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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 —

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk just delivered a devastating reality check to the legacy media in a fiery interview with The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes. The fiery exchange occurred during a 90-minute interview recorded at a Tesla factory in Texas and published Thursday. When the globalist outlet accused Musk of supporting not only the “populist right,” but also the “far right” and “very fringe parties” in Europe. Musk immediately rejected her loaded characterization. No, I support the normal people—what you call the far right, falsely,” Musk fired back. He then challenged Beddoes to explain which of his supposedly “extreme” principles she found so objectionable.

The Associated Press (AP) noted on Thursday that “at least seven major pipeline projects are under construction, in the planning stage, or being discussed as possibilities.” Work on all of these projects accelerated after Iran delivered a “wake-up call for Gulf oil producers” by shuttering the Strait of Hormuz twice so far this year. The goal is to build and expand pipeline networks that would allow countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Iraq to bypass the traditional seaborne route from their Persian Gulf ports through the Strait of Hormuz and on to buyers across Asia. One of those alternate routes has now come under threat:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke Wednesday with President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner about how to resume diplomatic efforts to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, according to a report Wednesday. Axios correspondent Barak Ravid said the two sides talked through ways to get negotiations moving again. He cited a source who knew about the call. Zelensky himself confirmed it hours later on X and made a point of saying Ukraine wants peace. Zelensky framed the call as an effort to breathe life back into the peace process. “It was a good, important conversation on how to reinvigorate diplomacy and bring peace closer,” he wrote.

The company has grown gargantuan in size. Its parent company, Alphabet, is worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Worldwide, Google’s Search function comprises over 90 percent of all search engine usage. Its browser, Chrome, takes up almost 70 percent of the browser market (Apple’s Safari, which comes on all Macbooks, takes up 16 percent – meaning Google is effectively the default for all non-Apple computers and plenty of Apple computers). Gemini, its AI, is built into its search. Alphabet even owns 14 percent of Anthropic, the second-largest corporate shareholder after Amazon.

The Los Angeles Times recently published a "News Analysis" headlined: "Trump, long a critic of 'forever wars,' may be stumbling into one with Iran." The analysis offers legitimate grounds for criticizing President Donald Trump. He has described the objectives of the war against Iran in different ways. He has made changing predictions about its duration. He has repeatedly suggested that an agreement was near, only for negotiations to collapse. He promised no more endless Middle East wars, yet the conflict has continued for months, American servicemembers have died, and the administration has not clearly defined what victory looks like.

Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson said he will match the $1,000 Trump accounts for Georgia children if elected. Jackson joined second-term Republican President Donald Trump on stage at Cobb County's Wheeler High School, where the president spoke on the accounts. American families with children born between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028, can claim a $1,000 Trump account, according to the White House. They can add up to $5,000 to the account. "And I believe our Legislature will approve that, but if they don't, I will personally donate it myself," Jackson said.

Wayne National Forest, located in southeast Ohio, will likely see fracking opportunities thanks to a lease sale recently announced by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. According to Signal Ohio, the lease sale scheduled for Sept. 15 includes 41 parcels of land totaling 2,840 acres. The BLM announcement makes it that much more likely that the lease sale will make fracking available in the state’s only national forest for the first time, though “some bureaucratic hurdles remain.” In order to drill at Wayne National Forest, the winning bidder would need a BLM permit. The report also notes an effort’s been underway since at least 2016 to bring fracking to the forest. Meanwhile,