Courtney 🗝️

Members of Congress file court motion asking judge to stop Trump's plan for 250-foot tall Arch in DC

Filing: Only Congress "has the authority to approve the placement of monuments and memorials on federal land in the District of Columbia"

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Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Viktor Orbán in power Vladimir Putin endorses plan drawn up by Russian consultancy that is under western sanctions

Russia enters Viktor Orban's election campaign, providing consultants who will flood social media with messages designed, ironically, to frame Orbán, a Russia puppet, as "the only candidate who can keep Hungary sovereign"
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I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

X Didn’t Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It X is allowing only “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s app and website.

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"Macrohard or Digital Optimus is a joint xAI-Tesla project, coming as part of Tesla’s investment agreement with xAI. Grok is the master conductor/navigator with deep understanding of the world to direct digital Optimus, which is processing and actioning the past 5 secs of real-time computer screen video and keyboard/mouse actions. Grok is like a much more advanced and sophisticated version of turn-by-turn navigation software. You can think of it as Digital Optimus AI being System 1 (instinctive part of the mind) and Grok being System 2. (thinking part of the mind). This will run very competitively on the super low cost Tesla AI4 ($650) paired with relatively frugal use of the much more expensive xAI Nvidia hardware. And it will be the only real-time smart AI system. This is a big deal. In principle, it is capable of emulating the function of entire companies. That is why the program is called MACROHARD, a funny reference to Microsoft. No other company can yet do this."

as Tesla unravels Elon Musk will be forced to be increasingly incoherent with his vaporware hype slop until he's just left screaming incoherent strings of non sequiturs about GLORMS and interdimensional portals

Pete Hegseth Halted US Efforts to Limit Civilian Deaths Ahead of Iran War People who were tracking civilian casualties have been reassigned to other jobs, says journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed.

The Trump administration has reassigned people within the Pentagon who were tracking civilian casualties to other jobs. Other teams in charge of assessing whether a strike is proportionate or legal are also no longer in place, putting civilians and U.S. service members at greater risk.

Is this what good things feel like?

I’m sorry you to have to do that, but hell yea ✊🏻

Said no to using their bases.
Stood up to Israel
Spain again leading the way!
🇪🇸 🙌🙌

There are more instances of United States Citizens being detained by ICE than there are of illegal immigrants voting in elections.

Who has the Fox News chyron generator? “Just go through” 😅

Look at that non-war, not spreading.
They sure have a weird grasp of “going well” 😅

A foreign hacker likely has the Epstein Files.

The best way to prevent blackmail of government officials, such as trump and Howard Lutnick, would be for AG Pam Bondi to stop the cover up and release all the Epstein Files as required by law.

And Progressive partnership 😂

Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s staff took issue with photos taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out press photographers from two subsequent news conferences.

Scoop: The Pentagon barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering."

Some Gulf states reviewing sovereign investments to offset economic shock of Iran war, official says Some ​of the Gulf’s economic powerhouses are reassessing ways to deploy their trillions of dollars sovereign wealth funds ‌to offset war‑related losses, a Gulf official told Reuters, as the oil‑ and g...

(Reuters) - Some of the Gulf's economic powerhouses are reassessing ways to deploy their trillions of dollars in sovereign wealth funds to offset war-related losses, a Gulf official told Reuters ..

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Dozens of U.S. service members in Kuwait suffered serious injuries, including burns, brain trauma and shrapnel wounds, sources say About 30 U.S. service members remained hospitalized Tuesday after an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait.

NEW: The Iranian drone strike that killed 6 U.S. troops in Kuwait at the start of the war was far more devastating than previously disclosed.

Dozens suffered traumatic brain injuries, burns, and shrapnel wounds. At least one required an amputation. More than 30 remain hospitalized. (CBS News)

What to know about 'black rain' that fell in Iran after strikes on oil reserves The "black rain" that fell in Tehran as a result of air strikes on major oil storage facilities could have lasting impacts on human health and the environment.

"It's a huge human health catastrophe,” UCS’s Rachel Cleetus told ABC News, regarding the “black rain” falling in Tehran following US airstrikes on major Iranian oil facilities. “It's obviously an ecological catastrophe as well.”

Folks in Maine and Alaska: please call Collins and Murkowski to oppose the confirmation of Casey Means for Surgeon General. They are apparently still on the fence and MAHA is pushing them hard to vote in favor.

2 killed and homes damaged after tornadoes tear through Illinois and Indiana, with more storms moving in Several intense supercell thunderstorms moved across northern Illinois and northwestern Indiana on Tuesday, including one supercell responsible for at least four tornadoes, according to the National W...

Major storms whipped up tornadoes in parts of Illinois and Indiana that leveled homes, killing at least two people and injuring others, and another round of rain, hail and strong winds made its way through the region Wednesday, authorities said. https://to.pbs.org/4s57q5O

U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

I guess all those people on X who claimed it was an Iranian missile and Bellingcat had lied about it being a Tomahawk are rushing to correct themselves - U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
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Wonder how many of those crab legs made an appearance in the mar-a-lago buffet line at their Gatsby/marie Antoinette parties? 🤔🤬

Ohio judge rules that Kalshi is sports betting and must adhere to state law "These 'prediction markets' have exploded and look an awful a lot like gambling," Ohio's attorney general said.

Nice to see a judge basically laugh at the claim that Kalshi and other "prediction" markets are not "betting."

Gotta kill these sites as soon as possible.

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The case of temporary visitors was more complicated at common law. The parents, if lawfully present, were under the temporary protection of the sovereign. That is why one judge in a famous case, Lynch v. Clarke, held in 1844 that a child born of temporary sojourners was a citizen. But the rule was contested because of increasing international travel and the resulting dual allegiances. Joseph Story suggested that an exception for temporary visitors would be a “reasonable qualification” to the rule. Henry St. George Tucker in his treatise stated flatly that temporary visitors fell outside the common-law

I'm afraid I can't just sit here and say nothing when another law professor gives false testimony to Congress about the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Ilan Wurman has given false testimony to Congress, being fully on notice of the falsity. I do not think this is fairly debatable. 1.

well i'd imagine the gulf states' radar systems used to help with the monitoring. Less so now 😅

It is already funny but now it’s become far funnier because they know everyone knows and is looking at their shoes but they still have to do this

* SPAIN REMOVES AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL, ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL STATE GAZETTE

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I can understand the Trump people, idiotically, not making a plan. But it’s unfathomable to me that CENTCOM didn’t have a plan in the files somewhere from a more competent era of American governance. What have generations of Pentagon war planners been doing?

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After Trump destroyed international tourism in the US, he moved onto destroying it in the ME.

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