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President Trump today announced the creation of an AI Force, named after his first-term baby, the Space Force. There was no one named to head the group or even to be part of the group, but here we go. To recap: in the past couple of weeks, AI insiders and outsiders have been predicting that AI soon will be able to “kill us all.” This follows some AI agents burrowing into other AI engines, which seems a bit far from being able to eliminate humanity. There have also been calls for a “kill switch” to be created so that — if these AI creatures take on a Hitlerian life of their own and start building bombs, concocting poisons, or sending ultraviolet rays to wipe us all out — we’d have a means to stop them. Now, unless I’m mistaken, AI is powered by electricity, so shouldn’t there already be a way to cut the power? Anyway, Trump originally pooh-poohed these naysayers, who seem to have ganged together after some 20-something kid quit his AI gig and predicted AI would take over the world. Now, here’s what Trump wrote on Truth Social today: “I am forming the AI Force, much like

President Trump is banning CNN, Politico, and MSNow from the White House, citing Fake News. The next step might be to follow Woodrow Wilson and throw your opponents into jail; not that Trump hasn’t tried that already, but not yet on current news reporters. Trump made this announcement on Truth Social: “I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW… and Politico… from the White House as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!”  Nice to see that Trump is following the proud tradition of not only President WIlson who jailed his oppoents, but also President John Adams. It was President Thomas Jefferson who restored Constitutional freedoms that Adams had curtailed. Warren G. Harding took over for Wilson, and matters normalized somewhat with the end of WWI. Who is going to curtail Trump and his mania for “my word or the highway”? President AOC?  Haha, she’d ban Fox, OAN, and Newsmax. Welcome to 1984 three decades late.

Judicial Watch announced today that it forced the release of 180 pages of heavily redacted Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) records through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit revealing that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman who attempted to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a July 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, purchased “a chest rig and ceramic plates,” exhibited increasingly unusual behavior, including talking to himself, pacing at night, staying awake for extended periods and exhibiting impulsivity issues. Judicial Watch filed its July 2025 FOIA lawsuit after the FBI failed to respond to a July 2024 request for records concerning Crooks and the assassination attempt (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:25-cv-02216)). In a July 15, 2024, FD-302 FBI interview report, an individual whose name is redacted wrote: Thomas purchased ammo online, going from website to website until he found a site that would sell to him. Thomas recently bought a chest rig and ceramic plates. Thomas had recently gotten into rapid action range transition shooting where shooters would enter a timed range and switch between weapons while moving. *** As Thomas became older, he started to get more agitated when [Redacted] and [Redacted] asked