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
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
He’s not happy with the “big beautiful” budget bill
https://rachelshu.com/
Happy News!
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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