New York lawmakers proposed a bill to give animals due process before they are euthanized if the state considers them a public threat. The Humane Animal Protection Act is also known as “Peanut’s Law” after Peanut the Squirrel, the furry pet that was seized from a man’s home and euthanized on suspicion of having rabies. He never had rabies. Photo credit: @peanut_the_squirrel12
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⚖️ The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration does not have to reinstate 16,000 federal workers that were fired.
🏛️ A federal judge ruled that the White House cannot exclude the Associated Press from press events due to their stance on the Gulf of America.
💻 Microsoft has reportedly fired two employees who protested supplying AI to the Israeli military during a company celebration.
🛂 The IRS has reportedly agreed to “share immigrants’ tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S.,” according to an anonymously sourced AP report.
*Stock data as of market close, cryptocurrency data as of 5:00 AM.
Lead: Ukraine’s War Play
Ukrainian President Zelensky admitted that Ukraine has been attacking inside Russian borders for the first time. This is something President Biden promised Ukraine would never do but they’ve been doing it all along.
Zelensky also claimed on X that Chinese citizens are “fighting as part of the Russian army.” He posted a video of a man he claims the Ukrainian army captured fighting for Russia.
A few months ago, he claimed that North Korean nationals were also fighting for Russia. Ukraine uses mercenary armies from over 50 countries, including the U.S., Canada, U.K. and France so why would this matter?
Zelensky is clearly desperate to escalate the war with Russia and evade peace. Another peace envoy is reportedly coming to the U.S. It would be wise to exclude the President of Ukraine from this envoy.
New Justice Department filings against Ryan Routh, the man who tried to shoot President Trump in Florida last year, show that he believed he was communicating with a Ukrainian officials prior to the assassination attempt, trying to get himself a “stinger or RPG” for the attack.
There is no proof that the person was actually from Ukraine but there is also no proof that they were not. Ukraine sells or loses at least half of the weapons that are sent from abroad.
While Zelensky stalls for peace, Russia reports that it will participate in the second round of peace talks with the U.S. on April 10 in Istanbul. Russia also says that it plans to deploy more “several hundred ground-based robots to the Russian military” so…not a moment too soon, eh?
Iran Wants Goodwill Gesture
Photo of Tehran’s Tabiat Bridge by Ebrahim Safi
President Trump said that peace talks will begin with Iran this weekend in Oman. Iran reportedly says that they would like to see a “goodwill gesture” from the U.S. first. By this, they mean relief from sanctions.
The Obama administration put horrific sanctions on Iran for the entire 8 years they were in the White House without ever proving that Iran had a nuclear weapon. Read this demon’s justification of it in the book The Art of Sanctions if you want to know more about it.
The Trump administration has also not proved that Iran has a nuclear weapon but wants to come up with an alternative to the Iran nuclear deal, formerly known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The deal was put in place by the Obama administration and it involved Iran’s promise to curb nuclear activity in exchange for sanctions relief. President Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018 and reimposed those sanctions. President Biden was never able to negotiation a new one but…he didn’t really try.
What if the Trump administration replaces the sanctions with tariffs? Would we all be happy then?
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A new Cleveland Clinic study found that the 2024-2025 flu vaccine did not prevent influenza. Quite the contrary, actually, those who took it were MORE LIKELY to get infected.
It was published by doctors from the Cleveland Clinic but it has not yet been peer reviewed given the data was collected through March 26.
The employees of the Cleveland Clinic were required to get the flu shot so 82% of them did. They followed up with 53,000 employees and found that the vaccinated and unvaccinated were getting infected with the flu at an even pace but “over the course of the study the cumulative incidence of influenza increased more rapidly among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. In an analysis adjusted for age, sex, clinical nursing job, and employment location, the risk of influenza was significantly higher for the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated state.”
They say that the vaccine effectiveness may have waned or may not have included the most prevalent strain of flu. But that is a problem every year. Vaccine makers come up with the formulation in the spring and make their best guess as to which strains to include that they think will be prevalent in the coming months. They can never accurately predict.
It is worth noting that the annual flu vaccine does not go through clinical trials. It also is not tested as to whether or not it stops infection in humans. It is only tested to see if recipients produce antibodies.
From this study alone, it is clear we need more research about why we mandate the flu vaccine if it is this ineffective and may in fact make people MORE likely to get the flu.
News By The Numbers
Photo credit: William Farrington
16. That is how many underage New York City gangsters were charged with “terrorizing their innocent neighbors in a months-long barrage of gun violence.” They are from rival gangs and are reportedly responsible for 21 separate shootings over the last year.
1%. That is how much Bill Gates says that he will leave his children when he dies. He’s said for years that he doesn’t want his kids to inherit too much. Still, 1% of his estimated $101.2 billion is still over $1 billion so let’s not feel too bad for them.
$500 million. That is how much Forbes Magazine calculates that President Trump has personally lost from his own asset portfolio due to his own tariffs.
What’s Trending?
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Octavio Dotel is trending because the former Major League Baseball player died from injuries after a roof collapsed at a night club in the Dominican Republic. Former MLB player Tony Blanco was also killed in the collapse along with dozens of others.
Rubby Perez is trending because the merengue singer also died in the aforementioned nightclub tragedy.
Predator is trending because Hulu released a trailer for its upcoming animated film, Predator: Killer of Killers.
Stock Market Plunges
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The stock market fell into the red on Tuesday after regaining losses on Monday. The consensus is that no one knows what will happen once the Trump administration’s tariffs go into place and Wall Street doesn’t like uncertainty.
President Trump said that he is willing to put a 104% tax on China and China basically said: Bring it.
“China is not a seeker of trouble. But make no mistake: when challenged, we will never back down. Intimidation and threats never work with China,” read a statement by the Lin Jian, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson.
The President also announced that he will put tariffs on pharmaceuticals. At an event on Tuesday, he said this: “We’re going to tariff our pharmaceuticals and once we do that they’re going to come rushing back into our country because we’re the big market… So we’re going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals and when they hear that, they will leave China, they will leave other places because they have to – most of their product is sold here and they’re going to be opening up their plants all over our country.”
Guess who that would hurt badly? Europe. Many pharmaceuticals sold in the U.S. are made in Europe, India and China. CEOs from Big Pharma in Europe issued this panicked statement to European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen saying that Europe must change the way it does business to compete with the U.S. or risk losing billions of Euros of investment.
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