The bots are taking over Tinseltown.

The day many feared and even protested in advance has come: AI video-generating tools are starting to be widely used in the entertainment industry, to the chagrin and desperation of those expendable human professionals.

Netflix has reportedly ‘begun using artificial intelligence video generation software from startup Runway AI’, pioneering the use of the technology that’s bound to generate a lot of controversy.

Bloomberg reported:

“Netflix is currently using the New York-based startup’s tools in content production, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named in order to discuss private conversations. Netflix declined to comment.

Walt Disney Co., meanwhile, has been testing out Runway’s technology and has talked with the startup about possible uses for its generative AI tools, the person said. A Disney spokesperson said the company has no plans to integrate Runway’s software into its content production pipeline at this time. Runway declined to comment.”

Netflix boss Ted Sarandos says they used generative AI for the first time to cut costs on their sci-fi show ‘The Eternaut’

“AI represents an incredible opportunity to help creators make films and series better — not just cheaper” pic.twitter.com/97lYYGcYWV

— Culture Crave (@CultureCrave) July 19, 2025

NETFLIX USES AI IN HIT SHOW!
A few months ago in a video I mentioned I was really looking forward to the new Netflix show The Eternaut, based on the Argentine comic, El Eternauta.

The show is really good, and I highly recommend it. But interest news just came out: indeed AI… pic.twitter.com/bx4DQcbTsO

— Theoretically Media (@TheoMediaAI) July 18, 2025

As much as it’s going to be unpopular, AI speeds up some video production tasks and saves money – so you bet it’s here to stay.

“In a conference call Thursday, after Netflix released its second-quarter results, co-Chief Executive Officer Ted Sarandos said the company is using AI in content production. That includes creating special effects shots more quickly and cheaply than it previously had been able to with traditional visual effects tools and processes.”

Netflix officially confirmedthe useAI
In one of the scenes of the new series “El Eternauta”, the neural network created an episode of a building collapse. According to the head of the company, this decision was made not only to reduce the budget and increase efficiency… pic.twitter.com/3wJDcuNVuP

— mặttrăng” (@MatTrang911) July 18, 2025

Netflix used the ‘taboo’ technology for the first time on screen to depict a building collapse.

“Runway is competing in an increasingly crowded corner of the fast-growing market for AI tools with established companies like OpenAI and Google, along with a slew of smaller, newer startups.

The startup has more traction than most AI startups in Hollywood, however. It kicked off a frenzy around AI video generators in early 2023 with the release of a model that could produce slightly choppy-looking three-second clips based on written prompts such as ‘drone footage of a desert landscape’. Its technology has since become far more capable and the company has inked a deal with Lionsgate to train an AI model on the studio’s content that can be used in its film projects.”

Read more:

‘Humanity Wins! – for Now’: Polish Programmer Beats AI Model in 10-Hour Coding Competition

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In an explosive interview with Benny Johnson, former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn issued a fiery demand for immediate federal action, calling on the FBI to raid Barack Obama’s Washington, D.C., mansion as part of a long-overdue investigation into the criminal conspiracy behind the now-exploded Russia collusion hoax.

Flynn, citing the same standard used to justify the unprecedented and disgraceful FBI raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, demanded that Obama and his deep state cabal be treated the same way—raided, investigated, and prosecuted.

Flynn says this should be just the first step: revoke passports for all involved in the Russia-Gate “conspiracy,” establish task forces, secure private airfields—prevent anyone from fleeing the country.

He even suggests assembling a dedicated DOJ task force, similar to what Hunter Biden allegedly faced, and appoint a “dedicated prosecutor.”

BENNY JOHNSON: General, your name is mentioned in these documents. You’ve been on our program for years. You’ve been writing books. You’ve been crying out from the wilderness about what they did to you. What a remarkable moment. And the floor is yours. The landscape has been set. General, what do you see happening next?

MICHAEL FLYNN: Yeah. Well, a couple of things. I — and I have made this recommendation that I think that all of these people that are involved, starting with Obama on down, they all ought to have their passports revoked, and people need to be checking private airplanes and private airfields for anybody trying to abscond the country and get the heck out of dodge here. So, that’s number one.

I do think that just as was done to President Trump, when they when they raided his home at Mar-a- Lago because they thought that there was — and they planted evidence there in that case — but I do think that what the DOJ should be considering, if not getting ready to conduct, is a raid of Barack Obama’s home up there at Kalorama, in Washington DC where he’s been since he left — you know, physically left the White House. You know, he’s been running the White House, you know, all during the Biden regime.

And I do think that there’s some other places that need to be raided where there are likely, you know, a lot of evidence, a lot of receipts, so to speak, in many of these people that are part of the Obama White House as well as the Biden White House. I mean, I just heard the great David Schoen talking about the former deputy attorney general of Monaco who also was the homeland security adviser to Barack Obama. So that’s number one. That’s — those are, you know, things that need to be considered right now. And I’m — I was ready to wake up this morning to hear about some of these raids that should have been going on.

There should, as a minimum, be a task force assembled by — of federal law enforcement authorities as well as a assigned dedicated, you know, prosecutor at the DOJ level, at the attorney general level, someone who is working directly for her and for the president of the United States. This has gotta happen very quickly.

Gen. Mike Flynn will be one of the featured guest speakers at the most important conference of the decade — “VINDICATED: American Heroes Who Stood Up to the Deep State” — presented by The Gateway Pundit in Las Vegas. Buy your tickets here.

WATCH:

General Flynn demands FBI raid Obama’s DC Mansion immediately and strip passports from every Russia-Gate co-conspirator due to flight risk:

“All of these people involved, starting with Obama Should have their homes raided and their passports revoked. Absolute flight risk. Raid… pic.twitter.com/SJOYUwdVeF

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 21, 2025

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Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are back on track.

It’s now confirmed that the next round of peace talks between the warring neighbors Russia and Ukraine will be held Wednesday (23) in Turkey – most probably in Istanbul, where the previous rounds took place.

Update: Russians are saying Thursday and Friday. 

Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky stated that this was confirmed by Rustem Umerov, his demoted former Defense Minister turned into the new Security and Defense Council’s head.

Discussions reportedly include a possible prisoner exchange.

DevDiscourse reported:

“Ukraine and Russia are gearing up for a significant round of peace talks scheduled to take place in Turkey on Wednesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy disclosed this information based on reports from the head of Ukraine’s Security and Defense Council.

In his nightly address, Zelenskiy shared that discussions with Rustem Umerov are underway regarding the preparation for a prisoner exchange. He mentioned that Umerov has confirmed plans for a meeting with the Russian side in Turkey.”

Zelensky says Russia-Ukraine talks set for Wednesday

To be held in Turkey

Will he admit the reality on the ground? https://t.co/BDdauaeRIP pic.twitter.com/4jTW2D3MHZ

— RT (@RT_com) July 21, 2025

Some may remember NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte dismissing the Russian delegation, saying ‘Putin did not send serious people to the negotiations’, and calling the head of the Russian side ‘some historian’.

Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova issued a fiery response: “This ‘some historian’ is an expert in international relations, a scholar, and a statesman Vladimir Medinsky. And the ‘serious delegation’ from Ukraine was headed by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Umerov, who has never served in the army and has been a manager in a telephone company all his life.”

Whatever out opinion on Medinsky’s qualification, he was the head of the Russian negotiators back in the 2022 talks, so it goes in line with Moscow’s treating these new talks as a continuation.

As for Umerov, he was demoted from the position of Defense Minister but still seems to be heading the negotiations for Kiev.

Sputnik reported:

“RUSSIA-UKRAINE TALKS UPDATE: Kremlin confirms delegation unchanged, reveals key details

Ukraine talks: Russia & Ukraine to discuss two opposing draft memoranda – ‘significant diplomatic work ahead’.”

UPDATE: A new round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will take place on July 24-25, a source in Moscow told RIA Novosti

So now we have two different dates for the talks. Stay tuned as we sort this out.

Read more:

Kremlin Says Putin Is Ready for Peace With Kiev, but Is Focused on Achieving Objectives – Turkish Media Suggests Russia and Ukraine Talks May Restart as Soon as Wednesday

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has been adequately informed about a Marine Corps’ officer’s denied religious accommodation request and the subsequent punitive actions taken against him for holding to his religious convictions against the flu shot.

The Gateway Pundit spoke to Daniel Schmid, a constitutional attorney and the associate vice president of legal affairs with Liberty Counsel. The fight for the religious rights of service members is nothing new to the nonprofit organization. The attorney noted that Liberty Counsel obtained a number of injunctions against the Department of Defense at the height of the COVID-19 shot mandate era, affirming the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) protects the right of service members to object to a vaccine that violates their conscience.

With heightened awareness about the testing and development process of vaccines during the COVID era, an increasing number of service members are also taking religious objection to flu vaccines. “Flu shots are much like the COVID vaccines in their testing, approval, and otherwise development with the use of aborted fetal cells that people have objections to,” Schmid shared.

“There’s a range of different objections that people have in this process and they request an accommodation for it,” he explained. For example, many Christians consider their body a temple of the Holy Spirit, taking strong objection to the use of aborted fetal cells in any stage of a vaccine’s development process. Others also rely on God for healing in sickness rather than the use of man-made drugs.

RFRA applies to each of these objections and more from members of the military, Schmid pointed out. “But just like the blanket denials [of religious accommodation] we saw in over 16,000 service members during COVID,” he said, “we’re starting to see the same blanket denials over the flu.”

“This is starting to look like retaliation for those who exercised their rights during COVID,” Schmid argued. “With all the executive orders that the president has signed about protecting religious freedom and all the memorandums that the Secretary of Defense has issued in support of religious freedom, someone down below is not getting the message.”

For this reason, Liberty Counsel has reached out directly to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. On July 17, a letter was sent via FedEx and email to call attention to “egregious discrimination within the Marine Corps” against one of their clients, referred to as “First Lieutenant Supply Officer” for anonymity.

We sent a demand letter to @DeptofDefense and @SecDef on behalf of an officer in the Marines denied an RAR from annual shots. The DOD should not sacrifice a few good men on the altar of wrongfully denied religious accommodation requests. https://t.co/Z7J8tCqLhS pic.twitter.com/RpcoRF8nuh

— Liberty Counsel (@libertycounsel) July 18, 2025

In his case, the letter specifically requests that the Office of the Secretary of Defense require the Secretary of the Navy and Commandant of the Marine Corps to:

1) “Unsubstantiate and void” the discriminatory recommendations for separation

2) Rescind and remove all adverse paperwork and evaluations in his Official Military Personnel File (OMPF) and Automated Performance Evaluation System (APES)

3) Overturn the denial of Fiscal Year 2024 Special Selection Board and retroactively promote him to Captain, fully restoring losses to include backpay

4) Expedite acceptance into Professional Military Education in order for him to catch up with his peer group

Interestingly, not only does 1LT Supply Officer have a “sincere religious objection” to the flu shot, but Schmid also pointed out that the Marine Corps officer has had a previous adverse reaction to the shot. “So who’s directing medical staff to ignore his adverse reaction?” he questioned.

“They’ve essentially said ‘we’re not going to give him religious accommodation or medical exemption, because he bucked the system last time, got an injunction, and this is our way out,” Schmid declared.

Retired Air Force Judge Advocate General Davis Younts is also representing 1LT Supply Officer and praised Liberty Counsel for their efforts on behalf of service members. Younts, remains deeply concerned that “many mid-level officers are seeking to continue to purge Christians from the military despite the efforts of the Secretary of Defense and the Trump Administration.”  Younts hopes this case is “one among several that will allow the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of Defense to send a strong message that discrimination of this type will no longer be tolerated.”

Although he has over a decade of service, because he has served less than 6 years as an officer, 1LT Supply Officer is not eligible to go before a group of his peers during the administrative separation process. Thus, without the Defense Secretary’s intervention, he is expected to be separated from the military.

“It’s past time to stop persecuting individuals on the basis of their faith,” Schmid offered. “That was the last administration, and we don’t do that here, right?”

1LT Supply Officer’s circumstance is one of many that Liberal Counsel is prepared to share with the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

The Pentagon responded to requests for comment, saying “we do not discuss ongoing litigation.”

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A federal judge has sentenced Former Louisville Metro Police Department Detective Brett Hankison to nearly three years in prison for using excessive force during the 2020 deadly Breonna Taylor raid, despite the Justice Department recommending that he not serve any time.

Hankison fired his weapon, but did not shoot anyone during the fatal raid.

Taylor was killed during a knock-and-announce drug raid on March 13, 2020, during which her boyfriend shot at police and they returned fire. LMPD Sgt. Jon Mattingly was shot during the exchange and has now recovered.

During the incident, Hankison fired ten shots through a window, though they are not the ones that struck Taylor. The officers who shot Taylor were not charged because they were returning fire as her boyfriend shot at them.

Hankison was the only officer on the scene who was charged in connection with the incident. The Justice Department argued that Hankison does not need to serve time as he is not a danger to the public.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings, appointed by President Donald Trump, stated that not giving him any prison time “is not appropriate” and sentenced him to 33 months behind bars and three years of supervised release.

BREAKING: Brett Hankison has been sentenced to 33 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights during the no-knock raid that ended her life. Hankison is the only officer convicted in connection with the raid that killed Breonna. pic.twitter.com/s6WBtHRcr5

— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) July 21, 2025

Taylor’s family had urged the judge to ignore the recommendation and impose a harsher sentence. Lawyers representing the family called it an “insult” that sets a “dangerous precedent.”

Justice Department Says Former Officer Convicted Over Breonna Taylor’s Death During Raid Should Serve Just One Day in Jail

The lawyers added that the recommendation “sends the unmistakable message that white officers can violate the civil rights of Black Americans with near-total impunity.”

Taylor’s death led to riots in the streets during the height of the Black Lives Matter mayhem nationwide.

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