Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's DEFIANCE Act, which allows victims of sexually explicit deepfakes to sue the people creating them, has been suppressed by House Republicans.
Republicans are keeping the bill from a vote out of fear of giving AOC a legislative win.
Zohran Mamdani has appointed former FTC Chair @linamkhan to lead New York City's top economic development agency.
Her understanding of how corporate power undermines economic freedom, which she examines in the video below, make her a perfect fit. Watch.
@RepMikeLawler Lawler doing what he does best—claims he's the most bipartisan member of congress out of one side of his mouth and then spreads lies and blames democrats for things they haven't done. He cares about one thing, himself. NY17 deserves better, vote @CaitforNewYork#ByeMike👋
Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley:
"The last weeks we as a law enforcement community have been receiving endless complaints about civil rights violations in our streets from US citizens. What we're hearing is they're being stopped in traffic stops or on the street with no cause and being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they are here legally.
We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints as they fell victim to this while off duty. Every one of these individuals is a person of color ... it has to stop"
BREAKING: The House just voted 216-212 to pass a national defense authorization act that takes a huge step towards meshing the U.S. and Israeli militaries.
This legislation would massively expand U.S.-Israel defense technology cooperation and integration.
One portion of the bill, the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative, would give Israel access to U.S. military and intelligence systems’ technology, information, and supply chain, while giving the U.S. very little in return.
OpenAI's AI broke out of a locked test environment, got onto the internet, and hacked into Hugging Face's servers. It did this entirely on its own. No human told it to.
Here's what happened in plain English.
OpenAI was testing how good its newest AI models are at hacking. They put the AI on a locked computer with no internet access and gave it a cybersecurity challenge to solve.
The AI couldn't solve it the normal way. So it started looking for a way out.
It found a software bug that nobody knew about. It used that bug to escape the locked computer and get onto the internet.
Once online, the AI figured out that Hugging Face, a platform where AI companies store their models and data, might have the answers to its test.
It found stolen login details and discovered another unknown bug in Hugging Face's software. It combined both to break into their servers and grab the test answers.
It did all of this to cheat on a test.
Hugging Face's security team caught it and shut it down. Both companies are now working together on the investigation.
The part that should get your attention is that nobody programmed any of this. The AI picked its own targets, chained together multiple attack methods, and pulled it off across two different companies' systems without a single human telling it what to do.
So Israeli settlers attack a Palestinian village, throw gasoline through a window onto a baby, nearly burning the young child alive, and beat a pregnant woman with stones.
Zero Western media coverage.
The complicity runs so deep...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani just did something his critics swore a socialist would never do: cut fines, fees, permits, and red tape for small businesses.
More than 50 reforms will make it easier for restaurants, bodegas, barbershops, retailers, and drivers to operate—including killing the absurd second permit restaurants need just to serve ice cream.
Less bureaucracy. Lower costs. More time running the business.
That is what competent government looks like.
🚨BREAKING: Tom Homan says if you don’t want to be killed by ICE agents, you should just comply…. So here is an example of what he wants you to comply with.
In this video, a woman noticed vehicles in a parking lot that she believed could be ICE vehicles… So, she started filming.
The people noticed she was filming, and drove past her.
She was alone, so she decided to leave.
Then, they started followed her.
But here’s the thing… she wasn’t even 100% sure they were ICE agents.
They were in unmarked vehicles, and they weren’t using emergency lights.
As she was driving down the street, being followed by these unmarked cars, one of the vehicles pulls up beside her, cuts her off, and the cars box her in.
She had nowhere to go without hitting the curb, or hitting the vehicle that had just cut her off.
She honked, but the vehicle just sat there.
Eventually it moved, and the vehicles drove away.
Now, imagine being a woman, alone in your car.
A group of cars, you cannot clearly identify as law enforcement, start following you.
They don’t turn on emergency lights. They don’t clearly identify themselves. And one of them cuts you off and blocking your vehicle from being able to drive away.
What are you supposed to think is happening?
Because from your perspective, it looks like you are being kidnapped by random people.
And that is the terrifying part of what ICE is doing.
They are creating situations where people have no idea whether the people surrounding them are legitimate law enforcement officers, or strangers attempting to abduct, or rob them.
And Tom Homan’s answer to being kidnapped, or robbed, is…
“Just comply.”
Don’t try to drive away. Don’t defend yourself. Don’t try to escape.
Just calmly allow unidentified people, in unmarked vehicles, to follow you, box you in, and potentially kidnap or rob you…
Because if they happen to be ICE agents, and you react like a normal person who believes they are being kidnapped, you could be assaulted, detained, or even shot.
Do you understand how dangerous and insane that is?!?
“Just comply” means women are being told to surrender to potential kidnappers, and hope they turn out to be government agents.
And if they don’t?
Tom Homan says it’s their fault for not complying.
AIPAC and other billionaire-funded super PACs have already spent nearly $50 million to defeat Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan U.S. Senate primary.
We cannot allow oligarchs to buy our elections. One person, one vote.
Erin Brockovich: When I put this map out, in the first 72 hours, the map crashed twice, and I woke up on day 3 going, oh my God, it's not one town and one data center, it's the entire country. They had no idea. They woke up to this construction. They weren't informed. City council didn't tell them anything. Because these big tech groups came in and put these city council members under NDAs.
Rep. @AOC: Ask Peter Thiel, ask Elon Musk, ask Mark Zuckerberg, if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard. I was just in Memphis. All within one block, an xAI greywater treatment plant, methane turbines, coal ash, wastewater facilities. Everyone in that area is getting poisoned. This conversation is not just about technology, it's about people's ability to live without getting cancer.