One of the biggest threats currently facing our nation is judicial despotism, says Mark Levin. Every time one of these district court judges issues a temporary restraining order or an injunction against the president of the United States, they spit on the Constitution. “These lower-court judges, who are created by Congress, who are not in the Constitution … are supposed to operate within their district,” but instead they’re “operating nationally,” says Levin. Our founders were concerned that this kind of judicial overreach would happen. They debated ferociously over liberty and rights and how to frame government around them, and they eventually came up with our brilliant republic — three equal branches of government held accountable by checks and balances. But what we’re seeing today with these rogue district judges — all of whom are “ambulance-chasing Democrat lawyer[s]” — is a complete disregard for our Constitution. Take the District of Columbia’s James Boasberg, who back in March had the audacity to verbally order Trump to turn around two planes carrying dangerous deportees. Because the incident didn’t take place in D.C. where his jurisdiction lies, he had zero right to order anything, says Levin. Not only did Boasberg violate separation of powers, but he also assumed a role that belongs to the president. President Trump has the constitutional authority under Article II to protect the United States as its commander in chief. It is his role alone to execute laws like the Alien Enemies Act, which Congress gave him to handle foreign threats. If something isn’t done to stop these rogue district judges, that means “at the initial phase of litigation, a single federal judge has more power than a majority of the Supreme Court,” says Levin. “Everything's upside down and inside out.” To hear more of his commentary, watch the clip above.” Want more from Mark Levin?To enjoy more of "the Great One" — Mark Levin as you've never seen him before — subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The Florida Senate passed a bill prohibiting geoengineering and weather modification activities in a 28-9 vote on Thursday, taking the state one step closer to securing its sunny skies from climate alarmists' shadowy and potentially deadly schemes.The successful vote comes just after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. identified Florida as one of over two dozen states that are moving to "ban geoengineering our climate by dousing our citizens, our waterways, and landscapes with toxins." The health secretary noted further that "this is a movement every MAHA needs to support" and that "HHS will do its part."BackgroundThere have long been efforts, some apparently successful and others deadly, to meddle with the weather.The United Arab Emirates has, for instance, conducted cloud-seeding missions for decades and has in recent years conducted over 1,000 hours of cloud-seeding missions annually. One government meteorologist blamed such operations for the torrential rains that rocked Dubai last April, which resulted in deadly floods.Cloud seeding entails the release of tiny particles, such as potassium chloride, into clouds in an effort to artificially increase precipitation.Lewis Brackpool, an independent journalist and the host of the podcast "The State of It," previously alerted Blaze News to declassified documents showing that the U.K.'s Royal Air Force experimented with artificial rainmaking in the 1950s as part of Operation Cumulus the same week that some of the worst flash floods ever to have hit Britain stormed the village of Lynmouth, killing 35.'These planes release aluminum, sulfates, and other compounds with unknown and harmful effects on human health.'Cloud seeding in Utah reportedly helped increase the state's water supply by 12% in 2018. Rather than trying to make it rain, some scientists have committed to dimming the sun — despite a 2017 study in Nature Communications indicating that aerosols released into the air in an effort to block the sun could lead to an increase in droughts, hurricanes, and storms.Last year, the Marine Cloud Brightening Program's Coastal Atmospheric Aerosol Research and Engagement project, led by researchers from the University of Washington, fired particles into the sky above the San Francisco Bay as part of an experiment ultimately aimed at blocking sunlight and limiting "global warming."The billMiami Republican Ileana Garcia's Senate Bill 56 would prohibit "the injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within the borders of this state for the express purpose of affecting the temperature, weather, climate, or intensity of sunlight."Should Garcia's bill pass as is, cloud seeding, sun dimming, and other such efforts to modify the weather could land the offending scientist or organization with a $100,000 fine as well as third-degree felony charges. An aircraft operator involved in such felonious efforts could be slapped with a $5,000 fine and up to five years in prison."There is a lot of unauthorized activity that is currently not regulated both at a federal and a state level, and this is where we wanted to start," Garcia told her peers in the state Senate, reported the Florida Phoenix. "This is how we are trying to create a method to the madness by creating a reporting mechanism that starts with complaints to the Department of Environmental Protection."Florida Senate President Ben Albritton reportedly lauded Garcia for producing a "great piece of legislation."'Tell the House of Representatives in Florida to not gut this bill.'Albritton told Florida's Voice that when Garcia first raised her concerns about weather modification with him, he initially didn't believe there were such efforts to "control God's domain.""Honestly, I had a hard time believing it at first, and then she sent me information and sent me websites and all of this," said Albritton. "All of a sudden, I thought, 'Holy mackerel.'"Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo also celebrated Garcia for pushing the legislation."Big thanks to Senator Garcia for leading efforts to reduce geoengineering and weather modification activities in our Florida skies," said Ladapo. "These planes release aluminum, sulfates, and other compounds with unknown and harmful effects on human health. We have to keep fighting to clean up the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat."The House versionWhile greatly supportive of Garcia's SB 56, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) indicated that the version in the Florida House would betray the purpose of the exercise, codifying the practices as opposed to preventing them outright."The Florida House of Representatives has gutted Senator Garcia's legislation," DeSantis said in a video Wednesday. "They would actually codify the practice of geoengineering and weather modification. People got a lot of kooky ideas that they can get in and put things in the atmosphere to block the sun and save us from climate change. We're not playing that game in Florida."DeSantis added, "I support what Senator Garcia is doing, and I hope that people will tell the House of Representatives in Florida to not gut this bill."Republican state Rep. Kevin Steele's House Bill 477 does not ban weather modification outright. Instead it requires weather meddlers to first procure a license to do so. Anyone found to have conducted a weather modification operation without a license or with a revoked license would face a maximum fine of $10,000 — rather than the Senate's proposed fine of $100,000. Violations would qualify as second-degree misdemeanors as opposed to felonies.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

If you love city builders and roguelikes but you haven’t played Against the Storm yet, you’re missing out. Eremite Games and Hooded Horse’s beautiful strategy game blends approachable but deep mechanics with flavorful dark-fantasy visuals, and has earned itself Steam’s coveted ‘overwhelmingly positive’ rating with 95% of user reviews recommending it. Following the launch of its 2024 Keepers of the Stone DLC, which introduced Frog villagers, the developer reveals that it has another expansion pack on the way, and you can sign up to help test it today if you’re interested. Continue reading Dark fantasy city builder Against the Storm reveals its next DLC’s new species MORE FROM PCGAMESN: The best roguelike games, The best city-building games, Against the Storm review

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It feels like ages, but just a few months ago, the DeepSeek R1 model shook off the artificial intelligence world and made the big American techs reassess their schedules and release dates for their latest LLM updates. This is why, in February, OpenAI highlighted its roadmap for its future releases, including the long-anticipated GPT-5 launch. Since then, much has happened, and the company has unveiled new features almost weekly, including the breakthrough success of the latest GPT-4o Image Generation, which made the ChatGPT servers fail due to so many people generating hundreds of thousands of AI images. While OpenAI's plans were to stop unveiling several ramifications for its GPT advancements, the company's CEO Sam Altman gave an update on that, saying it's been "than we thought it was going to be to smoothly integrate everything." In a post on X, Altman wrote: "Change of plans: We are going to release GPT-o3 and o4-mini after all, probably in a couple of weeks, and then do GPT-5 in a few months. There are a bunch of good reasons for this. But the most exciting one is that we are going to be able to make GPT-5 much better than we originally thought," he writes. Raising concerns about the demand OpenAI might get, Altman says his team "wants to make sure we have enough capacity to support what we expected to be unprecedented demand." Finally, he says OpenAI was able to "really improve on what we previewed for GPT-o3 in many ways." That said, the Deep Research model will likely be faster, as it can take anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes to offer responses while also being smarter to reason. Fortunately, we won't have to wait long to learn more about the GPT-3o official release, as Altman already teased it will be in a couple of weeks. More importantly, it will only take a few more months before OpenAI's GPT-5 lands. Don't Miss: ChatGPT Deep Research is the game-changing AI agent I was waiting for The post OpenAI’s Sam Altman just announced release timing for GPT-5 appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $399 Apple iPad mini, $12 LifeStraw, $630 Google Pixel 9, $270 Vitamix blender, more Here are our favorite Magenta Status perks you can only get from T-Mobile Today’s deals: $250 off Segway eKickScooter F3, $291 Nintendo Switch OLED, $54 Ninja portable blender, more Amazon Big Spring Sale: $299 Apple Watch S10, $350 70″ smart TV, $299 King mattress, $58 myQ, more

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., leads Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., by almost 20 points in a head-to-head poll of a potential 2028 New York primary race.

Attorney General Pam Bondi was urged to investigate a "radical activist group" that launched a "hyper-partisan vendetta" aimed at attorneys who represented President Donald Trump before his reelection, according to a Republican lawmaker.

The Trump administration's expansive new tariffs will likely lead to higher inflation and slower growth, and the Federal Reserve will focus on keeping price increases temporary, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Friday.