Wait, so new Press Secretary Katie Zacharia was at Pepperdine with Erika Kirk, Stacy Sheridan, Ken Starr...AND Rob McCoy? 😭 You can't even write this stuff.

Sen. Joni Ernst reveals 6,000 IRS workers owe nearly $50,000,000 in unpaid taxes, or blew off filing altogether. Rules for thee, not for the IRS. Of thousands of delinquent workers, just 20 IRS employees who weren't paying their taxes were terminated. It's supposed to be a firing offense. They hound you for every cent of YOUR paycheck. Yet thousands of them are dodging their own tax bills. Imagine what they’d do to you if the tables were turned. Ernst is pushing two bills to hold them accountable: one to audit IRS employees, another to publicly name the federal workers who are delinquent. You shouldn’t need an act of Congress to make the tax collectors pay their own damn taxes.

A pleasure to welcome Montana Governor @GovGianforte and his delegation to New Delhi. We discussed new opportunities for Montana businesses to expand exports, investment, and commercial ties with India, and how stronger state-level engagement can help advance the broader U.S.-India economic partnership.

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🚨⤵️The U.S. dollar is in free fall. Our currency and buying power is literally winning the race to the bottom. This is why everything cost so much. Ron Paul tried to warn us and now we are here! 🏴‍☠️This was directly caused by the private Federal Reserve monetizing our own debt.

🚨 Walmart just updated their privacy policy and going forward they will be collecting all this information from you: - Name - IP address - Social media information - Browsing and search activity - Keystroke patterns - Voiceprint - Iris and retina imagery - Face geometry - Palm prints - Fingerprints - Household income - Education - Professional and employment information - Family health - Exact device location - Email address - Shipping address - Criminal history / background check - Individual preferences - Characteristics - Shopping patterns and behaviors - Spending tendencies - License plate data with automated readers in their parking lots - In-store surveillance camera footage - In-store mobile device location with Wi-Fi They will collect some of this data with their app, and some will be collected just from you walking into a store or pulling into a parking lot - Walking into a Walmart their policy lists then use their cameras to get a face geometry as something they may collect - License plate readers in parking lots with time and location stamps - If your phone is in their store and connected to WiFi they can log your location - If you call into customer service they can voiceprint How the heck is this legal?? We need new privacy laws immediately

WOAH 🚨 Texas State Police purchased new vehicles that have surveillance systems that will READ YOUR PHONE as you’re driving down the highway Phones will soon be monitored. “Texas State Police recently bought vehicles equipped with technology that can intercept mobile phone data” The Texas Department of Public Safety approved an emergency $4,487,500 purchase of four 2026 Chevrolet Tahoe Police Pursuit Vehicles loaded with Cognyte FalcoNet gear. Only $600,000 of that was for the trucks themselves. The rest bought the surveillance systems Purchase order included: - Four FalcoNet core systems: $2.85 million - 5G perpetual licenses: $280,000 - Backpack-portable units so it can leave the vehicle - Antenna kits, amplifiers and mounting hardware Once connected, the system pulls identifying phone information like your IMSI, IMEI and location data. 3 system can be operational in about 3 minutes and process THOUSANDS of devices per minute (Holy sh*t) The surveillance state is expanding in America and Texas seeks to be leading the way “I'm in Houston, the largest city in Texas, where authorities are quietly building a web of cameras, drones, sensors and AI systems” - The cameras at some businesses like gas stations are required by law in Texas and police can request the footage - Roads are getting a new AI traffic camera system - Houston scrapped its old gunshot detection system after opposition, but it's approved a new one which can detect gunshots, cars screeching and glass breaking - Drones are also being used. Police used them during the World Cup, but won't say how many they have now “And is my phone being monitored? Texas State Police recently bought vehicles equipped with technology that can intercept mobile phone data… and the most controversial tool right now, Flock license plate readers. Officials here won't say how many they have or where they are, but there's at least 3,800 in the county alone” The police vehicles equipped with this new surveillance system will look like ordinary state police Tahoes. Antennas are concealed behind a raised false roof

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GoldenEye 007 N64 running natively on iOS and iPadOS for the first time. Not an emulator. The GoldenEye decompilation community spent years reconstructing the original game. GoldenEye64Recomp, N64Recomp, N64ModernRuntime, and RT64 provided the static recompilation, runtime, and rendering foundations. I built GoldenPad on top: the iPhone and iPad app, touch interface, native audio and saves, controller support, and the mobile lifecycle work needed to make it run on real devices. It runs great on iPhone. GoldenEye runs better through GoldenPad than it has in any N64 emulator I have tried on iOS. Native ARM64 code, high-resolution Metal rendering, and modern dual-stick controls make a huge difference. No JIT, no N64 code being interpreted at runtime, and no streaming from a Mac. This is the original 1997 N64 game, not the XBLA version, and it is not based on GoldenEye Metal. I am actively working on full local split-screen multiplayer for iPad. MacOS support soon. I built the iOS and iPadOS integration with 5.6 Sol. Open sourcing it all below. Happy Friday!

Trump is the greatest president in US history.

Joe Rogan yells "Holy sh*t!" after Harvard professor of genetics David Sinclair says sudden blindness has DOUBLED because of GLP-1 drugs. Then Rogan pulls up the data himself — and what he reads out loud is even worse. SINCLAIR: "Glaucoma and also sudden blindness. It's called NAION, which is now twice as more prevalent because of the GLP-1 drugs." ROGAN: "Really?!" SINCLAIR: "It's not well known. Obviously companies don't want to talk about it. But yes, sudden blindness has doubled, seemingly because of these meds." ROGAN: "Holy shit!" SINCLAIR: "Careful." ROGAN: "Sudden blindness has doubled because of GLP-1s?" SINCLAIR: "Due to NAION, which is like a stroke in your eye, and then your other eye can go. Which is pretty scary. And there's nothing you can do about it. Hopefully our drug does work for those people." ROGAN: "And, obviously correlation does not equal causation, but it seems to be." SINCLAIR: "Yeah, there's a scientist at Harvard. You could look up his work. Joe Rizzo. It looks like it's repeatable across the planet." ROGAN: "Wow, that's terrible. Terrible because there's so many people out there that are just telling everyone they should get on GLP-1s… Like online podcasters saying, 'Everyone should get on GLP-1s… It's going to transform society.' I'm like, 'We just started taking these! The f*ck are you saying?!'" SINCLAIR: "Yeah, it's not risk free. Same with ED drugs." ROGAN: "Here goes. Recent studies suggest that a potential risk — rare link between GLP-1 receptor agonist medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, blah, blah, blah, and… an eye stroke [that] can cause sudden, painless loss of vision in one eye, while absolute risk remains very low." ROGAN: "Well, very low is like… What does that mean?" SINCLAIR: "One in 10,000 people." ROGAN: "One in 10,000?" SINCLAIR: "Oh no. Total of 10,000." ROGAN: "Oh, total of 10,000 so far? How many people are taking this stuff?" [Rogan continues reading] "The drugs were 68.6 times more likely to develop this [eye stroke] and 8 times more likely to develop… diabetic retinopathy." ROGAN: "Oh, my God. Then… Wow." ROGAN: "Yeah, man. These things are just — they're just rolling out…"

Four senators want every phone and computer sold in America to demand your date of birth before it will work for you. A Linux developer has already published the script that tears it out, under his real name, with an invitation to sue him. The bill is S. 5090, filed July 22 by Andy Kim, Cynthia Lummis, Adam Schiff, and John Barrasso. Two Democrats and two Republicans. It puts an age prompt inside the setup of every operating system in the country. A covered device is any general-purpose computer, so this reaches the phone in your pocket, the laptop on your desk, the console under your television. Accounts you already hold get swept in the day it takes effect. Your own machine then informs on you. It hands your age bracket to every app, every app store, and every browser, and they are required to treat that signal as the primary indicator of who you are. A browser provider under this bill is anyone who owns or maintains a browser. A man maintaining a fork in his spare time carries the same duty as Google, and the fines run $2,500 for a negligent violation and $7,500 for an intentional one, multiplied by every child affected. Section 10 promises no government ID and no face scans. Section 3(d) then says that when a provider gets clear and convincing information that your declared age is wrong, it shall verify. It never says how. Section 4(c) makes app developers report you upstream when they decide you lied. The brackets stop at 17 and file teenagers in with adults, while the state laws this is built to serve draw their line at 18. The federal signal cannot tell a 17 year old from a grown man. Every site under an 18+ mandate will need more than the signal. It will need your papers. The work has already started inside your machine. On March 18 systemd merged a birthDate field into user records, citing California, Colorado, and Brazil by name. systemd runs as the init system on nearly every major distribution, so that field is sitting on Linux boxes whose owners have never heard of any of these bills. Nobody asked you. Nobody is going to. @GrapheneOS answered in March. It will not implement age or identity verification, and if that means its phones cannot be sold in your state, so be it. John McCardle built Ageless Linux. He declared himself in "full, knowing, and intentional noncompliance" with the California statute, cited the section number himself, and invited the lawsuit. His script makes the user the distributor. The liability scatters across every machine that runs it. There is no one man left to drag into court. The script strips the systemd birthDate field and leaves a refusal notice where it stood. If any distribution ever ships a working age daemon, the project has already promised a replacement that answers every query with "unknown." Artix refuses. Devuan refuses. DB48X, an open source calculator firmware, filed a legal notice saying it "does not, cannot and will not implement age verification." A calculator had to publish a legal notice. That is the reach of what these four wrote. S. 5090 takes effect 18 months after it passes, if it passes. The script already works. Take a copy.