Minnesota braces for a possible escalation as federal troops stand by amid protests against immigration enforcement and renewed threats to invoke the Insurrection Act.
Tensions rise with European allies as the White House pressures Denmark and other NATO countries over Greenland, prompting warnings of damage to transatlantic relations.
And world leaders are being asked to buy into a new U.S.-led “Board of Peace” for Gaza and other conflicts, with billion-dollar commitments and President Trump at the helm.
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(0:00) Introduction (01:57) Troops Stand By For Minnesota (05:47) Greenland NATO Tensions (09:34) Gaza Peace Board
The Pentagon has ordered 1,500 active duty troops to be ready to potentially deploy to Minneapolis, sources tell ABC News. President Trump threatens tariffs against European countries who oppose his plans for Greenland. And Prince Harry heads to the U.K. to testify in his lawsuit against the publishers of the Daily Mail.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn't some storied government agency from the 19th century. ICE was invented back in 2003 — but now it has a multi-billion-dollar budget and many officers who are undertrained at best. So, how did we get here? To find out, we spoke to Garrett Graff. He's a historian and journalist who has covered federal law enforcement for 20 years.
And in headlines,President Donald Trump threatens fresh tariffs on America's NATO allies over Greenland, the Pentagon ordered 1,500 National Guard troops to prepare for possible deployment to Minnesota, and a seat on Trump's Board of Peace reportedly has a $1 billion price tag.
Melissa, Leah, and Kate kick off by discussing the functional suspension of the Constitution in Minneapolis and Trump’s targeting of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Then they dissect the arguments in a pair of cases that came before the Court last week about whether state laws barring trans girls and women from their schools’ sports teams violate the Constitution or Title IX. Finally, they break down new opinions from SCOTUS involving criminal law, the Fourth Amendment, and mail-in ballots.
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Brian #1: Better Django management commands with django-click and django-typer
Anthropic is partnering with the Python Software Foundation in a landmark funding commitment to support both security initiatives and the PSF's core work.
The funds will enable new automated tools for proactively reviewing all packages uploaded to PyPI, moving beyond the current reactive-only review process.
The PSF plans to build a new dataset of known malware for capability analysis
The investment will sustain programs like the Developer in Residence initiative, community grants, and infrastructure like PyPI.
Recent-ish standards, PEPs 518 (2016), 517 (2017), 621 (2020), and 658 (2022) made many uv design decisions possible
And uv drops many backwards compatible decisions kept by pip.
Dropping functionality speeds things up.
“Speed comes from elimination. Every code path you don’t have is a code path you don’t wait for.”
Some of what uv does could be implemented in pip. Some cannot.
Andrew discusses different speedups, why they could be done in Python also, or why they cannot.
I read this article out of interest. But it gives me lots of ideas for tools that could be written faster just with Python by making design and support decisions that eliminate whole workflows.
Upgrade Django, has a great discussion of how to upgrade version by version and why you might want to do that instead of just jumping ahead to the latest version. And also who might want to save time by leapfrogging
Also has all the versions and dates of release and end of support.
Attorney General Keith Ellison is one of the few top Minnesota officials not being investigated by the DOJ… yet. We ask him why, talk about charges for Jonathan Ross, and ask what it’ll take to get ICE out of Minneapolis.
Guest: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison
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The CEO of e.l.f. Beauty says charging $38 for lip oil is "immoral."
In this fun exclusive interview, e.l.f.’s CEO Tarang Amin explains why he thinks big profit margins are unethical and how his biz creates "dupes" better than the lux originals… for a fraction of the price.
So we glammed up with Tarang to break down the economics of the $3 lipstick, how e.l.f. legally copies rivals like Dior, and why he shares the company's "nuclear codes" with every employee.
Of course we got all the details on his acquisition of Hailey Bieber’s Rhode Skin for $1B, the fastest-growing beauty brand in America (spoiler: It all went down over a dinner in LA).
And there’s even an investment angle: Wall Street fell in love with $ELF stock as it rose 800% in just a few years. While tariff fears recently cooled the price, Tarang explains what investors are missing in the mirror… And why that epic Hailey Bieber’s Rhode deal was a true makeover.
(Plus, Tarang helped Jack add another cream to his 42-step skincare routine)
Some of the Takeaways & Insights:
"It's Immoral": Tarang’s controversial take on why charging $40 for lip oil is a scam.
The $38 vs. $8 Math: How e.l.f. beats luxury brands at their own game
The Crash vs. The Opp: Why the stock is down 60% and why Tar
The $1B Rhode Deal: The inside story of buying Hailey Bieber’s company.
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