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Apple is promising is it "addressing" the issue after its iPhones were documented to be using the dictation mode to post "Trump" on the screen when a user said the word "racist."
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"Whoever at Apple is responsible for this should lose their job," one commenter said on social media.
News analyst and author Kyle Becker explained, "Apple says it is 'addressing the issue' as iPhone's voice-to-text feature periodically shows 'Trump' whenever a user says 'racist.'"
The company said, "We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation, and we are rolling out a fix as soon as possible."
Becker explained, "The text-to-speech imbroglio is part of a pattern of anti-Trump behavior that some users report in Big Tech products. A viral video from September showed Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant refusing to provide similar responses for current President Donald Trump while providing reasons to vote for failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Before Amazon could fix the issue, the company provided answers such as, 'she is a female of color with a comprehensive plan to address racial injustice and inequality throughout the country.' Alexa would not respond to the same question about Donald Trump, stating 'I cannot provide content that promotes this specific political party or candidate.' The company fixed the issue with a manual override to correct for the political bias."
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The Supreme Court is being asked to hear a case that the justices could use to reform – fix actually – a practice through which the government can deny individuals their 4th Amendment rights.
It is the New Civil Liberties Alliance that is asking for a review of the Harper v. O'Donnell case that concerns financial records unlawfully seized by the Internal Revenue Service.
Sheng Li, litigation counsel for the group, said, "The judge-made third-party doctrine was ill-conceived from the start, with dozens of states repudiating it over the past half century. The doctrine has become even less defensible in the modern age, where sharing confidential information with third-party companies such as internet, healthcare, and even cryptocurrency companies, has become an increasingly common part of American life."
The legal team explained the IRS took financial records belonging to NCLA client James Harper and more than 14,000 others from the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange through a "John Doe" summons.
"IRS took Mr. Harper's documents without any individualized suspicion to believe he had under-reported his income or failed to pay taxes. The Supreme Court should take the opportunity to fix the third-party doctrine, which the government has relied on to strip away the Fourth Amendment rights of millions of Americans who share data, such as internet browsing histories and medical records, with third-party companies," the alliance explained.
The case history includes a ruling from the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals that Harper could take the IRS to federal court for gathering private financial information about his use of virtual current from third-party exchanges without a lawful subpoena.
However, a federal judge in New Hampshire then failed Harper, by dismissing his case against IRS in May 2023, incorrectly ruling that he had failed to state a claim. The First Circuit invoked the third-party doctrine to uphold that dismissal last September.
The NCLA pointed out, "The Supreme Court must revisit the third-party doctrine to recognize Fourth Amendment protection for Mr. Harper's cryptocurrency data and other digital records, which Americans now routinely store with third-party service providers. Digital records are a modern-day individual's 'papers' and 'effects' that the Fourth Amendment explicitly safeguards against government's prying eyes. Justice Sonya Sotomayor has observed that the third-party doctrine is 'ill suited' to the digital age, in which people reveal a great deal of information about themselves to third parties in the course of carrying out mundane tasks."
"The Constitution promises security to Americans in their 'papers and effects.' Until the Supreme Court clarifies its rulings for the digital age, that promise is unfulfilled," said John Vecchione, a litigation counsel for NCLA.
It was in 2019 that the IRS notified Harper that it had obtained his financial records concerning ownership of bitcoin "without any particularized suspicion of wrongdoing."
The IRS took those records "without a valid subpoena, court order, or judicial warrant based on probable cause."
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is "hopeful" Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will sign a rare earth minerals deal with President Donald Trump this week, adding that "the Russians hate this deal."
Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel, Bessent said: "Common to a lot of misperceptions, the Russians hate this deal."
"The morning that I arrived in Ukraine to get into Kyiv … you fly to Poland, you take a 10- hour night if train in. The Russians, unfortunately, bombed Kyiv. There was a missile barrage four hours before I got there.
"It was the first time that such a barrage had a taken place since November. So I think that was a strong signal from Russian leadership that they don't like this deal because it gives President Trump more negotiating leverage.
"So if the Russians don't like it, my view is Ukrainians should."
"President Trump created this idea himself. It is a win-win," Bessent continued.
"We make money if the Ukrainian people make money, and I believe that with the United States of America, our know-how, our businesses willing to to come in and provide capital, that we can accelerate the Ukrainian growth trajectory and take in substantial monies for the U.S. taxpayers and get the Ukrainian economy on a growth, great growth trajectory."
While Bessent expects Zelenskyy will sign the deal, he added, "What it does not include is a military guarantee."
"What it does include is an implicit guarantee that if the if United States of America is heavily invested in the economic future, I call it an economic security guarantee. The more assets that U.S. companies have on the ground, the bigger interest that the U.S. has in the future of Ukrainian economy doing well, the more security it creates for the Ukrainian people and the higher the return for the U.S. taxpayer.
"Again, President Trump has structured this win-win deal, and it's unfortunate that, you know, after by meeting with President Zelenskyy and then his meeting in Munich with Vice President Vance, Secretary of State Rubio, the idea here of my trip to Ukraine and then the meeting in Munich, we want to intertwine the U.S. and Ukrainian economies for the benefit of both.
"And, unfortunately, President Zelenskyy seems to have put a bit of daylight between us, but I am sure in the long run, or in the short run there is no daylight, the deal will be signed, and this will give President Trump a lever. And it will be a strong signal to Russian leadership that the U.S. is in a serious partnership with the Ukrainian people."
Bessent also praised Trump's cost-cutting measures by Elon Musk and DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, hammering what he called "orgiastic government spending" by Joe Biden's administration.
"I think that if we have a bloated government, and if that gets cut down, then government spending will go down," he explained. "Many times … in the past ten months I've talked about reprivatizing the economy, and that's what we're going to have to do.
"We've seen what I would call this orgiastic government spending with the past administration. We're running 6.7%, 6.9% deficits to GDP which we've never had when we're not in a recession, not in a war. And we're going to bring that down. So as the government employment comes down, private sector will not be crowded out anymore.
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You might call it the "Make Germany Great Again" movement, as the European nation heads into elections tomorrow and the populist Alternative for Germany Party seeks a mandate to govern.
Its candidate for chancellor is Alice Weidel, a Chinese-speaking economist who is raising two sons with her Sri Lankan-born woman partner.
In a recent speech, Weidel sounded like a female Donald Trump, promising an ambitious Germany First agenda.
"Close the borders completely," she said, according to the English translation of a clip posted on X, "and reject every illegal entrant and every person without papers."
She said her party would send a message to the world: "The German borders are closed!"
According to a Reuters report, in a policy dubbed the "firewall," other German parties have a consensus not to team up with the AfD to form a coalition government after the election – an agreement U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance decried when he met Weidel while in Europe this week.
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Conservative states are dominating a list of the best locations for families, a new study profiled by the Washington Stand confirms.
It is the 2025 Family Structure Index that ranks all 50 states based on three variables: "the percentage of married adults between the ages of 25 to 54, the average number of lifetime births per woman, and the percentage of children aged 15 to 17 who are living with their married parents," the report explained.
Brad Wilcox, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and a fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, said the results follow closely conservative political beliefs.
The top 10 states are: Utah, Idaho, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Kansas, North Dakota, Iowa, Texas, and Minnesota.
Minnesota is the only outlier in the list of states that regularly are among the most conservative in the nation.
The report said Utah has the highest rating on two of the three factors, the marriage rate and the percentage of intact families.
The report noted that no state actually met the birthrate replacement level of 2.1, but South Dakota was the closest at 2.01.
At the other end of the scale were the states: Illinois, Oregon, Louisiana, California, Vermont, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, New Mexico, and Rhode Island, all regular actors in the race to be the most liberal state.
The report explained Vermont has the lowest fertility rate of 1.35, and New Mexico has the lowest percentage of married adults, at 49.5%.
There actually are 17 states where the majority of teens are raised in broken or single-parent homes, and Louisiana leads that as only 35.9% of teens there live with his or her own parents.
Aaron Baer, chief of the Center for Christian Virtue, which sponsors the study by the Institute for Family Studies, told the Washington Stand, "At the root of what is hurting our communities is broken families."
The center's own report found that there are "devastating realities about the challenges our children face."
Revealed was that areas with "fewer intact families experienced more violence," the report said.
Localities where two out of three children are raised outside of wedlock have 12 times the level of violent crime as areas where large numbers of teens live with their parents, the report said. And, the report noted, graduation rates follow the shares of married parents.
The Institute for Family Studies study's data prove that "family structure is a key driver of economic well-being, and our state is failing to provide the conditions for strong, stable marriages and families," Michael Geer, president of the Pennsylvania Family Institute, told The Washington Stand.
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The presidency of Donald Trump is developing into a constitutional crisis, as claimed by Democrats all across Washington. But it's because judges are inserting themselves into the power the Constitution gives to the executive branch, not because of anything being undertaken by Trump.
And one of the most egregious, "Frankensteinian," campaigns is being undertaken by those judges who are demanding that the government continue funding the body mutilations on children of the transgender ideology.
That's according to Tyler O'Neil, the senior editor at the Daily Signal, who said in a commentary, "Activists use the gaslighting term 'gender-affirming care' to hide the ugly truth. In the name of medicine, doctors are altering the chemistry of boys and girls to prevent them from undergoing the natural process of puberty. They're using the very same drugs that prisons use to chemically castrate sexual offenders and they're calling it 'care.'"
He followed with an explanation of the drugs used, "Gonadatropin-releasing hormone agonists," which former Food and Drug Administration commissioner on policy and drug safety adviser David Gortler explained are used to help treat certain cancers that depend on estrogen or testosterone.
"Removing estrogen and testosterone from cancer patients to prolong their lives makes sense. But giving these drugs to physiologically and genetically healthy kids is a completely different story," the commentary noted.
He said what's stunning that Democrat attorneys' general sued to keep using the drugs that harm children, and "judges ordered the administration to keep funding these Frankensteinian 'treatments.'"
Gortler cited an FDA database that showed 2,510 children 14 and younger have documented while taking those drugs, "hallucinations, bone disorders, cardiac arrest, abdominal pain, a clot in the heart, seizures, blindness, and more."
"Horrifyingly, the database included 30 records noting the death of a minor between zero and 14 where a 'puberty blocker' was the primary suspect drug," O'Neil reported.
Gortler has charged that the Joe Biden White House was "selectively turning a blind eye" to the dangers, even though the drugs are "objectively unsafe."
O'Neil's publication already documented that a top FDA official admitted the drugs are associated with a higher risk of suicidal thoughts.
A step beyond the chemicals, he noted, is "the most controversial and grotesque aspect of gender-affirming care, the Frankensteinian rejection of biological sex via the surgical removal of sex organs and the attempt to replace them with facsimiles of the organs of the opposite sex."
He noted even advocates admit there's no definitive research proving such mutilations "have positive outcomes." And a vast majority, 72%, of Americans want to outlaw the activities.
The current situation is that Trump issued an executive order declaring his administration will operate on the basis that biological sex overrides vague "gender identity" ideologies.
"This means the U.S. government will no longer endorse the ideology that says it's good to mutilate a child's body to make it appear like the opposite sex."
It's worse, however, because Democrats now are trying to force taxpayers to fund "these transgender atrocities with Americans' tax dollars."
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Voters already have settled on Joe Biden's legacy for his time in the White House.
Nothing.
The results of a survey, reported by Daily Mail, made it clear; "It is the one question that unites Americans when it comes to President Joe Biden."
The report continues, "Ask Democrats, Republicans or independents for their one-word summary of his legacy and they put aside their differences to answer almost unanimously: Nothing."
The results are from a poll by J.L. Partners, done for the Daily Mail, which quizzed 1,009 registered voters about their thoughts regarding Biden's legacy.
The poll, taken just as Biden was leaving the White House, also found people responding with comments such as "economy," "inflation," and such. Democrats claimed their other memories included "good" and "stability."
But "Nothing" dominated among all political subdivisions.
"When voters were asked whether they can remember a single Biden achievement, more than half say they cannot. Some 37 percent say they 'strongly' agree with the statement that they cannot name a single one," the report continued. "Even Democrats struggle. More than a third said they could not name a single achievement."
Pollster James Johnson said, "As far as public opinion is concerned, you have to squint to see even the echoes of a legacy—and even then people are more likely to remember it negatively. Biden's biggest achievements in office—such as legislation in Congress – are crowded out by the overriding view: That he was responsible for inflation, and that he was a mentally unwell commander-in-chief."
He suggested the history books may come up with a legacy, "but in the minds of the public there's no legacy to be seen."
Democratic strategist Brad Bannon told the publication that history will view Biden favorably. "I think he's going to be regarded in the future as a prophet, because I think we'll look back at the inflation Reduction Act and his other environmental activism, and say: 'Boy, I wish we had paid more attention then to what he did.'"
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For decades the AP stylebook, promoted widely to the world's news industry, had been advertised as a standard go-to source for spelling, punctuation, and appropriate references to a wide range of issues.
Then, a few years ago, it turned left, insisting that "they" was grammatically correct for a single person, that "a person's sex and gender are usually assigned at birth by parents or attendants" and that can be "inaccurate."
It warns against writing things that could "cause feelings of gender dysphoria" to resurface.
On the topic of the Second Amendment, it insists on calling semiautomatic rifles "assault weapons," even though that term already was used for "fully automatic weapons used by the military."
It insults those who don't accept the propaganda about global warming line for line as being "doubters."
The New York Post once reported that its "progressive bias is out of control."
The report explained, "While it may have started out as an objective source, as with so much of the media it serves, the Stylebook has long since discarded fairness for a liberal bias that betrays the goal of its authors and tilts the playing field against conservatives."
And now we're learning that dispute is at least a part of President Donald Trump's battle with the legacy wire service.
The AP's refusal to go along with Trump's by-the-book name change of the Gulf of America, from the former Gulf of Mexico, prompted the White House to limit AP access to some Oval Office and Air Force One events.
The wire service immediately complained of First Amendment violations but while the First Amendment protects what it writes, and still does, there's nothing in the First Amendment specifically giving the AP access to those presidential locations.
Taylor Budowich, deputy White House chief of staff, said, "This isn't just about the Gulf of America. This is about AP weaponizing language through their stylebook to push a partisan worldview in contrast with the traditional and deeply held beliefs of many Americans and many people around the world."
According to a report at RedState, the White House moves have "a lot to do with how they've (AP) conveniently adjusted their stylebook over the years to accommodate leftist dogma."
"By spotlighting AP, Trump is amplifying Republican and conservative criticisms that the AP Stylebook, a first reference for most U.S. news organizations, shapes political dialogue by favoring liberal words and phrases concerning gender, immigration, race, and law enforcement."
The report noted AP may resort to courts to force "a change back to the status quo at least as far as press access goes."
But the report explained, "In the meantime, Trump and his team are shining a mega-spotlight on a big problem with the media outlet over the fact that they really aren't neutral observers and recounters of current (and past) events and haven't been for quite some time."
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It has been more than three months since Kamala Harris was crushed by President Donald Trump in the presidential election, but the time off the campaign trail has not harmed the flavor of the former vice president's infamous word salads.
Video emerged Sunday afternoon of the Democrat addressing the cast and crew of the Louis Armstrong Broadway musical "A Wonderful World," where Harris reminded everyone how "nature abhors a vacuum."
"When we think about these moments where we see things that are being taken but also let's see it as you know, nature abhors a vacuum."
"So where there's a vacancy, then let's fill it. Right?"
"And let's know that reality is that the promise of our nation has always been all about the expansion of rights, not the restriction of rights. We're seeing a U-turn right now.
"For those rights to be maintained, which means we have to be vigilant and it's just the nature of it.
"But we have to we have to be clear-eyed. And it doesn't mean we don't see the beauty in everything. Right? These things all coexist."
"But I believe we fight for something, not against something, and that's our optimism. Right?"
Collin Rugg, co-owner of Trending Poltics who posted the video, quipped: "I'm pretty inspired, but I'm still trying to figure out what she's saying."
Juanita Broaddrick, who accused former President Bill Clinton of sexually assaulting her, said: "It's inconceivable that she could walk and chew gum at the same time. There are no words to elaborate about this imbecile."
Others remarked:
"I read the transcript and my husband knew right away who it was. She has such a way with words!"
"Kamala talking about voids is ironic considering her speech left a void in everyone's understanding."
"I've earned a PhD and have taught at university since the 1990s, and I think I speak for a lot of people when I say…What in the name of Holy God is @KamalaHarris trying to say?"
"She acts like she is saying something extremely relevant and profound and then waiting for the rally of agreement and awareness. She is really mixing a screwed up word salad leaving people thinking WTH is she talking about."
"I call it saying everything and nothing at the same time."
"It is a pure word salad that resonates with no one. Democrats keep pushing these DEI disasters, and they're toast – they won't win anything for a generation."
"She just keeps flying off that wagon. I think the wagon has a faulty ejection seat."
"America almost had this woman as our president. Holy cr*p."
"Nothing can fill that vacuum."
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There is, in fact, a "constitutional crisis" in America.
That's according to the White House.
There, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt explained, however, that it's not what the Democrats have been identifying in their use of their newest talking point with which they are slamming President Donald Trump.
It's leftist and activist judges, who no longer are "honest arbiters of the law."
She explained, "The real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch where district court judges in liberal districts across the country are abusing their power to unilaterally block President Trump's basic executive authority.
"We believe these judges are acting as judicial activists rather than honest arbiters of the law, and they have issued at least 12 injunctions against this administration in the past 14 days, often without citing any evidence or grounds for their lawsuits. This is part of a larger concerted effort by Democrat activists and nothing more than a continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump."
She continued, "Quick news flash to these liberal judges who are supporting their obstructionist efforts: 77 million Americans voted to elect this president and each injunction is an abuse of the rule of law and an attempt to thwart the will of the people. As the president clearly stated in the Oval Office yesterday, we will comply with the law and the courts but we will also continue to seek every legal remedy to ultimately overturn these radical injunctions and ensure President Trump's policies can be enacted."
While Democrats with a nearly unanimous voice have claimed President Trump has created the crisis by taking action to clean up the government, restore its position among nations around the world, eliminate fraud and waste, and support Americans, he has actually taken actions that literally are within the rights of the nation's chief executive.
Not even all Democrats now are submitting to the partyspeak, either.
It is Sen. John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, who said in an interview "it's just a lot of noise"
That "noise" has included a stunning five dozen lawsuits already filed against the Trump administration. Constitutional experts say that most of them may be given brief life by activist judges, but they ultimately are expected to die at the appellate level.
WND reported this week that the wild claims are being triggered by the Department of Government Efficiency, led by billionaire Elon Musk, which already has moved to cut thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in spending.
That has triggered Democrats, whose favorite constituencies sometimes are losing their funding. They now are calling it a "constitutional crisis."
Trump mocked the claims, assuring listeners that he has no plans to ignore court orders regarding his executive decisions: That he'll make the decisions, then appeal adverse decisions by local judges and get those overturned on appeal.
After all, he said it is his practice to follow court orders. Unlike Joe Biden, who openly boasted of defying a Supreme Court ruling he could not transfer student loan debt from the borrowers to innocent taxpayers, and then doing so.
The Washington Examiner reported Trump said, on the topic of the court orders delaying his agenda, "I always abide by the courts, and then I'll have to appeal it."
The problem he cited, however, is that the lower court judges are slowing down the process and that "gives crooked people more time to cover up the books. You know if a person's crooked and they get caught other people see that, and all of a sudden, it becomes harder later on."
He cited Paul Engelmayer, a judge who has temporarily foiled DOGE's access to Treasury Department information.
Fox News reported that contributor, and constitutional expert, Jonathan Turley "was left bewildered after a federal judge extended a temporary restraining order Monday blocking the Trump administration's buyout offer to federal employees." He explained that as being "perfectly within the wheelhouse of the president."