Marco Rubio is going after the International Criminal Court — not just opposing it, but actively working to tear it down. He says the ICC wages war on the U.S. through law, not weapons, and that American service members could face prosecution. Critics note the court was built precisely for countries that refuse accountability.
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NPR's Scott Horsley delivers a sobering fiscal update: the federal government is more than $1.3 trillion in the red with three months still left in the fiscal year [1] — Scott Horsley "Nine months into the fiscal year, the U.S. is more than $1.3 trillion in the red — and the interest bill alone has already surpassed $1 tri…" 02:07 . Tax collections are up, but spending is growing faster — a gap that shows no sign of closing. The starkest figure is the interest bill: paying the interest on accumulated federal debt has already cost more than $1 trillion this fiscal year alone, a sum that dwarfs nearly every line in the federal budget except Social Security [1] — Scott Horsley "Nine months into the fiscal year, the U.S. is more than $1.3 trillion in the red — and the interest bill alone has already surpassed $1 tri…" 02:07 . Adding to the fiscal pressure, the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the president's most sweeping import tariffs has created a massive refund liability. The Treasury Department has already paid out more than $80 billion to businesses and individuals who were charged tariffs the court later ruled illegal [2] — Scott Horsley "The Supreme Court struck down the president's sweeping import taxes, and now the government is footing an $80 billion refund bill. While th…" 02:37 . The administration is pushing to impose new tariffs to replace the lost revenue, but the financial damage from the old ones is still being reckoned with.
Nine months into the fiscal year, the federal government is more than $1.3 trillion in the red.
Just paying interest on accumulated federal debt has cost more than $1 trillion in the last nine months — more than nearly any other single government program except Social Security.
The Supreme Court struck down the president's sweeping import taxes, and now the government is footing an $80 billion refund bill. While the administration scrambles to impose new tariffs, the fiscal fallout from the old ones is still being tallied.
After a third consecutive night of U.S. military strikes on Iran, Tehran is hitting back hard. Bahrain's missile alert system went off for a third time, and Iran targeted two UAE-linked tankers, killing one person and wounding eight others. The region is on edge.
The Treasury Department has paid more than $80 billion in refunds for tariffs that were collected illegally after the Supreme Court struck them down.
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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