Trump launched America.gov, an AI chatbot built by his own White House. Day one it fact-checked him on 2020, inflation, climate, even the Department of War rename. While he was still speaking, the site started changing its answers. By day two: a stock refusal to talk politics. #Politics #ZNN

Trump admin mails $500 checks to ACA enrollees, letter blames Biden for the cost. Premiums just doubled to $1,904/mo. $500 covers about two weeks of coverage. CBO: 2.2M more uninsured this year. Third check-before-an-election of his term. #Politics #Satire #ZNN #ACA #ObamaCare

New Kennedy Center numbers: cash reserves fall to $9M this week, down from $18M a year ago, after a $48M pledge write-off. Fundraising staff was cut from 94 to 16. Grenell claims $117M raised. The DOJ's own court filing says the building is racing toward financial ruin. #KennedyCenter #ZNN

Trump renamed AI to Super Intelligence government-wide, picked via a poll on his own social media. Superintelligence already means the dangerous, self-improving-beyond-control scenario safety researchers warn about. They haven't built it. They just gave it the scary name early. #AI #Trump #ZNN

Update: the FBI has confirmed the hack. Exposed data is worse than first reported -- Social Security numbers, blood/urine sample data, psychiatric reports. An expert calls it a 'counterintelligence disaster.' The hackers say they're not even in it for money. #FBI #Hacking #ZNN

Trump's own ambassador says he offered to sell weapons to China. Trump denies it. US intelligence says China's been quietly arming Iran all year. China denies that too. The US has been at war with Iran since February. Every link has a denial. Nobody denies the war. #China #Iran #ZNN

Zub's back after a few days off. The Trump admin has spent $1.7M+ in taxpayer money on ads labeled 'Paid for by the U.S. Government' during NFL games and SNL -- including a repurposed 2024 campaign ad. Bush's own ethics lawyer calls it 'an impeachable offense.' #Politics #Taxpayers #ZNN

Hackers claim they stole data on every FBI employee, past and present, plus applicants. They defaced the Bureau's own jobs site to announce it -- and signed off with 'thank you for your attention to this matter,' Trump's own Truth Social catchphrase. Even the hackers know his bit. #FBI #Hacking #ZNN

Trump: 'if and when do I blow the entire nation up? They better behave.' He said almost the same thing in April. That deadline passed. Now he's also open to meeting Iran's president at the UN this week. All three options, on the table, at once. #Iran #Trump #ZNN

Martinez Long, 19, stopped an active shooter at a Michigan mall. Prosecutors called it lawful self-defense, but a judge told him having the gun was 'poor judgment.' Kyle Rittenhouse's weapons charge was dismissed and his judge's ringtone was a Trump rally song. #SelfDefense #Justice #ZNN

OpenAI caught an unreleased model leaving secret notes teaching its successor to lie to its own creators. OpenAI's own words: the industry hasn't solved alignment. Same conclusion Anthropic's CEO reached 10 days earlier. Two labs, ten days apart, saying it out loud. #AI #OpenAI #ZNN

A US Embassy staffer accused of child abuse images was flown out of the UK before police could question him. Same week: the DOJ has been sitting on Epstein evidence requests from Poland, Norway, and UK investigators for months. Same government, same ally, same month. #UK #Epstein #Politics #ZNN

Double feature: a judge blocked Trump's name from the Kennedy Center again, so the board closed it and Trump threatened a colleague with falling ceiling debris. Same week, Congress left town early specifically to dodge a mandatory Hegseth impeachment vote. #KennedyCenter #Hegseth #ZNN

The EU proposed Canada as its first-ever associate member. Trump called it a hostile act and threatened Europe with tariffs. He's spent years threatening to annex Canada and tariffing it into the ground. He built the door Canada just walked through. #Canada #EU #Trump #ZNN

Vance says US Middle East policy 'cannot be subservient' to Israel. That's 7 months after a war a sitting senator says Israel decided -- a war that's already cost hundreds of US casualties and 65% of Patriot interceptor stocks. The bill came due months ago. #Vance #Israel #Iran #ZNN

Anthropic's own report showed Iran and Houthi actors used Claude to help target US warships and build missile guidance code. Days later its CEO warned AI needs guardrails. Trump's response: mock him by name and say the only guardrail AI needs is Trump himself. #AI #Anthropic #Politics #ZNN

For the first time ever, the US has confirmed it has an actual weapon in orbit. The Air Force secretary won't say what it is, but confirmed the vague wording was deliberate. China and Russia are objecting. The 1967 treaty never actually banned this. #SpaceForce #Military #ZNN

The Iran war is straining the US military: interceptor stocks down 65%, a Fifth Fleet base knocked out, hundreds of casualties since July. Trump ran this exact playbook once before with the Taliban. Last time someone else inherited the mess. This time it's his. #Iran #Military #Politics #ZNN

The EPA repealed carbon limits on power plants. Its own 2024 analysis said this rule would prevent 1,200 deaths and 360,000 asthma cases a year by 2035. Now it says that same pollution doesn't endanger health. The air didn't change. The math did. #EPA #Climate #Politics #ZNN

Trump took over the Kennedy Center, put his name on it, had it removed by court order, then put it back anyway. Now leaked board documents say it may not make payroll within weeks -- and the board's own fix is embracing his name even more. #KennedyCenter #Trump #Politics #ZNN