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World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/world-leaders-want-american-ai-they-just-dont-want-america-to-be-able-to-turn-it-off/

World leaders want American AI. They just don't want America to be able to turn it off. | TechCrunch
French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.

Trump is pressuring lawmakers to pass the SAVE America Act voter suppression bill
by attaching it to housing and foreign intelligence surveillance legislation currently pending before Congress.
The SAVE America Act would take a giant leap towards the Trump administration’s goals of wresting control of elections away from states.
It would also potentially disenfranchise millions of voters through its provisions requiring documentary proof of citizenship for voter registrati…

Trump seeks passage of SAVE America Act via housing and FISA bills
Trump is still hoping he can save the anti-voter SAVE America Act by attaching it to other bills pending in Congress.

Dus eigenlijk op het moment dat het echt gevaarlijk wordt op het europese continent, oorlog tussen Oekraine en Rusland mogelijk verder escaleert, trekt "bondgenoot" VS troepen terug... https://www.nu.nl/buitenland/6399818/ameri

Amerikaanse terugtrekking van crisistroepen voor NAVO gaat onmiddellijk in
De terugtrekking van Amerikaanse troepen voor de NAVO gaat direct in. Dat zei secretaris-generaal Mark Rutte donderdagochtend voorafgaand aan een top met defensieministers van het bondgenootschap. Rutte kondigde woensdag al aan dat de overige lidstaten het Amerikaanse gat opvullen.

A survey of US adults: 49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% said that they use chatbots on a daily basis, and 44% said they use ChatGPT (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/0…

Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact
More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI and how fast it’s advancing tilt negative – even for younger adults.

Newest lawsuit seeks to put an end to Trump’s planned DC sculpture garden for American heroes | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-american-heroes-sculpture-garden-dc-lawsuit-b2996984.html

Why Should JD Vance Worry? (Steven Beschloss/America, America)
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/why-should-jd-vance-worry
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p63#a260417p63

RE: #DearLazyWeb (#Anarchist lazy web): does anyone know if anything like this already exists?

Although a whole lot of Americans increasingly use AI in their daily lives,
most of them have neutral to negative views about it, new research reveals.
Only 16% of Americans think that AI’s impact on society during the next 20 years will be positive, Pew says,
while around 40% say that it will have a negative impact.
A vast majority of people (67%) don’t believe that the U.S. government will do anything to meaningfully regulate AI.
A similarly skeptical cohor…

Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows | TechCrunch
Although Wall Street loves AI, every day Americans are significantly less optimistic about the industry, a new report from Pew Research shows.

"The American demands are so steep, Greenlandic officials fear, that they amount to a major imposition on their sovereignty. Despite all of the talk from Danish and American officials that Greenland’s future is up to the island’s 57,000 people, Greenlandic officials said the American demands would tie their hands for generations."
#usa

In Closed-Door Talks, U.S. Demands a Major Role in Greenland
Greenlandic officials worry about the direction of the negotiations aimed at defusing President Trump’s threats to seize their island. But they have little leverage.

Jamelle Bouie says the SAVE Act will take us back to Jim Crow South:
“a one-party state, backed by the threat of violence, where the law ensures that most people cannot hope for meaningful political representation
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/opinion

Opinion | The Last Thing Trump Wants to Do Is Save America
Trump’s SAVE Act would do anything but save America.