Clown Howard Lutnik Says SCOTUS On Trump's Side On Tariffs

In the alternate world of Fox News, Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik gleefully claimed to Sean Hannity, with no proof AND after attending the hearing, that the Supreme Court was on Trump's side and he will win the tariff case.

If an actual human being checked in on the hearing itself, the Supreme Court gave no actual indication that they are on Trump's side. It is rightfully said that tariffs are taxes, and Trump is usurping congressional authority.

Wearing a shit-eating dumb grin, Sputnik Lutnik characterized the lengthy court session as Super-Bowl-like and made some bizarre analogies to make his unfounded case.

LUTNIK: And there were fireworks all the time, but think of some of these questions, like Justice Kavanaugh says, imagine a meeting in the Oval Office with the president where, and this was his cross-examination of their lawyer, and he says, you've said he could embargo, he could cut off trade with any country.

And their lawyer said, I agree. He goes, imagine telling the president in the Oval Office, sir, you can blow up trade with this country. And he goes, that seems too much.

Can I put a tariff on them and do a little less? And they say, no, sir, you can't.

And Justice Kavanaugh says, that seems like a very odd donut to me.

I mean, how could you let that happen? It just didn't make sense.

The justices were on the president's side.

You're hearing it here from me.

President Trump is going to win this case.

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Boston's Michelle Wu Re-Elected With 93.23% Of The Vote

How popular is Boston's mayor, Michelle Wu? So popular, no one else bothered to run against her. And it's not for nothing that she was recently included in New York magazine's The 25 Young(ish) Democrats to Watch (besides AOC and Mamdani) as Democrats rebuild the reputation of their party.

Source: CBS Boston

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was re-elected to a second term in office Tuesday, as she ran unopposed in the 2025 election.

Wu, a Democrat, was initially going to face Josh Kraft, a son of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. But after the mayor beat him by more than 48 points in the preliminary election in September, Kraft dropped out.

With 100% of precincts reporting Wednesday, Wu earned 93.23% of the vote, according to unofficial results from the city. More than six percent went to write-in candidates.

The mayor made national headlines earlier this year for her frequent battles with President Trump and his administration over immigration and crime.

"This year against the backdrop of a federal administration's chaos and cruelty, we faced a choice," Wu said Tuesday night. "Cave to the pressure, backtrack and change course, or double down on the values that founded our nation. That's what's at stake. That is what this election was about here in Boston."

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Millions to receive free electricity in 2026 thanks to Australia’s solar boom

Australia now has so much solar power that the government will require utilities to sell customers free electricity for three hours per day.

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Markwayne Mullin Joins The GOP Sgt. Schultz Caucus

Sen. Markwayne Mullin has the Republican standard answer to Trump's criminality down pat... "I see nothing!"

As we discussed here, Jebus Johnson pulls this stunt all the time, and did so again this week when asked about Trump feigning ignorance on his pardoning of a crypto billionaire:

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) played dumb after President Donald Trump stated that he did not know that he had pardoned a crypto billionaire.

During a press conference on Monday, CNN's Manu Raju noted that Trump claimed to "know nothing" about Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, even though the president had pardoned him after his company boosted the Trump family's crypto business.

"Last week, you were very critical of Biden's use of the autopen & pardons. But Trump admitted on 60 Minutes to not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Does that also concern you?" Raju asked.

"I don't know anything about that," Johnson deflected. "I didn't see the interview. You have to ask the president about that. I'm not sure."

This Monday, it was one of the contestants for dumbest member of the United States Senate, Markwayne Mullin, took his turn during an appearance on Kaitlan Collins show on CNN.

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Sora is now available on Android in the US, Canada, and other regions

The Sora app is now available for Android users in the US, Canada, and Japan, among other regions.

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Pam Bondi Scrambles To Retroactively Appoint Comey Prosecutor

Attorney General Pam Bondi took the unusual step of trying to retroactively appoint Lindsey Halligan as Special Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after former FBI Director James Comey claimed that her appointment was not legitimate.

Following his indictment in September, Comey filed a motion to dismiss based on the claim that Halligan's appointment as interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia had been invalid.

Halligan's appointment followed another interim U.S. attorney's refusal to indict Comey.

"The official who purported to secure and sign the indictment was invalidly appointed to her position as interim U.S. Attorney," Comey's motion said.

On Monday, Bondi suggested that Comey's indictment could not be dismissed because she retroactively appointed Halligan as "special attorney."

"On September 22, 2025, I exercised the authority vested in the Attorney General by 28 U.S.C. § 546 to designate and appoint Lindsey Halligan as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia," Bondi wrote in an order dated Oct. 31.

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Jebus Johnson Gives Lamest Excuse Yet For Not Releasing Their 'Health Care Plan'

We all know they don't have a "plan" other than to allow the insurance companies to go back to denying coverage, or selling worthless junk plans that didn't pay for anything like they did before the ACA was enacted.

That didn't stop Mike Johnson from giving this lame response to Marjorie Taylor Greene's recent criticism over the ACA subsidies they're allowing to expire in their "one big beautiful" turd of a bill that passed earlier this year.

Here's Johnson proving Greene's point on this weekend's Fox News Sunday:

BREAM: So another thing that happened this weekend is open enrollment began for Obamacare. People are seeing a change in their uh premiums essentially if these subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year are not changed, renewed, handled in some way.

Last time you were here we talked about Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene who had some real frustrations about this. "Where is the Republican plan?" I know you two had talked. Well, she posted this on X this week.

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Fox Cuts Away From Obama As Soon As He Mentions Trump AI Video Pooping On Protesters

The station that endlessly covers all of Trump's insane rallies across the country from end to end cut away after just a minute of President Obama campaigning in Virginia for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger. The Fox Report host Jon Scott interrupted their coverage with "breaking news" that Obama was speaking, and this is all they showed before cutting away from the former president for to a commercial break.

OBAMA: They have not put forward serious proposals to lower housing costs or make groceries more affordable. They haven't improved our schools. They haven't made health care more accessible. They haven't shortened your commute or prepared young people for the future where AI might take their job.

And all the nonsense we see on the news every day, the over-the-top rhetoric, the fabricated conspiracies, the weird videos of a U.S. president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet and dumping poop on protesting citizens, all of that is designed to distract you, from the fact that your situation has not gotten better.

SCOTT: Former President Obama campaigning for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Virginia.

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Trump's Venezuelan Boat Excuse So Bad It Makes 'Iraq Has WMDs' Look Bulletproof

After a briefing with the Arms Services Committee on Thursday about the Venezuelan boat strikes Trump has authorized, Rep. Seth Moulton told MSNBC that it was so bad they made "the case for the the Iraq War look like a slam dunk."

That is more than bad.

That is unconscionable.

MOULTON: The Democratic lawmaker also explained that the Trump administration pulled their lawyers from the briefing which were were supposed to explain the legal justifications for their drastic and most likely criminal actions.

We actually had a bipartisan briefing on the Armed Services Committee yesterday in the House, and I went down to Washington to hear it.

And I found their justification for what they're doing so flimsy that it makes the case for the Iraq War look like a slam dunk.

I mean, it was that bad. And by the way, at the last minute, they pulled the lawyers from the briefing.

So all the questions that both Democrats and Republicans had about exactly what you're getting to, what is the legal justification for this, what is the legal justification for the actions that this administration is making our troops take, they weren't there to explain it.

And I'll tell you, when I left that briefing, the last thing I did is I went up to the front of the room and I spoke to the admiral, who was by far the most impressive person there.

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Elon Musk wants you to know that Sam Altman got a refund for his Tesla Roadster

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are still taking swipes at each other on Musk’s social media platform X.

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Ron Johnson Finds It Outrageous That The FBI Investigates Crime

Sen Ron Johnson went on Fox to have another spasm of faux outrage over the so-called Arctic Frost investigation:

JOHNSON: Yeah, again, there is no legitimacy to this investigation. It's completely political, as has been the case ever since Donald Trump came down that escalator in New York back in 2015, 2016. Again, this is a weaponization of the federal government. We know exactly what President Biden thought about half of America, that we're all potential domestic terrorists, and he sicced his federal agencies. He weaponized them against ordinary Americans.

Again, there are 38 Wisconsinites that are targeted on that enemies list in the most recent documents we released. I know most of these people. They are God-fearing, country-loving, law enforcement-respecting individuals. They would never think of committing a crime. They're involved in politics because they want to save this country. They love this country. It is sick. It is outrageous that they would be on the Biden administration enemies list.

Yes, I see RoJo's point. Just because he's a known Russian asset that participated in a scheme to illegally turn over the 2020 election is no reason at all why the FBI should investigate him!

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AI mania tanks CoreWeave’s Core Scientific acquisition; it buys Python notebook Marimo

CoreWeave's failed buy of Core Scientific is another sign of an AI bubble. But it's still shopping.

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Nvidia is reportedly investing up to $1 billion in Poolside

Nvidia is an existing investor in the AI company and participated in it's $500 million Series A round in 2024.

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U.S. Ambassador Goes On Expletive-Laced Tirade Against Canada

Pete Hoekstra beclowns himself once again, all to curry favor with Trump.

Source: CBC

The U.S. ambassador to Canada delivered an expletive-laced tirade at Ontario's trade representative at an event in Ottawa on Monday, multiple witnesses tell CBC News.

Word spread quickly through some of the most powerful circles in Ottawa and Washington after the encounter, which happened during the Canadian American Business Council’s state of the relationship event at the National Gallery of Canada.

Typically, the high-profile gathering is used to network and celebrate the Canada-U.S. relationship. It draws a mix of cabinet ministers, diplomats and business leaders. Monday night's event drew Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade.

Witnesses say they saw U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra launch into an expletive-laden tirade at Ontario’s trade representative, David Paterson.

One witness said Hoekstra appeared to be upset about the anti-tariff ad that the province recently ran on television in the U.S., which has infuriated President Donald Trump. The witness said Hoekstra could be heard using the F-word and also mentioned Ontario Premier Doug Ford by name.

The sources spoke with CBC News on the condition that they not be named.

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2024’s Startup Battlefield runner-up geCKo Materials reveals four new products at TechCrunch Disrupt

geCKo Materials returned to the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to debut new products as it pushes deeper into commercializing its tech.

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Tuberville: Trump ‘Might Be Able To Go Around The Constitution’ To Serve Third Term

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who's in the running for the dumbest member of the United States Senate, has thoughts on Trump continually floating the notion of illegally serving a third term:

The Republican senator from Alabama spoke with CNN about the possibility of a third term for Trump on Tuesday and refused to rule it out.

“If you read the Constitution, it says it’s not [possible],” Tuberville said. “But if he says he has some different circumstances that might be able to go around the Constitution. But that’s up to him. We got a long way to go before that happens.”

Trump and his associates have floated the idea of a 2028 run, even though another go-round is blatantly unconstitutional. Trump denied having thought about a fourth campaign earlier this week, only to immediately contradict himself and say that a plan to run as vice president was “too cute.” Tuberville said a third term for Trump was “very unlikely,” but added that he thinks it’s foolish to predict a future where Trump doesn’t get his way.

“There’s going to… have to be an evaluation from President Trump’s viewpoint to the Constitution,” Tuberville told the network. “There will be a lot of legal aspects to it… Don’t ever close the book on President Trump.”

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Sam Altman says OpenAI will have a ‘legitimate AI researcher’ by 2028

To achieve those goals, OpenAI is betting on two key strategies: continued algorithmic innovation and dramatically scaling up "test time compute" — essentially how long models spend thinking about problems.

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Duffy Discovers States' Rights Don't Apply To Blue States, Threatens Funding

Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told Fox News that he will illegally withhold $160 million dollars in funds from California over their AB60 state law that was passed in 2015.

Donald Trump has been trying to punish California since the election and especially after Gov. Gavin Newsom has been brutally mocking him on social media.

The doddering old fool tried to attack California before by withholding funds, but failed when federal courts ruled the executive branch cannot unilaterally impose new funding conditions without congressional approval.

DUFFY: I'm about to pull 160 million dollars from California and as we pull more money, we also have the option of pulling California's ability to issue commercial driver's licenses.

Gavin Newsom cares more about illegals getting commercial driver's licenses than he does the citizens of his own state and the safety of Americans.

It's shameful.

He's been lying about what he's been doing and again we're gonna we're gonna fight tooth and nail under President Trump's administration to make sure that we hold states like California accountable.

In respect to AB60, what has Gov. Newsom been lying about?

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Former Gorsuch Clerk To SNAP Recipients: Get Off 'Your Fat, Ghetto Asses'

In response to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding expiring, which would affect 40 million Americans, Mike Davis, a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch, unleashed an appalling tweet telling recipients to get off their "fat, ghetto asses," and to "get a job," and "stop reproducing." Food stamp recipients include low-income households with children, the elderly, or a disability, but you know what demographic Davis is talking about since he threw in the word "ghetto." Yet, more white people receive food stamps than Black people.

14.2% of all food stamp participants are employed. So, maybe, just maybe, letting people work for a living wage is the way to go. Hey, poor white folks living in rural areas, he wants you to get off your fat asses. And veterans. A good amount of our veterans live on food stamps each month.

"We should only help people who can’t help themselves," he wrote on the Bad App. "It’s outrageous 40MM people get food stamps."

"Get off your fat, ghetto asses," he continued. "Get a job. Stop reproducing. Change your shitty culture. Stop giving food stamps to immigrants. We don’t want you here, if you won’t work."

Needless to say, the backlash was swift to his wildly racist post.

The number of people who literally hate their fellow humans (including the disabled, elderly, and children) is staggering. https://t.co/hRk4jAdOSi

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Trump Accuses Canada Of 'Cheating On A Commercial' That Accurately Quotes Reagan

Reality: The government of Ontario, Canada, recently launched an extensive ad campaign against Trump’s tariff tantrums, which includes a minute-long ad featuring only Ronald Reagan’s voice that runs during World Series games. Canada used audio from a recording that dates back to the 80s.

Not reality: Donald J. Trump lied and told reporters that "Ronald Reagan loved tariffs." Now, I don't know who is telling Trump that Reagan loved tariffs, but someone in his inner circle is feeding him bullshit to promote his agenda. An agenda, by the way, that is crippling the economy. Trump's tariffs are raising consumer prices, stifling business investment, and reducing economic growth. Individual households are now paying thousands of dollars more annually. Or he's simply lying to the American people again.

"I don't know," Trump said. "They cheated on a commercial. Ronald Reagan loved tariffs, and they said he didn't."

"And I guess it was AI or something," he falsely said. "They cheated badly. Canada got caught cheating on a commercial. Can you believe it?"

No, we cannot believe it. AI didn't exist in the 80s. And, weirdly, Trump posted an AI slop video depicting himself as a king shitting on seven million Americans, and yet, he's calling reality "AI or something." Trump's mental decline has been on display daily.

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Ads might be coming to Apple Maps next year

This could be part of a larger strategy to introduce more advertising in iOS.

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Almost All Nuclear Security Watchdogs Furloughed By Trump Admin

For Donald Trump, demolishing much of the White House for the sake of his gaudy, gold-plated ballroom is a “main priority” that should not be interrupted during the government shutdown. Nuclear safety not so much, if at all.

Via CNN, on October 19:

The federal agency responsible for overseeing and modernizing the US nuclear stockpile will furlough the vast majority of its staff Monday as the government shutdown drags on, according to the Department of Energy.

About 1,400 employees at the National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, will receive furlough notices Monday, while fewer than 400 employees will remain on the job to safeguard the stockpile, Energy Department spokesperson Ben Dietderich told CNN.

It seems that furloughing, alone, makes the safeguarding more complicated. More via CNN:

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OpenAI reportedly developing new generative music tool

OpenAI is working on a new tool that would generate music based on text and audio prompts, according to a report in The Information. Such a tool could be used to add music to existing videos, or to add guitar accompaniment to an existing vocal track, sources said. It’s not clear when OpenAI plans to […]

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High school’s AI security system confuses Doritos bag for a possible firearm

A high school student in Baltimore County, Maryland was reportedly handcuffed and searched after an AI security system flagged his bag of chips as a possible firearm.

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FAFO: Georgia Won't Have SNAP Benefits In November

Yet another state is feeling the pain due to the Republican/Donald Trump Federal Government Shutdown. This time the victims are the needy residents of the State of Georgia.

Atlanta News First is reporting that due to the government shutdown, SNAP benefits will not be funded as of Nov 1. Residents with existing funds (ie, money that have not spend yet) will not be able to use them because the cards will not work beginning on November 1.

In advance of this devastating news, the Georgia Department of Human Services has recommended that residents who rely on SNAP benefits plan ahead now and shop for food items.

In Georgia, the average benefit is a meager $187 per person. Most residents that receive SNAP live at or below the poverty line. Struggling food banks and charities are already at the breaking point, trying to fill the gap that is only growing wider due to increased grocery costs, high unemployment and out of control inflation. Losing that valuable SNAP benefit will cause a run on charities that provide food to already struggling populations and the chances of children and elderly, in particular, starving to death is going to increase exponentially.

All this suffering just to please one man in his quest to hurt the world: Donald Trump.

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Michael Wolff Plans To Question Melania About Epstein In Court

Honestly, I can't see it getting far enough to go to court. The Trumps don't want that kind of exposure, and they thought they could intimidate Wolff by threatening him with a billion-dollar lawsuit. (How's that working out for you, guys?) Via the Daily Beast:

“I can subpoena the first lady, the president, and anyone else who might shed light on the relationship of Donald Trump and Melania Trump to Jeffrey Epstein,” the best-selling author said. “In other words, this might be a way to actually get to the bottom of this story, to open the curtain, the dark curtain. And we’ll see how they feel about that.”

Wolff is asking the court for permission to question Trump, 79, whose years-long friendship with Epstein has drawn scrutiny, under oath. He is also seeking to depose Melania, 55.

[...] Wolff, 72, who interviewed Epstein about the president in 2017 while researching his book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, recalled that many of their conversations revolved around “the real closeness, the intimacy” between Trump and Epstein.

According to Wolff, Epstein revealed that he and Trump were “involved in every aspect of each other’s lives, social lives, sexual lives, business lives,” over the course of their friendship, which lasted from the 1980s through the 2000s.

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A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.

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The browser wars are back, and this time they’re powered by AI

The browser wars are heating up again, this time with AI in the driver’s seat.  OpenAI just launched Atlas, a ChatGPT-powered browser that lets users surf the web using natural language and even includes an “agent mode” that can complete tasks autonomously. It’s one of the biggest browser launches in recent memory, but it’s debuting […]

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Rivian CEO takes top marketing role in shakeup ahead of R2 launch

Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe will be wearing yet another hat as the company preps for arguably its most important vehicle launch -- the mass market R2 SUV -- in 2026.

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Instagram users can now use Meta AI editing tools directly in IG Stories

Meta AI's photo editing tools can be found in Instagram Stories when tapping the paintbrush icon. Users can describe what they want to add, remove, or change.

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OpenAI’s Atlas is more about ChatGPT than the web

OpenAI's new browser is a surface for the company to distribute ChatGPT and develop new AI features rather than improving core web experience.

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Trump's Plan To Buy Beef From Argentina Angers Everyone

Another day, another day of Trump screwing over Americans to help his foreign buddies. This time it's Javier Milei in Argentina (rather than Vladimir Putin in Russia or Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel). To say that cattlemen are upset with his plan to import Argentine beef is putting it mildly. They accuse Trump of market manipulation and other sordid practices you more often find in authoritarian countries.

Source: Associated Press

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump said the United States could buy Argentine beef in an attempt to bring down prices for American consumers.

“We would buy some beef from Argentina,” the Republican president told reporters aboard Air Force One during a flight from Florida to Washington on Sunday. “If we do that, that will bring our beef prices down.”

Trump promised days earlier to address the issue as part of his efforts to keep inflation in check.

U.S. beef prices have been stubbornly high for a variety of reasons, including drought and reduced imports from Mexico due to a flesh-eating pest in cattle herds there.

Trump has been working to help Argentina bolster its collapsing currency with a $20 billion credit swap line and additional financing from sovereign funds and the private sector ahead of midterm elections for his close ally President Javier Milei.

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OpenAI’s new browser is a broadside shot at Google

OpenAI's new browser announcement made it clear exactly how much Google has to lose in the AI era.

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Sources: Multimodal AI startup Fal.ai already raised at $4B+ valuation

Fal.ai announced its previous round at a $1.5 billion valuation in July.

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Bill Gates’s old climate lobbyists launch a new firm

Members of Breakthrough Energy's policy team are back with a new organization, the Clean Economy Project, aimed at nudging lawmakers toward clean energy.

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Trump To U.S. Farmers: Argentina First!

Trump attacked a reporter and claimed Argentinians are dying, to defend his attempts to send the country $40 billion of aid while U.S. farmers are struggling because of his tariffs.

Trump has been trying to influence elections of other countries by extortion. It's his favorite tool.

But his plans backfired when he said his monetary support of Argentina was contingent on President Javier Milei, a Trump ally, being reelected. This caused a major sell off of their currency, which collapsed last week.

Q: The question is, what do you have to say to U.S. farmers who feel that the deal is benefiting Argentina more than it is them as they are in conflict?

TRUMP: Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady. You don't know anything about it.

They're fighting for their life. Nothing is benefiting Argentina. They're fighting for their life.

You understand what that means? They have no money. They have no anything. They're fighting so hard to survive.

If I can help them survive in a free world, I happen to like the president of Argentina.

I think he's trying to do the best he can, but don't make it sound like they're doing great.

They are dying.

Ukrainians are actually dying, not Argentinians.

This president is really, really bad at foreign and domestic policy.

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President Scramble-Brains: Massive No Kings Protests Were 'Very Small'

Donald Trump's initial response to the seven million people who attended the 2,700 No Kings rallies held across the country was to post an AI video of depicting himself as a king piloting a fighter jet dumping a massive amount of shit onto protesters in American streets. The nationwide protests were a rebuke on Trump, his cabinet, and his authoritarian agenda. Trump confirms that he watched it, and he saw the signs and the crowd out there. An Associated Press reporter asked for his response, and it was predictable.

"I think it's a joke," Trump said. "I looked at the people. They're not representative of this country."

"And I looked at all the brand new signs," he continued. "I guess it was made for by Soros and other radical left lunatics. It looks like it was. We're checking it out."

"The demonstrations were very small, very ineffective," he falsely said. And the people were whacked out. When you look at those people, those are not representative of the people of our country." Mr. President,

"By the way, I'm not a king," he added. "I work my ass of to make our country great."

Here he is working his ass off:

Trump golfing today during the government shutdown. pic.twitter.com/c5bQK771D2

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Van Orden Earns His Brown Nose As Trump's Little Bitch

Ever since Rep Drunken Van Orden (MAGA-The nearest tavern) proclaimed that he and his fellow MAGA caucus members are not "Trump's little bitches," he has been repeatedly proving that at least he is indeed Trump's little bitch.

In his latest show of sycophancy, DVO sticks his nose so far up Trump's ass, he can tell you what Trump had for breakfast. DVO introduced a bill to give President Pedo the Congressional Gold Medal;

Today, Congressman Derrick Van Orden (WI-03) introduced legislation to award President Donald J. Trump the Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of his unprecedented record of achieving peace and ending wars around the world — including his most recent success in securing a peace agreement between Israel and Hamas that brought home every remaining Israeli hostage.

“President Trump has demonstrated unmatched determination in bringing about historic peace agreements across the globe. From brokering ceasefires in the Middle East to resolving long-standing conflicts in Europe, Africa, and Asia, his leadership has saved countless lives and restored stability in regions torn by war.

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Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video

Looks like Wikipedia isn't immune to broader online trends.

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#NoKings Rallies Around The Country - And Even The World

During the last march, I think the only coverage I could find was on CSPAN. It's very different today -- it's all #NoKings, or football. #NoKings is everywhere! Fox affiliates are doing the live feed! Whoa. Leave your pictures in the comments:

The frogs have spawned!

Dublin represent! #NoKings

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Karoline Leavitt Calls 70 Million Americans 'Terrorists'

I don't know who these idiots think they're appealing to with these cartoonish overreaches, but it sure as hell isn't anyone with a functioning set of brain cells.

Trump's spokespuppet, Karoline Leavitt, made an appearance on Fox this Thursday and was given the opportunity by the host to go after New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, and an interview he did earlier in the week with Fox's Martha MacCallum.

Leavitt used the exchange to spew this vile nonsense:

“What is White House reaction to all of that, Karoline?” Smith asked Leavitt.

“Well, that’s a classic case of: I don’t want to answer the question because I know it’s wildly unpopular,” answered the Trump spokeswoman, who continued:

And the Democrat Party, this interview proved that the Democrat Party’s main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals. That is who the Democrat Party is catering to. Not the Trump administration, and not the White House, and not the Republican Party, who is standing up for law-abiding Americans, not just across the country, but around the world.

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Waymo dips its wheels back into delivery, this time with DoorDash

Waymo has spent the past several years scaling up its robotaxi business. The partnership with DoorDash could mark a return to delivery.

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Why AI startups are taking data into their own hands

Where training sets were once scraped freely from the web or collected from low-paid annotators, companies are looking to proprietary training data as a competitive advantage.

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Missouri Unaware Of Separation Of Church And State

by Annelise Hanshaw, Missouri Independent
October 13, 2025

State funding of private-school vouchers is primarily being used for students attending religious institutions, with nearly 98% of funding going toward Catholic, Christian, Jewish and Islamic schools.

This year, state lawmakers passed a budget that included a request from Gov. Mike Kehoe to supply the state-run K-12 scholarship program, MOScholars, with $50 million of general revenue. Previously, the impact to the state’s bottom line was indirect, with 100% tax-deductible donations fueling the program.

Donations are still part of MOScholars’ funding, but the state appropriation has more than doubled the number of scholarships available.

During the 2024-25 school year, MOScholars awarded $15.2 million in scholarships.

In August alone, the State Treasurer’s Office received invoices for scholarships totaling $15.6 million, according to documents obtained by The Independent under Missouri’s open records laws.

The invoice process is unique to the direct state funding of the program. The nonprofits that administer scholarships, called educational assistance organizations, were the sole keepers of scholarship funds. But now, the State Treasurer’s Office holds scholarship money derived from general revenue in an account previously only used for program marketing and administration.

The invoices contained data on which schools MOScholars students are attending and the scholarship amount.

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MAGA Mike: 'Most Threatening Thing I've Seen Yet' Is The Portland Naked Bike Ride

“Joy is a form of protest. Being together with mutual respect and kindness is a form of protest,” the naked bike ride’s organizers said on Instagram. “It’s your choice how much or little you wear.” And they showed up, filling the streets with bicycles, wearing inflatable costumes, or nothing at all. Naked bike rides have thronged the streets of Portland every year since 2004, but this was an "emergency" event to peacefully rally against the Trump administration's use of military force in the largest city in Oregon.

There is a lot to feel threatened by these days, as masked ICE agents grab people off the streets in the United States, but House Speaker Mike Johnson feels threatened by the cyclists. I shit you not.

The Oregonian reports:

On Tuesday, Johnson told the press that he had not seen federal law enforcement “cross the line yet,” but instead, he said, “What I’ve seen is the abuse of law enforcement by radical leftist activists.”

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WGN-TV Producer Lawyers Up Ahead Of Lawsuit Against ICE

There's almost certainly proof here that ICE lied and that the WGN-TV producer didn't "assault" anyone while covering yet another ICE arrest in Chicago.

Source: Chicago Tribune

Debbie Brockman, a WGN-TV producer violently arrested by ICE Friday morning in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Chicago, has retained an attorney and intends to “pursue all legal avenues available” to hold federal authorities accountable, according to a news release Tuesday.

Brockman and her legal team “adamantly deny” allegations that she assaulted federal officers during an immigration enforcement action, according to the release. They assert she was simply walking to the bus stop on her way to work when she was attacked by Border Patrol agents.

“This incident should be alarming and horrifying to every single person in this country,” Brad Thomson, a Chicago attorney representing Brockman, said in the release. “If armed, masked, federal agents are snatching U.S. citizens off the street as they walk to work and throwing them in unmarked vehicles, you can only imagine what these agents must be willing to do to our immigrant neighbors and people who dare to speak out against them.”

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Apple adds 650 megawatts of renewables in Europe with more coming in China

Apple is adding renewable power to offset customer charging and support its operations, including third-party manufacturing in China.

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Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for adult users

OpenAI says it will soon roll back some of ChatGPT's safeguards, and even allow the chatbot to engage in erotica for adult users.

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Inaudible sound might be the next frontier in wildfire defense

Sonic Fire Tech has developed a device that can extinguish flames using acoustic energy below the range of human hearing. The startup is building a demo capable of protecting a home.

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Comey Lawyers Move To Disqualify Trump's Insurance Lawyer/Prosecutor

Former FBI Director James Comey formally notified the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia that his attorneys would challenge President Donald Trump's appointment of Lindsey Halligan as an interim U.S. Attorney.

In a notice filed on Tuesday, Comey's attorneys said he would file his motion "challenging the lawfulness of the appointment of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia" on Oct. 20.

"The Court advised at arraignment that such motion will require designation of and assignment to an out-of-district judge to hear and resolve that motion," the filing noted. "Thus, in the interest of efficiency and to avoid any unnecessary delay in such process, Mr. Comey files the instant Notice to formally alert the Court."

Halligan, 36, has come under fire after Trump appointed her to prosecute his perceived enemies, even though other officials at the Department of Justice refused to do so. The former Miss Colorado had no experience prosecuting federal cases before her appointment. She had served as Trump's personal lawyer since November 2021.

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Pope Leo Addresses Reporters, Condemns Clickbait Journalism

The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Via The Guardian:

Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance Minds International.

In the first six months of his papacy, Pope Leo has been a proactive supporter of journalism as “a public good that we all should protect”.

“Communication must be freed from the misguided thinking that corrupts it, from unfair competition and the degrading practice of so-called clickbait,” he said on Thursday.

The pope also spoke about the challenges facing news media with the rise of AI.

“Artificial intelligence is changing the way we receive information and communicate, but who directs it and for what purposes? We must be vigilant in order to ensure that technology does not replace human beings, and that the information and algorithms that govern it today are not in the hands of a few,” he said.

He nominated “transparency of sources of ownership, accountability, quality and objectivity” as key to news media.

“I urge you: never sell out your authority,” he said.

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'You Did Not Answer The Question': JD Vance's Interview Ends Abruptly

J.D. Vance responded to George Stephanopoulos on This Week about Trump border czar Tom Homan being investigated for accepting $50,000 in cash in a restaurant takeout bag from undercover agents to help win contracts for businesses during a second Trump administration, and it didn't go down well. The Trump Justice Department closed the bribery investigation in 2025 before any charges were filed.

Vance lashed out with feigned outrage that Stephanopoulos would insinuate criminal wrongdoing, but that was after the Vice President suggested that Democratic Governor JB Pritzker's behavior seemed pretty criminal to him.

How dare anyone suggest that Homan, who walked out with 50 grand in a paper bag, did anything wrong! Let he or she who has not accepted $50,000 from undercover FBI agents, then walked away with the cash in a paper bag, cast the first stone

"George, I saw media reports that Tom Homan accepted a bribe," Vance said. "There's no evidence of that."

"And here's, George, why fewer and fewer people watch your program, and why you're losing credibility because you're talking for now five minutes with the Vice President United States about this story regarding Tom Homan, a story that I've read about, but I don't even know the video that you're talking about," he insisted.

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JB Pritzker Tears Into JD Vance's 'Tidal Wave Of Lies'

Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker discussed Trump's threat to jail him during an interview with George Stephanopoulos. The 'This Week' host noted that Vance, who was interviewed before Pritzker, said that the Governor's behavior seemed pretty criminal to him. Pritzker laid into the Vice President for Vance's "tidal wave of lies."

"I know you just heard Vice President Vance, he didn't directly answer whether he agreed with President Trump that you've committed a crime, but what he did say was it seems pretty criminal to him, your behavior," Stephanopoulos said. "What's your response?"

"Well, you just heard a tidal wave of lies from the Vice President of the United States," the Governor said. "It's a bit shocking, and you heard over and over again him just making things up on national television with you."

"You know, there's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that the administration lacks credibility and why even the Nobel Prize Committee chair said that the administration lacks integrity," he continued. "This administration, led by a 34-time convicted felon, is threatening to jail people that are their political opponents. They're making things up to go after people. We're seeing it day in and day out."

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Thinkin' Of Lincoln

Happy Sunday! The days are getting longer and the last 9 months feel like 9 years, but hey, here we are.

The axis of evil in DC is going to be defeated. Eventually. In the meantime, what’s catching your eye this morning?

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C&L's Late Night Music Club With Cat Burns 'Go'

I saw Cat Burns on the new BBC version of "Celebrity Traitors," and didn't know anything about her.

In 2020 she released her song "Go," thru TikTok. It landed #2 on the UK singles chart and her celebrity was born.

WIKI:

In 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom, Burns garnered widespread attention by sharing covers and original songs on TikTok. Her song "Go" went viral, leading to a record deal with Since 93, a subsidiary of RCA Records.[8] Originally released in 2020, "Go" later reached number two on the UK singles chart, second to Harry Styles' "As It Was".

As a Black queer woman, she has also been diagnosed as autistic.

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Sen. Gallego Predicts Johnson Will Be Out As Speaker Next Term

Sen. Ruben Gallego said Thursday that Mike "Jesus" Johnson was likely to lose a chance at another House Speaker term over his decision not to bring the lower chamber back in session amid the government shutdown. Via The Hill:

“Johnson sent his team home, not necessarily just to put pressure on us, but so he doesn‘t get pressure from his own members,” Gallego said during a Thursday appearance on CNN’s “The Source.”

“He‘s barely going to win, and he‘s probably going to lose the Speakership next year. But he‘s putting his members on a plank that‘s not reversible,” he added.

[...] Amid the government shutdown, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) has been a vocal critic of Johnson’s decision not to bring the House back in session and failing to provide a plan for the future of Affordable Care Act subsidies.

“I think he should really bring the House back in session for many reasons,” Greene told CNN in an interview Wednesday, while criticizing Johnson for stalling legislative business.

“Any serious Speaker of the House is going to build consensus within his conference behind a plan. It’s not something secret that gets worked on in a committee,” she said, referring to Republicans’ refusal to negotiate on extending the Affordable Care Act premium health care subsidies in exchange for Democratic votes to reopen the government.

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Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch heads to Meta

AI researcher Andrew Tulloch reportedly announced his departure to employees in a message on Friday.

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Tesla Self-Driving Cars Under US Investigation

Remember when Donald “Line My Pockets” Trump wanted to make it easier for Teslas to skirt safety investigations? That was during the honeymoon phase of his bromance with Tesla chief Elon Musk.

Now that the thrill is gone, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has begun investigating three million Teslas.

Via CNBC:

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Thursday that it is opening an investigation into 2.88 million Tesla vehicles equipped with its Full Self-Driving system over more than 50 reports of traffic-safety violations and a series of crashes.

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The agency said it has reports of Tesla vehicles using FSD driving through red traffic lights and driving against the proper direction of travel during a lane change.

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NHTSA said it has six reports in which a Tesla vehicle, operating with FSD engaged, “approached an intersection with a red traffic signal, continued to travel into the intersection against the red light and was subsequently involved in a crash with other motor vehicles in the intersection.”

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Kalshi hits $5B valuation days after rival Polymarket gets $2B NYSE backing at $8 Billion

Prediction markets startup Klashi raised $300 million, while Polymarket nabbed up to $2 billion.

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Hegseth Announces Bonkers Plan To Build Qatari Air Force Facility In Idaho

The U.S. has never had a foreign military installation on its soil—until now. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Friday that a new Qatari air force facility will be built in Idaho. We suppose that the nice plane Qatar gifted to Donald paid off.

"No one other than President Trump could have achieved the peace that we believe will be a lasting peace in Gaza," Hegseth insisted. "And Qatar played a substantial role from the beginning, working with our folks to ensure that came about. So I want to thank you for that historic peace."

"I look forward to joining the president as that gets – it's already been delivered, but as that's formally signed as well," he continued. "And I'm also proud that today we're announcing – we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho."

"The location will be – host a contingent of Qatari F-15s and pilots to enhance our combined training, increase lethality, interoperability," he added. "It's just another example of our partnership. And I hope you know, Your Excellency, that you can count on us."

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Thune Still Pretending GOP Has An Alternative To Obamacare

After years of Trump telling us he's going to have an alternative to the Affordable Care Act, Senate Majority Leader John Thune continues to pretend they want to do anything other than destroy it, and return to the mess we had before it was enacted.

Here's Thune on CNBC this Thursday admitting affordability is a problem, and lying that Trump would be willing to sit down and negotiate anything in good faith with Democrats on health insurance:

KERNEN: The reason that so many of these premiums are going up with Obamacare isn't just because of the expiration of the subsidies. And that's part of the problem. The overall ACA needs to be looked at. at this point, it seems like the president is starting... Is he starting to put some pressure to get something done? And I won't say fold, but to concede to the Democrats.

You know, that the way the system is right now, you do need to probably increase subsidies at some point because it's just not working. I mean, health care costs... Obamacare premiums don't pay for the kind of health care you're getting right now. It has to be subsidized.

THUNE: And partly because Obamacare, at its core, is inflationary. It's been driving up costs. I mean, the fundamental problem here is the underlying program, which again, needs to be reformed. And the president wants to do that.

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President Pudding Brain To Reporters: Does 'Antifa' Stand For 'Anti-Terror'?

The president is now a potted plant, planted by Project 2025. Donald J. Trump's mental acuity is being questioned again. Of course, that happens daily now as President Sundowner tries to say words that he doesn't understand.

Trump took questions today from sycophantic reporters because he can't handle hard, direct questions. One reporter threw him a softball question about Antifa. Now, I don't know about y'all, but I've been to eleventy bazillion anti-Trump protests since he first got into office, and I've never seen members of Antifa at any of them. And no one knows where Antifa's headquarters is, but I'm sure it's super scary. The following is the dumbest shit that ever dumbshitted, but it's where we are now.

"Are you going to work with your administration to designate antifa a foreign terror organization?" a reporter asked.

"You mean anti-terror?" President Dummy Pants asked.

"Antifa," the reporter said.

Trump asked, "Antifa?"

The reporter said, "A foreign terror organization."

"Would you like to see it done?" Trump asked.

"Yes, Mr. President," the bootlicking reporter said.

"You think it would help?" the pudding-brained President asked. "If you agree, I agree. Let's get it done. Okay? Let's get it done."

I told y'all this was the dumbest shit that ever dumbshitted. Social media users agree.

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Here’s what it’s really like to appear on billionaire VC Tim Draper’s ‘Meet the Drapers’ pitch show

The show is one of many on Draper's newly launched television channel, DraperTV, which offers programming around business and entrepreneurship, available via streaming services like Roku.

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Mike Johnson Is Drowning In His Own Lies, Folks

Speaker Mike Johnson was forced to bring out his very old, recycled, tattered and brused LIE to defend the government shutdown, by claiming Sen. Schumer's CR proposal wants to fund healthcare for "illegal aliens," which is completely false.

Medicaid, Medicare, and ACA subsidies are not available to any undocumented migrant, so Republicans then attacked treating migrants in emergency rooms.

When questioned on this, Speaker Johnson claimed it was a small subset of what he is talking. Again, another fat juicy lie.

ACA premiums EXPLODE in three months, Mike. And your party doesn't want to fix that.

Q: Speaker Johnson, a lot of the free health care for illegal aliens that you've been talking about is care provided in emergency rooms, which are required by federal law to care for anybody, even if they can't pay, even if they're not a citizen.

Do you think that that law should be changed?

JOHNSON: No. You're talking about EMTALA, which has been part of the law for most of my life. Emergency care is provided without question to anyone who comes in.

If you're hemorrhaging and you show up in an emergency room, you get treated. That's something we all support.

That's a very good law. We're in favor of it.

You're cherry-picking a tiny subset of the issues.

Soon after making these comments, he punked himself with this idiotic analogy.

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OpenAI’s Nick Turley on transforming ChatGPT into an operating system

In an interview, OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT discusses the company's push into developing an AI operating system full of third-party apps.

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Stephen Miller Calls Trump Appointed Oregon Judge An 'Insurrectionist'

Trump White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller attacked Oregon U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut for knocking down Trump's illegal act of sending in the California National Guard to Portland.

Miller, the most racist man to ever be a White House deputy chief of staff for policy couldn't contain his anger when a Trump-appointed judge refused to be party to deploying troops on US soil for no reason except to fulfill MAGA's blood lust.

Stephen Miller has now declared this Trump-appointed judge an insurrectionist.

To emphasize, the judge painstakingly examined all the protest happening in Portland before Trump activated the Guard. She noted that there hadn't been any violence at a protest since mid-July. https://t.co/kUNOFeAVRn pic.twitter.com/fWEVhw1oOD

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) October 5, 2025

This continues Miller's constant assault on judges who rule against their facetious and unconstitutional orders. Already we have a South Carolina judge's house burned down, likely because of the outrage caused by Stephen Miller and many others attacking and doxxing judges.

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How Otter.ai’s CEO is pushing the company to be more than just a meeting scribe

Otter is launching a suite of enterprise tools to help companies use its tech to create a central knowledge base.

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Taylor Swift fans accuse singer of using AI in her Google scavenger hunt videos

Swifties love a puzzle, but some were rubbed the wrong way by a promotional scavenger hunt which appeared to use AI-generated videos.

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MrBeast says AI could threaten creators’ livelihoods, calling it ‘scary times’ for the industry

As Sora tops the App Store, MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' ability to make money.

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Trump Golfs Instead Of Leading During Shutdown

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are losing paychecks, millions are losing government services and facing skyrocketing health insurance premiums because Republicans have refused to extend Obamacare subsidies.

Donald Trump’s priorities? His golf game.

Via The Daily Beast:

The president’s motorcade reportedly left the White House at roughly 10 a.m. Saturday morning, bound for Trump National Golf Club in Virginia.

His leisure outing comes as Republicans throw the kitchen sink at Democrats, blaming the party for the shutdown, after both sides failed to reach an agreement on Wednesday for funding amid a deadlock on issues of healthcare, foreign aid and regulatory rollbacks.

Maybe Gramps has forgotten that he thinks presidents should be working to make a deal during a shutdown but we have not. “Problems start from the top, and they have to get solved from the top, and the president’s the leader, and he’s got to get everybody in a room, and he’s got to lead,” Trump told his Fox Friends (and future employment agency), in 2013.

As the video above shows, in 2016, then-candidate Trump claimed he wouldn’t have time to play golf and lectured President Barack Obama to “get off the golf course” and do more work. “I’d just want to stay in the office and work my ass off,” he claimed.

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Newsom signs bill giving Uber and Lyft drivers in California the right to unionize

Drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft will soon have the right to unionize in California as independent contractors, thanks to a bill signed Friday by Governor Gavin Newsom.

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If you’re not an AI startup, good luck raising money from VCs

New PitchBook data illustrates how dramatically AI is dominating startup investment, with 2025 on-track to become the first year when AI accounts for more than half of all VC money invested.

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Startups and the U.S. government: It’s getting complicated

Equity co-hosts Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, and Max Zeff explore the how startups are navigating a topsy-turvy relationship with the U.S. government.

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You-Know-Who Is Shitposting Some Really Bizarre Stuff

Donald Trump posted an AI music video on Truth Social, this time featuring Blue Öyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought as the scythe-wielding Grim Reaper. When Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Madeleine Dean said this week that Trump is "unwell," she wasn't wrong, and the president continues to prove her point.

The lyrics to the song were changed to: “Now their time has come / Here the power’s gone / Russ Vought is the reaper / He wields the pen, the funds and the brain / Here comes the reaper / Dems you babies / Here comes the reaper / Gonna tie your hands / Here comes the reaper / Won’t be able to fly / Here comes the reaper / Cry baby end your plan.”

As John Amato noted, during the 2024 election, Trump repeatedly claimed in the media, rallies, and in the presidential debate that he did not know about Project 2025, considered it to be from the radical right, and that he wanted nothing to do with it. Unsurprisingly, Trump lied.

In a separate post, Trump accused Democrats of being “the party of hate, evil, and Satan” on Truth Social.

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Google’s Gemini AI app could soon be getting a big makeover

The company is seemingly experimenting with a new user interface that would shift the app from having a chatbot-style look and feel to one offering a scrollable feed with suggested prompts accompanied by eye-catching photos.

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Stes ShowiFBI' Show's Kash Patel Chooses TPUSA Over Anti-Defamation League

President Stephen Miller appeared on Sean Hannity's Fox News show and launched a wild rant about Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Miller, who is absolutely a textbook example of a fascist, doesn't like that word thrown around by the left, but it's OK when he does it.

Still, he asked, "Why did Gavin Newsom say Stephen Miller is a fascist?" before launching into a rant and inadvertently admitting that he is a fascist.

"It is a message that his team is sending to all the crazies and lunatics out there, and we're not going to absolve the Democrats of responsibility anymore," he said. "There's a reason why all of these killers, all of these lunatics, all of these terrorists adopt the same language."

"They say they're trying to kill the fascist to try to stop the fascist," he added. "This is deliberate. President Trump is saying that we as a nation are not going to tolerate it anymore, and the Joint Terrorism Task Force at the FBI is going to find these terrorists, and we're going to put them behind bars."

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Anthropic hires new CTO with focus on AI infrastructure

As part of the change, Anthropic is updating the structure of its core technical group, bringing the company's product-engineering team into closer contact with the infrastructure and inference teams.

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Whizz co-founder says Trump’s Chicago crackdown is scaring delivery workers off the streets

Whizz has seen e-bike rentals drop by about 8% since Trump threatened to send National guards troops to the city.

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You Thought Whiskey Pete Was Paranoid Before? Hah!

So many juicy details in this Daily Mail story about Pete Hegseth, I couldn't resist sharing (after Evan Hurst of Wonkette shared it first):

Apparently brave warrior Pete Hegseth is pooping his big boy pants in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, "with Pentagon insiders exclusively telling Daily Mail he's so rattled he looks to be 'crawling out of his skin.'"

Two insiders in the defense secretary's newly named Department of War, one who works directly with his office and the other indirectly, say their boss has in the last few weeks been erupting in tirades, raging at staffers and obsessing about matters related to his security.

'There's a manic quality about him. Or let me rephrase, an even more manic quality, which is really saying something,' one insider told us, describing Hegseth as visibly distracted, fidgeting and even standing up and pacing during meetings.
'Dude is crawling out of his skin,' said the other.

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Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans

The Texas senator blocked a bill that would have prevented data brokers from selling personal data on anyone in the United States, and not just federal lawmakers and government officials.

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Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science

Periodic Labs has raised from a tech industry's who's who, including Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos.

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Trump Looks Foolish: US Strikes Didn't Take Out Iran Nuclear Capabilities

Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu told Fox News that US strikes against Iran were never intended to take out all of their nuclear program, which contradicts what Trump continually said after he announced the bombing raid on Iran.

In June, Trump repeatedly hailed the US attacks and said "key nuclear sites were “completely and fully obliterated.”

HOST: So, are you saying, sir, that not all of the enriched uranium was destroyed during the 12-day war or by those strikes from B-2 bombers?

BIBI: Sure. No, we knew that in advance.

In fact, our whole plan before and after the United States decided to join us took into account that we wouldn't get these 450 kilograms of enriched uranium.

We knew that.

What we were targeting is the capacity to make more of those, of that enriched uranium, and also the attempt to weaponize it.

Will the media even bother asking Trump to comment on Netanyahu's claims, saying US strikes were never intended to take out all of Iran's enriched uranium?

Trump knew the bombings did not produce the results he celebrated. And when anyone dared to question it, he attacked them.

Trump will not be happy over Netanyahu's proclamation. And on Fox, no less.

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DJI loses lawsuit over classification as Chinese military company

A federal judge has rejected drone maker DJI’s efforts to get off a Department of Defense list of Chinese military companies.

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'Truly Insane': Trump Posts Bizarre QAnon Claim He Will Heal People With Alien 'Medbeds'

President Donald Trump posted a video apparently created by artificial intelligence promising to heal people through a QAnon conspiracy with so-called medbeds involving alien technology.

The video posted on Saturday on Truth Social begins with Lara Trump's likeness announcing that the president had unveiled "a historic new health care system, the launch of America's first medbed hospitals, and a national medbed card for every citizen."

In the video, the president appears to make an announcement from the Oval Office.

"Every American will soon receive their own medbed card," he says. "With it, you'll have guaranteed access to our new hospitals led by the top doctors in the nation, equipped with the most advanced technology in the world. These facilities are safe, modern, and designed to restore every citizen to full health and strength."

For years, the QAnon movement has pushed the medbed conspiracy theory as a miracle treatment for cancer.

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Daily Caller Columnist Calls For 'Blood In The Streets'

The Daily Caller, that ass wipe propaganda site, published an opinion column yesterday explicitly calling for violence in response to mild physical confrontations with conservatives. You know, the violence they so often imply! Via The New York Times:

The column, written by editor at large Geoffrey Ingersoll and promoted near the top of the site, argues that “patriots” should use force because law enforcement officials do not adequately protect conservatives, including Charlie Kirk, the activist assassinated this month.

“Is this a call for violence?” the third paragraph says. “Yes. Explicitly it is.”

“I want blood in the streets,” he added in the column, which ran with the headline “Enough Is Enough … I Choose VIOLENCE!”

The headline on a Daily Caller Opinion column that reads “INGERSOLL: Enough Is Enough … I Choose VIOLENCE!”

[...] Mr. Ingersoll also lays out specific situations in which he says violence should be used. If a progressive activist takes a sign away at a public debate, “She gets instantly clotheslined,” Mr. Ingersoll wrote. “I don’t care if police are present. Do it anyway. In fact, be wildly disproportionate.”

“Measure it in blood if necessary,” he added. “Change requires pain, and you’re either taking it or inflicting it.”

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Beware coworkers who produce AI-generated ‘workslop’

Researchers at consulting firm BetterUp Labs, in collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, have coined a new term to describe low-quality, AI-generated work

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YouTube Music tests AI hosts that share trivia and commentary

YouTube Music's new AI hosts are currently being tested through YouTube Labs, the platform's new hub for AI experiments.

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Dem Win In Arizona Helps Effort To Subpoena Epstein Files

No one expected her to lose, but you never know what fuckery Republicans will try to pull. Via The Associated Press:

PHOENIX (AP) — Southern Arizona voters on Tuesday chose Adelita Grijalva to succeed her father, the late U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, a progressive Democrat who represented the state for more than two decades in Congress.

She defeated Republican candidate Daniel Butierez in the 7th Congressional District, which hugs almost the entire length of Arizona’s border with Mexico. The decisive win — early returns showed Grijalva with more than double the number of votes as her Republican opponent — will make Grijalva the first Latina to represent Arizona in Congress.

The seat was one of two remaining vacancies in blue districts that Democrats needed to hold to avoid losing more ground to Republicans in the U.S. House. Grijalva thanked voters late Tuesday on social media, saying they made history together. “Now, let’s get to work.”

Grijalva retired from the Pima County Board of Supervisors and launched her bid for Congress shortly after her father’s death in March. She said Tuesday he was the inspiration for her time in public service and a unifying figure among environmentalists, reproductive and immigrant rights advocates, and LGBTQ+ organizers who were seeking justice and equality.

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Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms

A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.

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YouTube now lets you hide recommendation pop-ups at the end of videos

The decision to let users hide end screens is a welcome addition to the platform, especially since they can end up covering the last bit of a video and make it hard to see what's happening in some cases.

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Trump's Offers Uplifting Words To The UN: 'Your Countries Are Going To Hell'

Donald J. Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, the 80th anniversary of the world body, and it felt lifted straight out of Idiocracy. He bashed the UN, saying, “What is the purpose of the United Nations? It’s not even coming close to living up to that potential.”

Trump, who sees himself as the most intelligent man in the world, talked down to our European allies. It was one embarrassing moment to another as Trump said the prolonged war in Ukraine is making Russia "look bad," insisting that it was supposed to be "just a quick little skirmish."

Trump declared Christianity to be the "most persecuted religion on the planet."

"Together, let us defend free speech and free expression," Trump said. At the same time, he's been clamping down on free speech in the U.S. "Let us protect religious liberty, including for the most persecuted religion on the planet today. It's called Christianity."

It's as if he couldn't stop himself.

“It’s too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them,” Trump said. “I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal.”

And he just kept going.

“You’re destroying your countries,” he said, urging world leaders to adopt his harsh approach on immigration. “I can tell you I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.”

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