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October 3, 2023
Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal recognizes ‘right to be forgotten’
The Federal Court of Appeal in Canada made a pivotal decision on Friday, Sept. 29. It recognized the “right to be forgotten” online, potentially allowing individuals to ask search engines to remove personal information.
The case and its implicationsAn individual, identified as “A.T.,” initiated the case. He wanted Google to delete links to news articles about his past criminal convictions. He argued that these outdated articles obstructed his societal reintegration.
In a detailed judgment, the court concurred with A.T.’s perspective. It referenced the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) of Canada, interpreting that the Act indeed supports the “right to be forgotten.”
The court’s decision hinged on the delicate act of balancing the public’s right to access information against an individual’s right to privacy. In this particular case, they deemed A.T.’s privacy and rehabilitation efforts outweighed the broader public interest in accessing the old news articles.
Broader implications for digital privacy in CanadaThis ruling has broader implications for search engines and online platforms operating within Canada. It suggests that Canadians, under specific circumstances, can request the removal of personal data from search results, especially if such data is no longer relevant or could cause harm. However, the court will likely treat each subsequent request on a case-by-case basis, meticulously weighing public interest against individual privacy rights.
While many privacy advocates hail the decision as a step forward in digital rights, critics express reservations. They fear that such a precedent might be misused, leading to the erasure of historical records or potentially stifling free speech.
As Canada continues to navigate the intricate web of online privacy rights and public interest, the challenge will be to ensure that the “right to be forgotten” doesn’t inadvertently become a tool for information suppression.
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REMINDER: FEMA Alert System Will Sound Alarm and Send Emergency Alert on EVERY Cellphone, TV, and Radio on October 4th at 2:20 PM ET | The Gateway Pundit
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has announced a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), as reported by The Gateway Pundit last month.
The test is scheduled for tomorrow, October 4, at approximately 2:20 p.m. ET and will involve sending test messages to all TVs, radios, and cell phones in the United States. The announcement was made through an official press release on FEMA’s website.
The national test will consist of two portions: one for WEA and another for EAS. The WEA portion will be directed to consumer cell phones, marking the third nationwide test of its kind but the second to all WEA-compatible cellular devices. The message will display in either English or Spanish, depending on the language settings of the wireless handset.
The EAS portion will be sent to radios and televisions, making it the seventh nationwide EAS test. Both tests are designed to ensure that these systems continue to be effective means of warning the public about emergencies, particularly those on a national level.
Beginning at approximately 2:20 p.m. ET, cell towers will broadcast the test for about 30 minutes. WEA-compatible wireless phones that are switched on and within range of an active cell tower should be capable of receiving the test message.
According to FEMA, the test will consist of a screeching warning tone that will contain a warning message that will read, “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.”
The alarm will also send out warning messages in Spanish for cellphone users who have changed their phone language setting to Spanish.
In case the test on October 4 is postponed due to widespread severe weather or other significant events, a back-up testing date has been set for October 11.
While the purpose of the test is ostensibly to ensure the systems’ effectiveness, the timing and nature of this announcement have left many Americans feeling uneasy. With the world in a state of flux—geopolitical tensions, climate crises, and public health emergencies—it’s hard not to feel a sense of impending doom.
While FEMA is conducting a nationwide emergency alert system test, Russia is also carrying out emergency drills in preparation for potential nuclear explosions.
“Another bout of nuclear sabre-rattling has emerged from Russia, as the country tests its emergency response to a nuclear attack, and leading commentators urged the Kremlin to carry out an intimidatory nuclear test,” AFR reported.
The news outlet continued, “Russia on Tuesday reportedly began testing its mass-evacuation plans for civilians in the event of a devastating nuclear attack, according to news reports quoting Russian media outlet Baza.”
Moreover, Germany retested its emergency warning system last month. The test included warning messages on cellphones and alarms across the country. However, the sirens in Berlin did not sound.
Germany has been working on its emergency warning systems. In December 2022, Germany successfully used cell broadcast for the first time. The message was intended to reach all mobile devices that are compatible with Cell Broadcast and have reception.
Italy also tested its new IT-Alert public warning system in the Lazio region around Rome on September 27. The test was rescheduled for midday on that day.
“This is a TEST MESSAGE from the Italian public alert system. It will alert you in the event of a major emergency once operational. To get more information go to www.it-alert.it and fill out the questionnaire,” the alert reads.
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Researchers show how easy it is to defeat AI watermarks
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Soheil Feizi considers himself an optimistic person. But the University of Maryland computer science professor is blunt when he sums up the current state of watermarking AI images. “We don’t have any reliable watermarking at this point,” he says. “We broke all of them.”
For one of the two types of AI watermarking he tested for a new study—“low perturbation” watermarks, which are invisible to the naked eye—he’s even more direct: “There’s no hope.”
Feizi and his coauthors looked at how easy it is for bad actors to evade watermarking attempts. (He calls it “washing out” the watermark.) In addition to demonstrating how attackers might remove watermarks, the study shows how it’s possible to add watermarks to human-generated images, triggering false positives. Released online this week, the preprint paper has yet to be peer-reviewed; Feizi has been a leading figure examining how AI detection might work, so it is research worth paying attention to, even in this early stage.
It’s timely research. Watermarking has emerged as one of the more promising strategies to identify AI-generated images and text. Just as physical watermarks are embedded on paper money and stamps to prove authenticity, digital watermarks are meant to trace the origins of images and text online, helping people spot deepfaked videos and bot-authored books. With the US presidential elections on the horizon in 2024, concerns over manipulated media are high—and some people are already getting fooled. Former US President Donald Trump, for instance, shared a fake video of Anderson Cooper on his social platform Truth Social; Cooper’s voice had been AI-cloned.
AdvertisementThis summer, OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, and several other major AI players pledged to develop watermarking technology to combat misinformation. In late August, Google’s DeepMind released a beta version of its new watermarking tool, SynthID. The hope is that these tools will flag AI content as it’s being generated, in the same way that physical watermarking authenticates dollars as they’re being printed.
It’s a solid, straightforward strategy, but it might not be a winning one. This study is not the only work pointing to watermarking’s major shortcomings. “It is well established that watermarking can be vulnerable to attack,” says Hany Farid, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information.
This August, researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Carnegie Mellon coauthored another paper outlining similar findings, after conducting their own experimental attacks. “All invisible watermarks are vulnerable,” it reads. This newest study goes even further. While some researchers have held out hope that visible (“high perturbation”) watermarks might be developed to withstand attacks, Feizi and his colleagues say that even this more promising type can be manipulated.
The flaws in watermarking haven’t dissuaded tech giants from offering it up as a solution, but people working within the AI detection space are wary. “Watermarking at first sounds like a noble and promising solution, but its real-world applications fail from the onset when they can be easily faked, removed, or ignored,” Ben Colman, the CEO of AI-detection startup Reality Defender, says.
“Watermarking is not effective,” adds Bars Juhasz, the cofounder of Undetectable, a startup devoted to helping people evade AI detectors. “Entire industries, such as ours, have sprang up to make sure that it’s not effective.” According to Juhasz, companies like his are already capable of offering quick watermark-removal services.
AdvertisementOthers do think that watermarking has a place in AI detection—as long as we understand its limitations. “It is important to understand that nobody thinks that watermarking alone will be sufficient,” Farid says. “But I believe robust watermarking is part of the solution.” He thinks that improving upon watermarking and then using it in combination with other technologies will make it harder for bad actors to create convincing fakes.
Some of Feizi’s colleagues think watermarking has its place, too. “Whether this is a blow to watermarking depends a lot on the assumptions and hopes placed in watermarking as a solution,” says Yuxin Wen, a PhD student at the University of Maryland who coauthored a recent paper suggesting a new watermarking technique. For Wen and his co-authors, including computer science professor Tom Goldstein, this study is an opportunity to reexamine the expectations placed on watermarking, rather than reason to dismiss its use as one authentication tool among many.
“There will always be sophisticated actors who are able to evade detection,” Goldstein says. “It’s ok to have a system that can only detect some things.” He sees watermarks as a form of harm reduction, and worthwhile for catching lower-level attempts at AI fakery, even if they can’t prevent high-level attacks.
This tempering of expectations may already be happening. In its blog post announcing SynthID, DeepMind is careful to hedge its bets, noting that the tool “isn’t foolproof” and “isn’t perfect.”
Feizi is largely skeptical that watermarking is a good use of resources for companies like Google. “Perhaps we should get used to the fact that we are not going to be able to reliably flag AI-generated images,” he says.
Still, his paper is slightly sunnier in its conclusions. “Based on our results, designing a robust watermark is a challenging but not necessarily impossible task,” it reads.
This story originally appeared on wired.com.
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Museum Worker Stole Paintings From Storage, Replaced Them With Bad Forgeries, Sold Them to Finance Lavish Lifestyle | The Gateway Pundit
Imagine a museum dedicated to science and technology who exhibits no artworks, but actually has a collection of hundreds of ‘often valuable’ paintings in storage.
This museum exists, in Germany, and was targeted by one of its former employees, who stole 4 works of art.
The worker at the Deutsches Museum, in Munich, stole paintings from the collection, and replaced them in storage with badly done forgeries.
He proceeded to sell these originals at auction, according to the court’s judgment, to finance a lavish lifestyle.
The New York Times reported:
“The worker, who is identified in court documents by the initials S.K., in keeping with German privacy law, was convicted of stealing four paintings by early-20th-century German artists from storerooms over nearly two years and avoiding detection by replacing the artworks with copies. He then sold three of the pieces at auction; the fourth failed to find a buyer.
Judge Erlacher of the district court in Munich sentenced the man to a commuted prison term of one year and nine months and ordered him to repay the roughly $63,000 he got from the sale. The thief’s evident remorse and willingness to work with the court were given as a reason for the lenient sentence.”
Hired as a technical employee of the museum, in 2016, he was employed there until 2018.
“‘The accused shamelessly exploited the access to the storage rooms in his employer’s buildings and sold valuable cultural assets in order to secure an exclusive standard of living for himself and to show off with it’, according to the written judgment.”
Franz Stuck’s Das Märchen vom Froschkönig (The Fairy Tale of the Frog King).When a Museum in-house appraiser went to check one of the paintings, they noticed that the canvas was not a precise match with its catalog entry.
“’In the end it was pretty easy to recognize as a forgery’, Pelgjer said.”
The museum searched the art collection and found three other forged pieces. So far, it remains unclear whether the thief made the forgeries himself.
During the trial, the thief told the judge that ‘he was surprised how easy it had been to steal the paintings.
Artnet reported:
“The defendant allegedly used the money to pay debts and fund a luxury lifestyle, the court heard. “Among other things, he bought a new apartment, expensive wristwatches, and bought a Rolls-Royce,” read the verdict, noting that the man now showed remorse. “He stated that he had acted without thinking. He could no longer explain his behavior today.”
After replacing Franz Stuck’s Das Märchen vom Froschkönig (The Fairy Tale of the Frog King) (1891) with a forgery, the man pretended the original was a family heirloom and it was sold at Ketterer Kunst auction house in May 2017 to a Swiss gallery for €70,000 ($74,000). After auction house fees, he received $49,127.40 ($52,000).”
The two other paintings stolen brought in an additional $12,700. He was not able to sell the fourth painting. He made $64,000 in total.
The Deutsches Museum is now in the process of trying to arrange for the return of the pictures.
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Pixel 8 Tensor G3 chip leaked and benchmarked
Fresh leaks have revealed all about the Tensor G3 chip that powers the imminent Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro.
We’re just a day or so out from Google’s big Pixel 8 launch event, but we already know pretty much everything there is to know about its new phones. After countless design and spec reveals – occasionally from Google itself – we now know all about the Tensor G3 chip that will power the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro.
Tech YouTuber M. Brandon Lee has received images of the Device Info HW hardware specifications app seemingly running on a Pixel 8 Pro phone.
These specs – if accurate – reveal a new approach for Google’s new chip, shifting to a 1+4+4 core layout rather than the 2+2+4 layout of the two previous Pixel generations.
The single powerful Cortex-X3 core runs to 2.91 GHz, while there are four Cortex-A715 cores running at 2.37 GHz and four low-performance Cortex-A510 cores at 1.7 GHz. The GPU is a Mali-G715.
Upgrades all round, as you might expect. But just how much of an upgrade.
Separate to this leak, the first Geekbench 6 scores for the Pixel have emerged. They reveal a single-core score of 1760 and a multi-core score of 4442.
Anyone who’s been paying attention to our own Geekbench scores for this year’s flagship phones will know that this is solid, but not class-leading. The Sony Xperia 1 V with its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 scored 1982 single-core and 5202 multi-core in the same test, and we’re not too far off seeing the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
Perhaps more importantly, this represents real progress from the Pixel 7 class. You can expect Google to focus on the AI and machine learning capabilities of the Pixel 8’s Tensor G3 at tomorrow’s event, so ‘quite a bit faster than before’ is arguably all it needed to hit in CPU and GPU terms.
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Elaine Welteroth Won’t Accept Medical Gaslighting
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“We are all susceptible, regardless of what level of education you have, or your socioeconomic status, or your network.”
For Elaine Welteroth—an award-winning journalist, New York Times bestselling author of More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say), television host, and an all-around trailblazer who self-identifies as someone proud to advocate for herself and issues close to her—the firsthand experience of medical gaslighting while she was pregnant was a tough pill to swallow.
Welteroth and her husband, musician Jonathan Singletary, welcomed their son in April 2022. Today, she expresses nothing but gratitude for her home birth experience under midwifery care, but that wasn’t the original birth plan she sought to create. Throughout her pregnancy, Welteroth tried to find an OB/GYN to deliver her baby, but says she felt uncomfortable—consistently. “I felt myself shrinking in the presence of doctors,” Welteroth says. “I felt myself being shamed into silence. I felt myself after every single appointment, rethinking the whole interaction and wondering, What did I do wrong? How could I have done something different to have warranted better care from this person? Is it something I said? Is it how I spoke? Is it a question that I asked that put them off? Did I ask too many questions?”
When a provider leads a patient to question themselves by way of minimizing or ignoring their pain, symptoms, or experiences, it is medical gaslighting in practice. People who identify as women are more poised to experience medical gaslighting than men for a litany of reasons—including medical research historically focusing on men, thus not accounting for the lived experience of women. And for Black women, the statistics are even more pronounced. In a 2022 survey of 1,000 American women from women’s health-care platform Tia, 63 percent of all women and 70 percent of Black women said they’d seen a doctor who didn’t listen to their concerns; 48 percent of all women and 58 percent of Black women reported a doctor having ignored or dismissed their symptoms.
When people are conditioned to dismiss their own reality, to ignore the wisdom their body signals to their mind, the results are far too often a matter of life and death. Such is the case for the intersection of medical gaslighting that Black women experience and the harrowing Black maternal mortality rate in America. In 2021 (the latest year for which data is available), the Black maternal death rate in America was 2.6 times higher than that of white people at 69.9 deaths per 100,000 births.
[image error] “Black women are notonly not believed, butthey’re disproportionatelydying as a result duringand after childbirth.”Elaine Welteroth
Welteroth and I recently spoke in connection to her collaboration with the Advil Pain Equity Project, which aims to spread awareness about racial bias in diagnosing pain—another form of medical gaslighting. During our conversation, she shared that her own experience with medical gaslighting during her pregnancy fueled her to advocate for Black maternal health. “Black women are not only not believed, but they’re disproportionately dying as a result during and after childbirth,” Welteroth says. “[My experience has] given me a way to channel the frustration and the pain I carry not just for myself, but for every Black woman who has died in childbirth. [I want to] really put it to work for the good of our whole community.”
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The awareness you’re raising with the Advil Pain Equity Project is so important, and it also aligns with the intent of Well+Good’s Minds issue—to capture the many ways in which one’s mind and mental health plays into their experience in the world. Inequity in pain treatment often directly correlates with medical gaslighting, which can negatively impact mental well-being. Can you tell me about your personal experience?
Elaine Welteroth: I’m so glad you’re asking this question, because medical gaslighting is so real and so insidious, but also very nuanced. Sometimes it will be so egregious and in your face that there is no denying it—but in other instances, it’s going to be way more subtle. It might happen over time in small ways, which might lead you to not even recognize it’s happened until you’re down the line and looking back. But medical gaslighting can happen to any of us.
It was hard for me to accept that medical gaslighting was happening to me, because I’m both well-educated and an advocate for issues that matter to me. I felt I should be equipped to navigate it. And yet, there was a moment during one of the last doctor’s appointments during my pregnancy that sticks out [as an example of overt medical gaslighting].
“It was hard for me to accept that medical gaslighting was happening to me, because I’m both well-educated and an advocate for issues that matter to me. I felt I should be equipped to navigate it.”
Elaine Welteroth
I felt it was going well. Then, at some point in our conversation, the doctor stood up, closed her laptop, and started exiting the room. As she was leaving, she said to me, “You have exceeded your two- to three-question max.” It was so incredibly rude, and I felt so shut down. And then I asked a question about needles, because I have a phobia of them following a previous instance of medical negligence. The last thing I would want when I’m in labor—when I need to be relaxed—is to have needles being put in me without knowing if it’s medically necessary. So, because of my phobia, my question was about her policy on IVs.
[image error][The doctor] literally laughed at me. She scoffed at the question and said, “Of course you’re going to have to have an IV when you come in, because everybody needs something when they’re going through childbirth…You can’t just walk into a hospital, pop a squat and have a baby.” She was still laughing as she walked out of the room.
At that point, I told myself I would not put myself in this position again—to be made to feel like a fool, to be talked to disrespectfully, to be dismissed. I deserved better than this. I was so grateful at that turning point to have the awareness of midwives and the Black-owned midwifery birthing center in Los Angeles, Kindred Space LA, where I ultimately gave birth; it saved me in my most vulnerable state and gave me this better option.
My personal experience with medical gaslighting expanded my perspective on just how broken our medical care system is. It deepened my well of empathy for the many people who’ve experienced what I have and worse. People have died at the hands of negligent physicians and doctors who are ill-equipped to give us the care that we deserve.
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What advice, if any, do you have for Black pregnant women who are seeking medical care to help them protect themselves from the dangers of medical gaslighting—in both its overt and subtle forms?
EW: Believe your body. It sounds a little simple, but it’s a hard thing to do. Self care is often talked about in a very commercial way, but true self care is honoring yourself—honoring the wisdom of your body. It’s our birthright to unlock that wisdom and to honor it.
“We live in a world and we navigate systems that don’t believe us, so we need to double down on believing in ourselves.”
Elaine Welteroth
We live in a world and we navigate systems that don’t believe us, so we need to double down on believing in ourselves. It’s so much easier said than done, but I really hope that this message becomes more normalized. We need to make sure that people are not shamed into silence around their experiences and that we’re amplifying stories about medical gaslighting.
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When you spoke with Well+Good in May, a piece of your sage advice that stuck with me was: If something in life isn’t a “hell yes,” it’s a “hell no.” Does this guiding framework apply to that need to believe and honor your body? Can it function as a mental health tool as well?
EW: The hell-yes or hell-no philosophy filters into everyday decision-making in terms of my social life, my life as a mom, and decisions I make for work projects. On a personal health level, it’s been a major guide for how I navigated the health-care system [while I was pregnant] because I was feeling major red flags in my body that we are conditioned to dismiss.
I had to practice what I’ve been preaching around “hell yes” or “hell no” in the most consequential way when I was pregnant and when I was going through childbirth. In all other applications of the phrase, it’s not life or death. For instance, whether I go to the party or not may have some impact on my mental health, but it’s not going to be life or death the way it may when I’m choosing a doctor to deliver my baby.
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There’s one more guiding principle of yours I’d like to discuss. In your 2019 book, “More Than Enough,” you wrote about a message you once received from a Reiki healer: “When the music changes, so must your dance.” Following your journey navigating the health-care system to bring your son into the world, you entered a whole new period of life. Amid this life transition, do you feel like the music in your life has changed? And if so, has your dance?
EW: I wish every mom were asked that question and had the space to answer it. I honestly feel so good at this stage of my life—and I hesitate to say that because I know how extraordinarily challenging this time is for new moms.
[image error]The truth, though, is that I’d never experienced balance before. I have it now because my baby forced some real shifts in my approach to achieve it. I now have something more important than work, which I’d never had before. Becoming a mom has allowed me—or even forced me—to create boundaries for the first time in my life around work. And it feels really good to have this permanent reminder that there’s more to life than work.
This human being is a portable charger for my soul. I can just plug back into him and somehow everything’s okay—even in this world that is regressing and crumbling and coming apart at the seams. He makes everything better; he makes everything worth fighting for.
Before [having my son], I felt depleted from some of the fights that I had taken on in my life and in my career. And now I have this bigger reason and someone who truly refills me at the beginning and end of every single day.
The trajectory that I was on during my pregnancy was really scary, especially in terms of my mental health. This was a direct result of not being believed by doctors and not being made to feel safe in the medical care system. But when I thankfully found myself on a different trajectory, under the care of Black midwives, it set me on a completely different course.
[These women] will forever impact my experience of motherhood, and particularly my experience of new motherhood. It’s a romantic way to talk about motherhood, but it’s the truth for me. And I’m so grateful that this is my story.
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Sunny Hostin of ‘The View’ Bends Over Backwards to Defend Jamaal Bowman in Fire Alarm Controversy (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit
The ladies of ‘The View’ tied themselves in knots to defend Rep. Jamaal Bowman in his fire alarm controversy on Monday.
This was as predictable as the rising sun. Bowman is a far left Democrat, therefore he can do no wrong in the eyes of the hosts on this show.
Had Matt Gaetz done this, we all know that the ladies of ‘The View’ would be demanding jail.
FOX News reports:
‘The View’ hosts brazenly defend Jamaal Bowman after fire alarm incident: ‘He panicked’
“The View” was divided on Monday over whether Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., had purposefully pulled the fire alarm inside a congressional building on his way to delay a House vote Saturday on a bill to avoid a government shutdown.
Surveillance video shows Bowman appearing to pull the alarm in front of two closed doors. The Democrat stunned conservatives after he claimed that he was rushing to cast his vote and pulled the alarm by mistake in an attempt to exit the building.
Co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg adamantly defended the congressman on Monday’s show. Hostin said she personally knew Bowman and believed he “panicked” when he couldn’t open the door, which were marked as emergency exits. She compared the situation to being trapped in an elevator.
“I don’t want to call it a stunt,” Hostin insisted.
“I know Jamaal, and so again, I’m a little biased, but the doors that are normally open so that he could get to the chambers to read, were somehow miraculously closed. How did that happen?” she questioned.
Here’s the video:
Racist Sunny Hostin doesn’t want to call what Bowman did “a stunt yet” because there still needs to be an investigation.
She suggests the doors were closed as some sort of plot to keep him from reading: “The doors…to the chambers to read were somehow miraculously closed.” pic.twitter.com/hBP29aKXLe
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 2, 2023
Whoopi defended him too:
Whoopi argues that Bowman just pressed a random button because you need to break glass to activate ALL fire alarms.
And despite them showing a picture of the alarm he pulled, Whoopi claims “It just looks like a button. I can’t see the button.” pic.twitter.com/2MiI8gppZY
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 2, 2023
What a clown show.
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October 2, 2023
REPORT: Democrats Fear the Term ‘Bidenomics’ is Backfiring | The Gateway Pundit
Democrats are worried that Biden’s embrace of the term ‘Bidenomics’ may have been a mistake.
The problem is that no matter how many times Biden or his surrogates claim that the economy is doing great, the American people just aren’t feeling it in their own lives.
If the economy is seen as a negative, Democrats are concerned that it will be directly associated with Biden, which of course it will.
Axios reports:
Some Democrats fear Bidenomics branding is backfiring
The Biden re-election campaign’s decision to brand the economy under the president’s name (Bidenomics) is looking like an early blunder that misread the public’s deep pessimism about how things are going on that front.
Why it matters: Despite some encouraging economic trends — unemployment is low, inflation seems to be tamed — polling shows that Americans’ overall perception of the economy is sour.
Driving the news: Some prominent Democrats are now openly criticizing the Biden campaign’s strategy, arguing that it appears to be in denial of Americans’ economic reality.
– “We have to do a better job framing this not so much for one person — for the office of the presidency — but for the people,” Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) told Politico.
– “I’ve never understood why you would brand an economy in your name when the economy hasn’t fully recovered yet,” Michael LaRosa, a former spokesman for Jill Biden, told the publication.
Here’s more from Politico:
Dems pressure White House to change economic message
President Joe Biden placed a big bet that he could sell an improving economy under the banner of “Bidenomics.”
Three months later, some allied Democrats fear he’s made a serious misstep.
Several top Biden allies have privately raised concerns about the phrase to the White House, according to two people familiar with the backchanneling.
This is Bidenomics:
This is Bidenomics pic.twitter.com/Uhw3JfnfxB
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 28, 2023
Democrats are right to be worried about this. You can’t lie to people about how much money they have.
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Rep. Matt Gaetz Slams Kevin McCarthy After Filing Motion to Vacate Chair: ‘I Don’t Own Kevin McCarthy Anymore, Democrats Can Have Him’ (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) spoke to the media Monday night, delivering a scathing critique against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Gaetz’s comments come in the wake of his motion to vacate the chair, a parliamentary maneuver aimed at ousting McCarthy from his leadership position.
Congressman Matt Gaetz on Monday officially filed the Motion to Vacate the Chair against Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
“Declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant. Resolved that the Speaker of the House of Representatives is hereby declared to be vacant,” Gaetz said.
There will be a vote on Gaetz’s motion within two legislative days after the resolution is properly noticed.
WATCH:
Today I’m filing a motion to vacate against @SpeakerMcCarthy. pic.twitter.com/voGdX1Ky67
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) October 2, 2023
McCarthy responded: “Bring it on.”
Bring it on.
— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) October 2, 2023
Gaetz fired back: “Just did.”
Just did. https://t.co/zdQk3GblbV
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) October 2, 2023
In his media address after he filed the motion to vacate, Gaetz did not mince words.
“If there’s a deal made with Democrats, the only deal is to make one with McCarthy. Because I’m not offering anything and won’t offer anything,” Gaetz emphatically stated.
He continued, “And by the way, if the Democrats want to own Kevin McCarthy, they can have him. Because one thing I’m at peace with is when we stand here a week from now, I won’t own Kevin McCarthy anymore. He won’t belong to me. So if the Democrats want to adopt him, they can adopt him.”
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JUST IN: Representative Matt Gaetz speaks out after he files motion to vacate against Speaker Kevin McCarthy, says Democrats can adopt him if they want.
“If the Democrats want to own Kevin McCarthy, they can have it.”
“Because one thing I’m at peace with is when we stand here a… pic.twitter.com/2B5q8PgXtO
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 3, 2023
Rep. Gaetz has been a vocal critic of the Republican establishment. His grievances with McCarthy stem from being too willing to compromise with Democrats, particularly on key conservative issues such as immigration and sending Ukraine billions of taxpayers’ money.
The Gateway Pundit reported that Kevin McCarthy pulled a fast one and made a side deal with GOP Minority leader Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden to fund Ukraine.
“When the House returns, we expect Speaker McCarthy to advance a bill to the House Floor for an up-or-down vote that supports Ukraine, consistent with his commitment to making sure that Vladimir Putin, Russia and authoritarianism are defeated. We must stand with the Ukrainian people until victory is won,” according to the statement released by the House Democrat leadership.
Even Joe Biden confirmed this deal in a post on X, “I expect the Speaker to keep his word and secure the passage of support for Ukraine at this critical moment.”
While the majority of Congress has been steadfast in their support for Ukraine, the bipartisan bill has no funding to continue it.
We can’t allow this to be interrupted.
I expect the Speaker to keep his word and secure the passage of support for Ukraine at this critical moment.
— President Biden (@POTUS) October 1, 2023
McCarthy did not tell House Republicans about the deal until after the continuing resolution passed, according to Matt Gaetz.
Wow.@SpeakerMcCarthy made a side Ukraine deal with Democrats and didn’t tell House Republicans until after his Continuing Resolution passed.
More deceit. https://t.co/LC91laLyTp
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) October 1, 2023
“What was the secret side deal that Speaker McCarthy made with Joe Biden on Ukraine?” Gaetz wrote on X Monday.
What was the secret side deal that @SpeakerMcCarthy made with Joe Biden on Ukraine?
Members of the Republican Party might vote differently on a motion to vacate if they heard the answer to that question.
Stay tuned. pic.twitter.com/oUXEvI9vMG
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) October 2, 2023
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JUST IN: Texas Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar Carjacked at Gunpoint by Three Black Males Outside His Apartment in Washington D.C. | The Gateway Pundit
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Texas Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar was carjacked at gunpoint outside his apartment building in Washington D.C. The incident occurred Monday night and has been confirmed by multiple sources.
Three black men reportedly approached Representative Cuellar while armed and demanded his car. The attackers succeeded in getting away in Cuellar’s white Honda CHR, which is registered in Texas.
Rep. Cuellar is reportedly safe following the incident, though details about his condition have not been made public.
Laura Barrón-López, a CNN reporter, tweeted, “Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) was carjacked at gunpoint tonight outside his apartment building in DC, multiple sources confirm to me. And Cuellar is safe they say.”
NEWS: Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) was carjacked at gunpoint tonight outside his apartment building in DC, multiple sources confirm to me. And Cuellar is safe they say
— Laura Barrón-López (@lbarronlopez) October 3, 2023
“Was just texted by a member about this. A Democratic member was carjacked at gunpoint by 3-4 people, per member. A number of members live in this building.”
Was just texted by a member about this. A Democratic member was carjacked at gunpoint by 3-4 people, per member. A number of members live in this building https://t.co/LLNs1y8uWl
— Laura Barrón-López (@lbarronlopez) October 3, 2023
A neighborhood alert was promptly issued, stating: “Alert: Armed Carjacking Investigation at the intersection of K street and New Jersey Avenue SE. Taken was a white Honda CHR with TX tags. Lookout for three black males wearing all black clothing.”
Here’s neighborhood alert that went out: https://t.co/99Euxaq6Q8 pic.twitter.com/32BUr2woYs
— Heather Caygle (@heatherscope) October 3, 2023
For more updates on this developing story, stay tuned to The Gateway Pundit.
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