U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum on Wednesday announced that America will be working together with Venezuela to tap into the country's mining sector after meeting with "acting President" Delcy Rodríguez.
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A 10-year-old Florida boy was arrested and perp-walked on camera after threatening to bring a gun to his elementary school and leaving a kill list in his classroom, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said.
The sheriff's office on Wednesday posted video of the boy in handcuffs, being led out of a patrol vehicle and being walked to a holding cell.
'This is another reminder to talk to your kids and teach them this lesson before they learn it in the juvenile justice system.'
Officials said the student wrote in permanent marker on a Pride Elementary classroom whiteboard that he'd bring a gun to school.
The student then left a "list of people who i'm gunna kill" in a desk, officials said.
The sheriff's office said the boy is in custody on a felony charge of making a written threat to kill.
Blaze News is not naming or showing the face of the suspect due to his age.
Image source: Volusia County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office video screenshot
The parents of the three students named on the list were notified, officials said.
The sheriff's office said the boy told deputies he didn't mean it, and his parent indicated that he doesn't have access to any firearms.
Officials said, "That doesn't change the consequences of his actions. This is another reminder to talk to your kids and teach them this lesson before they learn it in the juvenile justice system."
Late last month the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said officers arrested a 12-year-old girl after she posted online a "detailed manifesto" about carrying out a mass shooting at a middle school due to bullying.
Blaze News over the last several months has reported about Florida authorities accusing teens — and those even younger — of making similar threats and arresting them. What's more, law enforcement agencies frequently have released the names and images of the young suspects, a decision that hasn't made every observer happy.
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Newly released footage from the House Oversight Committee has put Bill and Hillary Clinton back under the microscope — this time over their past associations with Jeffrey Epstein.
During his testimony, former President Bill Clinton was shown photos of himself with the convicted sex offender.
“They actually decided to show him some of the photos of his time with Epstein during the testimony,” Gonzales says, pointing out that “he is having quite the time reliving his past experience with Epstein.”
In the clip of Clinton, he appears to be taken by the photos, staring at them while his lawyer tries to grab them and take them away from him. He takes them back and looks a little longer.
“That is not, to me, not the vibes you want to be giving when you’re being questioned about your involvement with a known sex trafficker of young girls. Probably not the look that you want to give,” Gonzales says.
Clinton also went on to claim while under oath that he never has lied while under oath, Gonzales says.
“Very interesting when we just revisit some of Bill Clinton’s very famous history,” Gonzales comments.
“First question I have for you, Mr. President, have you ever lied in a deposition?” Clinton was asked during his testimony.
“No,” Clinton responded.
“Have you ever lied while under oath?” he was asked again.
“No,” he responded again.
“I think what he meant was, ‘No, I’ve never lied while under oath, except for the time that I was impeached for lying under oath about having an affair with my intern Monica Lewinsky,’” Gonzales says.
“Do you really reach a point in your life where you actually forget that you were a president who was impeached for lying under oath about the affair that you had in the Oval Office with your staffer?” she asks. “Like, I feel like that would have to be the very last memory to go.”
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A group of Republican House members in Michigan is pushing to make it the 30th constitutional carry state in the Union.
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Awareness of the long-standing generalized anti-AI sentiment has turned a corner, as according to an advertising insider report, consumers, particularly the all-important younger cohorts, are so strongly biased against the use of AI that it’s threatening the proverbial bottom line.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau, which, according to its website, “empowers the media and marketing industries to thrive in the digital economy,” released a report in January stating that “82% of ad executives believe Gen Z/Millennial consumers feel very or somewhat positive about AI-generated ads, nearly double the 45% of consumers who actually feel that way. This gap has widened from 32 points in 2024 to 37 points in 2026.”
Even if it wasn’t holy, it was understandable. Now it comes off to more and more people as direct humiliation.
A real surprise, apparently, to executives. Despite the fact that many industries are all-in on refactoring human society with AI, it would appear that number crunchers and pollsters didn’t seriously consult those among us who prefer joy and satisfaction outside the world of lines on graphs trending upward.
Odd because the sheer quantity of articles in major publications with “AI” and “backlash” in their headlines is enough for casual pattern recognizers to take notice without even trying.
Last week, the over-the-top “luxury” brand Gucci, whose handbags double as status symbols, dropped an AI ad campaign on Instagram. The company seemed shocked by the vehemently negative response: slop, insulting, AI trash.
In fact, the reaction was so uniformly bad that, once again, many articles were written by the usual zombified outlets — the BBC, The New York Times, TIME — wherein the “backlash” is treated with almost effete surprise!
Virtually every governmental and social institution is in some red-flashing-light level of excessive decay, mostly due to an overemphasis by Western culture on the aforementioned lines going up, instead of the old standards like social, physical, and psychic well-being. But still, the consensus is shocked that young people don’t want to trade meaningful work, relationships, and systems of value for simulations thereof.
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Aside perhaps from the gargantuan name-brand AI companies (ChatGPT, Anthropic, Grok) buoyed by immense government funds, corporations in general, having bought the whole of the cost-savings promises of AI deployed into every level of their profit ventures, are getting nervous.
Another finding in the IAB study? “Some sentiment gaps between ad executives and consumers have actually grown wider. For instance, the percentage of consumers calling a brand “innovative” by using AI dropped from 30% in 2024 to 23%, while advertiser belief that AI signals innovation increased from 40% to 49%.”
There’s more going on. While the Gucci ads deploy a gouache collage of aesthetic dead-ends and seem to depend on their meaning for long-gone social fabric that the “creatives” don’t likely know how to manipulate anymore to drive sales, the real offense — the one that caused regular Instagram scrollers to stop and take a swipe at Gucci — is that the ads scream cheap.
The visual dexterity, the meaningless symbols, the absence of real human beings depicted in this once-aspirational fantasyland? It all adds up in the gloss to being chintzy. Unsurprisingly, this is insulting to people who have to, and want to, work for a living.
It’s one thing to create an interesting visual or audio piece while using lo-fi or primitive tools. This can impress. We know human ingenuity was expended. We appreciate the thrift, the bending of rules and the use of creative constraints to open new dimensions. And it’s possible to make ads without real people. All of this has been done before without the upheaval, without the counterassault from consumers. But consumers knew in those situations that their human-based feedback loop — strive, achieve, display — still had some social capital. Even if it wasn’t holy, it was understandable. Now it comes off to more and more people as direct humiliation.
“Bleak days,” the BBC laments, “when Gucci can’t find a real human Milanese grandmother to wear an outfit from 1976.”
Here is the double-edged issue with slop: Gucci consumers are purchasing from the striver/acquisition point of view, so their mental frame requires there be careful social and financial stratification to navigate. Even if the navigation is only an illusion. No one buys Gucci and becomes the hyper-interesting and windswept person they see in the advertisements. Of course, Gucci ad makers know and knew this, but the cost-saving opportunities with AI were too much to resist. The deal is broken.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq categorically denied that its Peshmerga were preparing an invasion of Iran alongside the United States on Thursday, following rumors that some Iranian Kurdish groups are planning ground operations on what remains of the Iranian terror state.
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Pop star Britney Spears was arrested for a DUI on Wednesday night in Ventura County, California, multiple sources have reported.
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