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The homosexual community has established a secure beachhead in Adventism--Kinship. The denomination made a serious mistake in trying the Kinship issue in secular court. Apparently, they didn't learn much from the Pacific Press case, which they also lost. If the denomination is serious about its disapproval of homosexuality, it could simply disfellowship openly gay members, ban them from church properties, and fire denominational employees. Non-gay partisans should br treated in a similar manner. Problem is that many congregations and some institutions. are in the pro-gay camp. Disfellowshipping takes place in the local congregation, not conference headquarters. When the Burbank SDA church ran afoul of the local conference over money/ personnel issues, the conference padlocked the church building. A congregation hires an openly gay pastor, the local conference, Pilate style, simply washes its hands. Dr. Lawson will likely go down in SDA history as the man who established the gay/lesbian agenda among SDA, a legacy in which he would take great pride, [pun intended]. I corresponded with him in the past. He was respectful and pleasant. There is a lot about him to admire, including his exposure of Quest. He fought well for a cause he believed in.

Midterms sprint With several primaries still ahead, Democrats and Republicans are facing the familiar challenge of uniting their parties before the November midterms, when control of Congress will be at stake. The fight for the Senate has grown more complicated for Democrats, while Republicans face mounting obstacles to holding the House. That leaves both chambers in play, with President Donald Trump's historic unpopularity giving Democrats a potential advantage. The biggest midterm news last week — and arguably of the last few months — was left-wing candidate Abdul El-Sayed's narrow victory in the Michigan Democratic primary. Whether he can carry that victory into the general election could offer an important test of the Democratic Party's left flank and its influence in the years to come.

August 10, 2026 By Evan Gorelick Good morning. Today we’re going to tell you about the little black cameras that are causing a national uproar. Desiree Rios for The New York Times I, spied Ever notice one of these cameras in your neighborhood? If you drive a car, one of them has almost certainly noticed you. Odds are you’ve been clocked hundreds, maybe thousands, of times. A company called Flock has deployed 120,000 such devices atop lampposts and on street corners all around the United States. (See them on a map.) They photograph passing cars, recording every license plate number. They can identify a car’s make and model, as well as its dents and dings and even its bumper stickers. (Your car climbed Mount Washington? Flock knows.) It all goes into an enormous database, which a police department pays for access to. Departments can, and usually do, share their data with other departments, creating a national network. The pitch is simple: Flock says its cameras help track stolen cars, find criminals and solve crimes. The company started teaming up with police departments less than six years ago and now has contracts with 7,000 of them, or 40 percent of the national total. Flock’s surveillance dragnet is so huge and diffuse that it has become an almost-invisible fact of life. The company says it scans 20 billion license plates a month. To put that number into perspective: With about 300 million registered motor vehicles in the United States, according to the Federal Highway Administration, a vehicle, on average, is scanned about 800 times a year. Not so fast Desiree Rios for The New York Times Police officers can query Flock’s databases to track people in intimate detail without a warrant. Some have used them to stalk romantic partners. ICE agents have used them to hunt immigrants. One Texas officer used them to track a woman across state lines who was suspected of having an abortion. We’re accustomed to surveillance cameras, of course; we put them on our doorbells and tolerate them in offices and restaurants. But Flock’s cameras have become objects of intense antipathy, even violence, my colleagues Fernando Alfonso III and Kashmir Hill report. People are cutting them down, splattering them with paint, covering them with trash bags and shooting them with guns. A Tennessee congressional candidate, charged with felony vandalism on an accusation of shooting four Flock cameras, has received more than $13,000 in GoFundMe donations for his legal defense. Privacy advocates are creating apps and websites meant to undermine Flock. One, FlockHopper, plots driving routes that avoid the cameras. Another, Have I Been Flocked?, lets people search police departments’ Flock search logs, obtained through public-record requests. DeFlock invites users to “discover and report automatic license plate readers” in their communities. YouTube videos with millions of views show how Flock’s security vulnerabilities allowed it to be hacked and then watched like a sort of “Netflix for stalkers.” It’s not exactly shocking that many Americans are upset to learn they’re being watched. Flock embodies a bigger, more abstract notion of mass surveillance. Its name is uttered in the same breath as that of Palantir, the data-analysis firm known for, among other things, helping ICE collate data on immigrants. The difference is you can see — and shoot at — a Flock camera. “It feels bad to always be watched and scrutinized,” said DeFlock’s creator, a software engineer in Boulder, Colo., named Will Freeman. The city says its 31 Flock cameras have reduced motor vehicle theft by 34.5 percent. Desiree Rios for The New York Times But where the technology is proliferating, the backlash — much like the backlash against data centers — has been fierce, and often bipartisan. In Texas, Flock’s contracts have been canceled in liberal Austin as well as in Bandera, a conservative town of about 900 people. Last month, a Republican congressman introduced a bill that would require federal agents to obtain a warrant before obtaining Flock’s data. Fernando and Kashmir interviewed the company’s chief executive and got hands-on to see how the system worked. Read their full story here. THE LATEST NEWS The Middle East Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a plan proposed by President Trump’s Board of Peace to disarm Hamas. Iran elevated a longtime military commander to a top security post, a sign that the old guard is consolidating power. The country sees control over the Strait of Hormuz as its best chance of getting Trump to deliver on promises he agreed to in June. Politics Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alex Kent/The New York Times Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced on social media that she was freezing her eggs, saying she wanted “to show more depictions of women having full lives in every context and every choice.” Trump named Will Scharf, his current staff secretary, as White House counsel. Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan, is embracing election skepticism as he prepares to take on Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee. Around the World A powerful typhoon hit China, forcing more than a million people to evacuate. At least one person has died in an out-of-control wildfire in British Columbia. A Ukrainian drone attack killed at least 13 people in an industrial city deep inside Russia. Other Big Stories On Lake Mead near the Hoover Dam. Ty O’Neil/Associated Press Water levels in Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, are at record lows. Meta released an open-source version of its most powerful A.I. model. Taylor Farms, the company linked to the cyclospora outbreak, said it was recalling products made with fresh jalapeños that had been tied to a salmonella outbreak. OPINIONS Peggy Flanagan and Angie Craig, the Minnesota Democratic Senate candidates. Illustration by The New York Times; source photographs by Abbie Parr/Associated Press and Bill Clark/Getty Images Minnesota’s primaries take place tomorrow. Times Opinion assembled a panel of local leaders and experts to debate whom Democratic voters should send to the Senate. Everyone under 30 dresses like gibberish. Thomas Morton, a former Vice editor, considers what’s lost as the internet erodes subcultures and self-expression. Deeply reported journalism needs your support. The Times relies on subscribers to help fund our mission. Become a subscriber today. MORNING READS In Pakistan. Asim Hafeez for The New York Times We’ve made these links free for you. Extreme heat: Farmers in Pakistan are trying to adapt their spicy chiles to a hotter, drier world. See these incredible photos. Going “furthur”: Ken Kesey’s psychedelic bus, a symbol of 1960s counterculture San Francisco, is preparing for one more run. Making it happen: The largest croissant in Paris? A record-setting champagne shower? No request is too absurd for Olivia Ferney, who has built her business (and a social media following) fulfilling the whims of her ultrarich travel clients. Your pick: The most clicked link in The Morning yesterday was about the Senate’s lack of votes to pass Trump’s voting bill. Jazz singer: After a successful performance career, Geraldine de Haas became the driving force behind Chicago’s jazz resurgence, founding a concert series, festivals and a nonprofit. She died at 91. TODAY’S NUMBER Patrick Aftoora-Orsagos/Associated Press $430,000 — That is how much the childhood home of Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, is selling for. The two-story house, built in 1908 in Wapakoneta, Ohio, was purchased by the Armstrong family in 1944, and a retired history teacher has owned the home since 1988. Armstrong used to launch model airplanes from his second-floor bedroom window. A historical marker was placed in the front yard in 2018. Buzz Aldrin, among other astronauts, has visited the property. SPORTS N.B.A.: Don Nelson won five titles as a player with the Boston Celtics. As a coach, he pioneered his own style of play — “Nellie Ball.” He died at 86. Gymnastics: Hezly Rivera repeated as champion at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships. M.L.B.: Mike Trout, a Los Angeles Angels player, invited his teammates to his private golf club in New Jersey on Aug. 3 for a round of team bonding. Four of them were traded during the outing. RECIPE OF THE DAY Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Fettuccine Alfredo, a famously rich pasta dish, may seem an odd choice for the summer, but it’s fast (15 minutes!) and it satisfies picky eaters (because it’s basically mac and cheese). This version came to The Times in a 2004 story about Elaine Kaufman, the founder and proprietress of the famed New York hot spot that bore her name and where this dish was served. WHO KILLED TUPAC? Illustration by The New York Times; Raymond Boyd/Getty Images, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department For years, the identity of Tupac Shakur’s killers was one of hip-hop’s burning questions. The trial of Duane Keith Davis, scheduled to begin today, may finally provide answers. Davis boasted of his role in the killing in his 2019 memoir — claims that led prosecutors to reopen the decades-old case. Now he says the book is fiction. Here’s what to know about the trial. More on culture Is it OK to say you DNF? Three little letters, standing for “did not finish,” have turbocharged a longstanding debate over putting down a book you don’t enjoy. At the Edinburgh Fringe, Amanda Knox is trying to turn her tabloid infamy into standup humor. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Michael Hession/NYT Wirecutter Eat better instant ramen. Try one of these varieties. Reduce knee pain and keep your joints healthy by staying active. Optimize your morning routine for back-to-school with tips from the child wranglers at Wirecutter. Take our news quiz. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangrams were chocolate and echolocate. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. 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🤖 1 for the road: GTA meets GPTs A shot from a created video game. Photo: Matt Shumer/X The reality of building your own video game is here. And just like so many other AI-driven changes, it threatens to permanently disrupt a $300 billion industry, Axios' Herb Scribner reports. Gamers on X are posting videos of playable game demos built using LLMs, many of them resembling popular shooters like "Call of Duty" and "Counter-Strike." "If something is kind of possible today, in a year, it's going to be nailed," Matt Shumer, an AI investor and video game builder, told Axios.

🖊 New White House counsel Longtime Trump aide Will Scharf, now the White House staff secretary, will take over as the next White House counsel on Sept. 1, the White House announced last night. Scharf replaces Dave Warrington, who'll leave the administration for the private sector. Scharf represented Trump in his Supreme Court presidential-immunity case. Scharf chairs the National Capital Planning Commission, which has tried to clear the way for Trump's White House ballroom construction. An appellate court halted the project Friday. Mullin's MAGA backlash Just 4½ months after replacing Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary, Markwayne Mullin is feeling the heat from President Trump's MAGA enforcers, Axios' Brittany Gibson reports. Steve Bannon, a top MAGA podcaster, is among those who've joined the chorus of MAGA figures objecting to Lance Schroyer's nomination to lead ICE. "You can't pick a cop from Oklahoma and think he's going to walk in and be able to do that, right? You're asking too much of somebody," Bannon told Axios. Keep reading.

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📞 Trump on Iran: "We are low-keying it" President Trump signaled yesterday that he's prepared to allow economic pressure on Iran to mount — as opposed to ordering a new military offensive — even as the country continues to defy the U.S. This is a massive strategic shift, after threatening Iran repeatedly and then watching them ignore, mock and even bully U.S. negotiators. Iran is now the one making bombastic and unrealistic demands. Only a week ago, Trump was on the verge of ordering a return to major combat operations. But he didn't make any new military threats during a phone call with Axios' Barak Ravid. Trump also didn't express any anger or frustration about Iran holding up an announcement on a deal with Oman to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. "We are low-keying it," Trump told Barak. "We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money." Trump stressed that Iran "is in very bad shape" economically and has no money to pay its troops. The U.S. naval blockade has exacerbated the Iranian regime's economic crisis, Trump added. "It will work out," Trump said. "It always works out. It's like a chess game." ps:What does that mean? It seems that anytime he needs a comment, that phrase comes out!!

What Zuck's manifesto really means Illustration: Maura Losch/Axios Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the latest tech mogul to unfurl a long AI manifesto, reveals — and defends — Meta's we're-behind-and-need-to-catch-up strategy. Every principle in his 6,500 words happens to be Meta's business plan: Distribute widely (the company has over 3 billion monthly active users), unleash open source AI (it's behind at the frontier), distillation is fine and legal (it does it) and don't delay releases (it's catching up). Zuckerberg argues that the most common concerns are overblown and fail to account for all the positives it can achieve. In his vision of AI, the biggest risk instead is that one government or entity has too much power over the technology, Axios' Ina Fried writes. "One of the ways to achieve both individual empowerment and checks and balances is to make sure you put the technology in everybody's hands," Zuckerberg told me in an interview ahead of the manifesto's release. "It's definitely a different view than what you're hearing from a lot of other people in the tech industry right now." He wrote that he wants to ensure the U.S. and other democracies lead, and ultimately make sure "humanity maintains control over superintelligence so it serves rather than endangers us." 🛰️ The big picture: Even as the world confronts AI that is breaking out of sandboxes, comparing notes on message boards and creating new viruses, Zuckerberg portrays it instead as an analog to other disruptive technical innovations. "Humanity has witnessed many transformative advances," he writes in the manifesto, which he previewed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last month. "Each time there is fear that people will be left behind. But each time humanity has come out with more people sharing greater prosperity, health, and freedom." ⚠️ Threat level: Zuckerberg contrasts this vision with one in which only some people, some businesses or some countries have access to the most powerful AI, suggesting that would represent a far more dangerous outcome. "I'm personally more worried about centralization than I am about any of the specific risks others are talking about," he told me. 👀 Playing politics: Without naming his rival, Zuckerberg joined the anti-Anthropic pile-on. "I do not understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity's relevance would rush to build that future," he writes. Zuckerberg's plan for Meta is that "everyone will have free or affordable access to these tools," with the paid versions using a "dynamic auction mechanism" to get the compute they need at the lowest possible price. "This will ensure the benefits of superintelligence are distributed widely." 🔎 Between the lines: Zuckerberg also said Meta will resume releasing some open-source AI models, now that Meta Superintelligence Labs is up and running, as Axios reported in April. Meta says it's opening the weights of a new model, Muse Glimmer, billed as "one of the highest-performing models of its size," and will open the weights for a version of the foundational model Muse Spark 1.2 in coming weeks. Preempting federal mandates, Zuckerberg added that Meta's independent board will have the power to approve model-release safety criteria and review whether releases meet those standards. 💰 Local spending: Hoping to tamp down data-center backlash, Zuckerberg also announced Meta is launching the Future is for Everyone Fund "to support each community we work in directly." The fund, seeded with $1 billion for U.S. communities where Meta owns and operates data centers, will benefit teachers, first responders, and energy and water infrastructure. The bottom line: The manifesto represents Zuckerberg's clearest effort yet to weigh in on AI's future, both as a matter of policy and technology. Watch a Zuckerberg video ... Read Zuckerberg's essay ... Meta's research blog ... Glimmer model weights.

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A different Fed view Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios Axios CEO Jim VandeHei highlights what he sees as the most overlooked part of the Fed's Warsh era so far: When Mike and I are curious about the "real economy," we talk to sources at big-box stores for a read on real-time sales trends or friends at super regional banks to gauge the mood and money movement. To us, that's the real world and real data, imperfect but less imperfect than dated Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys built for a different time and economy. That's why we think the most interesting thing to watch long-term at the Fed is the seemingly boring data task force Warsh appointed last month to improve the "quality and timeliness of real economic signals that inform the Federal Reserve's policy judgments." The members: Harvard economics professor Raj Chetty, former Walmart CEO Doug McMillon and University of Chicago economics professor emeritus Kevin Murphy. The big picture: AI should surely help aggregate and better analyze more real-time data feeds to help policymakers make better decisions. If not, AI will be a total flop. Imagine a parallel Fed that uses more fine-tuned, real-time data feeds, analyzed without economic worldview bias or personal interest of Fed governors. The bottom line: We've known Warsh for years, and his interest in AI and rethinking data is real and intense. We'd be surprised if the ultimate manifestation of his "new chapter" isn't deeply infused with the work of McMillon & Co.

Warsh rewires the Fed Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is attempting a high-wire act: rethinking the central bank's approach to guiding the economy, while also using its standard toolkit to bring down stubbornly persistent inflation, Axios chief economic correspondent Neil Irwin reports. A market blowup late last month showed the perils of doing both at the same time. The big picture: Warsh is ultimately trying to rewire the central bank to take greater advantage of AI to understand the economy in real time, aiming for better decision-making in the next few years. Some saw his July 29 news conference as evidence of a lack of commitment to quashing inflation — but to allies, it was a short-lived bump in the road toward a more credible Fed. 🔭 Zoom out: Warsh's supporters frame a couple of volatile trading days as a small price to pay for a world where markets are less dependent on central bank handholding. He seeks a paradigm shift in how the Fed uses AI — but those tools will take time to develop and prove workable, and meanwhile inflation has been elevated for more than five years. In the near term, the Warsh Fed is prepared to use its standard tool of raising short-term interest rates to combat inflation, based on tried-and-true analysis of government economic statistics. The intrigue: Warsh is a full-throated believer that AI is a transformative technology that stands to remake the economy. He has told associates that before taking office, he built AI bots that ingested the collected works of economists Milton Friedman and James Tobin. He then turned to them for their insights on contemporary economic questions. He also sees its use as an urgent need for the Fed itself to more fully embrace AI, both to understand what's happening in the economy at any given moment and to reason toward better policy decisions. His aspiration is that eventually, real-time information from retailers, banks and other companies can give a more reliable guide to what's happening to inflation and growth than government surveys. Reality check: Warsh leads a 112-year-old central bank with a $6.7 trillion balance sheet, which sits at the core of global finance. There's a reason it is historically cautious and slow to change, even with an approach that co-workers describe as pragmatic and collegial. The bottom line: Expect the Warsh Fed to keep pushing boundaries of how technology can shape economic data and policymaking — but with more reassurance that for now, the basic Fed toolkit remains intact.

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What I'm trying to show you here is that Martin Luther, Calvin, John Wesley, John Smyth categorically rejected the idea you are "on solid ground" and went so far as to define that you are not on solid ground. I understand that in order to support Ellen White as a real prophet requires that what God said was impossible had to be "possible" otherwise Ellen would be in the soup. I'm only asking you to be honest with yourself and admit that SDA Christology is alien to Protestant Reformation Christology (which is identical to Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy) - SDA Christology instead aligns with "Restorationist Christology. I'll admit it, where you claim that SDA's are on solid ground and that we (including me?) will find out soon when we (including me) will "get all the answers"? Martin Luther could read Greek, Latin and Hebrew - this is in stark contrast to a small group of anti-Trinitarians who couldn't identify the 1st three letters of the Greek Alphabet and taught that Father God had every member, organ and part that a perfect man has and that Christ had the possibility of sinning, loosing His salvation and eternally ceasing to exist. You seem to have zero problem in admitting all these things openly Hobie, and for that I have to respect you for having the courage of your convictions. I disagree with you obviously but I do respect for you for being so bluntly honest about it. Provided you don't try to pass off your Christology as any part of the Reformation there isn't much, I can say, aside from the many Scriptures I've been sharing.

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Irish Mob Boss Extradited Daniel Kinahan, suspected head of one of the world’s largest drug syndicates, was taken into custody by Irish officials after his extradition from the United Arab Emirates yesterday. The transfer brings Kinahan home to face charges of directing organized crime and follows his April arrest in Dubai. Formed in the 1990s to traffic street drugs in Dublin, the Kinahan network became one of Europe’s primary importers of illicit drugs, controlling an estimated one-third of the continent's cocaine supply and amassing more than $1B in net worth. The group’s rise was reportedly due to Kinahan’s coordination of a “supercartel” (podcast w/transcript) linking Central and South American cartels with other regional crime networks, including the Italian Mafia. His lavish 2017 wedding in Dubai, to which he had fled a year prior, was infiltrated by undercover DEA agents, allowing them to begin mapping the worldwide network. Kinahan gave a phone interview from an Emirati prison days before being returned—listen to a clip here.

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