Wes and Eneasz are joined by Steven, with a short appearance from Sammy to keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community

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News discussed:

Rightwing populist wins Polish presidential election

Tariffs (finally) struck down by federal court

Trump taking steel tariff from 25% to 50%, but approving Nippon Steel deal

Trump EO: pause on student visas

Also wants to “aggressively revoke” Chinese student visas

Meanwhile, a Federal Court blocked Trump’s order to deny Harvard student visas

SCOTUS: deadlocked 4-4 over whether you can exclude religious schools from public funding

SCOTUS curtails NEPA a bit more in an oil-shipping case

Two Israeli embassy staff (a young couple) shot dead outside Jewish museum in Washington DC

A man throwing molotov cocktails and using make-shift flamethrower injures 8 at a gathering in Boulder in support of Israeli hostages

Emil Bove nominated to Third Circuit

Elon is leaving DOGE

He’s not happy with the “big beautiful” budget bill

“Take It Down Act” passes

https://rachelshu.com/

Happy News!

Penny is finally dead!!

Badass doctor gives established medical science a middle finger/shrug of indifference to invent a novel way to remove a chordoma from a 19 year old’s brain stem.(second source)

Every agency has 365 days to list out all the regulations that have a criminal penalty and then that report has to be made public and must be updated annually.

First Personalized CRISPR Therapy for 9 month old treats a rare genetic disorder!

Rapid bedside test predicts sepsis with over 90 percent accuracy (Nature article link)

Sesame Street will continue to air on Netflix (and on PBS/PBS Kids)

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