This week, “thousands” took to the streets of New York City to protest our “king” Donald Trump as America enters a “constitutional crisis” — or, the Times soberly, thoughtfully, neutrally reports, this is what “some legal scholars” are calling it. It’s a mass movement, really. Totally enormous. I’m telling you guys, you’ve never seen Americans as angry as they’re angry now, over the thought of fired bureaucrats. Anyway, who else remembers the 2017 Women’s March? This was the one with the pink pussyhats, if you’ll recall. Sure, we all had a good laugh at their expense, but that first march was over three million people strong. Anti-Trump sentiment is, despite implications to the contrary, just nowhere near those levels today. Are there fewer people out there yelling because culture has shifted, or are there fewer people out there yelling because their USAID funding has been cut? Food for thought.

The CIA has ramped up its covert drone surveillance operations over Mexico, expanding a program that was quietly launched under Biden but is now going much further under Trump. The drones, unarmed for now, are hunting fentanyl labs deep inside cartel territory and passing intelligence to Mexican authorities. Some officials are hand-wringing over “sovereignty concerns,” but let’s be real: the cartels assassinate Mexican mayors, police chiefs, and journalists with impunity. The real “sovereignty concern” should be that Mexico is held hostage by violent drug enterprises, not that the U.S. is helping smoke them out. These actions, however, are not without risk to America. Retaliation seems inevitable — these criminal organizations have more firepower than some small nations. And if the Houthis can use drones to shut down Red Sea shipping, what kind of havoc could the cartels wreak on American border cities? Proceed with caution — narcos fight fire with fire.

According to TechCrunch, the New York Times will let staff use AI tools including GitHub Copilot, Google’s Vertex AI, NotebookLM, and OpenAI’s non-ChatGPT API to suggest edits, brainstorm interview questions, and help with research. Clearly, newsrooms are on the path to even more advanced AI adoption, and many are concerned. But what’s really changing? The media spent a decade LARPing as the last guardian of Real Truth and Journalism while chasing Google traffic and juicing Facebook engagement. Now, how long will it be before chatbots start sharing algorithmic “insights” into ‘what readers really want’ with their human editors curators? This is less an “innovation” push than a total, final surrender. If the Gray Lady’s big strategic pivot is begging tech for a seat at the table while the industry automates the rest of the newsroom? Enjoy your AI-generated thinkpieces, folks. They will at least not sound very different.

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