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NEW YORK, NY - Apple’s iPhone voice-to-text feature sometimes displays “Trump” when users say the word “racist” into the microphone. The company claims it is aware of the “issue” and promises it is “rolling out a fix as soon as possible.”
Apple iPhone owners are recording videos of themselves using Apple’s voice-to-text feature, demonstrating that the smartphone briefly flashes “Trump” before switching back to the correct word they they say the word “racist” into the microphone. This is widespread and confirmed on multiple personal devices by Breitbart News.
While the smartphone did not display “Trump” every time “racist” was said using the device’s voice-to-text feature in the above sample video, it did show the 45th and 47th president’s surname three out of five times the iPhone user said the word “racist.”
On Tuesday afternoon, Breitbart News was able to replicate the issue several times, seeing “Trump” flash briefly when “racist” was spoken into Apple’s voice-to-text tool, before eventually switching back to the correct word. Click here to read more.
CHICAGO, IL - Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson asked the city to take out $830 million in bonds just one day after Chicago’s credit rating hit near-junk status, according to Standard & Poor’s Global.
Johnson claims the bonds are for infrastructure and capital improvements, but there is broad language in how the money could be spent. He could use it for the contract his former coworkers at the Chicago Teachers Union are seeking.
In listing acceptable uses for funds, the ordinance includes “loans or grants to assist individuals, not-for-profit organizations, or educational or cultural institutions, or for-profit organizations, or to assist other municipal corporations, units of local government, school districts, the State or the United States of America.”
Johnson could use the borrowed money to pay for the city’s contract with the CTU, which is his former employer and his largest campaign contributor at nearly $2.3 million. CTU is in the middle of contract negotiations with Chicago Public Schools.
S&P putting Chicago’s credit rating from BBB+ to BBB, two grades away from junk status, should be enough reason to reconsider borrowing nearly $1 billion. Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza said council members should reject the added debt. Click here to read more.
BOSTON, MASS - The New England Journal of Medicine is the world’s most prestigious medical journal. It publishes only 5 percent of the original research submissions that it receives. Physician Marty Makary, President Trump’s nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration, has written that publishing a study in the journal “is rocket fuel for your academic career.”
But like so many other institutions, NEJM has allowed a dubious commitment to “social justice” to overtake its pursuit of excellence in medical science—particularly when it comes to youth gender medicine. NEJM’s coverage of this controversial field has abandoned even the pretense of objectivity, declining to hold researchers to scientific standards or air alternative views that would advance scientific knowledge.
“Gender-affirming care” for youth involves the use of puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to treat children who experience distress associated with their sex. Once embraced by many Western countries, this protocol has faced criticism in recent years for lacking credible evidence of its safety and benefits, for its potential harms, and for imposing life-altering treatments on children unable to give informed consent. In the U.S., though, medical associations have bucked the growing international consensus, maintaining their commitment to what they regard as a nonnegotiable human right. Click here to read more.
AUSTIN, TX Texas farm land is at risk. It’s not the Chinese, although lawmakers have introduced a suite of bills to fight against foreign adversaries gobbling up precious land.
Something else is destroying the soil itself and livestock that graze on it.
PFAs (perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, colloquially called “forever chemicals”) are an imperishable poison that is seeping into the waterways and lands of Texas farmers with destructive force.
A case in Johnson County, Texas, set off alarm bells across the state. Environmental crimes investigator Dana Ames had tests conducted in late December of 2022 on a stillborn calf from a Texas ranch at a Texas A&M lab. The test results came back; this calf, that had never breathed contaminated air or ingested poisoned water, had PFAs totaling 610,000 parts per trillion in its liver.
For context, this is 152,500 times what the EPA considers a safe amount in drinking water. On February 11, Johnson County issued a disaster declaration because of the contamination. Click here to read more.
SAN ANTONIO, TX - An improvised explosive device killed a Texas rancher last month, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says.
“This shocking act of violence highlights the growing threat posed by cartel activity along our southern border,” Miller said in a statement Tuesday.
Antonio Céspedes Saldierna, 74, was killed at the end of January when his vehicle detonated an IED on his ranch in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, according to local Rio Grande Valley’s KGRV-TV Channel 5, the local ABC affiliate. Tamaulipas borders the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas.
Miller urged all Texans living and working along the border with Mexico and traveling between the two countries to “exercise extreme caution.”
“The Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) is a crucial part of Texas agriculture, and the safety of our agricultural community is of utmost importance,” he said. “We cannot overlook the rising violence that threatens not only lives, but also the security of our farms, ranches, and rural communities.” Click here to read more.
