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CBS’s Stephen Colbert showed a lack of historical awareness on Monday as he welcomed Sen. Tammy Duckworth to The Late Show to lament all things related to President Trump. Colbert wondered what happens when the military is deployed to the streets, while the duo later claimed that Sen. Alex Padilla being removed from a recent press conference with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is about “fear” because what happened to him could happen to anyone. National Guard troops and even Marines have been deployed in law enforcement capacities in the past, but that didn’t stop Colbert from asking, “Well, let's talk about some of the other things the president’s done recently with service members. So, last week he deployed Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles in response to protests against ICE raids in Los Angeles. What happens when a commander-in-chief orders troops to do something that isn't necessarily about national defense? When our own troops are sent into our own streets against our own citizens?”     Duckworth replied that, “It is perversion of the law. He basically broke posse comitatus rules, and frankly, those troops, I asked the Marine Corps commandant—was asked in committee last week, how many hours of civil disturbance training do the Marines get a year? He said two hours. And yet there are hundreds and hundreds of LAPD officers who could provide that support and, in fact, said they don’t need the Marines to come. We’re okay.” The late night comedy shows can’t decide whether Trump is some grave threat to norms as he sends the military to crack down on our fellow citizens or whether the military is just sitting in LA, twiddling its thumbs with nothing to do.  However, Colbert’s exaggerations were just getting started. In a second segment with Duckworth, he wondered, “On Thursday, your fellow senator, a senator from California, Alex Padilla, was handcuffed at a Homeland Security press conference after he tried to ask Kristi Noem a question. What is it like—I don't mean for Democratic senators, any senator, to see one of their fellow senators in what's often called the most collegial institution in the United States that he was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed after having identified himself even though he’s a U.S. Senator.” Duckworth warned that what happened to Padilla could happen to anyone, “He was in a federal building in California in his jurisdiction, and he stood up, identified himself and said, 'I have a question,' and he was immediately wrestled out of the room, thrown on the ground, and handcuffed. What I am most worried about -- Alex Padilla is a tough guy. I am less worried about Alex Padilla than I am about the American people. If they can do that to a U.S. Senator, what are they going to do to me when I speak up?” She continued, “What are they going to do to me, the average American, when I say, 'Hey, I don't like what you're doing, banning books in my schools. Hey, I don't like what you're doing to food stamps and taking food out of children's mouths. Hey, I don't like that you are sending ICE agents without proper identification into our schools and approaching young kids and ripping them out of schools.'"  Colbert quipped, “Fear is the point of a lot of this,” to which Duckworth elaborated, “Fear is a tool of dictators and wannabe autocrats.” Padilla is not one of the more well-known senators, and he was not wearing his Senate pin, so how was security supposed to know whether he was an actual senator or just some lunatic claiming to be one? And, despite Padilla’s theatrics, he and Noem had a 15-minute private meeting afterwards, which is what he should have done in the first place. It is clear that Padilla wanted a viral video so he could beat his chest about how great of a “fighter” he is and fundraise off of it. Here is a transcript for the June 16-taped show: CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 6/17/2025 12:21 AM ET STEPHEN COLBERT: Well, let's talk about some of the other things the president’s done recently with service members. So, last week he deployed Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles in response to protests against ICE raids in Los Angeles. What happens when a commander-in-chief orders troops to do something that isn't necessarily about national defense? When our own troops are sent into our own streets against our own citizens? TAMMY DUCKWORTH: It is perversion of the law. He basically broke posse comitatus rules, and frankly, those troops, I asked the Marine Corps commandant—was asked in committee last week, how many hours of civil disturbance training do the Marines get a year? He said two hours. And yet there are hundreds and hundreds of LAPD officers who could provide that support and, in fact, said they don’t need the Marines to come. We’re okay.  … COLBERT: On Thursday, your fellow senator, a senator from California, Alex Padilla, was handcuffed at a Homeland Security press conference after he tried to ask Kristi Noem a question. What is it like — I don't mean for Democratic senators, any senator, to see one of their fellow senators in what's often called the most collegial institution in the United States that he was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed after having identified himself— DUCKWORTH: Right. COLBERT: — even though he’s a U.S. senator. DUCKWORTH: He was in a federal building in California in his jurisdiction, and he stood up, identified himself and said, “I have a question,” and he was immediately wrestled out of the room, thrown on the ground, and handcuffed. What I am most worried about — Alex Padilla is a tough guy. I am less worried about Alex Padilla than I am about the American people. If they can do that to a U.S. Senator, what are they going to do to me when I speak up?  What are they going to do to me, the average American, when I say, "Hey, I don't like what you're doing, banning books in my schools. Hey, I don't like what you're doing to food stamps and taking food out of children's mouths. Hey, I don't like that you are sending ICE agents without proper identification into our schools and approaching young kids and ripping them out of schools."  COLBERT: Well. DUCKWORTH: That's what I'm most worried about. COLBERT: Fear is the point of a lot of this. DUCKWORTH: Fear is a tool of dictators and wannabe autocrats.

Terry Moran granted his first interview after being dismissed by ABC News to The Bulwark Podcast with Tim Miller, which is like going to MSNBC to vent your anti-Trump feelings. Unsurprisingly, Moran doubled down on his Twitter tirade over Trump and his top adviser Stephen Miller being "world-class haters," and Miller "eats his hate" and finds "spiritual nourishment" from his hate. Moran insisted this wasn't a "drunk tweet," but that it was The Truth. Moran weirdly claimed "I'm a member of the most despised tribe in America. I'm a proud centrist." No one's really a "centrist" when it comes to Trump, but Moran is claiming that he's for "decency" and "tolerance." Then he brought up a role model.  "I guess I'm a Hubert Humphrey Democrat," he said, "I'm old enough to remember him. And you know, get practical things done that people need in a decent way, and stand up for what's right." Humphrey was a liberal Democrat pushing LBJ's massive "Great Society," not a centrist. It's like saying I'm a centrist who's a Ted Kennedy Democrat or a Jimmy Carter Democrat. But he suggested that because Miller "degrades" the civil discourse, he's "dangerous." Miller pointed out that Republicans might say, aha, he's outed himself as a Democrat. The mask is off. Then Moran did the screw-objectivity thing.    "My own feeling is that you don't sacrifice your citizenship as a journalist. And your job is not to be objective. There is no Mount Olympus of objectivity where a Mandarin class of wise people have no feelings about their society. We're all in this together. What you have to be is fair and accurate." He claimed his Trump interview was an example (Trump disagreed, in real time). And his midnight tweet? "I would also say this, while very hot, is an observation, a description that is accurate and true,"  He added later, "It was something that was in my heart and mind. And I would say I used very strong language, deliberately, because he, I felt, and it wasn't any – you see him all the time doing the same, spitting venom and lies into our debate, degrading our public discourse, debasing it and using the power of the White House and what he's been given to grind us down in that bile. And that's very disturbing to me." It turns out that Terry Moran also thinks Scott Pelley's pompously screechy anti-Trump commencement address at Wake Forest was great. "I thought Scott was absolutely spot on," Moran said. "I'm now in a position where I can help in that good work. That fills me with joy as well. We can all put our shoulder to the wheel because I do think he's right. This is a moment of danger, and I'm happy to be able to help if I can." So he's like Jim Acosta and Joy Reid and Don Lemon, cast aside by the networks, now feeling "liberated" to be screechy.

You’ve probably been watching the riots in Los Angeles. For about a week now, angry foreign nationals (mostly Mexican), angry legal residents originally from Mexico, and lunatic leftist white American Democrats have been blocking highways, hurtling bricks at police from overpasses, shooting off fireworks into crowds, and setting cars on fire. Your eyes are lying to you. You don’t see that man waving a Mexican flag while he fires off a bottle rocket into a group of cops.Why? Because they’re very angry that laws against illegal immigration are being enforced. And they're doing more than "protesting" this — they're actively targeting the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers charged with carrying this out. That’s the purpose of posting the known locations and identities of ICE officers on social media. They want them hurt or even killed. Agitator Jack Quillin, who was arrested for posting the location of ICE raids live online, is pretending now that he’s sorry, undoubtedly in hopes that his punishment will be light. But you would be a fool if you believed people like this don’t hope to see cops and right-wingers dead.Nothing to see hereI’ve been watching it all too, but it’s the response of California officials that has me fascinated. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) tells the press that there’s no violence that needs a police response. Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D) claims there’s no violence or lawlessness in Los Angeles. Governor Gavin Newsom (D) says that the president sending in the National Guard is what caused the violence.It all feels so familiar, and the reason why is because I grew up in a home that runs on the same deranged rules that modern American left-wing politics run on. For most of my life, I was under the spell of an important person in my life who behaved the way Gavin Newsom, Maxine Waters, and Karen Bass are behaving. That person was my mother. Mental derangementMy mother behaved that way because she had a mental derangement called a Cluster B personality disorder. You know this colloquially as clinical narcissism and clinical levels of emotional reactivity that comes out in screaming outbursts, lies, and blaming other people for what you yourself have done.My weekly commentary show, "Disaffected," has a thesis: Abuse that starts in the home between spouses, or from parent to child, grows and expands into our public politics. The narcissistic, deranged mind of my mother (that’s the Cluster B personality) is the same kind of mind that we find in the political and cultural left. Yes, I’m saying that I believe many of these politicians, and their voters, are truly diagnose-ably personality disordered. Yes, I’m saying that this is just “child abuse” and “spousal abuse” scaled up to the public stage. It’s not that it’s “like” domestic abuse; it is the very same thing.The real 'gaslighters'Cause and effect are reversed. Your eyes are lying to you. You don’t see that man waving a Mexican flag while he fires off a bottle rocket into a group of cops. You’re not watching people throw bricks off highway overpasses. Do you understand? You’re crazy if you think you see that, and if it’s happening, people like you made the protesters get violent.The proper term for these kinds of lies is “gaslighting.” I know that you’re probably tired of hearing that, and you probably associate it with left-wing complaints. That’s a mistake. Gaslighting is real, and it is effective. It has worked on you many times in your life, I guarantee it. The left simply reverses the truth — leftists hurt others, then claim to be victims. They lie and distort reality to make other people think that they are crazy, then the leftist accuses the person she bamboozled of “gaslighting” her!'Mommie Dearest'I learned about it at home. If you’ve seen the movie "Mommie Dearest," you have a good idea of what kind of childhood I had. We were poor, not rich, and we weren’t famous. But everything else was much the same. Think back to the scene where Joan Crawford finds her 8-year-old daughter, Christina, playing make-believe in front of Joan’s mirror. Christina imitates her mother at press conferences, addressing her “wonderful fans.”Joan’s ego is so bruised she starts screaming at her daughter and hacking her hair off. Joan yells, “You vain, spoiled child, trying to find ways to make people look at you. Why are you always looking at yourself in the mirror? Why are you doing that? Tell me!” 'Look what you're making me do'Joan was projecting her own traits onto her daughter. My mother did the same. When she became frenzied with frustration, she would push me down onto my knees on the dining room floor, commanding me to “humble myself” while she hit me on the face and about the head. As her anger got to a peak of red-faced fury, she would shake me until my head bobbled and scream, “WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME?”RELATED: Had an abusive mother? Then you understand the left's anti-Trump insanity AllNikArt/Silver Screen Collection/Getty ImagesA longtime babysitter named Theresa was similarly afflicted. Theresa lived down the block, and a bunch of us kids went to her apartment after school to be watched until our parents got home from work. Theresa had a love-hate relationship with children. She liked them enough to babysit and provide us with hundreds of comic books to keep us entertained, but she would lose control when we got too loud.Maybe we screamed too much playing tag; maybe our feet stepped into the flower bed. Theresa would call us into the living room. She did her hair like Alice the maid from "The Brady Bunch" and wore horn-rimmed glasses with double-knit polyester shorts.Theresa would have us children sit on the floor before her as she perched on the couch. Looking us in the eye, she’d take the palm of her hands and slap her inner thighs until they turned black and blue.“You’re working my nerves and making me do this!” she’d yell, slamming her own thighs. “LOOK WHAT YOU’RE MAKING ME DO!”That’s what Gavin Newsom is doing.Narcissistic reversal“Thanks to our law enforcement officers and the majority of Angelenos who protested peacefully, this situation was winding down and was concentrated in just a few square blocks downtown,” Newsom said in a video posted on X. “But that’s not what Donald Trump wanted. He again chose escalation; he chose more force.”Translation: WHY IS DONALD TRUMP MAKING THE RIOTERS BE VIOLENT?That’s what they’re all doing, the Democrats and city leaders blaming Trump, the police, the National Guard, or ICE, for the criminal violence of street thugs. This is called a “narcissistic reversal.” It’s what my mother did when she blamed me for “hurting” her while she was beating me. It’s what Theresa did when she told 7-year-olds they were forcing her to beat her legs black and blue. It’s what Newsom is doing when he claims that Trump enforcing the law is what’s making illegal aliens and Americans break the law.The Bible knows this devilish trick. Isaiah 5:20 says, "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.”A taste of homeThese denials, these reversals of blame, are familiar to me because I was raised from birth in just the kind of environment you see out on the streets and in politicians’ podiums this week. Yes, I am saying that politicians on the left are, in my view, behaving exactly as you would expect from patients with borderline or narcissistic personality disorders (and antisocial PD/sociopathy, too).It’s all out in the open now. Turn on your TV, open social media, and it’s like watching a screening of "Mommie Dearest" or "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest," but it’s all presented to you as if it were perfectly normal.If you have felt for years that something is really psychologically off about the left, you were right. Maybe this essay has given you a framework that can help you understand what specifically that thing is that’s so “off.” I believe it’s Cluster B psychopathology. Domestic abuse has gone public and feral.

President Donald Trump's track record and repeated commitment to keeping the nation out of "endless wars" suggest that he does not have the interventionist reflex common to most of his predecessors. Some lawmakers in Washington nevertheless appear uncertain amid the chatter about Iranian regime change, the recent buildup of U.S. forces in the region, the threat of an Iranian attack warranting American retaliation, and Trump's recent remarks — "Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!" There is now a bipartisan effort underway to limit President Donald Trump's ability to commit the United States to military actions without congressional approval. BackgroundIsrael launched an attack Thursday on Iran, hammering its nuclear facilities, taking out many of its air defense systems, and eliminating top Iranian military officials. Iran responded to the apparent decapitation strike with missile and drone attacks, and the two nations have exchanged deadly fire in the days since, threatening to put President Donald Trump's nuclear deal permanently out of reach.Although the Trump administration initially stressed that the Israeli attacks were undertaken unilaterally and that the U.S. "was not involved" — a message the State Department recently emphasized in a directive to all of its embassies and consular ports — there are indications of foreknowledge and possibly even coordination on the part of Washington. RELATED: Israel's strategy now rests on one bomb — and it's American Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesRegardless of its previous involvement, the U.S. has helped Israel shoot down Iranian missiles and drones and appears now to be preparing for another Middle Eastern engagement.White House spokesman Alex Pfeiffer clarified Monday evening that American forces are not presently attacking Iran but are rather "maintaining their defensive posture."Echoes of 2003Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth indicated that over the weekend, he "directed the deployment of additional capabilities to the United Central Command Area of Responsibility." The USS Nimitz — set to be decommissioned next year — is among the warships now headed to the Persian Gulf along with a number of refueling planes.While bolstering America's military presence in the region, Trump nevertheless expressed hope for a peaceful resolution on Monday.'Iran should have signed the 'deal' I told them to sign.'Before leaving the G7 summit in Canada early to deal with the Iranian matter, Trump told reporters, "As I've been saying, I think a deal will be signed, or something will happen, but a deal will be signed, and I think Iran is foolish not to sign."The Wall Street Journal indicated that Iran is desperate for a deal, telling Washington and Jerusalem through intermediaries that it wants an end to the hostilities — something Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly not presently interested in — and that it is ready to negotiate so long as the U.S. stays out of the fight."The Iranians know the U.S. is supporting Israel in its defense, and they are sure the U.S. is supporting Israel logistically," an Arab official told the Journal. "But they want guarantees the U.S. won't join the attacks."The president appeared less hopeful Monday night, writing, "Iran should have signed the 'deal' I told them to sign. What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!"'What we're likely looking at is yet another nation-building exercise in the Middle East.'The evacuation notice came a day after Netanyahu indicated that regime change "could certainly be the result" of the escalating conflict, which he framed as an "opportunity"; several hours after exiled Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo Monday that it was a "matter of time" before the Iranian regime was overthrown; and shortly after Netanyahu said Israel was "doing what we need to do" when asked about plans to assassinate Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.Meanwhile, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and other lawmakers on the Hill began speaking as though America's direct involvement in the conflict was a forgone conclusion."Israel has formally requested a direct US intervention in its war against Iran," Sohrab Ahmari, the Iranian American editor of Compact, noted in an essay on X. "What we're likely looking at is yet another nation-building exercise in the Middle East — except on a much vaster and more complex scale than anything attempted in the post-9/11 wars. In other words: another decade or two wasted in the Middle East. If you don't want that, pray for rapid de-escalation." On Monday, Trump told reporters on Air Force One he was looking for "an end. A real end. Not a ceasefire — an end."Another attempt to handcuff the presidentRep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) — whom Trump said earlier this year "SHOULD BE PRIMARIED" — tweeted Monday evening, "This is not our war. But if it were, Congress must decide such matters according to our Constitution."RELATED: Trump fires off serious threat to Iran — and then leaves G7 forum early to return to White House Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images"I'm introducing a bipartisan War Powers Resolution tomorrow to prohibit our involvement," continued Massie. "I invite all members of Congress to cosponsor this resolution."Massie's initial pitch drew commitments from numerous Democrats, including California Rep. Ro Khanna, who wrote, "Are you with the neocons who led us into Iraq or do you stand with the American people?"Sen. Tim Kaine, the Virginia Democrat who was Hillary Clinton's running mate in her most recent failed presidential bid, also took action Monday aimed at barring Trump from potentially embroiling the U.S. in a Middle Eastern conflict.Kaine's war powers resolution would require a debate and a vote prior to the use of military force against Iran."It is not in our national security interest to get into a war with Iran unless that war is absolutely necessary to defend the United States," Kaine said in a statement. "I am deeply concerned that the recent escalation of hostilities between Israel and Iran could quickly pull the United States into another endless conflict."Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) also introduced legislation with several other Democrats Monday that would prohibit the use of federal funds for any use of military force in or against Iran without specific congressional authorization, stating, "Another war in the Middle East could cost countless lives, waste trillions more dollars and lead to even more deaths, more conflict, and more displacement."Blaze News reached out to the White House for comment but did not immediately receive a response.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

In 2003 Palo Alto, California, Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and cohorts founded a software company called Palantir. Now, these 20-odd years later, with stock prices reaching escape velocity and government and commercial contracts secured from Huntsville to Huntington, Palantir seems to have arrived in the pole position of the AI race.With adamantine ties to the Trump administration and deep history with U.S. intelligence and military entities to boot, Palantir has emerged as a decisive force in the design and management of our immediate technological, domestic, and geopolitical futures.Curious, then, that so many, including New York Times reporters, seem to believe that Palantir is merely another souped-up data hoarding and selling company like Google or Adobe.The next-level efficiency, one imagines, will have radical implications for our rather inefficient lives.It’s somewhat understandable, but the scales and scopes in play are unprecedented. To get a grasp on the scope of Palantir’s project, consider that every two days now humanity churns out the same amount of information that was accrued over the previous 5,000 years of civilization.As then-Gartner senior vice president Peter Sondergaard put it more than a decade ago, “Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.”Palantir spent the last 20 years building that analytics combustion engine. It arrives as a suite of AI products tailored to various markets and end users. The promise, as the era of Palantir proceeds and as AI-centered business and governance takes hold, is that decisions will be made with a near-complete grasp on the totality of real-time global information.RELATED: Trump's new allies: Tech billionaires are jumping on the MAGA train The Washington Post/Getty ImagesThe tech stackFamously seeded with CIA In-Q-Tel cash, Palantir started by addressing intelligence agency needs. In 2008, the Gotham software product, described as a tool for intelligence agencies to analyze complex datasets, went live. Gotham is said to integrate and analyze disparate datasets in real time to enable pattern recognition and threat detection. Joining the CIA, FBI, and presumably most other intelligence agencies in deploying Gotham are the Centers for Disease Control and Department of Defense.Next up in the suite is Foundry, which is, again, an AI-based software solution but geared toward industry. It purportedly serves to centralize previously siloed data sources to effect maximum efficiency. Health care, finance, and manufacturing all took note and were quick to integrate Foundry. PG&E, Southern California, and Edison are all satisfied clients. So is the Wendy’s burger empire.The next in line of these products, which we’ll see are integrated and reciprocal in their application to client needs, is Apollo, which is, according the Palantir website, “used to upgrade, monitor, and manage every instance of Palantir’s product in the cloud and at some of the world’s most regulated and controlled environments.” Among others, Morgan Stanley, Merck, Wejo, and Cisco are reportedly all using Apollo.If none of this was impressive enough, if the near-total penetration into both business and government (U.S., at least) at foundational levels isn’t evident yet, consider the crown jewel of the Palantir catalog, which integrates all the others: Ontology.“Ontology is an operational layer for the organization,” Palantir explains. “The Ontology sits on top of the digital assets integrated into the Palantir platform (datasets and models) and connects them to their real-world counterparts, ranging from physical assets like plants, equipment, and products to concepts like customer orders or financial transactions.”Every aspect native to a company or organization — every minute of employee time, any expense, item of inventory, and conceptual guideline — is identified, located, and cross-linked wherever and however appropriate to maximize efficiency.The next-level efficiency, one imagines, will have radical implications for our rather inefficient lives. Consider the DMV, the wait list, the tax prep: Anything that can be processed (assuming enough energy inputs for the computation) can be — ahead of schedule.The C-suiteNo backgrounder is complete without some consideration of a company’s founders. The intentions, implied or overt, from Peter Thiel and Alex Karp in particular are, in some ways, as ponderable as the company’s ultra-grade software products and market dominance.Palantir CEO Alex Karp stated in his triumphal 2024 letter to shareholders: “Our results are not and will never be the ultimate measure of the value, broadly defined, of our business. We have grander and more idiosyncratic aims.” Karp goes on to quote both Augustine and Houellebecq as he addresses the company’s commitment first to America.This doesn’t sound quite like the digital panopticon or the one-dimensionally malevolent elite mindset we were threatened with for the last 20 years. Despite their outsized roles and reputations, Thiel companies tend toward the relatively modest goals of reducing overall harm or risk. Reflecting the influence of Rene Girard’s theory that people rapidly spiral into hard-to-control and ultimately catastrophic one-upsmanship, the approach reflects a considerably more sophisticated point of view than Karl Rove’s infamously dismissive claim to be “history’s actors.”“Initially, the rise of the digital security state was a neoconservative project,” Blaze Media editor at large James Poulos remarked on the dynamic. “But instead of overturning this Bush-era regime, the embedded Obama-Biden elite completed the neocon system. That’s how we got the Cheneys endorsing Kamala.”In a series of explanatory posts on X made via the company's Privacy and Ethics account and reposted on its webpage, Palantir elaborated: “We were the first company to establish a dedicated Privacy & Civil Liberties Engineering Team over a decade ago, and we have a longstanding Council of Advisors on Privacy & Civil Liberties comprised of leading experts and advocates. These functions sit at the heart of the company and help us to embody Palantir’s values both through providing rights-protective technologies and fostering a culture of responsibility around their development and use.”It's a far cry from early 2000s rhetoric and corporate policy, and so the issue becomes one of evaluation. Under pressure from the immensity of the data, the ongoing domestic and geopolitical instability manifesting in myriad forms, and particularly the bizarre love-hate interlocking economic mechanisms between the U.S. and China, many Americans are hungry to find a scapegoat.Do we find ourselves, as Americans at least, with the advantage in this tense geopolitical moment? Or are we uncharacteristically behind in the contest for survival? An honest assessment of our shared responsibility for our national situation might lead away from scapegoating, toward a sense that we made our bed a while ago on technology and security and now we must lie in it.

While GPU prices are still jumping around in a state of chaos in the US right now, prices in the UK are not just settling, but even dropping below MSRP. We’ve already seen the RTX 5060 Ti and 5070 dip below Nvidia’s recommended pricing in the UK, and now the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti can be bought for £699.99, which is a good £30 below the £729 MSRP. At that price, this Nvidia offering is absolutely the best GPU to buy in this sector of the graphics card market, putting it in direct competition with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT. Although the latter ostensibly launched at a $599 / £569, it costs a lot more in the real world, with even UK prices settling at around £629, despite stable stock levels. If it’s a choice between the 9070 XT and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, the latter has the superior spec. Continue reading The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti price just dropped below MSRP in the UK MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 review, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 review, Best graphics cards

From the outside, Alpha Response resembles several other FPS games. Since it comes from Minh Le, the legendary Counter-Strike creator, Valve, and Rust developer better known as ‘Gooseman,’ it naturally whispers CS 1.0. You play as the police, which is likely to draw comparisons to SWAT 4 and Ready or Not, and it’s also fully PvE and each mission involves a heist or a shootout in the street, which might make you think of Payday. But Alpha Response, in reality, is nothing like any of these games. It’s fast, it’s fun, it’s a sensory spectacle, and it’s totally unique - it’s better than any other shooter on Steam this year. Continue reading Counter-Strike creator's new game is the strongest, most original FPS of 2025 MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best FPS games, Best multiplayer games, Best co-op games

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