At the same time, Anthropic (Claude) remains the #1 app in the App Store, while ChatGPT is seeing a 295% day-over-day uninstalls rate.
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At the same time, Anthropic (Claude) remains the #1 app in the App Store, while ChatGPT is seeing a 295% day-over-day uninstalls rate.
Anthropic pushed back against the Department of Defense over concerns about mass public surveillance and the use of AI in weapons systems without meaningful human oversight. Now, the DoD has labeled the company a potential national security threat.
So far, we’ve raised $8,340 for Yosemite Climbing Association! Huge thanks to everyone who purchased merchandise to support them. YCA also received additional donations made directly to them on top of this amount.
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A win! Glad they didn’t cave. Senate Democrats blocked a spending bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security for a third time, insisting they would not approve the measure without new limits on immigration enforcement.
Trump announced that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will be stepping down at the end of the month!
After receiving more than 32,000 negative public comments, the National Capital Planning Commission has delayed its final vote on Trump’s proposed $400 million ballroom. The commission moved the vote to its April 2 meeting next month.
The boycott of OpenAI(ChatGPT) has now surpassed 4 million. We’re also seeing many small businesses (and even some mid-sized companies) cancel their subscriptions. One of the most amazing things over the past year has been watching consumers remind big corporations just how much power they have.
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Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.
The hotline has apparently been updated, but conflicting reports. Crazy this happened in the first place.
Americans in the Middle East calling the U.S. State Department hotline after Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Americans to contact it were hearing an automated message saying, “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time.”
officials from attending partisan political events in any capacity. The Department of Justice is supposed to operate independently from partisan politics. Allowing political appointees to participate in partisan events would blur the line between law enforcement decisions and political interests.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has ended restrictions that barred political appointees at the Justice Department from participating in political activities, according to a memo seen by NBC. The rules were originally put in place to avoid even the appearance of political influence, prohibiting those
However, the department does not have authority over state bar disciplinary boards. The proposal instead asks state bar associations to pause their own investigations until the Justice Department completes its internal review.
A notice published in the Federal Register proposes giving the Justice Department the first opportunity to investigate allegations of misconduct involving its attorneys.
The move reflects growing concern inside the administration that lawyers carrying out government directives could face ethics violations and potentially lose their licenses to practice law.
Well, if this isn’t corruption in plain sight. If you don’t want consequences for breaking the law, then don’t break the law.
The Justice Department is now attempting to step into disciplinary cases being handled by state bar associations against its own attorneys.
This is the letter US senators sent requesting an official investigation into DOJ leadership blocking a civil-rights probe into the killing of Renee Good. The letter asks the Justice Department’s IG and Office of Professional Responsibility to determine who ordered the investigation stopped and why.
Publicly, Sam Altman claimed OpenAI is amending its agreement with the Department of Defense(lies). Behind closed doors, however, he told employees during a Tuesday all-hands meeting that the company doesn’t “get to make operational decisions” about how its AI technology is used by the DoD. #QuitGPT
A win! Democrat Alex Holladay defeats Republican Bryan Renshaw by a 20-point margin in the Arkansas House District 70 special election.
ChatGPT is struggling so badly from the boycott that it’s already running new ads in the App Store.
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.
These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
It’s the second time in a week that federal judges in New Jersey have raised concerns that officials may be violating court directives and have added new safeguards to prevent it.
A federal judge in New Jersey is now requiring immigration officials to formally acknowledge court orders that block migrants from being transferred out of state, after the government repeatedly ignored those rulings. U.S. District Judge Michael E. Farbiarz issued the order.
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Bovino’s actions at Mueller Park are among the cases under review.
The county has also launched a public portal inviting residents to submit videos, photos, and witness accounts related to potentially illegal conduct by federal agents during the operation.
On March 2, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced the launch of the Transparency and Accountability Project (TAP), a new initiative reviewing 17 separate incidents involving what her office described as “potential unlawful behavior” by federal agents during Operation Metro Surge.
On January 21, 2026, Bovino was filmed near Mueller Park in Minneapolis’s Lowry Hill East neighborhood deploying a smoke canister into a crowd of protesters and bystanders.
Gregory Kent Bovino is now under criminal investigation by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office for his conduct during Operation Metro Surge.
