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VIl. CONCLUSION There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side or at least has ignored them. Does not have the law on her side or at least has ignored it. Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter). Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that. By accompanying Order, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705. Ana C. Reyes Date: February 2, 2026 ANA C. REYES United States District Judge
Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”
Minnesota is full of companies that position themselves as pillars of the local community, Target, General Mills, Best Buy, Cargill, and Land O’Lakes, among them. Have they said anything about ICE's attack on their customers and employees? Not a single one. www.fastcompany.com/91476021/min...
Gebbia in 2018 vs 2026
Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia helped turn the company into a behemoth by touting its 'Belong Anywhere’ mission. Today, as the country's chief design officer, he’s redesigning how Americans experience the government & cheering on the Trump administration's policies. www.fastcompany.com/91458973/chi...
A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
Maguire posted a now-deleted video on X stitching together dubious 'evidence' and declared it seemed “very likely” the student was responsible. Maguire's bio says he's on the lookout for "high-IQ founders." He doesn't mention if he's also looking for ones who display good judgment and discernment.
In the wake of the tragedy at Brown, online conspiracists rushed to pin the horrific mass murder on an innocent Palestinian student. One of them was Shaun Maguire, a partner at leading VC firm Sequoia Capital.
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Should we be farming and eating octopus? I thought I knew the answer, but the issue much more nuanced that I expected. @clintrainey.com takes a deep dive on what could be the next big commercially farmed seafood www.fastcompany.com/91448602/oct...
Like so many tech stories right now, this is also religion story: a 25-year-old founder who has moved through a Doug Wilson-affiliated church, is now Eastern Orthodox, and "quotes the Bible and Elon Musk in the same breath." By @ainsleyharris.bsky.social: www.fastcompany.com/91448561/thi...
The result is a nuanced profile of a complicated founder as he navigates science, politics, the craziest theories on the internet, and his own past. www.fastcompany.com/91448561/thi...
Fast Company’s @ainsleyharris.bsky.social met with Doricko in Utah, where he’s working to restore the depleted Great Salt Lake. In a series of conversations, they discussed the world-changing potential of his tech, his religious beliefs, and what America First really means to him.
His biography is also complicated. Though Doricko courts politicians on the left and right, while he was a student at UC Berkeley, he was at at least briefly aligned with Nick Fuentes. Doricko’s religious conviction has also raised eyebrows, with some accusing him of using Rainmaker to play God.
But the typical founder storyline ends there.
This year, Doricko has found himself in a maelstrom. His company has been attacked by politicians and right-wing conspiracy theorists, who accuse it being responsible for the devastating flooding in Texas over the summer. He’s received death threats.
Augustus Doricko might seem like a typical startup founder. He’s raised $31 million in venture capital for Rainmaker, which uses drones to ‘seed’ clouds, bringing water to drought-prone areas. There’s technological wizardry and a world-changing mission. www.fastcompany.com/91448561/thi...
The type designer behind Calibri says the decision to replace his font with Times New Roman as the official U.S. State Department typeface is "hilarious and regrettable." f-st.co/jiypxwR
Exclusive: Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod is stepping down. Here's what that means for the 'designed to be deleted' dating app. www.fastcompany.com/91456495/hin...
Prediction markets are drawing in sports fans—and Fanatics wants in. The apparel and collectibles giant its betting its new Fanatics Markets app can capture some of the billions of dollars in trades that Kalshi and Polymarket are seeing. FC has the exclusive. www.fastcompany.com/91452559/exc...
Have we ushered in an era where every time a player mysteriously gets hurt or flubs a pitch, he or she will be greeted with accusations of cheating? The great @jaywillis.net on how prop bets have changed the game. www.fastcompany.com/91429446/the...
"Even as Democrats rally around ActBlue in the face of attacks from the right, they are sharply divided over whether the organization is equipped to handle these blows." @issielapowsky.bsky.social reports on Democratic fundraising giant, which is under siege. www.fastcompany.com/91428737/ins...
NEW: Trump gave the DOJ 180 days to report on supposed fraud at ActBlue. The deadline passed. No report.
I spoke with sources about the tumultuous last year inside ActBlue—turnover under its CEO, GOP attacks, and the group's growing ambitions despite it all. www.fastcompany.com/91428737/ins...
Here's the kicker: Geo’s chairman, George Zoley, is an immigrant himself. He arrived here as a child from Greece. @michaellinhorst.bsky.social looks at the company—and man—at the heart of Trump’s hard-line immigration machine. 6/6 www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...
Last year, Geo took in about $1 billion from its contracts with ICE—41% of its annual revenue. That’s set to skyrocket alongside ICE’s budget, which is earmarked to receive an additional $75 billion through 2029 via the One Big Beautiful Bill. 5/6
But under Trump, Geo is evolving from a background player in federal enforcement into something closer to a government appendage. U.S. attorney general Pam Bondi worked as a lobbyist for Geo in 2019. The company paid consulting fees to Tom Homan before he joined the administration. 4/6
Geo is a key partner in the government’s efforts to detain, monitor, and deport immigrants: It runs detention facilities, operates deportation flights, and provides electronic surveillance of immigrants awaiting deportation decisions. 3/6
Geo Group runs the Georgia center where Salvadorian journalist Mario Guevara, who was arrested covering a No Kings protest in June, was held for more than three months before his deportation today. It runs the Louisiana facility where Columbia University grad student Mahmoud Khalil was held. 2/6
When you hear about someone arrested or swept up in an immigration raid, there’s a good chance they’ve ended up at a facility run by Geo Group, the nation’s largest for-profit jailer of immigrants and one of ICE’s biggest contractors. 🧵👇 1/6 www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...
“…What will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them.”
Embryo screening startups like Orchid promise to reduce genetic risks & help parents avoid passing on inherited conditions. But are we edging toward designer babies? @ainsleyharris.bsky.social explores the hope & discomfort of genetic optimization. Worth a read. www.fastcompany.com/91396712/sil...
