Morning Greatness: Another Judge Blocks Trump’s Efforts to Secure Elections

Good Monday morning.

Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today:
8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time
11:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting
12:30 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting
2:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting
3:30 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting
5:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting

Two minutes of hate:
Our court system, captured long ago by the progressive legal movement, continues to thwart all efforts to secure our election system. A second federal judge has blocked the administration’s new Postal Service requirements for mail ballots, including rules requiring states to obtain federal approval for ballot-envelope designs and upload voter information through a portal that reportedly is not yet fully operational. The Supreme Court is separately considering the administration’s emergency appeal of another injunction. The left is smart, I always remind people they are evil, not dumb. All they had to do is drag this out until it was too late to make any changes to the system.

If you pay attention to the many information operations populating X and other social media platforms and “news” rooms, you’ve probably noticed tsunami of articles and X posts wailing and lamenting about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Case in point: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to deliberately slow frontier AI development has gained backing from figures including Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis. Amodei is even proposing something resembling U.S.-China “disarmament” talks over particularly dangerous AI capabilities. Look, it’s either going to be the U.S. or China dominating the AI space. You pick which one. It seems to me the kerfuffle isn’t as much about the dangers of AI, it’s about who in the U.S. will control AI: the tech assholes who censored people over wrongthink opinions on the election and covid, simple open-source development/a free-for-all or is the government going to regulate it. Slowing down is the dumbest option.

Trump publicly urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop attacks on Russian oil refineries and diesel infrastructure, arguing that the strikes are contributing to a worldwide fuel shortage. U.S. diesel prices have climbed above $6 a gallon on average, while Ukraine’s attacks have forced Russia to restrict exports at the same time that the Iran conflict is choking Gulf energy supplies.

Here’s a shocker: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday that Democrats “haven’t ruled anything in and we haven’t ruled anything out” when asked whether they would pursue impeachment if they win the House in November. Jeffries emphasized affordability and other legislative priorities but declined to promise that impeachment would be off the table. Does anyone think the Democrats have any other priorities beyond punishing their political enemies? Of course not. They want the investigative powers they would be granted if they win the House and they are coming for their opponents. Impeachment and political retribution is on the ballot in November.

News roundup:
House Democratic Leader Jeffries calls on lawmakers to ‘act urgently’ on AI
Millions dropped from SNAP food assistance as funding faces September uncertainty
Trump’s $5,000 checks require Congress to approve, Johnson says
Jewish institutions’ security spending tops $1 billion as antisemitism persists
Hakeem Jeffries: ‘We Haven’t Ruled Anything Out in Terms of Impeachment’
U.S. Secretly Removed Accused Pedophile Diplomat From Britain: Report
California Man Sues OpenAI Claiming ChatGPT Fed Religious Delusions Before Suicide Attempt
Utah Gov. Cox: CCP Probably Still Controls TikTok Algorithm, They Know TikTok Is Bad, Push It on U.S.
Kyrsten Sinema questions whether moderates still have a place in the Democratic Party
Arrest rips apart media narrative on death of Black woman found hanging from Mississippi tree
Obama privately sounds alarm on ‘dangerous’ AI, urges Democrats to put issue at center of agenda
Trump gives Smithsonian days to replace ‘strange modernist sculpture’ with Founding Father
Vulnerable House Republicans embrace Trump as GOP bets on defying midterm history
Trump urges Zelensky to ‘stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia’
In Ireland, Trump says he plans to lift tariff on Irish whiskey
Congress mum on federal deficit hitting $2 trillion milestone, again
US archaeologists unearth first footprints of running T-Rex: ‘Incredibly rare’
Wisconsin gov candidate survives plane crash-landing in lake, swims for his life
Obama calls for Dems to focus on AI
GOP Lawmakers Putting ‘Criminal’ Birth Tourism Industry Under Microscope
Buttigieg Proposes Court-Packing To Fix Supreme Court He Calls ‘Nakedly Partisan’
Mystery Woman Prowls Kamala Harris’ Malibu Mansion Until Cops Intervene
Report: DOJ Criminal Probe of Gavin Newsom Looking at Benefactors Who Pay for His Travel
Trump says China ‘spies’ on US after report ties Chinese imagery to Iran strike
Colleges reject Christian, GOP clubs despite First Amendment obligations, free speech promises
U.S. House has one week to reauthorize highway funding before it expires

And that’s all I’ve got, now go beat back the angry mob!

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