On June 16, 2025, the Republican Party will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of a speech that changed this party, American politics, and arguably the course of human history.That was the day that Donald Trump rode down the escalator in Trump Tower in Manhattan and gave the speech that shook the GOP to its foundations. The limping elephant, blindly devoted to an outdated agenda of free trade, mass migration, and endless wars, was jolted from complacency by the initiative of the West’s greatest living statesman.Trump’s platform champions affordable education, housing, health care, energy, and an end to the inflation strangling American prosperity.Now, the Republican platform, the party’s guiding document for its policy agenda, mirrors the movement President Trump started and the party he now leads.Previous platforms were laborious incantations to the petty preferences of party bosses and corporate lobbyists. The 2024 platform is concise, clear, and literally dedicated to the forgotten men and women of America.The conservative movement often feels tempted to treat platform writing as a bucket list of every niche policy obsession under the sun. This is short-sighted and antithetical to the vision of the Republican Party that President Trump has put forward.Trump’s strength has always been speaking plainly to the common man, who has repeatedly chosen him as their champion in public life. Rather than 12 paragraphs on the precise structure of a flat tax that will never happen, this platform simply calls for “no tax on tips.” Instead of detailing six new wars we need to start in tiny, far-flung nations, the platform says we must “prevent World War III.” And while previous platforms made gestures in support of ending our bipartisan elites’ immigration betrayal, this platform says the top priority of the party of Lincoln, Reagan, and Trump is “seal the border, and stop the migrant invasion.”Stitched into every page of this agenda are the values that have animated Donald Trump’s crusade against the uniparty. This is a platform to end mass migration, end the corporate stranglehold on the economy, and end the wars that have spilled so much American blood and treasure.It’s an innovative platform, one that embraces the pioneering spirit at the cutting edge of our economy while also avoiding the typical Silicon Valley temptation to ignore our national interest. Under an economy transformed by this platform, we will make things in America and in space, we will do business with a strong dollar and legal Bitcoin, and we will lead in artificial intelligence while defeating the left-wing infiltration of that critical industry.This is a platform that takes the concerns of young people seriously, promising to fight the impossibility of economic prosperity in the modern economy. Trump’s platform champions affordable education, housing, health care, energy, and an end to the inflation strangling American prosperity.These big ideas are communicated clearly for the Republican Party’s electoral base, not the elites who enrich themselves at their expense. Complicating our goals wins no points in politics. Republican elected officials, conservative think tanks, and local activists should follow this platform's lead to advance our agenda.This platform animates President Trump. For those who love his instincts but feel betrayed by the Republican infrastructure around him, this is a cause for optimism. We have a candidate in better fighting shape than ever, a platform that puts America First, and a campaign staffed with effective people who represent our best chance for victory in November.

Razer has just announced two new features coming to some of its top-tier gaming mice that could make it easier for some gamers to optimize their mouse setup to suit their play style. Razer Mouse Rotation and Dynamic Sensitivity are software additions that open up the ability to change how your mouse reacts when you hold your mouse at an angle and how its sensitivity changes depending on your movements. The two new features are only available currently on the Razer Viper V3 Pro and Razer DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed - despite the feature seemingly being just a software/firmware addition - and if they prove to be useful they would see Razer's two most recent flagship gaming mice further cement their positions at the top of our best gaming mouse guide. Continue reading Razer might have just changed gaming mouse settings forever MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Razer Viper V2 Pro review, Razer BlackShark V2 Pro (2023) review, Best gaming mouse

New Cycle might be the most overlooked city building and strategy game of 2024. We’ve all been following the Cities Skylines 2 redemption arc. Likewise, our eyes are on the launch of Frostpunk 2 and stalking horse rival Endzone 2 - and don’t get us started on Civilization 7. But New Cycle deserves a lot more attention. With a gorgeous steampunk aesthetic, complex (but not convoluted) building and production chains, a survivalist narrative, and incredibly slick road building tools, this is the apocalypse city building game that everyone should be playing right now, especially since it’s just gotten a big update and is now available cheaper than ever. Continue reading Severely underrated city builder New Cycle deserves your attention now

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Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Photo: Getty Images The European Union has warned X that its blue checkmark verification system violates rules under the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), finding it to be deceptive for users and against established industry practices. Following its investigation into the platform, the EU also found that X is failing to comply with transparency obligations regarding advertising and providing public data to researchers. It’s the first time a company has been formally accused of breaching the DSA under the EU’s so-called preliminary findings. X now has the opportunity to defend itself in response. In its press release, the EU says that changes made to X’s blue check system — which allows any user to pay to be “verified” — prevent users from determining the... Continue reading…