DAILYCALLER (Ireland Owens) - EXCLUSIVE: EPA Moves To Speed Up Permitting ‘Without Wasting Taxpayer Resources’
'clear and concise'
WAR (Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War) - Hegseth: Defense and Fiscal Hawks, Unite!
Urgency, speed, efficiency, competition and lethality are the new guiding principles of the War Department, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth writes. This moment requires defense hawks and fiscal hawks to pull together.
NYTIMES (Lydia DePillis) - America’s Thirst for Gasoline May Not Recover After Iran War
People drove less and bought more-efficient cars when fuel prices surged, habits that could stick over the long term.
BITCHUTE - Justin Fulcher ran DOGE at DOD and VA. He explains what DOGE revealed about how government really works.
Aired On: 6/19/2026
NYTIMES (Eli Tan) - Tech Workers Maxed Out Their A.I. Use. Now They’re Trying to Minimize It.
Artificial intelligence is expensive to use, many companies discovered. That has led to a new era of saving costs.
AXIOS (Jim VandeHei) - Jim VandeHei: Writing with AI
Few AI use cases elicit more outrage than writing: Using AI makes writing duller ... dumber ... robotic. It kills thinking ... creativity ... originality. It produces sameness and slop! Why it matters: All that's true — if you, as the teacher or writer, allow it to be true. Lazy AI outsourcing means lazy thinking and writing. Used with persistence and skill, AI can enhance both your thoughts and expression. I'm thinking and writing more and better than ever. But I want to be frank and useful about what I've learned about writing and the limits I've hit since turning myself into an AI lab rat : - Caution 1: I'm 55, a writer by training, went in aware of AI dangers, and am a prolific writer with or without it. Anyone lazily letting AI…
NYTIMES (Ezra Klein) - What the Cult of Efficiency Costs Us
The Save Our Bacon Act is bad for pigs and bad for us.
AMERICANTHINKER - Oh no! Government employees are losing their jobs!
Isn't small, limited, efficient government the point?
AMERICANTHINKER - Trump’s Epic Fraud Crackdown is 'America First' for the Midterms
Photo Credit:fraud illustration pixabay Trump's creation of the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud represents real commitment to making government work efficiently for American citizens.
NYTIMES (Kalley Huang) - Is A.I. Replacing Tech Workers or Providing an Excuse for Job Cuts?
Tech industry layoffs are accelerating, and executives have been quick to say it’s because their companies are doing more with artificial intelligence, even when there may be more to it.