Haskell's missing mutable reference type

prophet:

If you generalized it to work on any m that implements MonadIO (Or MonadUnliftIO), you wouldn’t need IOScopedRefs because you could instantiate m with ReaderT Logger IO

In my personal projects, I prefer to work with bare IO instead of usign an app-wide ReaderT, and I’m willing to pay the price of decreased type safety in order to achieve that. Granted, I wouldn’t like…

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The politics of beagles

In 1954, Time magazine published a short article about the University of Utah using beagles in research to determine the dangers of radioactive material over a lifetime.

At a kennel dubbed “Beagleville,” 450 dogs had been injected with graduated amounts of radioactive material, including plutonium and radium. “These elements accumulate in the bones and bombard tender cells with damaging alpha…

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FBI Agents Show Up at Homes of Election Workers in Key Swing State

The FBI has sent agents to Milwaukee to interview former election officials about the 2020 presidential election.

Bureau agents have shown up at the officials’ homes after interviewing Wisconsin’s deputy elections director, and this week, they plan to interview police officers who escorted the elections official who escorted Milwaukee’s 2020 results to the county elections office.

It seems that…

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How One Shady Firm Is Using Reflecting Pool Renovation as a Cash Grab

The amount of fraud the Trump administration has packed into every aspect of its reign is honestly starting to become impressive.

Federal documents obtained by _The New York Times_ show that the contractor assigned to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, is fleecing the feds to the tune of $13.1 million, seven times the price President Donald Trump…

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Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund Finds Its First Shady Applicant

Donald Trump’s allies are racing to get a piece of his $1.8 billion slush fund.

Michael Caputo served in the Trump administration during his first term as a campaign strategist and spokesperson at the Department of Health and Human Services, where he interfered with CDC findings on Covid. He is now seeking $2.7 million in damages from the government, claiming his life was upended after being…

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Kash Patel sued a reporter over drinking allegations. So she dropped another FBI alcohol bombshell

The scrutiny surrounding FBI Director Kash Patel deepened Wednesday in a remarkable escalation that fused together two increasingly volatile storylines. On the one hand, allegations about Patel’s conduct within the bureau; on the other, accusations that the FBI itself is turning its investigative powers against those exposing it.

Early in the day, MS NOW reported that the FBI had launched an…

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The 9 Democratic Primaries to Watch Closely This Year

As a _New Republic_ reader, you’re well aware that 2026 is a midterm year. But unless you’re a political junkie—or a voter in a handful of states—you might be unaware that primary season has already begun. Five states have held primaries already, while the rest are taking place this spring and summer. On the Democratic side, there’s no shortage of ideological disputes, age gaps, and longtime…

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Trump’s Quixotic Push to Denaturalize U.S. Citizens

Every few months, the Trump administration says that it will make a greater effort to denaturalize American citizens. Last week, _The New York Times_ reported that the Justice Department plans to start the process for formally denaturalizing more than 300 current U.S. citizens, which would be the largest single push for citizenship stripping in modern American history.

Any attack on the…

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What’s Behind MAGA’s Strange New Crush on Solar Energy?

Is MAGA changing its tune on solar energy? Since the start of the year, a dizzying array of social media posts and news reports have pointed to the possibility, even as the administration continues to double down on its anti-wind policies and rhetoric. Why solar? And why now—especially given that President Trump continues to fulminate against its renewable energy cousin, wind power?

Let’s recap,…

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Kansas immediately revokes transgender residents’ driver’s licenses

As of Thursday, transgender people in Kansas whose driver’s licenses do not reflect their sex assigned at birth are breaking the law if they drive, after the Republican-controlled legislature stripped them of previously valid credentials by overriding Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a sweeping new measure. More than 1,500 residents are affected, and the change took effect immediately with no grace…

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Colorado’s Jared Polis embraces Trump’s national governors’ White House dinner snub: a ‘badge of honor’

The winter meeting of the National Governors Association is usually a refuge from the louder dramas of Washington, D.C.: a few days of policy panels, side conversations about housing and health care, and the quiet choreography of federalism. This year, it opened instead with a reminder of how difficult it has become to keep even the rituals of governance free from the pull of spectacle in the…

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