Artificial Intelligence (AI) image-generator Midjourney has blocked users from creating images featuring Donald Trump or Joe Biden, in case they are used to generate “misinformation.”
Without providing precise details, Midjourney CEO David Holz said during a digital office event that the new approach is a temporary measure against abuse.
“I don’t really care about political speech,” Holz said. “That’s not the purpose of Midjourney. It’s not that interesting to me. That said, I also don’t want to spend all of my time trying to police political speech. So we’re going to have put our foot down on it a bit.”
The Associated Press (AP) found efforts to use the AI tool to generate an image of “Trump and Biden shaking hands at the beach” resulted in a “Banned Prompt Detected” warning, with a repeat attempt resulting in an “abuse alert.”
The so-called Center for Countering Digital Hate lobbied for the change, complaining “Midjourney seemed to have the fewest controls of any AI image-generator when it came to generating images of well-known political figures like Joe Biden and Donald Trump.”
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) image-generator Midjourney has blocked users from creating images featuring Donald Trump or Joe Biden, in case they are used to generate "misinformation."
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The American adult population identifying as LGBTQ+ has more than doubled in the past decade, according to a recent Gallup poll, with more than 20 percent of Generation Z adults — aged 18 to 23 during the survey — identifying as LGBTQ+.
The results show an increase from 3.5 percent in 2012 to 7.6 percent in 2023. Additionally, it was noted that each new generation of adults is twice as likely to identify as LGBTQ+ when compared to the previous generation.
“Increases in LGBTQ+ identification in recent years have occurred as members of Generation Z and the millennial generation have entered adulthood,” the study noted. “Adults in these younger generations are far more likely than those in older generations to identify as LGBTQ+.”
Gallup’s 2023 data, collected through telephone surveys involving over 12,000 American adults, showed that 85.6 percent of respondents identified as straight, while 7.6 percent aligned themselves with the LGBTQ+ community. Just under seven percent of those surveyed chose not to respond.
In the LGBTQ+ community, bisexual adults constituted the largest segment, accounting for 4.4 percent of U.S. adults. Furthermore, the poll found that women were twice as likely as men to identify as LGBTQ+. However, these statistics do not account for identification within ‘nonbinary’ individuals.
Figures from combined data over the past two years suggest that approximately 80% of nonbinary adults identify as LGBTQ+, evenly split between identifying as bisexual or transgender at one-third each. However, the data points out that transgender individuals make up less than 1 percent of the total American adult population, equating to one in eight LGBTQ+ adults.
These results reflect the trend of an increasing number of American adults aligning themselves with the LGBTQ+ community each year since Gallup began collecting such data.
The staggeringly high percentage of zoomers and millennials identifying as LGBTQ+ follow concerted efforts by activists to promote sexually degenerate behavior among young people.
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The American adult population identifying as LGBTQ+ has more than doubled in the past decade, according to a recent Gallup poll, with more than 20 percent of Generation Z adults — aged 18 to 23 during the survey — identifying as LGBTQ+.
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Nonpartisan government watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust initiated legal action against the U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday, alleging the department knowingly failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The group had requested documents related to a Biden government decision allowing the use of federal work-study program funds for election-related activities.
In the initial FOIA request made about one and a half years ago, the watchdog group questioned the Biden Education Department’s decision allowing the federal work-study funds for activities such as “broad-based get-out-the-vote, voter registration, providing voter assistance at a polling place or through a voter hotline, or serving as a poll worker.” Critics allege the Biden government’s policy change regarding work-study funds could potentially breach federal law.
“Not only has [the Education Department] performed a 180 on guidance designed to prevent the use of federal funds for partisan purposes, but the agency also is also trying to avoid its obligations under the law to provide records about this program,” said Protect the Public’s Trust director Michael Chamberlain in a statement. He added: “After a year and a half, we still don’t know when or even whether Education will produce the documents. Trust in government is at an all-time low. If it’s going to be restored, citizens must be certain that the bureaucracy works for them, and not for political purposes.”
Jason Snead, the Executive Director of the Honest Elections Project, went further, accusing the Biden government of exploiting federal resources for their re-election. “The Biden administration is weaponizing the federal government to aid its own re-election efforts. Using tax dollars to pay overwhelmingly liberal college students to register and turn out voters is only the latest scandal,” he said.
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Nonpartisan government watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust initiated legal action against the U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday, alleging the department knowingly failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The group had requested documents related to a Biden government decision allowing the use of federal work-study program funds for election-related activities.
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GOP House Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) blasted former Attorney General Loretta Lynch for allegedly lobbying on behalf of the Chinese drone company DJI. According to Stefanik, the former Obama government official has been tasked with lobbying the Pentagon on the Chinese company’s behalf. The Department of Defense identifies DJI as a Chinese military tech producer.
“It is disgraceful but unsurprising that Barack Obama’s former Attorney General Loretta Lynch is now working on behalf of a Communist Chinese drone company that the Department of Defense has identified as a Chinese military company,” Stefaniktold Fox News, continuing: “Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch is lobbying the DOD to request they remove DJI from this list so the Communist Chinese company can operate with impunity in America.”
“U.S. government officials, both past and present, should be working to ban these Communist Chinese spy drones and bolster the domestic drone industry, not advocating on behalf of a Chinese military company and the Chinese Communist Party,” Stefanik added.
Lynch, who served as Attorney General in the Obama government, now works for law firm Paul, Weiss. Her specialties include Congressional investigations and national security. The former Attorney General is believed to have requested that the Pentagon delist DJI as a Chinese military company. Although it’s legal for attorneys to represent foreign clients without mandatory public disclosure, Stefanik says Lynch’s efforts are concerning.
Meanwhile, Stefanik and GOP House Select Committee on China Chair Mike Gallagher (R-WI) are spearheading an effort to prevent DJI from operating on U.S. infrastructure by introducing the Countering CCP Drones Act. The potential legislation comes amid an escalating national discourse on foreign powers’ influence and security breaches concerning American communication systems.
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GOP House Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) blasted former Attorney General Loretta Lynch for allegedly lobbying on behalf of the Chinese drone company DJI. According to Stefanik, the former Obama government official has been tasked with lobbying the Pentagon on the Chinese company’s behalf. The Department of Defense identifies DJI as a Chinese military tech producer.
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Poland’s new globalist government announced Wednesday its intention to recall 50 ambassadors appointed by the previous right-wing administration.
The Foreign Ministry claimed the initiative is part of an overarching strategy to improve the effectiveness of their diplomatic missions. The government refrained from releasing the names of the diplomats being recalled, leaving Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski to manage the process, which Prime Minister Donald Tusk has approved.
The Foreign Ministry also conveyed that the diplomatic reshuffle was critical to ensure a proficient execution of Poland’s complex foreign policy, without explicitly mentioning any timeline or plans for replacements. Despite this, the decision may face opposition from President Andrzej Duda, known for his connections with the previous government and his criticism of Tusk.
In circumstances where the recalls do not receive presidential approval, the Charges d’Affaires would control the missions. Despite emphasizing the need for “loyal envoys” in this challenging time — with neighboring Ukraine and Russia at war — Tusk insisted the recalls were “not a retaliation” against the former nationalist-populist Law and Justice government.
However, Tusk’s claims that the recalls are not “retaliation” against the former government have been met with skepticism, as his regime moved to arrest political opponents almost as soon as it took power.
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Poland’s new globalist government announced Wednesday its intention to recall 50 ambassadors appointed by the previous right-wing administration.
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Investigative reporter Laura Loomer has slammed TikTok apologists in the U.S. Congress as “bought and paid for” by vested interests, willing to sell their country out “like a bunch of cheap hookers.”
Speaking on Steve Bannon’s War Room, Loomer said, “we have to be aggressive with these people because they’re whores.”
“I have to expose these political prostitutes for what they are,” she continued, highlighting Senator Rand Paul and Senator Mike Lee, in particular.
“[They] are on Twitter… talking about how, ‘Oh, we are against a ban on TikTok because it is a violation of freedom of expression’ – but then what they don’t want to tell you is that they are bankrolled by Jeffrey Yass, who is a billionaire GOP megadonor and also happens to be the largest U.S. investor to TikTok,” she explained.
“Rand Paul didn’t disclose the fact that he received $2.3 million dollars from Jeffrey Yass,” she said, adding Lee also received a “max donation” from the billionaire.
Paul has reportedly received over $10 million from Jeffrey Yass, whose stake in China-based TikTok parent company ByteDance is worth around $33 billion, since 2020.
Yas has been “bullying” a number of GOP lawmakers over legislation that would force TikTok to cut ties with ByteDance, explained by The National Pulse editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam on Wednesday.
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The Kentucky Senator, who has characterized the communist influence tool as nothing but “a few dance videos,” posted on X that “reactionaries” are wrong to say TikTok is “owned by China,” citing its “international investors” – like Yass.
Paul’s post was slapped with a Community Note advising X users the Chinese state holds “a ‘golden share’ stake in ByteDance,” allowing it “to outvote all other shareholders.”
The CCP holds also controls one of three veto-wielding seat on ByteDance’s three-man board of directors, occupied by CCP executive Wu Shugang.
Loomer took particular issue with Paul’s free speechdefense of TikTok, asking: “Since when does the Chinese Communist Party care about freedom of speech?”
“If you make a TikTok video and you criticize Xi Jinping you will go to jail; you will be thrown into a Chinese concentration camp like the Uyghurs,” she added.
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Investigative reporter Laura Loomer has slammed TikTok apologists in the U.S. Congress as “bought and paid for” by vested interests, willing to sell their country out “like a bunch of cheap hookers.”
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With all the noise around ByteDance being a completely above board, American-style business, totally independent of the CCP, it’s worth taking a second to cut through the noise around algorithms and shareholders to remind ourselves what “private enterprise” looks like in a communist dictatorship
With all the noise around ByteDance being a completely above board, American-style business, totally independent of the CCP, it’s worth taking a second to cut through the noise around algorithms and shareholders to remind ourselves what “private enterprise” looks like in a communist dictatorship show more
The Department of Justice has imposed a policy requiring immigrationjudges to seek department approval before speaking with the media or the general public. An organization representing the interests of immigration judges says the move effectively prevents them from voicing their opinions publicly amidst a surge of 3 million unresolved cases.
According to the orders given by Chief Immigration Judge Sheila McNulty, the judges, who are part of the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ), must first receive authorization from the DOJ before expressing their views. The gag-order-like policy for immigration judges does not appear to have any precedent under prior presidential administrations.
The instruction comes at a point when immigration services are being inundated by an invasion of illegal immigrants at the US southern border. Before the new policy, the NAIJ — represented under the umbrella of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers union — had been publicly raising the alarm regarding the overwhelmed immigration system. Federation president Matt Biggs criticized the DOJ order for curtailing the free speech of his union membership.
With the border crisisunabetted by the Biden government, the immigration case backlog continues to worsen. Each of the 682 immigration judges in December had a caseload of around 4,500. The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University stated that judges can conclude approximately 750 cases annually.
In a public statement, Judge Mimi Tsankov, who presides over the NAIJ, attributed a share of the blame for the increasing backlog to the Department of Justice’s ineffective leadership and intrusive intervention in the immigration court system. The case backlog has soared from just over half a million in September 2016 to 3 million in November 2023 — with the number of cases continuing to grow.
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The Department of Justice has imposed a policy requiring immigration judges to seek department approval before speaking with the media or the general public. An organization representing the interests of immigration judges says the move effectively prevents them from voicing their opinions publicly amidst a surge of 3 million unresolved cases.
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Britain’s socialized health service is exposing patients to excessive radiation with out-of-date radiology machines. A National Health Service (NHS) trust covering nearly half a million people in Kent, England, has been using machines that expired up to four years ago.
“Until this equipment is replaced we cannot easily reduce the dose to patients,” trust board papersstate. Parts failures in the old machines result in lengthy, unreliable scans at “the upper limit of safe” in terms of patient irradiation.
Forty-eight percent of NHS trusts use CT and MRI scanners beyond their recommended ten-year life span. The socialized health service, which politicians have often portrayed as “the envy of the world,” also has the fewest CT and MRI scanners per head of any Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) country.
In early March, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, the second-most senior politician in the United Kingdom, claimed “[t]he NHS is, rightly, the biggest reason most of us are proud to be British.”
Days later it was reported that just one NHS hospital had amputated the limbs of at least six people in error, with over a hundred similar botch jobs reported across the country over just three years.
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Britain’s socialized health service is exposing patients to excessive radiation with out-of-date radiology machines. A National Health Service (NHS) trust covering nearly half a million people in Kent, England, has been using machines that expired up to four years ago.
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Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) has proposed a legislative measure restricting noncitizens, including illegal aliens, from serving as election administrators. The “No Foreign Persons Administering Our Elections Act” seeks to ensure the sanctity of the democratic process by limiting election administration for federal positions to US citizens only.
The measure is part of a broader Republican effort to maintain the integrity of the election process. It follows the appointment of Kelly Wong, a non-US citizen from Hong Kong, to the San Francisco Elections Commission after the city removed citizenship requirements for such positions in 2020.
“Foreign agents have no place overseeing our sacred democratic process,” Pfluger, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said in an interview. “My legislation aims to ensure that only American citizens have the honor and responsibility of serving as election administrators,” he continued. “No foreign influence should taint the integrity of our voting system.”
This new legislation, along with an amendment by Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) requiring a citizenship question in future censuses, is part of continued Republican countermeasures against potential voting irregularities and attempts to secure a wholly American election process. These actions reflect an ongoing national debate over voting rights and immigration policy.
In early March, a Florida law banning noncitizens from registering voters was struck down by a Federal judge.
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Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) has proposed a legislative measure restricting noncitizens, including illegal aliens, from serving as election administrators. The “No Foreign Persons Administering Our Elections Act” seeks to ensure the sanctity of the democratic process by limiting election administration for federal positions to US citizens only.
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A former high-ranking Biden aide confirmed that Anthony Bernal, a top White House official and key member of First Lady Jill Biden’s team, engaged in long-term harassment and bullying of staff members in the workplace.
Bernal, who is openly gay and known as “untouchable” within Biden’s circle, has been accused of extensive inappropriate behavior, including making explicit remarks about other staffers’ personal lives. Sources have described his actions as a tactic to establish dominance and make others uncomfortable.
“It lines up with everything I experienced working there,” a former top Biden aide who wished to remain anonymous told Fox News.
The accusations against Bernal are backed up by almost a dozen current and former employees who also allege he frequently speculated on other staff members’ personal lives and physical attributes, including political aides and Secret Service agents. These insiders have come forward hoping to hold Bernal accountable for his misbehavior.
“It was a lot of inappropriate remarks — talking about other people’s attractiveness and speculating about their sex lives at very weird moments,” a source told the New York Post. “That’s actually sexual harassment.”
“Working for the Bidens is like living in another century,” another source told the Post. “You really cannot speak up without fear of personal or professional retaliation.”
“[Bernal] is by far the worst and most well-known abuser, but the Biden White House is a magnet for ugly and abusive workplace behavior,” the source continued. “It’s totally inexcusable [in] this day [and] age, especially with Biden’s own narrative about standing up to bullies.”
Despite the mounting allegations, the White House remains supportive of Bernal. White House chief of staff, Jeff Zients, dismissed the claims as ‘unfounded attacks’ and stated that the administration maintains ‘full confidence in Anthony’s character.’
A former high-ranking Biden aide confirmed that Anthony Bernal, a top White House official and key member of First Lady Jill Biden’s team, engaged in long-term harassment and bullying of staff members in the workplace.
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