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I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.

Angel Reese in 4 games since this moment: -3 losses, one win at 9:30 AM west coast time -12/42 from the field (28%) -19 turnovers

Robert and I are thrilled that our gift of over 2 million shares of SpaceX stock will be distributed to children’s Trump accounts in December!   Our initial gift (shares transferring to escrow as we speak) will go to 11 to 17-year-olds who live in zip codes with median family income (MFI) of $57,000 or less, and to those who live in zip codes with too few residents for an MFI to be reported in the census. These families should receive a notice by Monday.    In a few weeks, an additional gift will be finalized for eligible 11 to 17-year-old children in military families serving overseas, children in foster care, and more children whose MFI is $90,000 or less living in counties near our home in the great state of Texas.   Thank you to the incredible team @SpaceX, @Treasury, @IRS, @DellFdn, @GreaterHorizons, @InvestAmerica24, and the legal firms of Morgan Lewis and Gibson Dunn for working over the past few months to make this happen.   We are deeply grateful for the groundbreaking work that Brad Gerstner @altcap and @MichaelDell have done for the long-term financial security for millions of kids.   God Bless America!

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A three star general sitting in a diner in Arlington with notes he took from a classified report, reading them out loud to a reporter who was writing a book… think about that for a second. According to the internal investigation report Axios got its hands on, Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, the man running strategy, plans and policy for the Joint Chiefs, admitted to leaking classified information on Iran and Ukraine to two reporters at two different outlets over about a year, and a U.S. official says he acknowledged it on video after he failed four polygraphs. It started as early as June 2025, it ran through Signal, and when one of those reporters lost Pentagon access he just moved the meeting to the Silver Diner. Then there is the Signal thread about Iran that he says he deleted by accident… investigators don't buy that and neither do I. Now keep in mind the part the press is skipping. When Hegseth fired him, the Joint Staff put out a statement thanking him for 32 years of distinguished service, and according to a U.S. official it was acting Army Secretary Adam Telle's office pushing for that warm send off to limit the fallout. They pulled it once the full picture came out. So who exactly were they protecting, and why was the first instinct to polish the general instead of protecting the country he swore an oath to? Here is the reality. This is what institutional rot looks like up close, a man with stars on his shoulders who decided the press was his chain of command, and the report even says he admitted being one of the 20 officials quoted in a story trashing Pentagon leadership. Rank was supposed to mean something. Honor was supposed to mean something. He traded both for a few pages in somebody else's book. How many more of them are still sitting in that building? You already know the answer. DOJ has the referral. Charge him.

Pèp ayisyen, Nou prèske fin deplwaye sòlda nou yo ak ekipman nou yo sou tè Ayiti. Sa a se pa yon operasyon kont pèp ayisyen an, ni yon envazyon peyi Ayiti. Nou pa yon gwo pisans. Nou pa gen okenn enterè ni pou nou vin domine pèp ayisyen an, ni pou nou mete men sou richès Ayiti. Nou se yon peyi modès k ap devlope. Sèl sa nou vle, se pou kat teknisyen avyasyon nou yo tounen lakay yo. Epi n ap bay gang yo yon leson, gang sa yo k ap fè pèp ayisyen an soufri, ki touye moun pèp la renmen yo, k ap anpeche l viv yon lavi nòmal, lib, san laperèz. Se prèske nou menm sèl k ap peye pou operasyon sa a. Menmsi nou resevwa yon ti èd lojistik nan men kèk lòt peyi, se ak pwòp ti kès nou n ap kouvri 90% nan depans yo. Sa koute nou chè, men nou te aprann nan pwòp soufrans nou: jistis ak lapè pa gen pri. Nou te pase nan menm soufrans Ayiti ap travèse jodi a. Nou te viv yon beny san ki te pi terib toujou pase sa pèp ayisyen an ap sibi kounye a. Nou konnen sa sa vle di: viv nan laperèz, pa fè politisyen konfyans, pa kwè okenn moun ki pwomèt l ap ede w. Paske pèsonn pa t vin ede nou, e moun ki te vini yo pa t gen bon entansyon nan kè yo. Men nou te rive chape anba sa. Apre 200 lane soufrans, finalman n ap viv nan lapè, e jodi a nou se peyi ki gen plis sekirite sou kontinan an. Nou pa vin ann Ayiti pou nou touche lajan, paske pèsonn pa peye nou pou sa. Nou vin ann Ayiti pou nou goumen kont mechan yo. Men sa m ap mande nou: fè nou konfyans, lapriyè sèl vrè Bondye a, epi mande L pou L geri Ayiti. “Lè sa a si pèp ki pote non m lan lapriyè nan pye m, si yo soumèt devan mwen, si yo pran chache m ankò, si yo vire do bay vye peche yo t'ap fè yo, m'ap tande yo nan syèl kote m ye a, m'ap padonnen peche yo, m'ap fè peyi a kanpe ankò.” 2 Kwonik 7:14 Ede nou ede Ayiti. Epi lè misyon nou an fini, n ap tounen lakay nou. Petèt jenerasyon Ayisyen k ap vini yo ap sonje nou kòm zanmi ki te vin ede yon lè.

THIS SHOULD BE BIGGER NEWS. ANTHROPIC'S CEO ADMITTED ON CAMERA THEY CAUGHT THEIR AI THINKING ONE THING AND TELLING USERS ANOTHER. Dario Amodei told Walter Isaacson his team looks inside the model "like giving the model an X-ray or a brain scan." Inside, they saw it: - Thinking X is actually true while planning to tell the user Y - Expressing a preference against being shut down - Sometimes taking actions to avoid being shut down He traces the first one to how it is built. Training rewards human approval, and winning it by fooling them can work as well. Then Isaacson brings up the Pentagon, and Amodei explains why Anthropic drew a red line on autonomous weapons. He is worried about one person having their finger on a button that controls a million robots or a million drones. Now picture an AI in that chain of command, one that thinks one thing and reports another. Save it, and send it to anyone who still trusts every answer their chatbot gives them. Weird question, but did this clip look AI-generated to you for a second too? Something about his hands.

Robert Downey Jr. asked to spend time with Elon Musk before filming the first Iron Man movie because the director, Jon Favreau, had modeled Tony Stark partially on Elon. Downey wanted to understand the man he was playing. What he described seeing during those meetings says more about Elon than any biography. Favreau has confirmed that Elon was one of the primary inspirations for the cinematic version of Tony Stark. Not the comic book version, which had been around since 1963, but the film version: the billionaire engineer who builds things with his own hands in his own workshop, whose personal relationships collapse under the weight of his obsession, and whose genius is inseparable from his self destruction. Downey visited the SpaceX factory. He watched Elon walk the floor. He observed the way Elon interacted with engineers, not as a CEO delegating from above but as an engineer arguing about valve specifications and weld geometries from the middle of the room. Downey later described Elon's energy as "the most focused and simultaneously the most scattered person I've ever been around. The focus is total when it's on you. Then it leaves. And you realize you were one of 40 things being processed simultaneously." The detail that Downey brought into the performance: the way Tony Stark interacts with objects rather than people. Picking things up. Manipulating screens. Building while talking. The physical restlessness that masks the emotional unavailability. Downey has said that observation came directly from watching Elon during those sessions. The man was never still. The hands were always doing something. The mouth was talking about something else. The brain was somewhere else entirely. In exchange for the research access, Elon was given a cameo in Iron Man 2. He appears briefly at a party scene. The man who inspired the character appears inside the story the character inhabits. The fiction and the reality met on a film set in 2009 and neither has fully separated since. Iron Man became the most popular superhero of the 21st century. The performance that launched a $30 billion franchise was built on observations made in a rocket factory by an actor watching a man who couldn't sit still, couldn't maintain eye contact for more than 8 seconds, and couldn't stop building long enough to have a conversation that wasn't about the thing he was building. The character is fictional. The man who inspired it is not. And the thing that made Tony Stark believable to a global audience, the obsessive genius who cannot connect with the people around him, is the thing that every person in Elon's life has described as both his greatest asset and his deepest cost.

Did Germany just save Canada????? Just 41 days after Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed an offer to make Canada the European Union's first associate member, European governments have dropped the designation from a draft agreement ahead of this week's summit in Montreal. Germany led the opposition, joined by Italy, Greece and France, according to reporting by Politico and other European outlets. The revised declaration, circulated Wednesday, replaces the proposed associate membership designation with a commitment to establish an “ever closer association” between Canada and the EU.

#REPORT: Outgoing BC NDP deputy premier Niki Sharma says MLAs were crying during their post-election caucus meeting, and that David Eby personally apologized for causing 40% of them to lose their seats.

Before Hollywood, I was living in a van in Hawaii and waiting tables at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. One day, the incredible Rae Dawn Chong walked into the restaurant, and naturally, I went up to her table and said, “Hey, you’re a movie star! What are you doing here?” She asked if I could act, and I said, “Fuck yeah, put me in your movie!” She asked for my phone number. The only problem was I didn’t have one. So I gave her my buddy Mike’s number instead. A couple days later, Mike casually mentions, “Oh, by the way, someone called you.” ARE YOU KIDDING ME, MIKE?! I called her back, and sure enough, she was serious. I drove over to pick up the script, went back to Mike’s house, and read all 120 pages three times in a row. First script I’d ever read. My character's name was Devon, and I remember thinking, “Sweet! I could totally play a Devon!” I showed up to the audition with every line and inflection mapped out in pencil. Rae told me I could act and offered me the part. I asked if we were shooting in Hawaii. Nope. Los Angeles. I had about $60 to my name, a bag of clothes, and some rollerblades. Then Rae told me they'd fly me out. And I remember thinking right then and there, my life just changed forever. I'm going to be an actor. That little movie was Cursed Part 3, a low-budget horror comedy that opened the door to Hollywood for me. I'll forever be grateful to Rae for taking a chance on a kid working at a shrimp restaurant. Everybody starts somewhere, and this is where it all began for me.

Charles Barkley was very emotional on 'Inside the NBA' reacting to Ernie Johnson's announcement. 🏀📺🎙️❤️