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EFF submitted comments to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its subcomponent U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), urging them to abandon a proposal to collect social media identifiers on forms for immigration benefits. This collection would mark yet a further expansion of the government’s efforts to subject immigrants to social media surveillance, invading their privacy and chilling their free speech and associational rights for fear of being denied key immigration benefits. Specifically, the proposed rule would require applicants to disclose their social media identifiers on nine immigration forms, including applications for permanent residency and naturalization, impacting more than 3.5 million people annually. USCIS’s purported reason for this collection is to assist with identity verification, as well as vetting and national security screening, to comply with Executive Order 14161. USCIS separately announced that it would look for “antisemitic activity” on social media as grounds for denying immigration benefits, which appears to be related to the proposed rule, although not expressly included it. Additionally, a day after the proposed rule was published, Axios reported that the State Department, the Department of Justice, and DHS confirmed a joint collaboration called “Catch and Revoke,” using AI tools to review student visa holders’ social media accounts for speech related to “pro-Hamas” sentiment or “antisemitic activity.” If the proposed rule sounds familiar, it’s because this is not the first time the government has proposed the collection of social media identifiers to monitor noncitizens. In 2019, for example, the State Department implemented a policy requiring visa and visa waiver applicants to the United States to disclose the identifiers they used on some 20 social media platforms over the last five years—affecting over 14.7 million people annually. EFF joined a large contingent of civil and human rights organizations in objecting to that collection. That policy is now the subject of ongoing litigation in Doc Society v. Blinken, a case brought by two documentary film organizations, who argue that the rule affects the expressive and associational rights of their members by impeding their ability to collaborate and engage with filmmakers around the world. EFF filed two amicus briefs in that case. What distinguishes this proposed rule from the State Department’s existing program is that most, if not all, of the noncitizens who would be affected currently legally reside in the United States, allowing them to benefit from constitutional protections. In our comments, we explained that surveillance of even public-facing social media can implicate privacy interests by aggregating a wealth of information about both an applicant for immigration benefits, and also people in their networks, including U.S. citizens. This is because of the quantity and quality of information available on social media, and because of its inherent interconnected nature. We also argued that the proposed rule appears to allow for the collection and consideration of First Amendment-protected speech, including core political speech, and anonymous and pseudonymous speech. This inevitably leads to a chilling effect because immigration benefits applicants will have to choose between potentially forgoing key benefits or self-censoring to avoid government scrutiny. That is, to help ensure that a naturalized citizenship application is not rejected, for example, an applicant may avoid speaking out on social media about American foreign policy or expressing views about other political topics that may be considered controversial by the federal government—even when other Americans are free to do so. We urge DHS and USCIS to abandon this dangerous proposal.

The head of Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot program, Milan Kovac, is leaving the company, according to Bloomberg News. The departure comes as Tesla CEO Elon Musk has claimed the company will have “thousands” of Optimus robots operating in its factories by the end of this year. “And we expect to scale Optimus up faster than […]

Early-stage AI startups are imbuing new life into San Francisco’s Northern Waterfront, after years of “for lease” signs dotting the post-pandemic landscape. According to the San Francisco Business Times, five AI-focused companies — four backed by Y Combinator — recently leased 23,900 square feet at the Waterfront Plaza complex. This is part of a citywide […]

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In this episode, I’ll cover a little of what Scripture says regarding what has come to be called “Lordship salvation” and those who think that calling men to repent of all of their sin is somehow “false doctrine.” The Scriptures give us the truth of the matter. Subscribe on Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/sonsoflibertyradiolive Follow us on Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/sonsoflibertyra Grab …

Miranda Lambert always brings it at her live shows… and apparently, so do her fans, but not necessarily always in a good way. Miranda sat down for an interview with Cowboys & Indians magazine a couple years back, and talked a little bit about the order of her concerts and how she had planned to draw up her setlist at the time. Of course, when you have as many hits as an artist like Miranda, it can be tricky to construct. When do you speed it up? When do you slow it down? When do you blow the roof off? When do you melt the hearts? It’s a science… She spoke a little bit about how some of her first hits, “Kerosene” and “Gunpowder & Lead,” are still part of her setlist, adding that they’ll always be staples in her catalog because of what they did for her career. “Those are the kinds of songs that are staples. So they’re in there. I can’t get away from them, but I’m not tired of them yet. ‘Kerosene’ for sure. It’s like the OG, it started this whole ball rolling.” I mean, c’mon, those will always be fan-favorites that kill at a live show… She also added that, apparently, she’s had to tweak the order of some of the songs a bit throughout the years… but not for the reasons you may think. The Girls Are Fighting Miranda says that there were too many girl fights that started during “Mama’s Broken Heart,” and that they would carry into the more serious, subdued parts of the show, like when she’d sing her mega hit “The House That Built Me,” which she wanted to be a special and poignant moment at her concerts: “Those two and ‘Mama’s Broken Heart.’ We had to move that one in the set list because we had it right after ‘The House That Built Me’ — or right before ‘The House That Built Me,’ actually — and the girls always get in fights. And I’d have to wait to start my ballad because they’d have to calm down from ‘Mama’s Broken Heart.’” Feuding in the front row is always a thing at concerts, but how in the hell are girls getting into fights at a Miranda Lambert show during “Mama’s Broken Heart”? I mean, I get that it’s an upbeat breakup song that can definitely get a crowd going, but a full-on girl fight? Put those huge egos, ladies. I just don’t get it… “Mama’s Broken Heart” was released as the fourth single from Lambert’s 2011 Four the Record album in 2013. Written by Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally and Kacey Musgraves, the song peaked at #2 on the U.S. Billboard Country Airplay chart and has since been certified 3× Platinum by the RIAA, which means it has moved over 1,960,000 units. These days, she sings it third to last, so if a fight does break out, the girls can just finish out the show with a literal bang if that’s what they’re into. “So we moved it down into what we call the final push, which is ‘Mama’s Broken Heart,’ ‘Gunpowder & Lead,’ ‘Little Red Wagon,’ and ‘Drunk.’ We do this final push at the end of the show. So, if the girls were fighting, they could just fight through the rest of the set.” And to this day, that’s still what she does. Check out some of her most recent performances and you’ll find that it comes either second to last or sometimes 4th to last, depending on how long Miranda’s set is. They might miss the best part of the concert, but hey, I suppose that’s what you get if you wanna start fights at what’s supposed to be a really fun event. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do, I guess… “Mama’s Broken Heart” And if you’ve never heard it before, give Kacey’s original demo of the song a listen, it’s pretty damn cool: Miranda Lambert Tour Dates: June 27, 2025 Bonner Springs, KS Country Stampede June 28, 2025 Madison, WI Camp Randall Stadium June 29, 2025 Madison, WI Camp Randall Stadium July 11, 2025 Miami Gardens, FL Hard Rock Stadium July 12, 2025 Prior Lake, MN Lakefront Music Fest July 18, 2025 Glendale, AZ State Farm Stadium July 25, 2025 Seattle, WA Lumen Field Aug. 1, 2025 Santa Clara, CA Levi’s Stadium Aug. 15, 2025 Cleveland, OH Huntington Bank Field Aug. 16, 2025 Lewisburg, WV State Fair of West Virginia Aug. 22, 2025 Foxborough, MA Gillette Stadium Aug. 23, 2025 Foxborough, MA Gillette Stadium Sept. 4, 2025 Toronto, ON, Canada Rogers Centre Sept. 12, 2025 Edmonton, AB, Canada Commonwealth Stadium Sept. 27, 2025 Laughlin, NV Laughlin Event Center Oct. 3, 2025 Winnsboro, SC Field & Stream Music FestThe post Miranda Lambert Had To Move “Mama’s Broken Heart” To The End Of Her Setlist Because The Girls Kept Fighting first appeared on Whiskey Riff.