Elon Musk will require X (formerly Twitter) users to let him collect their “biometric information” and “personal information” including “employment history, educational history, employment preferences, skills and abilities, job search activity and engagement, and so on” from September 29th.
The biometric information is “undefined” on the user’s supposed “consent” but could include face, fingerprint, and voice recognition, and will be used for “safety, security, and identification purposes”.
The personal information will be used to “recommend potential jobs for you” and also “share[d] with potential employers when you apply for a job”.
Combined with “publicly available information” scraped from all manner of sources, this newly-collected data will also be used “to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models,” the new policy states.
Musk continues to advertise X as a burgeoning free speech platform under his ownership, but the implementation of invasive data collection alongside the hiring of censorious executives and the suspension of users for expressing support for capital punishment, for example, suggests it may soon be little different from Jack Dorsey-era Twitter.
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Elon Musk will require X (formerly Twitter) users to let him collect their "biometric information" and "personal information" including "employment history, educational history, employment preferences, skills and abilities, job search activity and engagement, and so on" from September 29th.
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Brian Kemp, the supposedly Republican Governor of Georgia, is rejecting calls to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the RICO prosecution of former President Donald Trump and 18 other individuals accused of interfering the 2020 presidential election.
“Up to this point, I have not seen any evidence that DA Willis’s actions – or lack thereof – warrant action by the Prosecuting Attorney Oversight Commission,” Kemp said at a press conference on Thursday before adding, “But ultimately that will be a decision that the commission will make.”
Gov. Kemp (R-GA) in his hurricane presser squashes idea of calling a special session targeting DA Willis, which Trump & his allies have pushed:
“A special session of the General Assembly to end-run around this law is not feasible and may ultimately prove to be unconstitutional.” pic.twitter.com/DqUTLveNAl
The Georgia Governor specifically rejected the call by Republican State Senator Colton Moore for a special legislative session to review the actions by District Attorney Willis, arguing that the move would “…ignore current Georgia law and directly interfere with the proceedings of a separate but equal branch of government.” Kemp declined to mention Moore specifically by name in his remarks.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis did not escape criticism from Kemp, however. The Governor said Willis’s decision to prosecute former President Trump during an election “…sows distrust and provides easy pickings for those who see the District Attorney’s action as guided by politics.”
On August 14th, a Fulton County grand jury handed down indictments of former President Trump and 18 other individuals for interfering in the 2024 presidential election in Georgia. Last week, when former President surrendered himself at the Fulton County jail, The National Pulse was the first to confirm and report Trump’s mugshot.
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Brian Kemp, the supposedly Republican Governor of Georgia, is rejecting calls to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the RICO prosecution of former President Donald Trump and 18 other individuals accused of interfering the 2020 presidential election.
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New York Attorney General Letita James, who campaigned for office during the Donald Trump administration on a platform of going after the “illegitimate president” in the courts, is pressing a judge to rule against the now-former president before he even goes to trial.
AG James has been pursuing Trump, his children, and their family business for years now, claiming the MAGA kingpin overstated his net worth by $812 million to $2.2 billion from 2011 to 2021 and seeking sanctions including a $250 million payment and a near-ban on the Trumps doing business in New York in a civil trial scheduled for October.
She wants the courts to issue a summary judgment against Trump related to fraud the trial starts, however, citing a supposed “mountain of undisputed evidence”.
Her pursuit of Trump has likely cost millions already, based on reporting of Trump’s ongoing legal fees related to the case, representing a significant strain on the law enforcement budget at a time when crime in New York City is recovering from a 22 percent spike in major crime in 2022.
Five of seven categories of major crime have receded since this surge over the course of 2023 – so far – but felony assault and especially grand larceny auto offenses were still on the rise in statistics released early August.
Crime is also likely significantly greater that law enforcement figures suggest, due to both underreporting and undercharging – an issue even Democrat state governor Kathy Hochul had to acknowledge after rapist refugee Van Phu Bui was initially released without bail after almost killing a man in the street.
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New York Attorney General Letita James, who campaigned for office during the Donald Trump administration on a platform of going after the "illegitimate president" in the courts, is pressing a judge to rule against the now-former president before he even goes to trial.
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A 25-year-old man has been charged with criminal mischief and a ‘hate crime’ after he removed and damaged a number of LGBTQI+ pride flags placed on a fence in New York City’s West Village neighborhood in June.
Patrick Murphy is alleged to have engaged in a “criminal mischief pattern” alongside two other men by the city’s authorities after pride flags at the Stonewall National Monument were vandalized. Despite the months-long effort to locate and charge Murphy, the damage saw around only a dozen small LGBTQI+ and trans flags thrown onto the floor and several flag sticks broken.
New York City Councilor Erik Bottcher posted a number of photos of the small mess on X (formerly Twitter), stating, “If anyone thinks this is going to intimidate us or weaken our resolve, they’re mistaken.”
Someone vandalized the rainbow flag display on the Stonewall National Monument on Christopher Street, snapping the flag sticks and throwing them on the ground. If anyone thinks this is going to intimidate us or weaken our resolve, they’re mistaken. 🌈 👊 pic.twitter.com/sFdue8NrPG
Murphy disputes the claims and has pleaded not guilty, according to court records. His attorney, Robert Gottlieb, argued: “It is preposterous to conclude that Patrick was involved in any hate crime.”
“The evidence will clearly show that whatever happened that night involving Patrick was not intended to attack gays or their symbol, the gay pride flag,” Gottlieb added.
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A 25-year-old man has been charged with criminal mischief and a 'hate crime' after he removed and damaged a number of LGBTQI+ pride flags placed on a fence in New York City's West Village neighborhood in June.
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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health says two residents of the state tested positive for the West Nile Virus. A woman in her 70s was exposed while visiting another part of the United States, while a man in his 40s was exposed to the virus in the Greater Boston area.
This is the first time the West Nile Virus has been detected in Massachusetts residents in 2023 according to Public Health Commissioner Robert Goldstein, MD, PhD. He warned residents: “Populations of mosquitoes that can carry and spread this virus are fairly large this year, and we have seen recent increases in the number of WNV-positive mosquito samples from multiple parts of the Commonwealth.”
West Nile Virus first appeared in the United States in 1999. The mosquito-born virus belongs to the flavivirus family – along with dengue fever, yellow fever, and Zika. Culex mosquitoes become carriers for the virus when they use their proboscis bite and draw blood from infected birds. The virus can then subsequently be passed on to humans when they are bit by its mosquito hosts.
Most people who are exposed to West Nile never experience any symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Around 20 percent of people exposed will develop febrile illness, marked by severe flu-like symptoms – and may experience fatigue for several months after the illness has gone away on its own. Severe, and sometimes fatal, conditions such as encephalitis and meningitis are rare – developing in an estimated 1 out of every 150 confirmed cases.
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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health says two residents of the state tested positive for the West Nile Virus. A woman in her 70s was exposed while visiting another part of the United States, while a man in his 40s was exposed to the virus in the Greater Boston area.
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McDonald’s has embraced LGBT “pride” in its latest ad campaign featuring an interracial gay couple bickering over food alongside the subheading “couple goals.” The campaign was posted on X (formerly Twitter) with the description, “if that’s not love idk [I don’t know] what is,” and shows two middle-aged men fighting over fries and play fighting.
Social media observers noted how the commercial is similar to an old meme which parodies corporates for shoehorning homosexuality into their otherwise unrelated businesses:
— Count Luke Twombly von Jolly (@ltwombly93) August 31, 2023
The campaign has already flopped, with just 44 reposts and under 850 likes, despite receiving over 3.6 million views. Comments, too, were quick to criticize the post, with one reading, “It seems like gayness has seeped into every type of advertisement. #LGBT make up 7% of the population….but they still try and jam it in everyone’s face. Buy @Whataburger.”
Another response simply read: “Gross.”
McDonald’s is not alone in pushing the LGBT agenda; Chipotle began promoting its commitment to gay pride earlier this year after it launched ‘The Pride Edit’ featuring rainbow-colored T-shirts and other LGBT merchandise.
McDonald's has embraced LGBT "pride" in its latest ad campaign featuring an interracial gay couple bickering over food alongside the subheading "couple goals." The campaign was posted on X (formerly Twitter) with the description, "if that's not love idk [I don't know] what is," and shows two middle-aged men fighting over fries and play fighting.
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An estimated 121,000 patients died while waiting for National Health Service (NHS) treatment in England last year, according to figures obtained by the Labour Party through freedom of information requests. The party claims these record numbers indicate that people are spending their final months in agony while on waitlists for care. Labour extrapolated data from 35 NHS trusts to estimate a total of 120,695 deaths occurred across 138 trusts in the country.
Last year, a similar extrapolation suggested 117,000 patients died waiting for treatment from Britain’s socialized healthcare provider, ludicrously dubbed the “envy of the world,” though millions of Britons are now hurriedlyturning to private care.
NHS England data shows 7.6 million people waiting for treatment at the end of June 2023, with strikes over pay disputes in the health service contributing to the backlog.
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An estimated 121,000 patients died while waiting for National Health Service (NHS) treatment in England last year, according to figures obtained by the Labour Party through freedom of information requests. The party claims these record numbers indicate that people are spending their final months in agony while on waitlists for care. Labour extrapolated data from 35 NHS trusts to estimate a total of 120,695 deaths occurred across 138 trusts in the country.
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Grant Shapps MP has been appointed as the new United Kingdom Secretary of State for Defence, despite military officials warning he has neither experience in, nor knowledge about the subject and will require “quite some time to get up to speed.”
Shapps – an original “Tory modernizer” from the days of David Cameron, circa 2010, is now a fierce supporter of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Shapps has served in a number of Cabinet positions, including Transport Secretary, Home Secretary, and Housing Minister, and was appointed Defence Secretary following the resignation of Ben Wallace, who served in the British Army and was touted to replace Jens Stoltenberg as the Secretary General of NATO earlier this year.
While working as a Conservative Member of Parliament, Shapps operated a clandestine business selling dodgy computer software that increased a website’s advertisement revenue by “breaching Google’s code of practice”. At the time, he used pseudonyms such as Michael Green, Corinne Stockheath, and Sebastian Fox.
He initially denied the claims for a number of years and even threatened litigation against those who reported on it. Eventually, he admitted he was essentially a confidence trickster. This is now Britain’s Defence Secretary, in charge of the fifth strongest military in the world.
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Grant Shapps MP has been appointed as the new United Kingdom Secretary of State for Defence, despite military officials warning he has neither experience in, nor knowledge about the subject and will require "quite some time to get up to speed."
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Storm damage from Hurricane Idalia is expected to place increased strain on Florida insurers, deepening the state’s insurance crisis, where already more than two dozen firms have decided to stop providing homeowners policies in the state, including major players like Farmers. The state’s residents, meanwhile, face skyrocketing premiums – impacting not just household budgets, but the state housing market too.
Insurers argue Florida’s exposure to hurricanes has made the state too risky to do business in. The rapidly rising cost of reinsurance – a form of insurance for insurers that offsets their own financial risk in issuing coverage – has made operations in Florida tricky.
In December 2022, lawmakers in Tallahassee held a three-day special legislative session aimed at alleviating the state’s insurance crisis, worsened by an estimated $65 billion in insurance losses caused by Hurricane Ian which ravaged Florida. The legislature enacted major changes to Florida law, including earmarking $1 billion in taxpayer cash for industry reinsurance and restricting lawsuits against insurers. The new rules also ended state-controlled Citizens Property Insurance Corp coverage for an estimated 1.1 million Floridians in the hope that increased private sector competition would drive down insurance rates.
While the efforts appear to have failed in preventing the continued flight of insurers from state, their 2022 legislative changes almost certainly ended up increasing the cost of insurance premiums for homeowners. This year, Floridians faced homeowners insurance rates that are four times the national average. State Senator John Grant, chairman of the Florida Senate Insurance Committee, called for another special legislative session to address the crisis in early August.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has spent much of the summer outside Florida in his pursuit of the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said he feels the 2022 special session didn’t go far enough in reforming the Florida insurance industry. On Monday , while discussing state preparations for Hurricane Idalia, DeSantis stated, “I’ve always wanted to do more than the Legislature wanted to do. We got the Legislature to do a lot more this year than we’ve ever had. So, whatever is down the pike that could be beneficial to the market, I’m all ears for it.”
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Storm damage from Hurricane Idalia is expected to place increased strain on Florida insurers, deepening the state's insurance crisis, where already more than two dozen firms have decided to stop providing homeowners policies in the state, including major players like Farmers. The state's residents, meanwhile, face skyrocketing premiums – impacting not just household budgets, but the state housing market too.
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Former President Donald Trump says he would have “no choice” but to prosecute his political opponents if he retakes the White House in 2024, “…because they’re doing it to us,” adding that his respect for the office of the president may have caused him to underestimate Biden’s role in the weaponized partisan prosecutions against him.
“I never hit Biden as hard as I could have. And then I heard he was trying to indict me and it was him that was doing it,” Trump said in an interview with leading 2016 Never Trump activist Glenn Beck.
Retribution against America’s enemies, both foreign and domestic, has become a central theme for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. In a speech to thousands of conservative activists earlier this year, the former President pledged to end the influence of the Deep State in Washington, D.C, stating:
If you put me back in White House, their reign is over. In 2016, I declared, ‘I am your voice.’ Today I add, I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.
The Trump campaign’s Agenda47 policy platform includes detailed plans on how President Trump would tackle rogue federal employees and the Deep State. On day one, the former President says he would re-issue his 2020 “Schedule F” executive order that would allow him to more easily fire “rogue bureaucrats” working in sensitive policy areas. Trump also pledged that his administration would establish a “…Truth and Reconciliation Commission to declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship, and abuses of power,” and relocate 100,000 federal government jobs away from Washington, D.C.
Reforming the Department of Justice (DOJ) would be a priority if Trump wins the 2024 presidential election. Plans are already underway to establish a new DOJ office dedicated to ensuring election integrity. It is also expected that the Trump White House pursue the appointment of several DOJ special counsels to investigate President Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s business dealings, as well as President Biden’s role in DOJ special prosecutor Jack Smith’s witch-hunt against Trump.
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Former President Donald Trump says he would have "no choice" but to prosecute his political opponents if he retakes the White House in 2024, "...because they’re doing it to us," adding that his respect for the office of the president may have caused him to underestimate Biden's role in the weaponized partisan prosecutions against him.
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