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Hit that like button and let's just jump into it, starting with this. So there's this huge controversy playing out right now because the dad had the cops called on him because he brought his young daughters into an empty women's bathroom at a rest stop. In the video around this, it's just gone viral with people on the internet absolutely losing their mind. So the dad in question is a man by the name of Tyler Brodsky. And so in the caption of his TikTok, which is around 16.7 million views as a recording, he explained that he went to a rest stop so that his daughters could go to the bathroom on a trip from Florida to Oklahoma. Writing the women's restroom was empty, so I took them in. I'd rather do that than bring two little girls into a men's bathroom full of grown men and dirty stalls. Right in the video, we see a woman later identified.

as the store's manager, Melissa, standing in the doorway of the bathroom with a man who's on the phone with the cops going totally ballistic while yelling that his wife and her elderly sick mother, they're waiting to use the bathroom while Tyler helps his daughters wash her hands as they're becoming increasingly upset and openly crying as the man just continues to shout. I'm standing in the doorway of the lady's bathroom. Okay? My wife, there is a man with his two little girls using the women's bathroom. She is waiting to use the restroom with her mother who is very ill. Wash your hands.

And who is on oxygen? It's okay. Some of them are just immature. Also at one point, you have the man suggesting that Tyler should have had the store's manager, a complete stranger, help the daughters go to the bathroom. And he's refusing and he's taking this sweet time. I have two girls washing their hands. You, let this lady, this woman is a woman.

She can bring your daughters in here. She's a manager of the QT. I'm their dad. You can ask her. I understand. And you don't have any business, we can have her into the women's bathroom. They're girls. They go to the women's bathroom. This is ridiculous, man.

I am so sorry. That's so good. So they leave the bathroom, and as they're walking out, we see the man again still on the phone with the cops. And that is when it seems like things might start to get physical. You got a cross from the phone, the gray shirt. You can video me, okay? And you got a shirt on me?

Yeah, well, stop videoing me. Yeah, just put his hands on me. I touched you, I brushed you on this shirt. That's still touch you. Yeah, that's ridiculous. Don't put your hands on me. That's ridiculous. I got it on video.

He's standing here. Yeah, this guy making a big deal about me taking my little girls to the woman's restroom. Because he wants me to take them to the men's restroom. Probably a weirdo that wants to see them in there. You have the video end with a man in the gray shirt saying that the cops are on their way. But that is now where it ends because yesterday Tyler posted an update saying that just a few minutes after the man got off the phone, about three officers showed up. One of the officers was talking to me and the man and explained that the situation wasn't as black and white as many people. may think and they pointed out that taking two little girls into the men's restroom could be viewed

just as negatively as me being in the woman's restroom with my girls so um they try to make sense of it try to understand both perspectives um but you know ultimately there was really nothing that they could do they did let me know that um i was okay that i didn't do anything wrong so after speaking with everyone involved, the officers talked to Melissa and ultimately asked the man to leave the store. You also had Tyler give it a big shout out to the manager, right? Melissa, thanking her for helping out in the situation and being so caring with his daughters. And he also thanked the responding officers were speaking with his daughters after this whole thing, reassuring them and ensuring that they felt safe and protected. And then he had Tyler going on to say that this

whole incident, it brought something bigger to his attention. Right saying that since his video went viral, thousands of people, they've reached out to him to share similar stories and adding. This isn't really about one argument in a gas station. It's about the fact that girl dads and boy moms are often put in a situation where there isn't a perfect answer. Most parents aren't trying to make anyone uncomfortable. We're simply trying to take care of our children and keep them safe. As a dad with two little girls, I made the decision that I felt was best in the moment.

And also, Tyler, he says he doesn't want anyone to harass, threaten, or contact anyone involved. He just hopes that that man, he's going to come across the post, realize what he did, it was wrong and prevent him and others from doing something like this in the future. And you had amending the video by asking other parents and caregivers what they would have done in this situation. And the response here has just been absolutely massive,

really on TikTok and any other social platform. Right, and for the most part, you have a lot of people just agreeing with Tyler saying that he was in the right and he was clearly trying to do what he thought was best for his young daughters, writing things like. The dad who took his daughters

to the woman's restroom, but made sure there were no women inside of there before entering did exactly what he was supposed to do. You can't respect to dad protecting his children, then something is really wrong with you. And you also had a ton of people sharing their own experiences with needing to take their kids into opposite gender bathrooms

or seeing others do the same, right, arguing that this is a very common shared experience. But also, that was not the universal response. You had plenty of other people taking the other side, were saying that it was inappropriate for him to be in the women's restroom, that he should have just brought them into the men's room with them. You also had others arguing that the guy who called the cops,

he was just trying to stand up for a sick mother-in-law with one user writing that he could have handled the situation better, but added. In fairness, he was trying to stand up for that old lady who didn't feel comfortable going in the bathroom with that man in there. That poor old lady probably has continent issues and can't hold it very long,

and it's reasonable for her to feel little weird about being in there with this much younger man. And so as we see this court of public opinion play out, I then got to pass the question off to you, what are your thoughts here? Right? If you were that dad, what would you do? And also, if you were that guy in the gray shirt, what would you do? But then also, you know, since we're already talking about child safety, we then also have to talk about this disturbing trend with kids in AI. Because you just had a survey from George Mason University questioning over 550 teenagers and 33% of them said that a sexualized AI image of them has been shared without their consent. And that's on top of the fact that 55% of them admitted

that they've used notification apps to create explicit deepfakes. And if you're shocked by that, yeah, even the lead researcher in this was shocked. They just didn't expect these numbers, but in the end, it also kind of made sense to them. Saying to the New York Post, this crop of kids are Gen A.A.I. Native. Since they got their first phones, there's been AI included, and this is the way they're operating across the board, whether it's doing their homework or playing around. Plus, you have everything from camera filters to try it on apps that make it normal to take a picture of themselves and have it be modified. Saying those are things they grew up with and are native to, which I think greatly influenced the numbers.

Well, yes, we live in a time where, you know, anyone can be targeted by these kinds of deepfakes. They especially impact teenagers who are just at incredibly vulnerable ages. Some, you see, leave school after being targeted by their classmate with deepfakes. They deal with bullying, it can upend their lives. And teens, they're not just harassing their peers with this tech. Where at the Wall Street Journal, they spoke to an eighth-grade teacher in Indianapolis who dealt with her students making deepfakes of her and then sending it around school and even to our own kids. They even use those images to make an Instagram account impersonating her and pretending to be an adult film star.

She ended up having two switch districts, and she shared to the middle schoolers, I taught, the deep fake is real. For them, I am the teacher who was a porn star. That's not the legacy I want. But it ends up being incredibly damaging for the people that go through this. They're these images and their reputations are getting destroyed by them. But then also with this, you have people like this one lawyer telling a journal that the teens creating these things. They may not understand the damage that they're doing to their own lives when they're making the picture. Saying, if you think about the high school boy that does this, this is the boy who would have had a sharpie and drawn boobs on his classmates' yearbook picture. And now he's got a bazooka.

go to jail. He can be on a sex offender list for the rest of his life. This is devastating for boys too. Though to that, I would say, it sounds like those kids need fucking parents. I don't know, I see where it's coming from, but it just sounds very defensive of the people that are ruining other people's lives. But all of this now, it's really just highlighting something that we've seen explode over the last few years. Right. I mean, think about it generally, but also if you've been watching the show, a few years ago, these sorts of situations were kind of more niche. They were outliers. It was about, like, oh, this specific figure here or there, it mainly impacted public figures. It was still incredibly wrong, it was disturbing, but it was limited. Now, like, if there is a singular photo of you on the

internet, you could be impacted. Though still, celebrities are targeted at very high rates. I mean, even just earlier this year, there was that whole series of Grock making this wave of deepfakes. Newly minted trillionaire, Elon Musk, he even used an AI video of Sidney Sweeney to promote it. The way we'll say in that case, as weird as it was, that video wasn't explicit. But then, surprise, surprise, there was this crazy trend of people sending images of very well-known women to Grog and asking the app to undress them. And if not undress them, put them in bikinis or this little alpha here or there. And like, if you go to Twitter, this stuff is just not hard to find, even though there was supposedly crackdowns here and there. And I will say some stars, they're definitely more focused on than others.

A lot of focus, a lot of creepy focuses on Billy Eilish. She's constantly being targeted. The political space, AOC is definitely one of them. So even though you see things like Groch telling NBC News in April that we strictly prohibit users from generating non-consensual explicit deep fakes and from using our tools and from using our tools to undressings and from using our own use, saying XAI has extensive safeguards and things. It seems like people have found their own ways around it. Or like instead of asking for explicit undressings, they find other ways to alter bodies and still clearly sexual and very non-consensual ways.

Right, and if celebrities are having a hard time fighting against this, imagine just random teenagers, random people. And actually, some stars have tried to get creative to fight against this. Right, not too long ago, Taylor Swift actually filed a series, a trademark applications at a move that many believe was made to protect against AI abuse. Or which would definitely make sense.

She's famously been very victimized by AI before. In fact, so much so, people forget this. Twitter had to temporarily ban her name from being searched, search because explicit deepfakes were so widespread. And as far as two of her recent applications, it actually covers her voice. One's her saying, hey, it's Taylor Swift, and another of her saying, hey, it's Taylor. Right, and after she did that, you had a lawyer writing a blog post, noting that attempting to register a celebrity's spoken voice is a new use of trademark registration that has not been tested in court before. Then adding, by registering specific phrases tied to her voice,

could potentially challenge not only identical reproductions, but also imitations that are confusingly similar, a key standard in trademark law. And saying theoretically, if a lawsuit were to be filed over an AI using Swift's voice, she could claim that any use of her voice that sounds like the registered trademark violates her trademark rights. She's not actually alone on this front. Matthew McConaughey filed a trademark his voice as well. Right. And then on the legislative front, there's been some action under the Take It Down Act. And that was actually passed earlier this year. And in April, an Ohio man became the first man to be convicted under that law. And then actually in May, two men were again charged under it specifically for making deepfakes of celebrities who the DOJ

declined to name. But also because this is a relatively new issue that's growing by the second, you have some saying it's incredibly hard to combat legally. So you know, with all this, one, know your thoughts, and then two, have you or anyone you known been targeted by any sort of deep fake before? Because I knew that it was happening, but I did not realize it was this widespread. And then there's more that we got to dive into in just a minute, but first let me thank a sponsor and say, you know how you can have like a browser tab open for weeks because you swear you'll deal with it, but you never quite do? Well, life insurance is basically that tab, quietly nagging in your brain just with higher stakes. And today's sponsor, Fabric by Gerber Life, it's the reason a lot of

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and most powerful elites just got exposed. And yes, it is at least as weird as you are probably imagining. You've got sex advice, cult building guides, a whole lot of talk about the coming apocalypse, and there are famous actors, podcasters, politicians, billionaires, the folks who essentially kind of run the world,

try to create narratives with very, little democratic input from the rest of us. So it's called Dialogue. It was co-founded in 2006 by the far-right tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel, and it's extremely secretive. Like everything that is said and done there, it is strictly off the record, it's invite only, and they kept their members list hidden ever since it's founding.

Only on a couple of occasions is something leaked, like most recently when Jeffrey Epstein's invitation to their 2014 retreat surfaced in the Epstein files. Right on that, he also wrote in a 2016 email to a Japanese venture capitalist, Peter Thiel loved the secret society idea. He has done a lot of work on the concept. But really otherwise for the last 20 years,

Dialogue has done a surprisingly good job of keeping things under wraps. I will say until now, because a Swiss hacktivist, the same one who leaked the US government's no fly list a few years ago, she says that she got tipped off to a vulnerability in Dialog's website. And when I say vulnerability, I mean, any random person could just look at the site's HTML code and find a directory with a list of names. Which I have to imagine is just the most ridiculous, embarrassing fuck up for a super secret club created by Palantir Tech Bros who are supposed to be the best minds and data, surveillance, and security. And then on top of that, another source gave a little,

wired the list of people registered to attend this year's dialogue retreat, which is being held at a venue near Dublin, Ireland, and includes 222 names. I will say it's unclear who's a full member and who's just a guess, but the variety of figures is astonishing. Like, let's go through some. Elon Musk, Joseph Gordon Levitt, former Harvard president, Larry Summers, a New York Times commentator Ezra Klein. Also, Democratic Senator Cory Booker, Republican Senator Ted Cruz, Democratic Governor of Maryland-West Moore, former Republican Governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels. This is fun, let's keep going. The actor Josh Brolin, podcaster Sam Harris, Scooter Braun.

of them as a former talent manager or current boyfriend of Sidney Sweeney. You've also got the chief executives for the Atlantic, YouTube, and the Anti-Defamation League, the co-founder of Intuit, the Global Vice President for Google, and on and on with huge business executives. Right, and there are lawyers, economists, journalists, religious leaders, just about every kind of person that you could imagine

that has some sort of power, right, some sort of influence. So also, one of the things that ties them together, it might be their answers to the question on the signup form, asking them to predict the future. Because Wired reported that again and again, respondent said that AI would reorder work, war, education, and belief within a few years. Reporting several people foresee mass labor displacement

and a swing back toward unions and government programs. Others predict an AI winter, domestic terrorism targeting data centers, criminal defendants choosing AI lawyers over public defenders, or religious revival provoked by the disruption. Also for another question asking them to list their talents, a few of them gave some pretty weird answers. Writing stuff like fun house construction, accent imitation, backcountry skiing, urban exploration,

and meditative and psychedelic inquiry into the nature of reality. Just say you like do an LSD or Moll. Like, do I, why don't be hoity to-oity. Also, one person put compassion and existential dread, while another answered dinner parties, keeping secrets, remembering birthdays. Also, if any attendance are looking for love, they can enter dialogues matchmaking service,

which apparently is a thing, which offers meaningful connections for exceptional people. But then also at the same time, these exceptional people, there's reportedly a guide for event moderators that coaches them to model brief introductions to avoid status signaling. And then as for the events themselves,

there are mostly discussions with titles like money does buy happiness, bring back nuclear, navigating World War III, battlefield technology, how's your sex life, build a party, and build a cult. But also, in addition to the fun about either trying to fuck a haughty or fuck society, you have Wired pointing out that there are arguably some serious ethical lines being blurred here. Because not only does dialogue concentrate private and political power all in one place where nobody is allowed to talk about what is going on, it also puts business executives in the same room with the very people who are meant to regulate them. And so, for example, you've got

Orrin Hoffman, the major data broker who co-founded dialogue with Peter, Teele listed alongside Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Senator Ted Cruz, who directly oversees data privacy rules. And then there's Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, whose company contracts with the Pentagon intelligence agencies and ICE listed alongside the Army Secretary, the General who heads U.S. European Command, and Jim Himes, who sits on the House Intelligence Committee. And reportedly, every single one of these people registered with personal or corporate email addresses instead of their government accounts, which means none of their involvement in dialogue is subject to public records laws. And so, yeah, another day goes by where I have to a

to a friend of mine who I thought was just a fucking conspiracy theorist for the past 10 years. But hey, actually, maybe it's all above board and there's nothing nefarious going on and everyone is making sure no ethical lines get crossed. But then also, you know, speaking to private companies and government officials getting closer than they probably should be, we then have to talk about how a private prison company that's been paid billions of dollars to lock up immigrants for the government asked ICE, right, an agency now run by its former employee to make it easier for the company to mistreat detainees and make them work without pay. And ICE, they apparently said yes, but also what you should know here, like, first, is that the number of people held and what are described as detention centers has absolutely skyrocketed under Trump. You've got roughly 70,000 people held in facilities all across the country on any given day. These facilities are also recording deaths in record numbers, which rights groups say is not only because of the higher number of detainees, but because some of them, they're being physically and psychologically abused, denied medical care, deprived of adequate food and water and otherwise held in dire and inhumane conditions.

It's also not just ICE agents and other federal employees that are running these facilities. The Trump administration has relied heavily on private contractors, including Geogroup, which oversees more than a dozen ICE detention facilities nationwide. A company that's also just been sued by the state of New Jersey for refusing to allow state health inspector as full access to his Delaney Hall facility in Newark. Where we've talked about detainees have staged hunger strikes to protest being fed spoiled and rotten food and denied access to basic hygiene products. And that's on top of them facing lawsuits in several states for its so-called voluntary work programs in which detainees help keep the company's facilities running for as little as a dollar a day, which the groups bring these cases argue amounts to force labor. And so they're seeking millions of dollars there in unpaid wages from Geo Group and other ICE contractors. But also a huge reason that we're talking about this today is, according to new reporting from the Washington Post, Geo Group privately asked ICE for changes that could benefit its business and support its legal position in the lawsuits that it's facing.

And so, for example, they asked ICE to remove text saying that contractors needed to follow state and local laws related to the treatment of detainees. They then also asked that the new standards specify that detainees are not employees of the facilities where they work, and both of those requests were granted a new standards released by ICE this week. But several references to contractors having to comply with state or local laws having been removed, while there's also new language making it crystal clear that, despite working, detainees are not considered employees and are therefore, quote, not entitled to wages or benefits under applicable wage laws or labor regulations. And in fact, the new guidelines reportedly even prohibit contractors from paying detainees more than a dollar a day,

even if they wanted to. And that's huge because that is something that Geogroop could use in the cases it's facing, because, right, the fact that it could have been paying detainees more until now, that's an argument that's been used against the company in court. And then what makes all of this an even bigger deal, but one of the big takeaways are the extraordinarily close ties between GEO Group and some of the country's top-ranking immigration officials. We're talking about people including Bordersar Tom Homan and acting ICE director David Venterla.

Right, Homan? I mean, ProPublica already found that a former associate of his already tried to cash in on the connection. Then there's also the fact that Hohman himself allegedly accepted a $50,000 cash payment in a takeout bag from undercover FBI agents posing as would-be government contractors. Not to mention he reportedly played a key role in bringing on board Ventorella. And Ventorella, he is even more history with GEO Group. He earned millions of dollars overseeing the company's detention business for years, and then he worked as a paid consultant for the firm until January last year. Or with the men, joining Trump's DHS is a senior advisor less than two weeks later.

He was the Trump administration granting him a waiver from a federal ethics rule that generally bars government employees from working on contracts awarded to their former employers for one year. And then just massive, last month, he was elevated to ICE's acting director. Or which is why, even before ICE lowered its standards to benefit his former employer, you had Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren writing a letter to him last month, demanding that he recuse himself from all matters that could directly or indirectly benefit Geo Group, saying Americans should not have to wonder whether ICE enforcement priorities are being driven by the financial interests of politically connected detention contractors. Now, that said, you do have the administration acknowledging that it received input from federal contractors,

even admitting that it aimed to, quote, reduce the burden on detention operators. And beyond that, I will say it's not like it's entirely unusual for federal agencies to ask for feedback from the industries they regulate. But besides the fact that the agency heads and the industry players are usually not the same people, There is also typically a public process that's open not only to businesses, but also advocacy groups and anyone else that has an interest. With one expert explaining, the reason we do public commenting is because there are various stakeholders. And ICE contractors, he said, are probably not the best voice to represent the people who are being detained. Now, with all this, I will say, you did have one public health researcher who studied deaths in ICE custody telling the Associated Press that the new standards include genuine improvements in the realm of suicide prevention standards and mental health care. But that is also kind of trying to find a silver lining because overall, he said that the agency is definitely heading to

toward weaker standards governing a growing share of the detained population. Right, and with that, you had a former DHSmbudsman who oversaw detention practices during the Biden administration saying, 100% it's going to result in deterioration of already problematic conditions of detention, saying it's consistent with their general practice, which is to eliminate accountability and oversight. They are not concerned with people's basic rights or the safety of detainees. And one example there is that the new standards say that the private contractors will be barred from refusing to admit any detainee that ICE sends them. So that reportedly has a potential to keep severely ill or disabled detainees from being quickly moved to hospitals or other facilities. But, and as far as why they may want it, it could also reduce the company's liability for any deaths that happen as a result.

Also, the new standards allow artificial intelligence to be used for what's described as non-critical communication or informal interactions with detainees. But then also, according to ICE, that might include giving or receiving information to or from detainees, when they arrive at a detention facility and responding to their grievances and concerns. So it might get used for critical communication because, as you had yet another expert explaining, detainees' concerns often include very urgent or even emergent information, such as when a patient's been denied life-saving care. And then with that, noting that the rule also leaves unclear whether assessments meant to flag medical and mental health conditions could be done with AI as well. And so, yeah, you know, ultimately, as much as we've already talked about how just alarming the conditions are with these detention centers, that does not mean they cannot get worse. And unfortunately, it seems like that's where things are headed based off of numerous relationships and some people want to make a little more money. And then, actually, I got even more for you in just a minute. But first, let me thank another sponsor and say, you know, quick question.

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And for many, you know, they see Vance as being one of the last people they expected to sit down on the view. Because in general, they haven't had, let's call it, the best rapport with Trump's team. The Federal Communications Commission has even investigated the show for possibly violating equal time requirements. And yeah, they've had plenty of Republican voices at the table, but they're pretty left-leaning with voices like Whoopi Goldberg. and Joy Behar. And while he did get a few questions about his book, which he said is actually

way less political than we might think, he ended up facing questions like, what did black people do to this administration that has allowed it to really stigmatize folks of color? As well as you talk a lot about your Catholic faith, but the Catholic faith says we take in immigrants, how do you justify both things? As well as why haven't we seen the release of over two and a half million additional Epstein filed documents? And as far as his responses, he said, everybody is welcome in their political coalition. He justified his thinking around immigration as saying that his faith allows her borders and the right to protect them. And then as far as Epstein, he claimed that the administration isn't holding anything back as far as the files that they've been able to release.

But there, and in several places, you had a lot of groaning and eye-rolling. People saying, come on. And so then with that, a lot of the conversation then turned into him defending Trump and the decisions that the administration's been making in his second term. And there, he claimed that one of the things I underappreciated about Donald Trump is that so many of the things that people said about him weren't actually true. And in general, I don't think this actually moved the needle for anybody. But, at least for fans, it probably served the purpose of his audience of one performance.

Republican defending the president against his perceived enemies and maybe lining something up for 2028. Also, regarding Trump, yesterday's primaries proved that once again, his endorsement is the gift that keeps on giving unless The Republican running against Trump's pick spends a hundred million dollars of his own money on his campaign Because that is exactly what happened in my home state of Georgia where billionaire businessman Rick Jackson won the Republican primary runoff for governor taking out Trump's candidate lieutenant-governor Bert Jones Making Jones only the second Trump-back candidate to lose a Republican primary for governor this election cycle That stands out for a number of reasons because after Trump's loss in Georgia back in 2020

He really started leaning into denying the election And then on a similar note, you had State Representative Tim Fleming beating out staunch election denier of Vernon Jones in the primary vote for Secretary of State. And while Fleming, he did say that he felt that there were some irregularities in 2020, he also said during the race that he wasn't running on conspiracy theories. So take that as you will. Especially because it might have helped his case, because the hard election deniers, they were having a tough time with this one. And then on the other side of all this, as far as the Republicans, you had Jackson being seen as kind of more of a political outsider in the race. But also, it's politics, money talks. You get your face, your name, whatever messages, good and bad out there that you will.

want, Zew's able to get the win for himself. Tonight we did more than win a runoff. Tonight we proved the people are Georgia are in charge. So now Jackson's gonna go on to face the Democratic nominee, Keisha Lance Bottoms. Right as far as Trump, he tried to spend this as a win even though he endorsed Jones. Saying on truth social, Rick Jackson ran a great Trump campaign. And as far as Trump campaigns, there were a few others that came out on top yesterday. Trump landed another win in Georgia with Representative Mike Collins, who's gonna be facing off against Senator John Ossif.

Though I will say, that could really backfire. Collins is seen as a hard mega candidate. So that's also why he performed best with voters outside of Atlanta. While his opponent, right, Derek Dooley, he got the best results from the suburban counties that have kind of helped keep Democrats in office here recently. So this almost felt like a reverse psychology play on Assoff's part.

Knock off the real threat so that your core voters and maybe a few independents and crossover Democrats will be more likely to vote for you in November. And actually as far as Asov, he's already called Collins a notorious bigot, anti-Semite, and extremists. So you have Colin saying that Ossoff is a far left liberal who's weak on immigration and crime.

But even he has admitted that this race, it's gonna be a challenge. Then also moving past Georgia, Trump got some people across the line in Alabama with Representative Barry Moore and in Oklahoma with Representative Kevin Hearn. But then also, going back to Georgia, we've got to talk about how Republicans in the State House just shut down their own party's efforts to gerrymander Republican seats ahead of the 2028 election. Because just this morning, the State House convened for the first day of a special session that Governor Brian Kemp called for following the April Supreme Court ruling that effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act. A decision that famously opened the door for red states, mostly in the South, to reddish districts that could undermine minority voting power, mostly for black voters and give Republicans a major advantage. While you had a lot of states scrambling to see if they could make those changes before the 2026 election, Kemp took a different approach. Instead, arguing that it was too late because Georgia's primaries had already started when the decision came down.

And so, hey, let's call a special session after the primaries for the legislature to redraw its congressional maps for 2028. And they seem to really want to get it done before this year's elections because Democrats could actually flip seats in the state legislature and even potentially the governorship. And again, just to be clear with my bias here, my wife is actually running for state house in Georgia. You can check it out at LindsayforGA.com. She's trying to help flip Georgia's house blue. She just learned yesterday she's going to be going against a essentially, rubber-stamped Trump-Lican. Given how bad the Republican-electeds have been performing and what they've been focusing on, there is a chance to flip what should normally be a red seat. But as far as the

gerrymandering, the redistricting, you had some Republicans reportedly raise the concerns ahead of the special session that a redistricting effort could backfire and just energized Democrats even more this November. And to that point, the plan had drawn a ton of backlash. But among other things, you had faith leaders and voting rights groups marching to the Georgia Capitol this morning while civil rights and labor groups held a news conference. You had black political leaders painting this session as a blatant attempt to erase black majority districts and rollback decades of progress. But then today, House Speaker John Burns wrote a letter to Kemp informing him that the chamber will not be redrawing maps during the special session. In that in that letter, which was signed by members

of the Georgia House Republican leadership team, Burns specifically argued that the lower chamber's sole focus would be on the policies that matter most to Georgia's future. And writing the House has always conducted redistricting with considerable time for public input and with careful attention to constitutional requirements in the interest of every Georgia community. With them then going on to note that they still do not understand the scope of the Supreme Court's ruling and that there are pending cases nationwide about the impact of that decision. That includes some that involved Georgia's current and previous maps. And then he also went on to say that Republican lawmakers are confident that Georgia will prevail

in the pending appeals and look forward to receiving additional judicial opinions to assist us in our future map drawing efforts. So to that point, it is still very possible that Kemp could still call another special session just later this year. And if Republicans, they get totally destroyed in the midterms, they might be more willing to try and pass new maps before new electeds take office. Right. So today, this is absolutely huge news, but it really, in my opinion, shouldn't be seen as anything other than Republicans trying not to piss off people who want to vote them out even more. Because understand that that punch to the back of the head they want to give you as far as your voting rights, it's gonna come. They're just trying to see if they can get

away with it without getting punished first. But then, for our last story today, I don't even know where to start, or because a couple just decided that they'll be keeping custody of their child who they had through IVF, which sounds normal enough until you realize that the baby isn't actually biologically related to them at all. Because last year, Stephen Mills and Tiffany score, they went to the fertility center of Orlando to start their IVF journey and eventually they had their baby girl in December of 2025. But then, when the couple realized she didn't look white, they ordered some genetic testing and realized that baby is 100% South Asian. Right, as it turns out, there was a mix-up.

The couple got given the wrong embryo. From there, they fought a lawsuit against the fertility center, and with that, started looking for the couple whose embryo they were given. And by last April, they found the biological parents. And then with that, Skor and Mills' attorney said in court filings last week that they had come to a mutually devised custody agreement with the biological parents that give Skore and Mills' permanent custodial rights to the baby.

Anyway, the attorney representing the biological parents saying that they intend to remain a part of this child's life while recognizing the impossible situation that both families have been placed in through no fault of their own. And then as far as, you know, what's going on with the fertility center, yes, they've faced legal and financial issues from all of this, but then also from another case where you had a woman suing them for allowing her to be a surrogate for her cousin. Or they're claiming that she didn't fully understand what she was signing up for because she had a long history of severe mental illness.

And so probably not the most shocking news. They announced earlier this year that they would be closing down. But that, my friend, is the end of your Wednesday dive into the news. But this also doesn't have to be where it ends. Because it's Wednesday, which means I also just dropped a brand new episode of my podcast crashing out with myself and Alex Perlman. honest, if this is your first time watching it, it might be a lot. A little more off the walls and spicy than usual, but great watch. But no matter what you do, thank you for watching.

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