Trump’s enemies are moving to destroy his business, drain his resources, blacken his reputation, sink his campaign, and, if they can, lock him up.
Donald Trump has a $355 million judgment against him, and we’re just getting started.
The judgment in the civil fraud case, which reaches $450 million including prejudgment interest, is the handiwork of an elected Democratic judge in a case brought by an elected Democratic prosecutor who pledged in her election campaign to pursue Trump.
In a decade where successive Irish governments have successfully navigated significant changes to the Irish constitution—becoming the first country to introduce same-sex marriage by popular vote in 2015 and removing the constitutional prohibition on abortion in 2018—the progressive movement may be about to meet its first defeat. This time the issue at stake is how Ireland’s constitution recognizes the contribution women make to society and the very definition of the family.
American law enforcement officials spent years looking into allegations that allies of Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, met with and took millions of dollars from drug cartels after he took office, according to U.S. records and three people familiar with the matter.
The inquiry, which has not been previously reported, uncovered information pointing to potential links between powerful cartel operatives and Mexican advisers and officials close to the president while he governed the country.
Why can’t they just say it? There’s been exhaustive coverage of the threat posed to MPs in recent days, after House of Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle ripped up parliamentary convention to allow a Labour amendment on Gaza to be debated on the Scottish National Party’s ‘opposition day’. Yesterday, Hoyle rebuffed accusations he had done so after being lent on by the Labour Party, his party, which would have been badly bruised if Labourites had broken ranks and backed the SNP’s own, more ostentatiously anti-Israel, motion. He did so, he said, because of credible threats made to MPs and on the house itself. The logic was that allowing Labour MPs to endorse their party’s own fudgy ceasefire position, rather than just abstain on the SNP’s motion, would have spared them yet more death threats. ‘I never, ever want to go through a situation where I pick up a phone to find a friend, whatever side, has been murdered by terrorists. I also don’t want an attack on this house’, Hoyle said. But at no point did he, or most of the media write-ups, name where that threat is so obviously coming from. Namely, Islamist extremists.
There were a lot of mixed feelings about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin, but Russia’s president was right on when he took a moment to address and condemn Canada for the federal government’s full-time public relations disaster in which Justin Trudeau, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and members of the Canadian Parliament “gave a standing ovation to a WWII-era Nazi who is a veteran of the Waffen-SS.”
The days when Google was held up as a paragon of cool tech innovation are long gone. Today, its search results are manipulated and crammed with ads, YouTube demonetises accurate information it doesn’t like, and just a few weeks ago the company released Gemini, an AI model that refuses to generate images of white people.
The biggest names in tech — from Amazon to Microsoft — have poured roughly $675 million dollars in a robotics start-up whose ‘master plan’ is to bring the first commercial ‘humanoid’ to market, powered by AI.
The funding round is nearly ten times as much as the $70 million that this new robotics firm, Figure AI, managed to raise last May.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, through his venture firm Explore Investments LLC, pledged an optimistic $100 million to the company, with Microsoft investing nearly as much, $95 million.
I bet it’s programmed to hate White people.
Whether attacking marriage, calling out white privilege or seeking to defund the police, the university class espouse ideas that confer status on them at little cost. But it’s the least privileged who suffer the effects
Born in Los Angeles into what many would consider the American lower class, I entered the foster system aged three after my drug-addicted birth mother, originally from Seoul, was unable to care for me. Over the next five years, I moved through seven different foster homes. I grew up without knowing my father, only discovering his Hispanic heritage, with roots in Mexico and Spain, through a genetic test last year.
It’s not like the people paying millions of illegal aliens to come to the U.S. for some social experiment don’t know that what they’re doing is national suicide; it’s that they don’t care that it’s national suicide. That’s a feature, not a bug.
With every passing day it becomes clearer that the Liberals have no plausible strategy to defeat Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives except to hope he defeats himself. Only a fool would discount that possibility, but in the meantime talk has understandably turned to Justin Trudeau’s “legacy.” Among the positive elements, to many eyes, is carbon pricing. Trudeau’s plan was the most ambitious, simple and principled this country had seen, it is argued, and it cost him considerable political capital.
New evidence offered by President Trump, in the form of a vast data dump subpoenaed from AT&T, puts into sharp relief the question of whether District Attorney Fani Willis and her former boyfriend and special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, lied repeatedly — under oath — about when their relationship began.
The 45th president’s attorneys have accessed reams of Mr. Wade’s cellphone data, and a criminal defense investigator, Charles Mittelstadt, tallies “2000 voice calls and just under 12,000 text messages exchanged” between Mr. Wade and Ms. Willis over an 11-month period in 2021. The two deny that they were romantically involved during that time period.
Trump's attorneys have Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade's cell phone data –
At least 35 visits to Fani Willis's condo before the "relationship" started
2,000 calls and 12K texts between Wade/Willis in 2021.
Late night hook-ups after calls from Willis.
Bad news for Willis. pic.twitter.com/79ap5hf0ZO
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) February 23, 2024
h/t Mauser
A malfunctioning vending machine at a Canadian university has inadvertently revealed that a number of them have been using facial recognition technology in secret.
Earlier this month, a snack dispenser at the University of Waterloo showed an error message – Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognition.App.exe – on the screen.
There was no prior indication that the machine was using the technology, nor that a camera was monitoring student movement and purchases. Users were not asked for permission for their faces to be scanned or analysed.
