MAGA To Mitch McConnell's Team: Prove He's Not Dead

It's been nearly a month since Mitch McConnell's mysterious June 14 hospitalization, and his own party is starting to wonder if anyone's actually seen the guy. A growing chorus of MAGA figures is demanding McConnell's staff produce actual proof he's still breathing, because his office's strategy so far has been to say absolutely nothing useful — no update on his treatment, his prognosis, or whether the 84-year-old will ever make it back to the Senate floor.

What we do know: he reportedly went into cardiac arrest, was found unconscious, and needed CPR at his own home, after which his team settled into a loop of the same vague "thanks for the well-wishes" statement. And just to keep things extra suspicious, his wife Elaine Chao apparently hopped a flight to Beijing three days later for a sit-down with China's Vice President Han Zheng — because nothing says "everything's fine here" like a diplomatic trip abroad.

Of course, Trump whisperer Laura Loomer and others like Catturd weighed in.

Not true.

Mitch McConnell is allegedly in a vegetative state. https://t.co/flxl7aQR73

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 7, 2026

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Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images

The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem.

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'Code Red': Trump's Ego Fireworks Leave D.C. Fearing For Their Health

Donald Trump chose to put his fragile, maniacal ego on full display over the holiday weekend with a positively massive fireworks display meant to celebrate America's 250th birthday. However, it seems the ordeal only left countless D.C. residents stranded indoors as they waited for the acrid smoke to clear.

That massive fireworks show was originally scheduled for 9 pm. Still, it was ultimately rescheduled to take place after Trump's big speech, which didn't begin until after 11 pm due to an evacuation order following dangerously high temperatures that swept through Washington, D.C. this weekend, sending the city into a record-breaking 103-degree heatwave. As a result of all of the rescheduling, the fireworks display didn't wrap up until the wee hours of the morning on July 5th.

Visually speaking, the display was certainly spectacular, if not a bit overwhelming. Featuring something in the ballpark of a staggering 850,000 fireworks, launched from 20 different sites across the nation's Capital, lasting an entire 40 minutes, the pyrotechnics event was dubbed the "largest fireworks show in history" by the big man himself.

However, it seemed to leave D.C. residents worse for wear when it was all said and done, as the over-the-top display left the air thick with a blurry haze of acrid smoke that blanketed the D.C. skyline, obscured the big finale, and led to a "Code Red" warning about unsafe air quality for residents of the city.

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You can now customize Siri’s pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta

The new controls let you control how quickly Siri speaks and expressive its voice is.

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Uber’s European expansion plans may have hit a speed bump

Back in February, Uber announced ambitious plans to launch in seven new European markets in 2026 — but now five of those launches are reportedly on hold.

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Trump memecoin investors lost $3.8 billion, analysis finds

Nearly 1 million people have lost a total of $3.8 billion after buying President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin, while Trump made $636 million.

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Trump Misquotes Declaration Of Independence During Speech At National Mall

As always, just imagine what the reaction in the right-wing media would be if Joe Biden had done something like this.

Trump delivered a venom-filled speech this Saturday for America's 250th anniversary:

President Donald Trump marked the 250th anniversary of the United States on Saturday with ​a campaign-style speech that repeated his calls for new voting restrictions, warned that "communists" could gain ground in the country and cycled through what he touted ‌as his achievements.

After a storm-related delay of nearly two hours, Trump appeared on the National Mall in Washington to deliver a speech that mixed broad appeals to patriotism with pointed attacks on perceived ideological threats at home and abroad. [...]

TRUMP WARNS OF COMMUNIST 'CANCER,' WHITE NATIONALISTS APPEAR

"We like to stop a threat like that immediately and before it begins. It's ⁠like a cancer – you've got to cut it out and you got to cut it out fast," he said.

The Republican president has in the past repeatedly referred to left-wing Democratic ​candidates who have won a string of primary elections as "communists," though he did not explicitly do so on Saturday.

And he managed to misquote the Declaration of Independence while he was doing it.

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Happy 250 Years Of America! ICE Decides It Isn’t Brutal Enough

The White House is supercharging its deportation efforts again, and the timing shouldn’t go unnoticed.

According to The New York Times, daily immigration arrests have recently doubled as Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers put in seven-day workweeks to sweep the streets of people they’ve deemed deportable.

Over 10,000 immigrants were reportedly detained within a five-day span, with many being targeted at immigration check-ins, traffic stops, and simply while walking down the street. This increase in quota—which demands agents to hit 2,000 arrests a day—comes from the White House, according to the Times.

The timing of this deportation push speaks volumes. The documented and undocumented immigrant communities in the U.S. have been in mourning and shock.

Last week, The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to rip away Temporary Protected Status from Haitian and Syrian immigrants, enabling Trump to deport them more easily and leaving them vulnerable to his will. Many are now scrambling to secure a different type of protected status before ICE comes knocking on their doors.

“Now we are vulnerable, we are exposed to detention and to deportation,” Viles Dorsainvil, executive director of the Haitian Support Center, told Daily Kos in a phone call this past weekend.

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New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI

Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?

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Video Of Dallas PD Officer Shoving Egypt World Cup Staff Goes Viral

There have been lots of reports of World Cup teams facing issues in America due to insanely horrible new immigration policies rolled out by the fascist Trump regime.

Reports have included a referee from Somalia being denied entry, an Iraqi team member being denied entry, fans from countries being denied entry (even though they have tickets), Iran's team being forced to lodge their team in Mexico, and after each game, they had to fly out immediately. They could not stay in America overnight at all.

Now we have a viral video of a Dallas Police Department officer getting into a physical altercation with a staff member of the Egypt team. And it looks bad.

The video shows an officer getting into a confrontation with Egypt's team as they posed with fans outside their hotel in Dallas. The officer shoved Egypt national team director Ibrahim Hassan while posing for a photo with a young fan.

The Dallas officer began arguing with the staff member, with the officer shouting “Back off! Back off!” as he shoved the man backward. Hassan says, “No pushing, no pushing,” to the officer as the altercation intensifies. Another officer can be seen attempting to separate people.

Police claim that the hotel security team called them.

DPD spokesperson put out a statement saying:

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Mamdani Marks Country's 250th Birthday, Points Out It's Still Got Some Growing Up To Do

Flanked by a group of naturalized citizens and seated at George Washington's own desk, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani used the moment to make a forceful case for the country's history as a nation of immigrants, timed just ahead of the 250th anniversary festivities. The roughly quarter-hour address, delivered July 3, wove in personal biography alongside a more extensive look at America's long tradition of welcoming newcomers from around the globe.

Mamdani drew a sharp contrast: extreme wealth concentration alongside child hunger, and ICE-style enforcement actions described in visceral terms — masked agents making arrests after being served food by the very undocumented workers they're detaining.

"As we mark 250 years, what do we see?" he began before making Republican heads explode. 'We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more."

"We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections," he continued. "We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone."

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The only AI glossary you’ll need this year

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

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Energy Secretary Applauds The End Of Federal Wind And Solar Subsidies

Idiocracy indeed.

And as a reminder, before leading the U.S. Department of Energy, Wright served as the CEO of Liberty Energy, North America's second-largest hydraulic fracturing company.

Source: International Business Times

The 4 Jul 2026 deadline will end core tax credits for future US wind and solar projects, but not all federal support.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on 2 Jul that the Trump administration would 'end the subsidies for wind and solar' after about 35 years. The statute reaches two principal clean-electricity tax credits rather than every federal mechanism that can assist the sector.

Its timing also matters: a project that establishes construction before the cut-off can remain outside the new termination rule.

Wright's statement referred to sections 45Y and 48E of the Internal Revenue Code: the Clean Electricity Production Credit and Clean Electricity Investment Credit. Public Law 119-21, enacted on 4 Jul 2025, amended both provisions to terminate them for wind and solar facilities placed in service after 31 Dec 2027, subject to a construction-date exception.

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Turns Out The Best Way To Leak The Smith Report Was To Just Ask The DOJ

The DOJ accidentally handed over the sealed second volume of Jack Smith's classified-documents report to lawyers for Carmen Lineberger — the woman they're currently prosecuting for allegedly stealing that exact report by emailing it to herself disguised as a cake recipe.

According to a legal filing published Thursday, it happened during a routine discovery handoff on flash drives in early June. Lineberger's attorneys found three unfamiliar documents, flagged them to the government, and once DOJ lawyers confirmed what they were, the defense team stopped reading, deleted the files, and returned the drives — playing it a lot straighter than the DOJ apparently did.

Here's the kicker: this is the same report Trump successfully fought to keep sealed after winning the 2024 election, and the same case that Judge Aileen Cannon tossed on shaky grounds before it ever reached trial. So the government spent over a year making sure the public never saw this thing, then just mailed it all willy-nilly to a defendant's lawyers by mistake.

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A warning sign about AI’s real cost, courtesy of Google and Amazon

AI has made it a lot harder for tech companies like Amazon and Google to deliver on their net-zero pledges.

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At Roosevelt Honor, Trump Attributes TR Son's Valor To 'Racehorse' Genetics

During a dedication at the Theodore Roosevelt library, Donald Trump equated Theodore Roosevelt, and his son Arthur winning the Medal of Honor because of eugenics, genetics and race horses.

It's never a wise policy to promote genetics and eugenics during a speech if you're German, but Trump believes he is genetically superior.

TRUMP: And it'll be displayed alongside the Medal of Honor earned by his brave son.

His son was brave.

It's genetics, you know.

It's like the racehorse theory, right?

Fast horses.

Trump continued on talking about the Congressional medal of honor winners and brought up the fact that he said he wanted to award himself a medal of honor, claiming it was a joke lost on the media.

Which led him back et him back into genetics.

TRUMP: And when I joke — I always — I learned early on, don't be sarcastic in politics.

But I actually said a few times that I've seriously thought of giving myself the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Now, everyone knows I'm doing it with a chuckle, but then they report, he wants to give himself the Congressional.

So I don't say that anymore.

It's very dangerous to say.

But it is the highest award, and they had a father-son get it.

And that's a tremendous tribute to a genetic pool.

I won't bother listing off the amount of celebrated mothers and fathers, who had murderers and criminal kids to disprove his point.

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Trump Dodges Conflict-of-Interest Question, Thanks Himself For Stock Market Instead

A reporter asked Donald J. Trump what message he'd send to Americans struggling financially, given his own eye-popping year on his latest disclosure. Trump's answer: he doesn't "get involved" with his money — it's all handled through what he called a "blind account," run by institutions he claims he never speaks to. Sure thing, Mr. Grifty McGrifferson.

Pressed on whether he's benefiting anyway, he didn't deny it. He pivoted to the stock market, insisted that "everybody is profiting," and asked the reporter how their 401 (k) was doing. When they said it was up roughly 85%, Trump replied, "Thank you, President Trump" — apparently thanking himself on the reporter's behalf.

"Your financial disclosure shows you had a very lucrative year last year," a reporter said. "What message do you think to send to average Americans, especially those who are now financially?"

"Well, you know, I don't get involved in my personal — we have funds that run my money," Trump said.

"But you are benefiting," the reporter noted.

"Well, I've made a lot of money before I became president, and they invest my money," he said. "And I don't talk to them. I never — I don't even speak to them."

"So I have many people — I don't know what they call it — closed accounts or something," he continued. "You put your money in, and that's it. I don't talk to them."

"But, yeah, I've had a great career," the bankruptcy king said. "In business, I've had a great career."

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Melat Kiros Defeats 15-term Incumbent Diana DeGette

The news outlets have been calling this a major upset, and I suppose it was. But anyone paying attention to this race knew that 30-year incumbent Diana DeGette was in serious trouble and did not give her DSA opponent as much attention as she ought to have until it was already too late. Millions were poured in from the usual suspects at the last minute, but to no avail. Since CO-01 in Denver is one of the bluest districts in the country, Melat Kiros will be their next congresswoman.

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Melat Kiros, a political newcomer and democratic socialist, defeated 15-term U.S. Rep Diana DeGette on Tuesday night in the Democratic primary to represent Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, a major upset in the nationally watched race.

The Associated Press called the contest for the 29-year-old Kiros — an attorney who pitched herself as a fresh, non-establishment Democrat — shortly after 10 p.m. after her initial 2-percentage-point lead had grown to 5.8 percentage points. By 11:30 p.m., Kiros’ lead had expanded to 9.6 percentage points as she collected 51.3% of the vote.

DeGette, 68, had won 41.7% of the vote as of 11:30 p.m., with an estimated 93% of the total votes counted.

Soon after the AP called the race, Kiros stepped on stage at a watch party attended by her supporters in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood to declare victory.

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SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish

SpaceX reportedly showed investors a "handset-like" AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wants to expand into wireless.

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Roberts Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship In 6-3 Opinion

Nazi-adjacent WH Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, suffered a big loss in the Supreme Court today when his dream of having all brown babies born to immigrants denied American citizenship was stopped by the Supreme Court, but barely.

In a 6-3 opinion, the Supreme Court upheld the 14th Amendment, which codified birthright citizenship. It plainly says that anyone born IN the United States is an American citizen, regardless of the status of their mother.

Donald Trump and Stephen Miller wanted to change the Constitution, arguing that if the mother is in the country illegally or temporarily, the infant could not have American citizenship.

Chief Justice Roberts, writing the opinion, said:

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights—to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land. We keep that promise today.”

Three conservative justices would have allowed the restrictions to take effect...as expected, Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch.

In a 91-page, rambling dissent, Clarence Thomas wrote:

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The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds

EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.

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Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite

Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content.

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If He's Not Talking, He's Sleeping

The question I have is, when doesn't Trump fall asleep during one of his faux cabinet meeting press conferences?

The most un-religious president, at least in the last two centuries has used the extreme Christian right as his personal play things which helped him get re-elected, but they are willing supplicants, who created a straw-man of no substance and no morals to lead them.

It's hysterical and sad watching people like Paula White glorify demented Donald. It's particularly disgusting watch this happen in the Oval office.

It's quite obvious when Trump's not talking, he sleeping.

Does the sound of his own voice act like super caffeinated espresso to his consciousness?

PAULA WHITE: Nobody has stood up like you have stood up

TRUMP: *sitting* *asleep*

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US Reporter Mocks Bosnia Ahead Of World Cup Match

After being chastened 3-2 by Türkiye on Thursday night, the U.S. men's team learned their next round opponent would be Bosnia and Herzegovina. That posed a bit of a problem for ABC7's Abigail Velez.

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Many Americans -- at least those outside of the USMNT camp -- are confident that Bosnia will pose no issue to their goal of advancing to the round of 16 and potentially further, especially that of ABC7 reporter Abigail Velez.

In a clip, which has since gone viral, Velez boasted that she didn't even know where Bosnia was on the map.

"In the next round, Team USA will play Bosnia next Wednesday. And, one thing about Bosnia [is that] I could not point out where it is on a map," Velez said on air.

"I don't know the first thing about Bosnia, and I don't want to know."

"That's because Team USA, we're back, we're better than ever. Get prepared, Bosnia, because you don't want it. You don't want it like that. But you're gonna get it."

While the reporter was unfamiliar with Bosnia, the NBA has thrived off a talent pipeline that has included that of Bojan Bogdanović, Jusuf Nurkić, and Dragan Bender.

The Bosnians were not amused.

UPDATE: She has now apologized, presumably to keep her job (that she's had for less than a year).

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Talarico: Paxton Is Like A Creepy Crook Hanging Around A Texas Bar

You gotta love candidate James Talarico's messaging as he laid into Republican Ken Paxton. As the two Texans vie for a U.S. Senate seat, Democrat Talarico painted Paxton as the sleazy scammer he is, with a jab at Paxton's Texan-ness, for good measure.

First, Talarico referenced a Lyle Lovett song called "That's Right, You're Not From Texas."

"Come to think of it, he might have written it for Ken Paxton," Talarico added. It was a well-aimed swipe at an opponent who tries to smear the eighth-generation Texan Talarico as somehow not really Texan.

Lovett's lyrics describe a Texas dance hall as "the finest place to be." It's where "The women, they all look beautiful, and their men will buy your beer for free."

"Every Texas bar has those regulars," Talarico said. "The ones who pick up a round, the ones who check on the guy who's drinking alone, the ones who share a laugh or a story or their fried pickles."

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Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short

"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”

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Election Fraud Found In South Dakota! Guess Which Party

Alert Todd Blanche! Sober up, Kash Patel! They need to send every available agent to South Dakota, where they found real-life election fraud!

Of course, I'm being facetious. They won't do anything because it's a Republican who has been charged with forging nomination papers.

The alleged fraudster is State Senator Tom Pischke, and he has been charged with forging 16 nomination papers for precinct committeemen and precinct committeewomen, who would be acting as delegates at the state convention.

The first really strange thing is that he didn't even have to cheat. He ran unopposed in the June 2 primary. Some opined that he allegedly committed the fraud because he felt the county party was not fascist enough.

Another remarkable thing is how they traced the crime back to Pischke:

Shortly thereafter, detectives obtained video footage of a vehicle dropping something off at the Dell Rapids Post Office. The video only showed the driver’s hand and wasn’t clear enough to show what was placed in the box, the court documents say, but it was clear enough to show three of the numbers on the vehicle’s license plate and the vehicle’s make, model, and approximate year: a 2000-2005 Chevy Impala.

There’s only one Chevy Impala in South Dakota of that vintage with a license plate number bearing the three characters seen in the video, and it’s registered to Pischke.

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SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype

Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers.

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Ivanka And Jared’s Albania Resort So Hated, It May Bring Down The Govt

In early June, Susie Madrak posted about the outrage sparked by the Kushners’ $4.7 billion plans to develop one of Albania’s most pristine sites into a luxury resort. "Thousands of Albanians have taken to the streets — and the internet” to protest the development, “with protesters demanding the government cancel the project and chanting ‘Ivanka, go home,’" she wrote.

The Albanians are still furious. Now, the “Flamingo Revolution,” named in honor of the beautiful creatures that inhabit the nature reserves Ivanka and Jared think should be theirs to do whatever they want with, has turned into something much bigger: a movement to take down the entire government.

"In February 2024, led by Prime Minister Edi Rama of the center-left Socialist Party, Albania’s parliament passed Law 21/2024, which allows the National Territory Council to grant permits for luxury tourist resorts anywhere in the country, even in protected landscapes. Three days later, Kushner went public with plans to create two luxury developments in the region, including a resort on Sazan, a protected nature zone and one of Albania’s only major islands," Mother Jones explained.

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Iran Makes It Clear Who Controls The Strait Of Hormuz

For the umpteenth time, Trump has claimed that the United States won his war against Iran and that we were in control of the Strait of Hormuz. And for the umpteenth time, Iran demonstrated that this was simply not true.

CNN's Erin Burnett reported that Iran has taken credit for an attack on a cargo ship that was going through the Strait. But the way in which she did report the news was remarkable. It was almost like she was as sick of Trump's crap as the rest of us are:

It's a cargo ship that had just passed through the Strait of Hormuz. It was attacked by Iran. A strike that leaves any sort of an agreement between Trump and Iran as shaky and amorphous and undefined, and how many synonyms can I come up with on that, as it already was, is in question tonight.

And what we know about this attack is that a cargo ship was hit by a one-way attack drone, according to the Wall Street Journal, which also. Reports that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps was responsible. Tehran is just showing the obvious here, though, but this action, speaking louder than any word, showing that yes, they are still in control of the Strait of Hormuz. They can shut it down whenever they want, despite what Trump just claimed.

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Novak Djokovic has a new job — advisor to private equity firm General Atlantic

General Atlantic has tapped tennis legend Novak Djokovic to serve as a global strategic advisor.

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'Do Not Interrupt!': Rep. DeLauro Puts Sec. Mullin In His Place

During Thursday's House Appropriations Committee on the Department of Homeland Security's 2027 budget, Rep. DeLauro refused to be bullied by DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to the point where the ranking member warned Mullin to b.

DELAURO: Let me just say this to you, sir, again, it is my time, 3,900 children were separated from their families.

MULLIN: 450,000 kids were lost during the Biden administration, you didn't say a word about it.

DELAURO: Mr. Secretary, Mr. Secretary, do not interrupt.

MULLIN: Don't you point your finger at me.

DELAURO: I will point my finger at you.

Sec. Mullin pulled a Pam Bondi and continued to attack the Biden administration while refusing to answer DeLauro's questions and thought being an asshole was good form. Finally, she turned to Rep. Amodei, the chair of the committee to intervene.

DELAURO: Mr. Chairman, could you put him in his place?

MULLIN: Don't yell at me.

DELAURO: You should be put in your place.

AMODEI: Mr. Secretary, if you would like four minutes for a closing statement when everybody's done, I'll give you that.

But while members are on their eight minutes, I need them to have their eight minutes.

DELAURO: I started my comments. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate that.

AMODEI: We are going to something resembling order here.

The time is the ranking members.

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Democrat To Trump: Veto The Housing Bill And Congress Will Publicly Humiliate You

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Andy Kim gave Donald J. Trump, the golf-course president, a reminder while appearing on CNN with Wolf Blitzer. Kim tore into Trump after the president canceled the signing of the sweeping bipartisan bill that could boost the U.S. housing supply and lower costs for millions of renters and buyers nationwide.

"I mean, I have an eight-year-old and a ten-year-old, two little boys, I know what temper tantrums are like, but what my boys would never do is do something that would harm other people," Kim said. "And that's what Trump's doing."

"He's throwing a temper tantrum, but it's going to be at the expense of the American people, who can get so much out of this bill in terms of support for their housing," he continued. "Look, I'm from New Jersey. We are used to Trump screwing us over. He screwed over Atlantic City. He screwed over so many people in our state."

"And I will just say to him, if he really wants to see what people need right now, the next time he comes to New Jersey, he shouldn't go to his golf course in Bedminster," he said. "He should go to Newark, New Jersey, talk to the people there who need affordable housing."

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Notion Mail shuts down amid agent takeover

The company said it is discontinuing its email inbox in favor of its AI agent offering as users are increasingly handing over the reins of their email to the agents.

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New website names and shames companies that still don’t offer passkeys to users

According to a new site, 24% of the most popular websites in the world don't offer support for passkeys, which are considered the most secure way to log in to apps and services.

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Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks

The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.

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Judge Orders Trump Admin To Explain Reason For Tarp At Kennedy Center

A federal judge is demanding an explanation for the tarp that now hides where President Donald Trump's name once stood on the Kennedy Center's façade.

U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper issued the order Tuesday in Beatty v. Trump, the lawsuit brought by Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) over Trump's illegal renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Cooper ordered the parties to file a joint status report addressing "the purpose for and status of the tarp and scaffolding that Defendants have erected on the front portico of the Center."

Workers put up the tarp on June 13 — the night Trump's name came down under Cooper's court order. It has not come down since.

The Kennedy Center says the covering is needed for marble maintenance. Beatty's lawyers aren't buying it.

"Willfully sabotaging Kennedy Center's iconic façade to assuage Defendants' vanity or massage broken egos is a clear breach of fiduciary duty," her attorneys wrote.

Mallory Miller co-founded the activist group Hands Off the Arts and got behind the tarp to photograph the façade. She told NBC News the administration's motive was plain.

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Here’s why Slate changed the battery in its cheap EV truck

While there was probably a moment when Slate’s leadership had to green-light the switch from one battery type to another, the momentum toward that decision had been building for years.

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Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market

The app would be independent of Meta's other social media offerings, although sources told the NYT that those social sites could direct users to engagement with the app.

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'I Saw It': Trump's Reflecting Pool Excuse Gets Bigger Every Time He Tells It

Donald J. Trump's whole vandalism narrative is collapsing in real time. The president claimed a "350-foot slit" was cut through the pool's lining with a "box-cutter or a knife of some kind," saying, "I saw it. They cut it. They cut it very violently."

However, it got interesting when CBS's Ed O'Keefe pressed him on it. O'Keefe noted that reporters had visited the site and found no evidence of a slit, and Trump's response was essentially, "go ask the Parks Department."

Here's the kicker: neither the Interior Department nor the White House has provided any evidence that the pool lining was cut. And the story keeps changing — on Saturday, Trump claimed the gash was 250 feet long, and by Monday, it had grown to 350 feet. Classic.

Meanwhile, the actual story, in real life, is pretty straightforward: the Reflecting Pool has been plagued with algae and peeling paint since the Trump administration completed the renovation, which cost more than $16 million — $4 million over the original estimate.

To top this shitshow off, Trump is threatening to sue ABC for reporting on the Reflecting Pool cost overruns, saying, "I like their money."

The pattern is classic: another expensive government project fails, so he manufactured a villain rather than admit the $16M paint job didn't work.

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Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI’s future in Hollywood with A24 deal

Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.

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Trump Holds Security Funding Hostage Until States Adopt His Election Reforms

Donald J. Trump's latest bit of inanity: The president is dangling billions in Homeland Security grants (you know, the anti-terrorism and disaster prep money) and threatening to slash 20% unless states ditch their voting machines.

Then, to comply, the states must switch to hand-marked paper ballots and run voter rolls through his favorite citizenship database, according to documents obtained by CNN.

Yeah, sure, he’s 'securing the homeland' by using hurricane money as a bargaining chip for his form of election reform.

The new policy is the latest move in Trump's ongoing push to combat what he calls widespread voter fraud — a claim researchers have repeatedly debunked — while increasing federal control over state-run elections. The announcement arrives as several states have moved to legally block federal interference in how they conduct elections.

Under revised rules tied to several DHS grant programs, states would be required to make a series of changes: phasing out certain electronic voting equipment in favor of hand-marked paper ballots, and running their voter rolls through a DHS citizenship verification database that has drawn significant criticism.

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Fox Host Tries And Fails To Defend Trump's Surrender To Iran' Iran If Strait Remains Closed' Iran If Strait Remains Closed

Looks like those "peace talks" are going about as well as expected. Trump ran to one of his favorite reporters on Fox again with more threats against Iran:

Donald Trump told Fox News on Sunday that he threatened to “take over” Iran if the Strait of Hormuz was not immediately re-opened.

The president’s latest round of threats came in response to news Saturday that Iran was once again closing the key waterway, just days after signing an agreement to ensure that traffic could flow through. Iran announced that it would close the Strait of Hormuz after Israeli forces continued an all-out assault into Lebanon aimed at dislodging Hezbollah militants.

Fox’s Trey Yingst reported on Sunday that in an early morning phone call, the U.S. president said he’d warned Iranian officials directly that "you close [the Strait of Hormuz] and you won't have a country.”

"You won't even make it back to your f**king country,” Yingst said the president claimed to have relayed to the Iranians, adding: “We'll take over the rest of the country."

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Fox Host Tries And Fails To Defend Trump's Surrender To Iran

Fox host Rachel Compost-Duffy took a break from filming her husband's reality TV show to play propagandist for Trump's surrender to Iran, attacking the far right and the left at the same time:

Israel and the neocons want regime change at all costs, even if it takes US boots on the ground.

Obama and the Dems didn't even like Operation Midnight Hammer, which set Iran's nuke program back a decade.

Trump's looking out for American workers and families who want their gas prices lower and their boys brought home. And who doesn't want world peace? That's something we can all celebrate this 4th of July. The president didn't want this to be a forever war. He always wanted peace, and the left said they wanted the war over, too.

But now that the deal is signed, liberals are saying that we're waving the white flag.

It's funny how Barack Obama hasn't been president for ten years, yet he is still living rent-free in every MAGA skull.

Unfortunately for Compost-Duffy, her propaganda is awfully short-lived, since Iran has already closed the Strait of Hormuz again, gas prices are on their way up again, and there is no way in hell that any soldiers are coming home anytime soon. If anything, Trump is sending more overseas.

Not that Compost-Duffy cares. She gets paid to lie anyway.

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Italian Newspaper Headline Tells It Like It Is About Trump

Just like his stupid attack on Iran, President Dealmaker just blew up his relationship with one of his closest European allies for no good reason.

As we’ve previously reported, Donald Trump insulted Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni by claiming she had “begged” him to take a picture of them together at the G7 summit. He said he had only done so because he had “felt sorry” for her.

The backlash was swift and fierce.

Italian foreign minister Antonio Tajani canceled a planned visit to the U.S. this weekend.

Meloni posted a scathing video on social media Friday, headlined, “Italy and I never beg." She also said, “I don't know why the president of the United States behaves this way with his own allies. … I can only say it's a shame he doesn't show the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States, with leaders with whom instead he proves to be much more accommodating.”

Italy’s right-wing daily paper, Libero answered Meloni’s question about why Trump shivs his allies.

News you can use from the opinion editors of the Italian right-wing daily Libero:

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Trump Claims Vandalism At Reflecting Pool, Law Enforcement Called In

If you want evidence on how badly Trump thinks the reflecting pool fiasco is hurting him, look no further than his crazed Truth Social posts late last night. Truly deranged.

Source: CNN

President Donald Trump on Friday claimed the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was intentionally vandalized and said law enforcement is actively investigating, as the administration has scrambled to fix the pool’s recent deterioration just days after Trump’s nearly $15 million renovation.

“We’ve had some real problems with Vandalism at the beautiful Reflecting Pool,” Trump said in a late night post on Truth Social without providing evidence. “The algae is 75% gone, and the condition will soon be completely remedied, and the area that was vandalized, fortunately, is just a small area of damage, and will be fixed early next week.”

The post comes one day after blue material at the bottom of the pool began peeling off. The Reflecting Pool was painted blue and refilled in recent weeks as part of the pricey renovation ordered by Trump.

The president linked the alleged vandalism at the Reflecting Pool to the mysterious etching of “8647” into the grass on the National Mall days prior.

Trump's claim.

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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

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In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

So ... what's your In the Weights score?

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What’s the most cliche possible gift you can give a relative? A digital photo frame, displaying a rotating slideshow of family photos. Now Aura has completely refreshed this product space with its gorgeous Aura Ink frame, which uses e-ink to create a display that doesn’t even look digital. Digital frames have always been so popular […]

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Soulless Ghouls Gutfeld And Watters Yuck It Up While Lying About USAID Cut Deaths

There's a special place in hell waiting for these two assholes, along with the world's new trillionaire, Elon Musk, who they were defending.

During a segment on this Thursday's The Five, which was yet another "everything is going badly for Democrats" segment even though the opposite is true with which party is likely in deep trouble for the midterms even with all of the Republicans' attempts to cheat as much as possible, host Jesse Watters lauded the cuts to USAID as something his party should be proud of and run on for the midterms.

When his co-host, Jessica Tarlov, pointed out that those cuts are something they shouldn't be proud of, Watters and Gutfeld immediately mocked her for bringing it up and lied about the program.

Here's the full exchange:

PERINO: The fundamentals of the economy, if you look at the statistics, it's like, why are people in a bad mood, right? Unemployment is at a rate that is relatively low for a country that gas prices are starting to come down and that looks like the trajectory is holding. We just had this huge IPO, the stock market's up, and yet people on the left in particular tell pollsters that they're in a terrible mood and they hate the country.

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Nearly 160 Troops Sick With Flu, Thanks To Hegseth

File under “Don’t say we didn’t warn you!”

The New York Times reported that less than two months after the unqualified and unfit Defense Secretary Pete “WhiskeyLeaks” Hegseth rescinded the mandate for troops to get flu vaccines, almost 160 of them at Lackland Air Force base are sick with the flu. One has died, though it is not known for sure that flu is the cause.

As John Amato previously reported, Hegseth made his killer decision in late April because “your faith and your convictions are not negotiable.”

Well, guess what Petey Puffy Face? The flu virus is not negotiable either. “The outbreak at the base in San Antonio raced through an Air Force Basic Military Training wing, where new recruits sleep on bunk beds in open bays and share meals at large communal tables,” The Times said.

Who could have guessed such a thing would happen? Just about anybody.

It’s not just a matter of basic decency to protect our serving men and women from serious illness. It’s also a matter of keeping our troops ready and able to fight. Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, an Air Force veteran and chair of the Armed Services Committee, opposed the policy for that very reason, according to The Times, saying, “You know, you do give up certain rights when you take the oath,” and “It’s just part of it.”

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Hannity: Iran Deal Will Be Great Because Of Se''t Know About Yet Don't Know About Yet

Ben Shapiro joined Fox News today and said the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) does not achieve any of the actual goals put forth by Trump after attacking Iran, and instead blamed JD Vance for not serving him well.

Let the gaslighting begin.

On a whim, and not wanting to give up the world spotlight, Trump was easily persuaded, refusing to listen to cooler heads and joined Bibi Netanyahu to attack Iran. Like his illegal tariffs and violent ICE raids, it blew up in his face very quickly.

Wanting to get out of it, Trump sent unqualified supporters like Vance, Kushner, and Witkoff to negotiate.

How did that work out?

According to Ben Shapiro, not well.

SHAPIRO: Well, I've said many times the president deciding to go into Iran and to hit nuclear facilities in Operation Midnight Hammer and then to go after Iran's ballistic missile facilities, nuclear facilities, Army, Navy and Air Force in this current operation was the signal act of political bravery, perhaps of my lifetime.

With that said, this M. O. U. appears to be just from the text a disaster that does not achieve any of the actual signal goals that were set by the administration at the beginning.

There were effectively five goals that were set by the administration at the beginning. One was ending the nuclear program, not just nuclear weapons, no nuclear enrichment, zero enrichment.

That is not in the deal.

Ballistic missiles ended.

That is not in the deal.

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World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.

French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.

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J.D. Vance Goes On The View To Try To Make People Like Him

Via Rolling Stone, J.D. Vance is watching his future political prospects dim as he continues to stand by The Trump. A disastrous foray into Iran, an economy in turmoil, an administration riddled with the kind of corruption that will rebound for decades in court cases and investigations. Faced with the prospect of becoming even more entrenched as an avatar for the failures and broken promises of Trump’s second presidency, Vance is embarking on a media tour to try to remind people that they supposedly liked him at some point, starting with an appearance on The View. (When was that?)

The ladies of The View have long been some of the favorite foils of Trumpland, and it turns out the hosts of ABC’s flagship talk show came prepared to spar. Vance seemed unprepared to actually defend the actions of the administration in which he serves.

The hosts repeatedly questioned the vice president about Trump failing to follow through on his campaign promises — on everything from the economy to the Epstein files — instead focusing on his own self-enrichment and self-aggrandizement.

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Trump Casually Dismisses Iran's Enriched Material After All The Buildup

During a presser with the media at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Trump claimed that after bombing an Iranian mountain, it may not be worth finding the leftover enriched uranium "because it's not really valuable."

Enriched uranium is the main ingredient to produce a nuclear weapon, and there is no such thing as worthless enriched uranium.

Trump attacked Iran over enriched uranium, for fuck's sake.

Trump keeps using an analogy called "nuclear dust" after he bombs what they claim is a nuclear facility, but that is a ridiculous comparison.

"Nuclear dust" is fallout from a nuclear explosion or radioactive material after a nuclear disaster. Not whatever this moronic president pretends it is.

"My second term, we sent in the B-2 bombers, and we terminated their – I call it the nuclear dust – their enriched material, right?" Trump said. "And totally effectively."

Huh?

TRUMP: So the Atomic Energy just reported that it was one of the most devastating bombings that they've ever seen.

The whole mountain collapsed on top of it.

And frankly, to go get it – we're going to go get it – but to go get it is a big deal because they say only China and us have the equipment where you can even get – the whole mountain has collapsed on top.

We have cameras on it.

You could make the case why you're even bothering, because it's not really valuable.

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Trump 'Furious' Over Possible Leak Of Epstein Situation Room Tapes

Trump aides are freaking out that recordings of Situation Room meetings about the Epstein files made their way to New York Times reporters. Rep. Ro Khanna joined Chris Hayes to discuss the Axios report, which claims that Donald Trump "is furious about the blow-by-blow accounts."

Senior White House officials suspect that Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan got their hands on audio recordings from Situation Room meetings for their upcoming book, Regime Change — a potential breach that has the administration rattled, according to Axios.

Recording devices are strictly prohibited in the Sit Room, making this, if true, an extraordinary security violation.

"We're afraid some of our most sensitive conversations were being recorded," one administration source said. "And we have no idea which ones."

The suspicion stems from the almost verbatim dialogue that appeared in early excerpts covering the Iran war and the Epstein files, published ahead of the book's June 23 release. The authors drew on more than 1,000 interviews for the project, which chronicles Trump's second term.

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Classic: Hegseth Claims Victory, Then Brennan Drops The Reality Check

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took a minute from doing his prancing Pete tippy toe dance, to strut onto CBS's Face the Nation Sunday to deliver what he clearly believed was a devastating flex — the U.S. has totally, completely, absolutely controlled the Strait of Hormuz this entire time, zero Iranian ships, boom, mic drop.

Host Margaret Brennan then gently inquired why, if all that's true, we're negotiating with Iran to reopen it. Hegseth did not have a great answer for that. If you're an oldster like me, you remember the lies that got us into previous wars, but this administration is really bad at it.

"By the way, I think your viewers need to remember, Project Freedom never stopped, and we've run 125 million barrels of oil through the straits, and Iran couldn't do anything about it," Hegseth said. "How many ships from Iran have transited our blockade?"

"Zero," he continued. "Zero."

Here it comes.

"We have controlled the straits this entire time," he insisted.

"You're going to negotiate with them to reopen it," Brennan corrected him.

Jinkies, I don't know, guys, but it seems to me that if you need negotiations to reopen any fucking thing, then you probably weren’t controlling it. Still, Hegseth is saying "Mission Accomplished" while they're still negotiating.

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UK may ban social media for children under 16

The U.K. seems to be following Australia's lead in banning a wide swath of social media for teens.

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Trump Announces Peace Deal, Then Threatens To Nuke Iran

For the zillionth time, President Deal Maker once again announced the U.S. is on the verge of a great deal with Iran. “The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL,” Donald Trump declared on his social media platform Saturday.

That claim came after Trump spent nearly a paragraph shitting on President Barack Obama’s Iran deal – you know, the one that kept Iran from developing a nuke until Trump ripped it up and before deciding to start an unwanted and unnecessary war with Iran.

Then, after touting his supposed deal, which is really only an agreement to make a deal, Trump added, “We look forward to working with Iran, and the entire Middle East, long into the future. Hopefully, this process will work out quickly, easily, and smoothly.”

And nothing makes that seem truer than following up with a threat to drop a nuclear bomb! Trump’s next words were, “If it doesn’t, we have the ultimate alternative, hopefully never to be used again! Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!”

That bluster should tell you that a) Donnie Deal Maker is desperate (the Iranians will surely see it that way) and b) that Trump's deal is worse than Obama’s.

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The FBI Just Raided An Ohio Voting Rights Organization

Intimidation seems to be the main, if not the only reason for the FBI’s outright assault on democracy Thursday night.

As MS Now tells it, FBI agents raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, described as a “pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state.”

In addition, agents “fanned out across the state, showing up at the homes of the group’s leaders and staff members, carrying some subpoenas and seeking information and electronic devices.”

A board member told MS Now that agents were “basically trying to fish for information,” even from some who had only performed basic volunteer work. “They had agents all across the state going to civil rights leaders’ and community leaders’ doors intimidating them, coming and demanding that they talk about literally anything they would ask,” board member Prentiss Haney said, “ask[ing] them if they’re committing voter fraud, just on their doors, in front of their houses with their children, and just following them to work and school … Just straight-up intimidation tactics.”

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Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off worldwide access to two models on Friday.

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Trump Cancels Opening Of Gordie Howe Bridge Just Because

The invitations for local dignitaries had been sent out, and school children and police were ready to witness the ribbon-cutting on Friday. And then Donald Trump stepped in to ruin everything, as he always does.

Windsor, Ontario, Mayor Drew Dilkens was not as diplomatic about the situation as Canadian Prime Minister Carney, as Windsor and Detroit have been waiting decades for the bridge, saying of the delay, "The fingerprints of Donald Trump are all over this."

Source: CBC

The opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge was delayed at the request of the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday afternoon.

Hours after the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority postponed a planned ribbon-cutting event on Friday, Carney said there were "a few issues that have been raised."
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The postponement — and Carney's comments — come after a White House official told CBC News this week that U.S. President Donald Trump's position on the bridge had not changed.

"The administration remains committed to securing the best possible deal for the American people," the statement read.

Earlier this year, Trump threatened to stall the opening of the bridge until the U.S. is compensated, despite Canada paying entirely for the construction of the bridge and it being jointly owned with the state of Michigan.

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SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell just gave another hint at a Tesla merger

A SpaceX-Tesla merger seems inevitable.

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SpaceX SPV investors won’t know their true holdings until post-IPO lock-ups lift

After SpaceX makes its public debut, lower-tier SPV investors face hidden fees, lengthy payout delays, and the risk of outright fraud.

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Bluesky launches group chats, as company shifts focus to community features

Bluesky's latest feature is group chats, arriving amid a shift in focus on building features for smaller communities.

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Fox News Urges Trump ‘To Go Back To Full-Scale War Against Iran’

Wednesday morning, “deal maker” Donald Trump announced he was going to resume attacking Iran “very hard.” It’s hard to know if it was his own idea or whether he was just listening to his favorite advisors, Fox News talking heads. As Media Matters has reported, Fox was pushing Trump to go to war against Iran before the conflict started and "selling Trump the fantasy that he could defeat Iran in 'two weeks.'"

Trump launched new bombings Tuesday and later on Wednesday. But that did not seem to be enough to satisfy Fox News’ blood lust, at least not enough for “straight news” host John Roberts. He got to work pushing Trump to further escalate the unnecessary and unpopular war.

First, Roberts mocked Trump for saying for weeks that Iran is on the ropes and that he was close to a deal. But instead of pushing for an actual deal, Roberts pushed the Fan-in-Chief to ditch the cease fire and bomb, bomb, bomb Iran even more.

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ROBERTS: A lot of military experts we've talked to think it's long past time for the United States to go back to full-scale war against Iran, saying nine weeks ago we had Iran on the ropes, and ever since then President Trump has been talking about this elusive deal.
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Nick Fuentes Spews Racist, Immoral Attack On Unhoused And Black People

Nick Fuentes ripped off one of the most vile rants one could imagine against Black Americans and the homeless.

"Homeless have taken over everything, including Santa Monica, because they built a train to ship them out there," Fuentes said. "It's literally like n**ger express."

This amalgam of Nazism and the KKK is revolting.

"Now they've taken over Beverly Hills and they've taken over Santa Monica," he fretted.

Fuentes doesn't live in Santa Monica, I do.

His fantasies are quite disturbing. He's ranting about scumbag Spencer Pratt, who just got booted out the Mayor race by voters in Los Angeles.

His hatred is palpable, even through video.

So we just need a candidate who's going to run and win under like with no shame.

We just need a sociopath, dark triad, tyrant, dictator type figure to run and then just do what must be done.

Make the deals, be crooked, be corrupt, lie, and then just bring in the water cannons.

Bring in the water cannons, bring in the tanks.

Wouldn't you love to see these homeless encampments being crushed by a tank?

I would love to see the water cannons.

I would love to see a tank.

I would love to see a tank destroy everything in Skid Row.

I wouldn't mind seeing David Letterman's steamroller crushing someone, and they aren't on skid row.

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New Yorkers Have Thoughts About Trump Screwing Up Knicks Game

Midtown New York was, frankly, a clusterfuck. Even fans who paid thousands for their tickets couldn't cross the street to join the long line to clear security and go inside and they were livid. But hey, Jared Kushner got in and that's all that matters. Fans were furious.

And the Knicks lost. BECAUSE EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES DIES. Tell me all the Trump security rules had nothing to do with it! Fans should have been cheering their team, not booing Trump. He was nothing but a distraction who changed the positive energy.

I love New Yorkers. #NBA #Knicks

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Anthropic’s Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is going to be a big hit with the web's vibe coders.

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Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models?

If those same AI workloads can be handled by cheaper models without affecting quality, it would mean a massive shift in the economics of AI.

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Pete Hegseths Ag Secretary Blames Biden For Screwworm Outbreak 'Beyond Parody: Trump'Pete Hegseths Ag Secretary Blames Bide

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gave a D-Day anniversary speech on June 6, painting an unreal and bombastic portrait of the world today, highlighted by categorizing all people migrating to NATO allies as terrorist threats those countries refuse to account for.

Hegseth shamed our nation at the Normandy American Cemetery in France on Saturday.

HEGSETH: America will lead and we must, but capable allies must be right there with us, shoulder to shoulder in the breach when it matters.

In the years since these beaches, much of the West, in some places, in some quarters, and in some capitals, grew comfortable.

We forgot that freedom is not free. We forgot that peace is not wished into being. It is bought with purpose, with honor, and with strength. The men who landed on these beaches knew this.

The question we ask ourselves is, do we?

It's past time we remember what they knew. Their legacy demands far more than quiet reflection.

It requires our active vigilance.

Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies. In Spain, in Italy, in Greece, and Bulgaria, boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late?

I pray not, and I believe not.

The men who fought and died here restored freedom to Europe.

That freedom must be maintained by this generation of leaders and war fighters, or what they fought for was merely temporary.

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Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

Microsoft shut down dozens of GitHub code repositories for Azure and AI coding tools after a reported hack.

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Apple just taught your iPhone to finish your sentences, your photos, and your workflows

Apple is adding new AI-powered features to Safari, Shortcuts, and Password apps.

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Trump’s Ballroom ‘Donors’ Have Already Netted Billions

A new report from public watchdog Public Citizen describes the “donations” to Donald Trump’s Marie Antoinette Ballroom as, essentially bribes.

Public Citizen found that 14 out of the 27 donors it knows of (an incomplete list because the secret funding agreement allows them to remain anonymous) “received new or increased government contracts over the last 6 months totaling over $50 billion.”

That taxpayer-funded “windfall” is more than the GDP of some countries, according to The New Republic.

But wait, there’s more! The “donors” have reaped even more benefits.

16 of the 27 just happen to be involved in litigation with the federal government or have had “federal enforcement actions suspended by the Trump administration,” Public Citizen reported. “These include major antitrust actions or merger reviews involving Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, NextEra Energy, Nvidia, T-Mobile, and Union Pacific; labor rights cases involving Amazon, Apple, Caterpillar, Google, Lockheed and Meta; and SEC matters involving Coinbase and Ripple.”

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Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?

We're likely to see more price increases as the big AI companies plan to go public.

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Lying Trump On No New Wars Promise: 'I Didn't Promise Anything'

Grandpa sundowner with more revisionist history on this Sunday's Meet the Press.

During a hostile ridiculous interview that never should have been aired in the first place because of all of the lies Trump was allowed to spew, host Kristen Welker asked Trump about his promise not to start any new wars, and was treated to this nonsense by Trump:

WELKER: So you're saying you didn't break your promise and yet, Mr. President, in your first term, you held to that promise and it was so fundamental to who you were as a candidate, to a first-term president. What changed, because you insisted "no new wars?”

TRUMP: Well, first of all, I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world? I built our military. I inherited a terrible military. We had no equipment. We had nothing. I built a tremendous military. Biden gave a lot of it away, but it’s still a relatively small portion compared to what I built.

WELKER: But you said it over and over again.

TRUMP: Wait a minute. Why would I build a military? Now, I didn't want to use this, but I'm doing you and everybody else a big favor in the midst of the greatest stock market in history, in the midst of the most successful country, because as you know, in the last time we were a dead country, Kristen, I know you, you're a big liberal, a big progressive.

WELKER: No, I'm just a journalist.

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Trump’s Fragile Ego Demanded CBS As A Blood Sacrifice

For almost 100 years, CBS has been one of the most well-known and respected news media brands in the United States.

But since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the brand and its parent network have lost respect, influence, and esteem as they’ve bent to Trump’s will.

While the right has often lashed out at media that doesn’t parrot the company line, the targeting of CBS has been sustained and politically successful. During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump declined to be interviewed on “60 Minutes” simply because the network pressed him on his botched COVID-19 response during his failed 2020 reelection campaign.

After he won in 2024, Trump sued the network, falsely alleging that CBS manipulated former Vice President Kamala Harris’ responses during an interview. The suit was specious, and media law experts said that CBS had a strong case against Trump. But instead, CBS gave in and paid Trump off, effectively bribing him.

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‘The Country Is Not Trump’s To Liquidate’: His Grift Is Costing Us All

The American Economic Liberties Project and Groundwork Collaborative on Wednesday released a joint report detailing how President Donald Trump’s unprecedented corruption is padding his own pockets at the expense of US taxpayers.

The report—titled “The Price of Corruption: How Trump’s Pay-to-Play Administration is Driving Up Costs for Working Families”—explains how Trump isn’t just using the presidency to enrich himself, but leaving ordinary Americans to foot the bill for his corrupt dealings.

The report notes that the TrumpRx website, which purports to offer Americans deep discounts on drugs, is actually a scheme for funneling even more money to large pharmaceutical companies.

“When Trump rolled out TrumpRX earlier this year, the administration claimed it was a way for Americans to access more affordable prescription drugs,” the report states. “Instead, the platform fails to disclose information about less expensive generic alternatives and, in some instances, charges consumers more for products that are available for less elsewhere.”

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OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks

Even with Lockdown Mode, ChatGPT could be still vulnerable to prompt injections, but the goal is to reduce the likelihood that sensitive data gets shared in the process.

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Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in 3 days

Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 officially close on June 8, 11:59 p.m. PT. Now’s not the time to wait any longer. Secure your shot at competing on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 this October at San Francisco's Moscone West.

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Whistleblower Blows Lid Off DOGE Plot To Declare Millions Dead

The Trump administration came up with a dystopian idea (quelle surprise!), to reportedly cook up a plan to declare 2.7 million living people — among them U.S. citizens, legal residents, teenagers, and retirees — officially dead, The Washington Post reports.

The goal: weaponize Social Security's identity database to functionally delete people from the financial system, cutting them off from paychecks, bank accounts, and government benefits. You know, the kind of stuff living people tend to need to survive.

The scheme was exposed by Jeremiah Schofield, a 25-year Social Security veteran who actually had the audacity to look at the list. When he pulled a sample from the 2.7 million marked for fictional death, every single one of them was alive — including a widow receiving survivor benefits legally. At that point, agency lawyers gently noted that declaring living people dead might, technically, be against the law. Schofield agreed, refused to participate, and eventually left the agency in October.

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Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

The companies announced the deal on Friday, just one week ahead of SpaceX's historic IPO.

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Trump Loses His Sh*t After Learning War Powers Aren't A Personal Blank Check

On Wednesday, the House passed a measure to limit Donald J. Trump's military authority regarding Iran, with a growing number of Republicans breaking ranks to express dissatisfaction with how the administration has managed the ongoing conflict.

As NewHound Ellen reported, the four Republicans who voted with all the Democrats to end the war were Reps. Tom Barrett of Michigan, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Warren Davidson of Ohio, and Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Unsurprisingly, Trump's wrath is being directed at them and the "Dumocrats" in a childish Truth Social outburst.

"Yesterday, in a meaningless vote, the House voted, 4 bad Republicans and all of the Dumocrats, to limit my War Powers, right in the middle of my final negotiations to end the War with the Islamic Republic of Iran," he wrote. "Who would do such an unpatriotic thing."

"They know where the negotiations stand," he added. "The Democrats are fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome. They would rather have our Country fail than give me another, of many, victories. The four Republicans, that’s a whole other story - They’re GRANDSTANDERS! They should be ashamed of themselves. MAGA!!! President DJT"

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Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft

Fusion startup Helion is racing to complete a power plant for Microsoft by 2028. A fresh infusion of cash should help with that.

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Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon

Dreambeans is a curated list of AI-illustrated "stories" culled from the personal data in your Google account.

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MAGA Pastor Spins Trump’s $10B Loss As Win For Slush Fund

MAGA Pastor and Christian Nationalist Lance Wallnau was forced to lie to his audience to justify Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund that he absurdly grifted from the federal government.

Anyone with a working brain knows that Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion over the release of his tax returns, which every presidential candidate has done since the 70s.

The lawsuit was never litigated, never went to trial, and never made its way before a judge, and suddenly, Demented Donald announced a $1.8 billion settlement with the federal government. To support his MAGA cult, he was going to use the money to set up an "anti-weaponization fund" to pay these creeps cash if he felt they were wrongly prosecuted and investigated during his first term in office, and everything about the heinous insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th.

Obviously, there was an uproar from almost the entire country except for his sycophantic acolytes, including acting AG Todd Blanche, who agreed to the travesty perpetrated on the American people.

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New Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptions

Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing, an open source framework for spinning up AI evaluations.

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