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Judge blocks Pentagon order branding Anthropic a national security risk
https://x.com/washingtonpost/status/2037323723015877012
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/26/pentagon-anthropic-national-security-risk-order-blocked
“Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government,” District Court Judge Rita F. Lin wrote.
The immediate practical implications of the ruling are unclear, but it represents a clear victory for the AI lab, which has been involved in a bitter power struggle with the Defense Department over the use of its Claude system by the military. Defense officials pushed the company to allow for the technology to be used for any lawful purpose, but Anthropic wanted a bar on it being used in mass domestic surveillance and to power fully autonomous weapons.....
Lin wrote that her order does not prevent the Pentagon from choosing to stop doing business with Anthropic, but she barred the Trump administration from taking broader steps against the company. Her ruling is not the final say because a separate case related to a different law is playing out in another federal court in Washington. A panel of judges handling that case has yet to issue a ruling.
Judge blocks Pentagon order branding Anthropic a national security risk
Source: Washington Post
A federal judge in San Francisco blocked a Pentagon order Thursday labeling the artificial intelligence company Anthropic a national security risk, saying officials had likely violated the law and retaliated against the firm for speaking publicly about how it wanted its technology to be used.
“Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government,” District Court Judge Rita F. Lin wrote.
The immediate practical implications of the ruling are unclear, but it represents a clear victory for the AI lab, which has been involved in a bitter power struggle with the Defense Department over the use of its Claude system by the military. Defense officials pushed the company to allow for the technology to be used for any lawful purpose, but Anthropic wanted a bar on it being used in mass domestic surveillance and to power fully autonomous weapons.....
Lin wrote that her order does not prevent the Pentagon from choosing to stop doing business with Anthropic, but she barred the Trump administration from taking broader steps against the company. Her ruling is not the final say because a separate case related to a different law is playing out in another federal court in Washington. A panel of judges handling that case has yet to issue a ruling.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/26/pentagon-anthropic-national-security-risk-order-blocked/
https://x.com/washingtonpost/status/2037323723015877012
Mike Luckovich-Fifth Horseman added
— Mike Luckovich (@mluckovich.bsky.social) 2026-03-26T23:15:11.148Z
Trump moves to bypass Congress to pay TSA agents as airport chaos drags on
This action will not stand up in court
President Donald Trump announced Thursday he would try to bypass Congress and unilaterally order TSA agents paid amid the ongoing Department of Homeland Security funding crisis after 40 days of airport chaos failed to produce a deal with Democrats.
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-26T23:10:19Z
https://www.rawstory.com/smartnews/donald-trump-dhs/
In a characteristic Truth Social screed, Trump framed the move as a heroic act of executive authority while simultaneously blasting Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democrats for the crisis. His own demands to tie DHS funding to his voter ID bill blew up negotiations earlier this week.
"The Radical Left Democrats, and their 'Leader,' Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, have made it very clear where they stand, and that is, ON THE SIDE OF CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS, AND NOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. They are refusing to fund Immigration Enforcement unless the Republicans agree to their Open Border Policies, which will never, ever happen again. They almost destroyed our Country, allowing 25 Million People to enter from Prisons, Mental Institutions, and Insane Asylums, those that are Drug Dealers, and thousands of Murderers, many of whom killed more than one person," Trump said, repeating an array of false and misleading claims.....
The announcement comes after TSA agents missed multiple paychecks, wait times at some airports topped four hours, and Senate Republicans publicly expressed frustration with the president's handling of the impasse. Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) called Trump's demands "impossible," while Sen. Cynthia Lummis admitted she had "no idea" how the standoff would end.
In Trump's war messaging, veterans see something new -- and disturbing
Service members and families who lost loved ones say the Trump team’s memes and jokes trivialize combat and sacrifice. Trump aides say the backlash sends views soaring.
In Trump’s war messaging, veterans see something new — and disturbing, new via @drewharwell.com www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
— Scott Clement (@sfcpoll.bsky.social) 2026-03-25T15:53:36.355Z
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/25/veterans-backlash-white-house-iran-memes/
“They’re completely diminishing what they’re asking the nation to do in Iran,” Buccino said in an interview. “It seems almost obscene relative to the actual violence and suffering that’s involved with this.”....
The videos have also fueled fierce backlash as they clash with real-world grief: On the same day earlier this month that an Air Force refueling plane crash killed six American service members, the White House posted a meme video interspersing explosions in Iran with celebrations from a sports game on the Nintendo Wii.....
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2032115039985881556
The White House videos, posted to its official Instagram, TikTok and X accounts, have featured jokes from popular movie, TV and gaming franchises such as “Top Gun,” “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” and “Dragon Ball Z,” and many feature comedic visual effects and rap music soundtracks. On March 9, a day after The Post and other media organizations reported on a video showing a U.S. Tomahawk missile striking near an Iranian elementary school where dozens of children were killed, the White House posted a missile strike video backed by the rapper Nelly’s “Here Comes the Boom.”....
Criticism of the war memes has been wide-ranging. Steve Downes, whose grizzled voice, from the video game series Halo, was featured in a White House meme video, derided it as “disgusting and juvenile war porn.” And Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, said in a statement that the “sickening” meme campaign had “dishonored” dead soldiers and threatened a “profound moral failure” for society at large.
“Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment, as if it’s just another piece of content to be swiped through while we’re waiting in line at the grocery store,” Cupich wrote.
There are a couple more videos in this article but I will NOT post these videos. I am shocked at how stupid and childish these videos are. There are reports that trump is only viewing 2 minute videos on the progress of the war https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221122137 These videos show that trump really does not understand this war.
'I didn't vote for this': Even MAGA outraged as 'obscene' war memes flood social media
These memes are so very stupid and only appeal to trump and some of his MAGA idiot followers. Our troops are insulted by these "memes."
'I didn't vote for this': Even MAGA outraged as 'obscene' war memes flood social media
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-25T16:10:54.449Z
https://www.rawstory.com/white-house-iran-war-memes
Joe Buccino, a retired U.S. Army colonel, told the Washington Post he and other veterans had already been questioning the war's strategy and objectives, but they were unnerved to see the White House post music-backed clips of missile strikes mixed in with segments from Call of Duty and “SpongeBob SquarePants.”
“They’re completely diminishing what they’re asking the nation to do in Iran,” Buccino told the Post. “It seems almost obscene relative to the actual violence and suffering that’s involved with this.”
However, the White House argued the social media campaign has succeeded in communicating Operation Epic Fury’s “overwhelming success," and it said public outrage over the posts had been key to driving up millions of online views.,,,,
“Gamifying or making light of war also undermines the sacrifice of the Americans who have died, and obfuscates the cost of open-ended conflict," said John Vick, the executive director of the conservative advocacy group Concerned Veterans for America. “Most Americans, and especially American veterans, are ready to hear how and when we achieve victory and bring this war to a close. That is what the Pentagon needs to communicate, and soon.”
Minnesota Prosecutors Want Evidence. Guess What the Feds Say?
A new lawsuit filed by state prosecutors lays bare the appalling reasons why there’s been no movement on the Renee Good and Alex Pretti shootings.
https://x.com/newrepublic/status/2037088147167731751
https://newrepublic.com/article/208182/minnesota-prosecutors-evidence-alex-pretti-renee-good-doj
Minnesota prosecutors filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., that lays out what’s been happening behind the scenes. The federal government has forced Minnesota to run a gauntlet just to obtain basic evidence to move forward: Good’s car, still shrink-wrapped and unexamined in an FBI storage facility in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota; shell casings; forensic evidence; and multiple statements in the wake of the shooting by federal officers.
It turns out that the feds have not only failed to cooperate with the state but have gone to great effort to stonewall the state’s requests, and they continue to do so.
Minnesota has jumped through every procedural hoop the feds have demanded. Even so, the feds’ answer, delivered through a combination of bad-faith denials and contemptuous silence, has been: too bad......
Longtime veterans of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division report that this is the first time they have ever seen the DOJ try to block state prosecutors from proceeding with a civil rights investigation. From my fairly extensive experience in that area, I can second that.
Minnesota’s lawsuit was preceded by more than a month of jumping through federal hoops to request evidence in the feds’ possession. Prosecutors filed so-called Touhy requests, the regulatory mechanism for demanding evidence from federal agencies, with the Department of Homeland Security, which had possession of the evidence. DHS said, “Not our department; try DOJ.” Minnesota did, starting in early February. To date, DOJ has said ... nothing at all. It has simply never responded.
Tommy Tuberville sued as heated governor race gets ugly
There are reports that Tuberville has been living in Florida while serving as a Senator from Alabama. You have to a true resident of a state if you want to represent that state. This will be fun to watch
Sen. Tommy Tuberville's campaign for Alabama governor was hit with a potential obstacle.
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-25T22:20:05Z
https://www.rawstory.com/tommy-tuberville-alabama/
Fellow GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken McFeeters has alleged for months that Tuberville does not meet the constitutional requirement that a candidate for governor must have lived in Alabama for at least seven years prior to being elected. This week, he took his challenge to the senator's candidacy to the courts, reported AL.com.
“I recognize the enthusiasm of the Alabama Republican Party to have a potential candidate of such high name recognition and notoriety,” McFeeters states in the lawsuit. “However, it is incumbent upon the governing Committee to strictly adhere to the parchment, examine the facts and evidence, and protect all Alabamians.”
McFeeters announced at the state Capitol that he had sued the staunch ally of President Donald Trump and the Alabama Republican Party, which earlier this year declined to hear his complaint about the MAGA senator's eligibility.
The lawsuit asks the court tor require proof of residency within seven days and seeks to keep Tuberville’s name off the ballot if he's found to be ineligible under the state Constitution, but the senator's camp brushed off the complaint.
Republicans are rejecting the rule on military ballots that helped Bush win
I have been volunteering on voter protection efforts for a long time. I was headed to Florida when Bush v. Gore came down. I remember very well that a large part of the new votes that came in for bush were military ballots that were counted late. trump wants to eliminate or restrict the ability of our military and overseas voters from being counted.
Opinion | Republicans are rejecting the rule on military ballots that helped Bush win; In the tense days after the 2000 recount, the GOP called for as many military ballots to be counted as possible.
— CVJ (@enuffsaysv.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T19:21:16.480Z
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‼ï¸this is getting progressively uglier as cheeto gets nervous
https://www.ms.now/opinion/late-arriving-military-ballots-project-47-newsletter
One major bloc of voters who would be affected by such a radical shift is the 1.3 million Americans on active duty in the military, especially the hundreds of thousands of service members stationed overseas and in war zones.
It was precisely those late-arriving military ballots that helped put George W. Bush over the top in the tense days after the 2000 election. A GOP push to accept absentee ballots from overseas — and the military voters among them — ended up producing a net gain of 739 votes for Bush in Florida, enough to secure the crucial state he needed to win the presidency.
But the Bush campaign wasn’t a passive beneficiary of this outcome. In the days after the election, it lodged preemptive legal complaints to prevent military ballots from being tossed and argued that the Gore campaign was seeking to disenfranchise the troops for even considering challenging some of the ballots. Republicans went county by county in Florida to ensure the ballots were counted.
The RNC position today contradicts every aspect of that effort.
In Watson v. Republican National Committee, lawyers for the national party are arguing that since federal statutes dating back more than a century refer to a uniform national Election Day, ballots can’t be counted if they arrive even one day later. “Election Day means Election Day,” said multiple Republican officials supporting the effort to reject late-arriving mail ballots.
Delta suspends specialty services for members of Congress amid shutdown-driven TSA delays
Transportation Security Administration workers hit their third period without paychecks, which an employee union leader called a "national disgrace."
https://x.com/NBCNews/status/2036553658041606190
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/delta-suspends-specialty-services-congress-tsa-shutdown-rcna264889
On Tuesday morning, Delta issued a statement saying it would temporarily suspend specialty services for members of Congress "due to the impact on resources from the longstanding government shutdown."
Members of Congress are given special treatment at airports, including expedited screening, escorts through airports to bypass long security lines, and dedicated reservation desks that, among other things, allow them to make last-minute changes.
TSA workers hit their third period without a paycheck since funding for parts of the Department of Homeland Security was halted because of an impasse between the White House and Congress over immigration enforcement and voting policies.
"Next to safety, Delta’s No. 1 priority is taking care of our people and customers, which has become increasingly difficult in the current environment," the airline said in a statement.
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