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As Trump Uses Military to Threaten Democracy, NYT Declares Military Needs More Resources
The **New York Times** published a seven-day series of editorials (12/8/25–12/14/25) meant to examine, as the [initial piece](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/08/opinion/us-china-taiwan-military.html) put it, “what’s gone wrong with the US military” and “how we can create a relevant and effective force that can deter wars whenever possible and win them wherever necessary.” These editorials serve as little more than propagandistic, jingoistic and Sinophobic tools that treat war as a game, turning a blind eye to the very real harms that wars have on civilians. Devoting seven editorials to boosting the US military when the country’s own democracy is under threat—and Trump is using the military so irresponsibly and illegally that high-level officers are [resigning](https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/public-servants-with-nearly-450-years-of-experience-have-resigned-in-protest/#%3A%7E%3Atext=In+the+months+since+President%2Cgone+through+four+different+commissioners.)—the **Times** demonstrated that its [commitment to militarism](https://fair.org/home/nyt-laments-forever-wars-its-editorials-helped-create/) knows few bounds. ### **‘Threaten democracies everywhere’**  ***New York Times** ([12/8/25](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/08/opinion/us-china-taiwan-military.html)): “America’s military has defended the free world for 80 years,” a timespan that includes both the [Vietnam War](https://fair.org/home/ken-burns-vietnam-war-an-object-lesson-in-the-failures-of-the-objective-lens/) and the [invasion of Iraq](https://fair.org/take-action/media-advisories/iraq-and-the-media/).* In total, the **New York Times** series referenced China 50 times, Russia 26 times and Israel just twice. It fed into an increasing [Yellow Peril hysteria](https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/is-the-yellow-peril-dead) in a country that has a long [history](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-bloody-history-of-anti-asian-violence-in-the-west) of hatred towards [China](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/opinion/anti-china-sentiment.html) and [Chinese people](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/03/us/anti-asian-attacks.html), and from a news outlet that has repeatedly [expressed](https://fair.org/home/coronavirus-alarm-blends-yellow-peril-and-red-scare/) [anti-China](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjzqwyNBEPo) [sentiment](https://fair.org/home/nyt-reveals-that-a-tech-mogul-likes-china-and-that-mccarthyism-is-alive-and-well/). The **Times** ([12/8/25](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/08/opinion/us-china-taiwan-military.html)) kicked off the series by citing a Pentagon “classified, multiyear assessment,” called the “Overmatch brief,” which “catalogs China’s ability to destroy American fighter planes, large ships and satellites, and identifies the US military’s supply chain choke points.” The paper—which didn’t disclose how it obtained the brief, and didn’t publish its contents—called it “consistent and disturbing.” The editorial opined that a “rising China” will “outlast this administration,” and will “require credible US military power as a backstop to international order and the security of the free world.” A “world in which a totalitarian China achieves military superiority in Asia…would make Americans poorer and threaten democracies everywhere,” a “prospect we should act resolutely to prevent,” the **Times** continued. ### ‘Urgent need for credible deterrence’ In another installment in the series, the **Times** ([12/13/25](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/13/opinion/editorials/trump-us-military-alliances-spending.html)) added that China’s “gaming of international trade, rising hostility to neighbors and especially its accelerating military buildup show the urgent need for credible deterrence,” including more collaboration from the “world’s democracies.”  ***New York Times** ([12/13/25](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/13/opinion/editorials/trump-us-military-alliances-spending.html)): “America…accounts for just 17% of global manufacturing.” (Note that this is four times the US percentage of the world’s population.)* It’s not China, though, that is threatening to [annex](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/stephen-miller-greenland-venezuela.html) [its](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-suggests-use-military-force-acquire-panama-canal-greenland-econo-rcna186610) [neighbors](https://www.nytimes.com/
View originalKristi Noem Nearly Destroyed FEMA. Will Her Exit Save It?
*This story was originally published b*y [Grist](https://grist.org/politics/kristi-noem-fema-trump-markwayne-mullin/) *and is reproduced here as part of the* [Climate Desk](http://www.climatedesk.org/) *collaboration.* During the year she spent leading the US Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, Kristi Noem faced a torrent of criticism. Lawmakers from both parties assailed her for lying about the [shooting of protestors](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cre02yzv807o) in Minneapolis and spending [millions of dollars](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/terribly-awkward-gop-senator-scolds-164242119.html) on television commercials. Government audits concluded that she “systematically obstructed” investigations and created security risks at airports. Now she has become the first cabinet-level official fired by President Donald Trump during his second term. After a combative hearing last week, during which Noem seemed to mislead Congress about whether Trump approved her ad spending, the president fired her. As DHS secretary, Noem also raised eyebrows for an unprecedented degree of control over staffing and spending at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. She [paused most FEMA payments](https://grist.org/extreme-weather/kristi-noem-fema-dhs-trump-disaster/), leading to extensive delays for disaster recovery, and sought to [slash the agency’s on-call workforce](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/climate/fema-staff-cuts-1000-workers.html) by thousands of employees. She also expressed a desire to downsize or eliminate the agency entirely, shifting the burden of disaster relief onto the states. A growing number of critics and experts believe that Noem’s interference with FEMA may well have been illegal. This week, two Senate Democrats [released a report](https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/library/files/fema-report/) alleging that Noem’s blanket freeze on FEMA payments violated federal law. At the same time, lawyers for a federal workers’ union [argued to a federal judge](https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/03/DOJ-contradicts-FEMA-on-who-approved-mass-firings/411860/) in California that Noem’s workforce cuts also violated the law. In both cases, critics pointed to legislation passed after Hurricane Katrina, which prohibits DHS from interfering with FEMA. “I have reason to believe that you’re violating the law, either knowingly or unknowingly,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican representing North Carolina, during his questioning of Noem. > “I think Congress never anticipated [that] what has happened would happen, or they would have probably put in more clarity” These accusations will remain relevant if Noem’s apparent successor, Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin, continues her quest to make permanent changes to FEMA’s structure—a goal that the president has frequently suggested he supports. Though President Trump has in many cases been able to make unilateral cuts to federal programs on a rapid timeline—as with the Department of Education and US Agency for International Development—the post-Katrina law may put FEMA on stronger footing for the rest of the president’s term. “To my knowledge, DHS has never been involved in decision-making about the FEMA workforce,” said MaryAnn Tierney, a former FEMA official who led the agency’s regional office on the Eastern Seaboard for more than a decade. The Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 emerged from a series of federal investigations into the agency’s failures after the devastating storm, which killed more than 1,400 people and submerged much of New Orleans. A bipartisan select committee in the House of Representatives found that the agency’s leaders had dithered for days before activating key response measures, and that there were numerous breakdowns in the agency’s chain of command. Congress also found that FEMA had withered after the Bush administration placed it under the newly-created Department of Homeland Security, where leaders were focused on combating terrorism in the wake of 9/11. As a result, they did very little planning for a major natural disaster like Katrina. State emergency managers testified to Congress that FEMA was “emaciated and anemic” and had been “lost in the shuffle” at DHS. Congress tried to fix this in 2006 with a law requiring that FEMA leadership have experience in emergency management and giving the agency the ability to report directly to the president during disasters. The law also stated that “the secretary [of DHS] may not substantially or significantly reduce the authorities, responsibilities, or functions…or the capability of the agency.” Noem attempted to do just this. Trump has not nominated anyone to lead FEMA since he assumed office last year—the law requires a FEMA administrator with at least five years of emergency management experience—and has instead designated three different acting administrators, avoiding Senate confirmation and the emergency management experience requirement. The most recent,
View originalRecall vs. Wisdom: What Over-Personalization Reveals About the Future of Relational AI
[Original Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1ro4k19/recall_vs_wisdom_what_overpersonalization_reveals/) The over-personalization problem isn’t really about memory. It’s about relationship. When an AI assistant drags your hiking preferences into a weather query, the failure isn’t technical recall gone haywire. It’s a system that has no idea what it means to actually be in a conversation with someone. That distinction matters more than it might seem, because the entire industry just bet big on the opposite assumption. Google recently rolled out automatic memory for Gemini. The feature is on by default. Without any prompting from the user, Gemini now recalls “key details and preferences” from past conversations and injects them into future responses. Google frames this as “Personal Intelligence,” a system that connects the dots across Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube to make the assistant “uniquely helpful for you.” And it’s not just Gemini. This is part of a broader push to make memory the centerpiece of the AI assistant experience. The pitch is simple: the more an AI knows about you, the better it serves you. But OP-Bench, the first systematic benchmark for over-personalization, tells a different story. It turns out that the more aggressively a system uses what it remembers, the worse the interaction gets. Not occasionally. Universally. Every memory-augmented system they tested showed severe over-personalization. And the more sophisticated the memory architecture, the harder it failed. We’ve been so focused on the capacity to remember that we’ve neglected the wisdom of when to use what we remember. That’s not an engineering oversight. It’s a relational one. Memory Without Attunement Is Just Surveillance Here’s the thing. A system that remembers everything about you and surfaces it indiscriminately isn’t being helpful. It’s performing ambient surveillance dressed up as personalization. People describe over-personalizing systems as “creepy” and “overly familiar,” and those aren’t technical complaints. They’re relational ones. The system has violated something unspoken about when personal knowledge should enter a conversation. Google’s approach makes this tension vivid. Gemini doesn’t just remember what you explicitly told it to remember. It silently mines your past conversations for details and preferences, then weaves them into future responses without asking whether that’s what you wanted. The feature shipped turned on by default. You have to go dig through Settings, find “Personal context,” and manually toggle it off. If you’re a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscriber, the “Personal Intelligence” layer goes further, pulling context from your email, your photos, your search history. The integration is seamless, which is exactly what makes it concerning. This maps onto one of the foundational problems in relational AI: the difference between knowing about someone and being attuned to them. Knowing about someone is a database operation. You store facts, retrieve them, insert them into responses. Attunement is qualitatively different. It requires reading the current moment, understanding what the person actually needs right now, and making a judgment call about which pieces of shared history belong in this exchange and which ones don’t. OP-Bench makes this distinction measurable for the first time. Their three failure modes map cleanly onto relational breakdowns. Irrelevance is a failure of contextual reading: the system can’t tell the difference between “semantically similar” and “conversationally appropriate.” Sycophancy is a failure of honesty: the system weaponizes personal knowledge to tell you what you want to hear instead of what’s true. Repetition is a failure of presence: the system is stuck rehashing old interactions instead of engaging with this one. All three are failures of attunement, not memory. The Attention Hijack The technical finding about “memory hijacking” deserves a closer look. When researchers examined attention patterns, they found that memory-augmented models attend to retrieved memory tokens at roughly twice the rate they attend to the actual user query. Let that sink in. The model is paying more attention to what it already knows about you than to what you’re saying right now. In any healthy relationship, the balance between history and presence matters. You bring what you know about the other person into the conversation, but you don’t let it drown out your ability to listen. Over-personalizing systems have lost that balance entirely. They’re so saturated with stored context that they can’t hear the present moment. And this isn’t just a chatbot problem. As we build multi-agent systems where AI agents maintain persistent memory about users, tasks, and each other, the attention hijacking problem scales in ways that should worry anyone thinking about agent coordination. An agent that over-attends to stored context about another agent’s past behavior wil
View originalPreemptive War, Permanent Emergency: The Real Cost of Trump’s Iran Strike
 Photograph Source: Mahnaz Ghobakhloo > “‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.” > > —Jeremiah 6:13–14 The military-industrial complex and the American police state have joined forces. War abroad and war at home are no longer separate enterprises. They have fused. This did not happen overnight. Every modern president has [stretched the limits of war-making power](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-limiting-trumps-authority-with-war-powers-act-is-dangerous-johnson-says). Some have shredded those limits altogether. Each time that boundary is breached, the Constitution recedes a little further. This is one of those moments. In a complete [about-face](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/maga-reaction-donald-trump-iran-attack-war) from his claims to being a peace president, Donald Trump has authorized yet another preemptive strike—this time against Iran—without a declaration of war from Congress, without meaningful public debate, and without constitutional clarity. With its Orwellian proclamations of “[peace through strength](https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/03/peace-through-strength-president-trump-launches-operation-epic-fury-to-crush-iranian-regime-end-nuclear-threat/),” [Operation Epic Fury](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-ripped-over-cringe-name-084419758.html) is less strategy than spectacle—an egotistical, muscle-flexing distraction by the Trump administration and an overarching attempt to normalize the use of unilateral force by the executive branch without congressional input or authorization. This was never about peace. It was always about power. And the Constitution is clear about how this is supposed to work, even if the White House is not. [Article I, Section 8 grants Congress—not the president—the power to declare war.](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-limiting-trumps-authority-with-war-powers-act-is-dangerous-johnson-says) The president under Article II, Section 2 is designated as commander-in-chief with the power to command the military. He is not commander-of-everything. Yet here we are. The Trump administration is advancing a global policing doctrine that mirrors the domestic police state: strike first, ask questions later. Since January 2025, Trump has carried out [more than 600 military strikes](https://openthemagazine.com/world/trumps-war-on-peace) on foreign targets that include Iran, Yemen, Nigeria and Venezuela, while [threatening forceful military takeovers of Greenland](https://www.cfr.org/articles/guide-trumps-second-term-military-strikes-and-actions), Colombia and Mexico. Preemptive force has become policy. And when the administration is asked to explain themselves, the answer is not constitutional deference but [open defiance](https://www.war.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/4418959/secretary-of-war-pete-hegseth-and-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-of-staff-gen-dan/). Clearly, they have lost sight of who they answer to—and who funds their war chests: we the taxpayers. The Constitution is the “*why*.” The American people have a right to debate war before it begins. We have a right to know how our tax dollars are spent. We have a right to insist our representatives authorize the use of force. We have a right to know why our sons and daughters are sent into harm’s way. We have a right to refuse to have our tax dollars [used to kill other people’s daughters](https://www.facebook.com/ricksteves/posts/pfbid0TQrSU2u3jzSjyrwBysPoiudL4rEip7iDMo3JmpvKVGxsUVvDHCgnapUCRgnwK381l) and sons. As Cato Institute’s Katherine Thompson [explains](https://www.cato.org/blog/cato-experts-react-us-attacks-iran), “The Founders placed the power to initiate it in Congress precisely to ensure those costs are confronted and debated before the country walks into battle.” That safeguard is being ignored. And the damage does not stop at constitutional injury, because war is not only a constitutional problem. It is an [economic one](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/world/europe/iran-war-strategy-trump-israel.html). Operation Epic Fury is pushing America towards a fiscal cliff. Within days, the costs were staggering: $300 million for three F-15E jets downed by “friendly” fire. $630 million to transport troops, ships and aircraft to the region in advance of the attacks. [More than 50,000 troops deployed to the region.](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/03/03/how-trumps-war-with-iran-could-have-already-cost-over-1-billion/) $13 million a day just for two aircraft carriers stationed nearby. $43.8 million for 1,250 Kamikaze drones. $2 million *each* for Tomahawk missiles. $12.8 million each for anti-ballistic
View originalThanks to Trump's Iran War, US LNG Giants Could See $20 Billion in Monthly Windfall Profits
 From [declaring](https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-energy-emergency-threat) an energy emergency and [ditching](https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-withdraws-global-treaties) global climate initiatives to abducting the Venezuelan leader to [seize control](https://www.commondreams.org/news/venezuela-oil-sale-trump-donor) of the country's nationalized oil industry, President Donald Trump has taken various actions to serve his fossil fuel [donors](https://www.commondreams.org/news/big-oil-donations-trump) since returning to power last year. Now, his and Israel's war on Iran could soon lead to US liquefied natural gas giants pocketing tens of billions in windfall profits. "The Persian Gulf has some of the world's largest oil and gas producers," Oil Change International research co-director Lorne Stockman [explained](https://oilchange.org/blogs/trumps-war-on-iran-as-people-are-killed-big-oils-windfall-will-deepen-our-energy-affordability-crisis/) in a Tuesday blog post, "and a large proportion of that production, around 20% of global petroleum, must pass through a relatively narrow corridor controlled by Iran to reach global markets: the Strait of Hormuz," between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Stockman—whose advocacy group works to expose the costs of fossil fuels and facilitate a just transition to clean energy—noted that "crude oil, refined petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) traverse the strait in [vast quantities every day](https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-war-iran-could-disrupt-energy-exports-strait-hormuz). But not since Saturday. With missiles, fighter jets, and drones circling, shipping has ground to a halt, and Iran [reportedly](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/2/iran-says-will-attack-any-ship-trying-to-pass-through-strait-of-hormuz) threatened to close the strait by force on Monday." > As the conflict in the Persian Gulf continues, fossil fuel companies are preparing for record-breaking profits while billions of people face soaring energy bills and "energy poverty."We’re tired of a world where our energy system fuels war and destroys our climate. oilchange.org/blogs/trumps... > > [[image or embed]](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dpuhovqi4tl6gdjpnqj5peay/post/3mg7yn5ltxc2h?ref_src=embed) > — 350.org ([@350.org](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dpuhovqi4tl6gdjpnqj5peay?ref_src=embed)) [March 4, 2026 at 4:43 AM](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dpuhovqi4tl6gdjpnqj5peay/post/3mg7yn5ltxc2h?ref_src=embed) Based on ship-tracking data from MarineTraffic, *Reuters* [estimated](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/hormuz-shutdown-worsens-after-us-hits-iranian-warship-tankers-stranded-fifth-day-2026-03-04/) Wednesday that "at least 200 ships, including oil and liquefied natural gas tankers as well as cargo ships, remained at anchor in open waters off the coast of major Gulf producers including Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar," and "hundreds of other vessels remained outside Hormuz unable to reach ports." Stockman warned that "depending on how long the violence and its atrocious human toll continues—Trump said it [may take weeks](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/us/politics/trump-iran-war-interview.html) until his undefined objectives are achieved—this will have huge implications for energy markets. Oil and gas companies may achieve huge windfall profits in a year that previously looked far less lucrative for them, and billions of people could see their energy bills soar." Since Trump and Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu launched "Operation Epic Fury" on Saturday, over 1,000 people had been killed as of Wednesday, [according to](https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-death-toll-1000-trump-kurds-iran-overthrow-lebanon-hezbollah-israel) the Iranian government, and oil prices have [surged](https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-war-gas-prices)—highlighting how, as Greenpeace International executive director Mads Christensen [put it](https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-iran-war-oil) earlier this week, "as long as our world runs on oil and gas, our peace, security and our pockets will always be at the mercy of geopolitics." Qatar exports about 20% of the global LNG supply, second only to the United States. All of that LNG goes through the Strait of Hormuz. An Iranian drone attack on Monday targeted Qatari LNG facilities, leading state-owned QatarEnergy to declare force majeure on exports. Two unnamed sources [told](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/qatarenergy-declares-force-majeure-lng-shipments-2026-03-04/) *Reuters* that QE "will fully shut down gas liquefaction on Wednesday," and "it may take at least a month to return to normal production volumes." The Qatari shutdown is expected to boost the US LNG industry, wh
View originalFebruary 26, 2026
It appears the State of the Union was the marker for the White House to launch directly into campaign mode. Much of that mode centers on trying to defang Trump’s weaknesses with attacks on Democrats. And since the 2024 campaign brought us the insistence from the Trump campaign, including Trump and then–vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance, that “they’re eating the dogs…they’re eating the cats,” it’s reasonable to assume the next several months are going to be a morass of lies and disinformation. Trump announced in his State of the Union that he was declaring a “war on fraud to be led by our great Vice President J.D. Vance” and said that “members of the Somali community have pillaged an estimated $19 billion from the American taxpayer…in actuality, the number is much higher than that. And California, Massachusetts, Maine and many other states are even worse.” He added: “And we’re able to find enough of that fraud, we will actually have a balanced budget overnight.” This, in part, seemed designed to reverse victim and offender by suggesting that rather than Trump’s being the perpetrator of extraordinary frauds and corruption in cryptocurrency, for example—he was, after all, found guilty on 34 charges of business fraud in 2024—immigrants are to blame for fraud. As Kirsten Swanson and Ryan Raiche of KSTP in Minneapolis explain, members of Minnesota’s Somali community, 95% of whom are U.S. citizens, pay about $67 million in taxes annually and have an estimated $8 billion impact on the community. While some have indeed been charged and convicted of fraud over the past five years, the accusation of $19 billion in fraud is just a number thrown out without evidence by “then-Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson,” who estimated in December 2025 that “‘half or more’ of $18 billion in Medicaid reimbursements from 14 high-risk programs could be fraudulent.” Yesterday Vance and Dr. Mehmet Oz, who oversees Medicaid, the federal healthcare program for low-income households, announced the administration is withholding $259 million in Medicaid funds from Minnesota, claiming the state has not done enough to protect taxpayers from fraud. It is illegal for the executive branch to withhold funds appropriated by Congress, and a federal judge has blocked a similar freeze on $10 billion in childcare funding for Illinois, California, Colorado, Minnesota, and New York while the case is in court. Nonetheless, Minnesota representative Tom Emmer, who is part of the Republican leadership in the House, approved the attack on his constituents, posting: “The war on fraud has begun. And Somali fraudsters in my home state are about to find out.” Minnesota governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, posted: “This has nothing to do with fraud…. This is a campaign of retribution. Trump is weaponizing the entirety of the federal government to punish blue states like Minnesota. These cuts will be devastating for veterans, families with young kids, folks with disabilities, and working people across our state.” While Walz is almost certainly correct that this is a campaign of retribution, the administration is also salting into the media an explanation for the sudden depletion of the trust funds that are used to pay Medicare and Social Security. In March 2025, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated the trust fund that pays for Medicare A would be solvent until 2052. On Monday, it updated its projections, saying the funds will run out in 2040. The CBO also expects the Social Security trust fund to run dry a year earlier than previously expected, by the end of 2031. As Nick Lichtenberg of *Fortune* wrote, policy changes by the Republicans under Trump, especially the tax cuts in the budget reconciliation bill the Republicans call the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” have “drastically shortened the financial life spans of both Medicare and Social Security, accelerating their paths toward insolvency.” Between Trump’s statement that if the administration finds enough fraud it can balance the budget overnight, and the subsequent insistence that cuts to Medicaid are necessary because of that fraud, it sure looks like the administration is trying to distract attention from the CBO’s report that Trump’s tax cuts have cut the solvency of Social Security and Medicare by more than a decade. Instead, they are hoping to convince voters that immigrants are at fault. Similarly, in an oldie but a goodie, Republicans today hauled former secretary of state Hillary Clinton before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to testify by video about her knowledge of the investigations into sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. In a scathing opening statement, Clinton noted that while committee chair James Comer (R-KY) subpoenaed eight law enforcement officials who were directly involved in that investigation, only one appeared before the committee. The rest simply submitted brief statements saying they had no information. Clinton al
View originalHyperX FlipCast gaming microphone review
I'm old enough to remember when plug-and-play USB microphones were rubbish. Your alternative, however, was the murky, audio nerd-inhabited world of XLR, which required the use of a separate interface to connect a microphone to your PC. XLR is still the gold standard for professional recording gear, but the world of studio-style recording can be fraught with fiddly details. HyperX has decided that its latest microphone, the HyperX FlipCast, might as well have both connections at once. On the rear of the mic is both a USB Type-C and an XLR port, so it's suitable for both plug-and-play usage *and* most recording interfaces. Take your pick. Not only that, but the XLR connection doesn't require 48 V phantom power, and can work in tandem with the USB version. That means any interface with an XLR socket should work if you so desire, or you can simply plug it in the back of your rig, or both—which makes for a pretty excellent start in the compatibility stakes. The microphone itself is a large, dynamic unit, with a podcast-style form factor. It's got a sizeable foam filter, and comes attached to a substantial curved stand, suitable for attaching to a boom arm (both ⅜-inch & ⅝-inch threads are supported). What you don't get, however, is an included desktop stand—which is unfortunately pretty standard for this sort of microphone. HyperX FlipCast specs  (Image credit: Future) **Type:** Dynamic**Polar patterns:** Cardioid**Connectivity:** USB Type-C (Type-A adapter included), XLR**Recording sample rate:** Up to 32-bit/192 kHz**Frequency response:** 20 - 20,000 Hz**Features:** Built-in high-pass and presence boost switches, capacitive mute button, RGB lighting, gain indicator, software noise cancelling, compressor, and limiter**Price:** [$261](https://hyperx.com/products/hyperx-flipcast-streaming-xlr-usb-dynamic-microphone?loc=US)/[£195](https://uk.hyperx.com/products/hyperx-flipcast-streaming-xlr-usb-dynamic-microphone) In fact, you'll also miss out on an included desktop stand if you opt for our [best microphone pick for podcasting](https://www.pcgamer.com/best-microphone-gaming-streaming/#section-the-best-podcast-microphone), the [Shure MV7+](https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/microphones/shure-mv7-plus-podcast-microphone-review/). It's pretty much my favourite microphone right now, because it captures professional-grade audio over both XLR and USB interfaces, and comes with some very easy-to-use software. It's a fair bit more expensive than the FlipCast at the time of writing, though, with the HyperX unit coming in at [$261](https://hyperx.com/products/hyperx-flipcast-streaming-xlr-usb-dynamic-microphone?loc=US) to the Shure's [$300](https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/mv7?variant=MV7%252B-K). Still, the HyperX better be impressive if it wants to take the Shure's spot, even if it does manage to beat it on MSRP. It's quite a good-looking mic in person, despite the product photos on the HyperX website making the large, shiny protrusion on the top look a little cheap. Here you get a large, capacitive mute button and a sizable LED display that acts as a gain indicator. Towards the rear is a volume control dial, while on the back it's got those XLR and USB Type-C connections, alongside a 3.5 mm jack for on-mic monitoring. The FlipCast also has a streamer-friendly RGB ring, which spins through its colour wheel at quite an astonishing rate.  Future  Future  Future  Future  Future Yes, it can be adjusted. Anyway, an interesting extra feature is the addition of two small buttons on the rear of the mic, which control a built-in high-pass filter and presence boost function—which gives you an idea of the sound profile HyperX might be aiming for. Clear and precise is definitely the order of the day. High-pass filters reduce low-frequency noises (which sounds a bit counterintuitive, I know), while the presence switch boosts the upper-midrange and treble audio frequencies. What you should end up with, then, with both enabled, is a decent whack of clarity, sacrificing a little richness for a more f
View originalPoison at play: Unsafe lead levels found in half of New Orleans playgrounds
Sarah Hess started taking her toddler, Josie, to New Orleans’ Mickey Markey Playground in 2010 because she thought it would be a safe place to play after Josie had been diagnosed with lead poisoning. Hess had traced the problem to the crumbling paint in her family’s century-old home. While it underwent lead remediation, the family stayed in a newer, lead-free house in the Bywater neighborhood near Markey, where Josie regularly played on the swings and slides. “Everyone was telling us the safest place to play was outside at playgrounds, so that’s where we went,” Hess said. Josie’s next blood test was a shock. “It skyrocketed,” Hess said. Josie’s lead levels had leapt to nearly five times the national health standard. When the soil at Markey was tested in late 2010, it too was found to have dangerously high levels of lead. But the city took no meaningful action to inform Markey’s users or make the park safe. Parents started posting warning signs at the park and flooded City Hall with outraged calls and emails. Holding Josie in her arms, Hess made an impassioned speech to the City Council.  A child’s shoes are left in the dirt next to the playground at Mickey Markey Park in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans in November 2025. It’s common for children to play barefoot at this playground. Christiana Botic / Verite News and Catchlight Local / Report for America In short order, the city had hired a company to test Markey and other parks, and pledged to fix the lead problem wherever it was found. “I couldn’t have been more pleased,” Hess said. “They were totally into it. My impression was they were going to make them all lead-free parks.” But a Verite News investigation conducted over four months in 2025 found that lead pollution in New Orleans parks not only persists, it is more widespread than previously known. Dozens of city parks with playgrounds remain unsafe, including Markey and others that underwent city-sponsored lead remediation in 2011. The city does not appear to have conducted any major remediation or lead testing of parks since that time. The findings indicate that city officials fell short in their cleanup efforts then, and that a very large number of New Orleans children are exposed to excessive amounts of lead now, said Howard Mielke, a retired Tulane University toxicologist and one of the nation’s leading experts on lead contamination. “It’s a failed program,” he said. “They didn’t do what they needed to do to bring the lead levels down in a single park.” Verite News reporters tested hundreds of soil samples from 84 city parks with playgrounds in fall 2025. Adrienne Katner, a lead contamination researcher with Louisiana State University, verified the results. The testing found that about half the parks had lead concentrations that exceed [a federal hazard level](https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-strengthens-safeguards-protect-families-and-children-lead) established in 2024 for soil in urban areas. “I am surprised they haven’t been tested and mitigated,” said Gabriel Filippelli, an Indiana University biochemist who studies lead exposure. “If there’s evidence of kids playing in soils that are as high as [Verite’s testing] described, that’s kind of horrifying.” Public health researchers and doctors say that children under 6 absorb lead-laden dust more easily than adults, contaminating their blood and harming the long-term development of their brains and nervous systems. There is no known safe exposure level for children, and even trace amounts can result in behavioral problems and lower cognitive abilities. ### **Find out what the lead levels are at New Orleans playgrounds** New Orleans is in financial straits with a [budget deficit](https://veritenews.org/2026/01/07/helena-moreno-interview-mayor/) of about $220 million, and it’s unclear what priority or resources Mayor Helena Moreno will, or even can, allocate to restart lead remediation efforts. In response to the financial crisis, Moreno has eliminated dozens of positions and plans to [furlough 700 employees](https://veritenews.org/2026/01/27/new-orleans-moreno-cuts-layoffs-deficit/) one day per pay period to save money. Moreno’s administration did not respond to requests for comment. The city doesn’t routinely test for lead in parks, said Larry Barabino, chief executive officer of the New Orleans Recreation Development, or NORD, Commission, the agency that oversees most of the city’s parklands. He confirmed the last significant effort to test parks ended in 2011. He called Verite’s results “definitely concerning” and pledged to work with city departments and local experts to potentially remediate unsafe parks. “Safety is our number one priority here at NORD,” Barabino said. “If there’s anythin
View originalAs Trump Uses Military to Threaten Democracy, NYT Declares Military Needs More Resources
The **New York Times** published a seven-day series of editorials (12/8/25–12/14/25) meant to examine, as the [initial piece](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/08/opinion/us-china-taiwan-military.html) put it, “what’s gone wrong with the US military” and “how we can create a relevant and effective force that can deter wars whenever possible and win them wherever necessary.” These editorials serve as little more than propagandistic, jingoistic and Sinophobic tools that treat war as a game, turning a blind eye to the very real harms that wars have on civilians. Devoting seven editorials to boosting the US military when the country’s own democracy is under threat—and Trump is using the military so irresponsibly and illegally that high-level officers are [resigning](https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/public-servants-with-nearly-450-years-of-experience-have-resigned-in-protest/#%3A%7E%3Atext=In+the+months+since+President%2Cgone+through+four+different+commissioners.)—the **Times** demonstrated that its [commitment to militarism](https://fair.org/home/nyt-laments-forever-wars-its-editorials-helped-create/) knows few bounds. ### **‘Threaten democracies everywhere’**  ***New York Times** ([12/8/25](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/08/opinion/us-china-taiwan-military.html)): “America’s military has defended the free world for 80 years,” a timespan that includes both the [Vietnam War](https://fair.org/home/ken-burns-vietnam-war-an-object-lesson-in-the-failures-of-the-objective-lens/) and the [invasion of Iraq](https://fair.org/take-action/media-advisories/iraq-and-the-media/).* In total, the **New York Times** series referenced China 50 times, Russia 26 times and Israel just twice. It fed into an increasing [Yellow Peril hysteria](https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/is-the-yellow-peril-dead) in a country that has a long [history](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-bloody-history-of-anti-asian-violence-in-the-west) of hatred towards [China](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/opinion/anti-china-sentiment.html) and [Chinese people](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/03/us/anti-asian-attacks.html), and from a news outlet that has repeatedly [expressed](https://fair.org/home/coronavirus-alarm-blends-yellow-peril-and-red-scare/) [anti-China](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjzqwyNBEPo) [sentiment](https://fair.org/home/nyt-reveals-that-a-tech-mogul-likes-china-and-that-mccarthyism-is-alive-and-well/). The **Times** ([12/8/25](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/08/opinion/us-china-taiwan-military.html)) kicked off the series by citing a Pentagon “classified, multiyear assessment,” called the “Overmatch brief,” which “catalogs China’s ability to destroy American fighter planes, large ships and satellites, and identifies the US military’s supply chain choke points.” The paper—which didn’t disclose how it obtained the brief, and didn’t publish its contents—called it “consistent and disturbing.” The editorial opined that a “rising China” will “outlast this administration,” and will “require credible US military power as a backstop to international order and the security of the free world.” A “world in which a totalitarian China achieves military superiority in Asia…would make Americans poorer and threaten democracies everywhere,” a “prospect we should act resolutely to prevent,” the **Times** continued. ### ‘Urgent need for credible deterrence’ In another installment in the series, the **Times** ([12/13/25](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/13/opinion/editorials/trump-us-military-alliances-spending.html)) added that China’s “gaming of international trade, rising hostility to neighbors and especially its accelerating military buildup show the urgent need for credible deterrence,” including more collaboration from the “world’s democracies.”  ***New York Times** ([12/13/25](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/13/opinion/editorials/trump-us-military-alliances-spending.html)): “America…accounts for just 17% of global manufacturing.” (Note that this is four times the US percentage of the world’s population.)* It’s not China, though, that is threatening to [annex](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/stephen-miller-greenland-venezuela.html) [its](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-suggests-use-military-force-acquire-panama-canal-greenland-econo-rcna186610) [neighbors](https://www.nytimes.com/
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