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EU Shakes Down Google for $1B: Bureaucrats Tax American Innovation
Brussels hits Google with a $1B DMA fine, demanding worse products to fund their welfare state while Trump readies tariffs.
July 23, 2026
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Brussels hits Google with a $1B DMA fine, demanding worse products to fund their welfare state while Trump readies tariffs.
July 23, 2026
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The Supreme Court now has a chance to gut civil asset forfeiture—the government's license to steal that would have the Founders reaching for tar and feathers.
July 21, 2026
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The SAVE Act's proof-of-citizenship mandate can bypass the filibuster—if Republicans have the spine to steamroll the Senate parliamentarian.
July 21, 2026
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Five years of updates sounds generous—until your $800 phone becomes a security liability. Planned obsolescence isn't a bug; it's Big Tech's business model.
July 21, 2026
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Dual citizens arrested on US soil for foreign charges while the border stays wide open
July 20, 2026
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The AI bubble is cracking, and the analyst class is still selling retail investors on fantasy revenues.
July 20, 2026
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The medical-industrial complex hides prices to bleed working Americans dry. Transparency could finally change that.
July 20, 2026
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The builders Washington dismissed as a crypto sideshow just locked down a 15-year deal to power the AI boom.
July 20, 2026
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FIFA imported the worst of corporate Super Bowl culture to the World Cup—and fans rejected it.
July 20, 2026
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A 20-year-old hiding under a 13-year-old's bed at 1 AM — and the state charges the mother who stopped him
July 19, 2026
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The political class produces nothing but lectures—while demanding the power to confiscate wealth from the people who actually build.
July 19, 2026
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Michael Foster served just seven years for killing Ray Rice's father. The system let him walk. Now he's killed again.
July 19, 2026
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Romania couldn't make charges stick, so Britain comes calling—and U.S. Marshals are doing the heavy lifting.
July 19, 2026
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One child predator got a fist bump from police; another quietly manufactured child abuse material of his own family member. The system protects predators, not kids.
July 19, 2026
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Prosecutors are hiding her boyfriend's abuse and doctoring video to paint a battered woman as a murderer.
July 18, 2026
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Iran fired the missiles, but our troops shouldn't have been there to begin with. The bipartisan war machine grinds on.
July 18, 2026
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State crews airlift Texans from rooftops while federal disaster resources prioritize foreign nationals over citizens in crisis.
July 18, 2026
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A foreign lobby just froze campaign cash for Democrats who put American interests first — after funneling them $11 million.
July 18, 2026
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The system that jails you for fleeing a crash gives the Pelosis a courtesy call instead of a cell.
July 18, 2026
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A careless two-page Iran memo just collapsed, proving no deal with a hostile theocracy protects American security.
July 17, 2026
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New 'Warmth' and 'Formality' sliders prove the tech giant has been force-feeding users a curated ideology from day one.
July 17, 2026
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DeepMind's Iason Gabriel concedes the hardest part of AI is choosing which values it serves — which means someone at Google is picking yours.
July 17, 2026
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The same media that howled over Russian Facebook ads is burying the biggest election data breach in American history.
July 17, 2026
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Andrew Truelove trespassed and menaced — real crimes. The hate crime add-on criminalizes his words.
July 17, 2026
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