Jim Acosta was pulled from CNN’s programming yesterday. President Donald Trump continues to sign executive orders designed to weed out wokeness from the federal government. A Mug Club Undercover journalist was denied entry to a public drag show at Oscar Blues in Colorado. China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence is threatening to upend ChatGPT and others. We’re looking at the history of income tax in America and why it’s possible to abolish it. And more!

TIME TO CLOSE JIM ACOSTA

• Jim Acosta expected to leave CNN after he’s pulled from network’s programming schedule

COLORADO ALL AGES DRAG SHOW

• REINSTATING SERVICE MEMBERS DISCHARGED UNDER THE MILITARY’S COVID-19 VACCINATION MANDATE
• The Iron Dome for America
• Restoring America’s Fighting Force
• Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness

DEEPSEEK AI

• Big Tech Faces Heat as China's DeepSeek Sows Doubts on Billion-Dollar Spending
• Trump calls China’s AI DeepSeek breakthrough ‘a wakeup call’ — but ‘positive’ if true
• Meet the hedge fund manager who founded DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that began as a hobby and is now laying waste to U.S. stocks
• Upstart Chinese AI company DeepSeek's founder started out as a low-key hedge fund entrepreneur
• DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
• What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI app challenging OpenAI and Silicon Valley?
• Hands On With DeepSeek’s R1 Chatbot
• Why DeepSeek’s AI Model Just Became the Top-Rated App in the U.S.
• Nvidia calls China’s DeepSeek R1 model ‘an excellent AI advancement’
• DeepSeek: all the news about the startup that’s shaking up AI stocks
• DeepSeek Is Upending Wall Street’s Big AI Power Trade
• Why U.S.-China AI Competition Matters

ABOLISHING THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX

• President Trump Gives Speech on No Tax on Tips Policy in Las Vegas
• Tariffs and the American Civil War
• The Civil War: The Senate's Story
• Constitutional Amendments – Amendment 16 – “Income Taxes”
• Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
• 1913 Income Tax Act
• History of Federal Income Tax Rates: 1913 – 2024
• Understanding the Tax Reform Act of 1986
• Federal income tax rates and brackets
• How much revenue does the federal government collect?
• 10 Largest Budget Functions
• Life Expectancy for Social Security
• CDC: Life Expectancy
• Value-Added Tax (VAT)
• Sales tax
• How Revenue Works