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Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has issued a temporary stay blocking the Trump administration’s State Department policy that restricted visas for foreign nationals involved in efforts to censor Americans online. Boasberg issued the sweeping 58-page memorandum opinion on July 14, siding with the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, or CITR, which represents leftist researchers, fake fact-checkers, nonprofit activists, and so-called “trust and safety” professionals.

President Trump on Friday blasted the European Union for fining American tech companies. Trump said the European Union is robbing the American taxpayer. The European Union fined Apple $15 billion, Meta $3 billion and Amazon $2.5 billion. President Trump said he launched a 301 investigation after the European Union fined Google another $1 billion. Full statement from President Trump: The European Union is at it again and, as usual, taking direct aim at GREAT American Companies! After having fined Apple, for no reason at all, 15 Billion Dollars, Meta, 3 Billion Dollars, Amazon 2.5 Billion Dollars,

Alaska has sent 3,048 letters to voters asking them to verify their citizenship status ahead of the August 18 primaries. The more than 3,000 voters who received the letters were moved to inactive status. They will be able vote with provisional ballots if they do not respond to the letter before the primary election. ABC News reported: The state has sent more than 3,000 letters to Alaska voters asking them to verify their citizenship ahead of the Aug. 18 primary, a number a top state elections official said is unusually high. The letters have raised concerns among some state lawmakers, including one who said some constituents who received them are U.S. citizens.

OK, so here's the deal: With the news cycle full of stories about the war in Iran, Democratic Socialist (Marxist) mayors' latest destructive nonsense, election fraud, Medicaid fraud, and other such fun stuff, I decided to take a short trip off the beaten path and write about an intriguing case involving face tattoos, inalienable rights, and the U.S. Constitution. Sound like a fun diversion? It was. Read on. As many, if not most, of us are aware, free speech cases are often messy and usually replete with uncomfortable facts. This is one of those cases.

Europeans are learning a painful lesson. Just this week, the EU slammed Google with a roughly $1 billion fine for Digital Markets Act violations involving its Google Play app store and search practices that deliberately favor European competitors over American innovation. These and other heavy-handed EU regulations unfairly targeting U.S. e-commerce and tech giants are now actively denying European consumers access to advanced American technology—including the new Siri AI system, which will soon roll out on iPhones and iPads in the United States, and Google’s Gemini AI system. Not only do similar South Korean actions against American firms risk cutting off —