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#1 Virginia Mom Gets 6-Month Suspended Jail Sentence for Letting 5-Year-Old Walk to the Pond - Lenore Skenazy for Reason, Billy Binion, Alex Jones, owen cyclops,
alexandriabrown, Lyndsey Fifield, and Adrianne Curry on X
A mom of five was convicted last week of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Her offense: allowing her 5-year-old son to walk about a half-mile by himself in their gated community. Until very recently, Karyann Parkinson lived in leafy Williamsburg, Virginia. She and her husband, Dallin, moved there from Utah so Parkinson could attend William and Mary Law School. In June, when Parkinson was preparing for the bar—and also happened to be eight months pregnant with her fifth child—she and her then-youngest, Sam, went for a bike ride, as they often do. They stopped for her son's favorite activity: collecting goose feathers from the path near their community pond. When they got home, he asked if he could walk back and get some more...
#2 Vulnerable Democrats Vote to Denounce Socialism Amid Midterm Pressure - Helen Huiskes for The Hill, Sassafrass84, Ryan Fournier, The Post Millennial, Special Report, CBS News, and The Blaze on X
Several Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives voted with Republicans to adopt a resolution that formally denounces socialism and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The move reflects increasing pressure on Democrats to respond to the successes of DSA-backed candidates in primaries around the country as Republicans look to make anti-socialism a winning message. Democratic Reps. Jared Golden (Maine), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Kathy Castor (Fla.), Henry Cuellar (Texas), Don Davis (N.C.), Darren Soto (Fla.), and Gabe Vasquez (N.M.) all voted for the resolution denouncing socialism, bucking Democratic leadership. Reps. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) and Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.) voted present...
#3 Maria Bartiromo Was Let Go From Fox News After Leaking Company Info to Trump - Kevin E G Perry & Josh Marcus for The Independent, 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸, Dan The Man, Always with a Plan, 🇺🇸Steve2A🇺🇸God🇺🇸Family🇺🇸Country🇺🇸, Mila Joy, Nick Sortor, and James Woods/Maria Bartiromo on X=
Fox News let go of host Maria Bartiromo for leaking company information to the Trump administration, according to a report. Thursday’s announcement stunned the media world with little explanation of why she was no longer with the network. In a brief statement, Fox said, “We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 ½ years and wish her all the best on her next chapter,” and said her departure was effective immediately. Hours later, media watchdog Status provided more details. According to the outlet, after Trump gave a speech in July about election interference, Fox Business officials ordered the network’s top stars to stay clear of Trump's unsubstantiated claims. Several outlets noted that Fox gave little airtime to Trump’s speech in the hours and days that followed...
#4 Trump Administration Takes Mail-in Ballot Fight to the U.S. Supreme Court - PBS News, Jim Meadows, Rep. Joe Courtney, Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺,
𝓝𝓮𝔀𝓼 Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸, and JOSH DUNLAP on X
The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to reject an order by a federal judge that halts it from implementing a new rule regulating mail ballots, hours after being unable to tell that judge whether the computer system that would govern the entire project was operational yet. The administration filed its appeal the afternoon before mail ballots were scheduled to be sent out by North Carolina, which on Friday kicks off a wave of states shipping ballots out for the rapidly approaching midterm election. Its appeal was part of a flurry of last-minute litigation as the federal government struggles to implement President Donald Trump's restrictions on mail ballots before the midterm elections in November, and came even as legal wrangling over Trump's executive order continued in lower courts...
#5 Missouri Supreme Court Rules New Gop-Drawn Map Can’t Be Used for November Elections - Raquel Coronell Uribe and Jane C. Timm for NBC News, Nick Sortor, MeidasTouch, 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸/Attorney General Catherine L. Hanaway, and Gunther Eagleman™ on X
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state’s redrawn congressional map cannot be used in this year’s midterm elections, dealing a blow to Republicans. The court ruled that a referendum on whether the state can use the map going forward must be included on the November ballot, meaning Missouri’s fall elections will take place under its previous district lines. The new map was designed to draw one of the two Missouri Democrats in Congress, longtime Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, out of his seat...
#6 Port St. Lucie Woman Among 7 Charged in Alleged $57M IRS Tax Refund Fraud Scheme - Eric Weiss for 12 News, WPEC CBS12 News, National Fraud Enforcement Division, Scott Taylor, and The Washington Times on X
A Port St. Lucie woman is among seven people charged in an alleged tax refund fraud scheme that sought more than $57 million from the IRS, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. A superseding indictment unsealed Wednesday charges Sherita Chandler of Port St. Lucie, along with defendants from Idaho, Illinois, California and Georgia, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, making false claims and money laundering. Federal prosecutors allege the group worked from 2023 through 2024 to prepare and submit false individual and trust tax returns, along with more than 100 fictitious financial instruments, to claim refunds from the IRS...
#7 Behind the Meter, Beyond the Pledge - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, NewsForce, Gaurab Chakrabarti, Dr Paul Dorfman, and Muskonomy on X
In a lonely stretch of rural West Texas called Pecos County, construction crews are clearing the land for a power plant unlike almost any other in the United States. The New York Times investigated the site in August, revealing that Cleanview satellite images showed that the ground there was already being scraped bare. The project being constructed—a private natural gas plant with 35 turbines—is massive, and the state of Texas has given it permission to release up to 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the air every year. Running at that level, it could become the largest single source of carbon pollution of any power plant in America. Not one of the largest. The largest. And guess what? It exists to do just one thing. To feed electricity to the Amazon artificial intelligence data center sitting right beside it. Never mind about Amazon’s commitment to Net-Zero...#8 Sanders, Casar Call for Ban on Artificial Superintelligence - Owen Dahlkamp and Kelsey Brugger for POLITICO, Andrew Curran, Dave Rubin/Watcher.Guru, Bill Ackman/Polymarket, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Congressman Greg Casar on X
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) are calling for a ban on artificial superintelligence and a broader pause on the development of advanced models following a string of AI-powered cyberattacks. The pair are preparing to introduce a bill that would ban the development and deployment of superintelligence and pause development of cutting-edge AI models until an agency is created to monitor their capabilities and identify potential risks. Sanders and Casar, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, have positioned themselves as leading voices on the left, warning of the potential for mass job loss and economic disruption while Big Tech flourishes...
#9 New Jersey Taking the Legal Battle Over Prediction Markets to the Supreme Court - Max Zahn for ABC News, CNBC, Marshall Cohen, The Hill, Front Office Sports, and NewsTongue on X
New Jersey has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on a nationwide legal battle pitting dozens of states against online prediction markets. The request this week arrived days after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Aug. 28 against platforms like Kalshi, rejecting their requests to prevent state-level oversight from a Nevada regulatory agency. In that case, the court found that Kalshi "did not show a likelihood" that federal regulation supersedes state officials in the oversight of sports-related event contracts on prediction markets. The finding challenged the firm's assertion that such contracts qualify as financial instruments policed by the federal government...
