Les mecs de droite quand tu leur dis que les gens ont moins de chances de tomber dans la criminalité quand leurs besoins vitaux sont assurés

JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.

Elon Musk is a trillionaire but it’s def the people on SNAP ruining your life

“Hey, I am Akshay Gupta’s friend.” That’s how the message began—from Jasmine, his friend and classmate at Penn State. “He used to cheer me up every time I felt like quitting my PhD.” But this time, there was no cheer from Akshay. Jasmine came to Austin with one purpose: to see her friend’s body. Looking at his body at the funeral house on Saturday was the most gut-wrenching experience of my life, she says. Akshay Gupta was 30 years old. A builder. A giver. A brother. A son. “He was so full of life. Always made everyone laugh.” He always made time for others. He mentored. He volunteered. He cooked for the homeless. In 2023, Jasmine and Akshay went to Princeton together, where he took first place at a national hackathon. He had won similar awards at Brown, UPenn, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale. His brilliance was constant, his success, earned. “He was super intelligent and hardworking,” Jasmine said. He had options—including a lucrative job offer from Amazon. But Akshay was focused on his health-tech startup, building something that would help seniors walk safely, avoid falls, and live independently. He didn’t just believe in what he was building. He believed in where he was building it. He believed in America. “America was a dreamland,” Jasmine said. “He was more American than anyone.” He defended the country’s ability to turn talent into success. “He wanted to make it big, and he was on the right path.” Last Wednesday, Akshay was preparing to give a talk about his startup at a local meetup. He never made it. He didn’t own a car yet. He had just moved to Austin from Florida and was staying with a roommate. They’d considered California, but thought Austin would be a better place to launch. So Akshay boarded the bus. He sat down. Moments later, he was bleeding out. Then dead. It was the first time he rode that bus. And the last. “We all never felt this much pain,” Jasmine said. “He just died randomly.” He was stabbed in the neck with a butcher knife—an unprovoked attack by a mentally ill vagrant with a long history of crimes. A man the system had released again and again, despite a trail of charges—misdemeanors, felonies, two violent offenses. “A person that amazing just died for no reason—by someone who should have been in a hospital.” Jasmine says that Akshay’s mother hasn’t eaten since hearing the horrific news. His family, desperate to reach his body, couldn’t get visas in time—not his brother, not his relatives. Only his father made it, flying alone to Austin to bring his son’s body home. On Saturday, Akshay’s father stood in silence at the funeral home beside Jasmine. Jasmine says he didn’t speak. He didn’t cry. Until it was time to leave. Then: “Let’s go home, son.”

I'm honored to be elected president of the @whca for 2028–2029. I look forward to serving my colleagues across the White House press corps to ensure robust and independent coverage of the presidency. I’m excited to build on the strengths of the association, including our shared commitment to a free and fair press.

The U.S. government just unveiled the majestic Greco-Deco design for the new federal courthouse in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The building is at once monumental and welcoming, classical and original. The iris capitals are an inspired touch, drawing on Tennessee’s natural beauty and weaving it into the stone of a federal building. The Chattanooga courthouse is precisely the kind of building that President Trump’s Executive Order on federal architecture—“Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again”—was designed to produce. When the courthouse is completed, it will stand as the living proof that the Order represents wise and humane public policy—something all Americans, regardless of political party, can and should support. Beautiful public buildings are not a partisan matter; they belong to everyone.

Stop the PACER password madness. First MFA then this, which means everyone will write down PWs, making them less safe. No basis to believe PACER was compromised from filer side. Next: passwords must be 255 characters, changed every 24 hrs, accessible only from a SCIF.

I'll be writing about this for NR, but I will lay the Los Angeles situation out here flatly. Pratt didn't lose because of fraud. Pratt lost because, just like Chicago, it's an 80/20 Democratic city. In fact, he seems to have placed exactly where was in the final polls. The real scandal is what's legal: with a 100% mail-in system, an endless window for ballot counting and legal mechanisms for unions and organizers to harvest (and later "cure") ballots, California's system is a purpose-built black box designed to fuel paranoia. And for no other purpose than that it allows Democratic intra-party battles to become a test of organizing strength for NGOs and unions. People are right to be angry about the system. But even the way the votes are being counted now makes perfect (albeit disgusting) sense without recourse to claims of "fraud."

Bang up job Donald!

While I support funding to secure our borders and protect the homeland, I do not support bypassing the annual appropriations process by providing funding for multiple years in a manner that diminishes both congressional direction and oversight. By choosing to appropriate funding for three fiscal years instead of one, this measure weakens the normal budgeting process and sets another precedent for avoiding it when we find ourselves in disagreement. In doing so, it reduces Congress’ ability to apply reasonable checks on immigration policy for the remainder of this administration and into the next. Had this measure provided immigration funding for one year, included clear restrictions on what those funds can be used for, and eliminated any potential for taxpayer dollars to be allocated to the administration’s brazen ‘anti-weaponization’ fund, I likely would have voted for it. The final bill fell short on all of those fronts, so I opposed it.

Statement from @GovAbbottPress on the possible detection of New World Screwworm in Texas:

It's official: @SecRollins confirms first official case of New World Screwworm in Texas

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Trump DOJ wants noisy sex judge to withdraw from election case trib.al/CR5UOwL