Former Gov Andrew Cuomo reports eye-popping fundraising figure in race for mayor
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is showcasing his fundraising prowess as he runs for mayor of the nation’s most populous city. The former three-term New York governor, who resigned amid multiple scandals in 2021, on Monday announced that he’s hauled in over $1.51 million in fundraising during the 13 days since he declared his candidacy for New York City mayor, in the race to oust embattled incumbent Mayor Eric Adams. Cuomo’s campaign, in an email release on Monday, described the fundraising during the ex-governor’s comeback bid as “unprecedented.” The campaign said donations came from 2,821 supporters. It also highlighted that more than a quarter of the money raised will be eligible for up to 8-to-1 in public matching funds, if it’s approved by New York City’s Campaign Finance Board. WHO’S THE FRONT-RUNNER IN NEW YORK CITY’S MAYORAL RACE “I’ve been humbled by the depth and breadth of the outpouring of support we’ve received upon entering this race.” Cuomo’s March 1 campaign launch, into an already crowded field of contenders, rocked the race. CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS REPORTING, ANALYSIS, ON ANDREW CUOMO New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, who jumped into the race four days after Cuomo, raised $128,000 the first five days of her campaign, which is not enough to qualify for matching funds. The candidates have until Monday night to report their fundraising and spending in the mayoral race. As New Yorkers continue to sour on Adams, according to the latest polls, those same surveys also indicate Cuomo is the clear frontrunner. Thanks in part to his near-universal name recognition among New Yorkers, Cuomo was topping the mayoral polls even before he announced his candidacy on March 1. And Cuomo, who enjoys the backing of a well-financed super PAC supported by deep-pocketed allies, has maintained his frontrunner status in the most recent polls, ahead of the city’s June 24 Democratic mayoral primary, which will likely determine the winner of November’s general election. CUOMO LAUNCHES MAYOR BID IN AMERICA’S BIGGEST CITY But now that the 2025 mayoral race is apparently Cuomo’s to lose, his rivals are zeroing in on the former governor’s immense political baggage. Cuomo has spent the past four years fighting to clear his name after 11 sexual harassment accusations – which he has repeatedly denied – forced his resignation as governor in August 2021. He was also under investigation for his handling of the COVID pandemic amid allegations his administration vastly understated COVID-related deaths at state nursing homes. Adams’ poll numbers were sinking even before he was indicted last year on five counts, which accused the mayor of bribery and fraud as part of an alleged “long-running” scheme to personally profit from contacts with foreign officials. The mayor made repeated overtures to now-President Donald Trump, and in recent weeks the Justice Department moved to dismiss the corruption charges, so he could seemingly work with the Trump administration on its illegal immigration crackdown. The top federal prosecutor in New York City resigned rather than comply, and argued that the mayor had agreed to a quid pro quo with the Justice Department.
Trump admin mulls new travel ban, but no decisions made yet
No decisions have been made about whether to enact a potential travel ban on more than 40 countries, a White House official told Fox News Digital on Monday. The countries may face severe or total travel limitations instituted by the United States, according to reports from Reuters and the New York Times. Fox News Digital was not able to independently confirm details of the proposed program. The outlets reported that citizens of Afghanistan, Iran, Cuba, Bhutan, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, Venezuela, and Yemen would not be allowed to enter the U.S. under the proposal. These 11 countries would be placed under the “red” level in the color-coded system, according to the reports. During a State Department briefing on Monday, spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said that a list does not exist, but there is an ongoing review. “Well, first of all, there is no list,” she said. “What people are looking at over these last several days is not a list that exists here that is being acted on. There is a review, as we know through the president’s executive order, for us to look at the nature of what’s gonna help keep America safer when dealing with the issue of visas and who’s allowed into the country. “But what has being touted as something as an item through the State Department just simply isn’t the case.” Other countries, like Russia and Pakistan, would still have travel permitted — as opposed to a total ban — but would still face hurdles when it comes to getting a visa. That tier is considered the “orange” level. VICE PRESIDENT VANCE VOWS TRUMP ADMIN WILL ‘USE EVERYTHING’ IT CAN TO INCREASE NUMBER OF CRIMINAL DEPORTATIONS Various countries, including many in Africa, are reportedly also being monitored for potential restrictions on the “yellow” level and would have roughly two months to make changes to avoid being placed on the “orange” or “red” levels. The yellow level allegedly includes Caribbean nations, including St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, as well as Antigua and Barbuda. Reuters reports that 41 countries would be affected in some way, though the Times puts the number at 43 nations. MARINE INJURED IN ABBEY GATE BOMBING PRAISES TRUMP FOR NOT FORGETTING FAMILIES AFTER US NABS SUSPECT Early in the first Trump administration, an executive order banning travel from Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Libya faced legal hurdles and was derided as a “Muslim ban” by opponents due to the demographics of those nations. Proponents at the time argued it was needed to ensure a strict process for keeping track of who’s entering the country. When President Trump signed the executive order banning travel and implementing “extreme vetting” for certain countries in January of 2017, he issued a statement that said in part, “To be clear, this is not a Muslim ban, as the media is falsely reporting. This is not about religion – this is about terror and keeping our country safe.” “There are over 40 different countries worldwide that are majority Muslim that are not affected by this order.” Trump said at the time. TRUMP-BACKED BILL TO AVERT SHUTDOWN BOOSTS FUNDING FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTS, DEPORTATIONS Meanwhile, criticism is already developing over the new looming proposal. “Today’s the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, all too timely and relevant in our current moment. With the threat of diminished civil liberties and a so-called Muslim travel ban allegedly in the works, New Yorkers must stay united and refuse to engage in hate and bigotry,” New York City Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams posted to X on Saturday. “I hope someone at [the State Department] reviews this list and notices that any kind of [travel ban] on Bhutan, a peaceful, landlocked Himalayan Buddhist kingdom (population: ~800,000) wedged between India and China, is utterly insane,” American Enterprise Institute fellow Sadanand Dhume said in an X post. The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment in time for publication. Customs and Border Protection said they “cannot comment on internal documents.”
‘Safer without him’: Columbia student claims classmate arrested by ICE ‘hates America’
A former classmate of Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian Columbia graduate student recently arrested by ICE, spoke out after his arrest, saying she feels “safer with him gone” and claimed that he “hates America and everything it stands for.” The New York Post reported that one of Khalil’s classmates, a female Jewish graduate student, was scared of defending her beliefs out of fear of retaliation from Khalil. She called Khalil an “insidious” presence on campus and said she even dropped one of her classes because of him, telling the Post, “I just didn’t want to become a target of his.” Khalil, 30, is a Syrian-born Palestinian graduate student at Columbia University. He was one of the most prominent leaders of last year’s Israel-Gaza war protests, many of which disrupted classes and required heavy police response. He was arrested by ICE on March 8 and is currently being kept at a detention facility in Louisiana. ‘GET GEARED UP’ BECAUSE ‘ICE IS COMING,’ SAYS LEADING HOUSE GOP MEMBER While Democrats and the media have accused the Trump administration of attempting to crack down on free speech, the administration has said Khalil is a terrorist sympathizer who poses a threat to national security. After the arrest, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on X that the administration “will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.” Khalil’s former classmate said that although his appearance is normal, his rhetoric left her and other Jewish students feeling extremely threatened. She filed two Title VI complaints with the Columbia administration, but the university never took any action against him. “It would almost be easier if he were some terrifying looking man who threatened to punch people in the face, but he wasn’t,” she said. “He was very soft-spoken and careful with his words, which almost made him seem more insidious, because it was so intentional – he was never being hyperbolic, he was very clear. He was never joking.” TRUMP ADMIN PROMISES TO BE ‘RUTHLESSLY AGGRESSIVE’ IN RESPONSE TO SUSPECTED CARTEL KILLING OF US CITIZEN Since his arrest, the student said she has “felt safer on campus.” “I really do think this country is probably safer without him here, like I don’t know how he got a green card,” she said. “He seems very much like he hates America and everything it stands for,” she added. “I think he’s done a lot to cause harm and violence here, and I could see him doing more.” CLICK HERE FOR MORE IMMIGRATION COVERAGE Despite the criticism from the media, President Donald Trump said Khalil’s arrest is the “first of many to come.” “Following my previously signed Executive Orders, ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student on the campus of Columbia University,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it.” HAMAS SAYS AMERICAN-ISRAELI HOSTAGE WILL ONLY BE FREED IF CEASEFIRE IS IMPLEMENTED “We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country – never to return again,” he added. “If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests, and you are not welcome here.” On Friday, ICE arrested a second Columbia student activist, Leqaa Kordia, who is from the West Bank and was also involved with the Israel-Gaza protests. Kordia was unlawfully present in the country despite her student visa being canceled in 2022. Columbia University did not respond to a request for comment by Fox News Digital by the time of publication. The Justice Department is also investigating whether the university intentionally hid students who are in the country illegally. Columbia interim President Katrina Armstrong issued a statement on Saturday saying that the university “will stand by its values,” but did not directly respond to the DOJ investigation.
As Trump vows mass deportations, Texas lawmakers want to require sheriffs to work with ICE
Some sheriffs worried that Senate Bill 8 could create an unfunded mandate, while civil rights advocates warned about possible racial profiling.
Houston-area midwife arrested for allegedly providing illegal abortions
This represents the first criminal charges under Texas’ near-total abortion ban.
US paid El Salvador to take Venezuelan Tren de Aragua members: ‘pennies on the dollar,’ White House says
The United States paid El Salvador $6 million to take in Venezuelan illegal immigrants slated to be deported to their home countries, the White House said Monday. The Trump administration sent at least 238 members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang living illegally in the U.S. to El Salvador around the same time a federal judge moved to block deportations of illegal immigrants under a wartime law involved by President Donald Trump. On Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt detailed the cost to U.S. taxpayers. EL SALVADOR PRESIDENT RIPS FBI TRUMP RAID, QUESTIONS WHAT US GOV’T WOULD SAY IF HIS POLICE TARGETED CANDIDATES “It was approximately $6 million, to El Salvador, for the detention of these foreign terrorists,” she told reporters. “And I would point out that is pennies on the dollar in comparison to the cost of life, and the cost it would impose on the American taxpayer to house these terrorists in maximum security prisons here in the United States of America.” In a social media post over the weekend, El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele said the U.S. “will pay a very low fee” for his country to house the migrants, “but a high one for us.” RUBIO HEADS TO PANAMA, LATIN AMERICA TO PURSUE TRUMP’S ‘GOLDEN AGE’ AGENDA “Over time, these actions, combined with the production already being generated by more than 40,000 inmates engaged in various workshops and labor under the Zero Idleness program, will help make our prison system self-sustainable. As of today, it costs $200 million per year,” Bukele wrote on X. Secretary of State Marco Rubio celebrated the Salvadoran president as “the strongest security leader in our region” and “a great friend of the U.S.” for accepting criminal illegal aliens. The deportations of the gang members came as U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to halt its deportations of illegal immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 that Trump invoked on Friday to target Tren de Aragua members in the U.S. Boasberg ordered flights that were “actively departing” to return. The wartime powers act allows the deportation of natives and citizens of an enemy nation without a hearing. It has been invoked three times before, including, during the War of 1812, World War I and World War II. Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.
White House press secretary says Statue of Liberty going nowhere, replies to French politician
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt chastised a low-ranking French politician who made headlines for demanding that the United States return the Statue of Liberty. During a Monday press briefing, Leavitt reminded Raphaël Glucksmann, a member of the European Parliament and co-president of a small left-wing party in France, that he would be speaking German if it weren’t for American troops. Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Leavitt on Monday if President Donald Trump would give the Statue of Liberty, which has graced New York City’s harbor since the 1800s, back to France. FRENCH PARLIAMENT MEMBER WANTS US TO RETURN STATUE OF LIBERTY: ‘APPARENTLY YOU DESPISE IT’ “Absolutely not,” Leavitt said with a smile. “And, my advice to that unnamed, low-level French politician would be to remind them that it’s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now.” “So they should be very grateful to our great country,” she added, nodding to how American troops liberated France from Nazi Germany’s occupation in World War II. In an address to supporters of his Public Place party on Sunday, Glucksmann told the United States, “Give us back the Statue of Liberty.” “It was our gift to you. But apparently you despise her. So she will be happy here with us,” Glucksmann said, garnering applause and whistles from his audience. Glucksmann’s party has posted accusations on its website that Trump is wielding power in an “authoritarian” manner and is “preparing to deliver Ukraine on a silver platter” to Russia. In his speech, Glucksmann referenced New York poet Emma Lazarus’ words about the statue, the “mighty woman with a torch” who promised a home for the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” “Today, this land is ceasing to be what it was,” Glucksmann said. RUSSIA WANTS ‘IRONCLAD’ GUARANTEE THAT UKRAINE WILL BE BARRED FROM NATO: OFFICIAL French President Emmanuel Macron has let his prime minister, François Bayrou, play the role of being a more critical voice of the Trump administration. Bayrou condemned what he called the “brutality” that was shown to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his White House visit, and suggested that Trump’s administration risked handing victory to Russia when it paused military aid to Ukraine. UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural arm that has the Statue of Liberty on its list of World Heritage treasures, notes that the iconic monument is U.S. government property. It was initially envisaged as a monumental gesture of French-American friendship to mark the 100th anniversary of the July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence. A war that erupted in 1870 between France and German states led by Prussia diverted the energies of the monument’s designer, French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. The gift also took time to be funded, with a decision taken that the French would pay for the statue and Americans would cover the costs of its pedestal. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Transported in 350 pieces from France, the statue was officially unveiled Oct. 28, 1886. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Who is James Boasberg, the US judge at the center of Trump’s deportation efforts?
The federal judge who temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s use of a wartime law to deport Venezuelan nationals could be at the center of a larger battle after Trump’s border czar vowed Monday to continue sending migrants back to Latin America. U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg made headlines Saturday for granting an emergency restraining order blocking the Trump administration from invoking a 1798 law to immediately deport Venezuelan nationals, including alleged members of the violent gang Tren de Aragua, for 14 days. Boasberg sided with the plaintiffs, Democracy Forward and the ACLU, in ruling that the deportations would likely pose imminent and “irreparable” harm. “Given the exigent circumstances that [the court] has been made aware of this morning, it has determined that an immediate Order is warranted to maintain the status quo until a hearing can be set,” Boasberg said in his order, which blocked Trump from invoking any deportations under the Alien Enemies Act for two weeks. His decision drew immediate criticism from Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, who declared in an interview on “Fox & Friends” that, “We are not stopping.” TRUMP ASKS SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW BAN ON BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP “I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the Left thinks. We’re coming,” Homan, said, adding, “Another fight. Another fight every day.” This was not the first time Boasberg found himself in the crosshairs of Trump’s supporters – he previously oversaw the FISA court that authorized surveillance of certain members of Trump’s 2016 campaign. Boasberg, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., was appointed to the bench nearly 15 years ago by President Barack Obama. In 2014, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts appointed him to serve a seven-year term on the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISA Court – a court comprised of 11 federal judges hand-selected by the chief justice. The judges undergo extensive background checks prior to their confirmation, and are tasked with approving surveillance requests and wiretap warrants sought by federal prosecutors, law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Most of their work remains classified. Boasberg served as the presiding judge of the FISA Court from 2020 to 2021. RUBIO HEADS TO PANAMA, LATIN AMERICA TO PURSUE TRUMP’S ‘GOLDEN AGE’ AGENDA A graduate of Yale, Oxford University and Yale Law, Boasberg clerked for the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals before later joining the Justice Department as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. After returning full-time to the federal bench, Boasberg oversaw the sentencing of former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, who pleaded guilty to doctoring a 2017 email asking to extend surveillance permissions for its wiretap of former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. Boasberg declined to sentence Clinesmith to prison time and instead ordered him to just 12 months of probation and 400 hours of community service – a notable decision, given his own background on the FISA court. He said in his sentencing decision that he believed Clinesmith’s role at the center of a years-long media “hurricane” had provided sufficient punishment. “Anybody who has watched what Mr. Clinesmith has suffered is not someone who will readily act in that fashion,” Boasberg said. HERE’S WHY DOZENS OF LAWSUITS SEEKING TO QUASH TRUMP’S EARLY ACTIONS AS PRESIDENT ARE FAILING “Weighing all of these factors together – both in terms of the damages he caused and what he has suffered and the positives in his own life – I believe a probationary sentence is appropriate here and will therefore impose it,” he continued. Until recently, Boasberg has largely avoided making headlines, including any public broadsides that may have put him at odds with the Trump administration. That changed quickly when he granted the restraining order this weekend. The decision was immediately appealed by lawyers for the Trump administration. Although Boasberg’s order said any plane carrying migrants removed by the law in question be “immediately” returned to the U.S., the decision apparently came too late to stop an early wave of migrants being deported to El Salvador. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that a plane carrying hundreds of individuals – including more than 130 persons removed under the Alien Enemies Act – had already “left U.S. airspace” by the time the order was handed down. “The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist [Tren de Aragua] aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory,” Leavitt said. It is unclear what, if any, steps the judge could take to reverse that action. The standoff is the latest in a wave of legal challenges seeking to block or slow the wave of sweeping executive actions or orders Trump has issued in his second White House term, a fight that has come to define Trump’s first few months back in office. Courts have struggled to slow the dizzying pace of executive orders, which have called for the gutting of government personnel from federal agencies, halted billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid, and attempted to ban birthright citizenship, among other things. As of this writing, Trump has signed at least 200 executive orders and actions – most of which have been met with multiple court challenges and lawsuits. Most are in the earliest stages of legal limbo, as courts seek to clarify the intent of the ruling, the alleged harm caused to plaintiffs, and later, to discern whether it is necessary or appropriate for the courts to intervene. The White House asserts that lower court judges like Boasberg should not have the power to prevent the president from executing what it argues is a lawful agenda – though the judges in question have disagreed that the president’s actions all follow the law. “A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft carrier full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil,” Leavitt told Fox News. At issue is Trump’s use of the 228-year-old Alien Enemies Act to quickly deport Venezuelan nationals presumed to be members of
No, ‘nerds’ and their technologies are not going to save the world
The United States is in the midst of a soft coup. The country is being reshaped and restructured under the second administration of Donald Trump. It is not Trump himself, but his billionaire special adviser, Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, who is guiding this change. And in Musk’s America, there is one demographic that seems to have found itself at centre stage and rapidly gaining power: “nerds”. Indeed, Musk’s mendacious band of merry, young white and white-adjacent acolytes, including Gavin Kliger, Edward Coristine, and Marko Elez, who has gained control over multitrillion-dollar government systems, easily fit the mold of nerd. The Information Age and the Internet Age that it spawned in the 1990s had already seen “nerds” – awkward, unattractive men with limited social skills but immense commitment to and enthusiasm for tech and STEM – become billionaires and gain widespread respect and admiration for delivering the world technologies that change lives. It was, we were repeatedly reminded, nerds who first gave us PCs and iMacs and then iPhones and Androids. Advertisement In numerous articles in tech magazines and in movies like Revenge of the Nerds (1984), Oppenheimer (2023), Steve Jobs (2015), and The Social Network (2010), creatives have portrayed nerds like nuclear weapons developer J Robert Oppenheimer, Apple’s Steve Jobs, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg as underdogs. Popular media have long described such nerdy visionaries as complex people with a tremendous need to save the world and make it a better place. Three decades ago, the UK’s Channel 4 and the US’s Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) aired the three-part documentary titled Triumph of the Nerds. Referencing the computer revolution the nerd set launched between 1975 and 1995, longtime technology journalist Robert X Cringely said, “The most amazing thing of all is that it happened by accident because a bunch of disenfranchised nerds wanted to impress their friends.” This perception of billionaire nerds may by now be a deep-rooted part of our culture, but the idea that the robber barons of the late 20th century accumulated immense wealth, almost by accident, while trying to save the world is a ridiculous lie. Especially given the iron-fisted ways in which we know many “nerd billionaires” – and especially Jobs and Bill Gates – ran their capitalist ventures. In light of the heavy-handed censorship that billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong have exercised with the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times in recent months, it is apparent that the tech-savvy billionaire class wants to control the flow of truth as well. Advertisement A much better description of the “nerds” who came to rule America under Trump was given in a single line in Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), when Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson), having extralegally entered the South African consulate, said to Arjen Rudd (Joss Ackland) and his group of apartheid-loving white South African mercenaries, “Well, well … it’s the master race!” This quote is far more than just a reference to Musk’s dubious path to US citizenship through South Africa and Canada. It’s about the reality that, like the South African henchmen in Lethal Weapon 2, tech nerd billionaires such as Musk and the people he has employed at DOGE believe in apartheid, eugenics, and other racist, misogynistic, and queerphobic paradigms. Sure, many of the Musk fanboys are engineers, can write, and make contributions to Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink that lead to important and useful-to-humanity discoveries and inventions. Nevertheless, they also repost tweets on X and other social media platforms that refer to a woman as a “huzz” or declare “I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask?”. They are not exactly great role models for a multicultural democracy or for any workforce. And, like white men in general, they don’t seem to be concerned about making the world a better place for anyone other than themselves. They would too readily agree with Zuckerberg’s ridiculous claim that the tech world needs more “masculine energy”, when, in fact, white men remain the dominant demographic leading this economic sector. Advertisement I was once a part of the computer-crazy nerd world in the 1980s and 1990s. I learned Basic in eighth grade, took Pascal in 11th grade, and spent my first three semesters at the University of Pittsburgh as a computer science major before changing my path to becoming a writer and academic historian. As a work-study student, I worked in Pitt’s computing labs for two years. I observed as my equally geeky co-workers made jokes about our “computer illiterate” classmates (including the regular use of the r-word). I watched my male counterparts rub up too closely to the women who needed their help troubleshooting computer issues. And in my last three months on staff, I experienced sexual and racial harassment from an older white woman, a co-worker who groped me twice while at work. Social awkwardness can easily be portrayed as innocent and endearing in a film. But it rarely if ever translates to “sweet” in a world that socially defaults to racist, misogynistic, queerphobic, and xenophobic behaviours. Nerds or not, all white men in a white male supremacist society hold a metric tonne of racial and gender privilege – a sense of entitlement that, when left unchecked, makes them no different from “cool” white guys. Booger asking Gilbert, “Why? Does she have a penis?” – a transphobic reference to his friend not getting laid in Revenge of the Nerds – isn’t much different than Musk declaring that he “lost” his “son” – his estranged transgender daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson – to “the woke mind virus”. Advertisement There’s also the embedded assumption that the technologies created by the elite nerd set have always been good for the world. Not when addiction to social media has led to millions of younger Americans becoming depressed, anxious, and isolated. Not with a new generation of American males doxxing and committing image-based sexual abuse against girls and women. Certainly not when the plagiarism machines of AI (which isn’t true
EU warns of threat to Syrian transition while pledging billions in aid
NewsFeed The EU has pledged $2.7 billion in aid to Syria to help the country rebuild after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The bloc made the pledge at a gathering of donor countries while warning that recent violence could threaten the progress made under the new leadership in Damascus. Published On 17 Mar 202517 Mar 2025 Adblock test (Why?)