🚨 A Reckoning – April 27 2026

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Lead: When the Elites Feel Fear

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Watching the world’s political and media elites run for their lives from a four-course ballroom meal in Washington D.C. this weekend felt a little like a scene from The Hunger Games.

They were decked out in ball gowns and black ties and prepared to make jokes about the broken world they’ve helped create.

These are the people that either did not report on Jeffrey Epstein or protected him and his ilk from prosecution. They gathered to eat cake, when a gunman opened fire, they grabbed wine bottles and ran.

We are relieved that no one was seriously hurt but it is hard to feel the same outrage about this event as it is about, say, a school shooting or a school bombing.

Can someone remind the media of that? They are acting personally targeted and victimized and using their megaphone to amplify their own terror.

But don’t they know? In The Hunger Games, one can only live safely for so long in the Capitol before the class reckoning destroys the facade.

And let me be clear: no matter the gunman’s agenda, we don’t support it. We also don’t buy whatever the media tells us it is.

This was not that reckoning, but it was a glimpse of something. Like a scene from The Dark Knight. Thugs descending on the party of corrupt politicians.

And for all the breathless coverage, all the declarations of trauma and targeting, there’s a quiet, uncomfortable truth underneath it: Most people are simply relieved no one was seriously hurt…and then moved on.

In a world of starvation, genocide, war and deceit, it’s hard to shed tears for the bourgeoisie.

Michael Jackson Won. The Media Didn’t.

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The media is still at war with Michael Jackson but the public isn’t buying it this time.

Jackson’s new biopic, Michael, opened as the number one film in the world and the biggest debut ever for a music biopic this weekend and yet critics buried it with a 37% Rotten Tomatoes score.

The film was an apt representation of Jackson himself: audiences loved it, the press didn’t.

Why? Well, how deep down the rabbit hole shall we go?

It could be simple. To embrace this film would require the media to revisit how they covered him when he was alive. Namely, how quickly they mocked him, how eagerly they amplified allegations, how rarely they actually reported on him accurately. They called him “Wacko Jacko.” They splashed accusations across front pages.

It could be deeper than that.

The public has never been given access to his unreleased work, including songs said to touch on Palestine and global injustice. And even the voices used against him were unstable. Jackson’s sister La Toya Jackson gave a press conference in Tel Aviv in 1993 and accused him of child abuse. She later said she was coerced into those statements by her then-husband, Jack Gordon, who she described as controlling and abusive.

Are there other truths the media does not want the public to consider as this film brings his story back into focus?

Is the film perfect? By no means. It portrays Jackson’s long-time lawyer John Branca as a loyal ally to Jackson when he certainly was not. Jackson fired Branca in the early 2000s but Branca would go on to claim ownership of the Jackson estate based on a 2002 will that the Jackson family has long contested. The will was signed in Los Angeles on a date that Michael Jackson was in New York but no court has ever nullified it.

Branca is also a producer of this film and will benefit financially from its success. If you know that history, it’s hard to ignore.

And yet the film is still a beautiful portrayal of a legend. Jackson’s nephew, Jaafar Jackson, delivers something rare: a performance that channels Michael Jackson so beautifully that it is haunting.

So what is the lesson for the rest of us who never quite understood the media hunt against Michael Jackson?

Maybe it’s this: we trusted the narrative because it was everywhere. It felt authoritative.

Now something is shifting. In the year 2026, we no longer trust the media. Audiences are pushing back on their narratives and reasserting their love for the artist on their own terms. They are rejecting the media and supporting Michael in ways they didn’t when he was alive.

Call it poetic justice: The media loses credibility with every passing day as Jackson’s legacy grows stronger.

How I wish he’d lived to see it.

Chips, Reimagined: No Seed Oils, Just Real Ingredients

Until the 1990s, fries and chips were cooked in tallow. Then big food cut corners with cheap seed oils—and today they’re about 20% of the average American’s calories, linked in studies to inflammation and poor metabolic health.

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Redacted will be live today at 4 p.m. Eastern! Meanwhile, don’t miss this segment from the weekend about red light therapy and why the medical establishment is afraid of this miraculous treatment!

What’s Trending?

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Stranger Things Happy Meal is trending because McDonalds and Netflix announced this collaboration to promote the new animated Stranger Things show.

eBay was trending this weekend because the site had an outage.

Capital One is trending because the company is offering to pay a $425 million settlement to end a class action lawsuit regarding their 360 savings accounts.

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