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What We’re Reading: AI Panic, Permanent DST? Islamist Update … And More

Media Bias At Work

Household Income Set Record High In 2025 — Newsbusters

US Poverty Rate Dips to Lowest on Record, Census Bureau Says — Reuters

Median Household Income in 2025 Surpassed Previous Highs Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic — Census Bureau

Poll: Most Voters Say Trump Has Hurt The Economy As Competitive Midterm Election Looms — NBC News

Affordability

Rising Gas Prices Frustrate Voters. Trump Says It’s An ‘Inexpensive Price To Pay’ For The Iran War — Ground News

Soaring Diesel Prices Pose Latest Economic Headache For GOP — The Hill

Medicare’s Sudden Drug Cost Surge — City Journal

Fruits And Nuts

Seeking Reelection, L.A. Mayor Bass Calls Herself ‘An Activist Fighting For Change’ — Los Angeles Times

Report: California’s Proposed ‘Billionaire Tax’ Is Based On Bad Research — Reason

Karen Bass In Trouble As Left-Wing Challenger Surges In Los Angeles Mayor’s Race — Breitbart

AI Overlords

Watch What Happens When This Good Old Boy Asks The Smartest AI Model To Spell “Seventeen” — Not the Bee

Artificial Panic About AI Week At Legal Insurrection — Legal Insurrection

Obama Rips Trump Over AI Policy Amid ‘Doomsday’ Warnings — The Hill

The Dangerous Ideology Behind The AI Warnings — Free Press

Trump Releases New Poll To Find Replacement Term For “Artificial Intelligence” — Just the News

Islamist Update

Yes, They Really Want To Destroy Us: The Startling Details Of The Islamic/Leftist Coalition — PJ Media

Dearborn Ramadan Displays Spark Federal Lawsuit — Newsmax

Americans Complain Their Neighborhood Is Quietly Turning Into A Muslim Haven — Fox News

Fraud, Inc.

Explosive Judiciary Committee Report Accuses Actblue Of Major Fraudulent Donation Cover-Up — Allsides

Michigan Man Indicted In Alleged $4.75m Medicare Psychotherapy Fraud — Townhall

Protests, Inc.

Hundreds Protest Trump’s Attempt To Renovate Collapsing Kennedy Center — Breitbart

Jedi-Themed Protest Outside Lucas Museum Targets L.A. Olympics Over Worker Rights — Yahoo News

Democrats

Inside House Democrats’ Push To Kick Old People Out Of Leadership — Washington Sun

Radical Rightwing Racist Rants Against H-1Bs And Replacing American Workers (Just Kidding, It’s Bernie Sanders In 2007) — Not the Bee

After 40 Years, Will Oregon Elect A Republican Governor? — Wall Street Journal

Misc

Trump Says He’s Struck Deal For “Permanent Control Over Security” In Greenland — Yahoo News

‘Woke’ Is Not Dead — National Review

Why Trump’s Plan To Stop Noncitizens From Rigging The Census Might Work This Time — Hot Aire

Gordon Chang: AI Deal With China ‘Unenforceable’ — Newsmax

Inside A Radical Right Plan To Infiltrate American Conservatism — Free Press

Cancer Vaccines, Anti-Aging Treatments, And 5 Other Exciting Biomedical Advances — Reason

19 States Approve Permanent Daylight Saving Time As Last Obstacle Could Soon Fall — The Hill

Humor

The Week In Pictures: Sydney Sweeney Goes AI Edition — Powerline

Local Mother Threatens To Move Kids To Massachusetts If They Don’t Start ‘Behaving Right Now!’ — Genesius Times

New Underground Railroad Established To Help Lone Black Juror Escape From Angry White Liberals In The North — Babylon Bee

Democrats Promise That If Elected, Every Voter Will Give Them $5,000 — Babylon Bee

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