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#10 Fury Erupts as Unelected Senate ‘Scorekeeper’ Blocks Trump’s Agenda - Elizabeth Elkind and Alex Miller for Fox News, Eric Daugherty, AvaArmstrong, Dan Crenshaw, C3, amuse, and Publius on X
Conservative lawmakers were infuriated on Thursday morning after the Senate’s de facto "scorekeeper" for President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" ruled that key parts of the GOP agenda bill must be stripped out. "The Senate Parliamentarian is not elected. She is not accountable to the American people. Yet she holds veto power over legislation supported by millions of voters," Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., wrote on X. "It is time for our elected leaders to take back control." He called on Vice President JD Vance to "overrule the Parliamentarian and let the will of the people, not some staffer hiding behind Senate procedure, determine the future of this country."
#9 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Asks Congress to Strip ‘Revenge Tax’ From Big Beautiful Bill - Victor Nava for New York Post, Laura Weiss, M Yoshimura, SAVIUS, and John.Thomas on X
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent asked Republicans in Congress on Thursday to remove the so-called “revenge tax” from President Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill. The provision would grant Trump the authority to tax foreign holdings of US investments as a way to retaliate against countries imposing new taxes on US companies operating overseas. Bessent argued that the provision, known as Section 899, was no longer necessary after the Trump administration reached a deal with G7 nations at last week’s summit to exempt US companies from a 15% global corporate minimum tax championed by the Biden administration. “After months of productive dialogue with other countries on the OECD Global Tax Deal, we will announce a joint understanding among G7 countries that defends American interests,” the Treasury secretary wrote on X. “President Trump paved the way for this historic achievement.”
#8 RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Committee Votes Against Rarely Used Flu Shot Preservative, Backs New RSV Shot - CBS News, Dr Sherry Tenpenny, End Tribalism in Politics, Anna Matson, Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, and Larry Cook on X
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's panel of vaccine advisers voted Thursday in their first official move after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the committee's previous experts and replaced them with his own picks. A majority of the committee approved updated recommendations for a new shot for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, and voted to urge Americans to avoid a small number of flu vaccines that use the preservative thimerosal despite evidence of its safety. Votes by the panel are closely watched by health authorities because they are tied to federal policies and programs that enable access to vaccines, including requirements for insurance coverage and funding to provide shots for uninsured children. Other vaccines were also being discussed by the panel, but not voted on, including those for COVID-19, measles, chikungunya, and anthrax. Kennedy's new committee also announced Wednesday that it would start a renewed review of all recommended pediatric vaccines, over fears about the "cumulative effect" that the shots could be having on children. That includes weighing changes to recommendations for hepatitis B and measles vaccines given early in life...
#7 Heavy Reliance on ChatGPT Erodes Brain Activity - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, UncoverDC, Breitbart News, Jay Anderson, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, and Evan Kirstel on X
A recent study conducted by MIT, titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing,” found that using ChatGPT reduced brain function, forming what is known as “cognitive debt,” particularly in young people. Not a big shocker, really. In fact, it seems incredibly naive not to inherently understand that this would be the case. Indeed, generative AI might speed up productivity, but it is far-fetched to assume it will make students or the workforce any smarter or infuse critical thinking. The abstract examined 54 participants who used OpenAI’s ChatGPT for writing essays. They were divided into three groups: brain-only users, search engine users, and large language model (LLM) users. The study then utilized EEG scans to monitor brain activity across 32 distinct brain regions. The moment of truth...
#6 Briefing on Iran Strikes Leaves Senators Divided as Trump Threatens New Row - Joseph Gedeon and Robert Tait for The Guardian, The Will Cain Show, Anderson Cooper 360, Hugh Hewitt, John Solomon, The Washington Post, and Ben Dennis Reports on X
Republican and Democratic senators have offered starkly contrasting interpretations of Donald Trump’s bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities after a delayed behind-closed-doors intelligence briefing that the White House had earlier postponed amid accusations of leaks. Thursday’s session with senior national security officials came after the White House moved back its briefing, originally scheduled for Tuesday, fueling Democratic complaints that Trump was stonewalling Congress over military action the president authorized without congressional approval. “Senators deserve full transparency, and the administration has a legal obligation to inform Congress precisely about what is happening,” the Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, said following the initial postponement, which he termed “outrageous”...
#5 A Former Intel Official Used Seven Words to Describe the Leaked Report on Trump's Iran Strikes - Matt Vespa, Rapid Response 47, Gunther Eagleman, Raheem J. Kassam, Jed Klampet, Mollie, and Richard Grenell on X
Iran wasn’t the only one taking bunker busters to the teeth recently. The legacy media has suffered another massive blow, and it was spearheaded by the same people who have done wonders, truly elite things, regarding degrading the credibility of the American newsroom. CNN’s Natasha Bertrand peddled a low-confidence and top-secret intelligence report showing that President Trump’s B-2 bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities had little to no effect. Leaking that report is a crime. To make matters more embarrassing, it was a report that was worthless and laughably unreliable, yet it was peddled as gospel for days. Now, former intelligence officials spoke with the Washington Free Beacon to offer their take on the leaked report, and it was a doozy. One had the best line to describe the report: it’s so unreliable, “you can wipe your a** with it” [emphasis mine]...
#4 Iran’s Leader Issues Claims of Victory Over Israel and the U.S. - Tucker Reals for CBS News, Washington Examiner, CNN Breaking News, Jon Najarian, Jurgen Nauditt, and Sputnik on X
"I offer my congratulations on the victory over the fallacious Zionist regime," a message posted Thursday on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's X account declared. Another post added the bold claim that Israel's government "was practically knocked out and crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic."In a recorded video address to his nation — his first public remarks since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Israel took effect on Tuesday — Khamenei went further, suggesting a "large number of military and other targets" in Israel had been targeted by Iran's missiles. They may have been targeted, but in reality, Iran's 12 days of missile launches saw relatively few rockets evade Israel's air defenses. A total of 28 people were killed, and none of them have been identified as government officials, but rather civilians killed when missiles struck apartment buildings and cities...
#3 Supreme Court Meets Friday to Decide 6 Remaining Cases, Including Birthright Citizenship - Mark Sherman and Lindsay Whitehurst for AP News, Andrews @ Don't Walk, RUN!, Colorado Free Press, The_Patriot_Guy, NBC News, and Steven Dial on X
The Supreme Court is meeting Friday to decide the final six cases of its term, including President Donald Trump’s bid to enforce his executive order denying birthright citizenship to U.S.-born children of parents who are in the country illegally. The justices take the bench at 10 a.m. for their last public session until the start of their new term on Oct. 6. The birthright citizenship order has been blocked nationwide by three lower courts. The Trump administration made an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court to narrow the court orders that have prevented the citizenship changes from taking effect anywhere in the U.S. The issue before the justices is whether to limit the authority of judges to issue nationwide injunctions, which have plagued both Republican and Democratic administrations in the past 10 years...
#2 Trump Administration Eliminating Warning Period for Fining Those in the US Illegally - Luke Barr for ABC News, Adam Reichlin-Melnick, RedWave Press, and Ryan Sprouse on X
The Trump administration is looking to speed up its ability to fine those in the United States illegally -- up to $1,000 per day -- according to a rule set to be published Friday in the Federal Register that was obtained by ABC News. Currently, the government can alert those in the U.S. illegally 30 days before it starts issuing fines. The rule proposed by the departments of Justice and Homeland Security allows the government to immediately start fining those in the U.S. illegally. “DHS believes that the nature of the failure-to-depart and unlawful entry penalties supports the need for more streamlined procedures,” the proposed rule says...
#1 NYC Mayor Adams Announces Reelection Bid After Socialist Mamdani Dominates Primary - Katherine Hamilton for Breitbart, The Epoch Times, WION, Reuters, ABC News, and Morgan MacKay on X
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced his reelection campaign on Thursday, after socialist New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s strong showing in Tuesday’s Democrat primary election.Adams, who was first elected as a Democrat in 2021 but has chosen to run as an independent this year, made the announcement from the steps of New York City Hall “surrounded by supporters, union leaders and business partners, while protesters called him a ‘criminal’ from across the park,” Fox News Digital reported.
