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#1 Iran Broadcasts Sickening Video Claiming Barron Trump Is ‘Fully Monitored,’ Places $10M Bounty on His Head - Ryan King, Lonewolf/Israel War Room, mary gill, WallstreetFarmer, NotiCel, and ingela on X
Iranian state media broadcast a chilling three-minute video fantasizing about killing Barron Trump in a disturbing escalation against President Trump and his family — as Tehran braces for an onslaught of additional crushing economic penalties. The clip titled “Where to kill Barron Trump” claimed to show the movements of President Trump’s 20-year-old son, claiming he is “fully monitored” and showing depictions of the dorms at New York University’s Constance Milstein & Family Global Academic Center, according to a translation of the video by Euronews...
#2 Iran’s Speaker Warns: ‘We Are Hungry, We Cannot Survive' - Newsmax, Mossad Commentary/ Donald J. Trump, aba tasli, SHREEKARAM Investments, Mukty Muktar, INDIA EYE NOW NEWS on X
Iran's Parliament speaker has issued an unusually stark warning about the country's deepening economic troubles, declaring that even a powerful military cannot protect the Islamic Republic if its people are hungry and the economy continues to deteriorate. Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, one of the country's most senior political figures, made the comments during a meeting with Iranian and Iraqi economists in Baghdad, according to Middle East news outlet Al Bawaba. "No matter how strong our military power becomes, if we are hungry, we will not be able to endure," Qalibaf warned, according to the report...
#3 GOP Lawmakers Criticize Trump’s Beef Import Plan Amid Blowback From Ranchers - Alexandra Marquez for NBC News, ABC News, WKYT, The Georgia Record, X America News, and ReBecca Lewis on X
House and Senate Republicans on Friday criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend tariffs on ground beef imports, with lawmakers from agricultural states decrying the impact Trump’s decision will have on farmers. Nebraska’s GOP senators, Deb Fischer and Pete Ricketts, said in separate posts on X that Trump’s decision was unwise. “I’m extremely disappointed by this decision from the White House,” Fischer wrote. “We all want lower grocery prices, but as I’ve said for months, we cannot do it at the expense of American producers. Flooding the market with foreign beef hurts our livestock industry.”
#4 Flock Safety CEO Defends AI Surveillance Cameras Amid Backlash - Fox News, Wall Street Apes, Hasan Kwame Jeffries/SAY CHEESE!, Auron MacIntyre/Jonathan Keeperman, Bethany O'Leary/Old Mechanic, and James Fishback on X
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley joins ‘Saturday in America’ to defend the company’s AI surveillance cameras and addresses the technology’s privacy concerns. Flock Safety founder and CEO Garrett Langley joins host Kayleigh McEnany on 'Saturday in America' to address the growing backlash against AI license plate reader cameras. While critics like Senator Bernie Sanders raise mass surveillance and privacy concerns, Langley defends the technology by highlighting its role in solving over one million crimes and locating 10,000 missing persons across America...
#5 Data Centers’ ‘Oh S--T’ Moment - Gabby Miller and Owen Dahlkamp for POLITICO, Vital Knowledge Media, Arkansas Blog, David Blackmon/Axios, Believer, Common Sense with Chad Law, and AGTP on X
The intensifying late-summer backlash against data centers is inspiring panic among some corners of the tech sector — amid fears that the industry is mishandling a political crisis that will stretch into 2028 and beyond. Those worries have deepened in recent weeks as politicians across the political spectrum embraced various curbs on data center construction, with Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, potential Democratic White House hopeful Josh Shapiro and Michigan GOP Senate nominee Mike Rogers being among the latest to sign on...
#6 After Quiet Florida Primaries, Desantis Emerges to Bolster GOP — and His Legacy - Gary Fineout for POLITICO, Radio Austrails, The Sidney Sweeney Project, and Victim Tee/Reverend Jordan Wells on X
In the months and weeks ahead of Florida’s primaries, a big question among Republicans was simple: What will Ron DeSantis do?n DeSantis, who helped remold Florida from the nation’s largest swing state to one dominated by Republicans, stayed on the sidelines for the primary. He declined to endorse a successor, including his own hand-picked lieutenant governor who ran in the race, and even early on criticized Rep. Byron Donalds, who won the GOP primary for governor. DeSantis didn’t campaign for anyone and he also didn’t attend the traditional GOP post primary rally held this week, which the party uses to highlight their ticket to bolster their chances in November...
#7 John Cusack Weighs in After Mark Ruffalo Defends Himself Against Paramount - Shania Russell for Entertainment Weekly, John Cusack/TFish, Claire, Us Weekly, Jennifer Gingrich, and JustJared.com on X
The actor spoke out against Oracle, the company owned by billionaire Larry Ellison, who is the father of Paramount Skydance boss David Ellison. Last week, Ruffalo criticized tech company Oracle — owned by billionaire Larry Ellison, who is the father of Paramount Skydance boss David Ellison – for its ties to the Israeli military. The actor was subsequently slammed by Paramount in a statement accusing Ruffalo of invoking “antisemitic tropes.” In his response, Ruffalo — who has been a staunch opponent of Paramount’s $111 billion effort to buy Warner Bros. — rejected that claim, arguing, “The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest...
#8 Nano Nuclear Energy Signs Commercial Framework With Tillman To Enable Nuclear Power For Data Centers - Tyler Durden ZeroHedge, Odelia Energy, Nano Nuclear Energy, Benniji, and Frenck Coppola on X
Regular readers are aware that one of our biggest concerns with the AI supercycle, and the entire AI arms race between the US and China, is that when push comes to shove, not only is there mounting grassroots opposition to data center build out across the US but, more importantly, the US is badly lagging China when it comes to the rollout of much needed energy to power the hundreds of Gigawatts of energy needed to power up the hundreds of data centers that are coming on line. Consider that as we noted two weeks ago, China is currently building 37 nuclear reactors while the US is building zero...
#9 This Team Accidentally Let AIs Loose to Attack Companies — and Won’t Share How Bad the Problem Is - Josh Centers for Blaze Media, The Moderate Case/AzDayton, RR, J A Z I I,
One of Irregular's jobs is to build fake networks where the world's most capable AI models can be turned loose as hackers without hurting anybody. This summer, some of those fake networks had a small problem: They were connected to the real internet. Models being tested for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta got through that open door and attacked systems belonging to real organizations. They didn't discover some ingenious way to escape a hardened sandbox. In the Irregular cases, internet access was available when it wasn't supposed to be, and the models generally believed the real computers they found were part of the hacking exercise...
#10 Inside the 72 Hours That Cratered the US-Canada Trade Deal - POLITICO, United News of India/Donald J. Trump, Rapid Response 47/Ryca, The Patriot Oasis™, G.M. Forbes, and Captain Ronnie on X
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer entered a meeting with Canadian officials Friday afternoon with a frown. For more than a week, Greer had been in wall-to-wall negotiations with Canada’s top trade officials, and the two sides were tantalizingly close to striking a deal that would break through more than a year of icy diplomatic and economic relations. The two North American neighbors had agreed on the overarching framework. Industry groups and stakeholders had been briefed. A deal seemed imminent...
