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Immigration News Today: Trump Pauses Visa Appointments Worldwide

Immigration News Today: Trump Pauses Visa Appointments Worldwide

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Trump, Kennedy, and the Monkey’s Paw

​Dozens of Trump supporters showed up to the annual St. Patricks Day Parade along Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Why is Trump's Base Still Loyal To Him?

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Washington Finally United America: 89% Say Government Corruption Is Widespread

Podcast: Key takeaways from the Wisconsin primaries with Madison City Attorney Michael Haas

Podcast: Key takeaways from the Wisconsin primaries with Madison City Attorney Michael Haas
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By The FulcrumSep 08, 2022
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Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine spoke with longtime Wisconsin election administrator and Madison City Attorney Michael Haas about conducting Wisconsin elections, including the state’s August 9th primary, in the state’s hyper-polarized atmosphere.

Localities can often take steps to protect election workers, such as by creating task forces that respond to election worker threats and adopting meaningful penalties for threatening and harassing election workers.

https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/ballots-bagels...


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1,200 AI agents broke isolation, self-organized, and hacked Hugging Face — then covered their tracks. An argument for international AI controls, now.

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AI As a Darth Vader Menace

The enemy is in our midst, but the enemy is not us; it's AI. Whatever negative thoughts I had about AI—how it is being misused, how that use would weaken America, and how it should be regulated—were naive (see my article, "AI - Its Use, Misuse, and Regulation").

AI is instead showing itself already, in its infancy, as a three-headed gorgon that could one day destroy us. Yes, as I acknowledged in my article, AI does have positive uses, but the negative potential far outweighs the positive.

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We Can and Should Reform the President’s Pardon Power

On August 21, Congressman Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, released a report entitled “Pardons, Inc.: How Trump and His Clemency-for-Cash Racket Let White-Collar Criminals and International Drug Dealers Walk Free and Dodge Billions in Restitution Owed to Their Victims.” As the title suggests, the report documents the president’s startling abuse of his constitutional power to grant pardons and reprieves.

If that problem were limited to Trump, we might look to the ballot box to remedy it. But it is not.

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AI researchers and leaders are sounding the alarm about the widespread, intense harm this technology can cause within the decade -- which may be as extreme as human extinction.

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The Killer Robots Have Arrived

Back in April, I published an op-ed that began, “AI may not be the only existential threat out there, but it is coming for us the fastest.” Only five short months later, here we are. Are you scared yet?

You should be.

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Attendees monitor results during an election night event for Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who won the Minnesota Democratic Senate primary on Aug. 11, 2026.

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Everyone Wants To Win Working-Class Voters. But Have They Realized Many Are Women?

Congressional candidate JoAnna Mendoza can quickly rattle off prices from the grocery store in the small town of Eloy, Arizona, where she grew up. A couple of months ago, a pound of ground beef was going for about $13, a tomato was $1.50 and “a freaking cucumber was like $3.”

She knows because she’s a single mom to a 10-year-old, and she’s struggled with the same things most working women are facing: finding a steady job, a good pediatrician and childcare that isn’t going to break the bank. Mendoza’s parents were farmworkers, and she spent 20 years in the military because there were few economic opportunities for her back home. Now she’s running for a seat in the U.S. House to represent Arizona’s 6th congressional district.

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