March 23, 2026 — Today's Conservative Cartoon

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A new pro-family technology coalition plans to spend at least eight figures this year to protect children from dangers presented by artificial intelligence.  On Friday, the White House released its National Framework on AI, which called for measures to protect children, but didn’t go far enough for many child safety advocates.  For the first time, parents, technologists, and policy leaders in the family-first tech coalition have officially assembled to advocate for laws that protect children from AI abuses.  This new coalition, called Alliance for a Better Future, released polling from OnMessage Public Strategies showing that 83% of voters are concerned about the development of AI, and 81% support government guardrails to protect consumers and children.  The policy council, chaired by Dr. Brad Littlejohn of American Compass, features members of nine organizations including the Family Policy Alliance, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, the Institute for Family Studies, The Heritage Foundation, and American Principles Project.  The Alliance for a Better Future hopes to counter the efforts of Big Tech companies to eliminate state protections on AI.  For instance, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz backed a $100 million Super PAC, Leading The Future, which advocates against strict artificial intelligence safeguards. The PAC is running ads in Texas and New York, two states that have passed laws establishing safeguards on AI.  Even the White House made at least two attempts to kill state bills that impose restrictions for child safety on AI in Utah and Florida.  The alliance will fight for child safety guardrails in national and state legislation.  Seventy-seven percent of voters prefer a candidate who protects minors over one who wants no AI restrictions, OnMessage Strategies’ poll from March 5-9 found.  The White House’s AI framework proposed Friday is now in the hands of Congress to pass into law, and Alliance for a Better Future will be involved in advocating for the strongest possible child safeguards.  The launch includes a new video featuring the Congressional testimony of parents who have lost children to AI. One mom tells the story of an AI chatbot coaching her son to commit suicide.  “Innovation at the cost of our children’s or citizens’ lives is not innovation at all,” said Mandi Furniss, a parent who lost her son to suicide featured in the video. “No parent should have to fight a machine for the mind of their child.” “And if we can build machines smart enough to think, then we can build them smart enough to protect our kids,” she added. The organization will pursue targeted advertising and public education campaigns to elevate the voices of parents, creators, and workers and highlight decisions of tech executives which harm children.   The post Pro-Family Tech Coalition Launches to Protect Kids from AI Threats appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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  George Bellows (August 1882 – January 1925) was a frequent visitor to Sharkey’s Athletic Club, the lively saloon in Manhattan with a backroom boxing ring. Founded by Tom “Sailor” Sharkey (November 26, 1873 – April 17, 1953), an ex-fighter who had served in the US Navy, the club was a place for fighters and fans when public boxing was illegal in New York. Participation was usually limited to members of a particular club, but whenever an outsider competed, he was given temporary membership and known as a ‘stag’.   Preliminaries, 1916 by George Bellows George Bellows painted canvases that throb with the rollicking energy of modern New York city. A member of the Ashcan School, a group of painters intent on showing American life in its unalloyed immediacy, Bellows painted a tough, rough, freewheeling New York City, seeped in sweat, endeavour and the swirling energy of the skyscraper age.   Both Members of This Club by George Bellows – 1909 Arriving in New York from his native Ohio in 1904, Bellows painted the city as a site where, as his mentor Robert Henri said, “the battle of human evolution is going on”. Stag at Sharkey’s established Bellows “as a really gutsy, formidable force as a painter on the New York scene. I think people were very shocked by the works. There really hadn’t been anything like this in American painting before.”   Indoor Athlete by George Bellows, 1921 In addition to painting, Bellows made significant contributions to lithography, helping to expand the use of the medium as a fine art in the U.S. He installed a lithography press in his studio in 1916, and between 1921 and 1924 he collaborated with master printer Bolton Brown on more than a hundred images, some of which you can see here. Bellows also illustrated numerous books in his later career, including several by H.G. Wells. It was a perfect match. For Wells, New York possessed “a blindly furious energy of growth” combined with “the sense of soulless gigantic forces, that took no heed of men”.   On a Raft c. 1900–1923 George Bellows George Bellows, Club Night,  1907, oil on canvas, John Hay Whitney Collection “The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steel against the sky. The city had the air and movement of hysteria, and the citizens were crying, in every accent of anger and alarm, that the new forces must at any cost be brought under control.” – Henry Adams on the New York depicted in Bellows work   Dempsey and Firpo 1924 George Bellows Counted Out, Second Stone 1921 George Bellows Counted Out, First Stone 1921 George Bellows Between Rounds, Large, First Stone 1916 George Bellows George Bellows work is in the shop. The post George Bellows: Painting The Rough Energy of New York City’s Skyscraper Age appeared first on Flashbak.