In response to the TikTok ban slated to take place this weekend, young people are downloading Red Note. The government excuse to ban TikTok is that it is “Chinese,” even though it’s not. Red Note is actually Chinese. The irony is that the ban is connecting people more and opening their eyes to government propaganda. Red Note has now been downloaded by over 100 million Americans as of this publication and it’s number one Apple’s App Store.
In Case You Missed It.
🇫🇷 A left-wing theater group staged a free conference for migrants to promote refugees. More than 200 migrants showed up and now they won’t leave.
🏈 State Farm canceled its commercial for the Super Bowl because people are pissed off at them for canceling fire insurance for Southern Californians.
🎤 Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s final press conference did not go smoothly with journalists being thrown out for telling him that he enabled a genocide and that he belongs in the Hague.
⏰ Karine Jean-Pierre’s final briefing went…about the same. These people are clearly waiting out the clock.
🚨 The American Cancer Society reports that women are now more at risk for cancer than men.
*Stock data as of market close, cryptocurrency data as of 5:00pm AM.
Lead: Goodbye, Farewell, Adieu
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President Biden released a farewell video from the Oval Office on Thursday. He warned of an oligarchy that is taking shape under the incoming Trump administration.
He said that the tech oligarchy the evolution of the “military industrial complex.”
“I’m equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech-industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country as well,” said the person who used big tech to censor Americans over true information.
He also spoke about the dangers of free information exchange.
“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit.”
Democrats are clearly afraid of a new era with less censorship and control. John Stuart Mill would disagree and so do we here at Redacted. Mill famously said that “in a free information exchange the truth will rise.”
Ceasefire in Gaza: On or Off?
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the ceasefire that was celebrated around the world yesterday is now on hold due to a “last-minute crisis.” The Prime Minister delayed voting on the deal and accused Hamas of “a last-minute blackmail attempt.” The Israeli government was scheduled to vote today. Al Jazeera reports that they may vote on Friday.
Netanyahu stalled the vote because Hamas reportedly objected to “a part of the agreement that gave Israel the right to refuse the release of certain Palestinian prisoners accused of murders.” Hamas denies this.
Israel did not slow up the attacks in Gaza in the wake of the ceasefire news. At least 82 Palestinians were reportedly killed on Wednesday, 30 of them killed after the ceasefire was announced.
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The Unpopular Left
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The Telegraph reports that “Left-wing parties are more unpopular now than at any time since the end of the Cold War.” The newspaper analyzed 73 democracies and found that “leftist parties suffered a record low average vote share of just 45.4 per cent in each democracy’s latest election.”
They explain it with this quote by an analyst at The European Council on Foreign Relations: “The globalisation-driven decline of organised labour, rising identity politics harnessed more successfully by the Right than the Left, and a general tendency among Leftist forces to fragment rather than unite.”
That’s willfully ignorant gobbledygook so let us take a stab at it: The left has championed war and crushed economies to do so, racism for the sake of antiracism, divisive identity politics, government spending that has crushed the middle and lower class, unquestioned biopharmaceutical power, destroyed women’s rights to single-sex spaces, promoted the agenda of perverts over science, lowered the standards of education thereby keeping the most disadvantaged people disadvantaged, allowed crime to run rampant, opened borders, trafficked children and sex workers under the nose of law enforcement, and censored and slandered anyone who pointed out any of the above.
Is it really such a mystery that the parties that did that are losing influence? GOOD riddance!
News By The Numbers
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46. That is how old the R&B singer Aaliyah would have been today had she not tragically died in an airplane crash in 2001 at the age of 22. To commemorate her birthday, Mattel released an Aaliyah Barbie doll for $55.
90. That was the age of legendary baseball announcer and former catcher Bob Uecker. He died today.
320 feet. That is the size of the New Glenn rocket that Blue Origin launched successfully from Florida in the early morning hours on Thursday.
What’s Trending?
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Nintendo Switch 2 is trending because Nintendo released details for the upcoming system. More details will be released at Nintendo events around the world in April.
Ashley Moody is trending because she was appointed to replace Marco Rubio as a Senator in Florida by Governor Ron DeSantis. Rubio is expected to be confirmed as Secretary of State. Moody is currently the Attorney General in Florida.
Wendy Williams is trending because she spoke out about being in a conservativeship on an episode of The Breakfast Club. She is in a facility in New York City, which she calls a “luxury prison.” According to Variety, “the former daytime host has been under a guardianship since 2022, and last year, her care team said she had been diagnosed with dementia and aphasia, which affects language and communication abilities.”
Bird Flu Smells Foul
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Doctors are wondering why the new strain of bird flu is so mild. According to The Telegraph:
“Since bird flu began spreading in the US, one question has been puzzling scientists: why are the farm workers who are catching it only suffering mild illness?
Of the 66 people infected in America this year, the overwhelming majority – more than 98 per cent – have suffered only from conjunctivitis, tiredness, and a sore throat.”
Since 2003, bird flu had a 50% mortality rate but only one person with pre-existing conditions in the U.S. has died with bird flu, not from bird flu. A new study shows that Americans may be having a lower immune response to this strain and they don’t know why. You would think this is a good thing but they’re saying it’s not because “each infection gives the virus an opportunity to better adapt to create more dangerous strains.”
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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.
