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Trinidad Chambliss just waited through Sumrall’s entire TV interview to congratulate him on the win. Easy to see why Ole Miss fans love him. #gators #olemiss

NEW: Paul Finebaum to Florida: "You have no idea how lucky you are. You have Jon Sumrall and not Lane Kiffin." (h/t @IsaacEdelman) on3.com/news/paul-finebaum-t…

SUMRALL BALL @WellsFargo

David Friedberg: Obama Doesn’t Understand AI and He’s Making Prosperity Political President Obama last week: “If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI. That's a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing.” @friedberg: “These words honestly just, they made me, like, emotionally distressed that if he's a leader that people listen to and he doesn't really articulate accurately what's going on, it's sad that we've lost the plot. I think it's sad that we aren't all kind of holding hands saying, ‘My God, the future is here, and we all get to leap forward, and we get to bring people up.’ For years, Obama orated beautifully about the importance of bringing people up, about giving people the opportunity to progress, about letting people advance themselves. And there's never been a more equalizing technology, a better economic opportunity for prosperity for everyone than these technologies, than these tools. And to hand wave the word agentic and say we don't need agentic AI to solve cancer shows how little he actually understands how this technology works and how it's all become just a shorthand for a political fight to what? What are you fighting for? What is the political battle that says, ‘I am going to leave half the population behind, and I'm going to make an argument against prosperity for all, in order to make my party look like a morally superior party, and to cast the other side as bad when the other side has literally discovered fire and the world now has fire, and we're going to go take water and throw it on the fire.’ No one gets fire because the other guys are saying that fire is good.”

Ship 41 moved to the launch pad at Starbase

If you have any doubts that Sirhan Sirhan was the murderer of RFK - and the only murderer - please read @DanMoldea’s exhaustive and definitive book. You’ll know Sirhan did it, and why. amazon.com/dp/0692054448/ref…

Shareholders of The New York Times filed a lawsuit today, arguing the paper has failed to meet its most basic obligation: to tell readers the truth and correct itself in a timely fashion when it doesn’t. Exclusive for @TheFP here: thefp.com/p/exclusive-shareh…

First trailer for the Norm Macdonald documentary — directed by Judd Apatow. Releasing October 16 on Netflix.

In 1994, Warren Buffett stood in front of shareholders and said Coca-Cola was too expensive, its multiple felt full, his appetite to buy more was smaller than before. He never bought another share again. Not one, in over thirty years. He tracked two numbers instead. Unit cases sold, rising. Shares outstanding, falling, because Coke retires its own stock every year without him lifting a finger. His original bet, $1.3 billion, $3.25 a share, is now worth roughly $35 billion. It pays $848 million a year in dividends alone, on a position he stopped adding to three decades ago. Too expensive to buy more. Never expensive enough to sell.

🚨 Even 60 Minutes admits it: Data centers don’t use nearly as much water as critics would have you believe. CBS News found that golf courses nationwide use more than twice as much water as data centers.

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Victor Davis Hanson is not Jewish. He is a renowned American classicist, military historian, author, and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution - making his fact-based defense of Israel all the more significant. In one of his recent interviews, Hanson gave a fascinating analysis of four accusations repeatedly made against Israel - apartheid, settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. His conclusion was clear: These slogans collapse when confronted with historical facts. Apartheid? Approximately two million Arab citizens live in Israel with the right to vote, serve in parliament, study at universities, practice their religion, and participate throughout Israeli society. Meanwhile, many of the countries accusing Israel of apartheid officially privilege Islam and severely restrict religious conversion, minority communities, and basic freedoms. Settler colonialism? The Jewish connection to the land of Israel is supported by nearly 4,000 years of historical, archaeological, linguistic, and biblical evidence. The Jewish people did not arrive in their ancestral homeland as foreign colonizers. They returned to the land from which foreign empires had repeatedly expelled them. Meanwhile, Arab armies conquered enormous portions of the Middle East and North Africa. The Ottoman conquest transformed Hagia Sophia - once the greatest church in Christendom - into a mosque. Yet those historical conquests are rarely described as settler colonialism. Ethnic cleansing? Where were the demonstrations when Turkey expelled Greeks from northern Cyprus and moved Turkish settlers into the occupied territory? Where was the outrage when Azerbaijan drove more than 100,000 Armenians from their ancestral homes in Nagorno-Karabakh? Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani were remarkably quiet. Genocide? When Israel was established, approximately 170,000 Arabs remained within the country. Today, around two million Arab citizens live in Israel, and the Arab share of its population has increased rather than disappeared. Genocidal regimes do not cause the population they supposedly seek to eliminate to grow dramatically in both number and proportion. As Hanson explained, many of those accusing Israel are projecting the sins of their own nations, movements, and histories onto one tiny, democratic Jewish state. Why is Israel judged by a standard applied to no other nation? The answer is becoming painfully clear - because Israel is predominantly Jewish. Accusations may travel quickly, but historical facts still matter.