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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Aug 19, 2025

Trump continues his habit of marking his name on everything he can, as the brand new ICE vehicles have "President Donald J. Trump" decals on the back windows. In gold lettering, of course.

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The US government security clearances of at least 37 current and former national security officials have been revoked by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, according to a memo obtained by CNN.

Those impacted include people who were involved in conducting an assessment of Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 election as well as members of former President Joe Biden's National Security Council, according to a person familiar. The person noted most of the intelligence professionals impacted are not household names.


House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries: "It's my expectation that Kristi Noem will be one of the first people hauled up to Congress shortly after the gavels change hands to get a real understanding for the American people as to this conduct that has taken place: The lack of respect for due process, for the rule of law, the unleashing of masked agents on law-abiding immigrant communities, and the disappearing of people in some instances, to other countries without any real evidence that criminal behavior took place," Jeffries said in an interview with Tim Miller on "The Bulwark Podcast. All of this is going to require aggressive Oversight activity." read more


We're all probably feeling a little anxious about AI. It's horrible for the environment, is used as an excuse to fire workers, floods the internet with misinformation and slop, entrenches government surveillance, and appears to be driving people into psychosis. And so, at a time when many college students are dropping out to join AI startups, one former MIT student says she called it quits because she's afraid of something altogether more catastrophic: that an artificial general intelligence (AGI), or superhuman AI, will completely wipe out the human race, Forbes reports. read more


Monday, August 18, 2025

Trump tells Zelensky to give up Crimea and never join NATO ahead of White House talks read more


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