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Don’t put taxpayers on the hook for subsidizing low-budget airlines

Apr 30, 2026Center Right

The downfall of Spirit Airlines has mushroomed from a routine business failure into a far messier test case against government intervention in the free market. The unfortunate series of Spirit’s government-facilitated events began three years ago, when the Biden administration blocked Spirit’s merger with JetBlue on the grounds that absorbing a low-cost carrier would reduce […]

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NATO Leaders Will Meet for Key Summit in Turkey After Trump Puts Freeloading Allies on Blast

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NATO Leaders Will Meet for Key Summit in Turkey After Trump Puts Freeloading Allies on Blast

Stop slacking, allies. The post NATO Leaders Will Meet for Key Summit in Turkey After Trump Puts Freeloading Allies on Blast appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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The Supreme Court ruled seven years ago. Taxpayers are still paying the price

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The Supreme Court ruled seven years ago. Taxpayers are still paying the price

In June 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas that Tennessee’s two-year residency requirement for alcohol retailers was unconstitutional. This marked the first time since the 2005 Granholm v. Heald decision that the Supreme Court directly addressed the relationship between the 21st Amendment and the dormant Commerce […]

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Seattle’s Socialist Mayor Urges Transgender ‘Refugees’ to Come to Her City for Taxpayer Funded Surgeries

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20 hours ago

Seattle’s Socialist Mayor Urges Transgender ‘Refugees’ to Come to Her City for Taxpayer Funded Surgeries

Katie Wilson, the Democratic Socialist (communist) mayor of Seattle, wants transgender 'refugees' to come to her city, where taxpayers will be forced to fund their surgeries. The post Seattle’s Socialist Mayor Urges Transgender ‘Refugees’ to Come to Her City for Taxpayer Funded Surgeries appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Lone NYC Council Dem to vote against Mamdani’s $126B budget rips mayor for lack of ‘equity’

New York Post

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Lone NYC Council Dem to vote against Mamdani’s $126B budget rips mayor for lack of ‘equity’

Bronx Councilwoman Althea Stevens blasted the democratic socialist mayor over what she called a lack of "equity" in his first budget -- accusing him of not allotting enough cash for her district, which faces high rates of poverty and gun violence.

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Trump puts allies on notice: AI power comes first

Axios

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Trump puts allies on notice: AI power comes first

President Trump is redefining what it means to be a U.S. ally in the AI era.Why it matters: For the White House, it's now about how partners can help the U.S. win the AI race.For decades, shared values and security interests have underpinned alliances with Europe and other partners around the world. Under Trump, that's no longer enough.As AI becomes central to economic and military power, frontier AI models, chips and infrastructure are turning into new instruments of American influence.Driving the news: The Trump administration is blocking allies from accessing the world's most powerful models, playing it close to the vest and criticizing Europe for not having its own robust AI industry.With export controls on Fable and Mythos lifted on Tuesday, Anthropic and the Trump administration are continuing Project Glasswing efforts, which the company previously said would give access to Mythos to 150 more organizations across more than 15 countries.Fable is also back.Commerce retains the power to pull back access when it deems appropriate. "The problem we have is that we are leading everybody by a lot," Trump said in a recent interview with "The Axios Show." "Europe has to be very careful. They're losing their way entrepreneurially."Trump pointed to the U.K. not tapping into energy sources in the North Sea because of environmental concerns: "It's crazy." Between the lines: The Trump administration's AI restrictions are part of a broader transactional approach to alliances.Catch up quick: Vice President JD Vance's speech last year at the Paris AI Summit set the stage for a confrontational relationship with the European Union.The U.S. was quick to rebuke the EU's focus on safety over innovation with Trump entering his second term laser-focused on deregulation. But the president now finds himself behind an ad hoc licensing regime that's creating its own regulatory uncertainty, both domestically and abroad.OpenAI's GPT-5.6 was forced into a staggered rollout last month due to government concerns.What they're saying: European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier on Wednesday said the bloc is looking forward to "intensifying" discussions with Anthropic to gain access to Mythos through Project Glasswing and that, in the meantime, it has access to GPT-5.5-Cyber.The EU has a delegation in the U.S. to determine the scope of a future tech dialogue, the frequency of meetings and the level at which they'll be held.The dialogue is expected to include frontier AI models, chip supply chains and cybersecurity."But we have one clear line," Regnier said, "which is that our sovereign legislation is not up for negotiation."Omran Sharaf, the United Arab Emirates' assistant foreign minister for advanced science and technology, told Axios "it's very important that trusted partners and strategic partners are included in the process."That way it is "synchronized and we're applying similar standards in controlling such technologies, rather than having something that gets imposed."The big picture: AI is changing what the White House wants in its alliances.Just last week, the EU and several European governments signed onto Pax Silica, the U.S.-led effort to secure AI supply chains and critical minerals, even as the White House restricts their access to frontier AI models.For the U.S., Europe is all of the above: a restraint, an indispensable partner and a competitor.The administration is simultaneously rejecting Europe's AI rules, inking deals with the region to secure supply chains and blocking access to cutting-edge technology.The bottom line: With the most advanced AI, allies will have to adjust to being considered trusted U.S. partners only in some cases."The conclusion that governments are coming to is: We'll be part of Pax Silica, yes. We'll work with the U.S. ecosystem where we can. We'll build around what we can't," A.J. Bhadelia, Cohere's head of global government affairs and external affairs, told Axios.

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Tucker Carlson says he’ll “help build” a third party that puts America first

BizPac Review

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Tucker Carlson says he’ll “help build” a third party that puts America first

Tucker Carlson said that he’s going to help build a third party, although he denied that he intends to run for president as its candidate. The conservative […]

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Supreme Court leaves Fox reporter on the hook for $800 daily fees: report

Alternet.org

Yesterday

Supreme Court leaves Fox reporter on the hook for $800 daily fees: report

Politico reporter Josh Gerstein reports the Supreme Court is leaving Fox News journalist Catherine Herridge to suffer exorbitant daily fines or reveal her source for a story.After a ruling from lower courts against her favor, Herridge turned to the justices to decide the fate of her First Amendment argument. But in a Thursday ruling, Gerstein reports the court declined her request without explanation. The extremely short, two-paragraph order did note, however, that Justice Brett Kavanaugh would have granted Herridge’s request. Herridge faces contempt charges from a Washington, D.C., judge in a case brought against the federal government by Yanping Chen, who claims officials violated the Privacy Act by disclosing records about her compiled in an FBI investigation. Fox News, where Herridge worked at the time, published information from the records.Chen argued that leaks about the probe damaged her reputation, and she sued several federal agencies over the disclosures. As part of that lawsuit, she filed a subpoena to Herridge to try to force her to disclose her source, but Herridge refused. Chen also sued the FBI, DOJ, Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security in 2018 for monetary damages — as well as an admission of wrongdoing — from the government over its violation of the Privacy Act. After Chen’s depositions failed to reveal the leaker, she turned her lawyers loose on Fox News and Herridge.Last year, U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper ordered Herridge to pay a $800-a-day fine for her defiance of the subpoena, but he delayed enforcement of the fine to allow Herridge time to appeal. However, now that Herridge has lost her appeal all the way up to the Supreme Court, Chen’s lawyers could ask a judge to make the $800 daily fine even bigger to pressure her to deliver the goods.In earlier appeals, Judge Greg Katsas, a Trump appointee, and Judge Harry Edwards, an appointee of President Jimmy Carter, both sounded unconvinced of Herridge’s legal argument that Cooper should have balanced the public interest in news reporting against Chen’s desire to be compensated for damage to her reputation, according to Politico.After the DC Circuit Court declined to stay the ruling last month, Fox News told AlterNet in a statement that, "The D.C. Circuit’s refusal to pause these crippling fines while a petition is actively being prepared for the United States Supreme Court is deeply troubling.”“As we have maintained, forcing a journalist to expose a confidential source strikes at the very heart of the First Amendment and sends a chilling message to newsrooms in their ability to hold the powerful accountable,” the company added.

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