The Biden administration issued a secret directive before leaving office to extend Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection beyond the typical duration provided for former vice presidents.

‘The vice president is grateful to the United States Secret Service for their professionalism, dedication, and unwavering commitment to safety.’

President Donald Trump canceled Harris’ federal protection on Thursday, according to a memorandum reviewed by CNN.

While former presidents receive lifetime protection, vice presidents receive six months of protection after leaving office. Harris’ should have ended on July 21.

However, shortly before departing from office, then-President Joe Biden reportedly extended Harris’ protection for an additional year.

A Thursday memorandum issued to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem read, “You are hereby authorized to discontinue any security-related procedures previously authorized by Executive Memorandum, beyond those required by law, for the following individual, effective September 1, 2025: Former Vice President Kamala D. Harris.”

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The termination of Harris’ protection comes as she prepares to set off on a book tour for the release of her new memoir, “107 Days.” The book, which details Harris’ “candid and personal account of the shortest presidential campaign in modern history,” is scheduled for release on September 23.

“The vice president is grateful to the United States Secret Service for their professionalism, dedication, and unwavering commitment to safety,” Kirsten Allen, a Harris senior adviser, told CNN.

Neither the White House nor the Secret Service responded to CNN’s requests for comment. A Biden spokesperson declined to comment, the news outlet reported.

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Trump canceled Secret Service protection for Biden’s adult children, Hunter and Ashley, in March.

“We are aware of the president’s decision to terminate protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden,” the agency stated at the time. “The Secret Service will comply and is actively working with the protective details and the White House to ensure compliance as soon as possible.”

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Republicans underperformed in the 2022 midterms. No red wave. Not even close. Since then, special election after special election has gone badly for the GOP. Losses pile up everywhere — like what just happened in deep red Western Iowa. Uh-oh.

Donald Trump won Woodbury County in 2024 by a wide margin, 60% to 37%. But in a special election this week, Democrats carried the county by nine points — a swing of more than 30 points in a place where Democrats don’t even control the election machinery.

Men, spend at least half the time on self-government that you spend on football this fall. Hold your candidates accountable.

That should terrify every Republican. If Donald Trump isn’t on the ballot, or if the candidate isn’t a strong standard-bearer like Ron DeSantis in Florida or Kim Reynolds in Iowa, the GOP struggles to turn out voters. The Republican brand is busted unless tied to someone who transcends it.

Rep. Randy Feenstra (R), the congressman from Western Iowa, is the antithesis of a transcendent candidate. He’s nothing in Washington yet somehow thinks he’s suited to be governor. That is exactly the sort of mediocrity voters are rejecting.

Enough. We cannot accept Republicans who bide their time, hoping Trump passes from the stage, only to drag us back to the timid talking points of 2005. No more Mitt Romneys. The choice is stark: Either embrace Trump’s America First agenda without apology or get out of the way.

The stakes couldn’t be clearer

The Woodbury County loss is a four-alarm fire. If Republicans don’t wake up, Democrats will catch them flat-footed again in the 2026 midterms.

Look north. Minnesota is already succumbing to progressive chaos. The state covers for an Islamic takeover of its largest city. Catholic children were just shot at Mass by a trans terrorist. Politicians there proudly defend the worldview that produces bloodshed, blasphemy, and disorder. And still, red states remain complacent — unprepared for the next wave of evil attacks on faith, family, and freedom.

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Republicans can’t afford that softness any longer. Too many in the GOP act like the proverbial dog returning to its vomit. That weakness must end. Candidates must raise the stakes, not bury them in cowardice and equivocation. They must be warriors ready to defend this country against every enemy, foreign and domestic.

A challenge to men

So here’s my challenge: Men, spend at least half the time on self-government that you spend on football this fall. Fortify your homes, your churches, and your communities. Hold your candidates accountable.

If you don’t, your sons may not inherit the blessing of football season — or the freedoms you’ve taken for granted.

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Cheyenne and its residents will soon be inevitably remade as a mysteriously unclaimed — but enormous, and enormously expensive — data center begins construction in the small Wyoming city. It’s estimated that the installation will consume twice the electrical power presently pulled down by the entire state of Wyoming. Without elaborate recycling and efficiency measures, it could consume as much as 124 billion gallons of water per year.

One wonders how that is going to be squared with the perennial water scarcity, rights, and related ranching issues natural to Western states.

A curiously parallel set of circumstances is played out in “Eddington,” Ari Aster’s new film, which forces viewers to grapple with a host of tragicomic plotlines played out in a spiraling COVID-era narrative driven by the arrival of … a huge, unclaimed, anonymous data center in the heart of a small and arid Western town.

Isn’t that an odd coincidence?

While Aster’s film pivots on the psychological meat grinder of the lockdowns — and the impressively timed eruption of the BLM riots and protests — the auteur, by placing the data center’s construction at the center of the maelstrom, seems to be pointing his audience toward even greater forces at play. Like your average New Mexican depicted in Eddington, your average Wyomingite in reality is unlikely to have the time, interest, or wherewithal to really understand — much less manage — the extent of the planetary and human terraforming that tech, banking, and government have set in motion.

An age of terraforming

These data centers are something new. Many are adding their own power plants. The whole operation is contingent on water, of which they need a great deal, in a constant supply. Today, aggregate usage is about 560 billion gallons per year. Extrapolating the math from combined estimates of the Guardian and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, by 2030, these installations could demand up to 25 trillion gallons. This is about what the entire country of Australia uses per year.

The additional social terraforming is tough to grapple with, especially given the uncertainty around immigration/remigration reforms under Trump: boosts of status and capital into otherwise economically decimated areas of the country might be embraced either way. Of course, our data-hungry tech overlords are historically not given to any great charity, so local wealth hikes may be short-lived. The desperate drive to build these data centers, after all, is driven by a need to constantly expand the hypothetical value of numbers on screen or on paper.

Terraforming isn’t going to happen without its drawbacks for locals. Remaking the terrain in the image of AI is going to include the rerouting, application, and control of energy. Families should expect correlative hikes in the electric and gas bills. The data center in Cheyenne will rely on Wyoming natural gas, evidently packaged into the deal somewhere. Anecdotal reports from truckers indicate at least one new pipeline going into the ground already between Pinedale and Lander.

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Projections are that nearly $10 trillion will be invested in the construction of data centers in the next five years around the globe. X is building in Tennessee, OpenAI in Texas, Meta in Louisiana, Google in Ohio. The Trump administration has promised a $500 billion investment of government cash.

It’s all indicative of a multilateral institutional agreement that artificial intelligence must 1) make number go up, 2) make number go up, and, a somewhat distant third, perpetuate some semblance of the current global geopolitical order. How that gets worked out between the international global elite composing what David Rothkopf calls the superclass is yet to be seen.

Man-made horrors

Consider that Ari Aster is primarily a director of smart horror films. What is he suggesting with his “Eddington” data-center plot point? With regard to the terraforming theme, we have to factor in one more aspect: electromagnetic disturbance. The COVID era was, above all else, simply bizarre. The uncertainty was vast, the anxiety pervasive, and the onrush of untested technology in its various forms was tough to keep up with in any serious way. We were, you’ll recall, trying to feed our families. Disturbance, indeed.

You may have more faith in the teleological strength of financial incentivization than I do, or in the creative adaptation of humanity, but hear me out: The addition of colossal quantities of electromagnetics concentrated in our rural spaces, where whole biosystems are already under burden, doesn’t sit well.

Unseen forces are unique this way. In fact, if you were, say, a talented director/writer of neo-intellectual horror films, you could get pretty far down the roads of objective correlative, symbolism, and atmospheric plausibility with the insertion of vast and unquantified amounts of electricity into American deserts. Cap it off by anonymizing the owners of the force, and you’ve got a bona fide spectral invasion. Well played, Mr. Aster.

The ownership of the Cheyenne data center is for now “unknown,” although local rumor suggests Sam Altman’s OpenAI is the likely future occupant. We shall see.

We’re told, even by its creators, that the size and impact of artificial intelligence are beyond measure. We know little of the oncoming impact on human-level well-being, socio-political or financial. Even less do we know about the basic ecological sustainability of the project. Then we add the government contribution (which means commitment) of half a trillion dollars. All this piling on — can we even see what’s being taken away?

It starts to sound like the stuff horror films are made of.

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A jury decided the fate of a Wisconsin woman who beat to death a family friend that she had found in a bathtub with a nonverbal, autistic relative.

Richard Platt, 77, was found dead in the basement of his home on Glen Park Court in New Berlin in Feb. 2024 after getting beaten with a ceramic angel sculpture.

Brown admitted striking him on the head and body. She also bit his face and tried to gouge his eyes out.

Later that same day, 44-year-old Martha Brown was detained as a person of interest by the nearby Ozaukee County Sheriff’s Office after they received a call about a partially dressed woman roaming through a neighborhood. Brown was found hiding in a garage in Cedarburg and was draped with a shower curtain.

Brown revealed her involvement in the New Berlin incident when she was being treated at a hospital. That led to police performing a wellness check on the man and finding his body.

The woman said that she had known Platt for 14 years and had lived with him for about six years. Platt had helped her take care of the 22-year-old nonverbal, autistic relative, but Brown said she confronted him after suspecting he had been molesting the relative.

Brown said she chased him into his basement, where they had an altercation.

She said that he had touched her inappropriately and attacked her, and Brown admitted striking him on the head and body. She also bit his face and tried to gouge his eyes out but said she left without knowing his condition.

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Police said they found a “tremendous amount of blood spatter” at the scene and “significant head trauma” on the victim.

Brown tried to argue that she acted in self-defense, but a jury disagreed and found her guilty of first-degree intentional homicide on Tuesday after deliberating for only two hours.

She will be sentenced on Nov. 20 and may face life in prison.

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