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The Justice Department on Friday refused to issue a signed declaration from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche verifying that it no longer intends to pursue President Donald Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund."
The DOJ's refusal comes after a federal judge last week gave the administration seven days to verify in a declaration that it wouldn't create the controversial fund.Â
"Such declarations are unnecessary and the compelled testimony of senior official…
Freedom of the Press Foundation says Paramount refused to air an ad criticizing Paramount's merger with WBD during the stream of the UFC White House event (Miles Klee/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/paramount-refused-to-air-an-ad-cri…
How the Trump administration shifted from a "light-touch" approach to AI policy to an interventionist stance that led to restrictions on top AI models in the US (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/trumps-ai-agenda-collide…
'The Digital Biodiversity Revolution' report by Kew Gardens: 'There is real hope that a comprehensive, virtual, accessible and inclusive global repository of specimen data is within reach, and that coupling this fundamental resource with the power of artificial intelligence (AI) could truly transform humanity’s ability to address the current environmental crises.'
World Cup trivia:
Donald Trump is the first convicted rapist and pedophile to fondle the World Cup trophy.
Once in Russia, recruits are shown contracts in Russian,
threatened if they refused to sign,
have their passports taken away,
and are sent to the front lines with little training.
Get all the details here:
https://skywriter.blue/@africacenter.bsky.socia…
When the Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center in April on controversial fraud charges, the storied civil rights organization faced a major threat to its lifeblood
— the flow of donor dollars.
Not because it was convicted or because the Internal Revenue Service revoked its tax-exempt status.
Not even because individual donors stopped writing checks.
Instead, three Wall-Street-affiliated grantmaking giants each made a decision,
one they ref…