Elon Musk’s popularity with the American public is waning, according tothe latest polling average from Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin. The billionaire CEO of multiple companies wears many hats, but the most visible one of late has been as the face of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an organization that has been tearing through the US government administrative state.

Silver Bulletin’s average shows that 53.5 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of Musk, and only 39.6 percent of Americans see him favorably. His unpopularity is way up since the beginning of 2024 when only 38 percent of people disliked him, according to the site’s tracker. Silver writes that

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Just stumbled on the uap.guide website once again after some time. I just looked through all of the quotes of ex-military people and politicians saying that UAP exist. After reading all of these, how can people not believe that UAP are real?

UAP exist

We have things flying over our military bases and places where we’re conducting military exercises and we don't know what it is and it isn't ours... 

— Marco Rubio

US Senator (R)

7/16/2020 | Fox News

I think some of the phenomena we’re seeing continues to be unexplained and might... constitute

Kelly told the New York Times that Trump meets the definition of a fascist and also said he observed the former president on multiple occasions praising Adolf Hitler.

Thirteen former Trump White House officials signed an open letter backing up former Trump chief of staff John Kelly, who told the New York Times that Trump fits the definition of a fascist.

"We applaud General Kelly for highlighting in stark details the danger of a second Trump term. Like General Kelly, we did not take the decision to come forward lightly," the letter said. "We are all lifelong Republicans who served our country. However, there are moments in history where it becomes necessary to put country over party. This is one of those moments."

[Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/25/never-trump-former-officials-back-kelly-warning-00185435?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-

Politico reports that it was sent communications from inside the Trump campaign, including Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) 271-page vetting file, allegedly by an Iranian hacker.

The outlet said that it has been receiving anonymous emails containing internal communications from the Trump campaign. The campaign acknowledged the authenticity of the communications on Saturday, accusing “foreign sources hostile to the United States,” for leaking them.

The Democrats flipped the seat recently held by pathological liar, former GOP House member, current Cameo star George Santos, NY-03. And to hear many pundits tell it, the key to victory for Democrats lies in...talking like Republicans on immigration. It's not just NPR, either. Politico, the New York Times, the Washington Post...the pundit class has reached near unanimity that the path to electoral victory for Team Blue runs over immigrant communities. It's disgustingly misguided, both morally and electorally.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)

A pro-life political organization obtained mobile phone location data from a broker and used it to target people who had visited 600 abortion clinics across the country with advertisements, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) announced Tuesday.

Wyden is now calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to quickly take action against the data broker, Near Intelligence, and ensure the privacy of the patients whose data was exploited is protected, according to a letter he sent to the agencies.

The senator began investigating the company last year, in the wake of a Wall Street Journal report revealing that the pro-life Veritas Society had used cell phone location data Near shared with online advertisers to target people visiting Wisconsin Planned

The decision follows allegations that some UNRWA workers were involved in the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel carried out by Palestinian militant group Hamas.

The actual tweet:

The Italian government suspended funding @UNRWA after the atrocious attack by Hamas against Israel on 7 October. Allied countries have recently made the same decision. We are committed to humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian population, protecting Israel's security.

Other coverage of Italy's responses to the revelation that at least 12 UNRWA employees actively participated and used UNRWA facilities and vehicles in the staging and immediate aftermath of October 7th:

• Times of Israel
• [Jerusalem Post][jpost]
• [Al Arabiya][al-arabiya]
• [Politico][politico]
• [Times of India][times-of-india]

[AP has more background][ap], but hasn't picked up on Italy yet.

A US judge has allowed four persons who visited whistleblower and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was residing in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to continue their legal battle against the CIA, which was launched in the summer of 2022.

The four – journalists John Goetz and Charles Glass, as well as attorneys Margaret Ratner Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek – allege that the agency spied on them during the visits.

District Court Judge John Koeltl made this decision in response to the CIA asking the Manhattan court to dismiss the case.

We obtained a copy of the decision for you here (PDF).

The filing accuses the spies of gaining access to data copied from their phones without their knowledge, and Judge Koeltl agreed that, if this occurred, it was an act of unconstitutional privacy violation, therefore representing sufficient grounds for the lawsuit to proceed.

cross-posted from: https://fedinews.net/m/ImproveTheNews/t/4667

• As part of the UK's first two-day Artificial Intelligence (AI) safety summit, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced Thursday that a number of technology companies had signed a voluntary document alongside 10 countries and the EU, allowing governments to safety-test next-generation AI models. BBC News
• Eight companies — Amazon, Google, Open AI, Meta, Microsoft, Inflection AI, Mistral AI, and Anthropic — signed the document, alongside the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the EU. POLITICO
• According to Sunak, AI models will be tested by the UK's AI Safety Institute — a continuation of entrepreneur Ian Hogarth's Frontier AI Taskforce. UKTN
• The UK's AI

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• During a meeting on Sunday at the G20 summit in India, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak expressed his concern in a sideline meeting regarding alleged PRC Chinese interference in Britain's parliamentary democracy to Premier Li Qiang of China. This comes after two Chinese men were arrested on spying allegations. Reuters (LR: 3 CP: 5)
• The two men were arrested under the UK's Official Secrets Act amid accusations that a parliamentary researcher spied for China. One of the men, in his 20s, is reported to have had relations with several governing Conservative Party MPs; another man in his 30s was arrested in March and was subsequently released on bail. India Today
• Two m

Stora onlineplattformar behöver lämna in årliga självutvärderingar med förslag på förbättringar eller riskera stora böter.

I slutet av augusti kommer onlineplattformar med över 45 miljoner användare inom EU att behöva anpassa sig när fler regler inom Digital Services Act (DSA) börjar gälla. Stora företag som Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok och Youtube kommer då att för första gången behöva lämna in en årlig utvärdering till EU-kommissionen över vilken samhällspåverkan de har inom flera olika områden, såsom barns hälsa och mental hälsa. Det hela uppmärksammades först av Politico.

Plattformarna behöver utvärdera om design, algoritmer, marknadsföring eller användaravtal har en negativ påverkan på användare och därefter föreslå konkreta åtgärder som kan genomföras. Detta kommer samtidigt granskas att av r

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Deep in the shuttered gold mines that defined California’s beginnings there live colonies of golden-hued mammals that could come to define the state’s future: the once-humble Pallid bat.

Chiroptera enthusiasts have been working to get a state bat on the books since at least 2017, but the movement kicked into high gear this year when a 12-year-old from Los Angeles began a well-connected lobbying campaign to elevate the Pallid bat to icon status.

Over half of North America’s 154 bat species are at risk of population decline in the next 15 years, and yet the Pallid bat — which eats scorpions and drinks cactus water — is surviving. It’s on the state’s list of mammals to watch, but is not endangered or threatened.

Still, middle-schooler Naomi D’Alessio wants to make sure the flying mammals are protected for years to come. So she began lobbying state Sen. Caroline Menjivar (D-Panorama City) to author the bat bill, CA SB732 (23R), this year after recording bat call