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A UN expert recently said in a report that the Venezuela invasion and kidnapping of Maduro was a violation of international law that violated Venezuela’s sovereignty. The U.S. has since been seizing all of Venezuela’s oil revenues and its oil reserves as Trump brags about it.

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Trump was reportedly encouraged by Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, to carry out his illegal invasion of Venezuela during an hourslong session with the chatbot just weeks before the attack this January.https://t.co/dj54Z1j8zG

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An official present told Time that Trump asked Grok how Venezuelans would feel if he captured Maduro. The bot “responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall.”

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Half of the population of Doral, Florida is from Venezuela, yet the city voluntarily signed an agreement with ICE. https://t.co/jR5tkHAnXD

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Rebecca Cooke, a Wisconsin Democratic congressional candidate, sent a “cease and desist” order to her Republican opponent due to his constant use of AI “deepfakes” featuring her likeness. “He has nothing else to run on.”https://t.co/kG7Udior9O

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Trump’s Justice Department has entertained the idea of reframing former President Richard Nixon as a victim of “deep state” persecution in the Watergate scandal, with allies likening Nixon to Trump as an unfairly maligned figure.https://t.co/2o37cJs8Yl

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JD Vance said Angie Nixon was un-American at a campaign rally, “When Angie Nixon calls herself a socialist, I think the right response is, ‘Get the hell out of here,'” Vance said during the rally. “You don’t belong in America, if those are your views.” https://t.co/XumwPdTGxq

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Amid allegations of insider trading, bets on military operations, and deceptive marketing practices, some states are seeking to sue or ban prediction markets. But the federal government is suing states that seek to enforce their gambling laws against them. https://t.co/kDDKsSqEzE

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Trump’s meme coin has launched a competition to attend “the most exclusive dinner in the world” — all they have to do is buy a digital token with no inherent value that has lost investors billions of dollars while further enriching the president. https://t.co/e2Ev5SVHEm

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Jared Kushner’s private equity company has major stakes in companies that provide weapons to the Israeli military, as new reporting reveals the latest conflict of interest concerns with regard to Kushner’s role as a top negotiator for Trump on Gaza. https://t.co/0crcbUAAnS

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Jalal Shehadeh, a Miami-based attorney and Palestinian rights advocate, was held for several hours for a secondary inspection and had his phone seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after he refused to allow federal agents to search it. https://t.co/7l4utZKhoj

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“It’s actually the people who are building [AI] that are the existential risks to humanity. If a bridge collapses, we don’t ever ask, “Was the bridge uncontrollable? Was the bridge unethical?”https://t.co/hlRaQPQCJy

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Indeed, Kalshi absurdly touts that bettors on their website have “skin in the game” and therefore are a more accurate glimpse into the future — unlike poll respondents, who the company implicitly suggests are not actually invested in the outcome of an election.

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CBS has become the latest news outlet to announce that it is using data from Kalshi — the outlet’s “prediction market sponsor” — in coverage of the midterm elections alongside polling data. https://t.co/CSL6nnkGCV

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“Predictions crowd out coverage of substance,” wrote Jonathan Reiss. “In politics, this means less information to help voters evaluate candidates. Focusing on the odds gives the impression that the horse race is more important than the issues.”

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Senator Bernie Sanders and 30 Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to Marco Rubio saying that recent actions from the White House “point toward an apparent effort to interfere with, and potentially undermine, Brazil’s general election in October.”https://t.co/nhqjGBXFr9

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Trump reiterated his desire to “annihilate” the people of Iran. When asked “why is it taking so long” to end the conflict, Trump defended the length of the war, claiming he now has additional objectives in mind.

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A Time reporter asked Trump if Americans “misunderstood” his initial claims that the war would last “four to six weeks.” Trump brushed off the concern as manufactured by news media, saying, “No, I think the press fed it to them.” https://t.co/U86L9eSvKx

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Casar urged all Democrats to reject campaign cash from billionaires whose wealth stems from the AI, following news that the president of OpenAI abandoned plans to donate millions more to a super PAC that has funneled money to members of both parties. https://t.co/1cvuRFQsg1

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Tennessee woman Christa Pike has been hospitalized after surviving two lethal injection doses administered by state officials on Wednesday evening, marking the second botched execution in the state this year. https://t.co/iBCqIqMriI