A late-night Amazon Web Services outage earlier this week caused an uncomfortable sleep for those with subscription bed services.

At around 3 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday, Amazon said it had an operational issue at one of its northern Virginia centers that was affecting 14 of its services.

While AWS hosts only 6.3% of all websites, many major app providers and online companies are reliant on the service, causing a domino effect when a wide range of its tools went offline.

‘Now, weak and fallible, I sweat.’

Not only were apps for Snapchat, McDonald’s, and even Ring doorbell cameras rendered useless for a short period, but some users of “smart beds” were put in a rather sweaty situation.

As reported by Dexerto, owners of Eight Sleep mattresses found themselves in an awkward situation when they realized their beds could not connect to their servers.

Eight Sleep provides smart mattresses that range from $2,500 to $7,000 and require a monthly subscription. It comes with a hub that powers the whole system and connects to company servers, a temperature-adjusted cover that monitors your sleep, and optional features like temperature-controlled pillow covers and blankets.

When the AWS servers went down, customers reported that some of those features were thrown out of whack.

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“Tonight I learned 8Sleep runs on AWS,” a customer wrote on X. “Now, weak and fallible, I sweat on top of my +9 degree mattress which won’t cool.”

Another comment reported by multiple outlets was from an apparent tech enthusiast saying, “Backend outage means I’m sleeping in a sauna.”

“Eight Sleep confirmed there’s no offline mode yet, but they’re working on it,” the man added.

While more customers complained about heating issues, others cried out that their beds were “stuck in an inclined position.”

Matteo Franceschetti, Eight Sleep’s CEO, was quick to assure customers that a “fix” was incoming. Franceschetti immediately apologized for the AWS dependency and said the company would roll out a correction that would involve “outage-proofing” the smart furniture.

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On Wednesday, the CEO announced Eight Sleep’s new “Backup Mode,” which allows the hub to connect through Bluetooth when “cloud infrastructure or Wi-Fi is unavailable.”

“When an outage is detected, Backup Mode kicks in automatically, allowing you to open the app and access critical functionalities, making sure your experience is not disrupted,” Franceschetti explained.

While the new update seemingly renders online connectivity unnecessary, users were quick to point out the mass amount of data transfer that comes with an annual subscription between $200 and $400.

One X user showed that his app was shockingly transferring over 16 gigabytes’ worth of telemetry data per month.

At the same time, others showed off their own solutions to the outage, such as connecting a fish-tank cooler to a series of tubes and feeding them through a mattress.

“Fish tank cooler does not run on AWS but i do turn it on locally with a $10 homekit plug,” the budding engineer wrote.

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Joe Scarborough just rediscovered the Constitution.

On MSNBC, the “Morning Joe” co-host warned last week of the grave dangers of Donald Trump using government power against political enemies. Nodding journalists agreed. Scarborough cautioned that Trump and his team would face a “wicked cycle” of retaliation and retribution after leaving office if they pursued politically motivated prosecutions.

One problem: Democrats already did exactly that.

After years of weaponizing the law against Trump and his staff, the left now pleads for “restraint.” With Letitia James, James Comey, and John Bolton all facing charges, the same people who cheered every politically driven indictment now claim to fear the abuse of justice. They are suffering from sudden, selective, highly political amnesia.

Faced with the blowback they earned, Democrats are pleading for a truce they don’t intend to honor.

The classic argument against weaponizing state power goes like this: Don’t use the system against your opponents, because one day your opponents will use it against you. It’s a reasonable principle — assuming both sides still share the same rules. But once one side has crossed the line, the warning loses its force. You can’t tell your enemy not to fight back while you’re still swinging.

For decades, liberals held conservatives in check by preaching against escalation. Republicans, as the self-styled party of small government, were inclined to agree. They saw the use of political power itself as dangerous, so the threat of mutual destruction kept them compliant. But that restraint vanished the moment Democrats arrested protesters, jailed administration officials, and prosecuted a president they impeached not once but twice.

Warnings against escalation work only while both sides respect the boundary. Once the first blow lands, the only way to restore order is to make the aggressor regret crossing the line. Like a street fight, it’s not easy to stop mid-swing. The longer it continues, the less likely anyone is to walk away peacefully.

Democrats justified their abuse of power with the same excuse they use for everything: Trump is different. He’s a “unique threat,” a proto-dictator, the embodiment of every dark impulse in Middle America. The system, they insisted, had to “make an example” of him to save democracy. Somewhere deep down, they knew they were opening Pandora’s box. They just didn’t think they’d ever have to live with the consequences.

Now they’re living with them.

Progressives can sense the danger but won’t admit it. Having normalized political prosecutions, they’re trying to erase the record. They pretend the last eight years never happened — that Trump wasn’t convicted on a stack of bogus charges, that administration officials weren’t arrested, that meme-makers and protesters weren’t jailed.

“Be careful about jailing your political opponents — they might jail you.”

That warning rings hollow when your political friends and allies have already gone to prison.

Democrats’ gamble seemed safe because they assumed Republicans would never retaliate. They counted on the party’s traditional cowardice. And for years, they were right. The GOP has rarely shown the will to wield power even when it wins elections.

But Donald Trump is not a typical Republican. He doesn’t forgive, he doesn’t forget, and he really doesn’t like to lose. If you give him the chance to settle the score, he will.

Even now, as the political pendulum swings against them, Democrats have learned nothing. They insist that every prosecution of Trump was legitimate and every case against their own is tyranny. Their warnings about “political retribution” sound empty because they are. The reckoning they unleashed was inevitable.

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They disturbed the equilibrium. Now the balance returns.

Deprived of moral credibility and electoral power, the left is turning to the only weapon it has left — violence. Having lost the White House, progressives no longer believe in the system they once claimed to defend. They spent years calling Trump “Hitler,” his voters “Nazis,” and his administration “fascist.” When you’ve already declared your opponents subhuman, how do you climb down from that?

You don’t. You take to the streets.

The rhetoric has reached its natural conclusion. If Trump is Hitler and the country re-elected Hitler, then democracy itself is illegitimate. By that logic, terrorism isn’t a crime — it’s justice. And that’s exactly where the left is headed.

The party that claimed to fear tyranny created the conditions for it. The people who warned of political persecution perfected the art. Now, faced with the blowback they earned, Democrats are pleading for a truce they don’t intend to honor.

They wanted a world without restraint. They got it.

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In a bizarre moment on “The View,” co-host Sunny Hostin offered her paranoia about racism from her white neighbors as evidence of racial tension in America.

The hosts were discussing a newly released Netflix documentary titled “The Perfect Neighbor,” about a white woman who shot her black female neighbor in Florida, when Hostin made the comments. They described the documentary as “heart-wrenching” and “powerful.”

‘I know that black boys are not given the presumption of innocence and the presumption of youth.’

Hostin told the story in the context that the black mother who was shot had also gone to defend her child from racist harassment.

“As a mother of black children, I know that black boys are not given the presumption of innocence and the presumption of youth,” Hostin said.

She then offered the story about her son.

“For me, what was interesting was I have had to be in the position where I have gone to my local police department because I know my son is going to be training for the Junior Olympics — running around the neighborhood in an all-white neighborhood — and I have brought him to the police and said, ‘He belongs to me; this is my son. Do not harass him; do not stop him,'” she recalled.

“So she was doing what so many black mothers do,” Hostin added.

Video of the comments was posted to social media, where many users responded with ridicule.

“Ironic. She makes the absolute worst assumptions about her White Neighbors having the absolute worst assumptions about her,” read one response.

“Her accusation isn’t remotely credible. She could easily choose to live in an all-black neighborhood and see how safe for son is then,” responded another user.

“This is the kind of delusional performance that’s made The View a circus instead of a serious show,” read another response. “Sunny Hostin turns every personal anecdote into some grand race narrative like she’s living in a 1950s movie instead of a multimillion-dollar mansion.”

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Others, however, offered their own stories in confirmation of the bias Hostin was describing.

“It happens. I live in a gated community, and I have been there for over 13 years, and they still call the local police on me while I am out walking my dog at least 3 times a month,” responded another user. “It has gotten to the point where I know all the cops by name, and they know mine.”

The entire segment about the documentary can be viewed on the show’s YouTube channel.

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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told Blaze News that deputies responded just before 1 p.m. Wednesday to the 900 block of North Sweetzer Avenue in West Hollywood regarding an armed robbery call.

According to the victim, a dark-colored sedan was seen traveling down the street at a high rate of speed before stopping near his location, authorities said.

The driver didn’t need directions.

‘At one point the guy’s arm got dislocated …’

The sheriff’s department told Blaze News that an adult black male wearing a mask exited the vehicle holding a semiautomatic handgun and demanded the victim’s Rolex watch.

But the victim refused to comply, and a physical struggle ensued, authorities said.

Patrick McCloskey told KTLA-TV he was working from home when he heard a woman screaming from the sidewalk: “The chaos was so intense, I didn’t know who jumped who. I ran to the door to see what was happening. At that point, I hear her yell, ‘Get the gun, get the gun!’”

Apparently getting hold of the gun wasn’t too difficult for the victim, as McCloskey explained to the station that the gunman “didn’t know that the guy was a retired wrestler. So he was able to get the gun off the guy and wrestle him down.”

Video of the incident’s aftermath shows the victim — who didn’t want to be identified — telling a deputy that he grabbed the gunman’s wrist and put him on the ground before taking the gun away, KTLA reported.

The victim’s girlfriend then threw the gun over a nearby fence, and he held the suspect down until police arrived, the station said.

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The sheriff’s department told Blaze News that a second adult male suspect exited the vehicle during the struggle but fled the scene in the dark-colored sedan prior to the arrival of deputies.

Responding deputies recovered the gun and took the suspect into custody without further incident, officials said.

“I was told the gun was loaded,” McCloskey noted to KTLA. “The guy who is sort of the hero in all of this, who was able to pin the guy down, told me he saw a bullet in the chamber.”

McCloskey added to the station that the retired wrestler showed no mercy in his struggle with the gunman: “At one point the guy’s arm got dislocated, and he just held him down.”

Video that KTLA obtained from the scene shows deputies arresting the suspect and recovering the gun allegedly used during the incident, the station said.

Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or has information about the investigation is urged to contact LASD’s West Hollywood Station, KTLA added.

Commenters on KTLA’s Facebook post about the ordeal seemed pleased with the outcome:

“FAFO at its best. Way to go!” one commenter said.”This is why California needs to be open carry like Texas!” another user declared.”Need more people like this hero to fight back!” another commenter said.”You never know who you messing with,” another user observed.”News like this [is] soooooo satisfying!” another commenter exclaimed.

Blaze News had asked the sheriff’s department for the name of the suspect as well as his age, charge or charges against him, any past offenses, and his arrest photo, but officials did not provide that information.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the White House on Friday, hoping that he would talk President Donald Trump into giving Kiev some long-range Tomahawk missiles.

The meeting, while allegedly “cordial,” did not go as Zelenskyy had hoped.

Trump, who figures both that America should retain the weapon systems for its own defense and that the provision to Ukraine would not only amount to an intolerable escalation but prove useless in the short term, declined to supply Kiev with Tomahawks.

‘It will be too far out into the future.’

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, among the European officials apparently prickled by the decision, implored Trump to hand over the missiles, stating, “Putin believes only in power.”

Elements of the liberal media similarly called on Trump to oblige Zelenskyy.

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, for instance, characterized the cruise missiles as a “force for peace,” suggested that “hoarding cruise missiles for another war that may or may not come invites more conflict,” and downplayed the use of the missiles against a nuclear power as escalatory.

The Telegraph suggested that Trump should abandon his role as the “mediator president” and gift Russian President Vladimir Putin “a Christmas punctuated by Tomahawk, Storm Shadow, and Atacms strikes.”

Amid such blather, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte emphasized on Wednesday that the American president was “completely right.”

Following his meeting on Wednesday with Trump, Rutte told CNN, “Let’s never think that one specific weapon system will change the whole war. If it was that easy, then we would have ended it when the Germans sent Leopards II, when the Dutch and the Danes sent the F-16s.”

“These systems are important,” continued Rutte. “They will absolutely help to bring this war to an end, but in itself, one weapon system will never end it.”

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Zelenskyy, whose term ended in May 2024, seeks to use such missiles — which cost over $2 million a piece and can be fired from a ground-based Typhon launcher that costs around $6.2 million — in concert with long-range drones to strike targets deep inside Russia, including military bases, factories, oil infrastructure, and command centers. Whereas the British-made Storm Shadow missiles in Ukraine’s arsenal have a range of 150 miles, Tomahawk missiles have a range of over 1,000 miles.

Rutte referenced the explanation Trump gave during their meeting and said, “He was completely right here: It takes months for anyone other than American soldiers to be trained on [Tomahawk weapon systems]. So it is not that if you decide today that Ukrainians can use them tomorrow.”

Trump noted earlier that “there is a tremendous learning curve with the Tomahawk.”

“It’s a very powerful weapon, very accurate weapon, and maybe that’s what makes it so complex,” continued the president. “But it will take a year. It takes a year of intense training to learn how to use it, and we know how to use it, and we’re not going to be teaching other people. It will be too far out into the future.”

Trump, keen on brokering an end to war well in advance of that time Tomahawk missiles might have capable pilots on the ground, has instead turned to a more immediate method of applying pressure on Russia to end the war, namely sanctions on Russia, its enablers, and — as of Wednesday — two of Russia’s largest state-owned oil companies.

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Earlier this year, the NBA announced a new halftime series with Peacock streaming services: “MJ: Insights to Excellence,” featuring the one and only Michael Jordan. The news was shocking for the sports world, as Jordan has largely avoided the public spotlight since his retirement. For him to step back in front of NBA audiences again, this time ready to share his wisdom, has had basketball fans sitting on the edge of their seats.

On Tuesday, October 21, the first episode of Jordan’s new series aired during halftime of the Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston Rockets game. The NBA legend revealed that he hasn’t picked up a basketball in years and shared a memory of feeling “the most nervous I’ve been in years” when asked to shoot a free throw in front of kids during a stay at a rental house for the Ryder Cup.

Many were charmed by Jordan’s candor, but Jason Whitlock says his “insights” flopped.

He was expecting basketball analysis, not personal anecdotes.

“This is [Shai Gilgeous-Alexander] and the Oklahoma City Thunder raising a banner, getting championship rings — the future of the NBA versus the past of the NBA in Kevin Durant, and we had time to go hear stories about Michael Jordan shooting a free throw?” he complains.

Jason doesn’t understand why the entirety of sports media is “genuflecting” to Jordan and treating him “as an idol” when all he did was share some personal stories. “Michael Jordan did nothing, and we shouldn’t be celebrating it,” he says, calling himself an “iconoclast” who wants to “tear down icons.”

“Fearless” guest Jay Skapinac, host of “Skap Attack,” agrees: “I was led to believe that this was going to be Michael Jordan kind of as an NBA analyst, not regaling us with stories of what he’s been doing for the last 25, 30 years outside of the NBA.”

His fear is that “MJ: Insights to Excellence” is actually just a long pre-recorded interview that the NBA is going to chop up and slow-release throughout the season.

T.J. Moe, however, completely understands the hype surrounding Jordan’s series. “When people don’t speak very often, people’s ears perk up when that person speaks. The first time we heard Michael Jordan say virtually anything since his retirement was ‘The Last Dance,’ and people were captivated by that. I don’t think we should be surprised that people are somewhat captivated by just seeing inside of a guy’s life that is a total mystery,” he counters.

But Jason’s opinion is set: Jordan’s “insights” are a distraction from the game. “NBC screwed up here.”

To hear more of the debate, watch the episode above.

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Vice President JD Vance visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem with his wife, Usha, on Thursday, attending a private Mass and praying at the site of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and empty tomb.

Vance, a convert to Catholicism whose wife is a Hindu, visited all of the sites within the sprawling basilica, including Golgotha, the “place of the skull” where Jesus was crucified; the Stone of Anointing, which is believed to be the limestone slab where Jesus’ body was prepared for burial; and the Holy Sepulchre, Joseph of Arimathea’s monument where Christ’s body was interred prior to his resurrection.

‘I think we’re on a very good pathway.’

In addition to thanking the Franciscan monks who celebrated a private Mass for his family and for those Americans working for peace, Vance expressed gratitude to the Catholic, Greek, and Armenian priests who have long cared for the holy place, stating, “What an amazing blessing to have visited the site of Christ’s death and resurrection.”

Following an 4th-century investigation into the whereabouts of the site where Christ was crucified and buried, the Roman emperor Constantine settled on the current location — which had long been venerated by the early Christians — to erect a basilica.

Since Hadrian previously had the location strategically covered with pagan temples, Constantine had the pagan shrines toppled to make room for a basilica where the Church of the Holy Sepulchre — largely an 11th-century crusader reconstruction — now stands despite fires, Muslim attacks, and earthquakes.

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At the Stone of Anointing, a bishop provided Vance on Thursday with a red pillow on which to kneel, and so he did, making the sign of the cross, placing his hand on the limestone slab, and bowing his head in silent prayer, according to a White House press report.

After Vance and his wife headed to the empty tomb, a bishop told the White House press pool that he was lighting two candles from the flame at the Holy Sepulchre to send back to the White House.

At one point during the tour of the church, Vance joked to a bishop, “You guys have been protecting me from bumping my head. You could join the Secret Service.”

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Theophilos III, the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, was among the Christian clergymen who greeted and accompanied the vice president.

According to the Jerusalem Patriarchate, Theophilos III “conveyed his respectful greetings to President Donald J. Trump and expressed his heartfelt appreciation for the efforts of the United States administration, under President Trump’s leadership, to bring about a ceasefire in Gaza and to alleviate the suffering of the innocent.”

Days prior to his visit to the church, Vance told reporters, “I hope to go to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which Christians believe is the site that Jesus Christ was crucified in. And I know that Christians have many titles for Jesus Christ, and one of them is the Prince of Peace. … I’d ask all people of faith, in particular my fellow Christians, to pray that the Prince of Peace can continue to work a miracle in this region in the world.”

After his visit to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Vance stated, “May the Prince of Peace have mercy on us, and bless our efforts for peace.”

Keen on maintaining the fragile peace brokered by President Donald Trump in Gaza, Vance said on Thursday before leaving Israel that he was “insulted” by the 25-24 vote in the Knesset to annex the West Bank, stressing it was a “political stunt with no practical significance.”

Despite the provocative vote, Vance thanked the Israeli government for hosting him and underscored, “I think we’re on a very good pathway.”

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