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The Badlands Brief is your daily drop of Badlands’ takes on the narratives dominating the info war. Read on, and join the conversation in the comments section. A newly unclassified CIA summary released by Sen. Rand Paul shows that on May 7, 2020, Pfizer board member and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb told the CIA that national COVID seroprevalence was about 20–25%, far higher than what he was saying in public.

The Badlands Brief is your daily drop of Badlands’ takes on the narratives dominating the info war. Read on, and join the conversation in the comments section. A federal judge’s temporary block on a new U.S. Postal Service mail-ballot rule is now before an appeals court, as the Trump administration races to implement tighter handling of election mail before states begin sending ballots.

The Badlands Brief is your daily drop of Badlands’ takes on the narratives dominating the info war. Read on, and join the conversation in the comments section. The Pentagon has placed conservative veteran influencers in government jobs but will not say what those jobs are or whether taxpayers are paying for them. Some of the positions are civilian roles that could shape policy. Records show retired Air Force Col. Rob Maness, who has more than 135,000 followers on X, and retired Army Col.

The Badlands Brief is your daily drop of Badlands’ takes on the narratives dominating the info war. Read on, and join the conversation in the comments section. President Donald Trump said Friday, August 28, that his administration would prepare legal documents aimed at allowing farmers and ranchers to process their own food, targeting concentration in the U.S. meatpacking industry.

Badlanders! Welcome to the 29th episode of The Blitz, which is intended to serve as a weekly recap and dissection of the work we do Monday through Friday in the Badlands Brief.

The Badlands Brief is your daily drop of Badlands’ takes on the narratives dominating the info war. Read on, and join the conversation in the comments section. The Atlantic is calling for the US and China to negotiate an AI nonproliferation treaty aimed at slowing the development of increasingly powerful AI systems. The proposal would cap advanced computing resources and use chip tracking, data-center inspections and eventually hardware monitoring to enforce limits.

The Badlands Brief is your daily drop of Badlands’ takes on the narratives dominating the info war. Read on, and join the conversation in the comments section. A federal judge lifted the nationwide injunction blocking President Trump’s election executive order Wednesday, clearing the remaining court barrier to its implementation ahead of the midterms.

The Badlands Brief is your daily drop of Badlands’ takes on the narratives dominating the info war. Read on, and join the conversation in the comments section. An Atlantic article by Arash Azizi, examines persistent rumors that Iran’s supreme leader—appointed roughly six months earlier after his father Ali Khamenei’s death in a February strike—may be dead or brain-dead. Mojtaba has remained completely invisible in public, with no photos, videos, or audio released.

The Badlands Brief is your daily drop of Badlands’ takes on the narratives dominating the info war. Read on, and join the conversation in the comments section. The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has finalized its rollback of the Corporate Transparency Act’s beneficial ownership reporting regime for Americans.

The Badlands Brief is your daily drop of Badlands’ takes on the narratives dominating the info war. Read on, and join the conversation in the comments section. Kyle Kirkwood won the inaugural Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C., on Sunday, taking the first INDYCAR race staged around the National Mall. Kirkwood drove the No. 27 Andretti Global Honda to a 3.0906-second victory over Arrow McLaren’s Christian Lundgaard. Kirkwood led 128 of 147 laps.