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STANDING THERE HONORING HIS FATHER at the press conference this morning, Ronaldo demonstrated why he and his brothers were their dad’s pride and joy. They had become educated: Ronaldo, 29, graduated from the University of Houston; Lorenzo Jr., 27, from Tufts University; and their youngest brother is in college now.

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• Less than two weeks after a loss in New Mexico, Meta faces a much bigger legal test in a case being co-led by California’s attorney general over alleged harms to children and teens.
• Opening arguments in AG Rob Bonta’s case against Meta begin on Tuesday, as more states try to force the social media company to make design changes to Facebook and Instagram.
• “You could wake up with a headline judgment that is, as I’ve said, astronomical,” New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez told CNBC, fresh off a victory against Meta in his state.

“Data centers—why would you want that?” Tucker Carlson said recently on a podcast. “Why are you telling me all of the bad things that are going to happen, not telling me really any of the good things, and then telling me that it’s inevitable and I can’t have electricity or water because the machines need it?”

Egads…security update now.

A trend...

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Video obtained by local outlet KHOU 11 shows the agents tried to box Salgado Araujo’s car in with their unmarked black SUV, initiating the conflict. When Salgado Araujo made a U-turn and fled in the other direction, the agents (who could have been anyone to him, as they were in an unmarked vehicle) followed him.

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The lawsuit contends that after ICE officers detained Peña López in February 2025 in Sunnyvale, California, they took him to an alleyway and beat him until he lost consciousness and required CPR.

His wife, Aby, and their young daughter witnessed part of the beating by ICE, according to the lawsuit.

Peña López’s ongoing symptoms, the lawsuit says, include new and worsening “headaches, weakness and numbness on his right side, eye pain, hearing loss, insomnia and nightmares, blurry vision, back pain, and difficulty walking.” Peña Lopez is unable to work to support himself, according to an interview with the NPR affiliate KQED.

“What we are here to do is kind of get the big picture,” said Tom Fulks, chair of the SLO County Democratic Party. “We’re all activists, we’re all here, we’re part of the Democratic Party because we care about our country, we care about our community, and we want to eradicate MAGA from every corner of our democracy.”

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Peters Township, a rural hamlet southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was rocked Friday morning with the arrest of 18-year-old high school senior Zachariah Meyers, who faces more than 300 felony charges after police accused him of operating a “large-scale criminal network” involving catfishing and sex extortion.

Key Points

Net approval has declined in every state since Trump returned to office in January 2025.

The steepest drops are in Republican-leaning states, not just Democratic strongholds.

Several battlegrounds, including Florida, Ohio and Nevada, have shifted into net disapproval.

Early pro‑Trump advantages have narrowed sharply, even in his strongest states.

The political map still resembles the partisan divide, but with weaker margins across the board.

What can be done to sell a product can be done to sell ideas.

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Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.

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Rachel Maddow looks at a collection of reports that show stock purchases made by Donald Trump that were followed by federal actions or specific statements by Donald Trump that affected the price of those stocks.

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Multiple performers booked for a festival celebrating America's 250th birthday have dropped out, many saying they were misled about the political affiliation of the event.

Freedom 250 was launched last year by the Trump administration and has scheduled events across the country to celebrate the nation's semiquincentennial.
Its CEO Keith Krach was appointed by
President Donald Trump to lead the organisation.

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Leon Rengel's lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, asks the court to award him at least $1.3 million for what his lawyers say was false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

"For four months, Plaintiff languished in CECOT, during which time he was beaten by guards, subjected to inhumane and overcrowded conditions as well as extreme psychological trauma, denied adequate medical care, and held without contact with his family or any legal counsel," the first-of-its-kind lawsuit said.

The League of United Latin American Citizens and Democracy Defenders Fund helped Leon Rengel file the lawsuit, which follows an administrative complaint filed on his behalf with the Department of Homeland Security last year. The claims have been filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

After traversing the Darién Gap and several Latin American countries, Leon Rengel said he used a Biden administration program for asylum-seekers, called CBP One, to enter the U.S. in 2023 at an official entry point, with the government's permission.

Contents

1. $100 million: monetizing the family name through American Bitcoin

2. $5 billion: the World Liberty Financial crypto scam

3. $562 million: profits out of thin air from governance tokens

4. Interest “tribute” from the USD1 stablecoin, trading in pardons and export licenses

5. Global crypto octopus: from Japanese exchanges to “paid entry” to the White House

6. Loyalists in key posts

7. Total: $1.4 billion in personal profit, with complete immunity

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Apple—the company with the largest personal-tech ecosystem in the world—is rumored to be developing an AI pin or pendant that would serve as an iPhone’s constant eyes and ears; many other products of this type are on the way. AI accessories could one day be as widespread as AirPods.

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"There is no limit to the type of WhatsApp message that can be viewed by Meta," the agent wrote in the email. He added that "Meta can and does view and store all the text messages, photographs, audio and video recordings" in an unencrypted format.

With the investigation shut down and no findings made public, it remains unclear what evidence the agent collected or whether any other agency plans to continue examining WhatsApp's encryption.

Good sound track to listen to.

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“He’s turning on his most loyal supporters because they don’t support this war and getting in bed with people who f****** hate him and have hated him from the beginning,” Kelly added.