🚨 Disaster – January 30 2025

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Happy Thursday.

Netflix will reboot Little House On The Prairie, perhaps biggypacking on the popularity of shows about the American West like Yellowstone and Land Man. Please don't ruin it with diversity goals! The original show was very important to my childhood. I'd rather it be left alone. 

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🏛️ Confirmation hearings will resume today for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and begin for Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel.  

🇮🇳 At least 3 people were killed in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India on Wednesday.

🚨 Rumors are swirling that President Trump's Justice Department is considering dropping its case against New York Mayor Eric Adams. If you read the indictment and listen to Adams' own explanation, it is hard to see his prosecution as anything other than punishment from the Biden administration for speaking out about the city's migrant crisis. 

💰 Meta will reportedly pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Trump after they suspended his Facebook and Instagram accounts in 2021. Mark Zuckerberg expressed remorse for that on Joe Rogan's podcast. 

🇺🇦 Ukrainian media are begging for money after President Trump paused all U.S. aid. Wait!? We were paying for Ukrainian media!?

🚨 President Trump signed his first bill that was voted into law by Congress. S. 5, the “Laken Riley Act, requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.

📱 Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has proposed a bill to ban phones in all public schools. 

📺 Join us for Redacted's live show today at 11 AM Eastern Time right here.  

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The Lead: Nightmare In The Sky

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A military Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger plane over the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport. The plane had 60 passengers and four crew members. The helicopter had three people aboard. Washington D.C. authorities say that they now expect no survivors and the scene is now a recovery scene.

The plane was American Eagle flight 5342 traveling to Washington, D.C. from Wichita, Kansas. American Airlines has this sitededicated to further information. 

According to reports, the control tower saw this coming and asked the helicopter: "Do you have the CRJ in sight?" CRJ is the Bombardier CRJ700 Regional Jet. 

The crash happened at night but that hardly explains how this happened. Some reports show that the helicopter was "flying dark," meaning it had its transponder off. In a crowded civilian airspace? 

The Associated Press reports this: 

"A few minutes before landing, air traffic controllers asked the arriving commercial jet if it could land on the shorter Runway 33 at Reagan National and the pilots said they were able. Controllers then cleared the plane to land on Runway 33. Flight tracking sites showed the plane adjust its approach to the new runway.

Less than 30 seconds before the crash, an air traffic controller asks the helicopter if it has the arriving plane in sight. The controller makes another radio call to the helicopter moments later: “PAT 25 pass behind the CRJ.” Seconds after that the two aircraft collide.

The U.S. Army confirmed that the helicopter was from the U.S. Army and said that the three soldiers were aboard a training flight. 

Air traffic control diverted all takeoffs and landings on Wednesday night and the airport was closed. One air traffic control transmission heard the tower tell a plane in the air that the airport was shutting down and the pilot replied, "Yeah. We witnessed the whole thing.”

The White House released this statement from the President Wednesday night. President Trump released this post on his own Truth Social page indicating that he has lingering questions and wants answers too.

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Guantanamo Bay Is Taking Reservations

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President Trump said that the U.S. will get Guantanamo Bay ready to hold the "worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back so we're going to send them out to Guantanamo."

He said that he would sign "an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay." He did indeed sign this order for just that.

The order doesn't mention the number of migrants but Guantanamo Bay does not hold 30,000 people. It was built to hold 800 and has never held more than 720 people. How in the world could it hold so many more people? Perhaps the President was embellishing in order to scare migrants into self deporting?

Guantanamo has a reputation for violating international human rights standards. Even if these are the worst of the worst, the debate over waterboarding was a fairly broad consensus that no one wants to see that happening again.

News By The Numbers

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86%. That is how many young people reported that they do want "the American dream," according to a UCLA survey. When they were asked who is the embodiment of that dream that inspires them, some mentioned Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

7,400. That is how many people applied for White House press passes in just 24 hours after it was announced that any news outlet, even independent voices, can apply.

15. That is how many rehabilitation sessions a woman in the U.K has been sentenced to take after she was convicted of "cyber-farting." She could not stop herself from sending videos of herself farting to her boyfriend's ex and the victim said that the videos made her feel unsafe.

Antisemitism Law

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On Wednesday, the Trump administration released this executive order to "combat anti-semitism."

"It shall be the policy of the United States to combat anti-Semitism vigorously, using all available and appropriate legal tools, to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence," the order says.

Isn't harassment and violence illegal, no matter who it is against? Why is this needed for a specific group of people? It says that "Jewish students have faced an unrelenting barrage of discrimination; denial of access to campus common areas and facilities, including libraries and classrooms; and intimidation, harassment, and physical threats and assault." Again, those things should be illegal, no matter what race the victim.

This comes in the same day that newly-sworn in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made it his priority in his second day on the job to hold a call with Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz. He said that the call was "to reaffirm the unbreakable bond between the United States and Israel. I emphasized that, under President Trump’s leadership, the United States supports Israel’s security 100%." He continued, "I reiterated that the United States is committed to deepening the bilateral security relationship to enhance Israel’s ability to address regional threats and ensure Israel has the capabilities it needs. Minister Katz and I will remain in close contact moving forward.

The Hypocracy

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Senator Elizabeth Warren asked Robert F Kennedy Jr. to "stop enriching yourself" by litigating against big pharma. Not coincidentally, she enriches herself by being supported by big pharma, to the tune of $1.6 million at least.

RFK Jr. earned legal fees from successfully suing pharmaceutical companies for hurting people. That experience has given him a unique insight in the American health industry but, according to Warren and The Wall Street Journal, that should be disqualifying.

"You're asking me not to sue pharmaceutical companies and I am not going to agree to that," he said.

"No I am not," she yelled but clearly she wants that.

Why, you might ask, should a member of Congress want to protect an industry from litigation? An industry that she profits from? That's queer, right?

What's Trending?

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Vogue is trending for taking the piss out of Melania Trump's official White House portrait. They said she looked like a freelance magician. It's clear how they feel about her versus how they fawn over former First Ladies. Heck, they even gave Stormy Daniels a flattering feature.

"Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" is trending because the animated series was released to good reviews on Disney+.

Bob Menendez is trending because the former New Jersey Senator was sentenced to 11 years in prison for corruption.

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This newsletter is written and researched by Natali Morris.
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