Broke, Woke & Trending Folk 7/12: Psaki calls America too ‘sexist and racist’ for Kamala, Fired journalist exposes employer, AT&T hacker breaches almost all customers, and much more

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Here is a collection of stories happening across the country, displaying the state of the economy, the heartbeat of American culture, and the craziness of modern-day politics…

1) Jen Psaki says Kamala Harris is best alternative to Biden but worries America too ‘sexist and racist’

From Fox News: MSNBC host Jen Psaki declared Vice President Kamala Harris is the best candidate to replace President Biden as the Democratic nominee if he withdraws, while mourning the “sexist” and “racist” country that might reject her.

The former Biden flack made the point during a Wednesday interview on the “Pod Save America” podcast, singing Harris’ praises as a campaigner and communicator. She also defended the vice president from criticism that she’s too unpopular a candidate for the top of the ticket.

“There’s a lot of really amazing Democrats on the bench, but because of the timeline and everything, I think it is clearly Kamala Harris,” Psaki told podcast co-host Jon Lovett about Harris being the best alternative to Biden.

 

2) Catherine Herridge Tells Tucker Exactly How ‘Tension’ Skyrocketed At Network

From Daily Caller: Award-winning investigative journalist Catherine Herridge, who was fired from CBS News, unloaded all of her thoughts to Tucker Carlson in a lengthy interview released Thursday.

Herridge previously accused her former employer CBS of “journalistic rape” after the network allegedly seized all of her computers, records and files and locked Herridge out of her email upon informing her of her termination. Herridge admitted “there was tension” at the network when she “sort of turned [her] lens” on President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.

“Did you feel — could you feel it at the company that, like, people didn’t want you to do this?” Carlson asked.

“I’ve always tried to be respectful of my former employers. And I testified to Congress that, I mean, there was tension over the Biden reporting. Especially when I sort of turned my lens on to President Biden,” Herridge said.

 

3) Head of AI Safety Agency Could Facilitate ‘Government-Big Tech Collusion’ Like Coronavirus Pandemic, 2020 Election

From Breitbart: A Senate Commerce Committee document exposes how the head of an AI safety agency at the Commerce Department could stifle competition, consolidate AI developments in the hands of a few big tech companies, and facilitate “government-Big Tech collusion seen during the pandemic and the 2020 election,” Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

The document, which was obtained by Breitbart News, details that in response to Biden’s October 2023 executive order on AI, Commerce Committee Secretary Gina Raimondo created the Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to establish AI safety standards and guidance for the private sector and government agencies.

In April 2024, Raimondo announced that Paul Christiano would head the AI Safety Institute (AISI), and NIST employees threatened to resign over Christiano’s appointment because they feared his association with Effective Altruism and longtermism could “compromise” the institute’s objectivity and integrity.

 

4) AT&T hacker steals call, text records of ‘nearly all’ customers

From Fox Business: AT&T said in a regulatory filing Friday that a hacker was able to steal the records of calls and texts for “nearly all” of its customers.

The company launched an investigation after finding out on April 19 that a hacker “claimed to have unlawfully accessed and copied AT&T call logs,” the company said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The hacker illegally gained access to a AT&T workspace on a third-party cloud platform and exfiltrated files containing AT&T records of customer call and text interactions that occurred between May 1 and Oct. 31, 2022, AT&T said in the filing. Data was also compromised for a “very small number” of customers on Jan. 2, 2023, AT&T said in a separate release.

The data specifically includes records of calls and texts of nearly all of AT&T’s cellular customers, customers of mobile virtual network operators using AT&T’s wireless network, as well as AT&T’s landline customers who interacted with those cellular numbers, the company said.

 

5) Gas prices: Costs increase for third straight day

From Washington Examiner: Gas prices increased again this week, marking the third straight day the average cost for a gallon of regular gas went up.

It costs $3.544 per gallon for regular gas on Thursday, according to AAA. This was slightly higher than yesterday’s price of $3.538 per gallon. Prices have increased nearly 4 cents per gallon since Monday, when the average price for a gallon of regular gas was $3.506.

Mississippi was the state that had the cheapest gas prices for a gallon of regular gas on Thursday, with a cost of $3.009, rising above $3 for the second straight day for the first time in weeks. California had the country’s most expensive gas on Thursday, with a gallon of regular gas costing $4.778.

 

6) A Man Disappeared In An Avalanche 22 Years Ago. His Body Was Just Found.

From Daily Wire: The body of a man who disappeared during an avalanche on Peru’s highest mountain has been found, 22 years later.

Bill Stampfl was climbing Peru’s 22,000-foot tall mountain, Huascaran, in 2002 when an avalanche struck, CBS News reported. His family knew that he was likely dead, but without a body, they could never know for sure.

Stampfl’s daughter, Jennifer, told The New York Times that she had largely accepted her father’s death but still had dreams that he was alive in Peru with amnesia and unaware of his family back in the U.S. Stampfl’s son, Joseph, recently received a phone call from a stranger, Ryan Cooper, saying that he had found Stampfl’s body while climbing Huascaran. Cooper explained that he had found Stampfl’s body frozen but mostly intact.

 

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