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WASHINGTON D.C. - On Monday, the GOP-led House overwhelmingly passed a bill championed by First Lady Melania Trump to protect victims of non-consensual intimate imagery, including revenge porn using AI-generated deepfakes.
The bill, called the “Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks (TAKE IT DOWN) Act,” received the support of 207 Republicans and 202 Democrats.
Once signed into law, the legislation would prohibit the non-consensual online publication of intimate visual depictions, including digital forgeries, imposing fines, imprisonment, and mandatory restitution for violations, mainly when intended to harm adults or exploit minors. The bill also requires online platforms hosting user-generated content to remove such depictions within 48 hours of a removal request, with the Federal Trade Commission enforcing compliance. Click here to read more.
DENVER, COL - The minority leader of the Colorado House of Representatives warned that a bill making its way in the Colorado Senate represents a “huge violation of parental rights.”
The state Senate will hear testimony about House Bill 1312, which would remove kids from parents’ custody for behaviors like “misgendering” and “deadnaming,” on Wednesday. The bill passed the state House earlier this month 36-20, with nine members absent, in a largely party-line vote.
“As parents, we have the God-given right to raise our children in the way that we see fit,” House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese, a Republican, told The Daily Signal in an interview Friday. “We all take issue with the notion that if you don’t subscribe to a certain ideology, that that could affect your parental rights or even custody of our children.”
“This is an issue that transcends party lines,” she added. “I don’t think this is a Republican or Democrat issue. I think this really truly is a people-of-Colorado issue.” Click here to read more.
BOSTON, MASS - Myth: Hurricanes Helene and Milton show that we’re experiencing unprecedented danger from extreme weather thanks to fossil fuels.
Truth: Fossil fuels have made us much safer from extreme weather—and the recent hurricanes would’ve been far worse without them.
Truth: We’re experiencing unprecedented safety from extreme weather.
Media reports would lead us to believe that hurricanes like Helene and Milton are proof that fossil-fueled “climate change” is making extreme weather much more dangerous by virtue of being more intense and/or frequent. Mainstream data and climate science show otherwise.
Myth: We’re experiencing unprecedented danger from extreme weather.
Truth: We’re experiencing unprecedented safety from extreme weather, including a huge drop in extreme weather deaths in recent decades. All media reports on extreme weather should acknowledge this, yet none do.
You wouldn’t know it from typical media coverage, but we are far safer from extreme weather like Milton in today’s fossil-fueled world compared to the past. Climate-related disaster deaths, i.e. extreme weather deaths, are down 98% over the last century!
OCALA, Fla. - A 10-year-old boy in Florida died by suicide after his parents say he was bullied by his teacher, according to a lawsuit.
Louis Johnson’s parents filed a lawsuit nearly two years after his death against the Marion County School Board on Monday.
The wrongful death lawsuit claims that fifth-grade teacher Dawn White bullied Johnson, a Legacy Elementary School student, and recruited other students to bully him.
According to the lawsuit, White called Johnson “stupid” and said that he “didn’t know anything.”
“I don’t know why you’re talking because you don’t even know anything. You don’t know nothing in this class. Isn’t that right kids?” White allegedly told Johnson.
The report concluded that White chronically inflicted psychological distress on several students by “verbally insulting, humiliating, and embarrassing students,” Click here to read more.
COLUMBIA, MO - A 16-year-old girl who went missing in December from Columbia, Missouri, was recently found in the home of a sex offender in Fort Collins, Colorado, after investigators got a tip via her Instagram account.
The girl was reported missing December 6. Authorities were led to the suspect’s home after her social media account was used to send a message on April 15, 9 News reported on Thursday.
Investigators zoned in on the suspect’s home after learning the account was accessed from an IP address there. The suspect was identified as Maximilian Bondrescu, 44.
Authorities obtained a warrant and went to the man’s home on April 18. In a social media post on Thursday, the Fort Collins Police Service detailed what they found inside the home: Click here to read more.
