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George Lucas says AI makes it "much easier for us to make movies" and "there’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.” “Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies. It’s very much like sitting here saying, ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they’ll be making them into tanks, and then they’ll be killing people. It’s terrible.’ There’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.” (via A Rabbit's Foot) variety.com/2026/film/news…

Confirmed: Sen. Cotton still opposes the permanent daylight saving time bill and is not alone A source says "Senator Cotton has the same concerns he’s had for years about this proposal, but he is far from alone. Senators Thune, Wicker, Fischer, Moran, Sullivan, Budd, Sheehy, Klobuchar, Peters, Duckworth, Rosen, and Blunt-Rochester all voted against making daylight savings time permanent in the Senate Commerce Committee. This isn’t really a partisan issue, it’s a geographic issue" The late sunrises in the winter are a big concern of opponents and they point to the fact that Congress already tried this once and people didn't like it. Graphic-->

📊 2028 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES 🔵 Harris: 37% 🔵 Newsom: 24% 🔵 Buttigieg: 10% 🔵 Shapiro: 9% 🔵 AOC: 9% 🔵 Pritzker: 5% ⚪ Other: 5% —— 🔴 Vance: 42% 🔴 Rubio: 22% 🔴 Don Jr: 18% 🔴 RFK Jr: 6% 🔴 Haley: 6% 🔴 Carlson: 3% ⚪ Other: 7% Harvard/Harris | 7/11-12 | RV harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/upl…

📊 2028 Dem Primary by Echelon (A) 🔵 Harris: 21% (+1) 🔵 Buttigieg: 14% (+1) 🔵 Newsom: 14% (=) 🔵 AOC: 9% (-3) 🔵 Shapiro: 7% (+1) 🔵 Kelly: 4% 🔵 Beshear: 3% 🔵 Ossoff: 3% 🔵 Pritzker: 3% 🔵 Booker: 2% 🔵 Whitmer: 2% 🔵 C. Murphy: 1% 🔵 Warnock: 1% 🔵 Fetterman: 1% 🔵 Moore: 1% 🔵 Khanna: 1% 🔵 Warnock: 1% 🔵 Polis: 0% 🔵 Van Hollen: 0% 🔵 Emanuel: 0% —— @EchelonInsights | 7/9-13 | 458 LV t.co/tIUT3hpHTK

2028 Republican Primary 🔴 Vance: 38% (-3) 🔴 Rubio: 15% (=) 🔴 DeSantis: 9% (+3) 🔴 Trump Jr: 8% (+1) 🔴 Vivek: 3% 🔴 RFK Jr: 3% 🔴 Carlson: 2% 🔴 Cruz: 2% 🔴 Sanders: 2% 🔴 MTG: 1% 🔴 Hawley: 1% 🔴 Bovino: 0% 🔴 Bannon: 0% @EchelonInsights (A) | 7/9-13 | 458 LV

MI USSEN DEM (Detroit News/Glengariff): Haley Stevens 48% Abdul El-Sayed 41%

Ossoff: "We understand the president may be threatening to declare sitting senators illegitimate. If that's the course of action he pursues, he's calling Georgia voters illegitimate ... he was humiliated and furious as a committed lifelong racist that it was Black voters in Georgia who were instrumental in his defeat"

ARRESTED IN IBIZA: Spanish police detain James "Fergie" Cox Chambers Jr., the estranged heir to the $27 billion Cox cable empire, on an international warrant alleging money laundering and providing material support to Hamas. Chambers cashed out roughly $250 million from Cox Enterprises in 2023 after a falling out with his family — then allegedly funneled that fortune into communist collectives, anti-Israel direct-action campaigns and legal defense funds for activists tied to property destruction in the U.S. and U.K. He praised the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks as a "moment of hope and inspiration" and told Mother Jones "the most important thing for the prosperity of humanity is the destruction of the US." The Justice Department and FBI have been building the case as part of a broader crackdown on far-left financiers allegedly bankrolling political violence. Chambers is being held at the central jail in Ibiza pending an extradition decision by videoconference.

Senate Democrats blocked a $1 trillion annual defense bill Tuesday, refusing to advance the bipartisan package that would substantially increase Pentagon spending, including a pay raise for the troops, in protest of President Donald Trump's war against Iran. to.pbs.org/4wFMO65

🚨 NEWS: Wisconsin election officials have found probable cause that Elon Musk violated the state's election bribery law and have referred complaints against him to the Brown County District Attorney. The bipartisan commission voted 5-1 after concluding there's probable cause Musk unlawfully offered $1 million to induce voting in the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

The five minutes of “the DNC is going to install a corporate establishment candidate” was very funny; every serious candidate ran a progressive campaign for some other office this year. (I guess the theory was that Mills would swipe the nomination but come on)

308-117: House voted to make Daylight Saving Time (DST) permanent year-round and nationwide. The Sunshine Protection Act, which now heads to the Senate, does permit states to exempt themselves from the twice-a-year time change.

BREAKING: Per multiple federal sources to @FoxNews, ICE has been instructed to immediately cease most vehicle stops during immigration enforcement operations nationwide, except for operations targeting the most egregious criminal aliens. This comes after two people were killed by ICE in shootings in TX and ME in the last week in incidents that began as vehicle stops. DHS alleges one of those incidents was a ramming attempt. I’m told this will be temporary until ICE officers receive new training on vehicle stops. The policy change will have significant impacts as many of ICE’s arrests begin as vehicle stops when they find and follow a target, as we’ve witnessed on multiple embeds. More to come as we get it. First scooped by @JennieSTaer

Awesome image of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket creating a glowing, jellyfish-like plume that was visible across the DC region Tuesday morning. More info: capitalweather.com/space-jellyfis… Photo courtesy @AustinDeSisto

#BREAKING: House GOP breaks weeks-long standoff between Republican leaders and hardliners thehill.com/homenews/house…

NEBRASKA. Ex-GOP St Sen Brett Lindstrom launches run vs Gov Jim Pillen (R) as an Independent... nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/07/13/lin…

BREAKING: Darline Graham Nordone has been sworn in as South Carolina’s newest U.S. senator, filling the seat left vacant by her late brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham.

BREAKING - U.S. FORCES HAVE CARRIED OUT A FEW ADDITIONAL STRIKES ON MILITARY TARGETS IN IRAN TO ELIMINATE EMERGING THREATS, U.S. OFFICIAL TELLS REUTERS

Trump on FBI investigating Lindsey Graham’s death: I think the FBI is wasting their time