The Watches 8.27.25

Foreign students, no more "birthing people"? and Snoop Dogg on Disney's preachiness

First Watch:

• Think Tank Warns Dems on Woke Speak – A left-wing think tank has advised Democrats to tone down progressive jargon. (ZeroHedge)

• Menendez Brothers Denied Parole – Erik and Lyle Menendez, in prison since 1989 for murdering their parents, were denied parole. Officials cited “anti-social personality traits” despite apparent remorse. (CNN)

• Sanctuary Cities Win Funding Fight – Sixteen cities and counties won a lawsuit blocking President Trump’s attempt to withhold federal funds over sanctuary policies. (Reuters)

• Snoop Dogg Criticized for Disney Comments – Snoop Dogg said he disliked explaining to his grandson how two female characters in a Disney movie could have a baby. “I just came to watch the movie.” Critics called him homophobic. (Not the Bee, Washington Examiner)

• The AI Land Grab is on – Google and Anthropic are offering discounted AI access for federal employees. OpenAI also released a pared-back, low-cost model for India. (OpenAI, Open AI)

• Nigeria Rescues 70 Hostages – Nigerian forces used airstrikes to free more than 70 hostages from kidnapping gangs, amid rising fears of alliances with jihadists. (France 24)

• I did not know that.. Minneapolis Approved Muslim Call to Prayer – New city noise rules in 2023 have allowed the call to prayer over loudspeakers five times a day, as early as 3:30am and as late as 11pm. (Sonny Boy via X)

Second Watch:

Trump Ends Cashless Bail – President Trump signed an executive order eliminating cashless bail in D.C. and nationwide. Critics say the bail system favors the wealthy and that cashless bail is mostly for non-violent crimes. Victims counter that bail reform fuels repeat offenses that often escalate. (WNG, Daily Signal, Time, Spectator)

600,000 Visas for Chinese Students – President Trump has said America will provide visas for 600,00 Chinese students during comments made in Oval Office. Trade talks with China are ongoing. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick offered a twisty defense of the idea, saying without foreign students to prop up elite universities, “all the students would go up to better schools, and the bottom 15 percent of universities and colleges would go out of business in America." Commentator Steve Deace was one of many conservative critics who objected to the plan: “Literally nobody voted for this.” (Fox, Newsweek, Steve Deace via X)

Third Watch:

🚰 A water sommelier? You’re probably safe from AI..

⌨️ Not everyone wants a super slim keyboard

🌝 New York hoax of 1835 had people believing there were unicorns on the moon

An photographer captures the amazing flight paths of birds:

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Let us pray. Almighty an everlasting God, always more ready to hear than we to pray and to give more than we either desire or deserve, pour down upon us the abundance of Your mercy, forgiving those things of which our conscience is afraid and giving us those good things that we are not worthy to ask, except through the merits and mediation of Christ, our Lord, who live and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

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