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WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 31: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta testifies before the Senate Judiciary … More Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony from the heads of the largest tech firms on the dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Getty Images Business monopolies don’t need to compete. Why should they compete when they’re already monopolies? It’s a question worth asking in consideration of the FTC’s lawsuit against Meta, one that accuses it of having acquired monopoly dominance of the social media market…
War creates a waking nightmare which any sensible person would want to avoid except in the direst necessity. And yet we are ruled by people who actively seek it out. Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): War is the worst thing in the world. It is the single craziest behavior exhibited by humans. The most destructive. The most traumatizing. The least sustainable. The least conducive to human thriving. All the things we fear most become the norm in a land ravaged by war. Death. Pain. Suffering. Rape. Chaos. Uncertainty. Losing loved ones. Losing homes. Losing…
Actor Pedro Pascal, who is set to play Reed Richards in Disney’s upcoming Fantastic Four reboot, called author J.K. Rowling bully who “makes me fucking sick” over her defense of women’s rights against radical transgender ideology. As Breitbart News reported in April, Pascal called J.K. Rowling a “heinous loser” after the acclaimed author celebrated a recent ruling by the U.K. Supreme Court maintaining that transgenders do not legally qualify as biological women. Speaking with Vanity Fair for a cover story, Pedro Pascal doubled-down on his language and called Rowling a bully who “makes me fucking sick.” “The one thing that I would say I…
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson on Monday announced that, as part of the FTC’s approval of a merger between two of the largest advertising companies, the advertising giants agreed not to collude or discriminate based on political or ideological viewpoints. The FTC noted that the two advertising companies were founding members of a cross-industry initiative called GARM through which there was collusion to blacklist center-right outlets such as Breitbart News, Fox News, and the Daily Wire. Ferguson announced that the FTC had extracted a major victory as part of the agency’s agreement for Omnicom and IPG to merge. The two…
It’s getting late early for John Cornyn. Yet another poll shows the four-term incumbent lagging well behind his hard-right challenger, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in next year’s primary. The poll, conducted on behalf of a Paxton-allied super PAC, shows the Texas attorney general with a commanding 19-point lead over the incumbent — 57 to 38 percent — in a head-to-head matchup of Texas Republican primary voters. It’s the latest data pointfor national Republicans who see Cornyn flailing with primary voters but worry about the general election prospects for Paxton, who has faced both indictment and impeachment. The race has…
Imposing tougher restrictions could undermine peace talks efforts, the US secretary of state has warned Introducing more sanctions against Russia could derail ongoing peace efforts in the Ukraine conflict, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Politico on Wednesday.US President Donald Trump has refused to launch new sanctions targeting Moscow, despite pressure from G7 allies and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky.Trump has cited the risk of undermining his ongoing diplomatic efforts since taking office in January.“If we did what everybody here wants us to do, and that is come in and crush them [Russia] with more sanctions, we probably lose our ability to…
A massive multi-agency federal operation is unfolding right now in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, where agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have surrounded a fire equipment manufacturer, Queen City News reported. The company at the center of the storm is Buckeye Fire Equipment, a major supplier with past contracts tied to the Department of Defense (DoD) and Small Business Administration (SBA). Authorities confirmed to Queen City News that a criminal search warrant is being executed at the facility on Kings Road in…
(Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)Getty Images The CEO of the X Games and the former head of Google’s AI Solutions Architecture are teaming up to launch The Owl AI, a set of artificial intelligence tools designed to improve sports judging, refereeing, talent evaluation, coaching, and athletic performance. Along the way, The Owl AI also can deliver live, on-screen commentary in 40 languages other than English, enormously expanding the possible reach of televised experiences. The company today announced it has raised $11 million in a seed round led by S32, the venture fund founded by Google Ventures creator Bill Maris, with…
The South China Morning Post, citing anonymous sources, reported on Tuesday that genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping will be skipping the upcoming BRICS summit in Brazil due to a “scheduling conflict,” the first time in the history of the coalition that Xi would be absent. The nations of BRICS – led by its most powerful members, China and Russia – are expected to meet for a summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6 and 7. Brazil assumed the presidency of the bloc from Russia in January, which hosted the last high-level summit in Kazan in October. Xi Jinping was arguably…
During an interview with the Fox News Channel aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Story,” IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said that Iran’s “nuclear program has been set back significantly.” And there’s a “night and day” difference between Iran’s nuclear program two weeks ago and where it is now. Host Martha MacCallum asked, [relevant exchange begins around 6:15] “Given what you have seen from the sky, and understanding that you haven’t been on the ground yet, how far back do you believe Iran’s nuclear weapons program has been set by these strikes. Is it months, is it years?” Grossi answered, “I…