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In February, The New York Times reported that FBI Director Kash Patel had assigned rotating SWAT teams to guard his girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins, as she traveled around the country. The article portrayed that use of FBI resources as highly unusual and ethically questionable. “If you want to be a celebrity or a social media star, get your own security,” a former FBI official told the newspaper. “The inappropriateness of this cannot be overstated.” The story was undeniably embarrassing for Patel and Wilkins. In Wilkins’ view, it also was evidence of “stalking,” a federal felony punishable by up to…

Iran’s decades-long bluff-built on terror proxies, nuclear brinkmanship, and Western appeasement-collapsed the moment it faced direct force and a changed geopolitical landscape. Source link

Florida Republican Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, an Army combat veteran, attacked his leading opponent  in the state’s gubernatorial race over not supporting military pay raises.  The Collins campaign distributed a 13-page document titled “Congressman Byron Donalds’ Liabilities.” Donalds holds a double-digit lead against his primary opponents. “Byron Donalds voted with (U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-.N.Y.) and the radical Socialist Squad against three pay raises for military service members, including the largest pay raise for the military in 22 years,” the document said, referencing Donalds’ votes against the National Defense Authorization Act in 2022, 2023 and 2025. The Collins campaign lobbed…

And how America can avoid playing into their hands. Source link

Introduction On April 12, 2026, Turkey formally accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of war crimes and crimes against humanity, issuing a statement from its foreign ministry that described him as the ‘Hitler of our time’ [1]. The accusation was made on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, according to Turkish state media and international news reports [2]. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an initiated the public condemnation, stating that Netanyahu was ‘blinded by blood and hate’ [2]. The foreign ministry statement referenced an existing arrest warrant for Netanyahu issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on war crimes charges and noted that Israel…

It is foolish to suggest that competition anywhere proves that a company isn’t a monopoly. Source link

It sounded at least somewhat promising when Tinder announced last year that it would start requiring photo verification for new users across the United States. Deploying a technology called “Face Check”, Tinder would have every such user take a video selfie whose coordinates would be compared against pictures uploaded with the profile. While this is a partial improvement over the previous state of things where facial verification was generally optional, significant flaws are emerging. Earlier this month, journalist Christophe Haubursin uploaded a video to YouTube that showed a strange phenomenon whereby a lot of Tinder profiles exhibited a similar pattern…

The Financial Times reported Thursday that the White House has accused China of conducting what it calls “industrial-scale” theft of American artificial intelligence technology. Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, wrote in a memo seen by the FT that “foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil U.S. frontier AI systems,” referring to a process whereby AI scientists extract the capabilities of an existing model to create a new one. The administration will also pursue measures “to hold foreign actors accountable,” Kratsios wrote, according to the…

Minerva, Roman goddess guardian of civilization, modeled after Athena, Greek goddess of intelligence, freedom, civilization and protector of Athens. By Elihu Vedder, American painter, 1836–1923. Mosaic, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 1897. Public Domain. Prologue: Trump and the Pope The US-Israeli war against Iran / Persia did more than rain bombs on Iran, Lebanon and throughout the Middle East. It brought to light the theocratic proclivities of Trump and his Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. Ignoring the separation of church and state, Trump almost made himself a new Jesus. This infuriated Pope Leo XIV who said such behavior was…

In a Thursday morning Truth Social post, President Donald Trump said he has ordered the U.S. Navy to “shoot and kill” any boat “that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz.” The White House on Wednesday denied reports from Axios that Trump has a three-to-five-day deadline for Iran to accept a deal. “The president has not set a firm deadline to receive an Iranian proposal, unlike some of the reporting we’ve seen today,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.  Leavitt said that Trump “is satisfied with the naval blockade.” Iran’s speaker of parliament, Mohammad Bagher…