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Illinois Could Become the First State to Ban Drivers From Wearing Smart Glasses
Smart glasses are facing pushback from all over. The whole category is getting banned in courtrooms, on certain parts of cruise ships, during standardized testing, and now they’re speeding toward a statewide ban in cars. A bill in Illinois has been passed and is now awaiting final approval by Gov. JB Pritzker that would make it illegal to use smart glasses while driving, effectively expanding the definition of “electronic device” under the law. If approved, Illinois would be the first state to expressly ban the use of smart glasses while driving.
Other states, such as New York, have proposed prohibiting the use of “head-mounted portable electronic devices” while operating a vehicle, but none of those proposals have even reached a House or Senate floor.
What’s interesting is that the Illinois bill does not distinguish between display and non-display glasses. Unlike mobile phones, which can be used via Bluetooth through your car’s infotainment system, smart glasses would be banned in all instances.
Stamford, Conn. Parent Suing School Board Over Vaccine Mandate
In December 2025, Brandon Bonner, a Connecticut parent, filed suit against Stamford’s Board of Education (SBE), looking to compel one of the city’s preschool programs to allow his unvaccinated four-year-old, special-needs daughter to return to school. Last month, Stamford’s BOE filed a motion to dismiss the suit, and Cameron Atkinson, Bonner’s attorney, said he is prepared to “do things the hard way.”
“We’re about to file for a preliminary injunction to get her back into school for the fall,” said Atkinson. “We have a long history in this country of respecting religious liberty on the vaccination issue, and nothing has really changed.”
Atkinson is no stranger to taking on controversial cases; in 2022, he spent a four-month stint representing Alex Jones in the defamation case brought by the families of Sandy Hook victims, making him one in a long list of attorneys to represent Jones in a case that ultimately found him liable to pay out $1.4 billion.
He is currently representing a group of Republican lawmakers who sued the state’s House Speaker Matthew Ritter and Senate President Martin Looney for their use of emergency certification last legislative session, representing plaintiffs in two other cases who are challenging the state’s vaccine mandates, and has litigated several 2nd Amendment suits in the past.
WV Voters Support Keeping School Vaccine Mandates, Poll Finds
Most voters in West Virginia support keeping school vaccination requirements, according to a poll released last week. The poll found that 69% of the state’s electorate and 57% of the state’s likely Republican primary voters are opposed to eliminating school vaccine mandates.
The poll was conducted in February 2026 by Virginia-based political polling agency Cygnal and the Infectious Disease Prevention Network, a pro-vaccine advocacy organization. It included 500 from the electorate broadly and 388 likely Republican primary voters.
Besides West Virginia, the agency polled 12 other Republican-leaning states: South Carolina, Idaho, Montana, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas. A majority of the overall electorate in each of the states and a majority of GOP voters in six of the states oppose eliminating school vaccine requirements, the poll found.
The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of A.I. Data Centers
The heartbeat of the artificial intelligence economy sounds like a low-frequency thrum of a neighbor’s central air-conditioning unit, an airplane flying overhead at high altitude or a truck engine idling down the road. But it feels like the vibrating, rhythmic pulse of a subwoofer from a party that will never end.
Yes, the cloud has a sound, and some who live closest to data centers that emit the noise have reached their wit’s end trying to block it out. Residents in three small cities last month filed lawsuits against data centers specifically about noise.
The United States has more than 3,000 operational data centers, with more than 1,500 in development, according to a Pew Research Center analysis. They have been the backbone of the information economy for decades, operating largely in the background of daily life.
A Social Media Ban for Minors Requires Data From Everyone
In debating a social media ban for minors, it appears we face a choice between two perceived harms. One is the reported damage that social media is doing to the mental health of children and adolescents. The other is the normalization of mass age verification systems — most likely involving biometrics — that would apply to everyone, not just minors. This carries real risks of privacy invasion, data breaches, and future mission creep.
There is little dispute that many Western countries have experienced a rise in youth mental health problems beginning around 2010–2012 (when Smartphones and social media exploded). Anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicide rates among adolescents, particularly girls, have increased dramatically since this period.
There is disagreement, however, not over whether these spikes exist, but whether they can be attributed specifically to social media. The lingering effects of the pandemic and lockdowns, and family breakdown are just some of the other factors that could be in play.
