Today's Headlines: The Traitor Fund is effectively dead for now — the DOJ said it "disagrees strongly" but will abide by the court's ruling, which is the closest thing to a clean win we've gotten in a while. Trump's America 250 birthday celebration continues to implode, with a competing Power to the People Festival announced for October 3rd featuring Springsteen, Joan Baez, and Dave Matthews, while the UFC fight at the White House is still on but now requires attending service members to meet a waist-to-height ratio under .55, and the National Park Service is spending $5 million on a no-bid contract to gold-plate four bronze horse statues near the Lincoln Memorial, which is giving Saddam Hussein's living room. Trump reportedly told Netanyahu on a bad phone call that "you're fucking crazy, you'd be in prison if it weren't for me, everybody hates Israel because of this" — accurate — and Netanyahu pulled back on planned Beirut strikes, with Lebanon's parliament speaker saying Hezbollah is ready for a full ceasefire with Israel, though the US bombed Iranian drone sites yesterday and a cargo ship was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz, so "ceasefire" continues to mean whatever anyone needs it to mean. Florida's attorney general sued OpenAI and Sam Altman for marketing ChatGPT without adequately warning of its dangers, citing its alleged role in mass shootings, suicide encouragement, and helping a murder suspect dispose of bodies — and Anthropic filed its IPO the same day at a $965 billion valuation, because timing is everything. And finally, a second man named Dan Sullivan entered the Alaska Senate race against incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan with no policies and no party affiliation, just a stated goal of unseating the other Dan Sullivan, which is either a Democratic ploy or the most chaotic campaign launch of the cycle.
Resources/Articles mentioned:
AP News: Trump reconsidering $1.8 billion fund, AP source says, as Justice Department temporarily pauses it
Rolling Stone: Tom Morello Announces Power to the People Festival With Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, More
NBC News: No heavyweights allowed: Troops must meet fitness criteria to attend White House UFC event
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Axios: "You're fucking crazy": Trump fumes at Netanyahu in call on Lebanon
Axios: Lebanese official told U.S. that Hezbollah ready for full ceasefire with Israel
AP News: US bombs Iran, downs missiles fired at bases in Kuwait
Axios: Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over ChatGPT - Axios Tampa Bay
CNBC: Anthropic confidentially files IPO prospectus with SEC, prepping Wall Street for landmark AI deal
NYT: Senator Dan Sullivan Has a New Challenger in Alaska
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