Like a spy thriller, but it's a plane load of H1-B holders rushing to fly back to the U.S. to meet a (maybe, confusing) White House deadline. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

*that allows

For the next two weeks, I get to spend most of my waking hours in a courthouse to allows no electronics for a trial about the future of the Open Web. #irony

New @businessweek.bsky.social feature: On a budget of $1 per American, NIOSH conducts or funds most US research on how to keep workers alive & well. The Trump Administration decided to blow it up.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Based on interviews with 40+ current/recent staff throughout NIOSH

This was also the most interesting thing to me as well. The number of deals is falling but the number of Big Deals (+$1B) is rising.

SCOOP by @anthonycormier.bsky.social & Zach Mider

Bessent once agreed to occupy 2 different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges thatTrump has been using to try to oust Lisa Cook.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AAG for Antitrust Gail Slater: “we should reject the suggestion that the only path to our economic security is to turn a critical market over to a monopolistic corporation. National champions are too often national chokepoints.”

by @sisco.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"The Court should not discard precedent merely to scratch
an ideological itch. Preserving Humphrey’s Executor would show proper fidelity to stare decisis and an appropriate measure of judicial restraint."

"It would suggest that decades of accepted legal
development can be undone in an instant, swept aside by what appears, given the stakes, like a scholastic hairsplitting exercise."

Techfreedom argues the Supreme Court needs to reinstate Slaughter "For generations, lawmakers relied on the reasonable assumption that Humphrey’s Executor permitted them to establish independent agencies. To now declare that the case never carried that weight would look like a trick—a 'gotcha.'"

With @sisco.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

 The seven companies include Google; OpenAI; Meta and its Instagram unit; Snap Inc.; Elon Musk’s xAI; and Character Technologies Inc., the developer of Character.AI.

The Federal Trade Commission ordered seven companies to turn over information about the impacts of their artificial intelligence chatbots on kids.

The Department of Energy HQ is purportedly cancelling all pending #FOIA requests submitted before October 1, 2024, unless the requester emails a specific address w/i 30 days asking the agency to continue processing.

This is wildly illegal.

public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-15490.pdf

With @kelcee.bsky.social

Well, well, well: in a court filing, Google finally admits 'the web is in rapid decline.' Sharply at odds' with executives' public comments this year www.theverge.com/news/773928/...

But, let’s be clear what John Roberts did this morning:

Roberts effectively overturned the Humphrey’s Executor precedent and both lower courts’ rulings in this case in order to allow Trump to fire Slaughter for now — on the shadow docket and through an “administrative” stay issued by him alone.