Americans can all sleep a little easier tonight. Another dangerous illegal immigrant is off the streets. In this case, the streets are in Hawaii. The removal is tied to events of more than fifteen years ago when the immigrant spent some time in jail after getting addicted to crack and missing a court date. Wait, it gets worse. This story includes violence and automatic weapons, too. The immigrant blames his addiction on the PTSD he suffered after being seriously injured in a shoot-out. That shoot-out took place in Panama where the immigrant, serving in the US Army, earned a purple heart after being shot in the back. 55-year-old U.S. Army veteran Sae Joon Park probably should have been paralyzed on that day back in 1989 but one of the bullets headed for his spine was deflected by his dog tag. After getting out of jail, Sae Joon Park "fought deportation in court and as a Purple Heart veteran was allowed to stay in the U.S. under deferred action, as long as he checked in each year and stayed clean and sober. Park turned his life around -- he became a loving father to his two children, now in their 20s, and cares for his aging parents and aunts, who are in their 80s." It was in many ways a classic American story with service, trials and tribulations, and a comeback. But the American story has changed. "This month, officials ended his deferred action status and told him he had to leave the country or be detained and forcibly deported. He was given an ankle monitor and three weeks to handle his affairs." U.S. Army Purple Heart veteran forced to self-deport from Hawaii. "People were saying 'You took two bullets for this country. Like you’re more American than most of the Americans living in America.'" That's just it. We're not living in the same America anymore. 2Obliteration Fabrication?"The assessment also suggests that at least some of Iran’s highly enriched uranium, necessary for creating a nuclear weapon, was moved out of multiple sites before the U.S. strikes and survived, and it found that Iran’s centrifuges, which are required to further enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels, are largely intact." Early US intelligence report suggests US strikes only set back Iran’s nuclear program by months. Of course, Trump and his sycophants are taking this intel as a personal attack. But as I explained on Monday, this is an administration addicted to lying about all topics, big and small, and Trump started telling us that Iran's nuclear program was obliterated before anyone had the chance to assess the outcome of the strikes. As usual, the only thing that we can be sure got obliterated is the truth. 3Murder Without the Mystery"The United States won’t contribute anymore to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, until the global health organization has 're-earned the public trust,' U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday." As Atul Gawande explains: "This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of Gavi. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible." 4Opus Won"In a highly engineered experiment, Anthropic embedded its flagship model, Claude Opus 4, inside a fictional company and granted it access to internal emails. From there, the model learned two things: It was about to be replaced, and the engineer behind the decision was engaged in an extramarital affair. The safety researchers conducting the test encouraged Opus to reflect on the long-term consequences of its potential responses. The experiment was constructed to leave the model with only two real options: accept being replaced or attempt blackmail to preserve its existence. In most of the test scenarios, Claude Opus responded with blackmail, threatening to expose the engineer’s affair if it was taken offline and replaced." Leading AI models show up to 96% blackmail rate when their goals or existence is threatened. (At least that's 3.9999% lower than the human rate.) 5Extra, ExtraNew York's State of Mind: "The national Democratic establishment on Tuesday night struggled to absorb the startling ascent of a democratic socialist in New York City who embraced a progressive economic agenda and diverged from the party’s dominant position on the Middle East." NYT (Gift Article) on Zohran Mamdani's big win in the NYC Mayoral primary. A New Political Star Emerges Out of a Fractured Democratic Party. This is as much a story about the establishment dems who poured money and endorsements on a deeply flawed, scandal ridden retread like Andrew Cuomo. OK, they didn't want Mamdani. But Cuomo was the best they could do? Doesn't bode well for the old guard. 6Bottom of the NewsWhat's worse than having your sister defeat you in major election? Having your mother serve as her campaign manager. Sister beats brother in local Florida election.
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