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Lawmakers in California, stunningly, have refused to make buying kids for sex a felony.
There's a new report in the Federalist that explains the antics of Democrats who insisted on having their way with a new law, and what it means.
The report, written as a commentary, explained, "Should it be a felony to purchase an underage minor for illegal sex? For most of us, the answer is a very easy yes. This is not a hard one."
But Democrats in the state "feel differently."
"The state assembly there this past week considered a bill — AB-379 — that would have amended state law to make it a felony to solicit paid sex from 'any person under 18 years of age.' In other words, if you seek out and pay a minor for sex — if you engage in child sex trafficking — you would be guilty of a felony."
Democrats there, the report said, "mounted a major opposition to the bill. By the time they were done with it, the bill's protections for 16-year-old sex crime victims had been stripped from the measure."
They added their claim that it was "the intent of the Legislature to adopt the strongest laws to protect 16- and 17-year-old victims," but then they refused to do just that, the report said.
The opposition, the report said, stemmed from concern "that the measure could disproportionately affect … LGBT Californians."
"The ACLU of Southern California claimed in part that similar measures 'have been used disproportionately against … LGBTQ+ individuals,'" the report said, while "Other opponents of the bill claimed that the measure could be used by parents who are upset that their children are in 'LGBTQ relationships.'"
Those beliefs were justified by state Sen. Scott Wiener, who long has promoted the LGBT ideologies, the report said, when he commented, "sending an 18-year-old high school senior to state prison for offering his 17-year-old classmate $20 to fool around isn't smart criminal justice policy."
Social media backlash was harsh.
"This pervert wants to allow children to be prostituted."
And, "You're an embarrassment to the party…"
And, "This is absolutely bonkers."
The report explained, "At best, Democrats and other opponents of this bill are attempting to defend underage prostitution as a normal feature of young relationships (it's not). At worst, they are revealing, inadvertently, that LGBT individuals are apparently regular participants in the sex trafficking of minors."
The bill itself concerned itself only with "paying for sex with minors."
And the report warned, "Most functioning adults consider it a very bad thing when underage children are paid for sex, no matter the circumstances. Opponents of this bill are acting as if they are defending meaningful, intimate relationships, rather than innately harmful, exploitative, and dangerous ones."
The report said, "The party has sent an unmistakable message to sexual predators around the country: If you come to California to buy a minor, the state government is prepared to go easy on you."
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley (IA) said that he hopes the Supreme Court will rule against universal injunctions as it hears cases involving President Donald Trump, arguing that a president should not have to "ask permission" from judges to govern.
"Just this past week, a D.C. district judge issued a universal injunction blocking the president’s executive order requiring voter ID or proof-of-citizenship prior to voting in national elections."
"Judges are not policymakers," Grassley said. "Allowing them to assume this role is very dangerous."
Grassley noted that the Supreme Court will be directly addressing universal injunctions on May 15 during a hearing on a case involving Trump's order reversing birthright citizenship.
The high court "could and should take action," he said. "In the meantime, I'm continuing to work with my colleagues to advance my critical Judicial Relief Clarification Act (JRCA) and put an end to universal injunctions."
Trump has been stymied at every turn by these injunctions, which judges at the state and local levels have used far more often to block his offers than they have with other presidents.
"The President of the United States shouldn’t have to ask permission from more than 600 different district judges to manage the executive branch he was elected to lead," Grassley declared in March after his colleague Dick Durbin (D-IL) tried to pass a resolution requiring Trump to comply with all federal rulings.
"I happen to agree with some Democrats that in previous years have said some judges have gone way beyond what a judge should do on national injunctions. I hope to find a solution for that, and I hope that you and I could work on that together," he added.
The injunction, of course, failed. It's easy to see that many of these rulings are unfair and making them universal goes far beyond the power the Constitution intended to give judges.
Desperate Democrats are out of power and are using the only branch they have any significant power in--the judicial branch--to thwart Trump's agenda any way they can.
Trump needs a way to shut these judges down, or his agenda won't be able to get very far.
The Supreme Court could give him that ability, but it's far from certain what they will do.
There are at least eight major cases involving Trump happening in the near future, so he will have plenty of chances to get a favorable ruling.
We'll see if the will of the voter can prevail or whether Democrats can once again usurp it.
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'President shouldn't have to ask permission from more than 600 different district judges to manage the executive branch'
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the most senior member of the upper chamber, is warning district court judges that their reign of issuing nationwide injunctions to block the agenda of President Donald Trump will be ending.
"Universal injunctions are an unconstitutional abuse of judicial power," said the senator who is chief of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
District judges, those handling the entry level of the federal court system, have issued dozens of injunctions preventing Trump from exercising he role as the manager of the nation's Executive branch since he took office.
They did the same thing during his first term, but during his second term have ramped up their attacks.
That issue is pending right now before the Supreme Court, whose members already have expressed concern about the wanton issuance of such orders, by a district judge, that purports to control Executive branch policy nationwide, and even worldwide.
A report at Fox News said Grassley cited a decision just last week.
"A D.C. district judge issued a universal injunction blocking the president's executive order requiring voter ID or proof-of-citizenship prior to voting in national elections," Grassley said. But that ignores the idea that "judges are not policymakers."
He continued, "Allowing them to assume this role is very dangerous."
He added, "The president of the United States shouldn't have to ask permission from more than 600 different district judges to manage the executive branch he was elected to lead. I happen to agree with some Democrats that in previous years have said some judges have gone way beyond what a judge should do on national injunctions."
The Supreme Court has awaiting its decision a charge that nationwide injunctions on Trump's order regarding birthright citizenship were wrong.
He said while the Supreme Court should issue a ruling on those injunctions, he and others in Congress already are working on legislation that would "end" universal injunctions that have been used by so many leftist judges against the president.
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'This is INSANELY easy to prove. DOJ just needs to make a move'
Elon Musk, President Donald Trump's leader of the Department of Government Efficiency, has made a startling discovery, saying there are more than 100,000 active federal employees illegally receiving unemployment benefits.
The DOGE chief revealed the stunning figure Saturday to Lara Trump, host of "My View" on Fox News.
"We've actually found there's a lot of people who are federal government employees, that are active employees, who nonetheless have applied for and received unemployment insurance," Musk explained.
"While they are federal employees," an incredulous Trump responded.
"Yes, and this appears to be at least 100,000 people," Musk continued.
"Wow!" Trump said.
Online journalist Nick Sortor reacted with outrage: "That's called FRAUD. WE NEED ARRESTS!"
"This is INSANELY easy to prove. DOJ just needs to make a move," he added. "These arrests are layups."
"I'm really, really hoping I'm proven wrong but I'm starting to lose hope that this DOJ is ever going to make any significant arrests for corruption, voter fraud, etc."
Matt Van Swol, a former nuclear scientist for the U.S. Department of Energy, noted: "They actually received unemployment benefits from the government while also working???
"That is the definition of fraudulent payments. Needs to be investigated … but where the hell is Pam Bondi?!"
Last month, as WorldNetDaily reported, Musk revealed more unemployment fraud discovered by DOGE, including thousands of recipients over 115 years old, between one and five years old, and with birth dates more than 15 years in the future.
"Your tax dollars were going to pay fraudulent unemployment claims for fake people born in the future! This is so crazy that I had to read it several times before it sank in," Musk said at the time.
"This is another incredible discovery by the DOGE team, finding nearly $400 million in fraudulent unemployment payments," Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer told Fox News Digital regarding the April disclosure.
"The Labor Department is committed to recovering Americans' stolen tax dollars. We will catch these thieves and keep working to root out egregious fraud – accountability is here."
President Trump said four years is "plenty of time" to fulfill his promise to America, as he gave his clearest indication yet that he will not run for a third term.
Trump has repeatedly suggested he may seek re-election in 2028, but he now says he plans to pass the torch when his term is up.
"We have a lot of good people in this party," Trump told NBC's Meet The Press.
Trump acknowledged that there could be legal obstacles to running again, as he dismissed 2028 chatter from some of his allies as a "compliment." The 22nd Amendment limits presidents to two terms.
“I will say this. So many people want me to do it. I have never had requests so strong as that. But it’s something that, to the best of my knowledge, you’re not allowed to do,” Trump told Kristen Welker.
Trump had previously told Welker he was "not joking" about seeking another term, and speculation increased after the Trump Organization began selling "Trump 2028" MAGA hats.
"But this is not something I'm looking to do," Trump told Welker.
"I’m looking to have four great years and turn it over to somebody, ideally, a great Republican, a great Republican to carry it forward, but I think we’ll have four years, and I think four years is plenty of time to do something really spectacular.”
While making it clear that he is thinking about his legacy in generational terms, Trump was reluctant to single out an heir apparent, although he lavished praise on Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio - both former critics of Trump's who are now among his closest allies.
"It’s far too early to say that, but I do have a vice president and typically and, JD is doing a fantastic job," Trump said.
"I don’t want to get involved in that, I think he’s a fantastic, brilliant guy. Marco is great. There are a lot of them that are great.”
While many find it hard to imagine MAGA without the Donald, Trump said he is confident that his historic movement will live on without his leadership.
"I think it’s so strong. And I think we have tremendous people. I think we have a tremendous group of people. We talked about a number of them. You look at Marco, you look at JD Vance, who’s fantastic. You look at — I could name 10, 15, 20 people right now just sitting here. No, I think we have a tremendous party."
President Trump gave his strongest indication yet that he will not seek a third term, as he named two possible frontrunners to continue the legacy of his MAGA movement.
Trump gave nods to Vice president J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in an interview with NBC's Meet The Press.
“It’s far too early to say that. But you know, I do have a vice president … and JD’s doing a fantastic job,” Trump said.
“I don’t want to get involved in that. I think he’s a fantastic, brilliant guy. Marco is great. There’s a lot of them that are great,” he added. “We have a lot of good people in this party.”
Rubio and Vance have followed starkly different career paths to their current positions at the top of the second Trump administration.
Rubio is a career Republican who fought Trump in the 2016 presidential cycle, when Trump labeled him "Little Marco," while Vance had never held public office when Trump launched him into the U.S. Senate a few years ago. Like Rubio, Vance had also criticized Trump's original 2016 run before embracing him.
Reflecting on the growth of his historic movement, Trump predicted that MAGA will continue without him at the helm, pointing to a large number of "tremendous" individuals who could take over.
Trump said Vance would likely have an "advantage" if he runs for the presidency, but Trump predicted that his VP would face some tough challenges as well.
"I think we have tremendous people. I think we have a tremendous group of people," Trump said. "You look at Marco, you look at J.D. Vance, who's fantastic. I could name 10, 15, 20 people right now, just sitting here."
Trump had previously told Welker in March that he was "not joking" about seeking another term. The president's repeated comments to that effect rattled his critics, who accused him of seeking to defy the Constitution's two-term limit.
But Trump is clearly beginning to think about his legacy in generational terms. In his latest interview with Welker, he said four years is enough time to achieve his goals, and he will leave the rest to his successor, "ideally a great Republican."
“I’ll be an eight-year president. I’ll be a two-term president. I always thought that was very important,” he added.
“This is not something I’m looking to do. I’m looking to have four great years and turn it over to somebody, ideally a great Republican," he said.
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'This will be 70% cheaper for American taxpayers, as it currently costs DHS, on average, over $17,000 to arrest, detain, and deport someone'
President Donald Trump, trying to clean up the national security-threatening crisis Joe Biden created with his open borders policies that allowed millions of illegal aliens, including criminals and terrorists, to come into the U.S., repeatedly has been opposed by leftist judges.
He can't send illegals home without court hearings, even though they are criminal simply by having entered the U.S. without permission. He can't send them to THAT country.
Judges have strangely ordered some of them to be brought back to the U.S., even though they already are under the jurisdiction of another nation. Or they've ordered deportation flights already in the air to turn around.
Now Trump's Department of Homeland Security has revealed a deportation plan that cuts through all of the arguments.
It, in fact, would leave those calling for hearings and with complaints about "rights" without an argument.
It's because the program would provide government help for those illegals to self-deport.
They would take themselves back.
At Fox News a report said DHS will "front the cost of commercial flights and provide a $1,000 stipend to illegal aliens who opt to self-deport from the United States."
It is predicted to save thousands of dollars from the alternative, which is a forced removal program run by the government where aliens are rounded up and removed.
"The department says this will be 70% cheaper for American taxpayers, as it currently costs DHS, on average, over $17,000 to arrest, detain, and deport someone. DHS told Fox News that paying for aliens to remove themselves, even with the stipend, is anticipated to cost only around $4,500 on average," the report said.
The money would be paid only when it was verified that the illegal alien had, in fact, left the U.S.
The Trump administration already had set up the CBP app that allows illegals to plan their own self-deportation.
"If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem told.
"DHS is now offering illegal aliens financial travel assistance and a stipend to return to their home country through the CBP Home App. This is the safest option for our law enforcement, aliens and is a 70% savings for US taxpayers. Download the CBP Home App TODAY and self-deport," she continued.
The policy so far has been that those who are deported by the government will be banned from returning to the U.S. in the future. Another incentive for self-deportation is that officials expect to allow those individuals a chance to return eventually.
While illegal aliens are subject to deportation proceedings, Trump has focused so far on the criminal illegals, including alleged members of MS-13 and Tren de Aragua gangs, which have been designated as terror organizations.
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'If a program designed for temporary academic training now facilitates long-term labor substitution, bypasses wage standards and government oversight, and encourages the offshoring of U.S. jobs ... why is it still allowed?'
WASHINGTON – Originally intended to support academic exchange, U.S. student visa programs have gradually been expanded and transformed into large-scale foreign labor channels, all to the detriment of multitudes of American workers.
Since the 1990s, changes to the international student F-1 visa framework and the introduction of Optional Practical Training, or OPT, have enabled hundreds of thousands of international graduates to enter the American workforce annually, often without the oversight, wage protections or regulatory limits required under traditional employment visa programs.
Among the organizations recognizing and operationalizing this shift is Miles Education, an India-based company, which has developed a business model that integrates education, immigration, employment and offshoring, thereby largely redefining the role of the U.S. student visa system.
The international student F-1 visa, established under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, enables foreign nationals to attend accredited U.S. educational institutions as full-time students. Students must demonstrate financial sufficiency and a nonimmigrant intent – that is, an intention to stay temporarily in the U.S. but not immigrate or seek permanent residency.
In 1992, the U.S. Department of Justice introduced Optional Practical Training, allowing F-1 international student graduates to work for 12 months after completing their studies. Then in 2008, the George W. Bush administration expanded this with the STEM Optional Practical Training Extension, granting an additional 24 months to graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
Thus, these Optional Practical Training and STEM OPT programs enable international graduates to work in the United States for up to three years after completing their studies, and with very few restrictions on employers. Companies are not required to prove that American workers are unavailable for the job, meet minimum wage standards based on the industry or location, or sponsor the worker through a formal visa process.
Additionally, there is no limit on the number of OPT workers a company can hire. As immigration policy expert Dr. Ron Hira has testified before Congress, this structure effectively created a parallel labor market operating without congressional authorization or traditional worker protections.
Miles Education's model thrives within this regulatory void.
How OPT has changed under different administrations
U.S. companies have obvious and powerful financial incentives to hire Optional Practical Training workers instead of American graduates.
Through Miles' placement services, corporations gain access to an ever-abundant pool of OPT workers who are ready for immediate employment, offering a workforce that is less expensive, less regulated and less legally encumbered than their American counterparts.
One obvious example: Employers who hire OPT workers are exempt from paying Social Security and Medicare taxes, resulting in approximately an 8% reduction in employment costs per worker. Such advantages make OPT workers significantly more affordable and easier to hire than American graduates, leading businesses to favor foreign student labor over the domestic workforce.
Furthermore, the U.S. Department of Labor has no authority to enforce wage standards for Optional Practical Training workers, which means it operates outside normal employment-based immigration oversight. The Department of Homeland Security certifies student visa programs, but does not require employers to test the labor market – i.e., demonstrate to the government that they've tried but failed to find a qualified, willing, available U.S. worker for a specific job before hiring a foreign national. Also, Optional Practical Training's classification as a "student benefit" rather than a work visa shields it from labor protections.
As of 2023, the Department of Homeland Security's SEVIS database – short for Student and Exchange Visitor Information System – reported over 1.5 million active F-1 and M-1 visa holders, with approximately 539,000 authorized for work through OPT or STEM OPT. Organizations that took note of the gap between immigration intent and labor reality viewed it not as a loophole, but as a market opportunity. For companies like Miles Education, which structured its business around that gap, it has proven to be highly profitable.
Transparency reports from the first Trump administration revealed that corporations such as Amazon, Deloitte, Ernst & Young and JPMorgan Chase were among the largest employers of workers under the OPT and STEM OPT programs. In 2019, for example, Amazon employed 2,813 OPT/STEM OPT participants, Deloitte employed 822 and Ernst & Young employed 431, figures publicly available through the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Student and Exchange Visitor Program.
However, under the Biden administration, ICE stopped releasing employer-specific Optional Practical Training data, reducing public visibility into how major companies utilize the program. This rollback in transparency has been noted by immigration policy analysts and organizations advocating for greater oversight.
However, under the Biden administration, ICE stopped releasing employer-specific Optional Practical Training data, reducing public visibility into how major companies utilize the program. This rollback in transparency has been noted by immigration policy analysts and organizations advocating for greater oversight.
For a reported fee of approximately $48,000, students were promised admission into partner U.S. universities, support in securing international student F-1 visas, assistance obtaining Optional Practical Training authorization and direct placement into U.S. companies. Internal promotional materials emphasized career outcomes, expedited and guaranteed immigration services and corporate hiring connections, with significantly less emphasis on traditional academic achievement.
This image is prominently displayed on Miles Education's U.S. Pathway website, illustrating how its program can assist Indian nationals in achieving a successful career in the U.S. with an impressive salary in just seven months.
Scaling the model: Miles' partnerships and reach
Miles Education's business model has demonstrated significant success and operational presence in the U.S. market, characterized by financial growth, university collaborations and successful placement of graduates into American firms. As of March 31, 2023, the company reported annual revenues of approximately $22.8 million USD, reflecting a compound annual growth rate of 94% over five years. This growth highlights the commercial viability of its integrated education-to-employment pipeline.
The company's success is fueled by a marketing strategy that emphasizes access to the U.S. job market over traditional academic achievements. By providing a comprehensive suite of services that includes entry into the U.S. education system, a pathway to legal work authorization and direct job placement with American companies, Miles serves effectively as an education consultant, visa facilitator, labor supplier and offshore partner. This multi-faceted approach enables the company to capture commercial value throughout the student-to-worker transition.
A key modification to its model involved redesigning degree programs to enhance student eligibility for the STEM framework of Optional Practical Training. To obtain eligibility for the STEM OPT extension, Miles collaborated with U.S. universities to provide STEM-designated Master's programs in accounting, partnering with institutions such as Michigan State University, Rutgers University, Case Western Reserve University and the University of California, Riverside.
Although accounting, one of Miles' primary offerings, is not classified as a STEM field by the Department of Homeland Security, the company worked with these universities to integrate data-centric courses like business analytics and information systems, an enhancement that allowed these programs to achieve STEM OPT designation, in turn extending U.S. work authorization for international graduates from 12 to 36 months.
Miles marketed its services to U.S. employers as an efficient workforce solution, highlighting advantages like "visa-free hiring" and "visa-less talent access," which appeal to employers seeking graduates already authorized to work under Optional Practical Training.
Building the pipeline
Miles Education has developed several subsidiaries and program services that significantly contribute to its full-cycle success in the international education and labor markets.
Miles STEM Pathway, for example, promotes the advantages of three years of work without visa sponsorship, effectively transforming a non-STEM accounting degree into a STEM-designated program by integrating data analytics.
Through the STEM Pathway program, Miles has positioned itself as a key player in the global education and labor sectors by connecting academic pathways to employment opportunities. The integration of STEM elements into non-STEM degrees has improved job prospects, establishing Miles as both an education provider and a facilitator of labor-market access through its Ed-Work model, which combines academic enrollment with employment placement.
Likewise, Miles's subsidiary Miles Talent Hub provides pre-vetted, work-ready candidates who do not require sponsorship or labor condition applications, enabling cost savings and facilitating rapid team scaling. This approach has established student visa work authorizations as a viable hiring option.
In the U.S., Indiana's CPA Society's Vendor Directory, for example, highlights Miles' pool of over 1,200 international graduate accountants available for three years without the need for visa sponsorship.
Miles Talent Hub also promotes its Placement Drive program as a direct hiring pipeline into U.S. accounting and finance firms, providing international graduates with competitive starting salaries. Key partners include EisnerAmper, BPM and major tech companies including Amazon and Microsoft, all of which highlight successful alumni placements. Additionally, the company leverages its connections with the Indian "Big Four" – Deloitte India, EY India, PwC India and KPMG India – to develop a robust foreign labor channel into the U.S. market.
Miles Education's Dual Coursework program, provided through its U.S. Washington-based subsidiary, Futurense Technologies US Pathways allows candidates to complete some coursework in India and avoid standard entrance exams, including the English language tests typically required for F-1 visas for studying at U.S. universities. This approach not only minimizes the educational requirements in the U.S., but also expedites the transition to employment.
In a story published by English-language Indian news site News 24 Futurense's US Pathway is characterized as disrupting traditional study abroad models by cultivating strategic partnerships, providing scholarships and streamlining master's degree processes for Indian talent. This involves collaborations with top-ranked universities in the United States, including Case Western Reserve University, DePaul University, Drexel University, Rutgers, SUNY Buffalo and others in the pipeline.
Futurense founder Raghav Gupta remarked, "Unfortunately, studying abroad has evolved into a societal privilege, inaccessible to Indians due to exorbitant tuition fees, complex systems and high entry barriers. The numbers were distressing and something had to be done to make the U.S. masters and its market available to all deserving candidates in India. This is why we created India's very own Pathway program."
In addition to their rapid-degree programs, reportedly Futurense provides a "tailor-made" untapped talent pool sourced through unconventional methods that can be onboarded in as little as 48 hours and can save employers up to 65% on their costs.
Offshoring careers: Completing the Miles labor cycle
When students' OPT and STEM OPT work authorization periods near expiration, Miles has facilitated the next stage, transferring workers to offshore operations in India via its affiliate, Miles Talent Hub. Through this model, companies could retain trained personnel at even lower wage rates, sidestepping U.S. immigration complexities altogether.
What began as a student visa for academic pursuit frequently ended in permanent offshore labor substitution, a transformation few policymakers anticipated when these programs were created.
Conclusion: A system quietly rewritten
The international student F-1 visa and Optional Practical Training programs were introduced under the premise of educational exchange – temporary in nature, academic in intent and limited in scope. Federal law makes clear that international student F-1 visa students must pursue full-time study, with no guaranteed right to remain in the United States for work. Optional Practical Training was created as a training benefit, not as a labor source.
Yet Miles Education's model operates at the opposite end of that framework. Rather than focusing on education for its own sake, its approach views education as a pathway to long-term work authorization. By integrating STEM-designated admissions, immigration consulting, U.S. job placement and offshore continuity into a single, cohesive pipeline, Miles functions more as a private labor channel than as a traditional academic provider. While Miles frequently markets its program as a solution to help address America's "skills gap" crisis, the model is strategically designed to make India "the powerhouse of talent."
As a final consideration: If a program designed for temporary academic training now facilitates long-term labor substitution, bypasses wage standards and government oversight, and encourages the offshoring of U.S. jobs while offering no protections for American workers, then the question becomes unavoidable:
Why is it still allowed?
As companies optimize for cost savings and compliance avoidance, and as intermediaries design business models that extract value from each regulatory blind spot, the intended purpose of these programs fades further and further from their original intent. If the outcomes result in tangible harm to American graduates and the irreversible loss of opportunities, it highlights not only a policy failure, but also the need for a critical national decision.
The international student F-1 visa and Optional Practical Training programs were not created to displace Americans, yet today they are routinely used in ways that do precisely that, and on an increasingly wide scale.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
'This is what worries me about robotic surgery'
A video has appeared online of a malfunction of a robot at a China factory.
"Malfunction," however, might not be the most accurate term.
"This is what the machine uprising might look like: a video is going viral online showing a robot going berserk during testing," explained NEXTA, a large Eastern European media concern, which posted the video.
One response on social media tried to explain it away: "Clearly unbalanced, then tried using algorithms to rebalance, but the algorithms were not tuned which led to wild oscillations, furthering the imbalance. This is 'not' an "attack."
That might not be reassuring to two workers, near the robot when it powered up, who then jumped out of reach of the flaying robot arms, then circled around to try to stabilize the stand to which robot was attached.
The robot has become so violent it was moving the stand across the floor.
The end of the video appears to show the robot being powered down. The report did not identify the time frame or location of the incident.
Online reaction includes:
"Went full terminator."
"This is what worries me about robotic surgery."
"I've had AI legit sabotage entire projects I'm doing with blatant lies. No lie."
"That's why I always say 'Thanks' to chatgpt."
"Terminator is coming … better be ready … the Oligarchy is accelerating the mass production of Robots for a reason … Whoever controls the AI and the Robots will have major dominance worldwide."
"Apparently the robot uprising can be avoided just by moving 3 meters away from the robots."
'It just wants a hug so badly."
"He just wanted to dance … "
The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) said Friday that an active volcano on Mount Spurr could soon erupt after 73 earthquakes struck the area over the previous week.
An imminent eruption could cause the evacuation of 300,000 residents in Anchorage 80 miles away who could be in danger from its effects, AVO said. Those who don't evacuate may have to wear N95 masks and stockpile food and water to avoid contamination.
In addition, flights over the area could be halted because of visibility concerns from the volcanic ash cloud that would result from an eruption.
Besides the 73 recorded earthquakes, "much smaller quakes are occurring several times per hour," the observatory said.
Steam has been seen rising from the volcano along with increased gas emissions.
Magma rising toward the surface is also causing pressure and fractures in the rock that surrounds it.
The level of unrest at the volcano is somewhat lower than a few months ago, but remains elevated.
"Unrest continues at Mount Spurr, though at a lower level than observed in early 2025," AVO said.
'While the likelihood of an eruption has decreased since March, the volcano remains at an elevated level of unrest.'
The last two eruptions of the volcano were in 1953 and 19920--relatively recent for volcanoes.
During those eruptions, explosive bursts lasting several hours spewed volcanic ash across southcentral Alaska. Fortunately, there are no communities close enough to be affected by volcanic debris and mudslides that could also occur in the area.
After the last eruption, the Anchorage Airport had to shut down for 20 hours, and it looked dark as night in the area during that time from the ash.
The disruption of the 8,000 cargo planes that fly over the area each month could impact the global supply chain, according to the Daily Mail.
Experts have said the next eruption could be within "weeks to months," but there is no exact time frame at this point.