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🚨 Melania Trump this morning: Proposes an AI system—“Plato”—as a replacement for teachers. “Literature, art, science, mathematics, history… the entire corpus of knowledge… at home.” Replace teachers? With a machine? AI over teachers. That’s the idea. Instead of calling for better pay for our nation's educators/heroes. Sad day!

United Airlines and the flight attendant union have reached a tentative labor agreement that will take top pay to $100/hr by the end of the contract. Flight attendants will also finally be paid during boarding if this agreement is ratified.

Hegseth on Iran: For years, they told the world their missiles could only range two kilometers. Surprise—yet again, Iran lied.

Recently, Israeli forces subjected a one-year-old child to abuse to pressure his father into giving confessions east of Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, according to local and family sources. The child's father, Osama Abu Nassar, suffered psychological trauma after the death of a horse he used for income. While taking his child to buy supplies a few days ago, he was caught in gunfire near his home and forced by soldiers to leave his 18-month-old son on the ground and approach the Israeli checkpoint, where he was stripped of his clothes. According to witnesses, the army then took the child and interrogated the father at the checkpoint. The forces tortured the child in front of his father, including burning with cigarettes on his leg, pricking, and inserting a metal nail into his leg, as confirmed by a medical report. The child, Karim, was released after 10 hours and handed over to his family through the International Red Cross, while the father remains in detention. 📷 Osama Al-Kahlout

We do not care Maureen, not an ounce

A rather testy Greg Meeks, top Dem on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, tells our Hill intern Lilly Franks that he is not bringing the Iran War Powers vote on to the floor this week because he is confident it would lose. He won't force a vote today or tomorrow "because we can’t win. When you see me put the bill on the floor, that means we’re gonna win. I know how to count," he said. "I know how to do my job." Current whip count has Dems at least at a tie (which is a loss) but they'd win if Nancy Mace or any other Republican votes yes. Advocates of the WPR are saying now is the time to force Republicans to take the vote, before Trump launches ground operations.