Bernie Sanders wants to solve AI with socialism — but he doesn’t know how humans will find meaning in his socialist paradise. The 83-year-old senior senator from Vermont recently took time off of his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour to appear on “The Joe Rogan Experience.” During the almost two-hour episode, Rogan asked Sanders how humans will find meaning if artificial intelligence takes jobs and the government provides for everyone’s needs. “Andrew Yang was talking about this giant epidemic of automation in this country and the solution being universal basic income, but that’s not the solution for meaning,” Rogan said. “And how do we convince all of these people that they have to not just take this money from the government, but also take action to give themselves meaning in their lives?” Sanders tried to reframe the question as “a revolution in human experience.” “So throughout history, people have worked so hard just to stay alive, right?” Sanders said. “If you don’t need to do work, right, because we’re wealthy enough, how do you find meaning in your life?” Sanders called it a “trillion-dollar question” and said dependence on AI is not the answer. “All I would say at this moment is the answer is not to fall in love with your AI creature out there,” Sanders said. Rogan wasn’t satisfied. “Yeah, don’t do that,” Rogan said. “But also, how do you find meaning? How do you — if all you’re doing is just getting a check, and you can just stay at home and stare at the TV, and the money keeps coming, and then you eat processed food all day, and it’s all subsidized, what is life?” Sanders said the immediate solution is to take care of workers who lost jobs to AI. “I think you tell those workers, you’re going to have health care as a human right, you’re going to have education as a human right, you’re going to have a decent income as a human right, and we’re going to lower — substantially lower — the work week,” Sanders said. “What happens later, when even more work is eliminated, and what the purpose of human life becomes, that is a very profound question.” “What do you think happens?” Rogan asked. “It’s hard to imagine,” Sanders said. “Then the answer will be that we are going to have to find different meaning in life. We have to find it in ourselves in ways that you don’t know and I don’t know, because we’re not there yet.” Sanders said he doesn’t know how far out the problem is. “But I think human beings are capable of replacing work with other emotionally satisfying things,” Sanders said. “Yeah, I think we can do it.” Rogan said the problem would be providing meaning for millions of people. “What do you do to all those people to give them some sort of a sense of meaning?” Rogan asked. “You’re essentially redefining life for them.” “I don’t have the answer to that question,” Sanders admitted again. “That’s the problem. I don’t think anybody does.” Despite not having an answer, the senator still managed to bring the issue back to taxing the rich. “The people who own that technology and the corporations who utilize that [AI] technology are becoming phenomenally richer,” Sanders said. “And that is the issue. Which gets back to things like tax reform, like making sure that in America, we do not have the massive levels of income and wealth inequality that we currently have.”

There was a bit of a têe-à-tête between Israel, Iran, and the United States that broke out on Tuesday morning. Here’s what happened. Just before the ceasefire went into place, Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles into Israel. One of those ballistic missiles struck an apartment building in Beersheba (Be’er Sheva), which is in the south of Israel. At least seven people were murdered, 86 more people wounded, because this is what Iran does: target civilians, including women and children. Conversely, Israel, just before the ceasefire, took out a bunch of IRGC leaders at their headquarters. Then the time for the ceasefire came. Israel stopped; Iran did not. Iran instead sent a couple of missiles into northern Israel after the ceasefire, because this is what they always do. It’s not a shock; when Israel essentially wiped out Hezbollah in southern Lebanon back in October of 2024, and a ceasefire was declared, Hezbollah attempted a few actions violating the ceasefire just to see if they could get away with it. So that is what Iran did. And Israel prepared to fire back. President Trump then went on Truth Social, writing:   And then he had a rather heated exchange with a reporter talking about how upset he was that Israel and Iran were still firing at each other, essentially. He said: They (Iran) violated it, but Israel violated it too. As soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs. The likes of which I’ve never seen before, the biggest load that we’ve seen. I’m not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, “Okay, now you have 12 hours,” you don’t go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them. So I’m not happy with them. I’m not happy with Iran either, but I’m really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because of one rocket that didn’t land that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn’t land. I’m not happy about that. You know what we have? We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing. You understand that? Okay. Then President Trump walked away. There are a lot of people on every side who got very upset with President Trump about this. I am not, and the reason I am not is because I think that he’s attempting to enforce the ceasefire: end of story. That’s what this is. The president is saying, “Everybody, it’s weapons down. It’s weapons down.” WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show In fact, according to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office, this is actually how it ended up materializing: The ceasefire was set to begin at 07:00 this morning. At 03:00, Israel forcefully attacked in the heart of Tehran, struck regime targets and eliminated hundreds of Basij and Iranian security forces personnel. Shortly before the ceasefire took effect, Iran launched a barrage of missiles, one of which took the lives of four of our Israeli civilians in Be’er Sheva. The ceasefire took effect at 07:00. At 07:06, Iran launched one missile at Israeli territory, and two additional missiles at 10:25. These missiles were either intercepted or fell in open areas, causing neither casualties nor damage. In response to Iran’s violations, the Air Force destroyed a radar installation near Tehran. Pursuant to the conversation between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel has refrained from additional attacks. In the conversation, President Trump expressed his great appreciation for Israel, which achieved all of its objectives in this war, as well as his confidence in the stability of the ceasefire. President Trump was simply saying to all parties, “Stop it now. We’re done.” By the way, I don’t think it’s bad for Israel that President Trump is seen controlling the issue, because what that says to Iran is that if it were not for President Trump telling the Israelis to stop, those bombs would still be falling on your head. So cut that crap out right now. That is the way I think President Trump meant for it to be read. And I think that’s the way that it will be read by Iran. In fact, President Trump then came out within a couple of hours and put it on Truth Social: “IRAN WILL NEVER REBUILD THEIR NUCLEAR FACILITIES.” That came despite the fact that Tehran is openly vowing to restore its nuclear facilities. According to Iran’s nuclear chief, Mohammad Eslami, “The plan is to prevent interruptions in the process of production and services. Iran is assessing its damage to the nuclear industry following Israel’s intensive 12 Days campaign against it.” He also said that “arrangements are going to be made for its restoration.” If President Trump identifies Iran rebuilding its nuclear facilities, he’s going to do something. And by the way, Israel will do something. They’re not going to sit idly by while Iran rebuilds any sort of nuclear capacity. Here’s the bottom line: President Trump handled this situation better than any president of my lifetime. If you had told me at the beginning of this war that Israel would be able to do what it has done, that America, with effectively one B-2 sortie, would have been able to cripple Iran’s major nuclear facility at Fordow and also finish off Natanz and Esfahan in Iran — which, by the way, is what I suggested from the beginning of the war; that one B-2 flight is basically all that America would be required to do, and that would be it and then we’d get to the end of the war — I would have been stunned. But it became true because President Trump lives in the world of reality. I can’t say this enough. He lives in the world of reality. President Trump was never, ever going to get us into a nation-building project in Iran. For those who thought he would, have you met President Trump? Have you watched him for the last ten years? What unbelievable lack of faith it showed in President Trump for people to suggest that Trump, of all people, was going to get us into World War III on a nation-building exercise in the Middle East. Were they out of their damned minds?

Gone are the days when one parent stayed home to care for laundry and children and had time to prepare homemade meals. Today, most families are surviving on two incomes that often incorporate side hustles. Life is expensive and hard, and we all need to make ends meet. Retailers like Walmart understand the struggle and want to help. Not only are they keeping prices low, but the company is also expanding grab-and-go options for busy people who want healthy meals. And in some locations, customers can even have it delivered. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Walmart (@walmart) Walmart President And CEO John Furner Shared The Company’s Plans For Healthy Family Meals The Walmart CEO took the company to LinkedIn to provide more information about its plans to better serve customers. “Our customers are our North Star and we’re relentlessly focused on bringing them low prices and improving their shopping experiences, which includes tackling everyday problems,” he wrote. “Busy families are often faced with the age-old question, ‘What’s for dinner tonight?’ So our team stepped up to answer it! Customers can go to ‘What’s for dinner tonight?’ on our App or site, and order everything they need for a full delicious meal: main courses, sides, deserts, and drinks.” Walmart’s plan to offer healthy meals for busy families is a promising solution that many people look forward to utilizing. “Really impressive innovation from your team, John! Making dinner easy and accessible for busy families is such a meaningful way to enhance the customer experience,” someone wrote. “Delivering a hot, complete meal in under an hour is no small feat — well done to everyone involved.” This customer agreed and loves the idea of Walmart bringing healthy meals home, “This is some great thinking! As someone who loves to cook, any assistance in keeping meals fresh and varied is so necessary! This is awesome!” This story’s featured image is by MDV Edwards via Shutterstock. The post Walmart Is Taking A Page Out Of Costco’s Book With This New Service appeared first on InspireMore.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 11 Iranian nationals over two days, the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday. Among those in custody is Ribvar Karimi, who “reportedly served as an Iranian army sniper from 2018 to 2021,” according to the DHS.  An Islamic Republic of Iran Army identification card was in Karimi’s possession when he was arrested in Locust, Alabama, on Sunday.   Karimi entered the U.S. in October 2024 on a visa for foreigners who are engaged to be married to a U.S. citizen. But the DHS says he “never adjusted his status—a legal requirement—and is removable from the United States.”  Karimi remains in ICE custody and is facing removal from the U.S.  Ribvar Karimi Under DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, the department “has been full throttle on identifying and arresting known or suspected terrorists and violent extremists that illegally entered this country, came in through [former President Joe Biden’s] fraudulent parole programs or otherwise,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.   “We have been saying we are getting the worst of the worst out—and we are,” McLaughlin added. “We don’t wait until a military operation to execute. We proactively deliver on President [Donald] Trump’s mandate to secure the homeland.”  In addition to Karimi, ICE arrested eight other Iranian nationals on Sunday and two more on Monday. The arrests of the Iranian nationals come amid concerns of the possibility of the activation of Iranian terrorist sleeper cells in the U.S. in the wake of the U.S. attack on three Iranian nuclear sites Saturday.   In Houston, ICE arrested Behzad Sepehrian Bahary Nejad, who entered the U.S. on a visa in 2016. He was arrested in 2017 for assaulting a family member, according to DHS, and in 2019, an immigration judge ordered his removal. A Department of Justice immigration judge denied his request for his case to be reopened.   Nejad was said to be carrying a loaded pistol when ICE arrested him.   Behzad Sepehrian Bahary Nejad Hamid Reza Bayat was arrested in Houston despite having been ordered removed from the U.S. in 2005. According to DHS, he has twice been “convicted of drug crimes and once convicted of driving on a suspended license.”   Hamid Reza Bayat Mehrzad Asadi Eidivand entered the U.S. in 2012, and in 2013 a judge granted him voluntary removal from the U.S., but he never left. He is “convicted of threatening a law enforcement officer and being an alien in possession of a firearm,” according to DHS.   Mehrzad Asadi Eidivand Yousef Mehridehno was arrested in Gluckstadt, Mississippi. Mehridehno entered the U.S. legally in 2017, but the government terminated his residency after it was determined that he “lied on his original visa application and committed potential marriage fraud,” according to DHS. “In February, Mehridehno was listed as a known or suspected terrorist, and he’s now in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.”   Yousef Mehridehno Mahmoud Shafiei and Mehrdad Mehdipour were living together in Colorado Springs, Colo., at the time of their arrests. A judge ordered Shafiei removed from the U.S. in 1987 after he entered the U.S. in 1981.   Shafiei’s “criminal history includes state and federal convictions for drug crimes and arrests for assault and child abuse,” according to the DHS.   Mehdipour was processed for expedited removal in 2023.   Mahmoud Shafiei Mehrdad Mehdipour ICE arrested Mehran Makari Saheli in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is a “former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with admitted connections to Hezbollah,” according to DHS. He was ordered removed from the U.S. in 2022.   Mehran Makari Saheli Bahman Alizadeh Asfestani was arrested in San Francisco and has a criminal history, according to DHS, that includes “a 1994 conviction for petty theft and a 1995 conviction of possession of a controlled substance for sale.”  Bahman Alizadeh Asfestani On Monday, ICE Buffalo arrested Mohammad Rafikian who has been “convicted of grand larceny, schemes to defraud, criminal impersonation, and practicing as an attorney,” the DHS said.   Also on Monday, ICE San Diego apprehended Arkavan Babk Moirokorli. He was convicted of forging an official seal.  The post ICE Arrests 11 Iranian Nationals, Including One Who ‘Reportedly Served as Iranian Army Sniper’  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. What will be the reaction, here and abroad, in the coming days and weeks to the June 21, Saturday night destruction—for all practical purposes—of the Iranian nuclear program by the United States, as ordered by President Donald Trump? If you look at home, I don’t think the Left is going to have much complaint. I mean, they’re going to try to say that Donald Trump should have had permission from Congress. But after all, Sen. Tim Kaine, he’s the author of the new legislation chastising Trump for this, but he was the head of the Democratic National Committee in 2011 when Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, and Ben Rhodes urged then-President Barack Obama to bomb Libya. And that was a disastrous decision and there was no congressional authority to grant that. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was in the middle of a reform with his children, and we got rid of him. And then, we were bombing them on and off for the next five years. The last thing that Barack Obama did in office—remember this—on Jan. 19, 2017, he ordered B-2 bombers, just like we saw, all the way over to Libya to bomb Libya. There wasn’t anybody in the Democratic Party that tried to stop that or said that was unconstitutional. So, the Left has no history of consistency, no logic, no morality on this. And privately, they understand they had no solution to force Iran to give up this bomb. After all, Donald Trump came in in January and all of a sudden, he was told they almost have a bomb. And his first reaction was, “Well, what did former President Joe Biden do? Why did he lift the sanction? Why did he give them $100 billion in new revenue?” So, the Left is going to be inert and quiet, I think. How about the MAGA Right? Everybody says, “The MAGA Right’s going to defect. Stephen Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens—everybody’s upset—Rand Paul.” They have concerns that this “America First,” MAGA agenda does not want to get into optional wars in the Middle East. But this is not a 1991 preliminary to an invasion, 2003 preliminary to invasion, 2011 preliminary to Gaddafi regime change. This was a designated, finite act. And now it’s over with and it’s up to Iran to do what it wants. It can either negotiate and become a peaceful presence with peaceful nuclear power or it can continue its terror. But it has no terrorist appendages to hurt us, really. And we’ll see. But even Tucker Carlson, remember, quite logically said, when he had that fiery exchange with Sen. Ted Cruz, he said, “If I had known that Iran wanted to kill Donald Trump, I would order—I would want somebody to order to bomb Iran.” We now know that the terrorist that was planning to kill Trump is being tried in absentia. He’s in Iran. It’s not in doubt. And so, we bombed Iran. And where would anybody go? I’m a MAGA supporter. If I was vehemently opposed to this one-off strike, I’d say, “Well, how about illegal immigration? It doesn’t exist anymore. Look at the border. Look at all of these things that Donald Trump has done, like, with the universities, with the tax relief.” So, there was so much of the MAGA agenda that his critics agree with, I don’t think they’re going to be very vehement. How about abroad? The Europeans were going to be very disturbed. This was not multilateral. The U.N. wasn’t involved. And I can guarantee you they’re calling Donald Trump up right now and saying, “Thank God you did this because we were much closer to Iran than you were. And we were very worried about this crazy regime—according to the Israelis—days away from obtaining a nuclear weapon.” How about the Arab world? The Arab world, before this attack, was very—it was angry at Israel. Remember they said, “The Zionists should not have had a preliminary, preemptive war. This was wrong. It’s disruptive.” And they had a point. They ship oil out of the Strait of Hormuz. But that was the public reaction. Privately, they were telling the Israelis or the United States, “If you’re going to get rid of the Iranian nuclear threat and neuter that regime, please, please do it. But do it completely. Do not leave this wounded animal in our backyard because we can’t handle it. So, either get rid of it or promise us that you will get rid of it.” And now, the reaction to this destruction, especially at Fordow, is typical: Express public regret, instability, da, da, da, but private relief. And then finally, what are China and Russia going to do? Russia, everybody says that Russian President Vladimir Putin is very angry. Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, has said that he might give nuclear weapons to Iran. I don’t think he’ll do that because the last thing in the world you want is nuclear proliferation because there’s a lot of people in Japan and South Korea and Australia and Taiwan that want nuclear weapons and, unlike the ones in Iran, they will work. And we are doing our best to ensure them they’re all under our umbrella. So, that would be an empty threat and a stupid threat. But more importantly, Putin is saying, privately, “I’m tied down in Ukraine. I can’t do anything. I’ve lost a million dead and wounded. I’ve been kicked out of the Middle East when I lost the pawn of Bashar Assad. But the fact there’s turmoil in the Middle East and the price of oil will go up benefits me because I’m broke. And this will be very good for my war machine.” As far as China goes, China’s got the opposite reaction, in one way, but it’s similar: “I don’t want to get involved. Until all this happened, we bought 90% of Iranian oil. I want that oil on the market. And we bought 50% of the oil that left the Strait of Hormuz. I don’t like what happened. But on the other hand, I think that Trump is a little bit too volatile and is a little bit too uncertain and is a little bit too fluid for me. So, I’m going to quiet down and make sure that stability returns to the region and we get our oil.” And that, finally, that dittos Putin as well. Putin is going to say to everyone in his circle: There was a reason that I went in under George Bush into Georgia and Ossetia when he was wounded from Iran. There was a reason I went in—Barack Obama. Remember the ‘hot mic deal’ in Seoul? ‘Give me some space, Putin. And this is my last election, and I’ll dismantle missile defense.’ That’s when I went into the Donbas and Crimea. There was a reason—once I saw what happened in Afghanistan—why I went in, during the Biden administration, back in and tried to take Kyiv. I didn’t go in during the Trump administration. And I don’t want to do anything like that again, either, during the second Trump administration. He’s just too unpredictable. Bottom line: All the critics here and abroad, they’re going to be loud, but I don’t think they’re going to have any consequence. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Left Calls Trump’s Iran Strike ‘Illegal.’ Its History of Inconsistency Says Otherwise. appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The U.S. Department of Justice is “digging and looking” into the Biden administration’s weaponization of school boards against parents, DOJ official Ed Martin said. Former Attorney General Merrick Garland sent a memo in 2021 directing the DOJ and the FBI to “launch a series of additional efforts in the coming days designed to address the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel.”  Conservatives saw the memo as seen an attempt to use the FBI to threaten and silence parents who voiced concerns with left-wing school board policies, such as critical race theory and radical gender ideology. Martin, U.S. pardon attorney and President Donald Trump’s “weaponization czar,” said the memo was “government weaponized against ‘we the people.’” “If you got hurt, let us know,” Martin said. “We’re digging and listening.” The Garland memo targeting school board parents was govt weaponized against “we the people.” If you got hurt, let us know. We’re digging and listening. pic.twitter.com/BgH9gR9WFe— Eagle Ed Martin (@EagleEdMartin) June 24, 2025 Martin thanked parents who have already come forward and stood up against the weaponization of school boards against them. After Martin was unable to achieve the necessary Senate votes to be confirmed as U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., Trump put him in charge of remedying the weaponization of government against Americans. Parental rights activist Tiffany Justice met with Martin on Monday to discuss the weaponization of government against parents under Biden, The Daily Signal has learned. Justice is co-founder of Moms for Liberty and a visiting fellow in parental rights at The Heritage Foundation. Justice shared with Martin what American parents were concerned about under the Biden administration, including COVID-19 lockdowns, learning loss, and falling test scores. She is confident Martin will look into how the government was weaponized against both parents and, more specifically, Catholics. “Exposing it so that it never happens again, really showing who was involved and what their motivations were, would give parents a lot of satisfaction,” Justice said. She would like Martin to expose teachers unions for the roles they played in the DOJ branding parents as “domestic extremists.” The National School Boards Association sent a letter to the Department of Justice, which prompted Garland’s memo. “The unions are the foot soldiers of the progressive far left,” Justice said. “Since the creation of the Department of Education, [unions] have had an undue influence in our children’s lives and our children’s education, and they are using the school system to radically transform our country. Anything that we can do to reduce the influence and impact of the teachers unions is something that I’m supportive of.” [unions] have had an undue influence in our children’s lives and our children’s education, and they are using the school system to radically transform our country. Anything that we can do to reduce the influence and impact of the teachers unions is something that I’m supportive of.” The post DOJ ‘Digging and Looking’ Into Anti-Parent School Board Activity Under Biden Admin appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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