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here really any chance of that? I would say no. But I look at WhatsApp's denial. And now you know what you're looking for. So they're not denying that there's a back door. Here's what they're denying. We don't track your precise location. May be true. But do they track anybody else's precise location? I believe they don't track mine, but they're not interested. Does that mean they couldn't if the…

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s on the US-Mexico border from 2,500 to 80,000? And the new thing that the Trump administration is doing at the border is they've got these military zones. So they have designated that this little sliver of land when you first come over our border are actually military zones and that allows the military to arrest people and detain them, not arrest them forever but detain them for the border patrol. So apparently that's working. So that was pretty clever. Another thing that Biden didn't think of.

On the subject of the big beautiful bill according to the Hill it looks like there might be a little trouble because the House passed their version but then the Senate gets to mark it up and make their changes before they send it back to the House. And apparently the Republicans are not in agreement on how much to cut Medicaid. And I feel underinformed on this topic because the Democrats have been saying, "You Republicans are going to cut Medicaid." And then the Republicans would say, "No, we're not. Trump doesn't want to do that." And then I read the news that the Senate is trying to cut Medicaid. And apparently that's what the current version of the bill does. It cuts Medicaid like quite a bit. So my question would be what exactly are they cutting? Does that mean that somebody who should be covered is not covered or is it just what does it do? Is it just paying the medical professionals less? Is it just saying that if you're not a citizen you can't get covered? We're missing the main part of the story. The story just says they're going to cut Medicaid. Does that really tell you anything? Don't you kind of need to know who are they cutting and why? Are they cutting everybody 5% so the hospital has to take less money or are they saying you people can't be on it and you're citizens? I don't know. So that's a big question.

Well, according to Reclaim the Net, the X platform is suing New York because New York wants to force some kind of moderation disclosure. So they want the X corporation and presumably other platforms to define how they moderate politically sensitive content such as hate speech, misinformation, and extremism. Now, you might say to yourself, why does X care so much about these labeled categories? And the answer is that it would give New York state some control over how X categorizes things. So basically it would be a clever way to censor X content without doing it directly. So X is taking them to court.

There's a report from Fox News that over 100 LA looters ransacked an AutoZone. And what the story says is they wonder if it's a street takeover. Street takeover. Is that a thing? So now there's such a thing as a street takeover, which is so well understood that you can just mention it in a news story without defining it. Because I don't know exactly what a street takeover is, but I'm assuming it's a mob that's so big that they can kind of take over the street and loot it. Is that what it is? Because as soon as something like that has a name where you can say, "Oh, it looks like we're planning a street takeover on Thursday," well, you're going to get a lot more of it if it has a name. So that's bad.

Kraft Heinz says it's going to remove the artificial dyes from its US products by the end of 2027, according to CBS News. And my question would be this. Are the artificial dyes

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the things that make the Kraft Heinz products unhealthy? Isn't it the food itself? Now I suppose it depends which food you're talking about. But is Kraft Heinz notable for creating healthy food and the only problem was a couple of food dyes are banned? I feel like they're getting away easy if all they do is get rid of the food coloring, but it's better than nothing. So get rid of that food colorin…

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