https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/comey-brennan-ratcliffe-fbi-cia-referral

Survivors condemn a UK court for allowing more arms exports to Israel.

‘Buried alive under the sand’: how British weapons killed Palestinians

^{DECLASSIFIED REPORTER IN GAZA (Declassified Media ltd)}

Emails suggest staff agreed to "implement" security measures including a request to "monitor university chat groups"

Scottish University agreed to 'monitor' students for weapons company supplying IDF, emails reveal - Liberty Investigates

^{Liberty Investigates}

Last week, Miami’s city commission told those voters they’ll have to wait an extra year. In a 3-2 vote, the commission changed the city’s election bylaws to push the municipal races back to 2026.

Commissioners said they made the change in the name of cost savings and increased voter engagement when higher-profile races for Congress or the presidency may be on the ballot. But they gave themselves an extra year in office without asking voters for permission first.

Miami city officials cancelled an election. Outraged voters call it a power grab

Commissioners for the city of Miami rewrote their election laws to push the off-year 2025 local races to 2026 without input from voters. The decision has sparked outrage

^{George Chidi (The Guardian)}

Chipmaker Nvidia became the first public company in history to scale a $4tn market value on Wednesday as its stock price continues a years-long stratospheric rise.

Shares of the top chip designer rose roughly 2.4% to $164, benefiting from the ongoing surge in demand for artificial intelligence technologies. Nvidia’s chips and associated software are considered world leaders for building artificial intelligence products.

Nvidia achieved a $1tn market value for the first time back in June 2023 and the surge continued unabated with its market value – the total value of its shares – more than tripling in about a year, faster than Apple and Microsoft, the only other US firms with a market value of more than $3tn. Apple was the first company to reach a valuation of $3tn, back in 2022.

Nvidia becomes first company to reach $4tn in market value

Ongoing surge in demand for AI technology fueled stratospheric rise of chipmaker’s value

^{Blake Montgomery (The Guardian)}

Searching gives me the impression there's a million ways to solve the same problem on Linux, and I find myself profiling answers into about four categories at a glance:

• Succinct: one or two-liner, a single config file, or just a few clicks
• Long-winded song-and-dance: Full train of thought interspersed between various commands and logs, several config files (some of which don't already exist), or installing an obscure package that is no longer maintained
• Specific to a desktop environment or version I don't have
• Just looks wrong

I'll usually just take solutions from the first category, which almost always works, save for differences between updates and versions. Solutions in the second category also seem to end with a 50% chance of the OP unable to solve the problem. If I'm desperate, I'll try the second one, but it often ends up not working, eventually leading me to come up with a much cleaner solution of my own.

Curious if anyone else does this too and if those one-liners are really better solutions or if it's just confirmation bias.

The federal detention facility in Florida, officially named “Alligator Alcatraz,” is only the beginning when it comes to FEMA money being used to fund ICE operations, according to a source within the federal agency. The new program, dubbed “the ICE grant” by FEMA employees, means that millions in grant funds intended for shelters and facilities for noncitizen migrants may now be redirected toward detention centers and whatever else ICE decides.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement to the Associated Press on June 25 that the detention facility in Florida “will be funded in large part by the Shelter and Services Program within the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” The Alligator Alcatraz facility will cost $245 per bed daily, or $450 million per year, one U.S. official told the Associated Press. Internal FEMA documents, however, put the total grant awarded to the Florida Division of Emergency Management at $608.4 million.

The flow of cash from FEMA’s SSP program to states building ICE detention centers outlined by Noem, matches what a source within FEMA told Drop Site of the ICE grant: “it appears they’re taking the money intended for the SSP that Congress mandated via their old appropriations bill to a new grant program related to ICE so they can pay states.” States will then use the funds to develop ICE detention centers similar to the Everglades facility in Florida.

'Alligator Alcatraz' Already Ballooning Over $600 Million, Leaked Document Shows

DHS is redirecting FEMA money to create a slush fund for ICE detention centers.

^{Ka (Jessica) Burbank (Drop Site News)}

Per an email sent to Columbia Business School faculty on Wednesday morning from Dean Costis Maglaras and obtained by The Intercept, the vocal pro-Israel business school assistant professor made the decision to leave the school.

Several students, including Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi, have also alleged that Davidai targeted them and called for them to be deported in the lead-up to their arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Davidai was also a member of a prominent WhatsApp group of Columbia alumni, parents and professors that strategized about how to deport pro-Palestine students, The Intercept reported. He has noted that he does not have tenure at the school.

Pro-Israel Professor Shai Davidai Is Leaving Columbia

Davidai posted that he had been cleared of allegations filed against him last year. He was previously suspended after he was accused of harassment and intimidation.

^{Akela Lacy (The Intercept)}