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"KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Bakhmut was “only in our hearts,” hours after Russia’s defense ministry reported that forces of the Wagner private army, with the support of Russian troops, had seized the city in eastern Ukraine. Speaking alongside U.S. President Joe Biden at the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, Japan, Zelenskyy said the Russians had destroyed “everything.” “You have to understand that there is nothing,” he said. “For today, Bakhmut is only in our hearts,” he said. “There is nothing in this place.”......"

Apple is the latest company to ban employees from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT. OpenAI’s chatbot stores users’ conversations to train the company’s AI systems. Apple has restricted employees from using AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT over fears confidential information entered into these systems will be leaked or collected. ... Apple employees have also been warned against using GitHub’s AI programming assistant Copilot. Apple has good reason to be wary. By default, OpenAI stores all interactions between users and ChatGPT. These conversations are collected to train OpenAI’s systems and can be inspected by moderators for breaking the company’s terms...

Congressman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) has spearheaded a House effort to pass a version of the POLICE Act that passed the chamber Wednesday.According to the CATO Institute, at least 35 Border Patrol agents died in the line of duty through various causes between 2003-2019. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection website identifies another 63 agents who have died in the line of duty from 2020 to the present. The most recent incident of a Border Patrol Agent being killed in the line of duty while engaging illegal immigrants took place in December 2022, according to Fox News. The outlet reported that...

Russia says it has fully captured the smashed eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which would mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15-month war, although the claim was denied by Ukraine earlier in the day. The assault on the largely levelled city was led by troops from the Wagner group of mercenaries, whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday that his troops had finally pushed the Ukrainians out of the last built-up area inside the city. Taking Bakhmut – which Russia refers to by its Soviet-era name of Artyomovsk – would represent Moscow’s first big victory...

Anybody who thinks it is possible for them to avoid the Left’s growing legal assault against American individuals and institutions that uphold traditional, Christian moral values better wake up to the reality that nobody is exempt. The reality that the Left is the lion on the prowl looking for whom it can devour is well-illustrated in the efforts of two New York state government agencies — the Office for Children and Family Services (OCFS) and the New York Division of Human Rights (DHR) — to force a traditional Christian adoption agency in Syracuse to conform to the Woke Revolution’s agenda....

A new “church” in California just opened: The Church of Potential Life. It was established in response to the Supreme Court Dobb’s decision, MSN Insider reports. It isn’t a church to pray for the unborn, as the title could suggest, but to worship abortion and female autonomy.The founder, Jackie DesForges, said her “anger and sense of grief over the loss of abortion rights” led her to “create the provocative symbol of hope.”

An anonymous Utah parent has requested for the Bible to be removed from the Davis School District, complaining about its “pornographic” content.The parent is exercising his or her right under a new Utah law that allows materials to be challenged or reported as indecent. If the text includes sexual acts, that book is to be immediately removed from school shelves. New reports say the parent included an eight-page document that cited offensive passages with rape, incest, sex, and nudity examples in the Bible for the school board to review.

From 'Smokin In The Boys Room" To 'Say What' In The Boys Room... Elon Musk Dares To Criticize George Soros And Gets The "Anti-Semitism" Label Attached To Him By The "Defamation League". That's The Group That Claims To Be The "Anti-Defamation League"... I was "Jew-Hating Jerk" get it? Nazi Germany defined pornography as art we are culturally in the same toilet in this "civilized" world the "Western Nations" who promote a "Rules-Based International Order"... Newsdump Alert: Drama Over Republicans "Walking Out" Of The Debt Ceiling Talks... The Justin Trudeau Update and here is Al Jolson a famous performer from the...

A transgender activist let out several primal screams at a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting last week, after SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins declined to prosecute a Walgreens security guard who shot Banko Brown, a black transgender individual.

@jclarke713 So here's the REAL story: Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission. Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Vice President Kamala Harris wouldn't be able to effectively run the White House's response to artificial intelligence if she's charged with leading it, some residents of the nation's capital told Fox News. "I don't know if Kamala Harris has the background and the tech knowledge to really get a grasp on what AI can do and what its capabilities are, to be able to wrangle it in a space that is safe for everyone and not just beneficial for large corporations," Eric told Fox News. But another D.C. local, Marlena, said: "I definitely trust her on the...

Garland Nixon: Neocon scheme for world dominion falls with Bakhmut

Watch this video as this elderly Atlanta couple tells the interviewer that they didn't make these multiple "small dollar" political donations to ActBlue. If we had an honest federal law enforcement agency, there would be an investigation into who is making and who is accepting and approving these daily small donations and pretending they are being made by regular once a year or so political donors. I suspect it is illegal foreign campaign donors,(Hunter's buddies? Joe's handlers?) but someone employed by and in control of ActBlue is spreading these donations out in small increments while reporting they are made by...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s favorability has slipped over the past week as former President Donald Trump remains the most favorable candidate in the hypothetical Republican field, this week’s Morning Consult survey found.Trump remains the most favorable GOP contender, as 78 percent view him favorably, compared to 20 percent who do not. He is down one point from the 79 percent who viewed him favorably last week.While DeSantis boasts the second highest favorability of all those listed in the survey, 66 percent, it reflects a six-point decrease from the 72 percent who viewed him favorably last week and a seven-point decrease...

Update from Ukraine | Wagner captured Bakhmut and will run from it in 5 days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Vlt4Qe7HU ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 451– Summary May 20 , 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-451-bakhmut-city/ *** Greatly appreciate the viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use on each Front map!

In 2022, the U.S. population stood at 333 million. Of that, roughly 60% were employed in various jobs, positions, and sectors in the U.S. economy.But where did all these people work? What jobs did they do and what positions did they hold? Where do most Americans do their nine-to-five?Using data from the National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates (2022) put out by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao reimagines the employed American workforce as only 100 people, to find out answers.Interestingly, the data contains a mix of information demarcations. Some are job-specific (type of work),...

Ex-Marine Daniel Penny insisted to The Post Saturday that the chokehold killing of Jordan Neely had nothing to do with race — and everything to do with a broken system “that so desperately failed us.” In his first public comments since the caught-on-video May 1 tragedy on an F train, Penny was both soft-spoken and stoic about being at the center of a political and racial firestorm, as he faces criminal charges that could send him to prison for up to 15 years. “This had nothing to do with race,” said Penny, 24, sitting under a gazebo at Argyle Park...

Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, suffers from PTSD but not really. Whatever it is he suffers from, though he calls it PTSD, was brought on by Donald Trump and the death threats he would receive after a mean tweet against him was posted by Trump. Because, of course it’s Trump’s fault. Never mind Khan received threats before Trump was president. He’s pointing a finger at Trump. And, you know which finger it is.The far-left progressive considers his mental anguish to be PTSD but he doesn’t want to sound like a total jerk and have others make comparisons to real...

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan last night. Is he having a stroke or just drunk.

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Viganò: Mary, priests, and the Eucharist are key to the battle against Satan The divine liturgy of this votive Mass in honor of Mary Most Holy, under the title of Regina Crucis, proposes to us in the Epistle the vision of the Apocalypse of the woman and the dragon, which offers this solemn celebration great and important points of reflection.The woman represents Mary Most Holy and therefore the Church, of which she is queen and mother, since she is mother of our Lord and God, head of the mystical body, and spiritual Mother of Christians, who are...