Forty-three days into the government shutdown, panic set in as certain subsidies began to dry up. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) garnered the most attention, especially among Democrats, under the rally cry of ’42 million people being denied their SNAP benefits!’
Posts went viral of people claiming to resort to violence and chaos if the program closes during the shutdown.
Well, this is really going to make them mad:
The Dept. of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said earlier today that the fraud they found in the states that complied with the data request will “give us a platform and a trajectory to fundamentally rebuild this program.” The “rebuild” would include requiring every recipient to reapply and ensure “that they are literally vulnerable and cannot survive without it.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/usda-secretary-brooke-rollins-calls-snap-program-be/
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Google has been accused in a lawsuit of using its AI assistant Gemini to illegally intercept and monitor the private communications of users across its Gmail, chat, and video-conferencing services, Bloomberg has reported.
The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in a California federal court, said the Alphabet Inc. unit had previously made its AI optional for Gmail, Chat and Meet users, but then “secretly” enabled Gemini to access those applications in October, the outlet wrote on Wednesday. The complaint alleged this allowed data collection “without the users’ knowledge or consent.”
The class-action suit reportedly claims that while Google allows users to disable the AI assistant, doing so requires navigating the company's privacy settings. The complaint states that unless users take this step, Google utilizes Gemini to “access and exploit the entire recorded history of its users’ private communications, including every email and attachment sent and received in their Gmail accounts.”
https://www.rt.com/business/627746-google-privacy-lawsuit-ai/
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