🇺🇸Gov. Greg Abbott ordered every Texas state agency to stop spending money on Flock cameras after a state board poured at least $30 million into the AI license plate-reader network.
Abbott said cities and counties are already canceling contracts after multiple officers were charged with misusing the cameras to spy on people for months.
🇺🇸UPDATE: A former White House teleprompter operator was fined $172,000 after federal regulators said he used advance copies of Trump’s speeches to bet on Kalshi about the exact words the president would say.
Gabriel Perez made $107,000+ in profits from December to February, including on the State of the Union, before leaving the $175,000-a-year job.
He also received a 3-year trading ban after cooperating with the CFTC.
🇮🇷UPDATE: The IRGC confirmed a U.S. strike on Larak Island killed and wounded several fighters and civilians.
Iran vowed a “decisive response” that will punish those responsible.
🇺🇸HBCU Tuskegee University’s president is standing by a renewed dress code that requires professional clothes in class and bans durags and bonnets, saying the point is job readiness, not policing style.
Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Mark Brown said that if you raise the bar, students will reach it, and that letting them practice being late or sloppy for 4 years only sets them up to lose jobs later.
Critics call it respectability politics, while Brown says about 70% of May graduates already had jobs lined up.
🇺🇸A Columbia, South Carolina cop was shot dead and another was wounded in a gunfight with a career criminal who was out on bond after answering a domestic-dispute call.
Officer Christopher DeLong, 29, left behind a wife and 2 young children.
The suspect, 33-year-old Adam Tyler Dowdy, was also killed in the shootout.
He had arrests across 4 states and pending family-violence charges in Georgia with a court date still months away.
Police said it was the 1st time in 50+ years a Columbia officer had been killed in the line of duty.
🇺🇸Rep. James Clyburn said he now considers backing Clarence Thomas’s confirmation 1 of the biggest mistakes of his life.
The South Carolina Democrat said he had “no idea that Clarence Thomas would rebel the way he has against his own background and experiences.”
Thomas recently answered that kind of attack by saying the Left treats him as a walking contradiction for refusing to think the way they demand based on his skin color.
🇺🇸California lawmakers just sent Newsom a bill that would ban disposable nicotine vapes from being imported or made for sale in the state starting in 2027 and from being sold at all by 2028.
Repeat violators would face civil fines up to $2,000, with supporters arguing the devices litter beaches, leach chemicals into water, and start fires at waste plants.
They even say the lithium and copper inside would be better used in electric-car batteries.
🇺🇸A federal appeals court just ruled that South Carolina’s mail-in voting law is unconstitutional because it lets anyone 65 and older vote absentee with no questions asked while younger voters still have to prove they’re out of town, disabled, or meet other rules.
The Fourth Circuit said the state is handing out voting opportunities based solely on age, which violates the 26th Amendment, and told lower courts they must either open no-excuse mail ballots to everyone or to no one.
South Carolina plans to keep fighting, possibly all the way to the Supreme Court.
🔥 President Trump is spending his Sunday absolutely RIPPING Canada, calling on auto manufacturers to return to AMERICA
"I don’t want Canadian cars, I don’t want Canadian parts, I don’t want Canadian ANYTHING. They’ve been ripping us off for DECADES, and it’s going to STOP."
"They want to be treated like a State, but they aren’t one. I deal with the Leadership of many Countries, but I find Canada to be the WORST. They are entitled no longer!"
Democratic Socialists leaders often live like millionaires.
How did they become millionaires on govt. jobs?
Shared sacrifice does't apply to them?
Are Bernie, AOC, Abdul Sayed etc lying to Democrat Socialist about shared sacrifice?
a. Hell Yes
b. no
Thoughts?
🇺🇸A DSA national leader, transgender Sarah Milner, says abolishing ICE is not enough—the people who ran the agency must be put on trial.
"We need to be pursuing the political annihilation of ICE and what it represents.
People who are involved in this should be permanently removed from political power. It should be a black mark against your name that never goes away."
🇪🇺A 532-member WhatsApp group helped move hundreds of millions of euros in cash around the world—including payments linked to ISIS militants in Syria—using hawala so the money never left a paper trail banks could follow.
The same kind of secret networks also fund Iran-backed militias and can pay for weapons, propaganda, and sleeper cells waiting to be activated in Europe and the UK.
When these pipelines touch European banks, the fines can land on shareholders, customers, and taxpayers.
Source: @Younesrocks
🇺🇸 Senator Ted Cruz says deciding who governs Iran is not America’s responsibility, but preventing a government that threatens Americans is.
Cruz said Iran “should not be a radical theocrat who hates America and is trying to kill Americans.”
He praised Trump as a “strong commander in chief,” saying his actions are focused on keeping Americans safe.
Randi Weingarten urges people to boycott target because they haven’t condemned law enforcement for arresting foreign r*pists
This person wants to dictate your child’s education
🇺🇸 An eight-acre corn maze in Woodstock, Illinois, has been transformed into a giant tribute to country music icon Dolly Parton.
Visitors can choose between easy and hard paths while exploring the maze and answering trivia questions about Parton’s life and legacy.
The attraction also features a large cardboard Dolly cutout where fans can stop for photos.
🇳🇵 Around 100 people are feared trapped inside a tunnel at Nepal’s Trishuli Hydropower Station following deadly flash floods.
Crews are working to clear rubble as rescue efforts intensify, but the prime minister’s office says there has been “no response” from inside the tunnel.