The U.S. war with Iran is now in its sixth month, and at least one armchair general in a foreign country evidently figures that the U.S. must do far more than just wage economic warfare against Tehran and wear down its remaining infrastructure via airstrikes.

The Israel-based Jerusalem Post published an immodest proposal on Aug. 30: Send indebted Americans to the front lines.

‘The economics of the indebted American 20- and 30-something make this the most efficient conversion mechanism.’

According to A.J. Jaff — a retired Canadian Armed Forces officer and self-identified “geopolitical security strategist” who has effectively been advocating for a ground war since the outset of the conflict — U.S. airstrikes have not completely diminished Iran’s military capacity or solved Persia’s “institutional problem.”

Jaff suggested that “three moves remain available and must be calculated within the Pentagon and the American administration.”

The first and third moves concern weaponizing ethnic groups on the ground and U.S.-China relations, respectively. The controversial proposal sandwiched between these two “moves” concerns the weaponization of some Americans’ economic pressure points.

RELATED: Axios admits Trump has gained the upper hand in the battle for the Strait of Hormuz

U.S. airmen load an Army Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle onto a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. U.S. CENTCOM.

After suggesting that the “narrative war on the domestic American front has already failed” because the Pentagon has supposedly been unable to rhetorically disentangle the conflict from Israel’s operations in Gaza, Jaff noted, “Recruitment numbers are running below what a ground invasion of Iran would require.”

“Estimates for a successful ground campaign against Iran’s 31 provincial commands and its Mosaic Defense Doctrine run between 750 thousand [sic] and 1.5 million American troops,” said the Jerusalem Post contributor. “The current active US Army stands at roughly 452 thousand [sic]. The math does not work, obviously.”

In order to beef up the troop numbers for a new ground invasion in the country of roughly 93 million people, Jaff suggested that the way forward is “not conscription or a draft in a world war-era sense, but enlistment through a ‘debt forgiveness program.'”

“The average American aged 18 to 34 carries more than $40 thousand in non-mortgage debt across student loans, credit card balances, auto loans, and personal loans, with some estimates go [sic] as high as $100 thousand [sic],” said the foreign writer. “This is the cohort the Pentagon needs.”

Even though a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found that only 31% of Americans support continued military action against Iran, Jaff believes Americans would volunteer to fight in the war if guaranteed total forgiveness on their student loans and credit card debt.

While acknowledging that the “moral reading on this is uncomfortable,” Jaff concluded, “The economics of the indebted American 20- and 30-something make this the most efficient conversion mechanism available to the Pentagon and the Trump administration.”

When asked for comment about the proposal, the White House referred Blaze News to the Department of War.

On whether it was considering recruitment through a debt forgiveness program of the kind discussed in the article, the Department of War referred Blaze News to “the services for programs on recruitment and enlistment programs.”

When asked whether a ground invasion of Iran is presently an option on the table and how many troops would be immediately needed, a War Department official told Blaze News, “We won’t speculate on future operations or hypotheticals.”

Jaff — who projected last month that the U.S. would mount a ground invasion of Iran in the third quarter of next year — is hardly the first to advocate throwing blood after treasure in Iran.

Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and former vice president of the American Enterprise Institute, suggested in a July article published by the Washington Examiner that to achieve victory over Iran, Trump would need to incur “combat deaths.”

Olsen advocated for militarily occupying “the region around Iran’s key port on the Strait [of Hormuz], Bandar Abbas, to dramatically reduce its ability to interdict Strait traffic.”

“The Marine Expeditionary Unit stationed in the region could be used to seize the city, with reinforcements flown in from the continental United States to expand and entrench American control,” wrote Olsen.

President Donald Trump — who announced on July 8 that America’s tenuous ceasefire with Iran was “over” — has emphasized that he is “not in a hurry” to negotiate an end to the conflict and claimed on Tuesday that America is presently in a favorable position with “almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and [Iran’s] economy totally collapsing.”

After U.S. Central Command forces’ latest airstrikes on Iranian targets, Trump warned that if “the failed Nation of Iran retaliates,” it “will be hit again at a much harder and higher level.” The president noted further that “the biggest attack of them all” is still “waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!”

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The newest Catholic parish in Arlington, Texas, is named for Matthew Ayariga, one of 21 men murdered by Islamic State terrorists on a Libyan beach in February 2015.

Ayariga was a Ghanaian migrant worker captured alongside 20 Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christians. Little is known about his life before then, including whether he was already a Christian. Some accounts say the faith of his fellow prisoners inspired him to convert during their captivity, while others suggest that he had previously embraced Christianity.

When they asked whether she had a weapon, Stang raised her Bible. ‘This is my only weapon,’ she said.

What is known is that Ayariga chose to identify himself with the Copts when their captors demanded that the men renounce Christ. “Their God is my God,” he reportedly said before he was beheaded with them.

Last week, Michael Olson, bishop of Fort Worth, announced the establishment of St. Matthew Ayariga Catholic Church, the first Catholic parish anywhere in the world placed under Ayariga’s patronage.

New martyrs

The announcement points toward a fact at times easily forgotten in the comfortable West: The age of Christian martyrs did not end with Nero, the Roman arena, or even the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. Christians are still dying for the faith.

In 2023, Pope Francis established a Commission of New Martyrs to gather the names and stories of Christians killed during the first quarter of the 21st century. By September 2025, the commission had compiled the names of 1,624 Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and Protestant martyrs and witnesses to the faith who died between 2000 and 2025.

The catalogue includes 643 Christians killed in sub-Saharan Africa, 357 in Asia and Oceania, 304 in the Americas, 277 in the Middle East and North Africa, and 43 in Europe.

Those figures do not constitute a complete census, nor does inclusion amount to formal canonization by the Catholic Church. In fact, the Vatican has withheld the full list because publicly identifying some of the victims could endanger Christians still living in the same regions.

Living for the Eucharist

Among those remembered by the commission is Father Ragheed Ganni, a Chaldean Catholic priest who returned to his native Iraq after studying in Rome. As violence against Iraqi Christians intensified, extremists repeatedly warned him to close his parish. Ganni refused to leave while his people still needed him.

“Without the Sunday Eucharist, we cannot live,” he said at a Eucharistic congress in Italy in 2005. “For us, the terrorists take life, but the Eucharist gives it back.”

On June 3, 2007, gunmen confronted Ganni outside his church in Mosul after Sunday Mass. They murdered him and three subdeacons.

RELATED: Texas’ newest Catholic parish takes name of martyr beheaded by ISIS: ‘A testimony to the victory of Christ’

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Wielding a Bible

Another is Sister Dorothy Stang, an Ohio-born nun who spent nearly four decades working among poor settlers in the Brazilian Amazon. She helped farming families secure legal title to their land and promoted sustainable agriculture, bringing her into conflict with powerful ranchers and loggers.

Despite repeated death threats, Stang remained in the region. On Feb. 12, 2005, two hired gunmen stopped the 73-year-old nun on a muddy road.

When they asked whether she had a weapon, Stang raised her Bible.

“This is my only weapon,” she said.

As she began reading from the Beatitudes, the gunmen shot her six times.

Brothers in arms

The commission also remembers seven members of the Melanesian Brotherhood, an Anglican religious community devoted to evangelism and peacemaking in the Solomon Islands.

During civil unrest in 2003, militants took Brother Nathaniel Sado hostage and tortured him to death. Six other brothers went looking for him. Three were shot upon arrival; the remaining three were beaten, tortured, and killed the following day.

At their funeral, a banner preceded each coffin bearing the brother’s name and the words, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.”

Two days later, the Melanesian Brotherhood admitted 48 new members.

A child’s vision

The youngest of those singled out by Pope Leo was 10-year-old Abish Masih, a Pakistani schoolboy killed in the March 2015 Taliban attacks on two churches in Lahore. In a notebook he left behind, the child had written a simple aspiration: “Making the world a better place.”

These men, women, and children belonged to different countries, cultures, and Christian communions. Their inclusion in a common memorial reflects what John Paul II called the “ecumenism of the martyrs” and Pope Francis later termed the “ecumenism of blood.”

Those who persecute Christians often make no distinction between Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and Protestant believers. Martyrdom reveals a unity that centuries of ecclesiastical negotiation have yet to restore fully.

Bearing witness

In September 2025, Pope Leo XIV gathered with representatives of numerous Christian traditions to commemorate the new martyrs. He called their witness an “unarmed hope” and warned that the persecution of Christians had not disappeared with the dictatorships of the last century.

“On the contrary,” the pope said, “in some parts of the world it has increased.”

The word “martyr” comes from the Greek word for “witness.” A martyr is not simply someone who dies tragically or becomes a victim of violence. A Christian martyr bears witness to Christ by remaining faithful when faithfulness exacts the ultimate price.

By naming the new parish for Ayariga, the Diocese of Fort Worth is helping preserve the witness of the 21 martyrs for another generation.

“Where violence seeks to erase a man’s identity, the Church remembers his name,” Bishop Olson wrote. “Where death boasts to have the final word, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ declares otherwise.”

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I have no desire to run for public office. The last elected position I held was junior class vice president at St. Francis High School in La Cañada, California. That was in the late ’80s. My campaign for senior class president failed spectacularly and culminated with a lecture from a courageous Cuban refugee on democracy properly understood — a humbling story for another time.

Apart from that, I have no desire to spend weeks or months of a campaign defending every little thing I’ve said and written over the past 40 years, which, at this point, amounts easily to a couple million words.

Repentance requires confession. Rebranding only requires a delete button. Voters are entitled to know which one they’re looking at.

No, I’m not going to disavow the column I wrote for the UCSD Guardian in the early 1990s arguing, more or less, for the repeal of the 26th Amendment. Yes, I stand by the piece I wrote for the Sacramento Bee more than a decade ago declaring Millennials “the Idiot Generation.”

But that’s part of the deal. When you run for office, you’re running on your record.

Which makes the spectacle of Democratic candidates — democratic socialists especially — frantically scrubbing inconvenient old social-media posts so absurd. And so very delicious.

People are allowed to change their minds. Politicians too. Heaven knows I have.

But changing your mind is not the same thing as deleting evidence that you once held certain opinions.

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is learning this lesson the hard way.

El-Sayed had already been taking flak over his relationship with left-wing streamer Hasan Piker, who notoriously said, “America deserved 9/11.” El-Sayed disavowed Piker’s comments in early August.

But now a deleted El-Sayed post from the 20th anniversary of 9/11 has resurfaced. He mourned the nearly 3,000 Americans murdered that day, then turned to the far larger number of people he said were killed in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan in the wars that followed.

I don’t particularly care whether El-Sayed’s argument offends anybody. Foreign policy is debatable. So are America’s wars. I care that he tried to make the argument disappear.

If he believes it, he should defend it. If he doesn’t, he should explain why not. But he shouldn’t get to hide.

RELATED: Hasan Piker is the anti-Charlie Kirk

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There is an amusing wrinkle. El-Sayed’s communications director, Roxie Richner, has a remarkable social-media record of her own. During the “Summer of Floyd” in 2020, the freckle-faced ginger girl declared that “all white women are policy failures,” lectured white people about “dismantling white supremacy,” and lashed out at people asking whether she was defending looting.

Richner was young. Very young. And demonstrably stupid. She had interned for El-Sayed’s 2018 gubernatorial campaign when she was just 16.

But she was hardly some random teenager sounding off online. By 2020, she was already working professionally in Democratic politics.

Should something an 18-year-old tweeted follow her forever? Probably not. But if those views no longer represent her, the obvious question is the same one her boss should answer: What changed?

Which brings me to Darializa Avila Chevalier, scourge of the American empire and Western civilization.

The New York democratic socialist congressional nominee deleted an old Twitter account from which the Internet Archive preserved more than 3,600 posts. Among them were praise for Marxism and communism, demands to abolish police, prisons, and borders, and some spicy rhetoric about seizing private property.

Chevalier wants voters to know she has “grown considerably.”

Growth is good! But forgive me if I have a few questions.

What precisely was the catalyst for that considerable growth? Did it occur before or after she decided to run for Congress? Which of those old positions — if any — does she now reject? Does she still favor abolishing “the very concept of policing”? What about prisons? Borders? All private property?

Which belief did she abandon first, and what convinced her it was mistaken? Apart from political viability, obviously.

Those are exactly the questions anyone claiming political maturation should be prepared — even eager — to answer.

Growth describes movement from one place to another. If a candidate wants credit for the distance traveled, voters have a right to know where she started, where she ended up, and what happened along the way.

Otherwise, “I’ve grown” isn’t so much an explanation as it is a cheap evasion.

RELATED: Woke 2.0 is coming … and it will be worse

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Wisconsin’s Francesca Hong offered another funny variation this summer. In 2020, the failed democratic socialist gubernatorial candidate posted “Cancel Thanksgiving,” calling the holiday a celebration of colonialism. The post disappeared. This summer, Hong announced that Thanksgiving was actually her “favorite holiday.”

I guess the turkey won her over. Unfortunately for Hong, it didn’t win over the voters.

Scrubbing inconvenient positions from the public record is not exclusively a Democratic vice. Republicans do it too. Trump-backed Maryland gubernatorial nominee Dan Cox scrubbed portions of his website after winning his 2022 primary. This year, Republican congressional candidates Eric Flores and Ralph Alvarado quietly de-emphasized their support for the president on their websites after securing their nominations.

The rule applies to everybody.

It’s not like we’re talking about stray remarks uttered after a few drinks at somebody’s wedding. These were political statements (“arguments” might be too generous a term), made publicly and often repeatedly, because the people making them wanted other people to like and share them.

Then some of them decided to run for higher office and discovered that an electorate is considerably larger and less zealous than activists at a DSA meeting.

The Wayback Machine is not an opposition-research dirty trick. It is your record.

But I’m happy to offer an honorable way out. Fess up. Own it.

“Yes, I said it. I believed it. I was wrong.” Then explain why.

Or: “Yes, I said it. I still believe it. Elect me or don’t.”

I would respect either answer.

Some things I’ve said and written over four decades have aged well. Some haven’t. Some undoubtedly look pretty dumb today — I assume. They’re still mine.

Repentance requires confession. Rebranding requires a delete button.

Voters are entitled to know which one they’re looking at.

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The climate movement has a new catastrophic prediction, and BlazeTV host Pat Gray isn’t buying it.

The prediction is that the climate could lead to four billion deaths by 2050.

“The hysteria on the left continues,” Gray says. “Criminal hysteria, I would say.”

“David Cromwell … this global warming goofball, his latest thing is ‘there’s going to be four billion dead, and there are no words for why humanity just can’t, and the media just won’t deal with this,’” he continues, mocking Cromwell. “Are you kidding me? They’re not playing your climate change hysteria reel?”

“Nothing could be farther from the truth,” Jeff Fisher chimes in.

“It’s pretty amazing how he talks about how four billion people are going to die from climate change by 2050 … less than 25 years from now,” Gray says.

“Like everything else they’re hysterical about though, the end of humanity thing, because of climate change, I think it’s worn really thin on anybody who has a speck of common sense or any access to the internet to actually look things up for themselves and see what the actual reality is,” he continues.

However, one group is struggling with all the climate-change propaganda the most.

“It’s despicable what they’ve done to the youth, because they have almost entirely bought in on it,” Gray explains, noting that 75% have reported anxiety over the future because of “climate change.”

“And how do you get them to get that hope back up for themselves?” Fisher asks.

“It’s really hard because we set up our teachers as the people who are experts, and they’re going to teach all this stuff, and so they believe them,” Gray says.

“Have to put your faith in government,” executive producer Keith Malinak chimes in, adding, “That’s their God.”

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Nearly a year after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University, the man suspected of murdering him has been bound over for trial.

On Tuesday, after more arguments from both prosecutors and the defense, Utah District Judge Tony Graf determined that the state had met the burden of probable cause in the case against suspect Tyler Robinson.

‘Today’s decision … marks an important step in our family’s pursuit of justice.’

“It is hereby ordered that the defendant, Tyler James Robinson, is bound over for trial,” Judge Graf told the court.

Robinson, 23, now faces seven charges: aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, two counts of obstruction of justice, two counts of witness tampering, and misdemeanor commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child. During the hearing, Robinson’s attorney pleaded not guilty to all charges on his behalf.

If Robinson is convicted, prosecutors intend to pursue the death penalty. He is scheduled to appear in court again on October 23.

Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow, welcomed the judge’s decision. “Today’s decision, which comes nearly a year since Charlie was taken from us, marks an important step in our family’s pursuit of justice for him,” she posted to X Tuesday night.

RELATED: TPUSA plans return to UVU on solemn anniversary of the Charlie Kirk assassination

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“Every step in this process carries the weight of all that Charlie’s murder has taken from his family, especially his children who will grow up without their father. We are grateful to all who have continued to pray for us, support us, and stand with us through a year of unimaginable grief.”

While the Kirk family appears pleased that Robinson will be tried for murder, the process has been slow and painful. Kirk was fatally shot on September 10, 2025, and Robinson was arrested in connection with the deadly shooting within days.

However, the probable cause hearing in the case did not begin until July. Even on Tuesday, Robinson’s attorney, Richard Novak, claimed that when Charlie Kirk was alive, he “spoke hatefully of certain groups of people,” including gay people, those with different gender identities, and fornicators.

Blaze News has reached out to Novak for comment.

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Lindsay Clancy’s triple murder trial remains unresolved after jurors failed to reach a verdict on Tuesday, their fourth day of deliberations.

While jurors determine whether to hold Clancy criminally responsible for strangling her three young children — 8-month-old Callan, 3-year-old Dawson, and 5-year-old Cora — there are outside forces apparently keen to apply additional pressure.

‘She is a wonderful, wonderful person.’

Massachusetts State Police arrested 56-year-old Dawn Light outside the Plymouth Superior Court around 3:40 p.m. on Tuesday and charged her with one count of intimidation of a witness, jurors, or person furnishing information in connection with criminal proceedings, a MSP spokesman confirmed to WCVB-TV.

While officials have yet to confirm whether the arrest was connected to the Clancy case, WBZ-TV’s Kristina Rex reported that sources informed her that “someone (who is not a media member) was arrested outside Plymouth Superior Court this afternoon, accused of filming jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s trial. Jurors allegedly saw the filming happening.”

MSP did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

If convicted on the intimidation charge, Light could face up to 10 years in state prison and/or a hefty fine.

RELATED: Female reporter caught mischievously smirking during Lindsay Clancy trial has smile wiped off her face

There has been a lot of commotion taking place outside the courthouse since Clancy’s trial began.

Hundreds of women have gathered — in many cases wearing pink and in some instances carrying their children — in support of the defendant.

A woman identified as Hannah E., who traveled from Houston to Massachusetts to show her support, told CBS News on Tuesday that she had postpartum depression after her second child was born and that she “understand[s] what happened to Lindsay.”

“I understand the course that she went and the way things affected her,” said the Texas mother.

Lindsay’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, told reporters that his client has received enough letters of support from sympathizers to fill three banker’s boxes.

“She knows that there are people out there that have not judged her and know that she is a wonderful, wonderful person,” said Reddington.

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Michigan U.S. Senate hopeful, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, has been caught deleting old social media posts that contained shocking comments about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Instead of holding El-Sayed accountable, left-wing media is now attacking Bari Weiss and CBS for pointing out the obfuscation.

Thanks to a report from CBS News, paired with a plunge into El-Sayed’s old Twitter account via the Internet Archive, we found two controversial 9/11-related posts El-Sayed removed from his X page.

‘They’re enraged an Islamist and his pals have become a liability in a major Senate race that could cut off a blue tsunami in November.’

“#COVID19 has taken over 3000 American lives — more than 9/11. I hope that means we’ll spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health & against climate change & poverty … like we launched a global #WaronTerror after 9/11. We could save lives, rather than take them,” El-Sayed tweeted on March 31, 2020.

Abdul El-Sayed/Internet Archive

“Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith. Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country,” he wrote on September 11, 2021.

Abdul El-Sayed/Internet Archive

The two tweets appear to have been part of a mass post-removal where El-Sayed’s campaign deleted everything prior to July 2023 “to prevent any old posts from being taken out of context.”

RELATED: Mike Rogers crushes ‘conman’ Abdul El-Sayed for being a weirdo in BRUTAL political ad

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Former CNN reporter Oliver Darcy was quick to point out the CBS News story on his independent news site Status. However, instead of aiming his ire at El-Sayed for his previous tone-deaf comments, he instead criticized CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss for doing her job.

Darcy penned an entire piece suggesting that drawing attention to El-Sayed’s deleted tweets about 9/11 was a racist “scandal”:

“They took a small nugget of news, forced into something much larger, and messed up,” one CBS News staffer told Status of the story.

A former senior CBS News staffer who remains in touch with former colleagues was more direct, calling the story “shameful” and telling Status, “The racism is overt.”

According to Darcy, “The obvious implication was that there was something sinister about the manner in which the prominent Muslim candidate invoked 9/11, even though his posts themselves were mundane.”

Curtis Houck, the managing editor of NewsBusters, had a different perspective, which he shared with Blaze News:

Oliver Darcy and his army of leaders are beyond crestfallen that anyone — let alone a non-woke, lesbian Jew with a track record like Bari Weiss — has sought to move a legacy news outlet a few ticks toward the center.

They’re enraged an Islamist and his pals have become a liability in a major Senate race that could cut off a blue tsunami in November.

All of the liberal, elitist outlets — including Darcy’s former employer CNN — have made articles about controversial deleted social media posts into an Olympic sport. In that respect, what CBS published was standard fare. What made it unforgivable was it actually went after someone on the left.

In response to a request for comment, an Abdul El-Sayed spokesperson told Blaze News: “Abdul has always unequivocally condemned terrorism and the September 11 attacks. Mike Rogers’ attempts to misrepresent Abdul’s beliefs are bad-faith lies meant to mislead Michiganders.”

As for the media’s attack on Weiss, it appears to be retribution for not towing the leftist line as she continues to turn CBS News into a balanced organization, no longer doing favors for the Democratic Party. Changes in media could spell trouble for the growing number of democrat socialist candidates this election season.

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The establishment of the Democratic Party was able to easily fend off a “moderate” challenge in the party’s primary for the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts.

Incumbent Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who has been in either the House or the Senate for five decades, was declared the winner over challenger Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) only 30 minutes after polling closed.

‘What are you going to accomplish in the next six years that you haven’t been able to accomplish in the last 50?’

Unlike in other races, the progressives of the party backed the incumbent, Markey, rather than the challenger, described as more “moderate” despite a leftist record. Far-left Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York was among those who endorsed Markey.

Moulton meanwhile tried to argue that it was time for generational change to make way for younger candidates to take lead of the party.

“People ought to ask, ‘What are you going to accomplish in the next six years that you haven’t been able to accomplish in the last 50?'” said the 47-year-old Moulton.

Markey is 80 years old and has been in the U.S. Senate since 2013.

The octogenarian had attacked Moulton for not toeing the party line on transgender-identifying athletes competing in women’s sports. Moulton later backed off and apologized to the “trans community.”

“To the trans community feeling the weight and the pain of the Trump administration policies, I deeply recognize your trauma,” he said in the August debate with Markey. “And I’m sorry if my comments hurt you. That was not my intention.”

RELATED: Democrat CAVES to trans lobby after previously warning party about alienating voters

Markey will now go up against Republican John Deaton in the November general election.

Massachusetts has been a reliably blue state and will likely not flip to Republican control in the midterms.

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For years, the tech elite touted the many benefits of AI, claiming it could revolutionize all kinds of industries and health care. Even as this technology strained our resources, wrecked our supply chains, and stirred up uncertainty over job loss, we were all told just to get in line — this is the future. That tune, however, is starting to change, as guys like Bill Gates are finally saying the things the rest of us have been saying all along: This tech could be dangerous. Is it too late for humanity to recover?

The Microsoft co-founder took to his own blog to post an extensive piece detailing all the ways AI could be good for humanity. As expected from a high-profile leftist, he leaned on the idea of equity, noting that AI can “make the world a fairer place and keep it from widening the divide between rich and poor.”

The tech elite created this problem, and now they have the nerve to warn everyone about the monster they contrived.

That sounds like a counterintuitive statement coming from an elite technologist worth $109.3 billion. If he’s prepared to relinquish his fortune for those beneath him on the ladder of success, I must have missed the memo.

On the flip side, AI is also a force capable of driving bad times ahead, if it’s abused. He focused on three main risk factors:

Jobs are disappearing to AI, and many of them could go away forever. Until recently, many AI CEOs even touted this as a good thing. You may remember when Elon Musk said that universal basic income was the future and that we should get so comfortable with a socialistic wealth system that we shouldn’t even save for retirement. Just in case it needs to be said, don’t do that. Even if Musk is right (though I doubt he is in this case), it’s always good to have a retirement backup plan.AI will enable people and other AI bots to do more harm. With respect to Mr. Gates, this isn’t a hypothetical. This is actually happening already. We’ve covered countless tales of AI breaking cybersecurity systems, hacking into websites, and running rogue without developers’ knowledge. For all intents and purposes, AI is spiraling out of control, and our cybersecurity systems are not ready for the crash that is coming, though the Trump administration is trying to rein in the damage with an AI review process for new frontier models.AI could slow our kids’ development. Sadly, this is already happening, too. Students are encouraged and even implored to use AI in the classroom, further contributing to waning literacy and critical thinking skills. It also helps students cheat instead of learning the curriculum. Worse still, AI has made it easier for predators to target students under the guise of education partnerships.

The tech elite made the bed we all lie in

The worst part is that the tech elite, like Bill Gates, created this problem, and now they have the nerve to warn everyone about the monster they contrived. Remember that Microsoft was an early backer of OpenAI, the company behind the first mainstream LLM, ChatGPT. Throughout their partnership, Microsoft injected $13 billion into OpenAI and held a license to wrap ChatGPT into Microsoft Copilot on Windows PCs and other devices. Today, Microsoft still holds a significant minority stake in the AI giant’s company, though it has pulled back in favor of building its own large language models.

And that’s just Microsoft.

The Gates Foundation partnered with Claude on a $200 million grant to install AI deeper into “global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility” programs, even as Gates admits himself that this technology could be a threat to students and jobs.

RELATED: Google’s AI is taking over your Android. Here’s how to kick it out.

Is it too late to save humanity?

Gates sums up the dichotomy of today’s AI landscape with a single sentence: “AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice.” Unfortunately, it seems like we’re already leaning toward the latter, but that doesn’t mean we’re doomed.

There are signs that the AI race is running out of steam. The fearmongering over jobs, for instance, is already starting to abate. Of course, opportunistic CEOs like Sam Altman are disappointed, lamenting that AI hasn’t swept through the workforce nearly as fast as predicted. “I think it means we’ve all been too ambitious on timelines,” he recently said during an interview. “People keep doing the same things they’re doing. They keep buying from the same company. They keep sort of wanting to use their tools in the same way,” instead of turning to AI. While this doesn’t bode well for the AI takeover, it offers a rare glint of hope, that maybe humanity won’t have its God-given responsibility to work stolen by soulless bots.

There’s also a bright spot for education. Although a new semester has just begun, last year ended with college students booing graduation commencement speakers for merely uttering the letters “AI.” If enough of them reject what has become an invasion on their ability to think freely, create intentionally, and dream openly, then they may be better off than some of the adults who already trust AI more than they should.

As for the security of our digital systems, the Trump administration is already trying to keep us safe by reviewing frontier models before they’re released to the public. There are pros and cons to this approach, but at least it’s an attempt to ensure that Bill Gates’ prophetic nightmare never comes to pass.

​Artificial intelligence, Tech 

A 37-year-old man was arrested for battery after allegedly touching himself inappropriately while creeping behind a female employee at a Florida store.

On Friday the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office released some of the disgusting details at a media briefing.

‘It is pretty shocking that he would do something like this in front of the camera and in front of kids and anyone looking.’

Officers responded to the Ross clothing store on Southwest 56th Street on Aug. 17 at about 4:15 p.m. for a report of a battery.

The alleged perpetrator had fled, but police found the victim as well a witness.

The witness said that the man was touching himself while the female worker was stocking shelves at the store.

“The male just happened to get into an area where she was working at and took a liking to her and started taking pictures, as we see on the video of her, of her buttocks and getting close to her,” said Lead Detective Diego Mendoza.

“The witness went to loss prevention about this, and when she came back, she saw the subject getting directly behind the victim, who was crouching down on the floor, and he sprayed her,” he adds.

Some news reports say that the man ejaculated onto the worker, but others say he sprayed her with an “unknown liquid.” WTVJ-TV reported that police were DNA testing the liquid, which was described as “cloudy” and “sticky.”

Police said they were able to identify a suspect as Sean Edward Uribe based on the witness picking him out of a lineup. He was arrested a week later a the office of his probation officer.

Mendoza said Uribe had been arrested previously for similar incidents.

“This is not the first time he has done this,” he said. “He is well known to our unit. But it is pretty shocking that he would do something like this in front of the camera and in front of kids and anyone looking.”

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Mendoza said the latest charge would be a felony because of the previous convictions.

“My concern is that he is doing this to a number of women across Miami-Dade County,” he added. “I am sure multiple females are not even aware he has done that to them. I am sure this guy has done this multiple times to multiple people and multiple females all over Dade County.”

Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Mindy Glazer set his bond at $10,000 and ordered a public defender to represent him.

Uribe lives with his mother, according to CBS Miami.

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​Masturbating, Gross, Disgusting, Crime