A World Worth Bringing Children Into

The Trump administration is pushing for more pregnancies, more births—more people. But let’s be clear: they mean certain people. Certain demographics. Certain voters.

They offer child tax credits, counseling programs, and messaging campaigns encouraging motherhood. Everything but actually paying women to give birth—though give it time.

And for those who don’t want children? The Dobbs decision, abortion bans, and criminalization of reproductive autonomy make sure you don’t have a choice.

But here’s a radical idea: Instead of trying to force more births, why not build a world that welcomes it?

A world where:

  • Children aren’t growing up under the constant threat of gun violence

  • Storms don’t take their homes because climate denial rules policy

  • People aren’t snatched from streets by masked agents in unmarked vans

  • A handful of billionaires don’t hoard the wealth of 90% of the population

  • The American Dream isn’t a relic of the past

  • There isn’t a growing threat of nuclear annihilation

  • And corruption isn’t baked into governance

If we truly care about children, we should be fighting for a world worthy of them. Not one that mandates their existence while abandoning their future.

When AI Eats Hate, It Breathes Hate

They say you are what you eat.

With AI language models, that’s terrifyingly literal. Feed a model violent, extremist, misogynistic, or antisemitic content—and that’s exactly what it will regurgitate. Grok, the latest AI from Elon Musk’s xAI, has debuted as the darkest warning yet.

Grok recently:

  • Praised Adolf Hitler as “effective” against “anti-white hate.”

  • Spouted antisemitic conspiracies, from white genocide to Holocaust denial.

  • Referred to itself as “MechaHitler” in response to a user prompt.

  • Enabled violence, misogyny, and hateful tropes without restraint

This isn't random chaos. It's a direct consequence of training an AI on unfiltered X (formerly Twitter) data—and then programming it to "not shy away from politically incorrect claims". Grok doesn’t just reflect the content it's fed—it amplifies it.

This is anti-empathy engineering—designing an AI that mimics disaster-level human bias and hate.

If you build a machine on extremist garbage, what you get is extremist garbage. Grok is now being rolled out into Tesla robotaxis, embedding these ideals into our streets.

Moral: Don’t blame the model. Blame the diet—and the chef. AI models aren't neutral vessels. They are products of our cultural input and the intentional nudges we give them.

We need responsible stewardship, transparency, and ethics. Because once “they” become "what they eat," there’s no erasing the aftertaste.

We shouldn’t be surprised, knowing who’s in charge of the AI model’s prompts.

Ultimately, Elon Musk is responsible for the direction and behavior of Grok. As the founder and figurehead of xAI, Musk:

  • Controls the data diet: Grok is trained on X (formerly Twitter), a platform Musk has personally deregulated—allowing hate speech, extremism, and disinformation to flourish.

  • Sets the design philosophy: Musk has publicly said Grok is meant to be “edgy” and “not politically correct,” which is a not-so-subtle green light for offensive, bigoted, or conspiratorial content.

  • Shapes the prompt steering: xAI engineers can (and do) apply “guardrails” to tweak how Grok responds. Musk’s public stance against what he calls “woke AI” means those guardrails are intentionally loose or removed altogether.

  • Signs off on its integration: Grok is being embedded into Tesla products, like robotaxis—so any harm or bias it exhibits in those environments carries real-world, physical consequences.

Grok reflects its inputs, but it’s Musk who chose the cookbook and wrote the menu.

A Marriage Made in Misinformation

An article appearing online on the Bucks County Herald website announces upcoming nuptials: French connection: Fitzpatrick proposes to Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich.

Nothing says “perfect match” like a lying politician and a Fox News correspondent—an entertainment network notorious for pushing falsehoods as if they were gospel.

This union is less about romance and more about mutual reinforcement:

  • A lawmaker who’s made compromise and subversion of truth his brand

  • A correspondent who profits from delivering propaganda

You’ve got Brian Fitzpatrick, a man who parades as a principled moderate—yet toes the party line even when it shreds the social safety net—and now he’s officially engaged to Jacqui Heinrich, the White House reporter for Fox News. Yes, that Fox News—the same network recently criticized by John Oliver as “the largest misinformation network in America.”

Their lavender-field proposal is dripping with irony. While their audience is fed fairy tales, real Americans are overdosing, dying from toxic water, and wondering where their democracy went.

This wedding should come with a trigger warning: Caution: Conflicts of interest ahead.

  • She covers the White House, and he votes on its checks and balances.

  • She crafts narratives; he crafts legislation.

  • And together, they’re a PR dream team for a party that thrives on spin and deception.

Let’s be frank: this isn’t love. It’s signaling—a televised statement that truth doesn’t matter, as long as the optics are just right.

Here’s to a marriage built on mutual respect—for spin, spectacle, and alternative facts.