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Data-center backers plan for '27 and beyond Photo illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios. Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images AI companies, private equity firms and unions are banding together to form a new multimillion-dollar coalition to make the case for responsible growth in seven key states, Axios' Hans Nichols reports. Why it matters: The new group, the American Infrastructure Alliance, wants to partner with state and local officials to create clear standards and guardrails for data centers in 2027. In return, the coalition hopes to head off any moratoriums on new construction. The group plans initial campaigns in Texas, Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Indiana and South Carolina. The alliance is backed by Blackstone, OpenAI, QTS and SoftBank Group, along with key unions, including the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). 🔭 Between the lines: The group represents an initial investment in a broader battle over AI and data centers that will likely bleed into the 2027 state legislative battles and the 2028 presidential campaign. Watch an ad ... Read on.

🇮🇷 Trump expects Iran negotiations this week The day after rejecting an Iranian proposal to end the war, President Trump told Axios' Barak Ravid in a phone interview that U.S. negotiators will engage in more talks with the country this week: Qatar and other regional mediators are trying to revive negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, but the two sides are far apart on the key issues, Barak writes. While Iran wants to focus any talks on the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. naval blockade, the Trump administration is demanding that Iran agree to nuclear concessions. "I expect more talks with Iran [this week]," Trump said. "They want to make a deal, but it is not the deal that I want to make. It is what we would have maybe agreed to a year ago. They overplayed their hand." Asked if he is considering resuming strikes against Iran, Trump said: "I am always thinking about it." Keep reading.

Speaker's 22-state dash Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is launching a five-week campaign blitz that will take him to more than 40 congressional districts across 22 states in the 36 days before Election Day, Axios' Kate Santaliz reports. Why it matters: Johnson is going all-in on defending his party's House majority as the political terrain disintegrates for the GOP. 🗳️ Zoom in: Johnson's campaign swing will be split evenly between Republican-held seats the party is fighting to defend, and Democratic-held districts the GOP hopes to pick up. The speaker begins his travel this week in Louisiana and New York. He'll also campaign in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. Read on.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 28 1941 Ted Williams becomes last MLB player to hit .400 On September 28, 1941, the last day of Major League Baseball’s regular season, the Boston Red Sox’s Ted Williams gets six hits in eight at-bats during a doubleheader in Philadelphia. He becomes the first player since 1930 to hit above .400, a mark that generations of players have continued to chase. read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1542 Spanish explorer sails into San Diego Bay 1990s 1994 Passenger ferry Estonia sinks, killing 852 21st Century 2018 Arctic shipping lane opens due to ice melt; cargo ship completes the journey American Revolution 1781 Battle of Yorktown begins Ancient Egypt 48 B.C. Pompey the Great assassinated Arts & Entertainment 1901 TV host Ed Sullivan born Cold War 1965 Fidel Castro announces Cubans are free to leave the island Crime 1988 A cult leader kills one of his followers European History 1066 William the Conqueror invades England Inventions & Science 1918 Philadelphia parade exposes thousands to Spanish flu Sports 1960 Ted Williams hits home run in last major league at-bat 1920 Eight MLB players indicted in “Black Sox Scandal” World War I 1918 British soldier allegedly spares the life of an injured Adolf Hitler

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This week in the pre-campaign Illustration: Brendan Lynch / Axios. Stock: Getty Images A look at what potential 2028 Democratic presidential contenders are up to: 🤔 Ocasio-Cortez talked openly about running for president or the Senate in 2028 in an interview with The New York Times' Shane Goldmacher. "There's an argument that some make that this is a very unique political window and, oftentimes in politics, you do only get one shot," she said. "… Life doesn't wait for you to be ready for things. Sometimes life just makes things ready for you." 🇺🇳 California Gov. Gavin Newsom made the rounds in New York City during the United Nations General Assembly, where some foreign officials treated him as a president-in-waiting. Newsom met and signed a climate agreement with the prime minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, who according to reports snubbed President Trump's reception. 👏 Besides campaigning for El-Sayed in Michigan this week, Harris went to an event held by the Detroit Branch of the NAACP and got a standing ovation from the crowd when she was asked about running in 2028, the Michigan Chronicle's Sam Robinson reported. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said on "CBS Mornings" that he was diagnosed with diabetes two years ago, and since then has lost 80 pounds using a GLP-1 drug. Pritzker previously had dodged questions about whether he used the drug in his recent weight loss. Democratic megadonor Alex Soros posted about meeting Pritzker in New York City this week. Buttigieg told Meidas Touch that the Biden administration made mistakes dealing with the southern border. "Democrats were slow to acknowledge that this was a problem. I'll admit that I did not understand the proportions of the problem at first," he said. 🥯 In a video with food influencer Jeremy Jacobowitz, Buttigieg also revealed his go-to bagel order: sesame bagel with lox, scallion cream cheese (or chive) and capers. Jacobowitz judged the order an 8.9. 🦀 Maryland Gov. Wes Moore put out an AI framework that would focus on regulating its use in housing, gambling, lending, in the workplace, and elsewhere. Read it here. 🤖 Kelly introduced AI legislation that would focus on making large tech companies pay to help workers displaced by the technology. Emanuel jabbed at AOC and Sen. Bernie Sanders in a New York Times profile by Shane Goldmacher. "Some people want to do oligarchy tours. I want to do majority tours. That's what I'm doing with my time," he said. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear dodged questions from CNN's Jake Tapper about committing money to the Texas governor's race (he also mistakenly said Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs was running for reelection in Ohio). California Rep. Ro Khanna said on "Meet the Press" that Democrats should hold impeachment investigations if they win the House in November, and that it wouldn't be a mistake to impeach Trump a third time.

🗽 AOC's Senate test run Photo: Aaron Schwartz / Bloomberg via Getty Images BUFFALO, N.Y. — AOC's flirtation with a 2028 Senate bid is getting real — more real than the presidential buzz around her might suggest. 🏃🏼‍♀️ She's barnstorming through upstate New York, meeting with local officials and kicking off a voter turnout program that could help her collect valuable data for a possible Senate campaign. Why it matters: Whether she runs for Senate or the White House is one of the biggest questions hanging over the 2028 Democratic presidential primary. 🔬 Zoom in: Her swing through Buffalo and Ithaca the last few days was officially aimed at boosting Democratic turnout in the midterms. But it doubled as a way to test AOC's appeal far from her home base of Queens and the Bronx, and build relationships with locals. In Buffalo, she met privately with Mayor Sean Ryan, then held an impromptu press conference with him, generating coverage of the duo on local TV news. She and her team later kicked off a training session aimed at getting inactive voters to the polls, an operation that could help them gather information about the electorate outside New York City. "I want to be very forthright about our intentions here, which is to transform the state of New York," Ocasio-Cortez told activists at the event in a Buffalo arts center. In Ithaca, she appeared at an apple festival with Rep. Josh Riley (D-N.Y.) and today was scheduled to headline a "Students vs. Billionaires" town hall. It's friendly terrain: The city is home to several democratic socialist elected officials, and Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. 🤔 The intrigue: AOC says she's genuinely undecided on whether to run for the White House or Senate. Her recent activities upstate suggested that wasn't a head fake. Ryan said Ocasio-Cortez has been talking with state officials about how help communities beyond New York City. Meanwhile, some influential Democrats in early presidential primary states have told us they haven't yet heard from AOC. Many political insiders believe that if Ocasio-Cortez were to run for an open Senate seat, she'd clear the Democratic field. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who's in his fifth term, hasn't said whether he'll run for reelection. Yes, but: Ocasio-Cortez also has taken several steps that could point toward a presidential run. She's toured the country, moderated her stance on some cultural issues, and opened up about her egg-freezing journey. She recently told the New York Times she'll consider whether to run for president after the midterms. Between the lines: One exchange we had with Ocasio-Cortez offered a window into how she is approaching her decision. We asked her how she's thinking about the future of the progressive movement as she weighs a White House run. In the last two open Democratic presidential primaries, there has been a clear progressive standard-bearer, and many on the left think she's their only hope for 2028. "The movement is so much bigger than any one person," she told us. Read more. — Holly Otterbein

🚫 Swing-state Dems shun AOC Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo / Axios. Photo: Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images Democrats in some of this year's most critical congressional battlegrounds are sending a clear message to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: We don't want you to campaign for us. Why it matters: If they continue, the snubs could hurt AOC's standing as a potential contender in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary, when many voters will prioritize electability. Ocasio-Cortez and her allies argue that her unapologetic advocacy for big progressive policies like Medicare for All would make candidates like her more electable than moderate liberals, but many Democrats in tight races this fall have disagreed. 🛑 She was welcomed by several Democrats in competitive primary races, but now some of those candidates have distanced themselves as they've moved to the center to take on Republicans in the Nov. 3 election. 🔎 Zoom in: Sam Forstag, a progressive House candidate in Montana who rallied with AOC in May en route to winning the Democratic primary, suggested he doesn't want her to campaign for him in the conservative state for the general election. "I don't intend to be having a lot of folks from out of state campaigning with me over these next 40 days," he told Axios when asked about AOC stumping for him. Forstag has scrubbed Ocasio-Cortez's endorsement from his campaign's website. Driving the news: Some Democrats in other close races have explicitly asked Ocasio-Cortez's team to stay away, party officials told Axios. 📉 "The polling is atrocious for her," said a senior Democratic strategist working in a key swing district. "She's a lightning rod." AOC doesn't always tell national media about her events in advance, so we asked her team whether she's campaigned in person for any of the Democrats' top House or Senate candidates this cycle. They didn't point us to any. "Call us on Nov. 3," said her chief of staff, Mike Casca, suggesting she may do more events before Election Day. Zoom out: In June, CNN reported that AOC's aides were "putting together a fall schedule meant to beta-test her appeal beyond a base that adores her." So far, that hasn't happened nationally. In contrast, several of AOC's potential 2028 rivals for president — including former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel — have been welcomed by Democratic candidates in competitive districts and states during the past month. Even former Vice President Kamala Harris — whose help has been resisted by some battleground candidates — has been welcomed by others. Harris was in Michigan with left-wing Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed last week and plans to campaign for statewide candidates in Georgia and Nevada. 👀 The intrigue: In the final weeks of the Senate Democratic primary last month in Michigan — a key presidential swing state — El-Sayed had AOC campaign with him. He and his allies spent almost $1 million in TV ads featuring her, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact. But since winning the Democratic nomination, El-Sayed has spent almost nothing on ads featuring AOC. El-Sayed's campaign said they'd welcome Ocasio-Cortez back in the coming weeks. "There are a lot of Michiganders who can't wait to have AOC back in town," a spokesperson told us. AOC did launch a campaign swing this week throughout New York with stops in Buffalo and Ithaca, but she's not campaigning in one of the country's most competitive House districts — the 17th District in the lower Hudson Valley. Cait Conley, a former Army officer and national security official in the Biden administration, told CNN this month that she wouldn't campaign with AOC. 🗣️ What they're saying: We asked Ocasio-Cortez what she thinks of Republicans using her name in a new ad to try to hurt Conley. "I invite them to spend even more money … because they're just setting it on fire," Ocasio-Cortez said, arguing that the GOP has been running the same anti-AOC playbook since she first was elected to Congress in 2018. Read more. — Alex Thompson, Holly Otterbein

Trump Rages at Supreme Court for Ruining His Latest ‘Victory’ Checks and balances are for other presidents, apparently. Donald Trump, 80, has lashed out at his hand-picked Supreme Court justices after they handed him another defeat. In a rant on Truth Social Sunday morning, Trump raged about how the court had again refused to allow a new voting map in Missouri. “The Supreme Court of the United States will just not let Missouri have an Election Victory. They continuously, three times now, overrule Judges who came to the correct decisions,” the president wrote. With the midterms looming, Republicans in Missouri want to use a newly drafted electoral map that gives Republican candidates a leg up in races across the state and would potentially see them gaining a seat from the Democrats. The new map was created last year at the behest of Trump, who has been pushing Republican-controlled state houses to redraw boundaries and lock out Democrats. It divided Kansas City into several districts in an attempt to unseat long-time Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. The president’s push to redraw districts began in Texas and has since spread to other states, including North Carolina, Ohio, Florida and Tennessee. Democrats in California and Virginia also joined in the redistricting fight with maps favoring their party, but the Supreme Court blocked Virginia’s effort in a ruling that delighted the president. The Missouri map, however, has been knocked back by Trump’s own justices twice before, once by Brett Kavanaugh, and then unanimously by the full bench. On Friday, the justices shut it down a third time, issuing an unsigned ruling with no dissenters. The state’s 2022 map, which includes six seats currently held by Republicans and two by Democrats, will be used in November. “The election is not merely upcoming; it has already started. Ballots using the 2022 map have been printed and mailed. Absentee voting has already begun, as has military and overseas voting,” the decision said. Trump, furious that the highest court in the land did not do what he wanted, said the people of Missouri were “fighting so hard for Fairness and Election Security.” “Such tremendous Spirit and Love of our Country. I won Missouri BIG, all three times, and I couldn’t be more proud of doing so. A great place — I love you all! President DONALD J. TRUMP,” he continued. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The GOP is struggling to hold back a predicted blue wave in November, as Trump’s approval rating has tanked over the cost of living and his hugely unpopular Iran war. The redistricting is part of their attempt to maintain control of the House, which currently has 218 Republicans and 214 Democrats serving. For control to change hands, Democrats would just need to flip a handful of seats. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-rages-at-supreme-court-for-ruining-his-latest-victory/?

MAGA Revolts Over Wild White House Champagne-Spraying Video Dan Scavino is catching heat for a “shameful” video he posted partying it up. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino has sparked an uproar with a tacky flex on social media. Scavino, 50, posted what appears to be an AI-generated video on Instagram showing him popping champagne with what seems to be his second wife, Erin Elmore, and the president’s son Eric Trump and his wife Lara Trump. The video is set to the tune of Pitbull’s hit song “Don’t Stop the Party.” In the caption of the video, he wrote, “This is not an intended for the Dems heads to explode—Being some of the post State Dinner party has gotten out, I felt inclined to share mine as well, in complete transparency, with the American People. GOD BLESS THE USA!!!♥️🤍💙🇺🇸🦅🚀” It’s not the Democrats Scavino needed to watch out for, however, as the video infuriated prominent conservatives. Especially as Republicans look to hone in on their messaging strategy ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, which, if polling holds, will be a disaster for the GOP at the ballot box. Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the center-right outlet The Dispatch, responded, sarcastically saying, “This is precisely the midterm messaging the GOP needs from the Deputy White House Chief of Staff.” “You really have no shame, do you? Many Americans can’t afford groceries, gas or their mortgage payment, and you post a tone deaf AI video of you and your buddies partying at the People’s House,” Conservative activist Carrie Prejean Boller wrote. Conservative commentator Meghan McCain responded to Scavino’s post with some anecdotal economic observations, writing: “One of my friends couldn’t afford air conditioner this summer.” Never-Trump Republican Sarah Longwell wrote, “Real fall of Rome sh-t.” Other self-described MAGA accounts also weighed in on the luxurious display of wealth from Scavino. “Wow...This is really going to resonate with everyday Americans. They are so out of touch. It’s astonishing,” one person wrote. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Scavino appeared to acknowledge the backlash on Sunday afternoon by reposting yet another AI-generated video depicting the imagined afterparty, this time through the supposed lens of Xi Jinping’s “lost camera roll.” “…as the typical nutters are losing their s--t over AI created content, well done! It is AI, correct?😂🎯” he wrote on X. If Republicans’ concerns about the first video’s opulence amid Americans’ cost-of-living struggles reached Scavino, he apparently did not care. The AI video opens with Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, flipping through photos from the purported party. The images show Trump galloping through the White House on horseback; Vance and Musk holding his feet as Xi helps him do a keg stand; Trump jet-skiing on the Reflecting Pool; and Melania eating a lavish cake off his stomach, among other scenes. Republican concerns ahead of the November elections come as polling shows the GOP is headed towards a wipeout at the ballot box. President Donald Trump’s advisers have tried to tell him to focus more on affordability going into the 2026 midterms, especially after Republicans suffered serious losses in the off-year 2025 elections. Rank-and-file Republicans, meanwhile, are distancing themselves from Trump entirely. A growing number of Republicans, including those who represent safe Republican districts, have also deleted references to Trump on their campaign websites, including candidates whom Trump has endorsed. Trump, whose approval rating has sunk to one of the lowest of any president, has insisted that his administration has a winning record, and has doubled down on tying the midterms to his own record. He has told his MAGA base to just vote as though he is on the ballot. “Pretend that I am on the ballot,” Trump declared during the Republican midterm conference earlier this month. “I’m on the ballot.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-revolts-over-tone-deaf-white-house-video-from-dan-scavino/?

Trump’s Wild Offer to Chinese Leader Revealed The president’s ambassador to China made the stunning admission in a Fox News interview. President Donald Trump offered China the chance to buy U.S. weapons in an astonishing proposal. During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington, Trump at one point asked him if he would be interested in buying American weapons, U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue admitted. The U.S. last approved $11 billion in sales of U.S. arms to Taiwan in December 2025, as China has been flirting with the idea of invading the small island to take it over. When asked by Fox News on Sunday about the administration’s stance on Taiwan’s independence, Perdue made the stunning admission that Trump had actually offered Xi weapons. “President Trump continues to say, ‘Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world.’ He actually asked President Xi if he would like to buy some, at one point,” Perdue said. That confession received no further inquiry or pushback from Fox host Shannon Bream. The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for more information. Trump’s offer to Xi marks a stunning departure from decades of U.S. foreign policy that outright bans China from purchasing U.S. arms. U.S. law strictly prohibits the export of defense articles and defense services to China. After the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, the U.S. and European countries imposed arms embargoes on China that still exist today. The U.S. does sell weapons to Taiwan, much to the dismay of Beijing, which claims the country as its territory. Trump has delayed a more recent $14 billion arms package for Taiwan for several months, as he has dismissed bipartisan calls from Congress to advance it, describing it as a “very good negotiating chip” in his discussions with China. Following Perdue’s bombshell comments, a U.S. official told The Wall Street Journal that the Trump administration has no plans to sell weapons to China, while a second U.S. official pointed out that federal law bars weapons sales to China, adding that no plans or offers have been put on the table for Beijing. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-wild-offer-to-chinese-leader-xi-jinping-revealed-by-david-perdue/?

As to other related ilssues: * All people who wish to worshilpl in a lSDA congregation in peace, are welcomed to attend. I p[ersonally know of some homosexuals who attend SDA Congregatios but are not members. * Homosexuals who remain celebate are welcomed to be baptized and become mebbers. 8 There are a few ccases where a non-celebate homosexual has been baptized and allowed to become a SDA member. Such is rare and a viiolation of policy.

That's the way it works in my Church as well.

As to the policy related to homosexual SDA Clergy, it is simply this: Homosexuals may be ordained as SDA Clerlgy only as long as they remain celebate. If they do not remain celebate their ordination will be revocked. We do have some who do remain celebate. We have revoked the ordination of some others who did not remain celebate.

The varioius levels of the SDAChruch operte under a Constitution whilch also has w set of Bylaws. The Consstsilltion is seldom changed, bult may be changed. The Bylaws are often changed. In the Unilted States, the SDA Church has registered wlith the governlment, in order tko be covered by the protections of law that apply to religious organilzations. That process has included the ConstilltulIn the United kStates, In the Unlited States, t he authority to authorize the ordination of SDA clegy has generally lbeen given to the Union Conferences by their Constiltution. In short, the Local Conference recommends ordination and the Union Conference aplproves. As an example, my credentials cOme frkom teh Pacific Union kl coknference aftere the Northern kCalifornia conference recommended such. Under the procedure listed above, the General Conference is considered by many, including me, to not have the authority to tell the Union Ckonferences whom they can ordain.

Exclusive: Feds Denied Ballistics Expert Access to Prairieland Defendant Who Got 100 Years in Prison On the last day of the Prairieland trial, in which nine Texas protesters were accused of crimes including providing material support to terrorists, the attorney for activist Benjamin Song presented a novel argument that, if true, would have upended the federal government’s case. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/27/prairieland-appeal-gun-bullet-ricochet-benjamin-song/? Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline Amid mounting concerns about its sprawling surveillance camera network, Flock Security told the press this summer that it operates more than 120,000 cameras nationwide. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/how-many-flock-devices-in-united-states-300000/? DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why. Last year, well before DoorDash’s $131.5 million settlement with New York City for underpaying 264,000 delivery workers was announced Tuesday, the company spent around $1.4 million on the campaign to stop Zohran Mamdani, who oversaw the historic settlement, from becoming mayor. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/23/doordash-delivery-nyc-mamdani-wage-theft-settlement/? The Backlash to “NAZA” Shows How Little Israeli Citizenship Really Means The Israeli documentary “NAZA” will make its North American premiere tomorrow at the New York Film Festival on the heels of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vitriolic speech at the United Nations, which was met by mass protests, arrests, and diplomats walking out. Other Israeli documentaries have screened at Lincoln Center, including one at the New York Jewish Film Festival in January on the movement for LGBTQ+ rights or another about an October 7 hostage. But this film, co-directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, has proven extraordinarily controversial in its home country, reviled by nearly every sector of media and politics. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/25/naza-documentary-film-netanyahu-israel-revoke-citizenship/? The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting. Before she became infamous as one of the youngest American women ever sentenced to die, Christa Gail Pike was a North Carolina teenager who broke into a community center to steal some candy. At 5-foot-3, with thick auburn curls, she’d been in trouble at home and in school but not with the law. A juvenile court judge put Pike on probation, but she ran afoul of the rules. In the fall of 1991, when she was 15, Pike was sent to the Juvenile Evaluation Center in Swannanoa. She arrived just before Thanksgiving. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/27/christa-pike-execution-women-death-row/? As the Pentagon Expands Across the Pacific, Guam Offers a Warning Leevin Camacho was brushing his teeth one day last fall when his mother called. The water is contaminated, she said. Moments later, she texted him a photo of a flyer issued by the local water authority. “Cancer risk,” it warned. “Increased likelihood of adverse impacts on the liver.” And in bold capital letters, “DO NOT DRINK.” https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/guam-military-buildup-base-pollution/? Congress Failed Again to Stop Trump’s Iran War. This Group Is Trying Through the Courts. With Congress unable to rein in President Donald Trump’s war against Iran through legislative action, a group advocating for diplomacy filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration arguing the military action violates the Constitution. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/congress-trump-iran-war-lawsuit-constitution/? Green Energy Is Coming for the Desert When asked recently if he used artificial intelligence, President Donald Trump — whose Truth Social account is rife with AI slop — offered an unconvincing “yeah” while refusing to provide specifics. Trump, who falls asleep at Cabinet meetings, press events, and even at a 25th anniversary 9/11 memorial service, followed it up by stating that the government doesn’t need to regulate AI since he’s monitoring it. “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT,” he boasted, adding: “WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!” https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/solar-farms-mojave-desert-renewable-energy/? The Ellisons Could Make a Killing in Big Surveillance With the Paramount Merger Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta remains embroiled in litigation over whether its products are designed to hook kids. But Zuckerberg’s got nothing on another centibillionaire pushing to expand his influence over the next generation: Larry Ellison, the octogenarian oligarch of Oracle. Ellison not only brags about having even more data about us than Meta but runs a global surveillance machine and is a major military contractor. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/23/paramount-warner-bros-merger-ellisons-surveillance/? Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous War Profiteers For the first time, the Pentagon budget topped $1 trillion, and private contractors now receive more than half of all the tax dollars flowing to the Pentagon. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/war-weapons-profits-lockheed-rtx-ceos/? The Blueprint for Democrats to Win Back Voters It’s the year of the democratic socialist. But the group that helped start the earthquake currently transforming the Democratic Party almost didn’t make it to 2026. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/25/progressive-justice-democrats-congress-ice/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The Intercept Newsletter

What did the General Conference mean by "educating their members" At the time all this was going on wasn't the SDA Church decidedly anti-Trinitarian? I'm not seeing how the General Conference wouldn't have been anything other than affirmative on W.O. - given they were pushing "The Personality of God" Doctrine, Christ becoming an angel, etc. Seriously, if a significant number of SDA's want to ordain as clergy women and open homosexuals who are in same sex relationships what can the General Conference do about it other than pout and put out indignant statements?

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That is not correct Gustave. The General Conference leadership made a request. They recognized that they did not have the authority. Conferences and unions had worked with the request while waiting for the condition to be met to educate our members and then freely ordain women. Sadly, well over a century has past. Some education has been done, but the General Conference went to different topics and this has fallen by the way side. There were a few times that the General Conference brought up the idea of women's ordination but a careful (and official writings) looked at these votes and says that they only resulted decision to not make a decision at that time and to just leave things as they are. The way things "are" is that the conferences and unions have the right to ordain who they wish, but that they may wish to wait for more members to get educated in the fact that the ordination of women is Biblical. They are not bound to the suggestion.

The authority here appears to be coming from the General Conference and by the General Conference saying to wait until "more" SDA's were Ordained this tells me the General Conference would be the one who would identify what "more" constituted. As I said earlier, this is looking A LOT like the SSPX issue I've been following. If I were to word this in words familiar to me it seems that the General Conference issued a "dispensation" for certain conferences or what I thought SDA's called "Unions" to "sort of" allow for limited female clergy (if that's what you can call it) provided the word "Ordained" was not used in the context of anointing or whatever it is that is done by SDA religious Authority to do whatever they do in cases like this. In my Church Deacons, while not Priests, are still officially "Ordained". Granted I know nothing of this situation - just my own musings on a subject I know nothing about.