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Three years after his son was killed, Antonio Mays Sr. sued the city of Seattle. His version of events was the opposite of the protesters' narrative: Antonio Jr. had not attacked CHOP — he had come to join the movement. The lawsuit reignited questions reporters had never stopped asking.
Trump released declassified documents at a White House speech claiming U.S. elections are vulnerable — but offered no new evidence of fraudulent votes. Georgia's own election chief fired back with a data point so stark it stops the argument cold: exactly one noncitizen vote found going all the way back to 1996.
The US government is positioning itself to greenlight which companies can access frontier AI models before release, under the voluntary Project Golden Eagle. The panel sees this as driven less by safety and more by political and financial interests — a Faustian deal the frontier labs are embracing.
Requiring age verification to access social media sounds protective. But it requires building a database with the real name and birthday of every internet user. History shows that database will be breached, misused, or weaponized. Harper Reed calls it what it is: a surveillance bill with a child-safety label.
Documents Trump declassified contain an intelligence assessment that China evaluated leaking damaging information about Trump to thwart his reelection if US-China relations became threatening to Beijing's rise. The specifics of what China held are entirely redacted — but the structure of the document makes clear something was there.
China steals technology developed by Western companies, replicates it, and has the state subsidize it into market dominance. That is CIA Director Ratcliffe's own characterization of Beijing's strategy — delivered at a public summit while his boss funds the next round of the cycle.
In his own 2021 dissent to the foreign interference assessment, John Ratcliffe only argued that China's disinformation effort was larger than the main assessment said — he made zero claim about votes being switched. The MSNBC panelist Rhode read directly from the document, cutting through Trump's post-speech spin.
Documents released in Trump's own declassification batch confirm that Russia spread false claims about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden through Burisma, planned a high-profile corruption scandal timed to the 2020 election, and advanced those narratives with US officials and people close to Trump himself. The receipts came from Trump's own document dump.
The Trump regime tentatively agreed to a draft nuclear deal allowing Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium without adopting IAEA Enhanced Safeguard Protocols — a condition nuclear experts say could give Riyadh a path to weapons-grade material. The deal was negotiated in October 2025 and lawmakers have not received it for mandatory congressional review.
NYC Mayor Mamdani asked residents not to set AC below 74°F during a heat wave — Taylor Swift apparently ignored this entirely for her MSG wedding. Matt McCusker sees it as a potential 'totalitarian tiptoe': a small compliance test to gauge how much control the government can actually wield.
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