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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

May. 15, 2026

Greetings! Scary: Excellent Western Journal article that speculates about the horrors that would unfold if Adolf Hitler had AI. “ (I)magine if Hitler had AI-powered surveillance systems capable of identifying every Jewish family in Europe instantly. Imagine facial recognition connected to national databases. Imagine predictive algorithms flagging political dissidents before they acted. Imagine autonomous monitoring systems operating 24 hours a day without fatigue, hesitation, or mercy.  The scale of evil would have been almost unimaginable”…Another day, another Trump business venture. Trump-branded phones have begun shipping this week, per USA Today.  The gold-colored mobile devices (natch) will be available to consumers June 16.  One of the mobile plans is priced at $47.45,” a clever nod to Trump’s terms as the 45th and 47th president of the U.S. I’m sticking with Verizon and Apple in case you were wondering…Maine is becoming a destination for liberals leaving red states because of climate anxiety, according to the Washington Free Beacon.  But it certainly isn’t a paradise as the Beacon gleefully points out.  A Beacon article spotlights a couple from Austin, Texas, who moved to the Pine Tree State and woke up one morning to find human feces on their porch deposited by a homeless person.  No problem, says the Beacon: “(The couple’s) laissez-faire attitude to vagrant defecators and other agents of public disorder should serve them well in Bangor, which has the state’s highest crime rate and one of the largest vagrant populations”…Comedian Harry Shearer has dropped a clever music video featuring motion-capture images of an ersatz Trump in the Oval Office with world leaders singing his most famous excuse, “I Never Knew Him”…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard