KRON: AI could replace 99% of workers in five years, warns AI researcher
"...“We’re looking at a world where we have levels of unemployment we’ve never seen before... Not talking about 10% unemployment, which is scary, but 99%.”..."
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#AI #AIpocalypse #jobs
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Hoping to get $100 towards the goal this weekend. 🙏🏾🤞🏾
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We need to bring back poetry fights.
3 verses.
Must rhyme.
5 turns each.
No personal attacks.
Audience decides winner.
Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers
The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad. By ordering the U.S.The New York Times - Charlie Savage
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Advanced guides to enhance your surveillance self-defense skill set. Congratulations! You've already taken steps to improve the safety of your online communications. Now you want to take it to the next level, and with this playlist, you can.ssd.eff.org
Andrew Tate Agrees to 3-Year Restraining Order, Can't Possess Firearms in U.S.
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Andrew Tate Agrees to 3-Year Restraining Order, Can’t Own Guns in U.S.
Andrew Tate is under a new 3-year order that bars him from possessing guns in the U.S. or contacting model Brianna Stern.Nancy Dillon (Rolling Stone)
Por Primeira vez, O Cayenne será totalmente eléctrico: ata 1.000 cv, reserva de enerxía ata 700 km
A novidade principal é a carga sen fíos a través dunha plataforma no garaxe cunha capacidade de ata 11 kw.
O modelo manterá o seu carácter deportivo, actualizará o seu deseño e multimedia, e a estrea terá lugar en 2025.
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"Publicly available government contracts show that Israel’s advertising bureau, which reports to the prime minister’s office, has since embarked on a mass advertising and public messaging effort to conceal the hunger crisis. The push includes the use of American influencers widely reported on last month. It also includes a high-dollar spending spree on paid advertising, yielding tens of millions for Google, YouTube, X, Meta, and other tech platforms.
“There is food in Gaza. Any other claim is a lie,” asserted a propaganda video published by Israel’s foreign ministry to Google’s YouTube video sharing platform in late August and viewed more than 6 million times. Much of the video’s reach results from an ad placed during an ongoing and previously unreported $45 million (NIS 150 million) advertising campaign initiated between Google and Netanyahu’s office in late June. The contract—which is with both YouTube and Google's advertising campaign management platform, Display & Video 360—explicitly characterizes the ad campaign as hasbara, a Hebrew word whose meaning is somewhere between public relations and propaganda.
Records show that the Israeli government similarly spent $3 million (NIS 10 million) for an advertising campaign with X. The French and Israeli advertising platform Outbrain/Teads is also set to receive roughly $2.1 million (NIS 7 million)."
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#Google #Propaganda #BigTech #YouTube #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
Google’s $45 million contract to spread Netanyahu's propaganda
Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million propaganda contract with Netanyahu’s office and was described as a “key entity” supporting Israel's messaging.Jack Poulson (All-Source Intelligence)
Does anyone still remember "FURY 3" ? As one of the earliest titles for Windows 95, it was used extensively in Microsoft's advertising campaign for the system. The game is actually fairly simple and runs smoothly even within an 86Box VM!
"Shoot 'em up!"
#Microsoft #Windows95 #RetroGaming #Emulation #90s #PCGaming #History #Retro
I absolutely remember Fury³. It was sort of a followup to Terminal Velocity and a really fun game for its time. Though even then I hated the fact that your ship could never ever stop. Seemed really stupid when you're shooting at an unmoving target.
The game also had great music, though the surround effect was mostly just weird (didn't sound surroundy to me anyway.)
Actually, Terminal Velocity recently got a remake with ports to systems like the Switch. Now that was out of the blue!
"Putin ha legato l'identità russa del XXI secolo al campo culturale e politico del neoconservatorismo contemporaneo, portatore di una modernità antilluminista e avversa ai valori del liberalismo"
— Andrea Borelli: Nella Russia di Putin, p. 27
Journalists Stumble Across Real Estate Listing With a Photo of a Nazi-Looted Painting Hanging Above the Couch
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/journalists-stumble-across-real-estate-listing-with-a-photo-of-a-nazi-looted-painting-hanging-above-the-couch-180987284/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Meu atual toque de ligação:
🎶 Pourquoi ci, pourquoi ça?
Pourquoi c'est comme ci?
Pourquoi ci, pourquoi ça?
Pourquoi c'est comme ça? 🎵
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🎶 In my mind and in my car
We can't rewind, we've gone too far
Pictures came and broke your heart
Put the blame on VCR 🎵
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South Korea’s Depressed Art Market Puts a Damper on Frieze Seoul
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-04/korea-s-art-market-slowdown-casts-shadow-over-frieze-seoul-2025?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Ucraina, fantasie e garanzie
Le discussioni attorno a una possibile soluzione diplomatica della guerra in Ucraina continuano ad avere al centro, quanto meno in Occidente, la questione delle “garanzie di sicurezza” da dare a Kiev una volta sottoscritto un cessate il fuoco o un tr…altrenotizie.org
Private Credit Leans on Secondaries as Investor Payouts Dwindle
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An Oystercatcher sporting a pair of Seaweed shoes.
Helsford, Cornwall
#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling
Vi pregherei di apprezzare il mio stoicismo e la mia profonda abnegazione.
Tutte le sere, tornando a casa, passo davanti a una pizzeria dove si mangia ottimamente (e @sabrinaweb71 e @kappazeta possono confermarlo) e riesco a NON fermarmi.
È dura, ma ce la faccio.
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L’impatto delle sanzioni Usa sulla Relatrice Onu Francesca Albanese
Come le misure sanzionatorie senza precedenti disposte dall’amministrazione Trump colpiscono Francesca Albanese, Relatrice speciale sui Territori palestinesi occupati. Il ruolo del governo italiano e del sistema bancario.
Giovedì 4 settembre 2025, ore 12.00
Sala Caduti di Nassirya – Piazza Madama, Roma
#FrancescaAlbanese #gazagenocide
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Haier “reinventa” la lavatrice con la Candy Multiwash a tre cestelli
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Haier “reinventa” la lavatrice con la Candy Multiwash a tre cestelli
BERLINO - - Parte dalla visione di una casa “naturalmente connessa” e con al centro le persone l’affondo che il Gruppo cinese, detentore dei marchi ...Il Sole 24 Ore (Il Sole 24 ORE)
Io boh.
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"Americans will suffer and die...".
Bro, they don't care. They don't care if you lose your house, your job, your life. They don't care if it's illegal, immoral, unneccessary, cruel or wrong.
They don't care about you now, they never have, and they never will. They don't care if your kids are killed at school or if the cops murder you. They don't care if you're sick, disabled, in constant pain...
They don't fucking care.
This is fucken Capitalism. You are livestock to them.
Do you fucken get it?
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Last Flag Flying actually exceeded my very tall expectations.
And I mean tall. With a cast like Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne, you’d already assume this would deliver. Add Richard Linklater—yes, the guy behind Slacker, Dazed and Confused, and Waking Life—and the bar shoots into the stratosphere.
Yet what he turns in here is one of his most conventional films. Not a head trip, not a cinematic experiment—just a straight-up, well-cooked meal. Think less molecular gastronomy, more perfectly grilled steak.
The setup: it’s 2003, and a grief-stricken ex-Navy Corpsman Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Carell) reconnects with his old Vietnam buddies—ex-Marine loudmouth Sal Nealon (Cranston) and buttoned-up Reverend Richard Mueller (Fishburne)—to bring Doc’s son home after he’s killed in Iraq.
That’s heavy material, but Linklater isn’t interested in a grim war movie. Instead, he gives us a road trip comedy-drama where the fireworks come from putting a holy man and a barfly in the same car and letting them go at each other for two hours.
Cranston dials Sal up to 11—he’s reckless, vulgar, and eternally needling. Fishburne matches him with quiet fire as the Rev, exuding dignity until he finally snaps. Their banter is where the film sings.
There’s that unforgettable U-Haul scene: Sal sneers about a rapper on the radio, asking Mueller if he feels ashamed of his race. Without missing a beat, Mueller flips it—because the rapper is Eminem. Sal, now on the back foot, gets roasted. It’s Linklater’s gift: letting a scene unfold like a conversation you could’ve overheard on a long drive.
Carell, meanwhile, is the quiet heart of the movie. He plays Doc like a man already hollowed out by grief. He rarely raises his voice, but when he smiles—it’s like sunlight breaking through after days of storm clouds. It’s the kind of restrained performance that makes the louder ones pop even more.
Of course, standing in their way is the uptight Lt. Col. Willits (Yul Vázquez), who embodies the military’s obsession with appearances. He wants Doc’s son buried in Arlington with a polished story about heroic sacrifice. The vets know better. They’ve been lied to before, and they’re not about to let history repeat itself. That push-and-pull—truth vs. propaganda, dignity vs. authority—gives the film its backbone.
And yet, for all its darkness, Last Flag Flying keeps bursting back into humor and soul. There are cell phone mishaps, road trip detours, and old men griping about the modern world. Cicely Tyson even shows up for a brief scene that absolutely breaks your heart.
Linklater himself said this isn’t really a war movie—it’s a road movie. That tracks. It’s about aging vets wrestling with what their service really meant, and how the ripples of war never stop spreading.
In fact, this whole story began as a sequel to Darryl Ponicsan’s novel The Last Detail (famously adapted by Hal Ashby with Jack Nicholson in ’73). Linklater couldn’t make an official sequel—rights tangles, Navy vs. Marines, all that—but he captured the spirit. Call it a “spiritual sequel” if you will.
Sure, the film can drag when it leans too hard into the “war is hell” sermon. But it always redeems itself with lived-in humanity. It never preaches so much as lets three men argue their way through grief, faith, and the lies we tell ourselves to survive.
I’ll put it this way: if I ever met these guys in real life, I’d happily sit down, crack open a non-alcoholic beer, and let the stories roll. Because this isn’t really about war—it’s about friendship, pain, and the strange joy of finding people who can still laugh with you even when life has knocked you down.
Thats nice.
A kind thing to do.
Should we remind ourselves,
to aim for a FIX!
So that we dont have to do this AFTER,
the murder and carnage.
Over and over again, every time.
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Las tormentas solares son cada vez más amenazantes para la #Tierra. La #NASA quiere prepararse con un gemelo #digital del Sol
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Las tormentas solares son cada vez más amenazantes para la Tierra. La NASA quiere prepararse con un...
El Sol, esa estrella que nos da vida, también tiene un carácter impredecible y potencialmente destructivo. Tanto es así que una tormenta solar de gran...José A. Lizana (Xataka)
We're being asked to bet on life—and shown exactly how to do that. Today we highlight a team of volunteers helping fifteen displaced families in Jabalia, most of them disabled, survive. This is a lesson for all of us.
Help them. Give / find their link here. 3438/4100 by Saturday chuffed.org/project/hope-givin…
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter.Chuffed
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MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Why wouldn't we look at vaccines and autism?
HUNT: We have looked at it and the studies show there is no connection
MULLIN: So we shouldn't look at it again?
Lagoon View Residential Complex / Mobil Arquitectos + Álvaro Arancibia Arquitecto
Completed in 2024 in Cerrillos, Chile. Images by Cristóbal Palma, Álvaro Arancibia. The concept of the project emerged from the challenge of rethinking social integration in high-density buildings, exploring new forms of vertical...Valentina Díaz (ArchDaily)
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"More than three years ago, noyb had filed a complaint against Google for sending unsolicited advertising emails directly to the inboxes of Gmail users. Contrary to EU law, the company never asked the people concerned for their consent. That's how the competent data protection authority sees it, too: Today, the CNIL has issued a decision siding with noyb – and fined Google €325 million."
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#EU #France #Google #DataProtection #Privacy #GDPR #Gmail #Spam
noyb WIN: French DPA fines Google €325 million for “Spam Emails” in Gmail
The CNIL fined Google €325 million for creating spam emails in Gmailnoyb.eu
⚡️🇺🇦Trump’s FOMO! Watching the Dictator parade made Trump have a Fear Of Missing Out moment (Channel 24 - Ukrainian Media VIDEO) #Ukraine #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #NukesForUkraine #Germany #UN #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
And there are ketchup stains from flying hamberders 🍔 on #WhiteHouse walls to prove it!
#Resist hilariously!
How many A's we have to put next to each other before we admit something has to be done with inequality in this industry?
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#videogames #gaming #capitalism #communism #inequality
GTA 6 Called First 'AAAAA Game' In Sign Of Industry Confidence And Panic
Rockstar's next game being too big to fail is a symptom of the current blockbuster malaiseEthan Gach (Kotaku)
I remember back in 2016 when stories like the one below started appearing in US newspapers. People were dying at growing rates, and not just any people, but specially *white* people, which is the sort of thing that isn’t supposed to happen in the US racial caste system.
They were dying of opioid overdoses or alcoholism or suicide, what researchers came to call “deaths of despair.”
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"Some people in the antitrust world didn't see it that way. Out of a misguided kind of privacy nihilism, they called for Google to be forced to share the data it stole from us, so that potential competitors could tune their search tools on the monopolist's population-scale privacy violations.
And that is what the court has ordered.
As punishment for being convinced of obtaining and maintaining a monopoly, Google will be forced to share sensitive data with lots of other search engines. This will not secure competition for search, but it will certainly democratize human rights violations at scale.
Doubtless there will be loopholes in this data-sharing order. Google will have the right to hold back some of its data (that is, our data) if it is deemed "sensitive." This isn't so much a loophole as is a loopchasm.
(...)
This means that even if you like data-sharing as a remedy, you won't actually get the benefit you were hoping for. Instead, Google competitors will spend the next decade in court, fighting to get Google to comply with this order.
That's the main reason that we force monopolists to break up after they lose antitrust cases. We could put a bunch of conditions on how they operate, but figuring out whether they're adhering to those conditions and punishing them when they don't is expensive, labor-intensive and time consuming. This data-sharing wheeze is easy to do malicious compliance for, and hard to enforce. It is not an "administrable" policy:"
pluralistic.net/2025/09/03/unp…
#USA #Google #Competition #Antitrust #Monopolies #DataProtection #Privacy
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I'm having a virtual book event with the @fediforum folks next week!
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I will talk about my new book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media.
Here's a link for more information about the book: moveslowlybuildbridges.com
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Police charge man and woman in connection with Scottish axe girl incident
Police Scotland has charged a man and a woman in connection with the young, axe-wielding Scottish girl who went viral online.
In late August, a 12-year-old Scottish girl was charged with possessing weapons after online rumors swirled that she was fending off a migrant man. She was seen brandishing an axe and a large knife on video.
The following week, both the accused immigrant and an alleged witness spoke out, providing conflicting accounts of the events in St Ann Lane, Dundee, Scotland.
Now, police have laid subsequent charges.
'They are thankful that everyone now knows the truth.'
In a statement to Blaze News, Police Scotland said, "Following extensive enquiries, a man and a woman have been charged in connection with an incident in St Ann Lane in Dundee, which was reported around 7:40 p.m. on Saturday, 23 August, 2025."
The statement added, "The circumstances will be reported to the Procurator Fiscal," otherwise known as Scotland's public prosecutor.
Police Scotland also said the 12-year-old girl who was previously charged for "being in possession of offensive weapons" will be referred to the Scottish Children's Reporter Administration, a government body that decides whether a child needs legal intervention from the state.
"Members of the public are again urged not to share misinformation about this incident or speculate on the circumstances," the statement concluded.
The new charges seemingly confirm allegations made in a witness testimony, as well as claims made online by a reporter who claims to have been in communication with the 12-year-old's family.
RELATED: Scottish axe girl was defending beaten 13-year-old, witness claims
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Fatos Ali Dumana, the accused 21-year-old Bulgarian immigrant, had previously told the Daily Mail, "If I did hurt the girl, why didn't the police arrest me? They have done nothing to me."
He added, "They saw from the CCTV cameras from Farmfoods that she was stopping me go on my way to the shop."
Dumana also alleged that another bystander witnessed him being attacked and labeled a "f**king migrant."
"I did not hit them. I am a human, not an animal," he added.
At the same time, a TikTok user named Mayah, 13, said in a video testimony that she witnessed the incident personally. Mayah said she was with two sisters, Ruby, 13, and Lola, 12, the latter of whom was allegedly subjected to inappropriate remarks from a strange man.
As the altercation escalated, the alleged witness claimed that the man's sister attacked Ruby, causing head injuries and sending her to the hospital with a concussion.
"She has a severe concussion and swelling inside of her head," Mayah said.
It was at that point Lola allegedly brandished the weapons in an effort to protect her sister.
Neither Dumana's nor Mayah's testimonies have benefited from any further proof from witnesses, CCTV, or evidence from police, but an independent reporter — who says he has spoken with the family — now says he has concrete evidence to go along with the newly laid charges.
RELATED: Scottish police blame axe-wielding girl for altercation, reveal nationality of migrant
A reporter going by the online moniker Aesthetica claims to have been in contact with Lola's family and even to have helped her mother, Elaine Thomson, start a fundraiser.
Aesthetica told Blaze News exclusively that Police Scotland "confirmed to the family" that "Fatos Ali Dumana and his sister were the two people charged."
Police Scotland said they had "nothing further to add" when asked by Blaze News for the names, ages, and/or nationalities of the two adults who were charged. They also neither confirmed nor denied if Dumana was the man who was charged.
Blaze News also reached out to Dumana for comment about the alleged charges and the claims made by Aesthetica, but did not receive a reply.
Reporter Aesthetica provided an alleged hospital document to Blaze News, purported to be from Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, Scotland. The document is an attempt to prove that Ruby sought medical aid from injuries stemming from the altercation.
The document is addressed to a person with the alleged last name of Ruby and Lola. It shows treatment was provided for a "diagnosis" of a "head injury — concussion."
The photo also shows the examination was done to a "female, accompanied by mum," with a head injury again listed. The document said the patient attended the emergency room at 8:11 p.m. on August 23, 2025. This would be approximately 31 minutes following the incident described by police. The patient was discharged at 9:44 p.m.
"The hospital document was sent to Elaine Thomson, Lola and Ruby's mother, which was sent to [Mayah's mother], who sent it to me," Aesthetica explained to Blaze News.
The family has declined to speak publicly, out of fear of public backlash and for their own safety, according to Aesthetica. However, the reporter told Blaze News that the family is "relieved that their names have finally been cleared."
He added, "They are thankful that everyone now knows the truth and that they've been telling the truth the entire time."
The fundraiser has garnered approximately $120,000 at the time of this writing.
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RFK Jr. laughs at Democratic senators' vaccine concern-mongering: 'You're just making stuff up'
Several members of the Senate Finance Committee tried desperately during a hearing on Thursday about President Donald Trump's 2026 health care agenda to paint Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as both a "charlatan" and as a danger to public health.
Like the mutineers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who revolted over Susan Monarez's removal last week as their director, Democratic lawmakers — Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Maggie Hassan (N.H.) in particular — and a few Republican lawmakers, including Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.), quickly discovered that Kennedy wasn't willing to play their games.
'You are lying.'
In addition to highlighting recent victories at the Department of Health and Human Services such as recent reductions to bureaucratic waste and the obliteration of the DEI regime, Kennedy informed the committee at the outset, "We are ending gain-of-function research, child mutilation, and reducing animal testing. We are addressing cellphone use in schools, excessive screen time for youths, the lack of nutrition education in our medical schools, sickle cell anemia, hepatitis C, the East Palestine chemical spill, and many, many others."
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Rather than dwell on these or other recent positive developments at the HHS, Hassan, like other Democrats on the committee, instead focused her attack on Kennedy's approach to vaccines.
Hassan, whom Open Secrets indicated has received over $1 million in campaign donations from the health professional industry and hundreds of thousands of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry, claimed that Kennedy "acted behind closed doors to overrule scientists and limit the freedom of parents to choose the COVID vaccine for their children" and "unilaterally changed the parameters for giving vaccines."
"This is crazy talk," Kennedy said. "You're just making stuff up."
Hassan appears to have been grossly misrepresenting recent actions taken by the Food and Drug Administration.
RELATED: RFK Jr. makes crystal clear to the CDC mutineers: The restoration of public trust 'won't stop'
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary noted in a recent op-ed that his agency has "approved COVID-19 vaccines for adults over 65 and for people 6 months and older who have one or more risk factors that put them at high risk of severe COVID," thereby bringing "the U.S. in line with peer nations."
Makary underscored that "the FDA can't regulate the practice of medicine. The FDA grants marketing authorizations, but doctors are able to prescribe drugs off label to people at low risk. In a few states, pharmacists may require a prescription."
In other words, parents still enjoy the freedom to choose the COVID vaccine for their children even though Makary indicated his agency is not confident that the benefits outweigh the risks.
"Since the FDA isn't approving a vaccine for the healthy school-age and working population, college and school mandates will be legally impossible," Makary wrote. "Accordingly, the FDA is revoking the emergency-use authorization for COVID vaccines. The emergency is over. The FDA will now return to an evidence-based standard."
Kennedy told Hassan on Thursday that the decisions about the COVID vaccines were not made "behind closed doors. The industry makes the studies, and they could not provide a study that said it is effective for healthy kids."
"You're just making stuff up, Senator," Kennedy said.
RELATED: Florida’s fight for medical freedom targets vaccine mandates
Hassan prompted a laugh from the health secretary by responding with, "Sometimes when you make an accusation, it's kind of a confession, Mr. Kennedy."
Despite the continued ability of Americans to get the COVID vaccines, Hassan suggested again that "people who want to exercise their freedom of choice are being denied that because you are citing data that you won't produce to the public and you are rejecting science."
"You are making things up to scare people, and it's a lie," Kennedy said. "You are lying."
'I know you've taken $855,000 from pharmaceutical companies, Senator.'
Elizabeth Warren picked up where Hassan left off, willfully conflating FDA approval for COVID vaccines with their general availability.
"Last week, you announced that the COVID-19 vaccine is no longer approved for healthy people under the age of 65," Warren said. "In announcing the change, you said that the vaccine will be available for anyone who wants it. Now obviously, both things cannot be true at the same moment."
"Anybody can get it," Kennedy said. "It's not recommended for healthy people."
When Warren started down another rabbit hole, insinuating that an insurance company's refusal to cover a drug on the basis of pulled FDA approval is the same as a governmental denial of vaccines, Kennedy told her flatly, "I'm not going to recommend a product for which there's no clinical data for that indication. Would you?"
"I know you've taken $855,000 from pharmaceutical companies, Senator," Kennedy added, possibly answering his own question.
According to Open Secrets, Warren received $818,997 from “pharmaceuticals/health products" sources during the 2020 campaign cycle. Between 2019 and 2024, Warren's Senate campaign committee and leadership PAC have also reportedly received $131,329 from the pharmaceutical industry; $528,320 from the health professional industry; and $109,924 from the hospital/nursing home industry.
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DC mayor and AG at odds as lawsuit challenges Trump’s anti-crime operation
Democratic leaders in Washington, D.C., seem divided on President Donald Trump's law enforcement surge aimed at cleaning up the district's streets.
D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D) filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Trump administration for deploying thousands of National Guard troops to the nation's capital.
'This lawsuit is nothing more than another attempt — at the detriment of DC residents and visitors — to undermine the president's highly successful operations to stop violent crime in DC.'
"The residents and leaders of the District of Columbia have not requested any of this," the complaint reads. "None of this is lawful."
Schwalb accused Trump of "run[ning] roughshod over a fundamental tenet of American democracy — that the military should not be involved in domestic law enforcement."
"No American city should have the U.S. military — particularly out-of-state military who are not accountable to the residents and untrained in local law enforcement — policing its streets," Schwalb said. "It's D.C. today but could be any other city tomorrow. We've filed this action to put an end to this illegal federal overreach."
He further claimed that the Trump administration authorized the National Guard deployment without Mayor Muriel Bowser's (D) consent. However, Bowser recently thanked the White House for helping the city reduce crime.
"We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what [the Metropolitan Police Department] has been able to do in this city," Bowser stated during a Wednesday news conference.
While she admitted the law enforcement surge had lowered crime, she simultaneously claimed that the presence of federal immigration agents and National Guard troops was "not working," noting that she is "devastated" by residents "living in fear."
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The White House called Schwalb's lawsuit an attempt to undermine Trump.
"President Trump is well within his lawful authority to deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C. to protect federal assets and assist law enforcement with specific tasks," White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told the Daily Signal. "This lawsuit is nothing more than another attempt — at the detriment of D.C. residents and visitors — to undermine the president's highly successful operations to stop violent crime in D.C."
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