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Post “Speaking of representative Keef... "Don't like" would also like a word. And I do mean they ATE that song.” Which was a quote post of “Nah yall wasn't outside at the house parties when Chief Keef dropped love sosa” Followed by unrelated Post “watching "Sub Rosa" and no one can stop me”
Google billionaire Sergey Brin is cutting his losses and staging a dramatic exit from the dysfunctional New York City real estate market. The tech titan, whose fortune sits at $268 billion on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, has completely soured on the Big Apple's increasingly progressive regulatory landscape. Using his personal family office vehicle, Amphitheatre LLC, Brin has capitulated and sold his entire stake back to the property fund's manager, A&E Real Estate The property sell-off comes as a perfect storm of radical rent control laws and skyrocketing structural costs continue to squeeze landlords to a bloody pulp across the Big Apple. Astonishingly, the world's third-richest man accepted a near-total wipeout, walking away with a reported six cents on the dollar for his original equity investment. The gross size of Brin's exposure was said to be valued at $79 million. While that loss might look like pocket change for Brin, the capitulation sends a shuddering shockwave through Wall Street's institutional investment community. A&E Real Estate confirmed the staggering transaction, dryly noting that the high-profile investor was eager to take the extreme financial hit just to completely divest from the city's multi-family sector. The fund in question holds a huge portofolio of nearly 5,900 apartment units spread across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. Sergey Brin - shown attending the 2026 Met Gala - has sold off his New York City real estate holdings for just pennies on the dollar
Graph that tracks spending on ice surveillance technology from suspending.gov. In 2013, it was about ~$50m per year. Since this January, at least ~$513m has been spent.
The administration, which is accustomed to political alignment from companies it works alongside, has not been quiet about its displeasure with Anthropic in the aftermath of last Friday's decision (to institute export controls). "Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building-forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move," wrote Hegseth, who had declared the company a risk to the Pentagon supply chain in March in a dispute over Al's potential use for mass surveillance and autonomous weaponry. Former White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich also leaned into the politicization, posting the X profile of one of the cybersecurity experts vouching for Anthropic to show that she'd listed her pronouns and was wearing a hat supporting Democrats in her profile picture. “These people really just don't get it...." he said about Anthropie's decision to request the experts help.
Ms. Ruemmler has been criticized by politicians and commentators for consorting with Mr. Epstein, but outside of the media spotlight (and off the record), most white-collar lawyers I know have been unwilling to condemn her. That is not because they are sympathetic to Mr. Epstein or friendly with Ms. Rummler, but because doing business with Mr. Epstein, and people like him, was business as usual for the top ranks of the legal profession. It most likely remains so to this day. I recently sat down with Ms. Ruemmler for her first in-depth interview since all of this became public. Years earlier, when I was still practicing law, we'd had a call to discuss opportunities in the public sector, and in March, she contacted me to ask if I'd like to hear her side of the Epstein story. For more than three hours over two interviews, we covered how she came to work with Mr. Epstein despite his questionable past and what she knew, or thought she knew, about the extent of his criminal misconduct. The unsettling truth that emerges from these conversations and my reporting says less about the content of the emails and much more about the culture of big law firms. She looked past his 2008 conviction - for procuring a minor for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution - in the pursuit of business. Many other prominent criminal defense lawyers and former federal prosecutors would have made the same decision, and that tells you everything you need to know about how unreliable and corroded the legal world has become.
MAYOR MAMDANI AND POLICE COMMISSIONER TISCH ARE NEW YORK CITY'S BIGGEST PARTY POOPERS NEW YORK (June 9, 2026) - Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. ("MSG Sports") made the following statement: "The last several victories the Knicks have had have been celebrated by thousands and thousands outside MSG. The joy and happiness were palpable everywhere. Apparently Mayor Mamdani and Police Commissioner Tisch, despite what they say, don't want to see these celebrations happen. We have been told that the NYPD will once again implement the same frozen zone' restrictions for Game 4, which were supposedly to thwart any threats related to the President's attendance. We now know these restrictions were never about the President - i was just a convement excuse to resire now and waen Aaicas tans celcorate The complete closing of areas around MSG is going to affect not only the celebration but also all the small celebrations that are part of the near and soul of new Yorkers. ne actons of toe Mavor and Police Commissioner, supposedly in support of the Knicks and their fans, are difficult to understand. We urge them to lift these restrictions and embrace the love of the feam." About Siadison square Garden sports Corp. that includes the New York Knicks (NBA) and the New York Rangers (NHL), as well as two development league teams - the Westchester Knicks (NBAGL) and the Hartford Wolf Pack (AHL), MSG Sports also operates a professional sports team performance center - the MSG Training Centerin Greenburgh, NY.
Among the gen Zs and millennials who gathered amid a heavy police presence, many expressed hope that a youth-led mobilisation, similar to movements that brought down governments in the neighbouring countries of Nepal and Sri Lanka, could be gathering pace in India. "The young people here have suffered enough too," said Kriti, 21, a university student from Delhi. The momentum behind the CJP has taken many by surprise, none more so than Dipke, who just a few weeks ago was living a quiet life in the US as an Indian graduate of Boston University. It was only on a whim, enraged by the comments of the chief justice of India who had compared India's unemployed youth to "parasites" and “cockroaches" during a supreme court hearing, that Dipke had jokingly put out a call on social media: "What if all cockroaches came together?" The overwhelming response made him realise he had touched a nerve. He built a website and social media accounts for a satirical Cockroach Janta party - a poke at Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janta party (BJP) - complete with a biting manifesto taking aim at the government, and a tagline: "A political party for the people the system forgot to count."
A post in a Hilltop Youth WhatsApp chat that reads: "Choose, what do you prefer?" with a photo of Israeli settlers on the left, and Hamas militants on the right.
Black T-shirt that reads “Mamdanistan” in a font that evokes the NYKnicks, featuring a smiling Mamdani overlayed on a basketball above 3 Knicks, Mikal Bridges, who is pointing with his right hand, Jalen Brunson whose hands are 🙏, & Karl Anthony Towns, who has his left hand next to his left ear.
Chart displaying who has returned their ballots in CA’s primary election. Details here https://tracker.politicaldata.com/?type=statewide
Steyer, in a fiery (or flaming) font, colored with the colors of the Progress Pride flag.
“How are Knicks fans supposed to feel about the owner James Dolan? Let me tell you a story. In Cleveland, I was not courtside, I was second row. And so we won the game, we had the ceremony, but they had it roped off. I wanted to take pictures, but it's roped off. So I'm trying to get through the rope, and Mr. Dolan comes to me and lifts up the rope so I can get in and take my pictures. Yeah, but it wasn’t so long ago he was hassling you about how you entered the Garden. We're not bringing that up! We're not bringing that up! That's dead and buried. That's a long time ago. Me and him are good. Beyond you, though, he’s done a lot of strange stuff— I'm not talking about that! I'm talking about peace and love. Positivity. The Knicks are in the NBA Finals.” Above a photo of Spike Lee standing court side speaking with Jalen Brunson at game.
Chart displaying who has returned their ballots in CA’s primary election. Details here https://tracker.politicaldata.com/?type=statewide
Chart displaying who has returned their ballots in CA’s primary election. Details here https://tracker.politicaldata.com/?type=statewide
“Steyer,” in a fiery (or flaming) font, colored with the colors of the Progress Pride flag.
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*Think back to September 1968, when the first episode of 60 aired. A gallon of gas was thirty-two cents. The first pocket calculator wouldn't go on sale for another two-and-a-half years. If you needed money, you went to the bank, stood in line, and asked a human being for it. Long distance calls were billed by the minute and you thought twice before making one," he wrote. "Every part of how we lived back then has been transformed since then," he observed. "The cars, the phones, the music, the movies, the medicine, the money, the way news gets made and the way news gets consumed. The phone you are reading this on is more powerful than every computer that existed on the planet in 1968 combined
Invitation to Brian Doherty’s Life Celebration in Los Angeles on May 23rd
Paul Mitchell, vice president of the bipartisan voter data firm Political Data Inc., questioned the accuracy of the poll, noting that 33% of those surveyed were Latino and 50% were over the age of 50. Actual turnout among Latinos is likely to be 20%, he said, and 60% of voters will probably be over age 50, Mitchell said. He said the the poll was “too young, too Latino and too few people.”
Photo of band Rilo Kiley playing at Pappy & Harriet’s on May 20 2026
Days atter Israeli strikes killed Iran's supreme leader and other top officials in the opening salvos of the war, President Trump mused publicly that it would be best if "someone from within" Iran took over the country. It turns out that the United States and Israel went into the conflict with a particular and very surprising someone in mind: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president known for his hard-line, anti-Israel and anti-American views. But the audacious plan, developed by the Israelis and which Mr. Ahmadinejad had been consulted about, quickly went awry, according to the U.S. officials who were briefed on it. Mr. Ahmadinejad was injured on the war's first day by an Israeli strike at his home in Tehran that had been designed to free him from house arrest, the American officials and an associate of Mr. Ahmadinejad said. He survived the strike, they said, but after the near miss he became disillusioned with the regime change plan.
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Corshelle Jenkins was charged with a crime she didn't commit - and now, there was a warrant for her arrest. In May 2025, the 36-year-old Portland resident received a letter saying she had been arrested for theft, and after failing to appear in court, police were instructed to take her to jail. The mother of six was stunned. She had never been arrested for stealing. She assumed a visit to court would prove it was a case of mistaken identity. But in court, a judge told her the state had no lawyers available to represent her. She would have to keep returning for appearances until one freed up. That day, roughly 1,280 other defendants in her county were also waiting for attorneys. Some had gone months - or more than a year - without representation. The charges would remain pending, and Jenkins had no way to fight them.
Every year, the United States Mint sells more than $1 billion of investment-grade gold coins. Each is stamped with an icon like the bald eagle, signifying the government's guarantee, required by law, that the gold is 100 percent American. "To hold a coin or medal produced by the Mint is to connect to the founding principles of our nation," the Mint declares. But a New York Times investigation has found that the government's program of gold sales is based on a lie. The Mint is actually the last link in a chain that launders foreign gold, much of it illegally mined, for an insatiable market. The Mint buys gold that originates in a Colombian drug cartel mine. It makes Lady Liberty coins out of gold from Mexican and Peruvian pawn shops and from a Congolese mine that is part-owned by the Chinese government, records show. Some Mint gold has come from a company in Honduras that dug up an Indigenous graveyard for the ore underneath.
When Sk Ma. Amir, a 27-year-old homeopathic doctor, filled out his voter registration form earlier this year, he provided his father's details, but he got a notice from the commission on April 6 that left him scratching his head. It said that the details linking him to the previous revision were that of his grandparents and there was an age discrepancy. "This means I have lost my voting right for now." Mr. Halder, the garment manufacturer in Kolkata, was told that his name and details were "incorrectly linked" because the spelling of his father's name in the 2002 revision, "Rias," did not match the name, "Riasuddin Halder," which he put down in his application this year. Sitting cross-legged on a bed in his family home in South 24 Parganas, a Muslim-majority district in Kolkata that has seen one of the highest deletions of voter names, Mr. Halder showed land records dating back to 1928. He said he was hoping to appeal the decision via special tribunals, except that one hadn't been set up in his neighborhood yet. He fretted that without his voter registration the bank might close his account, or the government shut his business. "I fear my citizenship will be gone," he said.
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Experts said that Mr. Hegseth has dismantled many of the systems meant to help the United States abide by such obligations. They noted that the defense secretary has fired the military's top lawyers, who advise military leaders on domestic and international laws of armed conflict, and that he has closed Pentagon offices and terminated positions designed to reduce and respond to civilian harm. Mr. Hegseth has also boasted about his efforts to scale back what he has called "stupid rules of engagement." Oona Hathaway, a professor of international law at Yale Law School, said those rules "were developed precisely to prevent this kind of civilian harm," referring to the damage caused to Iran's schools and hospitals. Ms. Hathaway was one of over 100 U.S.-based international law experts who signed an open letter this month expressing "profound concern over serious violations of international law" during the war. On Monday, Mr. Trump, who has threatened to bomb Iran "back to the Stone Ages," brushed off a question about the possibility that U.S. attacks on civilian infrastructure could amount to war crimes.
The reality in the strait has left diplomatic counterparts, former US economic and energy officials and industry executives who spoke with CNN in a state of confusion and disbelief. "," a former US official who served in Republican and Democratic administrations said. "I'm dumbfounded." Shipping industry executives have made regular requests to the US Navy for military escorts, all of which have been rebuffed. In regular briefings for industry participants in the region, US military officials have repeatedly made clear they have not received orders to begin any escort operation and the risks to US assets remained extremely high, according to two executives with knowledge of the matter.
The extraordinary spending in Montana is part of a new era of political power for the rapidly growing number of billionaires minted over the past eight years. The Times analysis found that 300 billionaires and their immediate family members donated more than $3 billion - 19 percent of all contributions — in federal elections in 2024, either directly or through political action committees. Five presidential elections ago, before the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling that lifted many remaining campaign finance restrictions, the share of billionaire spending was almost zero - 0.3 percent, to be precise. The billionaire families gave an average total of $10 million each in 2024, an amount roughly equal to what 100,000 typical political donors gave, combined. And that does not count money that billionaires contributed through dark money groups that do not have to disclose their donors.
"Plaintiffs provided numerous videos, which were received in evidence and unambiguously show DHS officers spraying OC Spray directly into the faces of peaceful and nonviolent protesters engaged in, at most, passive resistance and discharging tear gas and firing pepper-ball munitions into crowds of peaceful and nonviolent protestors," Simon wrote, using the term "OC Spray" to refer to pepper spray. "Defendants' conduct - physically harming protestors and journalists without prior dispersal warnings - is objectively chilling."
The Times has independently interviewed 35 former employees, whose accounts trace a pattern of physical punishment Mr. Redzepi inflicted on his staff. Between 2009 and 2017, they said, he punched employees in the face, jabbed them with kitchen implements and slammed them against walls. They described lasting trauma from layers of psychological abuse, including intimidation, body shaming and public ridicule. Mr. Redzepi, they said, threatened to use his influence to get them blacklisted from restaurants around the world, to have their families deported, or to get their wives fired from their jobs at other businesses.
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According to OpenAl, the limitations it has imposed are more enforceable than Anthropic's because it will only provide the DOW with its technology via the cloud, rather than installing it directly on hardware. OpenAl personnel will also be kept involved so that they can see how the DOW is using its technology. This will allegedly allow the company more oversight and control of its Al systems. "We don't know why Anthropic could not reach this deal, and we hope that they and more labs will consider it," wrote OpenAl. However, an excerpt of the contract shared by OpenAl indicated that its technology will only be barred from use in autonomous weapons or to surveil U.S. citizens where such use is illegal. In fact, the agreement appears to lay out circumstances where OpenAl's tech would be allowed for these purposes, such as where human control over weapons isn't required by DOW policy or law. "The Department of War may use the Al System for all lawful purposes, consistent with applicable law, operational requirements, and well-established safety and oversight protocols," the contract reads, per OpenAl. "[A]ny use of Al in autonomous and semiautonomous systems must undergo rigorous verification, validation, and testing to ensure they perform as intended in realistic environments before deployment."
The point you make about brands is interesting, because it carries into editorial—who magazines can photograph wearing what. Right, it's always "she has a contract." I don't know how politically correct this is to say, but the reality is that brands are who hold the purse strings right now. When I started doing this, movie companies paid. I would make money doing a press tour, and now I am paid less for the same work than I was 15 years ago. And production companies now really rely on movie stars having brand deals to subsidize this. I think that's even true with magazines. I don't know whether you all want to admit it. We talk so much in this industry about the decline of luxury, but in fact, who has money? Dior and Louis Vuitton and Chanel. Movie companies aren't making the money anymore. Magazines aren't making the money anymore. Even celebrities, to a certain degree, aren't making the kind of money making movies that they make from brand deals. I think really, you can just follow the money to see where the industry's changed. Sorry, that's not a very glamorous take.
In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was "difficult" and that he remained "grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago." "Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues," he added.
The Booker prize-winning Indian author said: "To hear them say that art should not be political is jaw-dropping. It is a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time - when artists, writers and film-makers should be doing everything in their power to stop it." She added: "Although I have been profoundly disturbed by the positions taken by the German government and various German cultural institutions on Palestine, I have always received political solidarity when I have spoken to German audiences about my views on the genocide in Gaza."
This week, OpenAI started testing ads on ChatGPT. I also resigned from the company after spending two years as a researcher helping to shape how A.I. models were built and priced, and guiding early safety policies before standards were set in stone. I once believed I could help the people building A.I. get ahead of the problems it would create. This week confirmed my slow realization that OpenAI seems to have stopped asking the questions I’d joined to help answer. I don’t believe ads are immoral or unethical. A.I. is expensive to run, and ads can be a critical source of revenue. But I have deep reservations about OpenAI’s strategy. For several years, ChatGPT users have generated an archive of human candor that has no precedent, in part because people believed they were talking to something that had no ulterior agenda. Users are interacting with an adaptive, conversational voice to which they have revealed their most private thoughts. People tell chatbots about their medical fears, their relationship problems, their beliefs about God and the afterlife. Advertising built on that archive creates a potential for manipulating users in ways we don’t have the tools to understand, let alone prevent.
Khanna named, US businessman Leslie Wexner of Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch and Bath & Body Works fame; Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem; and Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, and Nicola Caputo.
But here’s the cruelest irony: There has been plenty of innovation in media. It’s just not the kind that supports quality journalism. The real innovation of the past decade has been in engagement optimization, algorithmic content distribution and the weaponization of human psychology to generate advertising revenue. Social media platforms innovated new ways to keep users scrolling. The controversy surrounding Bari Weiss’ role in shaping CBS News’ new contributor lineup fits seamlessly into this picture. Weiss represents a particular archetype of our post-journalism era: the personal brand masquerading as authority. Her trajectory from New York Times opinion editor to Substack entrepreneur to apparent kingmaker within a legacy media institution perfectly encapsulates how we have confused platform with expertise and audience with authority.
But on the second point—who could be received well in a Black establishment—Pritzker had the edge. “If I had to say one guy—I really don’t know him, very superficially—but if I were like betting the Kentucky Derby and I saw this 12-to-1 horse and I said, ‘Yeah, I want to get a price,’ I’d take J.B. Pritzker,” he said. To support his case, Carville mentioned Pritzker’s $1.4 million in gambling winnings in 2024 in a positive light. That, he said, would appeal to Black voters. “They like him, man. He campaigns hard. I bet you there’s not a Black church in South Carolina that J.B.’s not part of the building fund committee,” Carville said. “He’s worth $3 billion and won a million and a half dollars shooting craps and blackjack in Las Vegas. That makes people like him.” Carville added: “The young, disaffected Black males go, ‘S--t, this guy went up there and he had all that money and he fired it at them? If I had that kind of money, that’s exactly what I would do.’ Understand that.”
“I have never come forward! I am now being harassed by the media and others,” wrote a victim identified as Jane Doe. “This is devastating to my life. ... Please pull my name down immediately as every minute that these document with my name are up, it causes more harm to me. ... Please, I’m begging you to delete my name!!!” Another victim quoted in the letter said the release of her information is “profoundly distressing” and “places me and my child at potential physical risk.”
Other seven-figure contributors to the new group, according to a disclosure obtained by The Times, include a smattering of traditional Silicon Valley donors, including the prominent investors John Doerr and Michael Moritz; the Stripe chief executive Patrick Collison, a longtime advocate on housing issues; the crypto founder Chris Larsen; and Eric Schmidt, who ran Google as C.E.O. with Mr. Brin and his co-founder, Larry Page, for many years. Stewart Resnick, a Californian who owns a farming empire that produces oranges, pistachios and POM Wonderful juice, has also contributed. All of the donations were made over the last 16 days. Building a Better California was incorporated as a nonprofit social welfare organization on Jan. 14, according to records with the Secretary of State's office, and an affiliated political action committee made its first disclosure on Wednesday. The paperwork was handled by a Sacramento-based law firm that has decades of experience advising business groups on ballot measure campaigns in California. The firm, Nielsen Merksamer, also filed five initiative proposals last month that could undermine the billionaire tax in different ways if they were to qualify for the November ballot and receive more votes. The measures range from a prohibition on retroactive taxes, which the wealth tax includes, to a narrower definition of residency in California. It is not clear who is behind those measures, and they are not expected to be ready for signature gathering until next month. Nielsen Merksamer declined to comment on the proposals.
Despite the incredulity with which some legal observers meet the idea, state and local prosecutors can prosecute federal officials for violating state criminal laws. Prosecutors should be gathering and securing evidence and seriously considering filing charges — sooner rather than later. Not every prosecution will succeed, and all will face obstacles that are built into our legal system. But critically, bringing these state and local prosecutions could produce deterrent effects that are so desperately needed now.
The federal surge into Minneapolis reflects a series of mistaken MAGA assumptions. The first is the belief that diverse communities aren't possible: “Social bonds form among people who have something in common," Vance said in a speech last July. "If you stop importing millions of foreigners into the country, you allow social cohesion to form naturally." Vance's remarks are the antithesis to the neighborism of the Twin Cities, whose people do not share the narcissism of being capable of loving only those who are exactly like them. A second MAGA assumption is that the left is insincere in its values, and that principles of inclusion and unity are superficial forms of virtue signaling. White liberals might put a sign in their front yard saying IMMIGRANTS WELCOME, but they will abandon those immigrants at the first sensation of sustained pressure. And in Trump's defense, this has turned out to be true of many liberals in positions of power—university administrators, attorneys at white-shoe law firms, political leaders. But it is not true of millions of ordinary Americans, who have poured into the streets in protest, spoken out against the administration, and, in Minnesota, resisted armed men in masks at the cost of their own life.
Women are earning 40% more doctoral degrees than men, and nearly twice as many master's degrees, according to the U.S. Department of Education. And women now outnumber men in law, medical, pharmacy, veterinary, optometry and dental schools. This is not some distant statistical abstraction. Americans can see this quiet but dramatic shift when they take their pets to the vet or their kids to the dentist, need a lawyer or an eye exam, see a therapist or pick up a prescription. In every case, they're likely to see more, or only, women.
Times of Israel, on Day 837 of the war, publishes the full text of Trump’s Board of Peace, which does not mention Gaza but demands a billion dollars. There’s also a popup ad…& the text, which always includes Day 837 of the “Israel War” features photos of Trump signing the Gaza peace accords which he claims ended this war…..
While many cities calculate eligibility for benefits based on national federal poverty guidelines, San Francisco generally uses area median income to calculate the cost of living. In 2025, the federal poverty level nationwide was $32,150 for a family of four, while the area median income for a family of four in San Francisco was $155,850. San Francisco's measure will make childcare free for a family of four making less than $230,000 a year, or 150% of the area median income, and offer a 50% subsidy to families earning less than $310,000 a year, or 200% of the area median income. Previously, free childcare was available to families earning less than 110% of the area median income. The Children's Council of San Francisco estimates that the average cost of childcare in the city is between $20,000 and $30,000 per child each year. And the Economic Policy Institute ranks California fourth out of 50 states and the District of Columbia for most expensive infant care. According to the Institute, infant care for one child would take up more than 18% of a median family's income in California; and care for two children could take up close to 30% of a family's income. According to US Department of Health and Human Services guidelines, childcare is only considered "affordable" if it takes up less than 7% of a family's income. Even for families earning six-figure salaries in the Bay Area, that goal is far out of reach. The mayor's new childcare proposal brings that 7% just within reach, even for families earning what would be an extravagan salary elsewhere in the country.
During a hearing on the suit Thursday, Young tore into Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for pursuing a targeted deportation campaign that Young said was at odds with the country's core values. "I find it breathtaking that I have been compelled on the evidence to find the conduct of such high-level officers of our government - cabinet secretaries — conspired to infringe the First Amendment rights of people with such rights here in the United States," Young said. "These cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution." Young's comments came as he prepares to issue what he described as a steep sanction against the Trump administration for seeking to "chill" the free speech of pro-Palestinian activists targeted for arrest and removal weeks after Trump took office - including Columbia University's Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Madhawi, as well as Tufts University Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk and Georgetown University academic Badar Khan Suri.
The initiative is explicitly designed to claw back some of the tax breaks that billionaires received from the recent budget bill passed by the Republican-dominated Congress and signed on July 4 by President Trump. The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will funnel as much as $1 trillion in tax benefits to the wealthy over the next decade, while blowing a hole in state and local budgets for healthcare and other needs. California will lose about $19 billion a year for Medi-Cal alone. According to the measure’s drafters, that could mean the loss of Medi-Cal coverage for as many as 1.6 million Californians. Even those who retain their eligibility will have to pay more out of pocket due to provisions in the budget bill.
The justices wrote that the rescission of the pay package needed to restore Mr. Musk's financial standing at Tesla to what it was before 2018. But the rescission was improper, they wrote, because it meant that Mr. Musk ended up uncompensated for being chief executive for six years.
The executive order calls on Attorney General Pam Bondi to establish an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state laws, including on grounds that they unconstitutionally regulate interstate commerce or are pre-empted by existing federal regulations. The order also includes the creation of a federal policy framework for AI to pre-empt state laws. The executive order also includes a provision to evaluate state AI laws, specifically targeting “laws that require AI models to alter their truthful outputs, or that may compel AI developers or deployers to disclose or report information in a manner that would violate the First Amendment or any other provision of the Constitution.” It also directs the chairman of the FCC, Brendan Carr, to “adopt a Federal reporting and disclosure standard for AI models that preempts conflicting State laws.
Palantir founder charged w/ sexual assault techcrunch.com/2015/01/28/for… Banned from Stanford for 10 years, Lonsdale blames her mom & rape culture? Stanford ban aside, if that letter is indicative of Lonsdale's judgment (or his teams), should Palantir be trusted w/ nat'l & corp security? Would you trust your most sensitive data to a company that was started & is run by a 31 yo who dates his 20 yo intern? Should the Pentagon? https://x.com/dearsarah/status/560931611911278592?s=46&t=_eCGsSFzev6cTHSoLq5hfQ