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This week a district judge ruled Rubio and Noem violated the First Amendment and federal law in their deportation efforts—and that it’s up to the American people to decide what happens next. / Lawdork

See also: “Earlier this month, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police.” / Los Angeles Times

A recent White House directive aims to “disrupt” certain groups—including those that are “anti-capitalism” and “anti-Christianity”—before any actual crime is committed. / Jacobin

The Pentagon plans to implement NDAs and random lie detector tests on staff, perhaps more as an intimidation tactic than to ensure secrecy. / The Independent

When autism becomes a blanket diagnosis from the high-functioning to the severe, those who need the most care can get ignored. Why it may be time to break up the spectrum. / The New York Times [$]

“This montage logic—reducing lives to a binary, saints and sinners by reel—has wider costs, eroding the habits of judgment a democracy needs.” Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, and the cost of civility-theater liberalism. / The New Republic

From Nintendo to Disney to Rick and Morty, the sheer amount of obvious copyright infringement in OpenAI’s new Sora app is pretty breathtaking. / 404 Media

See also: At $500 billion, OpenAI is now the world’s most valuable private company, surpassing SpaceX and ByteDance. / Engadget

“After one week in China, you feel you could write a book. After one year, you think you could write an article. After ten years, you realize you know nothing.” / @jasmi.news 

As streaming platforms multiply—along with their prices—there’s been a measurable shift of people heading back to cable. / Ars Technica

Similar to recent announcements by other major food brands, Walmart says it will remove synthetic dyes from its in-house brands. / Reuters

“Blood is his most commonly faced stain, every pool, every print, every rivulet seeming to tell a uniquely troubling story.” A profile of Britain’s “greatest extreme cleaner.” / The Guardian

In limited cases, researchers have found that, when supplied with psychedelics, subjects with aphantasia are able to form mental pictures. / psychedelirium

Unrelated: Scientists have created the first mushroom-powered toilet, which breaks down human waste into compost. / Quartz

“King bed? Please. That’s for plebeians. This is an emperor bed.” Take a tour of my five-bed, six-bath affront to God. / McSweeney’s

A meditation on serving cocktails at this year’s US Open tennis tournament. “Sure, I’m talking to people all day, but I’m also talking to no one.” / The Game

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