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The Senate on Tuesday voted nearly unanimously to strip a ten-year moratorium on state-based artificial intelligence regulation from the Big Beautiful Bill after Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said that the provision would allow Big Tech to exploit “kids, creators,” and conservatives. The Senate voted at 4:20 AM Tuesday morning to adopt Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s amendment to eliminate a provision offered by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-TX) that would bar states from regulating artificial intelligence if they would accept additional funding from the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, which is designed to accelerate broadband deployment. Blackburn and…
The election of the first American gained worldwide attention in early May, not just among the faithful, but also among collectors who sought to capitalize on the fact that the new pontiff is not just an American, but an avid baseball fan. Topps NOW released a limited-edition trading card commemorating the historic moment, and it has paid off in a big way. The Pope Leo card has been in high demand, resulting in the production of 133,535 copies as of the time of this writing. On Sunday, the Pope Leo XIV Superfractor 1-of-1 sold for $16,500 at auction through Fanatics Collect,…
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) stated that attempts by Democrats to pass an amendment to strip the provision in the reconciliation bill that will cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood “isn’t just about the issue of access to abortion care.” Co-host Michael Steele asked, “Senator, give us a couple examples of what the Democrats have put on the table. … What are some of the things that Democrats have been offering that Republicans have said hell no, we don’t want that?” Baldwin responded, “Well, there’s a whole range of issues. … We have…
President Donald Trump appeared to leave room to extend his July 4 deadline for Congress to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as the Senate scrambles to push through the legislation amid Republican infighting. “I’d love to do July 4th, but I think it’s very hard to do July 4th,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn on Tuesday, before adding that the goal is “somewhere around there.” The fate of the sweeping megabill remains up in the air, as Republican leaders struggle to secure enough votes to push the legislation through the Senate. Trump has repeatedly sought to…
The late Valery Bolotov proclaims the Act of Independence of the Lugansk People’s Republic, May 12, 2014/Wiki Commons. While the world is fixated on Middle East tensions, Russian forces continue pounding military and strategic targets all over Ukraine. Having amassed an enormous cache of kamikaze drones and missiles, Moscow is methodically implementing its ‘war of attrition’. As we have often discussed here on TGP, in this kind of warfare the main objective is not so much territorial gains, but rather a campaign to degrade the enemy’s capabilities to the point it can’t fight anymore. The only reason why this ‘attrition’…
Will Somerindyke founded a military supply chain and logistics company called Regulus Global a decade ago. Now, he’s raising hundreds of millions for a new defense tech play — and Regulus is the first customer. For years, Will Somerindyke sold weapons of war around the world: artillery shells to Ukraine, grenades to U.S.-backed rebels in Syria. With relationships with dozens of top military buyers, he quickly turned his company Regulus Global into one of America’s major international arms dealers. Now, as Silicon Valley investors swarm to back multi-billion dollar defense startups with increasing fervor, Somerindyke is looking to make the…
Senior Shiite Muslim clerics in Iran have issued religious edicts, or fatwas, condemning President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The fatwa issued by Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi on Sunday reportedly damned Trump and Netanyahu as “warlords” using the term mohareb, which Islam defines as a supreme heretic and blasphemer, someone who wages war against Allah. Iranian law specifies various horrific punishments for a mohareb, including torture and execution. Dissident Iranian journalist Niyak Ghorbani, who supported Israeli airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear program as “everything the Iranian people have dreamed of for the past 46 years,” said on…
On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Greg Kelly Reports,” Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon stated that virtually no American university has followed federal law on non-discrimination in admissions, “and particularly the most elite ones. They have quotas. They have discrimination.” While discussing findings that Harvard violated federal law, Dhillon said that “even if they never took a penny of federal funding again in the future, they’ve taken billions annually over the past many years. And so, the United States has jurisdiction over discrimination that has occurred during the time. And, to be very clear, every time…
Under the new scheme in Austria’s Burgenland, asylum seekers who refuse to work will face welfare benefit cuts Burgenland state in Austria has introduced a scheme requiring asylum seekers to work for their host municipalities. Those who repeatedly refuse will see their welfare benefits cut to the bare minimum.Speaking last Wednesday, State Councilor Daniela Winkler from the Social Democratic Party (SPO) explained that “migration must be financially and socially viable,” adding that the measures are meant to reflect “fairness towards the population.”The ‘Burgenland Model’, approved by the regional legislature in December 2024, is set to launch on July 1.Winkler argued…
Sunni Shia Divide – Atomic Jihad – Screenshot Guest post by Joel Gilbert To understand Iran’s obsession with destroying Israel, one must look to the centuries-old sectarian rift within Islam between Shia and Sunni Muslims. Most Iranians are Shia Muslims, while worldwide about 90% of all Muslims are Sunni. Within this divide is the real basis for Iran’s relentless opposition to the Jewish state because, at its core, Iran’s obsession with Israel is about a Shia Muslim inferiority complex within Islam. For centuries of Islamic history, Shia Muslims were persecuted minorities, politically sidelined and religiously denounced by Sunni rulers. This…