White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt itemized USAID expenditures: $1.5M for DEI in Serbian workplaces, $70K for a DEI musical in Ireland, $47K for a transgender opera in Colombia, $42K for a transgender comic book in Peru. Bongino points out that since USAID was defunded, 7 of 7 Latin American elections have gone right.
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Bongino pivots to education, citing a Wall Street Journal opinion piece. The federal program in question offers donors a $1,700 tax credit when they contribute to a scholarship fund that parents can use for school expenses — including private school tuition. States opt in at zero cost: no payments, no administration, just a declaration of participation. [1] — Dan Bongino "American Financing customers save avg $800/mo: American Financing reports its customers are saving an average of $800 a month by refinancin…" 28:01 Despite this, virtually every Democrat-led state refused to join — with only two exceptions. Bongino ties this directly to the teachers unions: Randy Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers and a figure he's described previously as a dangerous influence on children's education, opposed it. He argues that Democratic governors dutifully fell in line with Weingarten's instructions, sacrificing a genuine educational benefit for working-class families to protect union power. For Bongino, this isn't a policy disagreement — it's evidence that the people holding power actively want your children stuck in inferior schools.
A federal program gives donors a $1,700 tax credit to fund school-choice scholarships, with zero cost to participating states. Despite this, almost every Democrat-led state refused to opt in after the teachers unions — led by Randy Weingarten — opposed it. Bongino: they hate your kids.
A federal program offers a $1,700 tax credit to donors who fund a school-choice scholarship pool, but most Democrat-led states have refused to opt in.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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