Do you feel like the “rapid-fire, breakneck pace” of news during the Trump administration is discombobulating? We sure do! Vice President JD Vance said that is our new normal so get used to it.
💰 Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he will not attend the G20 because he disapproves of South African politics and the trip would be a “waste” of “taxpayer money.”
🇦🇷🏥 Argentina announced that it will withdraw from the World Health Organization. The country said that the WHO’s pandemic politicies are one of the “largest economic catastrophes in world history.”
⚖️ A judge blocked President Trump’s executive order which ends birthright citizenship on grounds that it is “likely unconstitutional.” It was already temporarily restrained.
💥 Two planes clipped wings on the runway in Seattle on Wednesday.
🛫Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says that the engineers at DOGE are upgrading the U.S. aviation system. Hillary Clinton says that they are unqualified and Secretary Duffy responded that “‘experienced’ Washington bureaucrats are the reason our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling.” Touché.
⏳ Democrats have delayed a vote on Kash Patel to lead the FBI for a week.
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Lead: About That Gaza Plan…
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President Trump says that the “Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting.”
Presumably, that’s when his plan to take it over for a rehab would begin.
When will the fighting end, exactly? We have a ceasefire now so does this assume that fighting will resume? On whose terms?
While the world digests President Trump’s proposal that the U.S. rebuild Gaza, Israel is reportedly not honoring the ceasefire. Al Jazeera reports that at least two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire. One of them was a child, reportedly killed by a sniper.
Americans were frenzied for clarification on President Trump’s plans for Gaza. White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt was asked if this plan would include American forces.
“The president has not committed to that yet,” she said.
Yet? So who would do all of this renovating and relocating of Palestinians that don’t want to leave? Puck News reports that the President’s son-in-law Jared Kushner was behind this plan. He has a background in real estate development so presumably, to them, it’s just a matter of relocating the tenants during the rehab. Only we know that is not the reality.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry released this statement about the plan. It states that Saudi Arabia will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel without “an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.” They say that their position is “unwavering” and “non-negotiable and not subject to compromises.” Saudi Arabia is a U.S. ally so this position holds weight.
Hamas said that they condemn President Trump’s plans and are calling for “an emergency Arab summit to confront the displacement project.”
Doctor Anthony Fauci’s pre-emptive pardon applies to federal prosecutions, not state prosecutions. That is why state Attorneys General are picking up this baton.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says that he is “leading a coalition of state attorneys general in an investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic response, demanding accountability for alleged mismanagement, misleading statements, and suppression of scientific debate.”
There is enough proof to show that he did all of those things. AG Wilson sent a letter to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune to “commend ongoing Congressional efforts to uncover misconduct and request state-level cooperation in pursuing any violations of state laws.”
This means that they want Dr. Fauci to be subpoenaed by Congress. He would not have the ability to plead the Fifth Amendment due to the pardon.
South Carolina is leading this charge but other participating states include: Tennessee, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Idaho, North Dakota, Utah, Indiana, South Dakota, Arkansas, Montana, Missouri, Kansas, West Virginia and Nebraska. Not one Democrat-lead state is curious about this issue.
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News outlets have been exposed for having been paid by the U.S. government in the wake of the closure of USAID. The New York Times and Politico are in the hot seat right now.
Search for these organizations at USASpending.gov shows that they both received a lot of government money. Politico has received $8 million since 2016. The New York Times at least $1 million.
Politico editors say that this money was not for content. It was for a “professional subscription” that “provides both private and public sector clients with granular, fact-based reporting, real-time intelligence, and tracking tools across key policy areas.” Defenders of this say that the pro version offered “legislative tracking” and that it is a valuable tool, to the tune of $10,000 per year subscriptions. The US government’s own websites do that too so why did they need Politico to offer a dashboard? Even if the tool is that valuable, it still makes Politico a government contractor, which is an inherent journalistic conflict.
A search for the New York Times shows a similar pattern, taking money not just from USAID but also the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Science Foundation. Honestly, after how The New York Times lied to lead the American people into the Iraq war, I don’t know how anyone would be surprised by this.
Former State Department whistleblower Mike Benz made this cautionary note: there is “a distinction between USAID paying for premium prescriptions for its own staff vs USAID paying the media outlet to produce news…USAID does both, but the latter is obviously much more pernicious than the former.”
Wikileaks reports that “USAID was funding over 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 ‘media’ NGOs, including nine out of ten media outlets in Ukraine.”
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Jurassic World Rebirth is trending because a trailer for the film sequel was released.
Representative Nancy Mace is trending because she was scolded for using the word “tranny” during a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Her response was to say it three more times. “Tranny, tranny, tranny, I don’t really care. You want penises in women’s bathrooms, and I’m not going to have it,” she yelled.
Gisele Bündchen is trending because she reportedly gave birth to her new baby. This is her third child but first with her boyfriend Joaquim Valente.
News By The Numbers
$20 million. That is how much USAID paid from U.S. taxpayer dollars to make an Iraqi Sesame Street called “Sesame Street: Iraq on Ahlan Simsim,” which they said was to “promote inclusion, mutual respect, and understanding across ethnic, religious, and sectarian groups.”
30 hours. That is how long Democrats stayed in session to protest the confirmation of Russell Vought as Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) because he was associated with Project 2025. He wrote the parts of the plan that had to do with shrinking the federal government workforce, non government organizations and taking control of the budget.
53 minutes and 55 seconds. That is the length of the unedited 60 Minutes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris that was released by the FCC on Wednesday. The FCC chair under the Biden administration rejected calls for the unedited video, saying it threatened free speech. Meaning editing a video is protected speech. CBS still says that they will not apologize for the edits like this but are reportedly in talks to settle a legal dispute about it with President Trump.
The province of Alberta in Canada published a damning report about the Covid pandemic, basically admitting that they got it all wrong.
The vaccine did not stop the transmission of Covid, masking did not stop the spread of Covid and had harms, lockdowns has “limited scientific data supporting such measures during the initial wave.”
Many of us knew this but it is amazing to see a government body knowing this. The province said that they were pressured by the federal government to implement pandemic measures and “these actions, while purportedly intended to uphold professional standards, often obstructed healthcare providers from performing their duties in good faith.”
This is a bombshell of an admission but will the federal government do something about it? The report has already been used in several court cases by people who were either injured by the Covid vaccine or punished for not taking it.
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This newsletter is written and researched by Natali Morris. Please feel free to reach Natali at [email protected] for any editorial feedback.
