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New Epstein files released

Over 500 pages fully redacted

Asfura declared winner of Honduras election

SCOTUS says Trump can’t deploy national guard to Chicago

6-3, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch in minority

No deal on ACA subsidies

TikTok is finally divesting

Trump put up b****y plaques on portraits of former presidents

One of the board members is suing

60 Minutes pulled coverage of Salvadoran prison

Trump EO: Weed reclassified to Schedule III

Trump EO: nukes on the moon!

Fentanyl is now a “weapon of mass destruction” (??)

We’re blockading oil tankers from Venezuela

Bella 1 oil tanker refused to stop for boarding

Iran declares total war on US, Europe, and Israel

China having its largest ever military exercises in the Taiwan strait right now

Japan scrambling fighters

Russia and Ukraine having peace talks in Florida, results TBD

Trump boats!

10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods

Rob Reiner and wife stabbed to death by their son

Happy News!

2025 had the lowest murder rate ever recorded

Overdoses are also falling!

India passed the SHANTI act, which allows private companies to create and run nuclear power plants

Huge stock of rare earth minerals found in Utah by an existing mining site

A non-profit drone search and rescue team exists

You Can Just Buy Far-UVC

Troop Deployment

Eneasz - Lightcone Fundraising! LessWrong Census!

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For on Venezuelan boat, we did a second strike to kill them

Also we stole an oil tanker

Trump: “Well, we keep it, I guess”

Vaccine advisory committee eliminated recommendation that newborns get Hep B vaccine

Big measles outbreak in South Carolina

Honduras election is in chaos

Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández

Trump decided N

Zvi says this is a terrible idea

Trump EO is attempting to preempt state AI laws

AI has designed proteins that survive 150 °C and nanonewton forces

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is ‘slop’

We’re bailing out the farmers

Huge welfare fraud scheme in Minnesota

Matt Van Epps (R) won special election in Tennessee

Australia banned social media for children under 16

Gen Z Protests organized through Discord

Trump commuted the sentence of a private equity CEO convicted of fraud

Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) of federal bribery charges

Trump is upset that he’s going to run for reelection as a democrat

Oliver Sacks made up many of the details in his famous case studies

Happy News!

There’s an annual Wildlife Comedy Photography award! See this year’s finalists.

Min-readers learned to interpret the patterns as meaningful signals, which they could recognize and use. CNBC has signed a multi-year deal with prediction-market Kalshi, bringing real-time probability data into the network’s TV broadcasts and digital platforms starting next year,

3 ‘rebel’ nuns left an elderly care home and broke into the historic abbey where they had lived their entire adult lives

Troop Deployments

Eneasz - The Hobos yearn for the Forest

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UN security council adopted Gaza deal

“Epstein Files Transparency Act” passed

Federal 3-judge panel issued injunction against Texas redistricting

Judge Jerry Smith wrote an insane dissent

Trump “pausing” Afgan immigration after Afgani shot two national guard soldiers

James Comey and Letitia James indictments fell apart

Navy deciding whether to recall Mark Kelly to active service so they can court-martial him

MIT Technology Review on Gemini 3

Humai on GPT-5.1

Anthropic on Claude Opus 4.5

Anthropic disclosed what it calls “the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention

Grok 4.1 showed increased sycophancy scores and “slightly higher deception rates”

The White House’s response to AI concerns can be summarized as “f**k it, yolo, pedal to the metal!”

The Trump administration is reclassifying which degrees count as “professional” under a new student loan program.

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15yo Belgian just earned a PhD in quantum physics

Type one diabetes cured in mice

AI+EEG can diagnosis dementia vs. Alzheimer’s vs. healthy

Colombia has declared its entire Amazon biome as a reserve

CRISPR achieves 50% cholesterol reduction in first human trial

It’s Solstice season!

Berkeley solstice is next weekend

NYC solstice is December - tickets at

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Steven has a new podcast!

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UK stopped sharing intelligence on suspected drug trafficking in the Caribbean

FAA reducing flights at 40 major airports

Head Start programs shutting down

Congressional hemp restrictions threaten $28 billion industry

Trump cutting some tariffs to lower food prices

Utah judge threw out map for being too partisan

Indiana decided against redistricting

Genocide in Sudan (again)

Feds are investigating DC Mayor Muriel Bowser for accepting a foreign trip paid by Qatar

Trump pardoned fake electors and Rudy Giuliani

On November 14, Russia launched at least 430 drones and 18 missiles in an overnight attack on Kyiv

Ukraine simultaneously (basically) struck a major Russian oil depot in Novorossiysk

Happy News!

Atomically accurate de novo design of antibodies with RFdiffusion

China Achieves First-Ever Thorium-to-Uranium Nuclear Fuel Conversion

Nuclear Startup Backed by Luckey, Lockheed Director Raises $130 Million

Polio cases down 99.9% since 1988

Norwegian island saved by whisky

Troop Deployment

Steven - Wheel of Fortune

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We’re still blowing up alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean

We’re also sending an aircraft carrier to hang out

Seven people arrested connected to Louvre heist

Judge orders administration to pay SNAP benefits out of contingency fund

Tump pardoned the founder of Binance after he made a deal with Trump’s crypto startup

Fed cut rates by .25% again

AWS outage turns off a big chunk of the internet briefly

US-China trade deal

Also some kind of deal with South Korea

4 Republicans joined Democrats in Senate to terminate emergency tariff powers

Also voted to terminate tariffs on Brazil

North Carolina decided to gerrymander their Congressional map

Altman pulls of world’s biggest theft, taking OpenAI (partially) private

OpenAI subpoena requests for suicide funeral guest list

OpenAI subpoenaing their critics for any and all documents related to regulations OpenAI opposes)

NBA Coach, player, and a bunch of mafia dudes arrested in gambling sting

Huel and plant-based protein powders have the same lead content as anything else

Interstellar object 3i/Atlas (comet?) flying through our solar system right now

Happy News!

First human bladder transplant performed

US obesity rate down nearly 3 percentage points in 3 years

Newsom vetoes bill that banned port automation

CyberEyes are coming!

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Trump issued layoff notices for >4,000 employees

A federal judge has blocked some of them

Trump commuted George Santos’ sentence

At least one Venezuelan boat is maybe a fishing boat

Now he’s authorized some kind of CIA covert op

Rubio is on record that his strategy is to force Maduro out

US admiral in charge of the region retiring suddenly

US Senate votes down restricting president’s war powers against drug cartels

South America News

Noble peace prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader, but winner leaked to PolyMarket 12 hours beforehand

Winner dedicates peace prize to Trump

WaPo: Trump made a deal with Bukele to deport several FBI informants

Argentina continues to make huge strides under Milei

US bails out Argentina, buying $20B of pesos with dollars

Trade war with China

Trump said he’s doing 100% tariffs

US & Australia made a deal to supply some rare Earths

Press hand over badges and leave Pentagon after refusing to sign new press requirements

Trump reportedly trying to extort $230 million from the Justice Department

Big “No Kings” protests happened on Saturday

California passed SB 53. Zvi summary

Sam Altman announced ChatGPT erotica is coming soon

That Mad Olympiad

The Future Will Be Hyper-Local

Claude can tell when it’s being evaluated and scores much higher when this is the case.

Louvre heist! Smash-and-grab in 7 minutes in broad daylight, men make off with $100M in Napoleonic jewels!

Happy News!

Waymos in London next year!

Niger eliminates “river disease” after 4 decades of Ivermectin treatment

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Youtube is the latest company to give Trump a payoff

Hegseth sent 200 national guard troops to Portland

E.J. Antoni nomination to BLS withdrawn

HHS said it is referring Harvard for suspension and debarment proceedings.

Trump defunding the ethics watchdogs

paused $2.1B in federal funds for Chicago infrastructure projects

Trump made an Israel-Hamas peace plan?

James Comey indicted

TrumpRX is apparently going to be a thing

Federal Judge: Trump Administration violated 1A by deporting Palestinian sympathizers

Hegseth called in all the generals to tell them they’re too fat

Trump apparently all-in on support for Ukraine.

EA bought out by (among others) the Saudi Public Investment Corporation

Happy News!

San Fran Supervisor going YIMBY on business regulations

James Web Space Telescope is now examining the atmospheric make-up of exoplanets!

Denver’s Support Team Assistance Response (STAR) program is working!

city reports 45% decrease in street people

Recent study in Lancet shows people dying from chronic diseases globally fell in four out of five nations between 2010 and 2019

The 60th nation ratified the High Seas Treaty, meaning it’ll soon become legally binding

China has signed on to this one and a related treaty

20% increase in kids getting school lunches in last five years, worldwide

Huntington disease treated for the first time!

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Senate voted 51-49 to block release of Epstein files

SCOTUS granted cert on tariff cases

Hyundai plant delayed at least 3 months due to the ICE raid.

Samsung Withdraws Its Personnel From Its Texas Chip Plant

Local areas would lose representation in order to benefit their national-level opponents due to redistricting

The killing of Iryna Zarutska

A 71-yr-old on the scene confessed to Charlie Kirk killing to divert the police

Killer was recognized by parents, they convinced him to turn himself in

Jimmy Kimmel fired

Nexstar needs FCC approval for a merger (and a rule change)

Lots of other people getting fired

His widow is doing her best to avert civil war

Trump calling for Antifa to be designated a “Domestic Terrorist Organization”, which isn’t actually a thing

Patio11 articles 1 2

United States trying to reclaim Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan (diplomatically (for now))

Trump (accidentally?) posted a DM to AG Pam Bondi telling her to prosecute Comey, Schiff, and Letitia James

Trump EO: $100,000 fee for H1-B visas

Fed cut interest rates by 0.25%

D.C. Circuit prevented Trump from firing Lisa Cook

Lisa Cook fraud allegations seem fake

Stephen Miran confirmed as Fed Chairman

Russian drone incursion into Poland’s airspace

Russian manned aircraft incursion into Estonian airspace

Hours-long wait times at Russian gas stations due to Ukraine blowing up all their refineries

Russia arrested some kids for filming a burning oil refinery

Lockheed Martin revealed the Vectis drone from its Loyal Wingman program, controllable from F-22’s and F-35’s

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a defense pact

News You Can Ignore - Trump and RFK found out how to prevent autism

Happy-Adjacent News

A federal judge has blocked a California law banning political deepfakes

Third grand jury refuses to indict DC woman accused of assaulting agent during ICE arrest

Happy News!

France keeps a fusion reactor running 22 minutes

The guy who was trying to assassinate Donald Trump challenged Trump to a golf match to the death

The Chicago river is now swimmable

Troop Deployment

Eneasz - Castle Rat is worth high ticket prices

Wes - banning things is a last resort

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Federal judge ruled that Harvard funding freeze was illegal

different federal judge found deployment of troops to LA was unlawful

Epstein Estate released the Trump letter

Trump asking Supreme Court for expedited review of tariff decision

Trump is trying to fire federal reserve Governor Lisa Cook

FDA unapproved COVID vaccines for anyone under 65. Now you need a prescription to get one… except for some states, where either you don’t need one or even a prescription won’t get you one.

Trump EO: DoD to create a special D.C. National Guard unit to “ensure public safety”

U.S. Military took out a Venezuelan drug boat

Florida planning to end all school vaccine mandates

Trump’s masked stormtroopers raided Hyundai factory

Trump wants to change the name of DoD to Dept of War

Happy News!

World's first commercial carbon storage facility begins operations

The Terminators are coming for our agricultural weeds

Stanford scientists discover a method for creating topical vaccines!

Troop Deployment

Eneasz - InkHaven still has a few spots open

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Texas Democrats went home

New congressional map has passed

On Nov 4th there will be a special election in CA to redistrict CA and add 5 dem seats to counter Texas

Trump civil fraud penalty overturned

Trump sent national guard to DC.

Various red states have also sent Nat Guard to supplement the 800 DC guard

Mostly sent to touristy areas, the safest parts of DC

Section 740 says the takeover expires at 30 days and only continues if Congress acts.

Washington D.C. has had zero (0) murders in the past week (as of 8/22/2025)

Trump planning on sending national guard to Chicago

US Government acquired 10% of Intel

Nvidia and AMD agreed to give the US government 15% of revenue from sales of their H20 and MI308 AI chips to China in exchange for export licenses

Trump EO: one year in jail for flag burning

Daily Beast: RFK is going to ban the covid vaccine

First case of New World Screwworm found in the US

Previously had be wiped out in America/Mexico

A Chinese Coast Guard cutter and PLAN destroyer were harassing a Phillipino coast guard cutter, until they collided with each other.

Brandon Hererra is coming back for round 2 against Tony Gonzalez

News You Can Ignore

American Eagle Sydney Sweeney jeans ad is great bait

AOC vidoes were AI fakes.

AOL shutting down its dial-up service Sept 30th.

Wyoming launches first state-backed stablecoin - Frontier Stable Token

Happy News!

The Smithsonian Air and Space museum has taken possession of an F-15C Eagle with at least 2 confirmed kills from the same pilot, including a maneuver kill against an Iraqi MiG-29 in 1991.

Captain Rico Rodriguez was engaged in a close-quarters, low-altitude dogfight against an Iraqi. While trying to avoid Rico’s guns, the Iraqi pilot performed an inverted dive and crashed into the desert.

CEQA no longer applies to infill building in CA!

First baby born with 3 people’s DNA

Gallup poll: globally, people evaluate their lives better than ever

Tawian nuclear spokeswoman Crystal Yang chugged a bottle of nuke-exposed water on camera

Get drones to fly your Chipotle burrito to you, if you live in Dallas

Britain abandoned its demand that Apple provide backdoor access to any encrypted user data

Bionic leg prosthetic

New Apple watches can monitor your blood oxygen level again!

Ghost Painter in Italian city of Brescia paints over graffiti at night while masked. Records self and posts on tiktok

Troop Deployment

David - Negotiate your salary

Eneasz - Wireborn Art Isn't Art

Wes - MAiD is a scissor

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