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If you voted for the Republican ticket because it promised a restrained foreign policy, I have some bad news for you. Source link

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Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire Over the past year, a paid campaign funded by the government of Israel, executed through the advertising network Havas and the firm Clock Tower X, has sought to shape how AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, answer questions about Israel. The effort left a paper trail and Justice Department filings pointing to A $46.5 million contract but also to a network of websites built for machines rather than readers. All this was assembled while United Nations investigators described genocide underway in Gaza, Israeli forces conducted repeated incursions into Lebanon, and settler violence and land seizures…

President Donald Trump said he asked South Korea to assist the US war against Iran, and Seoul refused. The President recently announced he was scaling down war games with South Korea.  During a presser on Monday, President Trump recalled a recent conversation with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung. Trump said, “Would you to give us a little hand with Iran? If you would like, we don’t need help. [Myung] said, ‘No thanks.’” The President continued, “What do you mean? We have 39,000 soldiers over there guarding you from Kim Jong Un, and you are not going to help us…

School choice advocates have argued for years that education options encourage competition among schools, cater to differing preferences for learning environments, and allow flexibility for families and children. Now, though, the plaintiffs behind a new lawsuit credibly argue that school choice protects the right of parents to have a say in the speech directed at children in the classroom. You are reading The Rattler from J.D. Tuccille and Reason. Get more of J.D.’s commentary on government overreach and threats to everyday liberty. “Education happens through speech: Every lesson taught, book selected, idea discussed, and value emphasized conveys a message to…

West Virginia Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey is trying to head off public opposition to hyperscale data centers in his state by proposing a 20-year development framework that he hopes will revitalize West Virginia’s economy while addressing residents’ concerns. Earlier this month, Morrisey unveiled the West Virginia Responsible Data Center Development Plan. The plan, built around seven core principles, sensibly holds data center developers and utilities responsible for covering “electrical infrastructure upgrades and energy capacity needs.” It also requires them to “build, bring, or procure sufficient power resources” needed for their projects. To mitigate concerns over water use, West Virginia will “actively…

President Donald Trump said that the US would attack Oman if Muscat interfered in Washington’s negotiations with Tehran.  Trump told Fox News journalist Trey Yingst: “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the sh*t out of them.” Muscat has been negotiating with Tehran about the future of the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait is a narrow waterway that lies between Iran and Oman. The waterway is the only entrance or exit for the Persian Gulf. About a fifth of the world’s energy crosses the Strait.  In response to the US and Israeli war against Iran, Tehran seized control over…

From today’s decision in Massimino v. Benoit, written by Judge Myrna Pérez and joined by Sarah Merriam:We begin by joining a growing chorus of [eight of] our sister circuits that have recognized a First Amendment right to record law enforcement activity in public. {See Glik v. Cunniffe, 655 F.3d 78, 82 (1st Cir. 2011); Fields v. City of Philadelphia, 862 F.3d 353, 360 (3d Cir. 2017); Sharpe v. Winterville Police Dep’t, 59 F.4th 674, 680–81 (4th Cir. 2023); Turner v. Lieutenant Driver, 848 F.3d 678, 690 (5th Cir. 2017); American C.L. Union of Ill. v. Alvarez, 679 F.3d 583, 594–95…

“We were a scrappy startup,” Delo said of BitMEX back in 2016, when it launched the first perpetual future. “We thought, ‘Just get it out there. If it was any good, the market would show us.’” It was sometime in 2015, on a hiking trail in Hong Kong, that the perpetual swap — also called a perpetual future or a “perp” for short — was born. Ben Delo, the mathematician and co-founder of BitMEX, was walking with a friend called Bavik, a derivatives trader, wrestling with a problem that had been nagging at him for months. BitMEX had been trying…