"Seven years ago, I warned that Democrats were 'courting disaster' by turning their frustration with the Supreme Court into a campaign to remake it. Their 2020 presidential field was talking about adding justices, limiting their terms, and otherwise changing the rules because Donald Trump had gotten to replace Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy. The Democrats' flirtation with blowing up the high court became a full-blown mania after Trump got a third pick, naming Amy Coney Barrett after Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death in 2020.

"Six years later, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says 'dramatic Supreme Court reform' is necessary and that Democrats should not 'foreclose' any option. Former Vice President Kamala Harris wants to revisit expanding the Court. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who pitched a 15-member Court during his presidential campaign, now favors 13 seats plus term limits, calling the current tribunal a 'rogue Supreme Court.' Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and ten Democratic colleagues have introduced legislation that would effectively impose 18-year terms, with a new justice every two years. And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already introduced articles of impeachment against Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito."

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"While some privacy advocates are content to saw down camera towers, one artist is pushing back against the panopticon with an unconventional tool: the ugliest aloha shirt you've ever seen.

"Freshly reported by Dezeen, German designer Simon Weckert designed the hideous shirt to be untraceable to AI-integrated surveillance systems. Using a dizzying blend of colors and patterns, the shirt is ugly precisely because it's designed to confuse surveillance algorithms -- as Weckert explained, it's the 'interplay' of ghastly colors and shapes that hide its wearer from detection.

"'AI systems are made of multiple layers and never learned what a human is -- they learned what humans statistically look like in millions of training images,' the designer told Dezeen. 'A "person," for the machine, is a bundle of visual statistics -- and that is exactly its weakness.'"

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"Which state has the highest retail tire prices in the country? It's not a data point that anyone, as far as we know, compiles, but artificial intelligence suggests that it's California. What we can be sure about, though, is that in about three years, California drivers will be paying more for tires than they are today.

"Significantly more.

"It won't happen because the tire makers and retailers will suddenly raise prices. It will happen because California's hyperactive government launched yet another new rule last week. Beginning in 2029, all new replacement tires sold in the state will have to be 'at least as energy efficient, on average, as tires sold on new vehicles,' according to the California Energy Commission, which bragged that it had 'approved the nation's first replacement tire efficiency standards.'

"Supposedly the rule will help consumers pocket extra cash due to the tires' low rolling resistance. The CEC estimates the savings will reach $1 billion a year in gasoline and electricity costs.

"Companies that actually make tires and therefore might know what they are talking about say that the savings are a third-rate tall tale. The new compliant tires will cost far more than the few extra dollars each the CEC reckons. During the rule's comments period, Goodyear said prices could spike by hundreds of dollars per tire while the rule will eventually eliminate about 70% of current replacement tire market."

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"The Supreme Court on Monday handed an initial win to the Trump administration in its effort to implement an executive order aimed at limiting who can receive mail-in ballots ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

"At issue are provisions that seek to create a federal list of eligible voters and order the U.S. Postal Service to deliver ballots only to eligible voters.

"The justices, divided 6-3, granted an emergency request filed by the government that blocks a Massachusetts-based judge's ruling from June that prevented key aspects of the executive order from being put into effect this year in California and 22 other states that had challenged it.

"The court also granted a similar application filed by Alabama and 11 other states."

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"Documents recently obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, included an anomaly in the classification coding -- one that indicates FBI agents intentionally misclassified information to conceal evidence of Biden-family corruption.

"On Monday, Grassley highlighted the discovery in a letter he penned to Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, about misconduct he has uncovered related to 'Operation Round River.' 'Round River' was the name of the investigation run out of FBI headquarters, in conjunction with the Foreign Influence Task Force ('FITF'); an investigation whistleblowers claim sought to 'improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.'

"As The Federalist previously reported, Grassley revealed FITF used the investigation 'to seek out CHS holdings at FBI Field Offices across the country relating to the Biden family and falsely discredit them as foreign disinformation.' And 'at one point in time the FBI maintained over 40 Confidential Human Sources that provided criminal information relating to Joe Biden, James Biden, and Hunter Biden.' Sources familiar with Round River also told The Federalist 'that the investigation sought to scuttle any investigative leads into Biden family corruption by discrediting it as Russia disinformation.'

"In his Monday letter, Grassley revealed that the records related to Round River also showed the intelligence community 'used its resources to downgrade allegations of criminality relating to the Biden family apparently without sufficient investigation.' And notwithstanding the lack of an appropriate investigation, the intelligence community created a list of supposed 'conduits' of disinformation related to evidence implicating the Biden family in Ukrainian corrupt -- a list that included then-Attorney General William Barr."

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"Angie Nixon's stunning Florida Senate primary win on Tuesday gave the Democratic Socialists of America its biggest statewide breakthrough yet: For the first time ever, a DSA member won a major-party nomination for statewide office.

"Why it matters: The breakthrough -- the biggest upset in modern Florida Democratic politics -- was also stunning because Republicans have spent years making opposition to socialism central to their political brand in the state.

"Nixon, a Jacksonville state representative and former union organizer who joined DSA during the campaign, beat former Trump impeachment witness Alex Vindman. The scale of the upset was extraordinary: Nixon won by double digits despite raising just $975,000 to Vindman's $16.3 million in President Trump's home state."

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"Don't believe the Democratic National Committee's official storyline The DNC's decision to make South Carolina the first Democratic presidential primary in 2028 isn't about introducing more racial diversity into the early contests.

"It's actually about keeping power in the hands of the party establishment -- the people who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, and who are likely to wind up supporting Kamala Harris in 2028.

"The fix is in."

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"Flock Safety, the surveillance technology company increasingly under scrutiny from lawmakers from both parties, civil liberties advocates and citizens across the U.S., announced Thursday that it is making changes to its platform intended to quell privacy concerns and address documented abuses of its system by some members of law enforcement.

"The company operates a vast nationwide network of automated cameras that record the license plate numbers and other characteristics of all passing vehicles every day. Thousands of law enforcement agencies in 49 states can search and share Flock's data across jurisdictions to aid their investigations.

"Police have credited the technology as an important crime-fighting innovation that has helped locate missing people and track suspects in violent crimes. But some critics say its pervasiveness amounts to unconstitutional warrantless mass surveillance. Dozens of cities and agencies have nixed their relationships with Flock amid concerns that the data can be accessed for immigration enforcement or used in unauthorized tracking, after a flurry of examples surfaced of law enforcement officers misusing the technology for personal searches."

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"What is it with Democrats and their fake supporters, fake accents, fake backgrounds, fake accomplishments? Is it because they think voters are that shallow and stupid? Or because they don't want anyone to know how incredibly out of touch they are with regular Americans?

"This week, to cite just the most recent example, a group of 'Republicans for Talarico' disbanded after it turned out that they were actually just a bunch of lifelong Democrats in disguise, but not before MS NOW gave them some free airtime.

"'The people that [Talarico] had come out and say that they were on his team have been proven to be basically Democrat, liberal activists that have been supporting Democrat candidates for 10-plus years,' Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters told Fox News Digital.

"The Talarico campaign distanced itself from these folks after their cover was blown. But everything about Talarico is as fake, from his Christianity to his barbecue photo op."

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"In a race that showcased Democrats' struggle between the ideological left and center, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley managed a razor-thin victory over his democratic socialist challenger. The race was so close that neither side could claim a decisive victory.

"In other contests, experience was rewarded in two governors' races and voters went for generational change in voting out a House incumbent.

"For Republicans, a contest to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham pitted his sister, Darline Graham, against far more experienced candidates. But she also had the endorsement of President Donald Trump, and she secured a spot in a runoff election later this month.

"Here are some takeaways from the night's elections."

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