The End of the Voting Rights Act Era, and Comey Indicted for Sea Shells
Trump maintains the Iran blockade. Hegseth purges generals. FEMA hits a red zone. Comey is indicted over seashells. SCOTUS guts the VRA. Amazon eyes an Apprentice reboot. Renewables beat gas.
WaPo Diagrams Shots Fired at WHCD, Frogman in Ohio, and More
WaPo diagrams WHCD gunsots. Comey indicted over seashells. GOP sours on Hegseth. Meta tracks worker keystrokes. UAE quits OPEC. FCC targets ABC over Kimmel. Ohio votes on Loveland Frogman.
AI Will Now Add Typos to Emails To Appear More Human
Jimmy Kimmel's Melania joke happened days before the White House Correspondents Dinner shooting. Also: J.D. Vance challenges Pete Hegseth. AI does typos. Meta beams space power. Cole Allen faces DOJ. Taylor Swift trademarks voice. Climate change makes things cost more. BP doubles profit.
Just Another MAGA Monday
US downplays Iran base damage, Qatar LNG costs a lot, Kittleson describes kidnapping in Iraq, WHCD gunman not on FBI radar, WHCD security fails, Trump wants ICE→NICE rebrand, SPLC DOJ indictment has legal flaws, Cop City arson indicted, Parscale goes to Israel, a heat pump disinfo network, the Big Oil liability shield, If America's So Rich Why’s It So Sad
Shocker! Insider Trading Flourishes on Betting Markets
DOJ arrests a soldier for $400k in Maduro bets while U.S. intel spies on the Vatican. Trump prepares to end birthright citizenship, affecting 4.5 million kids. Acting IG Blier audits the Epstein files as the DOJ seeks to denaturalize 384 citizens. Sony’s robot beats a pro-ping-pong player. OpenAI and xAI build massive gas-powered data centers. Chevron wins a SCOTUS move to federal court. Stars and Stripes ombudsman is fired for being "woke." Steyer gets a Sanders nod.
Trump Reportedly Skips Walter Reed Physical, SPLC News, and Some More Iranian Propaganda Videos
Is Trump reportedly skipping his Walter Reed physicals? Have thousands of U.S. troops sustained traumatic brain injuries and wounds in the initial Iran strikes? Did Vitol CEO Russell Hardy warn that the oil market has lost one billion barrels due to the war? Is Meta installing software to record employee keystrokes to train AI agents before layoffs?
MAGA Tries to Manifest Iran Coup, SPLC Under Fire, Crypto Scams Hit Strait of Hormuz
Trump secretly vets voter rolls using flawed DHS data. IRGC gunboats attack ships in Hormuz, violating the ceasefire to run an extortion racket in Chinese yuan. Kash Patel indicts the SPLC for wire fraud, claiming they funded the KKK. Pentagon heads ask GM and Ford to boost weapons production. Abdul El-Sayed ties for the lead in the Michigan Senate primary. Ted Cruz moves to shield fossil fuel firms from lawsuits.
No Nukes for Trump, and InfoWars Gets a New Lease on Life (Via Sandy Hook Families and The Onion)
Donald Trump invokes the Defense Production Act. Sources say Trump denied nuclear codes access. Kash Patel sues The Atlantic. The White House defends the FBI Director. The Onion leases InfoWars. Senate Republicans introduce the American Energy Protection Act. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues ActBlue. The shadow docket remakes the Supreme Court.
The War in Iran Costs the United States $10 Billion a Week, Plus Psychedelic Trump
Senators estimate war cost to be $10 billion per week. The USS Spruance seizes the ship Touska as Tehran threatens to end the ceasefire. Fatih Birol warns of a jet fuel collapse in Europe. Iran uses Chinese satellites to map U.S. targets. Trump prepares an executive order for ibogaine research. Maine enacts the nation’s first data center ban. Google Gemini pulls from private photos to create avatars. Meta's TRIBE v2 simulates human brain activity. Javier Milei fires 37,000 workers in Argentina.
People Imitate Chatbots, Chatbots Imitate Humans, Iran Opens the Strait of Hormuz
Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz during a fragile ceasefire, but the IEA warns of a jet fuel crisis. Trump urges Ford and GM to produce munitions as U.S. war costs spiral. Maine enacts the first statewide AI data center ban. Google Gemini begins generating images using private Google Photos. DOGE continues cutting grants as NPR turns to private donors like Connie Ballmer to survive. Steve Bannon calls for a Trump third term. Chevron returns to Venezuela.
