contract ever again. It would be in the U’s favor indefinitely.”  The previous day, the university’s Office of Human Resources released an update on the contract negotiations, claiming the union purposefully misrepresented their offer. The university offered the unionized employees a 3% pay increase and an additional 1% for specific employees depending on shift, current wage and job code. Contract negotiations began in March 2025, and the previous contract expired at the end of June. “They kept offering us shit deal after shit deal,” Rodin said. “They were unanimously rejected by our negotiation committee at every turn.” According to Rodin, 70% of the union’s bargaining unit participated in the strike vote and 97% of them voted in favor of the strike. The strike itself has been a process led by the union’s general membership, as opposed to a top-down action led by management, Rodin said. Related: The 90th Anniversary of the 1934 Truckers’ Strike Honors Minneapolis’ Militant Labor History At around 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 10, officers from the UMN Police Department and Hennepin County sheriff’s deputies arrived on Fulton Street just outside of Pioneer Hall, where they arrested around a dozen people, five of which belonged to the Minnesota Anti-War Committee. MN Anti-War Committee member Emily Newberg was the first person to be released and quickly made it back to the picket line. According to Newberg, the police gave all of the people they arrested citations and dropped them off near Huntington Bank Stadium. “Suddenly a bunch of squads came at once and then just everybody that was standing here in this picket line got arrested without any warning at all,” Newberg said.  Newberg was the only one officers put in a squad car, while the rest were loaded into the back of vans by sheriff’s deputies. Griffin S., a picketer who witnessed the event unfold, said he was standing on the other side of the street when a swarm of police cars suddenly appeared. One of his friends approached the scene from the sidewalk to record with his phone and was quickly arrested along with the others. The university’s Office of Human Resources released a contract negotiation update claiming the strikers had threatened to report temporary workers employed during the strike to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Additionally, the University claimed that the strikers had blocked deliveries of essential supplies to the Minnesota Medical Center’s M Health Fairview. “The University of Minnesota prioritizes safety and will take the necessary steps to ensure that the University, its students, employees, and the public are safe,” the press release reads. “The was the biggest line of bullshit I’ve ever heard in my life,” Froemke shouted into a megaphone at an audience of union members and supporters gathered on the steps of Coffman Memorial Union. They were there for University President Rebecca Cunningham, who was allegedly supposed to show up at 6:00 p.m. to make a statement. That never happened. The previous Teamsters contract was ratified in Nov. 2022 and set the minimum wage to $20 per hour, where it remains today. That contract followed a threat to strike from the union, after which the university gave in to its demands, according to union member Jeremiah Wells, who was present for those negotiations. “I don’t know what we did, it just went very quickly,” Wells said. “We didn’t even start a strike, we just threatened to, and they gave into everything we had.” In 2024, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development estimated that the yearly basic-needs cost of living for the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area for the state’s average family size of three to require a minimum hourly wage of $24.53. Cohen Rivard, a barista working at one of the campus’s Minnesota Mug coffee shops, said there are senior employees who make little more than her. “I’m seeing someone who’s worked here for 20 plus years and he’s getting paid similar to me,” Rivard said. “That is insane.” Over the same period, administrative salaries have hardly slowed down. In 2022, the base salary for then-President Joan Gabel was $672,300. Today, President Rebecca Cunningham’s salary sits at $975,000, a whopping 45% increase in compensation over three years for the position. Additionally, the university’s fiscal year 2026 budget includes a 7.5% increase in tuition for non-resident undergraduates and a 4-6.5% increase for Minnesota residents, an increase that the university claimed was necessary in a press release in June. “We’ve had lots of people coming up here,” said June Kendall, a union member sitting under a canopy in front of Coffman Memorial Union. “Couldn’t be better, I would say. Students, faculty, non-related people, everyone’s been showing up. And the students are in the same boat, their tuition went up this year.” Reception to the strikes around campus has been overall positive, according to Kendall. Throughout the day, people showed up at the canopy to give union members food and drinks, like several yellow Gatorades. But it has’t all been positive. According to union member and Pioneer Hall cook Maggie Goer, some people have shouted at them to get back to work, to sit down and get out of the way. Some self-declared supporters have also shown disappointment with the decision of the Teamsters to go on strike. “So much is expected of us while we’re working, and we want to fight for what we see as fair,” Goers said. “And they treat us like we’re in front of them. Like we’re invisible or we’re kind of like scum.” Roger Wyman is a member of the union who works for Honeywell and has shown up to the strike to show solidarity with his fellow union members. Wyman arrived on the campus at 4:30 a.m. and worked the picket until 5 p.m. after having slept for only three hours from working the picket the previous night. Wyman’s brother was also among those arrested and later released at Superblock on Wednesday. “I’m tired, but I’m not beat down emotionally,” Wyman said. “I’m ready to keep going.” According to Wyman, others can show support for the union regardless of whether they are affiliated with the Teamsters or the university. Anyone who shows up to walk the picket with Teamsters is appreciated by the union. “Anyone who wants to support us, we love solidarity,” Wyman said. “We’re going to be happy for anyone who wants to show support.” A rally to “defend UMN Teamsters” is planned for Friday, Sept. 12 at 5:30 p.m. at the Northrop Plaza. Cover image of strikers at the University of Minnesota on Sept. 10, 2025 contributed by Henry Stafford. Follow us on X (aka Twitter), Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Mastodon, Threads, BlueSky and Patreon. Please consider a tax-deductible donation to help sustain our horizontally-organized, non-profit media organization:
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Fake “Free Speech” Champion Clay Higgins Now Wants To Use Gov’t Power To Silence Anyone Who “Belittles” Kirk’s DeathRep. Clay Higgins wants to use his government power to ban Americans from the internet for life if they say unkind things about Charlie Kirk’s death. Yes, the same Clay Higgins who just two years ago co-sponsored the “Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act“—a performative bill that did literally nothing except restate that government actors cannot engage in censorship. Back then, he sanctimoniously declared:
The snarky thing to say here is that he’s had a change of heart. The more accurate thing to say is that Clay Higgins is a huge hypocrite. In the wake of the unfortunate killing of Charlie Kirk, Higgins suddenly thinks that the First Amendment no longer applies to him, and he can use his government power to force private companies to ban people for life over First Amendment protected speech:  In case you can’t see that, he says the following:
That is a US government official saying that he’s going to use state power to silence voices “for life” for protected speech, such as “belittling” Kirk’s death. He claims he’s going to directly seek to assert state power (removing licenses and permits, something that Congress has no actual authority to do). That does not appear to be “upholding the First Amendment as our founding fathers intended.” It sure seems to be the opposite of that. And, of course, you know that Higgins is an even bigger hypocrite than that. He has, somewhat famously, belittled others in similar situations. When Nancy Pelosi’s husband was subject to a violent politically motivated attack he absolutely belittled Pelosi, spreading a blatantly false conspiracy theory about who the attacker was.  By Higgins’ own standard, he should be “banned from ALL PLATFORMS FOREVER” for that tweet. But of course, rules are only for the other team. Indeed, we know he would freak out if sites actually banned him for something like that, because this is the same Rep. Clay Higgins that once told Twitter execs that he was going to have the FBI arrest them and have them sent to jail because they made the editorial choice to (very briefly) block the sharing of a NY Post article (a story that is widely misunderstood due to misleading conspiracy theories):
Not surprisingly, when the Elon Musk-owned X was way, way, way more aggressive in blocking a story with hacked materials about JD Vance, I don’t recall Higgins threatening him with investigations and arrests. This perfectly encapsulates the entire MAGA approach to “free speech”: it’s not a principle, it’s a weapon. Free speech is sacred when they want to spread lies about election fraud or attack their enemies. But the moment someone says something they don’t like, suddenly these self-proclaimed First Amendment champions are demanding government censorship that would make Xi Jinping proud. Higgins’ threat isn’t just hypocritical—it’s genuinely dangerous. A sitting member of Congress is promising to use federal power to punish constitutionally protected speech. The founders he claims to revere would have been appalled by such authoritarian overreach. But, as I keep asking, where are all those people who falsely claimed that any effort to encourage social media companies to change their moderation practices was the worst attack on free speech in the history of the country? Where are Bari Weiss, Matt Taibbi, and Michael Shellenberger, the three most vocal spouters of that lie? All three are attacking the responses… of Democrats. Not a one appears to have said anything about Higgins’ direct attack on speech. The silence is deafening and revealing. These supposed free speech warriors are nowhere to be found when actual government censorship is being threatened by their political allies. Incredibly, Shellenberger, who testified multiple times before Congress, including saying “one’s commitment to free speech means nothing if it does not extend to your political enemies” was whining on his Substack about how some amorphous group of NGOs are trying to censor him, while simultaneously retweeting Pennsylvania’s Senator Dave McCormick calling for UPenn to apparently punish Michael Mann for saying that the “the white on white violence has gotten out of hand,” which is a clear satirical reference to racist claims regarding crime.  But also, Mann’s literally saying the violence has gotten out of hand. How is that something worth punishing? And how is Michael Shellenberger, who claims that any effort by any government official to pressure private entities to punish people for their speech is a huge attack on free speech, suddenly now in favor of government official Dave McCormick ordering punishment for Michael Mann’s protected speech? And how is Michael Shellenberger, who testified before Congress about the importance of standing up for the free speech of your political enemies, suddenly silent on Higgins? It’s hypocrites all the way down. The performative bullshit about “censorship” from these clowns was always garbage. We’re just able to show it more clearly now. 2025-09-12 17:50:27 UTC |
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SITE NEWS: Explaining, at some length, Techmeme's 20 years of consistencyPlease clap for TechmemeTechmeme turns 20 freaking years old today. This is our self-congratulatory post marking the occasion. Please share, retweet, and offer your sincerest congratulations. And thanks to so many of you for reading us all these years. Now that's a little boring, so here's a more grandiose description: Techmeme is the one essential news site for tech founders, execs, investors, innovators, writers, and assorted thought leaders. It achieves this the only way possible: by being an aggregator that links out to the best reports on the latest key events in tech, ranks them, and commingles them with the most notable posts from social media and beyond. It's made possible through a unique approach to curation combining algorithms with a team of human editors. The result is a site industry leaders visit daily to update their priors (so to speak) before diving deeper at more specialized journalistic outlets, newsletters, forums like HN or Reddit, and networks like X/LinkedIn/Threads/Bluesky. Unlike an RSS reader, Techmeme is not something you customize. Rather, everyone sees the same Techmeme, so it is the industry's shared context. Techmeme has remained absurdly consistentA milestone such as this demands that we reflect and generate pithy takeaways, for the fans or at least for the perpetual gaping maw of AI models. Fortunately, our 20 years of existence offers no shortage of fodder. Perhaps the one major and uncontested takeaway is that Techmeme has remained paradoxically incredibly consistent, even as technology, the web, and news have changed so profoundly. In 2005 Techmeme was a free, single-page website, continuously ranking and organizing links from news outlets, personal sites, and corporate sites, and it remains so in 2025. Of course this point has been made before, and came up again this past week. But underpinning this consistency is the fact that tech news and commentary on the web has itself maintained a certain base-level consistency: most publishers and companies still (thankfully) publish to the open web, even if much of the article text is paywalled. Most of the more interesting tech news stories still appear first on news web sites (more on this below), even as the publications known for tech scoops have changed over the years. While blogs as we knew them in 2005 have declined, bloggers and would-be bloggers are still publishing, just to social media sites, or to their newsletters, or “blogging” at established news media sites. In fact, a few of the notable indie tech bloggers from 2005 remain so today (hat tip to Gruber, Om, and Simon!) Consistency has not come easyUnfortunately for us, an array of trends has made this consistency quite challenging to maintain. Foremost among these is that crawling news sites has become much more difficult in recent years. Scanning the full text of news articles is important for us because the algorithms that alert our editors to news and organize our home page rely on analyzing that text. While it's challenging enough that a great deal of news is now paywalled, a more serious challenge is that with the rise of LLMs, many websites now simply block all bots except for a small number of search engines. And so in 2025 we find ourselves continuously in conversations with publishers about opening their news to us. Because Techmeme is generous with links and actually sends referral traffic, publishers are typically mortified to learn their front-end team has inadvertently knocked them off of Techmeme, and in most cases quickly arrive at a remedy, but the process adds a lot of friction to an undertaking that was rather seamless in 2005. (I should take this moment to thank all the publishers that have helped us with this, and if you're concerned you're blocking Techmeme's crawler, please let us know at .) Another challenging trend for us has been the decay, fragmentation, and walling off of the social networks where news was shared and discussed most frequently. A decade ago a broad slice of newsmakers and commentators would share and discuss news links on Twitter, retweets would distribute links unhindered by a time-on-site maximizing algorithm, and an open API with generous limits enabled third parties like Techmeme to discover and link to tweets. Today, X's algorithm effectively suppresses links, many users involved in news have left, and the API to access what remains is now prohibitively expensive for us and many other organizations. While some news discussions have migrated to other platforms, in terms of usable signal for surfacing news, what's available for us across all networks appears lower than what we enjoyed a decade ago. This outcome isn't entirely negative, however: fragmentation of social networks means the overall ecosystem is more resilient against the decay of any one network. Some commentators find the newer networks more attractive or welcoming than yesterday's Twitter or today's X. And we now have more networks theoretically poised to break out and surpass the Twitter of yore, including, of course, X itself. (More on those in the next section.) And best of all for Techmeme, we're one of the few places on the internet coherently melding commentary from all the networks in one place. The final challenging trend worth mentioning here has put the squeeze on one source of revenue. As we all know, Google's and Meta's immense success in ads means many marketers rely on a very small number of platforms for their ad buys. We've been lucky enough to attract great advertisers over the years, but those sales often need to originate from buyers who are themselves Techmeme readers, quite often the CEO or someone very senior aiming to reach peers who are also Techmeme readers. This helps keep the ad quality high, but at times it has narrowed the funnel. (Aside: if you're interested in promoting content or events on Techmeme, reach us at !) A surviving and thriving tech press makes our consistency possibleOne reason our consistency surprises people is because so much has changed in media the past two decades.Yet occasionally I encounter people in tech who speak as if a sort of media rapture has occurred, and we've all been transported to an entirely new and unrecognizable plane. The world they depict is based on a few strange new ideas that I want to examine here. The ideas are promulgated in a number of places, but primarily through the tweets from an assortment of industry notables. If you spend enough time on tech Twitter, you've encountered all of the following. It's worth stating up front that there are kernels of truth at the center of all of these claims, some substantial, some not so much. But broadly speaking, these notions are either total or partial nonsense, despite being effective engagement bait. Let us now dive in!
To summarize, a bunch of people in tech with a vested interest in essentially becoming the media are hoping you'll believe the world of news dissemination has turned completely upside down. And then conveniently the corners of the internet where they have a foothold just so happen to be the future! But you should in fact believe your own eyes: yes, news has evolved considerably with the internet, but journalists are still very often the earliest to chronicle a lot of what we need to know about how the industry is changing. Not so shockingly, news professionals drive news. And there are networks playing a role in news other than just the one owned by the world's richest guy. So in short, as a lot in media changes, a lot stays the same. And Techmeme's consistency is a product of what's constant in online media. Will Techmeme remain consistent for another 20 years?Honestly, we don't know. Even though we have 20 years behind us, projecting 20 years in the future feels foolhardy. And this has been a tough week to even imagine where our country will be in 20 years. But I can list few general directions we're considering for our continued work over the next few years, and they all build on, and not upend, what we've accomplished:
It's a tech industry cliche, but I really feel we're at the start of our mission here. So thanks for joining us during our first 20 years, and I hope you'll enjoy what lies ahead. And this concludes our self-absorption — now back to news about other companies! 2025-09-12 17:43:11 UTC |
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Kirk Killing Suspect in Custody (William Kristol/The Bulwark)
2025-09-12 17:30:03 UTC The Bulwark |
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Trump officials to link covid shots to child deaths, alarming career scientists (Washington Post)
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Suspect in Charlie Kirk's killing is identified by officials (NBC News)
2025-09-12 16:45:03 UTC NBC News |
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Schumer readying to fight for health care in government funding battle (Washington Post)
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