FOX News host Sean Hannity recently had three men on his podcast who all share one creepy thing in common. They all claim that they have been to Hell and came back.
Their stories share some similarities but are quite different, as are their backgrounds.
Unsurprisingly, they are all men of great faith in God today. A trip to Hell would probably do that for just about anyone.
Three men who say they visited hell are sharing chilling accounts of what they believe they encountered, sitting down with Fox News host Sean Hannity to describe their terrifying experiences with the afterlife.
“I had no idea how I got there, why. Nothing was explained until the way back,” said Bill Wiese, author of “23 Minutes in Hell,” on Tuesday’s episode of the “Hang Out with Sean Hannity” podcast.
“But I was in this actual dungeon, and there were demons in this cell, reptilish in appearance, bumps and scales all over the one’s body, huge jaw, sunken in eyes, claws about a foot long. And these particular two are about 12 or 13 feet tall,” he recalled.
Wiese joined pilot Jim Woodford, author of “Heaven, an Unexpected Journey,” and former Buddhist monk Steve Kang, now a pastor and author of “Eight Hours in Hell,” for an exclusive conversation with Hannity about their accounts of the afterlife.
Wiese said he experienced a vision.
“I got up at three o’clock in the morning to get a glass of water and, suddenly, I was pulled out of my body… and I found myself falling through the air down this long tunnel, and I was getting hotter and hotter, and I landed on an actual stone floor in a prison cell in hell… a dungeon…” he said.
“I never asked for this. I’ve never gone to dark movies. I have never drank. I’ve never taken drugs, and I had never had a vision before.”
Here are some clips:
“They were about 12 or 13 feet tall.”
Bill Wiese on the demons he says he encountered in Hell.
Full episode out tomorrow with Steve Kang, Bill Wiese, and Jim Woodford, three people who share their extraordinary experiences with Hell. pic.twitter.com/lk9QMfyXMO
Jim Woodford describes what he says he encountered during his experience with Hell.
Full episode out tomorrow with Steve Kang, Bill Wiese, and Jim Woodford, three people who share their extraordinary experiences with Hell. pic.twitter.com/PROtYssCUR
Trump’s former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared on FOX News last night, urging conservative voters to get out and vote for the midterms, while continuing to sound the alarm on the radicals of the left who are trying to take power.
Leavitt reminded viewers that the left wants to raise taxes, seize private property, and abolish not only police, but prisons!
Everything she says here is accurate and a grim reminder of what will happen if Trump supporters don’t vote in November.
Former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stepped down from her job to spend more time with her family and her new baby.
But that hasn’t stopped her from speaking out on behalf of the administration, ripping into the Democrats and the doomers. She nailed Democrat Senate candidate for Texas, James Talarico, for claiming to speak on “biblical grounds” as a justification for his positions, while having said he was a Christian who “hates Christianity.” Leavitt also took out the tactic that Democrats use: pretending to be moderate to get elected.
She talked about them doing “360s” because then if they get in, they come all the way back around to the leftists they were, and that’s how they govern. She pointed out how even Joe Biden governed as a leftist once he got in, and now we have people who are even further left than he was — and we’ve seen how bad he was, including opening the borders and wrecking the economy.
Leavitt warned Americans and said Republicans needed to call out the Democrats for what they are.
“[They are] extreme, far-left liberals who want to destroy our economy, want to take away your private property, raise your taxes, take your hard-earned money, abolish prisons, abolish police, open our borders to insane people from all over this world, and end America as we know her and love her!”
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced a barrage of high-profile arrests on Monday that included convicted murderers, drug dealers, and child abusers.
“Thanks to the leadership of President Trump, there have been ZERO releases at the border for 16 months,” a Homeland Security news release read.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement that “while Americans enjoyed their weekend, the brave men and women of ICE arrested murderers, child sexual predators, and child abusers who should not have been in our country in the first place.”
Mullin added, “Under President Trump, ICE has been unleashed to target and remove illegal aliens from our communities so that we can Make America Safe Again. Arresting and deporting illegal aliens saves lives.”
The list included criminals from Mexico, Cuba, Laos, Nigeria, Micronesia, the Dominican Republic, and El Salvador.
These individuals committed crimes across the country in California, Indiana, Louisiana, Florida, New York, Iowa, Texas, Kansas, Maryland, Virginia, and Massachusetts.
The list of offenses ranged from murder, sexual abuse of a minor, and assault to drug possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl.
Additionally, there were some who’d been convicted of “child abuse with great bodily injury or death,” as well as “lewd and lascivious acts” with a child under the age of 14.
The release came just days after ICE posted about another large group of illegal alien criminals who had been successfully apprehended.
“Despite a 1,600% increase in assaults against them, the brave men and women of ICE will never stop enforcing the law,” the post read.
Despite a 1,600% increase in assaults against them, the brave men and women of ICE will never stop enforcing the law.
Yesterday, @ICEgov arrested more murderers, sexual predators, robbers, and other dangerous illegal aliens.
That same day, the agency announced it had arrested an illegal alien who’d assaulted a law enforcement officer, blaming sanctuary city leadership for encouraging violence against the federal government.
ILLEGAL ALIEN WHO WOUNDED OFFICER ARRESTED.
Jesus Israel Garcia-Cobarruvias, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, has been ARRESTED by @HSI_HQ and @ICEgov after allegedly using his vehicle to assault a law enforcement officer in California.
“This comes as sanctuary politicians’ violent rhetoric against the men and women of ICE have resulted in a 1,600% INCREASE in assaults against our officers,” it concluded.
“Garcia-Cobarruvias has already been removed from our country THREE times and has a lengthy criminal history that includes burglary and domestic violence. DHS will NOT tolerate violent criminals in our nation.”
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on his federal criminal investigation into President Trump.
Merrick Garland, US Attorney General under Biden, appointed Jack Smith to investigate Trump in November 2022, just one day after Trump announced a 2024 White House bid.
In June 2023, Smith indicted Trump on 37 federal counts in Miami for lawfully storing presidential records at his Mar-a-Lago estate, which was protected by Secret Service agents.
In a separate case in Washington DC, Jack Smith indicted Trump on four counts: Conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
On Tuesday, Jack Smith defended his inquisition and said he stands by his decision to charge President Trump.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz blasted Jack Smith and accused him of “egregious abuse of power.”
“Congratulations! Because you have succeeded where Richard Nixon failed, which is weaponizing the DOJ to go after your political opponents! You are stepping into the shoes of John Mitchell…your abuses are far greater,” Ted Cruz said.
“For the rest of your life, you’ll be hailed as a hero in the resistance movement. I presume you have a pink hat somewhere at home,” Cruz said.
He continued, “But you have brought the DOJ into disrepute. Instead of being apolitical and enforcing the law, you willingly conscripted as a foot soldier as the DNC.”
“And you reelected Donald Trump, because the people were disgusted at you,” Ted Cruz said.
“I believe his conduct represents the most egregious abuse of power in the history of the Department of Justice,” Ted Cruz later said.
The 2028 election is right around the corner. Is New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez going to run for president? For Senate? For the House of Representatives?
These questions — and many more — shroud the 2028 Democratic primaries in much mystery. Much to the detriment of the public, and the delight of speculative journalists, Ocasio-Cortez has not yet made her own plans clear.
In 2025, an AOC presidential candidacy seemed likely to many. Her participation in Bernie Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” tour suggested that she may have been considering national office.
Recently, however, she appears to be much more interested in the issues of her home state, New York.
Last Thursday, she began a statewide tour of key cities. In Buffalo, she helped launch an effort dubbed “Project Reactivation,” which targets 100,000 inactive registered Democrats across New York.
“Oftentimes inactive voters are blamed as though it’s their fault for not participating,” AOC said, according to Buffalo-Toronto Public Media. “We need to give people a reason to participate. We need to give people a reason and something to vote for.”
From Buffalo, she traveled to Ithaca Sunday for a “Students vs. Billionaires” event for Cornell University and Ithaca College students. While there is a very strong progressive base in the area, AOC encouraged her audience to get involved in local and congressional elections to ensure a blue victory.
After Ithaca, she visited Syracuse and brought another version of “Project Reactivation” to central New York.
While visiting these various cities, AOC made sure to meet with local politicians. In Buffalo particularly, she held a 30-minute closed-door meeting with Mayor Sean Ryan, and then a televised impromptu news conference.
Focus on cities outside of her congressional district doesn’t necessarily prove Senate aspirations, yet AOC’s recent interview with the New York Times revealed a few matters of extreme importance:
“Every element of this is something that’s within consideration,” AOC said when asked about running for president or senator.
Times reporter Shane Goldmacher wrote that “Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who won her seat by toppling a powerful Democratic House leader in a 2018 primary, did not rule out the possibility of challenging [Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck] Schumer — even if he helps Democrats win a Senate majority in the midterms.”
In the interview, AOC made it very clear that her choice would not change if her primary challenger is a potential Senate majority leader or a former vice president.
“I don’t think that my decisions would come down to deference,” she said.
While she has not officially denied the idea, here are a few compelling reasons to believe that AOC will not pursue lodging at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
First, only one House member has ascended directly to the presidency. That was James A. Garfield in 1880. Even if AOC was very popular, it would be quite uncommon — unprecedented in modern history — for someone of her limited experience to be granted the highest office in the nation.
The second reason comes from the use of the phrase, “if AOC was popular.” While she is popular in specific progressive circles, the country overall would have to shift radically to the left for her to ever be elected.
A recent New York Times/Siena University poll revealed that her favorability rating among Republicans was less than 1 percent. This renders crossing party lines for coalition construction practically impossible.
Furthermore, only 30 percent of all likely voters nationally viewed her favorably, with 41 percent holding unfavorable opinions. It’s difficult to win a race with those kinds of numbers.
This would explain why AOC hasn’t made any public visits to the early presidential primary states. She likely knows that “President Ocasio-Cortez” is a long shot. “Senator,” however, is very plausible.
AOC is armed with a statewide tour and a massive grassroots fundraising base, and Chuck Schumer’s Senate seat appears to be set squarely in her sights.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce plans to reduce by 20% the number of positions reserved for generals and admirals during his State of the Force address on Wednesday.
Hegseth approved reduction plans for the Army, Navy, Air Force and the military’s joint pool earlier this month, according to memos seen by Fox News Digital. The services were directed to implement the plans and complete the reductions by Jan. 1, 2027.
Wednesday’s address in Quantico, Va. is expected to lay out Hegseth’s priorities for the military in the year ahead, with the reduction in senior leadership positions among the changes he will unveil.
The new target doubles the 10% overall reduction in general and flag officer positions Hegseth ordered last year as part of his effort to streamline the military’s senior ranks. That earlier directive separately called for a 20% reduction in active-duty four-star positions and a 20% reduction in National Guard general officers.
Hegseth fired several senior generals this year.
In April, Hegseth fired two more Army Generals after he ousted Army Chief of Staff General Randy George.
General George served in the role under Biden’s Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
“General Randy A. George will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said.
The Syrian Democratic Forces’ Anti-Terrorism Units (YAT) and International Coalition forces conducted joint raids targeting senior ISIS terrorists. The United States now expects the Syrian army, whose ranks include former ISIS and al-Qaeda members, to take over counterterrorism operations. Photo courtesy of the SDF.
The September 30 withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq will end the use of that country as a military platform for counterterrorism operations in Syria. The departure follows the U.S. exit from Syrian bases, including Qasrak air base in Hasakah province on April 16.
Intelligence and assets in Jordan and the Gulf will support future counter-ISIS cooperation, according to the Atlantic Council. Preventing the group’s resurgence will depend more heavily on Damascus. Syria joined the coalition against ISIS in November 2025, when al-Sharaa visited Washington. Its Interior Ministry also cooperates with American personnel in Damascus to track the group’s remnants.
The problem with this arrangement is that Syria’s leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has ties to ISIS and al-Qaeda and fought Kurdish forces before coming to power.
Al-Sharaa, known during his militant career as Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, began in al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the group that later became ISIS. According to the State Department, AQI leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi sent al-Jawlani to Syria in late 2011 to organize terrorist cells that became the al-Nusrah Front. In April 2013, Baghdadi announced that AQI and al-Nusrah would merge as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Al-Jawlani rejected the merger, broke with ISIS, and pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
In May 2013, the State Department designated al-Jawlani a Specially Designated Global Terrorist and later offered up to $10 million for information on his location. His group, later renamed Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led the offensive that toppled Assad in December 2024. Washington revoked HTS’s terrorist designation effective July 8, 2025, citing the group’s dissolution and the Syrian government’s commitment to combat terrorism.
Analysts have warned that Damascus cannot be trusted to protect the Kurds because its army is composed of former Islamic extremists. Syria’s new army is built around HTS, the successor to al-Nusrah, which the State Department described as al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria.
Damascus also incorporated foreign jihadists. At least six foreign nationals were among the Defense Ministry’s 49 military appointments in December 2024, including Albanian Abdul Jashari, a U.S.-designated terrorist. Three were appointed brigadier generals: Turkish citizen Omar Mohammed Jaftashi, Jordanian citizen Abdul Rahman Hussein al-Khatib, and Abdulaziz Dawood Khudaberdi, commander of the Turkistan Islamic Party’s (TIP) forces in Syria.
In June 2025, Syrian defense officials said about 3,500 foreign fighters, mainly Uyghur TIP members, would join the army’s newly formed 84th Division. A TIP political official told Reuters the group had officially dissolved and integrated into the army. Asked whether Washington approved, U.S. envoy Tom Barrack said there was “an understanding, with transparency.”
The State Department describes the TIP as a violent extremist group active in Syria and Afghanistan. The Long War Journal identifies it as an al-Qaeda-affiliated group that has long operated within the Taliban-al-Qaeda axis. In a 2016 edition of its Arabic-language publication, the TIP stated that establishing an Islamic caliphate was its primary objective.
Beijing designates the TIP as a terrorist group, but the United States does not designate it under that name. In November 2020, the State Department removed the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) from the Terrorist Exclusion List, saying it had seen no credible evidence for more than a decade that the group still existed. Washington still lists ETIM as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist to comply with UN obligations. The State Department says Beijing inaccurately labels the TIP as ETIM.
The UN Security Council lists ETIM under the alias Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party. It identified the group’s leader, Abdul Haq, as a member of al-Qaeda’s Shura Council as of 2005. The U.S. Treasury designated him in 2009.
Washington required no enforceable commitments to protect minorities and set no prohibition on integrating jihadists into the new military. In 2025, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies wrote that al-Sharaa had failed to address the SDF’s core security concerns, including the threat from within the army’s own ranks.
In May 2026, FDD urged Washington to pressure Damascus to remove or demote foreign fighters in its security forces, particularly members of U.S.-designated terrorist organizations serving in the army. Syria scholar Joshua Landis said U.S. Central Command does not trust the Syrian military to take part in actual raids.
A member of Syria’s security forces carried out the December 13, 2025, attack near Palmyra, a Syrian government official confirmed. CENTCOM identified him as a lone ISIS gunman. He killed two U.S. service members and an American civilian interpreter and wounded three other soldiers at the gate of a fortified command facility belonging to the Syrian Internal Security Forces leadership. The attack came one month after Damascus entered the counter-ISIS coalition.
The national army has also fought the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Washington’s former key partner against ISIS. Aleppo’s two Kurdish-majority neighborhoods were the first targets of the government’s January 6 offensive. Fighting displaced up to 148,000 people and ended with the SDF’s withdrawal from Aleppo on January 10.
The Rojava Information Center, a research group based in northeast Syria, reviewed about 180 pieces of visual material showing abuses against SDF personnel and mostly Kurdish civilians. Army personnel and affiliated forces tortured and beat detainees, subjected them to religious and racial insults, and forced them to recite the Shahada.
Damascus has also absorbed the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) into its military. After Assad’s fall, Mohammed al-Jassem’s faction, known as Amshat, became the army’s 62nd Division. Ahmad al-Hayes, known as Abu Hatem Shaqra, led Ahrar al-Sharqiya and took command of the 86th Division.
When the U.S. Treasury sanctioned al-Jassem in 2023, it said he directed brigade members to forcibly displace Kurdish residents, seize their property, and kidnap residents for ransom. In 2021, Treasury sanctioned Ahrar al-Sharqiya for crimes against civilians, particularly Syrian Kurds, including unlawful killings, abductions, torture, and property seizures. It also said the group had incorporated former ISIS members. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the group had been implicated in the unlawful killing of Kurdish politician Hevrin Khalaf in October 2019.
In August 2026, the army removed al-Jassem, Abu Hatem Shaqra, and Hamza Division commander Sayf Bulad from their command posts. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the SDF had made al-Jassem’s removal a condition for its integration into the military.
The SDF’s integration into Syrian army brigades culminated in commander Mazloum Abdi’s August 25 announcement that the group had dissolved. After September 30, Damascus will carry more of the responsibility for preventing an ISIS resurgence in Syria, with an army whose ranks include former HTS fighters, members of the dissolved TIP, former SNA factions sanctioned for abuses against Kurds, and the former SDF fighters those factions once fought.
Călin Georgescu, winner of the first round of Romania’s 2024 presidential election, in handcuffs. Image via X.Screenshot
Romania’s Bucharest Court of Appeal has ordered Călin Georgescu into preventive detention for 30 days, overturning a lower court ruling that allowed the former presidential frontrunner to remain free under judicial supervision.
Călin Georgescu is the first political prisoner since the 1989 Revolution.
Let this be clear to everyone: today, the system is PSD–PNL–USR. All appointments to leadership positions within the prosecutors’ offices and the police are politically driven.
The decision sends the figure at the center of Romania’s conservative, anti-globalist camp—and the most trusted politician in the country, according to some polls—back behind bars.
The move has further intensified accusations from his conservative Romanians that the country’s post-2024 establishment is using prosecutors and courts to contain a movement it has struggled, and even failed, to contain at the ballot box.
DIICOT prosecutors secured the reversal after challenging the Bucharest Tribunal’s refusal to imprison Georgescu while the €1.1 million fraud investigation proceeds. Businessman Ionel Rusen was also ordered into preventive detention, with the Court of Appeal’s ruling final.
Even the appellate panel was reportedly divided over whether detention was justified. Two judges disagreed, requiring a third to resolve the split in favor of incarceration—a detail Georgescu’s defenders have seized upon as evidence that the prosecution’s demand was hardly self-evident.
Georgescu’s lawyer, Mircea Sinescu, reacted with fury. “It is a hallucinatory solution!” he said, adding that “paper supports anything,” according to the Romanian account of the ruling. Pasted markdown
The contrast with last week could scarcely be sharper. Bucharest Tribunal Judge Vlad Andriescu had rejected preventive detention and instead placed Georgescu and Rusen under judicial control for 60 days while prosecutors continued their investigation.
More damaging politically for DIICOT, the lower-court reasoning reportedly questioned whether prosecutors had concretely established the precise role each defendant allegedly played in the supposed fraud. The judge called for investigators to clarify how the alleged deception was actually carried out rather than relying on a broadly asserted criminal association.
That earlier ruling did not amount to exoneration. The judge restricted Georgescu and Rusen from leaving Romania after considering intercepted conversations concerning a possible move to Tuscany, but concluded that imprisonment was not then necessary.
When Georgescu emerged from court after that decision, supporters greeted him with chants of “Freedom!”, “Călin, we love you!” and demands for the cancelled presidential runoff to be restored. Georgescu told the crowd that he was innocent and described the cases against him as “politically motivated.”
He also attacked what he called Romania’s “neo-Marxist and neo-Phanariot system,” casting his confrontation with prosecutors as something larger than one criminal file. That language reflects a conservative, sovereigntist movement that increasingly views Romania’s political, judicial and security establishment as a single entrenched structure defending the country’s existing order, which is said to take its orders from Brussels and Paris.
DIICOT, an institution that has a storied history of deep corruption, rejects that political interpretation and says it is pursuing an ordinary organized-crime and fraud case. Prosecutors allege Georgescu and two other men deceived businessman Răzvan Leu into providing roughly €1.1 million after promising access to a €15 million foreign credit facility that allegedly never materialized.
Those allegations remain unproven, and preventive detention is not a criminal conviction. Georgescu denies wrongdoing, meaning prosecutors will ultimately have to demonstrate both that the alleged scheme existed as described and that he knowingly played the role attributed to him.
The age of the underlying allegations has nevertheless become another rallying point for his supporters. The purported financial activity dates back to 2021, while the complaint moved into the DIICOT investigation in 2024, prompting Georgescu’s camp to ask why an old financial dispute has produced such an aggressive response only after he became Romania’s most prominent anti-establishment figure.
That perception hardened after the September 21 operation at his home. Georgescu was stopped in traffic, taken to his Mogoșoaia residence during searches lasting nearly nine hours, brought to DIICOT headquarters and later led outside in handcuffs before assembled cameras and supporters.
According to the reporting supplied, one of Georgescu’s sons was with him when officers stopped him, while his wife and younger child were at home when masked units arrived.
Five addresses were searched across Bucharest and nearby localities, turning the investigation into the kind of heavily visual police operation that was always likely to acquire political meaning.
For AUR and Georgescu’s supporters, however, the image that endured was simpler: the winner of the first round of Romania’s 2024 presidential election being paraded in handcuffs less than two years after the state cancelled the election he had unexpectedly led. That sequence has become the emotional center of a much broader revolt against what conservatives routinely describe as Romania’s globalist regime.
The Constitutional Court annulled that election after intelligence services alleged, without providing any evidence, Russian-linked online interference, campaign irregularities and manipulation favoring Georgescu. To this day they have failed to provide evidence supporting their extraordinary claim, which effectively ended Romanian democracy. US Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk, and US State Department have all slammed the decision to annul the presidential election and effectively suspend democracy.
Following Georgescu’s earlier detention, the AUR leader George Simion warned, “Any of us could be next. Stop the abuses! Romania is a dictatorship!” — a political accusation that captures AUR’s interpretation of the crackdown, rather than an independent legal description of the Romanian state.
The scale of AUR’s support gives that rhetoric considerably more weight than it would have carried several years ago. INSCOP’s September survey placed AUR at 39.7% among respondents expressing a party preference and 40.2% among those expressing a preference who also said they were certain to vote.
PSD stood at 18.7%, PNL at 16.3% and USR at 9% among respondents expressing a party choice, leaving AUR with roughly twice the support of its nearest rival in that survey. The poll interviewed 1,100 adults between September 1 and 7 and reported a maximum sampling error of ±3 percentage points.
Those figures do not prove AUR’s allegations about the courts or prosecutors, but they expose the danger for Romania’s establishment of treating the sovereigntist challenge as a marginal phenomenon. When a movement polling around 40% watches one of its defining political figures repeatedly investigated, searched, handcuffed and detained, every prosecutorial decision inevitably becomes part of the country’s larger struggle over state legitimacy.
The Romanian state now faces a credibility test considerably larger than Georgescu’s next 30 days in detention. Prosecutors must show that the fraud case rests on evidence strong enough to withstand scrutiny, while institutions already damaged by the extraordinary 2024 annulment must convince millions of distrustful voters that the state is enforcing law rather than protecting an embattled political order from the sovereigntist movement now dominating the polls.
House Speaker Mike Johnson recently dismissed opposition to data centers, saying that Democrats and China are playing mind games with Americans.
“This is what Democrats do every election cycle,” Johnson said in a video posted to X.
“They find something to glom onto and say that this is doom and gloom and everyone will die if we don’t win. Don’t buy it,” he said.
“It is a Chinese psyop. I really believe that. That’s not a conspiracy theory. I think they’re pushing those ideas,” he said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) SMACKS DOWN the AI DOOMERS and anti-data center ads as Chinese Propaganda. “Don’t buy it. It is a Chinese psyop.”
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Data centers — massive buildings that hold the computing power needed for artificial intelligence — are controversial, with one strand of opinion saying they drive up utility costs and drain resources from local communities.
On the other hand, others say those negatives are overstated and that data centers are essential to keeping the United States in the lead in the artificial intelligence sector.
The concerns, coupled with fears that AI may slip beyond the ability of humans to control it, have spawned calls for regulation. Leading into the midterm elections, polling has shown, in general, that opposition to data centers outweighs support of them.
“We do not need a moratorium. We do not need to jump in and hyper-regulate this because we’ll lose the race to China,” Johnson said, according to Newsweek. “The innovation is important to continue.”
The Global Government Affairs Team on X has said debate is being manipulated by China.
“The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations: We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy,” it said in a recent post on X.
“These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid,” the post added.
“Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public’s expense. We remain committed to maintaining an open and authentic platform where people debate topics of public interest,” the post continued.
“We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our Authenticity policy.”
President Donald Trump supports expansion of AI, including data centers.
“The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor,” Trump posted in August on Truth Social.
“If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign,” he wrote. “The good news is that there are plenty of other places that want them. If we kill the Golden Goose, you will only have yourselves to blame.”
“China could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement. Actually, they can’t believe it is happening!” he posted.
A toddler brought a loaded Glock to a Canton, Michigan, daycare on Monday morning.
Surveillance video showed a daycare worker jump into action and confiscate the weapon from the 3-year-old child.
The toddler reportedly brought the firearm in a backpack. The child took the gun out of the backpack and that’s when a daycare worker swiftly intervened.
The child’s mother, a nurse, has been taken into custody and may face charges this week.
The toddler’s father is a Detroit police officer, and he is not expected to face charges.
Police said the child’s gun was not his father’s service weapon.
A quick-thinking daycare worker stopped a potentially deadly situation after a toddler brought a loaded Glock pistol into a classroom at a Canton early learning center Monday morning.
Police say the gun belonged to the toddler’s mother, a nurse, who has been arrested and could face formal charges as early as Wednesday. The toddler’s father is a Detroit Police Department (DPD) officer, according to new information obtained by 7 News Detroit. DPD is not commenting on the case.
The incident unfolded at the Children’s World Early Learning Center in Canton. Surveillance camera footage captured the moment a daycare worker noticed the child had a firearm and immediately intervened.
“That teacher — once recognized that a firearm was in the classroom — took immediate action,” Police Chief Joseph Bialy said.
The firearm was still in a holster when the toddler brought it into the classroom, with the trigger and trigger guard completely covered. Canton police said that, combined with the worker’s swift response, prevented anyone from being hurt.
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WOW! Former WH Press Sec. Karoline Leavitt just blasted a message to millions of Americans, telling us to VOTE RED AT ALL COSTS
