A legal battle between a startup founder and a venture capitalist is rocking L.A.’s tech scene. Metro finally opens a long-awaited transit hub to connect travelers to LAX. Venture capital is pouring into Southern California startups, expanding far beyond AI. And wildfire victims are suing major insurers, claiming they were sold policies that left them without enough to rebuild.
WSJ What’s News - National Guard Deploys to L.A. as Protests Continue
A.M. Edition for June 9. President Trump orders the National Guard to protect federal agents and property in Los Angeles as protests stretch into their third night. Plus, as U.S. and Chinese officials meet in London for trade talks the Journal’s Lingling Wei lays out the likely key negotiating points. And Apple tries to confront a growing list of problems, including its artificial-intelligence troubles, as it prepares for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Luke Vargas hosts.
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The Daily - Federal Troops Enter L.A. — and the Trump-Musk Feud Hardens
During an extraordinary weekend, President Trump deployed 2,000 troops from the National Guard to suppress protests in Los Angeles against his own immigration policies, and his bitter breakup with the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, entered a new stage of acrimony.
Shawn Hubler, The New York Times’s Los Angeles bureau chief, and Jonathan Swan, a White House correspondent, join Michael Barbaro to walk listeners through an eventful 48 hours.
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- Shawn Hubler, the Los Angeles bureau chief for The New York Times.
- Jonathan Swan, a White House reporter for The New York Times.
Background reading
- Law enforcement officials fired tear gas and crowd-control ammunition at protesters in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday.
- Mr. Trump’s decision to remove a close associate of Mr. Musk from the running to lead NASA helped doom an extraordinary partnership.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - California screaming: National Guard in LA
Our correspondent reports from LA, where Donald Trump’s decision to send in troops risks inciting further antagonism. The argument is now about far more than immigration. A visual investigation confirms that Myanmar’s junta is still bombing civilian settlements after the deadly earthquake, despite agreeing to a humanitarian ceasefire (9:25). And should kids play contact sports (14:32)?
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Start Here - Fire & ICE: Los Angeles Erupts Over Arrests
President Trump calls in the National Guard to Los Angeles as protests against ICE deportations swell. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is returned to the U.S. to face charges. And a sailing circuit becomes the latest sport to try to capitalize on F1’s success.
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Start the Week - Hidden spaces and dangerous places
There is a parallel world which operates under different rules and benefits those with money and power. That’s the argument made by the journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian in her new book The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the world. She traces the rise of a freeports, charter cities and offshore havens.
Danny Dorling contends that we’re not very good at spotting the real crises we face today. In The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future, he explains why the most urgent global crises are rarely the ones that hit the headlines. From inequality, immigration and international conflicts to climate change, pandemics and tsunamis, he challenges our assumptions about the threats we face and how we should think about our uncertain future.
It is time to reclaim online spaces, says Adele Zeynep Walton. In her new book Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World she explores how the price of the connections and conveniences of online life has been the mental health of a generation. She says that social media platforms and digital technology are making us vulnerable and it is time these spaces were governed and regulated.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 6.9.25
Alabama
- Gov. Ivey appoints David Reed as chairman of Marshall County Commission
- Several state leaders named in lawsuit on behalf of Birmingham Waterworks
- Marshall, Dekalb county joins DHS to locate unaccompanied minors in AL
- Kristen Nelson announces run to fill HD 38 seat, after Debbie Wood resigns
- Islamic Academy of AL drops request to relocate to MeadowBrook Park
- The USS Enterprise is docked in Mobile for dismantling process
National
- 2K National Guardsmen sent to LA by Trump as riots and violence develop
- OMB director Russ Vought talks about the BBB and the national debt
- ABC's Terry Moran suspended after spiteful post about Stephen Miller
- Elon Musk takes down his spiteful post about Trump and Jeffrey Epstein
- Neuroscientist calls for halt to C19 mRNA shots for pregnant women and children
The Daily Signal - Greta Thunberg Arrested by Israel, Los Angeles Burns as Trump Sends Troops | June 9, 2025
On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:
- Greta Thunberg’s Flotilla violates military territory and gets arrested by the Israel Defense Forces.
- Riots break out in response to Los Angeles ICE operations, which legacy media and Democrat officials falsely label “peaceful protests.”
- Trump enacts Title X and deploys 2000 National Guardsmen and 500 U.S. Marines.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - How the Ancients Made Fire
One of the most critical developments in the course of human history was the control of fire.
Without fire, we probably wouldn’t have even reached the Stone Age, let alone the Industrial Age.
But how exactly did ancient people make fire? To make fire out of nothing is no easy feat, and it was a skill that had to be mastered for survival.
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Python Bytes - #435 Stop with .folders in my ~/
Topics covered in this episode:
- platformdirs
- poethepoet - “Poe the Poet is a batteries included task runner that works well with poetry or with uv.”
- Python Pandas Ditches NumPy for Speedier PyArrow
- pointblank: Data validation made beautiful and powerful
- Extras
- Joke
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Michael #1: platformdirs
- A small Python module for determining appropriate platform-specific dirs, e.g. a "user data dir".
- Why the community moved on from appdirs to platformdirs
- At AppDirs:
- Note: This project has been officially deprecated. You may want to check out pypi.org/project/platformdirs/ which is a more active fork of appdirs. Thanks to everyone who has used appdirs. Shout out to ActiveState for the time they gave their employees to work on this over the years.
- Better than AppDirs:
- Works today, works tomorrow – new Python releases sometimes change low-level APIs (win32com, pathlib, Apple sandbox rules). platformdirs tracks those changes so your code keeps running.
- First-class typing – no more types-appdirs stubs; editors autocomplete paths as Path objects.
- Richer directory set – if you need a user’s Downloads folder or a per-session runtime dir, there’s a helper for it.
- Cleaner internals – rewritten to use pathlib, caching, and extensive test coverage; all platforms are exercised in CI.
- Community stewardship – the project lives in the PyPA orbit and gets security/compatibility patches quickly.
Brian #2: poethepoet - “Poe the Poet is a batteries included task runner that works well with poetry or with uv.”
- from Bob Belderbos
- Tasks are easy to define and are defined in pyproject.toml
Michael #3: Python Pandas Ditches NumPy for Speedier PyArrow
- Pandas 3.0 will significantly boost performance by replacing NumPy with PyArrow as its default engine, enabling faster loading and reading of columnar data.
- Recently talked with Reuven Lerner about this on Talk Python too.
- In the next version, v3.0, PyArrow will be a required dependency, with pyarrow.string being the default type inferred for string data.
- PyArrow is 10 times faster.
- PyArrow offers columnar storage, which eliminates all that computational back and forth that comes with NumPy.
- PyArrow paves the way for running Pandas, by default, on Copy on Write mode, which improves memory and performance usage.
Brian #4: pointblank: Data validation made beautiful and powerful
- “With its … chainable API, you can … validate your data against comprehensive quality checks …”
Extras
Brian:
- Ruff rules
- Ruff users, what rules are using and what are you ignoring?
- Python 3.14.0b2 - did we already cover this?
- Transferring your Mastodon account to another server, in case anyone was thinking about doing that
- I’m trying out Fathom Analytics for privacy friendly analytics
Michael:
Joke: Does your dog bite?