George Clooney says that the Democrats should look to Maryland Governor Wes Moore as the future of the party. If I were Governor Moore I would say “thank you but no thank you” to an endorsement from Clooneyafter what he did to Joe!
📊 Meanwhile, a new poll shows that Californians are tired of resisting Trump and want to focus on improving their state.
🕵️♂️ A third Pentagon official was put on leave for reportedly leaking classified information.
🏛️ Politico reports that the White House is planning to ask Congress “to cancel $9.3 billion already approved for foreign aid initiatives, public broadcasting and other programs” including NPR and PBS.
🚤 🔥 A boat capsized after catching fire in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Hundreds are missing and at least 50 people are confirmed to have died.
🎙️ Join us live for Redacted starting today at 4 PM EST we have lots to talk about.
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Israel has been planning an attack on Iran for months and trying to coax the U.S. into going along with it but the New York Times reports match Redacted’s own intel. There is an alleged divide amongst the Trump administration between those who want a war with Iran and those that don’t. Those that don’t, according to the Times include President Trump himself as well as Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth; Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence; and Vice President JD Vance.
“The debate highlighted fault lines between historically hawkish American cabinet officials and other aides more skeptical that a military assault on Iran could destroy the country’s nuclear ambitions and avoid a larger war. It resulted in a rough consensus, for now, against military action, with Iran signaling a willingness to negotiate.”
The Times reports that Israel was all but convinced that the U.S. would “sign off” on its plans to attack Iran “making the United States a central part of the attack itself” but President Trump insists on diplomacy over war for now.
The second round of talks are scheduled for this upcoming weekend and we should all pray that they result in peace.
The U.S. has also reportedly notified Israel that it plans to withdraw some troops from Syria where the U.S. is currently illegally occupying territory.
According to reports, France helped Ukrainian President Zelensky write an apology letter to President Trump in order to mend fences.
While the European Union talks tough about leading the war efforts in Ukraine, they secretly know that they can’t. Diplomats in France, Germany and the U.K. have reportedly “sweated over how to try and repair the badly damaged relationship between Trump and Zelensky.”
The White House confirmed that it received such a letter and have been continuing to work towards peace. White House envoy Steve Witkoff said this week that a peace deal with Ukraine was on “the verge” of a breakthrough. Leaders in Qatar have also expressed interest in hosting peace talks between Ukraine and Russia.
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Letitia James Is In Deep Doodoo
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The irony. New York Attorney General Letitia James prosecuted President Trump for inflating the value of his real estate for bank loans but deflating it for tax purposes. Now she stands accused of doing that very thing.
James bought a home in Virginia in 2023, while she was still serving as the New York Attorney General. There is nothing wrong with that except that she listed the Virginia home as her primary residence. Primary homes qualify for lower mortgage rates and lying on a mortgage application is a crime.
The neighbors of that Virginia home say that they’ve rarely seen her.
James also allegedly purchased other homes with her father as a co-signer but listed him as her husband. She’s never been married to her father as far as we can tell.
If James is prosecuted, she would be backed into a corner. She can admit that she committed mortgage fraud or she can insist that the Virginia home IS a primary resident which means that she violated her requirement as Attorney General to live in the state of New York.
The Justice Department has not prosecuted this yet and not commented on if they will.
What’s Trending?
Subaru Outback is trending because images and news of the 2026 model were released.
Spotify is trending because the company had a major outage on Tuesday.
Flint Davis is trending because he was involved in a major boat accident at the Major League Fishing tournament. At least three people are dead and others were injured but it isn’t clear if Davis, a competitive angler, is amongst the deceased. The final day of the tournament was scheduled for Thursday but it has been canceled.
News By The Numbers
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40. That is how old The Breakfast Club film is. The cast and crew participated in a reunion panel and the star Molly Ringwald said that she doesn’t think the film should be remade because it is “too white” and doesn’t address modern issues such as “gender.”
59,000. That is how many users experienced a Zoom outage on Wednesday.
1.4 million. That is how many people in Puerto Rico lost power on Wednesday because the island’s power plant was knocked out of service. It is not expected to be fully restored until Thursday.
Sex is Real
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The Supreme Court in the United Kingdom ruled that men cannot legally be women and also men cannot get pregnant.
The court unanimously ruled that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act referred to biological sex, not acquired gender. Unanimously!
After a years-long legal battle, it turns out that the courts really do know what a woman is. Tory Leader Kemi Badenoch said the ruling meant that the “era of Keir Starmer telling us women can have penises has come to an end.” It will also have wide-reaching implications for maintaining single‑sex spaces for women such as sports, bathrooms, shelters, prisons and more.
JK Rowling, who is probably the most famous critic of gender ideology, said this about it in X: “The fact that so many UK trans activists are shrieking about injustice says it all. You never had the rights you claim you’ve now lost; you had demands. Your sense of entitlement grew unchecked because cowards and idiots bowed down to your campaign of intimidation.”
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