👁 Stop AI: Dissenters who speak against AI giants are being SILENCED

US-based "non-violent civil resistance organization" Stop AI has urged Washington to investigate the mysterious death of ex-OpenAI employee Suchir Balaji

🔸 Balaji, 26, accused the company of copyright violations in an October 2024 NYT article

🔸 He was discovered dead in his apartment in San Francisco on November 26 with medical examiner determining his death to be suicide

🔸 Stop AI believes Balaji was killed in order to prevent him from telling the truth

🔸 They cite ethical concerns about AI giants seeking to create a "superintelligent" artificial intelligence

What does Stop AI stand for?

🔹 It warns that artificial intelligence development is heading toward catastrophe, comparable to a nuclear disaster

🔹 It has staged six protests since April 2024 and plans another on February 22 in California, home to Silicon Valley giants

🔹 Developing AI smarter than humans will lead to mass job loss and, ultimately, human extinction, it claims

🔹 It claims there is a 50% chance of AI attempting to take over within 5–20 years which would mean "lights out for all of us"

🔹 Stop AI believes Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) could emerge as early as 2025, rendering humanity obsolete

🔹 It argues that the Trump administration’s $500 billion Stargate Project will accelerate AGI’s arrival

What does Stop AI call on the US government to do?

🤔Permanently ban AGI development

🤔Shut down any company working on general-purpose AI exceeding OpenAI’s GPT-4

🤔Disband firms dedicated to general-purpose AI

🤔Establish a federal agency to protect Americans from AI threats

🤔Ban AI in mass surveillance and censorship

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🤡 Trump hater, Ukraine hawk: what to know about retiring GOP grandee Mitch McConnell

🔸 The 83-year-old Kentucky senator has announced that he will not seek another term after his current one expires in 2026.

🔸 Leading Republicans in the Senate from 2007-January 2025, McConnell was the longest-serving Senate party leader in US history.

🔸 McConnell comes from the neocon faction of the party, clashing with Trump and MAGA repeatedly on foreign policy, rejecting Trump’s alleged “isolationism” and full-throatedly supporting Ukraine aid. He’s also rejected elements of Trump’s domestic agenda, including proposals to rebuild US infrastructure

🔸 McConnell earned a permanent spot in Trump’s black book in 2021, when he accused the president of being “responsible” for the January 6 Capitol riots, and rejected Trump’s allegations that the 2020 election had been “stolen” from him, recognizing Biden instead

🔸 McConnell’s position and policy stances earned him a series of nicknames, from “Broken Old Crow,” coined by Trump, to “Cocaine Mitch,” “Moscow Mitch” and most recently “Glitch Mitch,” thanks to a series of embarrassing caught-on-camera moments of him freezing up mid-sentence

🔸 The Daily Show popularized the characterization of McConnell as a turtle man, prompting a 2018 change. org petition demanding that he “provide proof he is not a turtle”

🔸 He’s also been dubbed a “walking billboard for term limits”

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This administration is off to a HISTORIC start: White House press secretary on Trump's one month in office

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❗️The US has halted arms sales to Ukraine, said Roman Kostenko, head of the Ukrainian Parliament's Defense Committee, as quoted by Ukrainian media.

"The weapons that were up for sale, their supplies have been halted. The companies that were supposed to deliver the weapons are now waiting because there is no decision," he reportedly said.

There is currently no certainty that Ukraine will even begin to receive weapons in exchange for money, he added.

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Watchdog uncovers ASTRONOMICAL jumps in Dept of Ed, FEMA and USAID spending

Transparency group OpenTheBooks says the surge has far outpaced inflation, and sometimes even came as departments reduced employee headcounts

The biggest offender was the Department of Education, spending on which jumped from $33.4 billion in 2000 to $250.7 billion in 2024. Over the same period, total employees dropped from 4,930 to 4,245

🔹 At the National Institutes of Health, staff increased by 21.5% while spending grew 301%

🔹 At the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), staffing jumped 290% while spending increased 2,096%

🔹 At USAID, staff grew by 218% while spending rose by 468%

OpenTheBooks also found that 75 of 441 federal agencies listed in the Federal Register are “defunct or obsolete,” some closed, others renamed or absorbed by bigger departments.

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📹 "If there's somebody that can go toe to toe with Putin, Xi and Kim Jong Un, it's Donald Trump," Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor, says

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🔸 From ‘honored’ leader to ‘dictator’: Zelensky loses status as US darling

🔸 US rejects the term ‘Russian aggression’ in G7 communique on Ukraine

🔸 What are notable ops by LEGENDARY 810 brigade praised by Putin?

🔸 Vance: we're at the cusp of peace in Europe for the FIRST TIME in 3 years

🔸 Ukraine's rare earths stockpile: fact check

🔸 USAID funded the eradication of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Lawyer to Carlson

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💬 Trump's 'FRUSTRATION' with Zelensky 'multifold' – NSA Waltz

Ukraine hasn’t shown the appropriate “appreciation” for US support, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz stressed. He also pointed to Zelensky’s spurning of Trump’s Treasury chief, who visited Kiev to offer a “historic opportunity” to “coinvest with Ukraine in their minerals.”

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❗️ Kash Patel confirmed as new FBI Director – reports

During the final confirmation hearing, 51 senators supported his nomination, while 49 opposed it, Florida Voice News reported.

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📹 WATCH: Stephen Miller SCHOOLS reporters with ‘a brief civics lesson’

💬 "What President Trump is doing is he is removing federal bureaucrats who are defying democracy by failing to implement his lawful orders, which are the will of the whole American people," Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy, emphasized.

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