We have all known people in our own family, work, and social circles who are “smart stupid.” They may be very skilled, even brilliant, at some pursuits. Often, those are technical skills, such as programming, surgery, restaurant supply management, or other domains. But in other spheres, they’re complete morons.
They can be highly credulous. They follow twisted paths of logic to bizarre conclusions. They fervently believe in things without any evidential basis. They malign people who may be actual experts in the topic at hand. They trivialize the likely consequences of rash actions that follow on their beliefs.
Now, to some extent, we’re all smart-stupid. We’re smarter in some areas than others. On the other had, genuinely smart-stupid people insist on ignoring their weaknesses, making bold declarations on subjects where they should be aware of their deficiencies. Unfortunately, they sometimes have the power to get people to follow their misguided diktats.
Without a doubt, Elon Musk is one of those people. Nowhere can you see these deficiencies more than his zealous pursuit of AI. Here’s something he posted yesterday on X, the same day that the current regime unveiled its “Liberation Day” tariffs. (More on the connection of AI to the tariffs later.)
This sentiment doesn’t come from nowhere. Musk is part of a community in the technology world, including many tech executives, who believe that AI is more than just a good thing. It’s more than an inevitability. It’s actually the chief duty as human beings to create our coming AI overlords. As an added bonus, we might be able to use related technology to achieve “immortality” by uploading a copy of our minds into machines, achieving the “Singularity.” *
There are different flavors of this doctrine, from the Rationalists, who want to build a benevolent AI overlord to usher in a golden age, to the Zizians, a recent addition to the roster of American cults that believes, among other things, that it’s a good thing to train ourselves to become vegan psychopaths to prepare for the AI tyranny to come.
Before getting into their “thinking,” I have to point out the dynamic that leads people to believe in such nonsense. Smart-stupid individuals like to pile one supposition on top of another, higher and higher into the ether of ridiculousness. At no time do they stop to question whether any one of their conclusions makes sense. Instead, they swiftly move to place another piece of the house of cards, and another, and another…
How do people convince themselves of these intellectual castles in the air? Possible explanations include simple arrogance, social isolation (such as spending way too much time in social media echo chambers), Dunning-Kruger-like inability to see their own ignorance and inability, poor education in the humanities (“If I can master Python, Java, Rust, I can figure out anything!”), regular drug or alcohol abuse, living in the clouds of lofty privilege, and other possible factors. The end result: a zealous belief in absurdities, and a siege mentality against anyone who dares point out their ridiculousness.
Part of the backstory of AI fetishism lies in a science fiction story, “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream,” written by Harlan Ellison, the enfant terrible of the SF community in the 60s and 70s. If the title isn’t a clear enough of a hint for you, Ellison’s story is one of the most depressing things you might read in this genre. A sadistic machine intelligence has killed most of humanity, except for a handful whom it keeps alive simply to torture. There’s no escape from this hell, even by suicide, since the godlike AI simply resurrects them for the next round of inventive cruelty.
That’s it. That’s the story.
You might think, “Gosh, that’s a horrible way to spend some pleasant time in my favorite reading chair, except if it’s a useful warning against trusting AI too much.” Others have a different take. In fact, they make a very perverse reading of Ellison’s story into a philosophy of life.
But first, let me caveat what I’m about to say. A lot of people who are fervent believers in AI, who want AI to take over many core functions of our lives, are misguided, but not as weird and malicious as we’re about to get. As more benign as their arguments might sound, I don’t think that AI can or should take over as many important decisions as these enthusiasts would argue. I don’t want AIs to govern when to pull the plug on very sick people, who gets into universities, which job candidates are deserving consideration, or whether a criminal defendant is innocent or guilty. I still want human beings to ultimately turn the switch left or right on those decisions. AI should be a servant, not a master. We don’t need or want tech oligarchs to usher in the AI oligarchs.
Now, on to the reductio ab absurdum of this thinking.
In the 2010s, many Internet forums were abuzz with discussion of Roko’s Basilisk, a thought experiment based on Ellison’s story. The argument went like this: Suppose an all-knowing, all-powerful AI is an inevitability, or at least a high probability. A machine intelligence that smart will know, who helped create it, and who impeded it. It will then use its powers to punish the people who stood in its way. Therefore, everyone has a duty to do their utmost to create the AI god-emperor, to avoid its wrath.
Now, on the face of it, this is the type of argument that, on its face, is not worth taking seriously. It’s a lot like Descartes’ “demon deceiver,” or its modern off-shoot, the universe as a simulation, which lead exactly nowhere. (Am I not going to get out of bed, because I think the bed, the bedroom, my house, and everything else is unreal? David Hume, among others, would disagree.) A cute idea maybe to bat around in a dorm room discussion, but that’s about it.
Except other people took it much more seriously. For the full story, I recommend the recent episodes of the podcast Behind The Bastards about the Zizians. The host, Robert Evans, has done a heroic (and no doubt painful) job of sifting through the blog posts of the Zizian’s founder, news stories about the Zizians, and other resources to paint a picture of how an overwritten piece of Harry Potter fan fiction led this group to deciding the best techniques for bringing about the AI-dominated future was becoming effective psychopaths, trying to put the evil half of their brain to sleep while keeping the good part awake, living on a decrepit tugboat in San Francisco harbor, and murdering the owner of the land on which they were squatting. It was the ultimate example of smart-stupid people (many of them, including their founder, were Silicon Valley tech professionals) following one silly proposition after another down the road to destruction. It’s a horrifying listen, but I recommend it.
Very little stood in the way of the Zizians traveling down the fast track to destruction. They built an isolated community of true believers. None of them had any education to speak of in domains they were exploring: for example, they seem to have had no idea that “upgrading” themselves through sleep deprivation was a very, very bad idea. Nor did they base their notions on any deep thinkers about morality and ethics. They baldly declared they wanted to become “Sith Lords,” embracing the worldview of Star Wars villains, or they wanted to emulate Ricky Gervais’ character in the UK version of The Office. These bits of popular culture were their guideposts, not centuries of political philosophy and history.
As I said earlier, there are less poisonous versions of AI fetishism than where the Zizians took it. But even belief in a more benevolent AI overlord is still a belief in an AI overlord. It’s no less silly and unjustified than the Zizian nightmare.
Which brings us back to Elon Musk. In the past, Musk has expressed that he finds Roko’s Basilisk an interesting thought experiment, worth considering. (It even helped him get a date with Grimes.
) Does that make him a Zizian? No, but he definitely moves in the same circles where people take this kind of nonsense seriously, the thought problems that lead nowhere, except sometimes leading people to do stupid things.
And he certainly also has an unjustified faith in AI. His tweet on April 2nd is the most succinct statement possible. We’re just organic creatures whose role is just to give birth to the great machine intelligences. The fact that he can make a great deal of money off AI can’t hurt, either.
What’s the basis of his view of AI’s inevitability, and his weird idea that being superseded by machines is somehow glorious? The same porridge of popular culture that gave birth to the Zizians: science fiction stories, Internet memes, lowbrow space opera movies, blog posts, tweets, and so on.
In light of this, There are other statements he has made that are worth pondering. Infamously, he recently said that empathy is a “bug” in Western civilization. He promotes, through NeuraLink, the idea that by implanting devices in our brains, we’ll become happier and more productive as cyborgs than we ever would have been with just brain tissue. (This is one of the tenets of transhumanism
, another movement that takes way too seriously something that science fiction writers like to write about. To solve human problems, transhumanists believe we should become less and less human.) He thinks that AI can take over many functions of government.
All of these smack of a wide-eyed, unquestioning, and ultimately unwise aspects of techno-Futurism, none of which is informed by a working knowledge of, well, how the world works. ** Or even how AI works.
Yesterday, Trump unveiled the new tariffs. It took no time for observers to figure out how they were calculated:
The formula was based on trade imbalances, not actual tariffs imposed on the United States.
The formula, bizarrely, was based on Internet domains, not actual countries. That means we’re imposing tariffs on islands with no human inhabitants (but there are some protectionist penguins lurking there, apparently), and even an island where the only inhabitants are US military personnel.
The source of the formula was, in all likelihood, someone asking a chatbot, “What is the easiest way to impose tariffs?”
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We don’t yet know who that someone was. But who, just who, might have an unjustified belief in the ability of AI to replace government experts who know something about tariffs, the health of trade between the US and other countries, and oh maybe, how the world economy isn’t organized around Internet domains? If it wasn’t Musk directly involved, it’d be amazing if his influence wasn’t behind this world historic moment of abject stupidity.
As I said, none of this AI fetishism is based even on a clear understanding of AI. We don’t know yet if AI is capable of “general intelligence.” Whether AI can ever have agency is also highly doubtful. (Sleep easily tonight. No current incarnation of AI is going to “wake up” tomorrow, Skynet-style, and decide to start hurling nuclear weapons indiscriminately.) We give AI a lot of information, get it to start building up patterns and conclusions, and set it on a task. A person who doesn’t know Jacques Merde about economics asks it to design tariffs, it’s going to give the result we have.
There’s a lot of techno-futurism that’s pretty harmless. If people want to experiment with putting machinery in their bodies, go for it, as long as you’re not harming anyone else. (That’s just basic utilitarianism. Oh, the humanities!) But if you want to start inflicting that techno-futurism on other people, based on absolutely no expertise in economics, health care, science, the effective functioning of government, international relations, history, demographics, the environment, climate, manufacturing, agriculture, law, transportation, intelligence sources and methods, or any of a thousand other possibly relevant topics, then you’re a dangerous idiot.
* When I was in college, I had a classic dorm room discussion about the science fiction concept of copying our minds. I’ll admit, I thought at first it really was a kind of immortality. Then my friends pointed out that it really wasn’t. If I die and someone moves the copy of my brain into another body, I, the person talking right now, am still dead. It’s as deficient a form of immortality as saying that John Wayne was still alive as long as Rich Little could do impressions of him. Ditto for “uploading” our brains into some electronically-generated pseudo-reality. You really want to tell people who believe that’s a good thing to spend more time outdoors, preferably with other people.
** For another quintessential smart-stupid guy who knows Jacques Merde about anything, check out the collected works of Curtis Yarvin, the computer programmer who, from his cubicle, came up with a cunning plan for re-inventing societal organization, turning the nation into a collection of corporate-run city-states. Who loves Curtis Yarvin, the guy who declared that “Democracy is done” without ever cracking open a book of history, political philosophy, or political science? Why, of course, JD Vance, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreesen, and other people who want to demolish the status quo! Behind The Bastards also has a good series covering him.
Since Steven is the king of tab clearing, I’m going to try something different and bring you best/worst of X/itter’s hot takes on the Tariffs. This may become an ongoing series–though I make no promises.
I already used this X/eet in a separate post, but I think it’s worth repeating–tl;dr there really does not appear to be a plan:
Nobody knows what’s going on.
You’ve prominent Trumpsplainers saying the goal of the tariffs is to raise trillions in revenue and move us off income taxes.
You’ve got folks who seem super plugged into the Trump-tech alliance like Palmer saying no no no, the goal is the… https://t.co/Fo3omknjhT
Well, other than the President announcing the tariffs and immediately claiming “Mission Accomplished” (the Iraq war parallels continue
):
THE OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING. THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
Donald Trump Truth Social 4/03/25 08:33 AM
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) April 3, 2025
Though some folks see the problem with using this medical metaphor:
This metaphor, stupid in its own right, is also misapplied in its stage of a medical treatment. This is like announcing a very radical schedule of chemotherapy that you haven't actually begun seeing the effects of yet… for something that's probably not actually cancer. pic.twitter.com/ErcQhSsikk
Granted, I’m not an investment banker, but it seems like it will be hard to pay down our foreign debt if the dollar is losing value. Though one country’s loss is another country’s gain:
— bal des ardents survivor (@StasiBoots) April 3, 2025
But even if the value of the dollar is depressed, we still have that extra revenue we can use to pay down the debt, just like we did during the first Trump administration:
Nearly all the new tariff revenue raised under President Trump’s first term was used to bail out farmers and ag producers harmed by retaliatory tariffs.
To be even-handed, here is one of the President’s supporters talking about what he thinks the goals for the tariffs should be:
Trump’s goal on Liberation Day is to “create an environment where we’re back to where we were before World War I,” former House speaker Newt Gingrich says
That is when “we were the strongest economy in the world, largely built around a high tariff, high wage, high manufacturing…
This hot take leaves out a lot of external factors. Also, I’m not sure “strong wages” is an accurate statement (at least for the average manufacturing job):
For a guy who touts his PhD in history, Newt does not know a lot about the subject. Before WWI, real GDP per capita was one-sixth of what it is today. https://t.co/NwO62YlXk7
@JKB I look forward to your pedantic correction on this one–when you are writing it perhaps you can also address Thomas Sowell’s position on tariffs
. I mean just yesterday you were imploring us to listen to Dr Sowell on another topic.
In all seriousness, I will leave you with a vital x/eet. The reality is that the only reason these tariffs have happened is a lack of political will to rein in the Imperial Presidency:
Trump lit the tariff fuse but if Congress won’t defuse, the wreckage is also on them.
Tariff policy is Congress’s domain not the President’s.
Israel launched a wave of airstrikes on Syrian military
airfields this week, in what officials confirmed to Fox News Digital was “intended to send a clear message to Turkey not to interfere with Israeli aerial operations in Syrian airspace.”
The escalation marks a turning point in Jerusalem’s stance toward Ankara, as Turkey attempts to expand its military presence in Syria amid regional instability.
The Israeli Defense Forces struck strategic assets at both the Hama military airport and the T-4 airbase, including runways, fuel storage sites, radar systems and weapons caches. The strikes follow weeks of intelligence gathering by the Israeli air force, which tracked military assets in the targeted bases.
The airbases, which had been under the control of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, are now reportedly being eyed by Turkey
for expanded use and the deployment of air defense systems.
Turkey has signaled growing ambitions in Syria. Reports from Middle East Eye
indicate that Turkish forces have begun moves to take control of the T-4 base and are planning to install air defense systems there. Since the fall of Assad in December, Ankara has accelerated negotiations with Syria’s interim government over a potential defense pact.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry reacted
sharply to the Israeli strikes, labeling Israel’s government as “racist and fundamentalist,” accusing it of expansionist ambitions. “Israel’s attacks in Syria, without any provocation, are inconceivable and indicate a policy that thrives on conflict,” a ministry spokesperson said. The statement further condemned Israel’s military operations as a threat to regional security.
Fox News Digital requests for comment to the Turkish embassy spokesman in Washington, D.C., were not returned.
Dr. Sinan Ciddi, a Turkey expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is attempting to capitalize on the regional vacuum left by Russia and Iran.
“Erdogan is trying to reignite Turkey’s influence in the region as a sort of neo-Ottoman power,” said Ciddi. “He sees Iran’s proxies weakened, Russia overstretched, and is positioning Turkey to dominate the region — particularly through military footholds like the airbases.”
Ciddi said Erdogan’s long game includes projecting power in Syria, currying favor with the new government in Damascus and convincing the U.S. to grant Turkey access to F-35 fighter jets in exchange for “managing” Syria.
“Erdogan wants to go to Trump and say, ‘I’m the big guy here. Leave Syria to me, just give me the F-35s,’” Ciddi said. “But Israel sees this as a direct threat. Bombing the T-4 runway was a clear message: you’re not welcome here.”
The Turkish leader’s recent inflammatory rhetoric
— including prayers for the destruction of Israel during a Ramadan service — has further alarmed Israeli and American observers.
During a recent webinar hosted by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Eric Edelman called for urgent diplomatic intervention.
“There ought to be some quiet discussions with Turkey about toning down the rhetoric about Israel — threats to destroy it, whether coming from the president or his son at rallies,” said Edelman. “There needs to be some kind of effort to deconflict over Syrian airspace.”
Edelman also warned that renewed F-35 sales to Turkey must come with conditions: “If Turkey is actually going to possess the F-35, there has to be some very clear understandings about where they can use it.”
Alan Makovsky, JINSA Eastern Mediterranean Policy Project member said, “We can never assume statements like this are just rhetoric,” adding, “Erdogan has alluded in the past to being able to ‘come suddenly one night’ — we have to take that seriously.”
Inside Israel, officials are closely watching Turkey’s moves in Syria. Avner Golov, vice president of Mind Israel, emphasized that the current crisis reflects a deeper ideological threat.
“Iran is clearly the head of the radical camp, but Erdogan is trying to position himself as the second head — and he’s no less dangerous in terms of potential,” he said. “He doesn’t use proxies the same way Iran does. He intervenes directly, including inside Israel through Palestinian citizens and political activism.”
“Israel has diplomatic ties with Turkey, but Erdogan keeps blocking meaningful security cooperation in NATO” Golov added. “Now that Turkey is moving south into Syria, we [Israel] need to escalate the rules of engagement. We can’t allow Turkey to create a long-range air defense umbrella on our border.”
Golov said the current administration needs to understand that Erdogan’s ambitions go beyond Syria. “He wants to become a patron state, to control the skies, and to prevent Israeli operations by claiming we’re violating Syrian sovereignty. But it’s not about sovereignty — it’s about power and shaping the new Middle East in Muslim Brotherhood colors.”
On the recent protests against the jailing of the mayor of Istanbul, Ciddi said, “We’ve seen a great challenge to Erdogan with these rising public protests — probably the biggest since the 2013 Gezi protests … jailing an opposition candidate before they even run is a clear sign of weakness. Erdogan doesn’t care about international criticism or economic fallout — all he cares about is maintaining his regime. That’s not strength, it’s desperation.”
A post shared on Facebook claims New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her family have purportedly “overlooked” cashing her dead grandmother’s Social Security checks for more than a decade. Verdict: False The claim is false and originally stems from a recent article published on “The Dunning-Kruger Times,” which is a satire site. Fact Check: […]
The current results with 69% of the vote counted (source: CNN) is s follows.
That’s a pretty big lose for Elon Musk’s ability to throw tens of millions around to get what MAGA wants out of a given state-level election.
While I would not want to make too much out of this contest, it ain’t nothing. It should be seen to be at least in part a comment on the Trump admininstration and Musk’s antics.
Note that Wisconsin is closely divided at the state level in terms of partisan voting (as I noted yesterday
).
I don’t have time for much analysis at the moment and will likely be scarce for the next several days.
I would note that the two Florida special elections held today will result in the GOP retaining those seats, as was expected given the large R leans in both districts.
Trump removes NSA director and cyber command chief amid loyalty concerns and Loomer meeting
General Timothy D. Haugh, the Commander of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM), Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), and Chief of the Central Security Service (CSS) has been removed tonight from all of his military and civilian positions effective immediately, alongside his… pic.twitter.com/07A7QB18SY
I decided to travel to small-town Maryland and Ohio to try to find out just how much slack Trump voters are willing to cut him amid the uncertainty of this trade policy. What I found is that Trump has a lot more runway to play with before his support may or may not start to crumble.
Cumberland, Md., is a charming and sleepy hamlet near the Pennsylvania border which, like so many in the area, grew up around the railroad, and it shows. Trestles and 19th-century buildings abound, freight trains cut their fearless way right through the small downtown.
There I met Fred and his son Chris, who were eating dinner next to me at a local establishment. Fred’s bright red “Trump Was Right About Everything” hat seemed like a bit of a clue that he had voted for the president, so we got to talking.
“None,” Fred told me when I asked if he was starting to have any doubts. The retired Navy veteran was especially pleased by the selection of Pete Hegseth as secretary of the Department of Defense. “He’s a serviceman,” Fred told me. “He can handle it.”
I hear that from about nine out of 10 vets I talk to.
Fred’s son Chris, also a Navy vet, was a bit more circumspect. On the subject of tariffs and more broadly inflation, he said, “Trump ran on making things cheaper, not more expensive, but I’m still willing to trust him.”
“Nothing happens overnight and without work,” came some fatherly advice from Fred.
Now Chris has a point. Trump absolutely ran on imposing tariffs, but it was never clear if that was a negotiating tactic or an overall economic policy. We still don’t really know. Deals could still be cut, but Trump did not run on short-term economic pain, something all of his supporters I talked to admitted, but also accepted.
Later that night, I met four guys in their 30s, who work in the local energy industry, and once again, three of them were entirely on board.
“I don’t think he has done enough,” one quipped sarcastically about the avalanche of actions taken by Trump.
Another said Trump’s ac tions have strengthened his support.
“A couple years ago, I was not politically aligned with either party, but now that Trump has become the president, and Elon is trying to eliminate, with the DOGE, the fraud and the illogical spending that is happening, I am totally for that.” He added, “I am more happy now that I voted for Trump than I was when I voted for Trump.”
About two hours northwest of Cumberland lies tiny Columbiana, Ohio. Unlike the cozy Cumberland nestled in the mountains, Columbiana is a small place more of strip malls than town squares, but not without its own charming haunts to discover.
One of those is Factory 46, a restaurant and bar tucked behind one of the ubiquitous malls, where Joe, in his 20’s who has lived here his whole life, slings the drinks and grub.
There I met another father and son, again in the same industry, this time coal mining, and this time it was the dad who let me ask him a few questions on video. For both of them, removing the tax on overtime was a huge issue.
“It’s killing the working man,” the dad told me, and when I asked if he thought Trump could really do it, he absolutely did. He also told me, “I’d love to see him bring the coal industry back. Obama took it from us. I can understand gas, we need gas, it’s awesome, but we need both.”
The theme of no regrets remained steady for these two, as it did for Joe’s mom, who came in to visit a little while after.
One thing that became clear, especially in Ohio, is that when Democrats and the media scream about how tariffs will tank the stock market and make foreign goods more expensive, many think our so-called prosperity came at the cost of domestic manufacturing and at the expense of towns like theirs.
The voters in these small towns very much see themselves as the losers in the game of globalism, and they are not too upset about its rules being changed.
Trump’s poll numbers have dipped a bit. He’s about two points underwater, though still higher than he was this time in his first term. And based on my conversations with his supporters this week, I do not expect a sharp decline anytime soon.
No, his people are willing to give Trump time, but make no mistake, in the long run, they are expecting results.
The Senate rejected a proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders
, I-Vt., that would have blocked the Trump administration’s planned $8.8 billion arms sale to Israel.
Sanders’ proposal was split into two votes, each of which failed, with 15 senators voting for the measure.
Fourteen Democrats voted with Sanders. They were Sens. Richard Durbin, Ill., Martin Heinrich, N.M., Mazie Hirono, Hawaii, Ben Ray Luján, N.M., Tim Kaine, Va., Andy Kim, N.J., Ed Markey, Mass., Jeff Merkley, Ore., Chris Murphy, Conn., Brian Schatz, Hawaii, Tina Smith, Minn., Chris Van Hollen, Md., Elizabeth Warren, Mass., and Peter Welch, Vt.
Prior to the vote, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch
, R-Idaho, warned that in passing the resolutions, senators “would abandon Israel, our closes ally in the Middle East, during a pivotal moment for global security.”
On Wednesday, Sanders released a video discussing his proposal, in which he demanded that the U.S. “end our complicity in these atrocities” in Gaza. He also accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of behaving in a “barbaric” fashion, saying that humanitarian aid has been blocked from reaching Gazans.
From Jan. 19, 2025 until March 2, 2025, while the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal was in place, a total of 25,200 aid trucks entered Gaza, according to the Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories
. This included 4,200 weekly aid trucks.
Before it fell apart earlier last month, the ceasefire deal
saw the release of 33 hostages and nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.
Israel has long enjoyed bipartisan support in the U.S., but its latest war with Hamas has divided Democrats. Some, like Sen. John Fetterman, Pa., have been fierce defenders of Israel, while others, like Sanders, have been harsh critics.
Sanders introduced a similar proposal in November 2024 during the Biden administration, which also failed. Many of the same senators who voted in favor of his April 2025 proposal voted for the resolution under the Biden administration, except for Sens. Angus King, Maine, Jeanne Shaheen, N.H. and Raphael Warnock, Ga. Fox News Digital contacted their offices to inquire about what changed between November 2024 and now.
When speaking about his joint resolution of disapproval in November, Sanders claimed the Israeli government was controlled “not only by right-wing extremists, but by religious zealots.” He also accused Netanyahu of violating international law.
Employers in the United States added 228,000 workers to their payrolls in March, the Department of Labor said Friday, and the unemployment rate inched up to 4.2 percent. Economists had been expecting just 140,000 jobs would be added in March.