BITCHUTE - Sofia Karstens - Deep Capture: The Administrative State's Intellectual Origins
Aired On: 8/14/2026
NYTIMES (Natasha Singer) - Google Turns On Gemini A.I. for Students Using Its Classroom App
Google enabled A.I. features for K-12 schools that have allowed student access to Gemini. Until this week, Google automatically enabled Gemini in Classroom only for students 18 or older.
NYTIMES (Erica L. Green) - Trump Dismisses Reports About Dire Conditions Aboard U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln
Asked whether the deployment of the Abraham Lincoln had gone on too long, the president said its deployment had lasted “not nearly long enough.”
NYTIMES (John Ismay) - Navy and USS Lincoln’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War
Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.
YOUTUBE (The Hill) - Trump directs Navy to return to steam catapults on aircraft carriers
President Trump ordered the U.S. Navy on Thursday to remove the electromagnetic catapult system on aircraft carriers to launch fighter planes and revert back to using steam catapult systems, a move that officials and experts argue would raise costs in the process. The president directed the service to equip Ford-class aircraft carriers, such as the USS Doris Miller currently being constructed, with steam-powered catapult and hydraulic systems instead of the newer Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Weapons Elevators. Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/6029103-trump-orders-navy-catapult-reversal/ #USNavy #Navy #Trump #Pentagon #Military #USSGeraldRFord
YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - ‘Elaborate ruse’: David Rohde on THREE planes being sent to London amid Iran threat
Katy Tur discusses the repercussions of Trump and his three separate jets that landed in the U.K., including the Qatari jet, the real Air Force One, and the decoy plane. David Rohde, MS NOW Senior National Security Reporter; Susan Glasser, Staff Writer for The New Yorker; and Mike Madrid, Political Director of the California Republican Party, join Katy to break down the continued fallout.
AXIOS (Caitlin Owens) - A convergence of biological risks
What's the common thread connecting AI advances, biological breakthroughs, a preponderance of high-risk-high-reward research, escalating geopolitical tensions and a hollowed-out U.S. public health sector? - They all heighten the risk that one day a lethal human-made pathogen will emerge, either accidentally or intentionally, and we won't be ready for it. Why it matters: The same advances that make this a pivotal moment for medical innovation are intensifying the risk of catastrophic lab mishaps, though how significant a risk is hotly debated by experts. - "It is a very small tweak from trying to target a disease, and making gene therapies to try to target a disease, to turning a virus into something that can be much more detrimental,"…
What's the common thread connecting AI advances, biological breakthroughs, a preponderance of high-risk-high-reward research, escalating geopolitical tensions and a hollowed-out U.S. public health sector? - They all heighten the risk that one day a lethal human-made pathogen will emerge, either accidentally or intentionally, and we won't be ready for it. Why it matters: The same advances that make this a pivotal moment for medical innovation are intensifying the risk of catastrophic lab mishaps, though how significant a risk is hotly debated by experts. - "It is a very small tweak from trying to target a disease, and making gene therapies to try to target a disease, to turning a virus into something that can be much more detrimental,"…Open
ABCNEWS - Judge refuses to block Trump administration from building border wall along tribe's reservation
A federal judge has refused to block the Trump administration from taking steps to build 62 miles of international border wall along part of a Native American tribe’s reservation without its consent