Evening Roundup, June 3
Bill Pulte is a nightmare DNI, moderation is key, Pope pops AI bubble, Trump wants another yes man, let's talk about the Knicks, The Pod, and targeted protestors at Delaney Hall
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The Crucial Point Missing From Primary Coverage
You wouldn’t know it from most of the political reporting, but Americans are clamoring for moderation. By huge margins, voters say the Republican Party has gone too far to the right, and Democrats have gone too far to the left.
The Pope Is Not Impressed by Your Bots
If I had to guess who would offer the next most effective critique of the AI boom, I would not have predicted the man who lives in a 16th-century palace with a 2000-year-old job. But Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is a gimlet-eyed skewering of the value (and values) behind Silicon Valley’s would-be deus ex machina. For policy advo…
Trump Staffing Scandal of the Day
Bill Pulte Is Not Being Sent to Lead the Intelligence Community
On Monday, President Donald Trump named Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as acting director of national intelligence. The selection is less a personnel oddity than a signal about what Trump now appears to want from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence: not an independent intelligence integrator, but another …
Now to get those treason charges to stick this time around.
tRump wants a yes man to control more and yet again have another agency in his pocket.