Corporate Media Hypocrites Silent On Jack Smith’s Attack On Free Press
The usual suspects in the accomplice media shrugged off the damning documents showing Smith grabbed media communications.The usual suspects in the accomplice media shrugged off the damning documents showing Smith grabbed media communications.
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It’s a big deal that the landmark new AI agreement is shockingly uneventful
Trump’s recent assembly of many of the very top people in AI must be counted among the most momentous political occasions in U.S. history — and perhaps human history. It comes at a time of extreme instability, uncertainty, and acceleration.
Even — or especially — those at the summit of tech and politics are unclear on what is going to happen and why. But they do know one thing: The nature of ultimate power on Earth is changing, and they are positioned to receive more of that power than almost anyone else.
Laws will not save us. Algorithms will not save us. Mere adherence to the letter of any code, however intelligently written, will not save us.
Power does not arrive alone. Rapidly acquiring unprecedented power brings anxiety, pressure, exhaustion, confusion, and the temptation to mistake possession for mastery.
The important thing about this is precisely that it is an experience. To deal with the consequences of a profound infusion of power is to plunge into the mysterious depths of being — the realm philosophers call ontology — in stark contrast to epistemology, the realm of knowing.
Power reminds us that knowledge arises from being, not the other way around.
For anyone operating at the highest levels of tech and politics, that reminder is crucial. Decades of bad modern philosophy and overzealous nerdery have encouraged the opposite idea: that being arises from knowledge.
That fake news is bad news. It feeds the fear that we have poured so much knowledge into machines that they are about to spring to life as an altogether new form of being — uncreated by God, no less — that will instantly dwarf and dominate us.
Yet one prominent techno-utopian belief treats the same prospect as good news, almost literally a new gospel. In this telling, the machine is not merely a rival life form. It becomes the vehicle for a new man. Rather than dwarfing and dominating us, the alien intelligence will fuse with us, becoming in effect a new god and a new soul, transforming us into Adam 2.0.
People who recoil from that prospect, and fear it could become real, are scrambling to fight or slow it through new law. The impulse is understandable. But it carries the seeds of its own failure.
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Christians know there are sharp limits to what lawgiving can accomplish. St. Paul wrote that, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit rather than the old way of the written code (Romans 7:6). He also wrote that God “has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant — not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life” (2 Corinthians 3:6).
Paul’s point is spiritual, but it bears directly on our technological confusion. Treat lawgiving as the highest activity of man and God, and you begin to imagine that being arises from knowledge. If being arises from knowledge, then creating knowledge can create being — as if the Golem of Prague or Frankenstein’s monster could be brought to life by sufficient information.
That is not life. It is a parody of life: death pretending to be life and producing more death.
At the intersection of unprecedented technological and political power, we have to remember that epistemology is downstream, not upstream, of ontology.
That is why the new “White House Accord on Super Intelligence,” signed by Trump and six of the industry’s most powerful executives, is so momentously uneventful. The companies say they “should implement” four basic layers of controls and audits: robust internal safety controls; an empowered internal team to make sure those controls work; an independent external auditor or evaluator; and an independent board committee to oversee the whole structure and make sure problems are fixed.
That’s it.
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The accord adds that the companies will meet regularly to establish standards and best practices. “Over time,” it concludes, “it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations.” But for now, no. Basically, it is a plan to get better organized about not screwing up the whole AI thing.
That may sound a little scary, considering how fast things are moving and how deep the trust gap has become between many Americans and the tech titans.
But it would be scarier if the companies threw themselves at the feet of lawgiving and tried to fob off responsibility onto a new written code. Because if they did that, they would in effect force the rest of us to do the same.
That kind of thinking is what got us into this mess in the first place.
Laws will not save us. Algorithms will not save us. Mere adherence to the letter of any code, however intelligently written, will not save us. Christianity’s warning against pharisaical faith in the letter is not an invitation to lawlessness; it is a warning against confusing compliance with righteousness.
It is good that the accord is simple and unsensational. Strip away all the words, codes, boards, controls, and audits, and there are still people underneath — people who can run from responsibility but can never finally hide from it.
All told, the accord is being-first — human-being-first. That is exactly what it needs to be if we are to avoid the false faith that our identity is merely the slave of information.
Gavin Newsom invoked Nietzsche. I thought of ‘Blazing Saddles.’
Until recently, everything I knew about Friedrich Nietzsche came from two movies.
“The Abyss” opens with his warning that when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes back. My other exposure came from “Blazing Saddles.” During a chaotic town meeting, Howard Johnson tries to elevate the proceedings.
A compelling why does not make the why righteous. Conviction supplies endurance. It does not supply morality.
“You know, Nietzsche says, ‘Out of chaos comes order.’”
Olson Johnson replies, “Oh, blow it out your ass, Howard.”
Mel Brooks provided the more memorable lesson.
So when California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) quoted Nietzsche while discussing a possible presidential run, I thought of Olson Johnson immediately.
In a PBS "NewsHour" interview, Newsom was asked what might keep him from running in 2028. He answered that he would need a “big enough why” to endure almost any “how,” invoking Nietzsche, and said he would have to look voters in the eye with a compelling vision.
When a governor reaching for the White House quotes Nietzsche on endurance, he is not confessing limits. He is announcing appetite.
I am not a Nietzsche scholar. I am a caregiver. I have spent 40 years straining against the limits of my own power, and I have learned how easily “responsibility” becomes a contest of wills. I have wanted the last word at home and called it love. Fatigue cooled that appetite more than virtue ever did.
I have enough trouble governing myself. Men eager to govern everybody else no longer impress me. They weary me.
Newsom has been busy making the rounds. He went fly-fishing in Montana with Jake Tapper and talked about 2028. He spoke at the United Nations. He met with fire survivors in Altadena.
None of that is scandalous. Ambitious governors do ambitious-governor things. But California has already handed Newsom a why.
Only 19% of California households could afford the state’s median-priced existing single-family home in the second quarter of 2026. The median price was $916,750, and a household needed an annual income of $228,400 to qualify for the typical payment.
People still sleep outside. Fire survivors are still rebuilding. And U-Haul ranked California last among the states for net one-way customer growth in 2025 — the sixth straight year it finished at the bottom.
When U-Haul starts sending thank-you notes to the governor, he ought to ask why.
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We call it public service. How often is it public power wearing better clothes? A compelling why does not make the why righteous. Conviction supplies endurance. It does not supply morality.
To be fair to Newsom, the aphorism is genuinely Nietzsche’s. It appears in “Twilight of the Idols.” Quoting it does not make Newsom a disciple of Nietzsche any more than quoting G.K. Chesterton makes me … well, Chesterton.
But the actual Nietzsche was less greeting-card. In “The Antichrist,” he asks, “What is good?” and answers: “Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself, in man.” At least he labeled the package.
The desire for a bigger seat is neither new nor rare. Jesus had just told His disciples that He would be condemned, flogged, and killed when James and John asked for the seats at His right and left.
“You do not know what you are asking,” He told them. The rulers of the Gentiles lord it over others, but "it shall not be so among you.” Whoever would be great must become a servant. Then He spoke of giving His own life as a ransom.
James and John wanted the best seats in the kingdom. At Calvary, the places on His right and left went to two criminals. That was not the seating chart they had in mind.
In the middle of the night, when someone is hurting and a dressing needs changing, nobody cares how important I think I am. No podium waits. No national why arrives. There is only the next necessary thing: wash the wound, change the dressing, dry the tears, do the laundry, get out the mop.
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Politicians who cannot stand work at that scale keep looking for a bigger room so that the work can stay abstract. Nietzsche offers me nothing in those hours. Christ offers everything.
Chesterton wrote that original sin is “the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.” I do not need Washington to test the claim. I provide evidence myself. So do men who cannot sit still in the office they already hold.
If Newsom wants to look voters in the eye, he already has people in front of him. Californians gave him a job, a mighty how, and enough need to exhaust any honest servant.
If he still needs a bigger why, that tells me something about which hunger is doing the asking.
Olson Johnson had the right response the first time.
Trump launches new AI-powered website to streamline access to the federal government
The White House announced the launch of a new website powered by artificial intelligence that streamlines access to services offered by the federal government.
The "America.gov" website includes a chatbot of which users can ask questions and get directed to government resources from hundreds of agencies.
'We’re simplifying it. We’re glamorizing it. We’re making it what it should be.'
President Donald Trump signed an order directing government agencies to connect to the website on Friday.
"With America.gov, the federal government no longer stands in your way; it only stands at your service," the president said before meeting with tech executives.
"We’re simplifying it. We’re glamorizing it," he added. "We’re making it what it should be.”
Some of the examples included getting information about National Parks and changing one's official name, which previously would take far longer and be more complicated.
"For the first time, there's one place to get everything done across the entire government," said U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia in a video post by the White House Rapid Response account.
"It's trained specifically on one official source of truth: the United States government," he added.
"So thank you to all the agencies government-wide, those 29,000 websites, 800 million pages, billions of pieces of information, that are now available in one easy-to-use website for every American."
The website is immediately available, but some agencies are still working to connect their databases for access.
A Blaze News test of the website found that it quickly and accurately provided answers to queries about submitting a Freedom of Information Act request and whether emails of government officials were available for media inquiries.
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Chief Design Officer @jgebbia officially unveils https://t.co/tMEB6EUmxg, the new online home for the United States of America pic.twitter.com/Mlllz44UaQ
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 29, 2026
"We’ve become used to a government so big it makes the citizens feel very, very small," the president added. "But with America.gov, the entire U.S. government will fit in the plan."
Gebbia was the co-founder of AirBnb before he quit his job and joined the Trump administration as the first chief design officer of the government.
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Karoline Leavitt reveals how ‘fake news’ stories get made
While some reporters follow the facts wherever they lead, others start with a story they want to tell and work backwards from there.
And former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt explains that it’s the latter more often than the public realizes — but BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales has had it happen to her and is well aware.
In a recent interview with Sean Hannity, Leavitt described a common media tactic: A reporter develops a negative narrative about the Trump administration, finds loosely connected sources willing to validate it, and publishes the story even after receiving direct denials from people who were actually in the room.
“They, you know, believe they are arbiters of the truth and doing the country a great service, but they are clearly slanted and biased against the president,” she told Hannity.
“This is how fake news is manufactured, for your audience to understand,” she continued. “You’ll have a hack journalist who comes up with a narrative on their own that they think is true about the president or the White House, and they love the palace intrigue stories.”
Leavitt explained that “batting down fake stuff” was about 90% of her job.
“They’ll find a source who has no idea what they’re talking about, was not in the room, doesn’t even work at the White House, maybe worked on the campaign as a volunteer staffer for one day. And they’ll say, ‘A source close to President Trump told us this,’” she said.
“Like, who’s your source? Because I was in the room, so I’m a better source than them. And I’m telling you, this did not happen,” she added.
Leavitt went on to say that the reporters would then respond that they “really trust” that source and would “still write it” anyways.
“All they need is two sources,” she said. “One to say that happened. Another for them to call and say, ‘I heard this happened.’ And that person will say, ‘Yeah, that probably sounds right.’ And then the story’s written, and you can have the White House aggressively on the record pushing back, and they’ll still print.”
“That’s how things get written. They just seek to get a bad narrative, and they’ll find anyone who helps them push that narrative,” she added.
“I know it sounds crazy that they would just come up with a narrative and then try to approach people to corroborate that narrative that they just made up,” Gonzales says.
“Sounds crazy, but Karoline is 100% correct,” she adds.
Gonzales reveals that reporters have reached out to her with a political bias attempting to spin a story, revealing one recent text conversation she had with a reporter at Politico.
“No thanks, I’m going to pass on that,” she says. “I don’t need to engage with you, I know what this is. I always know what it is.”
“The mainstream media is trash,” she adds.
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