🚨 Doping – May 22 2025

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Lead: Budget Crunch

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Republicans are reworking President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a comprehensive tax and spending package that is high on the President’s wish list.

The bill will extend the 2017 tax cuts passed by the first Trump administration, increase the child tax credit, and introduce deductions for tips and overtime pay.

There are some good nuggets in there but it is also a spending bonanza that could add $2.3 trillion to the deficit. It has a Medicaid work requirement that won’t go into effect for five years and is easy to work around. It expands military spending. It also has expanded infrastructure and energy tax credits that echo the very climate policies Republicans once criticized.

In essence, the bill tries to be all things to all wings of the GOP: tax hawks, social conservatives, and big-spending populists. As Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie said on Wednesday’s episode of Redacted: Why does this all have to happen in one big bill? Why can’t these goals be accomplished more efficiently in separate bills?

A Tale of Two Genocides

President Trump met with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office on Wednesday and confronted him with video evidence of the country’s treatment of white farmers.

President Trump called it a genocide and President Ramaphosa denied the scale of the problem and that it happened exclusively to white people. President Ramaphosa said that there is criminality in South Africa but people who get killed are not only white people.

What we have here is a tale of two “genocides.” Undoubtedly white farmers have been killed and it must be terrifying for them. By some estimates, more than 2,000 white farmers have been killed and the government does confiscate land but it also confiscates other white-owned business. But 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and President Trump has never confronted Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu like this.

Colonel Douglas Macgregor notes that this was likely done “at the behest of Israel.” South Africa has accused Israel of a genocide on the people of Gaza at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which Israel strongly condemns. By spotlighting alleged abuses in South Africa, Trump appears to be attempting to counter South Africa’s criticisms of Israel, thereby influencing international perceptions and diplomatic dynamics related to the Gaza conflict.

Will it work? It does not appear to be working.

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Government Failed To Warn About Vaccine Risks

A new government report accuses the CDC, FDA, and HHS of delaying or suppressing warnings about myocarditis and other adverse events following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, especially in young people.

The report comes from Senator Ron Johnson’s Subcommittee on Investigations. It is called Failure to Warn: How Federal Agencies Downplayed the Risk of Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Following Covid-19 Vaccination. It is damning.

It includes internal emails showing that both the CDC and FDA discussed issuing a Health Alert Network or HAN in May 2021 but ultimately replaced it with vague “clinical considerations” on the CDC website. It also showed that the CDC gave advance notice of safety discussions with Pfizer and Moderna while withholding similar information from the public and doctors.

It shows a deliberate and systemic failure to serve the American public and allow them the ability to give informed consent to the vaccines risks. Why did they protect the vaccines so fiercely and not the American people?

News By The Numbers

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2019. That is when Nike stopped selling their items on Amazon but CNBC reports that they will start back up again soon.

1,500. That is how many corporate jobs that Walmart says that it will cut in a “reorganization.”

$6.5 billion. That is how much OpenAI will pay to acquire LoveFrom, the company owned by former Apple engineer Johnny Ive. The collaboration is reportedly working on “a new device that will move consumers beyond screens.”

Idiotic Walmart Boycott

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A liberal group is boycotting Walmart this week – yes again – because they believe the company has “contributed to economic corruption.”

The irony here is that they are hurting the very people they pretend to protect. In this must-read 2006 article, Michael Strong shows how Walmart has lifted more people out of poverty than most NGOs making it the world’s #1 anti-poverty engine. What’s more, former Obama advisor and Harvard professor Jason Furman writes about how Walmart’s low prices save low income Americans more than $2,000 per year.

Do these boycotts aim to hurt working class people or are they just lashing out at the Trump administration? You would think that if they really want to help the underprivileged people that they claim to, they would want to shop at Walmart.

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