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Meta’s settlement puts limits around teen use while preserving the engagement business that made those limits necessary. The executives should lose the machinery, not rent absolution.
Trump has ordered the federal government to prepare for more than 1,000 launches and reentries a year by 2030. The permission culture now has to clear the runway or admit it prefers custody to flight.
Trump says America must build the data centers needed to win the AI race. The candidates hiding from them should explain who pays for the appetite they still intend to serve.
Trump asked Congress for a crypto map while his regulators began marking the territory with authority already in hand.
A lawsuit over Truth Social early access asks whether presidential information is public speech, private inventory, or a market advantage measured in milliseconds.
Trump Media has put a price on speed, and Wall Street is discovering that access to presidential command now arrives with an invoice.
The constitutional fight over citizen suits is a custody dispute over who may wear the prosecutor’s badge.
The FCC blocked new foreign-made robot and inverter models because the threat is not merely what enters the room. It is who retains command after entry.
Trump cut the diplomatic spending fog, then forced every restored anti-China project to return as a named strategic debt.
The EU fined an American company and expected the payment to remain a European matter. Trump has turned the fine into evidence in an American trade case.