It’s former California Supreme Court justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
Reuters@reuters.com · yesterdayAnthropic names global affairs chief to tackle AI policy as Trump tensions persist reut.rs/4xbqIsk
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Reuters@reuters.com · yesterday
ICE is beginning to outfit Haitian immigrants with ankle monitors after the Trump admin ended their deportation protections www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
ICE begins outfitting Haitian immigrants with ankle monitors, attorneys say
Haitian immigrants in Ohio with temporary protected status are being called to ICE offices for check-ins after federal officials said their protections had ended.
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Update: No deal, back to war, Trump says.
Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 3d agoTrump says Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and Iran convinced him to call off a planned attack on Iran, adding: “I think there’s a deal.” Reminder: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar all have business ties to the Trump family. Nothing about this is normal.
A health worker union has accused Kaiser Permanente of screening patients and making care recommendations through “a digital, automated algorithm” without clinician oversight — a practice the union says violates state law. cal.news/4fISnd7 📸 Jules Hotz
"Whoo doggies" as we say out here in tbe West: All federal prosecutors have left DOJ's Reno office, as lawyers leave Trump admin en masse thenevadaindependent.com/article/all-...
All federal prosecutors have left DOJ's Reno office, as lawyers leave Trump admin en masse - The Nevada Independent
The Reno office typically has between five and six full-time attorneys overseeing prosecutions. But in the past year, the number of lawyers has dwindled from six to zero.
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which is why the “what have you got to hide” misunderstands the privacy issue
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 3d agoNew: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
In my mind and in my car We can't rewind we've gone too far
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 4d agoOn August 1, 1981, MTV began its American broadcast; the first music video aired on the new cable TV network was “Video Killed the Radio Star,” by The Buggles.
This is wildly irresponsible of Google - allowing people to create AI generated satellite images. Satellite imagery has always been such a useful and reliable source because it came from reliable sources, but now Google is messing with it at source. www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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This is more than the NSF social sciences division - now on the chopping block - awarded in grants last year. Think about that: a single AI company has the money to fund more social science research than the US govt.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 5d agoAnthropic AI research fund offers $5m - $30m for social science research on themes of AI impact on workers; transition initiatives; income support; building worker stakes; and wider evidence on public investments. Total fund of $200m available www.anthropic.com/news/economi...
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
BREAKING: The 9th Circuit has rejected ICE's unprecedented mass detention policy — the 5th striaght appellate loss for the Trump administration and perhaps the most significant, covering California, Arizona, Nevada and Washington, among others. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
New: Investigators believe a cyberattack this week on dozens of municipal water systems in Minnesota was probably the work of Iranian hackers, a potential act of aggression that comes at a precarious moment in the U.S. war against Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)
Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.
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Thousands of ships stranded by the ongoing war with Iran and the closed Strait of Hormuz are likely now coated with marine microbes, algae and invertebrates, which could result in “a massive marine invasive species event,” new research warns.
Ships stranded by war could cause marine ‘superspreader’ event, study warns
Scientists warn of unintentional risks from idle ships sitting for months in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Trump says he may withdraw Todd Blanche for AG if John Cornyn & Thom Tillis don’t come around, at least until they’re out of office. Their key demand has been to rewrite the IRS settlement so as to kill Trump’s weaponization fund. Not clear the president is willing to do that.
ICYMI: Roman & I have a new episode of Trump Con Law out this week-we talk about home ec classes, Title 9, and the Court's decision in West Virginia v. BPJ--check it out! trumpconlaw.com/94-shop-clas...
Shop Class and Sports Teams | What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law
In a decision filled with hypotheticals, the Supreme Court has ruled it is constitutional to bar transgender girls and women from playing on school sports teams that match their gender identity....
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What's at stake? There is the most typical universe of attorney fee requests to US agencies under a 1980 law meant to ensure people/small businesses/nonprofits aren't priced out of suing the govt. There are mounting six-figure requests in cases the Trump admin lost. DOJ is opposing some of these.
NEW: The US government is on the hook for potentially millions of taxpayer dollars in legal bills sought by successful challengers to some of the Trump administration’s most controversial actions and policies www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Breaking — First Alien Terrorist Removal Court Case Revealed The Justice Department seeks to remove a Texas woman linked to ISIS plot. www.courtwatch.news/p/first-alie...
First Alien Terrorist Removal Court Case Revealed
The Justice Department seeks to remove a Texas woman linked to ISIS plot.
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“attorneys for xAI wrote that the statute “imposes an overbroad, content-based ban on free speech and the tools of visual expression in a clumsy attempt to prohibit ‘nudification.’”
Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · last wk.SpaceX-owned xAI, the developer of Grok, sued Minnesota AG to challenge a law coming into effect in the state that will ban "nudify" apps, use of these AI image generators to make non-consenting intimate images, aka AI deepfake porn of real people including minors. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...
Back to the Zuck show: *META SAYS SOME YOUTH-RELATED TRIALS MAY RESULT IN MATERIAL LOSS
“The main source of the budgetary crisis is the decline in the enrollment of international students, no doubt due to Trump policies.”
James Fallows Tierney@jamesftierney.bsky.social · last wk.Brian Leiter wrote about faculty layoffs at my university. leiterreports.com/2026/07/29/i...
The US Federal Communications Commission announced a ban on humanoid robots from China on Tuesday, saying that the technology poses “unacceptable risks” to the country’s national security www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
FCC bans humanoid robots from China, citing ‘unacceptable risks’
Move comes as the Trump administration has increasingly sought to keep Chinese technology out of the US
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New episode is out! Roman & I talk about home ec, Title 9, and the Supreme Court’s decision in West VA v BPJ-give it a listen 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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Podcast Episode · What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law · July 27 · 46m
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New episode is out! Roman & I talk about home ec, Title 9, and the Supreme Court’s decision in West VA v BPJ-give it a listen 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Shop Class and Sports Teams
Podcast Episode · What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law · July 27 · 46m
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Hey all-a new episode of Trump Con Law is out! @romanmars.bsky.social & I talk about home ec classes, sports teams, Title 9, and transgender rights. Give it a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Shop Class and Sports Teams
Podcast Episode · What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law · July 27 · 46m
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Hey all-a new episode of Trump Con Law is out! @romanmars.bsky.social & I talk about home ec classes, sports teams, Title 9, and transgender rights. Give it a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Shop Class and Sports Teams
Podcast Episode · What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law · July 27 · 46m
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Tons of peoples' Claude chats are exposed on Google. Cryptocurrency keys, API keys, login credentials, legal discussions, more. This happened with ChatGPT last year. And Claude too. There's clearly an ongoing issue with search engines indexing peoples' AI chats www.404media.co/tons-of-peop...
Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google
Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.
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