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June 18th, 2025
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality. Source: They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. – The New York Times
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June 18th, 2025
ChatGPT Questions? The Answers Deeply Distort Reality
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.
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June 18th, 2025
AI Chatbots and the Distortion of Reality
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.
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June 16th, 2025
Democrats and Border Politics
By: David Ignatious – washingtonpost.com  – June 13, 2025 To fight Trump’s excesses on immigration, Democrats need to show they are credible on the issue. To see this article in its entirety and to subscribe to others like it, please choose to read more. Source: Opinion | Trump is exploiting Democrats’ immigration failures – The Washington Post
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June 16th, 2025
Mass Deportation and Hotels
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – June 13, 2024 Trump says businesses report losing ‘very good, long time workers.’ How about changing policy? Then Mr. Trump turned the focus back where the White House wants it, which is gang members and threats to public safety. “We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA,” he...
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June 12th, 2025
Josh Hawley Investigating Who is Funding Riots
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, announced he is launching an investigation into one of the entities that possibly funded the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles.
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June 12th, 2025
The Scavenger Mentality
As Los Angeles burst into riots this week over a federal immigration raid, one protester took to his social media channels to explain just what was going on — why arsonists armed with Palestinian flags stood alongside vandals armed with Palestinian flags, why some masked protesters hurled rocks at police cars while others summoned automated Waymo taxis only to set...
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June 11th, 2025
Send in the Troops
By: Tom Cotton – wsj.com – June 10, 2025 When local police can’t restore order, the federal government has a duty to do so with a show of force. Violent insurrectionists turned areas of Los Angeles into lawless hellscapes over the weekend, with anarchists setting fire to vehicles, throwing scooters and debris at police, and looting businesses—all while waving foreign...
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June 11th, 2025
In LA Riot Stand-Off, Trump is Right
Throughout the rioting in her city, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has frequently lashed out at President Donald Trump’s decision to send National Guard and active-duty troops to protect federal buildings and keep the peace. “It makes me feel like our city is actually a test case,” Bass told reporters Monday, “a test case for what happens when the federal...
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June 11th, 2025
Not What Authoritarianism Looks Like
By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – June 11, 2025 The absurd L.A. freak-out. President Trump’s activation of the California National Guard has launched a thousand op-eds warning of his authoritarianism. “This Is What Autocracy Looks Like,” Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times declares. Edward Luce of the Financial Times maintains: “Sending the National Guard into LA is the administration’s...
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