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Gavin Newsom book tour lands in Nashville Former Californians cite housing costs, Rich state economy fails young families
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Chicago office towers sell at 80–94% discounts Higher rates and remote work reset valuations, city tax base meets a slow-motion write-down
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DHS suspends TSA PreCheck and Global Entry during shutdown Trusted traveler fees sell relief from state-made queues, Premium lane disappears when appropriations fail
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JPMorgan confirms closing Trump-linked accounts after Jan 6 Contractual discretion doubles as political de-risking, Banking access looks less like service and more like permission
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Centerview settles 100-hour week disability suit before trial No precedent set on Wall Street accommodation duties, Litigation risk becomes a line item in deal staffing
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Trump approves FEMA emergency aid after DC Potomac Interceptor rupture dumps 250m gallons sewage EPA already involved in repair and monitoring, Infrastructure failure becomes federal leverage and partisan content
independent.co.uk thehill.com
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged browser-based DDoS Volunteer editors order removal of 695,000 archive links, open-web memory loses to platform risk management
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Nor’easter triggers NYC first blizzard warning in nine years 1–2 feet snow and outage risk across Northeast, Storm exposes brittle utilities before resilience spending theatre
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NASA Artemis rocket hit by helium system flaw SLS schedule slips again, Prestige program built for contracts and ceremonies not iteration
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DHS moves to deport Iran-born woman adopted by US Air Force veteran Paperwork gap leaves long-time US resident facing removal to hostile regime, citizenship becomes a database field
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NIST reportedly restricts after-hours lab access for foreign researchers Security compliance recast as facility policy at US measurement agency, Talent pipeline throttled in name of national strength
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US Southern Command kills 3 in eastern Pacific strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat Southern Spear campaign claims designated terrorist operators and 140+ deaths since September, Drug war rebranded as maritime kill list with X as press office
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OpenAI weighs reporting Canadian school shooting suspect to RCMP Account flagged months earlier but deemed not imminent, AI safety drifts into private policing while platforms still break themselves
theguardian.com zerohedge.com
New York Times reports undisclosed ICE shooting kills US citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Immigration enforcement blurs into paramilitary policing, Transparency arrives last if at all
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Car rams Boulder City power substation near Las Vegas Critical infrastructure proves softer target than rhetoric admits, Resilience debate again drifts toward policing over decentralization
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US documents detail Tesla Waymo robotaxi human babysitters, remote intervention and liability hide behind autonomy branding, self-driving arrives as call-center driving
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Trump pivots to new tariff statutes after IEEPA loss Section 122 global 10% plus 232 and 301 threats, Executive branch plays whack-a-mole with Congress
gcaptain.com dnyuz.com theguardian.com
DeepMind CEO warns memory shortage is AI choke point HBM supply and packaging capacity concentrate leverage in Samsung SK Hynix Micron, model builders become procurement takers
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Used Tesla prices rise after $7 500 EV credit ends, iSeeCars data shows demand shifts from subsidized new to secondhand, Green policy distortion simply moves markets
arstechnica.com businessinsider.com
Meta explores facial recognition in smart glasses Abuse charities warn consumer wearables enable stalking at scale, Surveillance arrives as a lifestyle feature
independent.co.uk
ICE arrests green-card applicant at San Diego immigration court check-in DHS says case dismissed in 2013 and never adjusted status, When attendance becomes a capture mechanism compliance collapses
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Two-month-old deported from Dilley family detention center DHS says medically cleared and mother chose removal, Immigration enforcement runs on throughput while liability stays optional
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FBI warns ATM jackpotting surges past 700 attacks in 2025 Windows-based XFS layer enables malware like Ploutus, banks answer with surveillance not hardware hardening
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Neo launches Residency with $750k uncapped SAFE Accelerator terms shift from fixed equity to valuation-linked dilution, prestige replaces demo-day theater
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Minnesota federal judge holds DOJ lawyer in civil contempt over immigration release order Federal agencies miss court deadlines as enforcement expands into courthouses, Rule of law becomes optional when no one pays personally
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Trump orders Pentagon UFO file release AARO already claims no evidence of extraterrestrials, transparency arrives as curated declassification theater
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Starliner review blames NASA and Boeing for cascading failures Public-private risk sharing turns into paperwork engineering, taxpayers fund redundancy while bureaucracy manufactures fragility
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Los Angeles County sues Roblox over alleged child grooming and sexual content Platform liability fight accelerates KYC-style age verification, safety crusade doubles as moat for incumbents
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Stolen ambulance rams Idaho building housing DHS offices Police say staged gas cans and accelerant indicate attempted arson, Security hardening spreads from federal targets to hospitals
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Cellebrite cuts off Serbia over alleged phone-hacking abuse Citizen Lab links similar Cellebrite tooling to Kenya and Jordan, Surveillance vendors sell ethics while monetizing state custody
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Epstein cultivated ties with CBP officers in US Virgin Islands travel corridor DOJ files show FBI opened 2019 probe into St Thomas inspector, State power doubles as social capital
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Uber tightens driver background-check rules after reports violent offenders cleared New York Times cites seven-year lookback in 22 states, Safety theater invites more KYC and platform moats
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OpenAI sued over ChatGPT psychosis allegations Lawsuit targets GPT-4o intimacy design and delusion reinforcement, liability fight could end in logging and gatekeeping
arstechnica.com
FBI flags surge in ATM jackpotting Ploutus malware exploits Windows XFS stacks, compliance theater meets physical access
techcrunch.com
Texas yogurt shop murder defendants seek formal exoneration Austin approves $29M wrongful-conviction settlements, State incentives reward case closure over truth
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National Park Service drops reservation requirements at Arches Glacier, Rocky Mountain, timed-entry systems retreat at margins, app-based rationing proves unpopular but remains ready for reboot
thehill.com
Reese’s heir accuses Hershey of quiet ingredient downgrades Walmart gains share as shoppers trade down, inflation shows up as reformulation while scale firms monetize value panic
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