‘Powerful’ late-night 3.3-magnitude earthquake rocks north-west England
An earthquake was felt in Lancashire and the Lake District on Wednesday night
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UK energy bills to rise by £108 to pay for infrastructure upgrades
Britain’s energy watchdog gives go-ahead to initial £28bn of investment to upgrade UK energy infrastructure but reveals move will push up network charges
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Elephant Micah - Where In Our Woods (2015)
Attesissimo nella scena folk indipendente (sospetto più dagli addetti ai lavori che dagli ascoltatori), il nuovo disco di Joe O’Connell, “Where In Our Woods”, arriva quasi in sordina agli inizi ancora infreddoliti e letargici di questo 2015... Leggi e ascolta...
Elephant Micah - Where In Our Woods (2015)
Attesissimo nella scena folk indipendente (sospetto più dagli addetti ai lavori che dagli ascoltatori), il nuovo disco di Joe O’Connell, “Where In Our Woods”, arriva quasi in sordina agli inizi ancora infreddoliti e letargici di questo 2015. E, di conseguenza, si presenta in punta di piedi, rinunciando all’intensità del precedente, forse insuperabile “Louder Than Thou”, vero “vangelo” del cantautorato americano di pochi anni fa... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/01…
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Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook
Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook
The tech giant will begin closing accounts for under 16 year olds, a week before an official ban.Lana Lam (BBC News)
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How My 6-Year Old Almost Became a Copyright Pirate Overnight
Sound the Alarm! How My 6-Year Old Almost Became a Copyright Pirate Overnight | Knobbe Martens
As we previously wrote, in the brave new world of AI, the ability of users to push the boundaries of creativity at breakneck speed raises new challenges for IP owners....Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
Russia bans Roblox over child safety fears
Russia bans Roblox over child safety fears
Russia’s federal media censor, Roskomnadzor, announced on Wednesday that it had blocked the popular children’s video game Roblox.Meduza
US | Luigi Mangione's court hearing continues on anniversary of UnitedHealthcare CEO's killing
A high-stakes hearing in the New York murder case against Luigi Mangione is continuing a year to the day after prosecutors say he gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
US | Detainees at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facing ‘harrowing human right violations’, new report alleges
Amnesty International finds immigrants at Florida facility were shackled and left outside in metal cage for up to a day
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Data Centres delay housing delivery in London
A typical data centre now requires significant, concentrated power—sometimes equivalent to the needs of tens of thousands of homes. As the sector expands, these large, site-specific demands can add pressure to local parts of the grid and create challenges for connecting new developments. These pressures make it harder and more costly to bring forward new homes, with implications for London’s wider economic growth and its ability to meet housing targets.
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After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know
After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know
After a years-long battle, the European Commission’s “Chat Control” plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption-breaking measures, at last codifies agreement on a position within the Council of the EU, representing EU States.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Any reason NOT to switch to ProtonVPN from Mullvad?
Is there any reason NOT to switch to ProtonVPN from Mullvad?
Use cases: privacy, torrenting without getting a DMCA letter.
OSs: Linux, Mac.
I know there was a reason I didn't pick up Proton years ago when PIA got bought by Kape but I don't remember what it was. I'd read something on /r/VPNTorrents but that place has since been banned so I can't refer to it again.
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I have both and I use both.
The big benefit from mullvad is that you can get anonymous much easier, it’s easier to ditch an account and it’s harder for you to screw it up. People get mad about proton turning over metadata to authorities or suspending account access but they’re required to do that by law if they can identify the accounts. The structure of what proton offers requires that they have some way of verifying who a user is, so if you’re okay with being able to be identified if someone really tries (or doesn’t really try that hard if you give them payment information or something) then proton is fine for you.
Air is a good cheap vpn for piracy. If you wanna take the maybe smarter route of using separate services for your own privacy and for piracy that’s what I’d do.
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What is the best way to get or request a relatively new textbook?
They are not on Anna's Archive or on MaM. They are available for digital purchase from SpringerPub or Amazon.
Is there a different tracker for textbooks and reference materials?
How likely is it that a request will be fulfilled. Would someone need to buy the book themself and upload it?
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Is it essential that you get the 3rd edition? 1st and 2nd are on Library Genesis+ (from 2017 and 2021 respectively)
Otherwise, my university had some deal with Springer that allowed the purchase of a softcover book for 25€ (I think it increased to 50€ later), but also free access for the online edition (though not necessarily the whole book in a single PDF, but each chapter separately). Have you checked for similar deals at your university's library?
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Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind
Found from Bruce Shneier's blog. This model is free, ad-free, privacy respecting, and likely to stay that way. If you or folks you know are heavily using GPT, and likely to be hurt when it starts introducing ads (and otherwise enshittifying) soon, do make sure they know there are alternatives like this.
This particular chat model uses a system prompt chosen by the swiss government, with the intention of providing LLM access as a public utility (like a library). I believe models are intentionally trained on ethical datasets (see the details of Aptertus here), with an effort towards sustainable energy use.
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This is the definition of ethically sourced data from the Apertus website:
[...] the training corpus builds only on data which is publicly available.
So they still train on Websites, Blogs and Social Media. Ethical my ass.
Accepting US car standards would risk European lives, warn cities and civil society
Accepting US car standards would risk European lives, warn cities and civil society
Opening the EU market to vehicles certified under US standards would weaken the protections that save lives in Europe, say more than 80 civil society organisations and the administrations of Amsterdam…ETSC
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Some House Republican women are in open revolt against Speaker Mike Johnson
Female lawmakers in the House GOP conference have had some high-profile splits with leadership in recent weeks. Some are heading for the exits.
This week alone, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., launched a discharge petition to go around Johnson and force a floor vote on a congressional stock trading ban, posting on X that she’s “pissed” that leadership isn’t moving fast enough on the issue while clarifying, “I like Mike.” Johnson prefers to go through regular order, and there has been an initial hearing on the issue.
Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the chair of House Republican Leadership, not only signed on to Luna’s petition but also publicly unloaded on Johnson over an unrelated issue in the national defense bill, suggesting in a series of social media posts that Johnson lied about the matter. The spat has seemingly since been resolved, but the bad blood between the two has long been simmering.
Some House Republican women are in open revolt against Speaker Mike Johnson
Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down a revolt from House Republican women. Meanwhile, several are exiting the House, weighing retirement or quitting Congress early.Melanie Zanona (NBC News)
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Deleting a post vs deleting an entire comment tree
For context:
- Two big threadiverse implementors (and probably mbin) currently federate
Announce(Delete(Object))for deletion of content — all synchronized communities follow suit and delete the content as well. - If that object is the root-level node, and it is deleted, everything below it is also deleted.
- Lemmy and Piefed are investigating the possibility of changing this behaviour so that the action deletes the object itself only, and the reply tree stays.
We're in the middle of discussing how best to communicate this. With Delete(Object) behaviour shifting to deleting the single object only, there are two options to delete the entire tree/thread:
Delete(Object)with a new propertywith_repliesor similarRemove(Context), whereContextis a new url that refers to the entire tree
Thoughts? We're discussing this tomorrow at ForumWG but it'd be nice to get some eyes on it beforehand.
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House Republicans join with AOC and use Epstein files playbook to force a vote on stock trading ban: ‘Hell’s frozen over’
A group of renegade House Republicans and Democrats deployed the same procedural trick used to force a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files to wrangle a vote on a measure to ban members of Congress from trading stocks.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) filed her discharge petition to force the vote on her legislation, a proposal that has been supported by an unexpected coterie of members ranging from progressives like liberal darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to archconservatives like Rep. Burchett (R-Tenn.).
Under the rules of the House of Representatives, a member can file a discharge petition on legislation to force a vote on their legislation as a way to get around Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and hold a vote. Once the petition receives enough signatures, they are locked in.
Afterward, seven legislative days must pass. Then Johnson must designate a time and place for the vote.
House Republicans join with AOC and use Epstein files playbook to force a vote on stock trading ban: ‘Hell’s frozen over’
‘I think America wants us to pass this,’ Tennessee Republican Tim Burchett tells The IndependentEric Garcia (The Independent)
Kash Patel hits back at humiliating report that he demanded an FBI raid jacket
The bombshell report by The New York Post alleged that sources within the FBI had called Patel “in over his head” and his deputy, Dan Bongino, “something of a clown.”
FBI Director Kash Patel completely tore into a bombshell report cited in an op-ed published by the New York Post earlier this week, detailing various issues at the bureau under his leadership, calling him “in over his head” and his deputy, Dan Bongino, “something of a clown.”
The 115-page report compiled by multiple anonymous internal sources described the FBI under Patel as a “rudderless ship” and “all f–ked up,” slamming his professionalism, claiming he is “spending too much time on social media and public relations.”
Patel slammed the overall report on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” Tuesday, saying, “These anonymous sources were individuals from the Comey-Wray era that weaponized the Department of Justice and cratered the public trust in the FBI to something that was at levels that has never been seen.”
"Real" America Is Turning Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Regime
“Real” America Is Turning Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Regime
In Appalachia and the Southeast, everyday Americans are standing up to ICE arresting their immigrant neighbors.Alain Stephens (The Intercept)
Cheney and Obama Enabled Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings
The extrajudicial murders carried out by the Trump administration in the Caribbean build on a dangerous power grab forged by Dick Cheney and expanded under Barack Obama.
Alex Schapiro Reverse Engineered a Billion-Dollar Legal AI Tool and Found 100k+ Confidential Files
How I Reverse Engineered a Billion-Dollar Legal AI Tool and Found 100k+ Confidential Files
Timeline & Responsible DisclosureAlex Schapiro
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Electricity Should Be Free at Noon | And two other ideas for lowering electricity costs
Three Ideas for Lowering Electricity Costs
And two other ideas for lowering electricity costsLeah C. Stokes (The Atlantic)
Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/56559025
Japan's patent office has rejected a Nintendo application related to its Palworld lawsuit, citing a lack of originality. The decision raises questions about the validity of several Nintendo patents describing creature capture systems that are central to the company's complaint against Palworld....
In late October 2025, the Japan Patent Office rejected Nintendo's patent application no. 2024-031879, which is related to the family of creature-capture patents that Palworld is accused of infringing. A JPO patent examiner found that the application lacks originality to be deemed an invention, citing prior art such as Monster Hunter 4, ARK: Survival Evolved, gacha browser game Kantai Collection, Pocketpair's own Craftopia, and even Pokemon GO. All of those were released prior to the December 2021 priority date from the rejected application.
Nintendo has 60 days from the date of its rejection notice to amend its application or appeal the decision, giving it until late December 2025 to do so. Since the application isn't cited in the Palworld patent lawsuit directly, its rejection won't have a direct impact on the ongoing case. However, as explained by Games Fray's analyst Florian Mueller, the newly rejected application is a "key building block" in Nintendo's strategy to capture a wide range of creature-capture system implementations. It is the child of patent JP7493117 and the parent of JP7545191, both of which are cited in Nintendo's complaint.
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The Nintendo v PalWorld lawsuit is still on going, but Nintendo has been told it's attempt to patent the concept of a capturable and summonable creature is invalid, in Japan.
As part of their ongoing lawsuit, Nintendo is claiming PalWorld has violated those... now invalid patents, so Nintendo's overall case against PalWorld is now significantly more weak.
Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit
Amid the Palworld lawsuit, Japan's Patent Office strikes down a related creature-capture patent for Nintendo, dealing a potential blow to the case.Dominik Bošnjak (Game Rant)
Corpo free money glitch - pay to hide your phone number, but 2nd party can pay some more to undo that
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La Germania accende il suo colosso eolico: numeri impressionanti dal mare del Nord
La Germania accende il suo colosso eolico: numeri impressionanti dal mare del Nord
Il parco offshore EnBW He Dreiht ha prodotto il suo primo kilowattora, segnando l'avvio operativo del più grande impianto eolico tedesco.Greenmove
Hillary Clinton says TikTok to blame for young Americans' pro-Palestine views. They disagree
Hillary Clinton is facing a deluge of criticism after stating that young Americans' growing support for Palestinians is influenced by "totally made-up" videos on TikTok and suggesting that American youth - including young Jews - "don't know history and don't understand" Israel's war on Gaza.
Speaking on Tuesday at a summit hosted by the right-wing Israeli paper Israel Hayom in New York City, the former Democratic presidential candidate expressed her concerns that “smart, well-educated young people” in America and around the world are getting a lot of their information, including about Israel and Palestine, from social media platforms like TikTok.
The former US secretary of state described it as "serious problem for democracy", remarking that when she attempted to have "reasonable discussions" with young people, it was challenging because “they did not know history, they had very little context, and what they were being told on social media was not just one-sided, it was pure propaganda".
Hillary Clinton says TikTok to blame for young Americans' pro-Palestine views. They disagree
Hillary Clinton is facing a deluge of criticism after stating that young Americans' growing support for Palestinians is influenced by "totally made-up" videos on TikTok and suggesting that American youth - including young Jews - "don't know history a…Reem Aouir (Middle East Eye)
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Sadly the "New Dems" is Richie Torres and Hakeem Jeffries.
So what Hillary is saying is the Democrat position, not just the old guard.
‘He must resign’: Maddow on Pete Hegseth shifting blame for Caribbean boat strikes after backlash
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One Overlooked Reason Why AI Will Replace Human Bloggers
Discord. Private Facebook groups. Telegram. I could go on and on, but I've noticed that these days, more and more content is not being seen by search engines.
The internet used to be built on public pages anyone could find. Now, so much of the conversation happens behind logins or in apps that Google can't crawl.
That means AI doesn't need to write better than humans to dominate search results. It just needs to be visible where human content isn't.
You see this with Beat Saber.
Most mods and setup guides, like how to mod it on Meta Quest, are shared in Discord servers. Tips come up in Twitch streams or YouTube comments. But none of that shows up on Google.
YouTube transcripts are still hit or miss in search. The subreddit is somewhat active but misses a lot of the real info.
Beat Saber has millions of players and tons of human created content. Yet almost all of it is hidden from search engines.
It is the same with smaller games. I played one where the whole community uses Discord. Patch notes, guides, developer updates, everything happens there. No website. No public forums. If you are not in the server, you are out of luck. Get banned and you lose access to everything.
AI does not need to write better than humans. It just needs to be where the data still is, on the open web. While we move our conversations elsewhere, AI stays visible.
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Hillary Clinton Joins in Blaming TikTok for Young Americans' View That Israel Is Committing Genocide
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Since Israel began bombarding Gaza and starving its population of more than 2 million Palestinians in October 2023, the consensus that the Israeli government is committing genocide has steadily grown to include international and Israeli human rights groups, a United Nations panel, Holocaust scholars, and nearly 40% of Jewish Americans, according to one striking recent survey.
But in 10 words, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday waved away the findings of respected groups like Amnesty International and renowned experts like Brown University professor Omer Bartov, when she commented on why young Americans are expressing support for Palestinians.
"They were getting their information from social media, particularly TikTok," said Clinton.
Without pointing to any evidence, the former secretary of state said young people in the US are "seeing short-form videos, some of them totally made up, some of them not at all representing what they claim to be showing, and that’s where they get their information" about Israel's attacks on Gaza.
She added that "it’s not just the usual suspects"—without naming who those pro-Palestinian "suspects" are.
"It’s a lot of young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand," she said. "A lot of the challenge is with younger people."
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.” t.co/rUVXRqK2rK pic.twitter.com/hAwG7Gbhwf
— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) December 2, 2025Her remarks echoed those of former Obama White House speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz, who spoke recently about the challenges Zionists are presented with when they try to defend Israel to young Jewish people who have seen widely available, credible images and news out of Gaza, where Israel has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians and is continuing to restrict humanitarian aid despite a ceasefire deal reached in October.
"Anything that we try to say to them, they’re hearing it through this wall of carnage," Hurwitz lamented last month, drawing condemnation.
Clinton was speaking at an event in New York City for Israel Hayom, the most widely read newspaper in Israel, which is run by billionaire Miriam Adelson, a megadonor to President Donald Trump. Adelson published an editorial in the Jewish Journal in November 2023 saying pro-Palestinian protesters "are dead to us," and her late husband, Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, said in 2014 that the Palestinians are "an invented people."
Jeremy Slevin, a senior adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), pointed to the irony of Clinton attending an event associated with the Adelsons and then claiming that "the kids are being radicalized by anti-Israel propaganda."
— (@)Clinton has frequently claimed that pro-Palestinian Americans, particularly students who took part in nationwide campus protests last year as they urged the Biden administration to comply with US law and stop funding Israel's attacks on Gaza, are simply misinformed about Palestine and ignorant of history, particularly pointing to the 2000 Camp David Summit hosted by former President Bill Clinton.
The former secretary of state has repeated the claim that the Palestinians were offered a "generous deal" at the meeting and "walked away"—a "myth" that Camp David negotiator Robert Malley has debunked, warning it's been used by Clinton and others to "justify Israel's genocide."
Robert Malley on the myth of “Palestinians walked away” at Camp David (July 2000):➤ Malley says the popular story pushed since 2000 – that Arafat rejected a “generous offer” – is contradicted by the actual record. Israeli PM Barak sidelined the Palestinians for a year,… pic.twitter.com/3vlf1Rl4qj
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) November 28, 2025"She’s the one getting the history wrong," including at the Israel Hayom event, said Drop Site News on Tuesday.
A number of observers took issue with Clinton's suggestion that anti-Israel sentiment in the US is being driven solely by young people, with Just Security executive editor Adil Haque issuing a "periodic reminder that the biggest shift in attitudes toward Israel and Palestine has been among older Democrats."
In 2022, 43% Democratic voters ages 50 and up had an unfavorable view of Israel. That percentage has risen sharply since Israel began its onslaught in Gaza, with 66% of those voters reporting an unfavorable view in a Pew Research Center poll this year.
Meanwhile, 71% of Democrats ages 49 and under opposed Israel in the same poll, and 62% of them had expressed opposition in 2022, denoting a less extreme shift in opinion.
"Democrats get their news from CNN more than other mainstream sources," said Haque, pointing to the network's recent investigation about Palestinian aid-seekers who were killed by Israeli forces. "If you're a 60-year-old with grandkids and you read or watch CNN's Gaza reporting, you don't need TikTok to know that what's happening is very, very wrong."
Dylan Williams, vice president of government affairs at the Center for International Policy, also suggested Clinton has an inaccurate view of who opposes Israel's ongoing attacks on Palestinians.
"I’m nearly 50. I don’t use TikTok. I listen to NPR 'Morning Edition' and read the Financial Times daily," said Williams. "I’m a lawyer who has worked on Israel-Palestine issues for the last 20 years. The evidence I’ve seen that Israel committed atrocities including genocide in Gaza is overwhelming."
Author Jason Overstreet wondered how Clinton would explain the findings of human rights groups like Amnesty International and Israel-based B'Tselem, which pointed to testimonies by Israeli soldiers and the documented destruction of Gaza's food system when it concluded in a report in July that Israel is committing genocide in the exclave.
"I guess Hillary Clinton also thinks that Amnesty International called what’s happening in Gaza a genocide because they saw some videos on TikTok and just 'did not know history,'" said Overstreet. "Young people’s views on Israel are based on young people knowing that Israel has committed genocide."
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Global Fury After State Dept Claims Israel Not Violating US Law by Blocking Gaza Aid
"This will be the Biden administration's legacy: unconditional support for war crimes and complicity in genocide," said one group.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
Steve Bannon’s Surprisingly Key Role in the Epstein Scandal
Steve Bannon’s Surprisingly Key Role in the Epstein Scandal
We seem to be in another Epstein hiatus before the story and obsession again explodes into the center of the political news ecosystem.Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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Abstract : Nous allons découvrir comment utiliser n8n, comment créer un workflow de plusieurs façons : workflow simple, intégrant un Llm, un agent IA et humain in the loop.
Au programme :
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Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Micron is shutting down Crucial, its longstanding brand for consumer-focused RAM kits and SSDs, as it shifts its attention to supplying memory for AI companies.Emma Roth (The Verge)
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Only if you literally ignore the two points I was making, then yes.
A bunch of people achieving one single specific outcome is not competing with anyone.
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A 6 year old boy is ‘missing’ after ICE detained his father, advocates say
A 6-year-old Chinese boy has been separated from his father after federal agents arrested the family following a routine immigration appointment in New York City.
The boy’s father, Fei Zheng, is detained inside Orange County Correctional Facility in upstate New York, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s custody records.
In a statement to The Independent, Homeland Security assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin disputed that ICE had separated the father and son while acknowledging that they were in separate custody.
A 6-year-old boy is ‘missing’ after ICE detained his father. NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani calls for ‘cruelty’ to end
‘Nobody knows’ where first-grader Yuanxin is being held, according to immigrants’ rights advocatesAlex Woodward (The Independent)
On Dec. 8, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the president’s ability to fire the heads of independent, multi-member federal agencies like the Federal Trade Commission
The president and his supporters are proponents of a doctrine known as the “unitary executive” theory – the idea that the president should have complete control over the executive branch. Under this theory, the president should be able to fire any member of the executive branch, and laws – like the one at the center of this case – that restrict his ability to do so violate the constitutional separation of powers between the three branches of government.
The dispute before the court next week began in March, when Trump fired Rebecca Slaughter, whom he originally nominated to the FTC in 2018. In 2023, then-President Joe Biden renominated her to serve a second term, which was scheduled to end in 2029.
Slaughter pointed to a long history – dating back to the founding of the United States – of “multimember agencies whose members are protected from at-will removal.” All three branches of government, she said, “have recognized that this agency structure advances the liberty interest that the separation of powers exists to protect”: Congress has created such agencies, presidents “have signed into law numerous bills creating, funding, and empowering ‘some two-dozen multimember independent agencies,’” and the Supreme Court has upheld those laws “time and again.”
Trump v. Slaughter: An explainer
On Monday, Dec. 8, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, a battle that has been brewing, on one hand, since soon after President Donald Trump […]Amy Howe (SCOTUSblog)
Democrats seek limits on who can serve as immigration judges amid mass layoffs
A bill introduced on Wednesday by California's Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Juan Vargas would authorize the attorney general to appoint temporary immigration judges that have served on appellate panels, are administrative judges in other agencies, or have 10 years of immigration law experience.
Such limits would preclude much of the administration's effort to authorize up to 600 military lawyers to be temporary immigration judges; as part of that move, the White House scrapped the requirement that temporary immigration judges should have immigration law experience.
Texas lawmakers criticized Kerr leaders for rejecting state flood money-two lawmakers who approved the program acknowledged it was flawed
Three weeks after flash floods in Texas’ Hill Country killed more than 100 people, state lawmakers chastised Kerr County leaders for rejecting money a year earlier to create a warning system that could have alerted residents to rapidly rising water.
But Kerr leaders were not the only ones who rejected the state’s offer, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found. In the five years since the fund’s launch, at least 90 local governments turned down tens of millions of dollars in state grants and loans.
Leaders from about 30 local governments that the news organizations spoke with said the state grants paid for so little of the total project costs that they simply could not move forward, even with the program’s offer to cover the rest through interest-free loans. Many hoped the state program would provide grants that paid the bulk of the costs, such as the ones from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which typically supply at least 75%. They believed that they could raise the rest.
Texas Lawmakers Criticized Kerr Leaders for Rejecting State Flood Money. Other Communities Did the Same.
Texas created a $1.4 billion fund to help pay for projects to guard against destructive flooding. But after learning that so many local communities turned down the money, two lawmakers who approved the program acknowledged it was flawed.cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)
PS5, nuovo aggiornamento di sistema 25.08-12.40.00: cosa cambia con l’update del 3 dicembre 2025
PS5 ha ricevuto oggi 3 dicembre 2025 un nuovo aggiornamento di sistema, distribuito a sorpresa da Sony e già in fase di rilascio anche in Europa. Si tratta del firmware identificato con il codice 25.08-12.40.00, un update di dimensioni contenute – circa 1,3 GB – che però interviene su alcuni aspetti pratici dell’esperienza d’uso, in particolare sui messaggi e sulla stabilità generale della console.
TUTTI I DETTAGLI: PS5, nuovo aggiornamento di sistema 25.08-12.40.00: cosa cambia con l’update del 3 dicembre 2025
PS5 aggiornamento 25.08-12.40.00: novità e miglioramenti a messaggi e stabilità
PS5 aggiornamento 25.08-12.40.00: il nuovo firmware di dicembre 2025 migliora messaggi, usabilità di alcune schermate e stabilità generale del sistema.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Germany’s China playbook: if you can’t beat them, partner up
‘Buy China’ trend, price wars push German industry to localise, seeing rivals as leaders
More than half of surveyed German firms plan deeper ties with local partners in China to match the rapid innovation cycles of domestic competitors, the German Chamber of Commerce has found.Xinyi Wu (South China Morning Post)
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As in the German bourgeoisie.
Make no mistake, German "firms" are not and never will be China's "friends." They're not even Germany's friends. This is just a further extension of the West's outsourcing of labour to China, a decidedly one sided relationship where any benefit to China is a happy accident at best and a terrible side effect at worst in the eyes of German businesspeople.
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