Trump team’s inward-facing “terror” crackdown, DOJ/ICE escalations, California’s insurance crisis, Discord gamifies data, Pantone whitewashes design, UA bans Black student mag, and the Right targets AI bias checks. Plus: World Cup surveillance risks, robot goalies, the Cold Supermoon, and a wobbling AI boom.

Trump expands "domestic terrorism" to include political dissent, Hegseth nomination falters over war crime allegations, admin rescinds coal/EV rules, Palantir deepens ICE ties, and "MAGA 101" threatens academic freedom. Americans lose economic confidence despite market highs.

Hegseth trolls war crime claims with memes as Trump sleeps in meetings. Donors demand crypto ROI. Texas Tech bans race teaching. "Nazislop" targets kids. Dems overperform in TN.

OpenAI slips ads into ChatGPT beta as the “enshittification” era dawns, White House touts a win-the-race AI plan while states brace for data-center power crunch, Beijing expands AI censorship, Gen Z pivots to trades on job fears, DeepSeek drops open models “rivaling GPT-5,” AI creeps into quasi-medical apps and pet wearables, Zillow yanks climate-risk scores under industry pressure & organizers eye grid justice, transparency, and consumer protections as the next fight.

Trump's approval rating hits 36%, lowest of second term, White House launches "media bias tracker" targeting journalists, How the DOJ's first-ever "antifa terrorism" trial could reshape protest rights in America, Silicon Valley's AI czar shaped policy while holding hundreds of related investments, Supreme Court hears $1B case that could change how ISPs handle copyright, Humanoid robot plays full-court basketball against human in viral demo, White House pushing to kill state AI regulations via defense bill, AI could currently replace 12% of US jobs, labor unions push back, & Bill Gates draws the line on solar geoengineering: only in "tipping-point scenarios"

Stranger Things just broke Netflix, How to stream Jack White and Eminem’s halftime show, The wild true story behind Pizza Hut’s Soviet gambit is going viral again, AlphaFold’s five-year science breakthrough, how China’s new neutrino reveal could rewrite physics, Musk’s xAI is building a solar farm, Meet “Michelangelo Dome,” the AI air shield promising to swat drones and missiles from the sky, Amazon insiders warn AI is costing jobs—“all-costs-justified” plan exposed, and China’s new Humanoid border guards.

Karoline Leavitt’s Holidays on ICE.

Trump’s New ‘Enemies List’ & Why Nonprofits Are Bracing for Impact, Latinos Turn on Trump: The Poll, Where Did the DOJ’s Indigenous Report Go? Sora 2’s Dark Side: Teens Made a School-Shooter Clip, Mini Livers Are Here, Insurers Won’t Touch AI, IRS Chatbots for Your Taxes? What Could Go Wrong?

Wikipedia’s guidance for spotting AI-written text, research on a “universal jailbreak” that could bypass AI guardrails, and workforce shifts as AI reshapes jobs and search. Trump-world media plays pushing Rush Hour, the end of DOGE, a bipartisan action on undersea cable security, a DOJ resignation-letter archive, and allegations of court-watcher infiltration. Donald Glover has a stroke. Pablo Torre gets sued by Jordan Hudson.

Last week the State Dept outlined its plan to designate 4 European "violent Antifa" groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, citing NSPM-7 "indicators," such as "anti-Americanism," "anti-capitalism," and "anti-Christianity." Now it’s official.