I’d like to start this week with a simple plea: let’s move on from the Coldplay Kisscam saga. The internet had its fun, but if even one of their children were to be harmed by this relentless spotlight, we’d all share the blame.
We’ve made our jokes. We’ve had our clicks. But their families deserve space to work this out without a million eyes dissecting every moment.
Let’s help the algorithm cool this down — don’t click, don’t share, and maybe don’t stare.
✈️ A Delta pilot executed an aggressive maneuver to evade a US Air Force B-52 bomber over North Dakota, narrowly preventing a mid-air collision and exposing serious airspace coordination failures.
🤝 A U.S. ambassador visited a Christian town in the West Bank targeted in recent settler attacks, condemning the violence and calling for accountability.
🏛️ A House committee approved an $831.5 billion Pentagon defense spending bill that maintains a flat budget, includes a 3.8% pay raise for troops, trims 45,000 civilian roles, and blocks funding for diversity initiatives, abortion access, and support for Ukraine.
🇮🇱 A report reveals a troubling surge in Israeli Defense Forces soldier suicides amid the ongoing Gaza war, raising concerns over mental health and battlefield strain.
🎖️ A D-Day veteran and TikTok star known as “Papa Jake” Larson—who survived Omaha Beach in 1944, earned a Bronze Star and French Legion of Honor, garnered 1.2 million followers sharing WWII memories, and frequently returned to Normandy—has died at 102.
💀 A death toll in clashes in Syria’s Al‑Suwayda has surpassed 1,000—including 298 civilians and 427 Druze self‑defense fighters killed—highlighting the deadly escalation in inter‑communal violence.
🧲 A Long Island man was tragically killed in a freak MRI accident after entering the room wearing a 20-pound metal chain necklace with a padlock, which was violently pulled toward the magnet; people entering MRI rooms are typically warned to remove all jewelry because the machines generate powerful magnetic fields strong enough to turn metal objects into deadly projectiles.
🧬 HHS Secretary Kennedy rejected proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations because, he says, they would open the door to “narrative management, propaganda, and censorship” reminiscent of the COVID‑19 pandemic.
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The Lead: Obama Knew. Clinton Plotted. The Intel Community Delivered.
Why is President Trump posting about President Obama going to jail? Because of a new report from Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard showing how the Obama administration created the Russiagate scandal.
The report details how Obama administration officials—most notably CIA Director John Brennan—briefed President Obama in 2016 on a plan by Hillary Clinton to link Donald Trump to Russian election interference as a political tactic.
This briefing was documented, shared with then-FBI Director James Comey, and ultimately used to justify surveillance of Trump’s campaign. That tactic became the heart of “Russiagate,” a years-long media and intelligence operation that turned out to be based on a fabricated narrative. It misled a lot of people.
It was also the basis for the Mueller investigation which cost American taxpayers at least $32 billion and yielded no charges related to Trump-Russia collusion.
Instead, it revealed that the FBI relied on dubious sources—including the discredited Steele Dossier—and that key officials misled the FISA court to justify surveillance.
So when President Trump says “Obama should go to jail,” he’s pointing to a documented abuse of power that began under Obama’s watch, was carried forward by intelligence agencies, and weaponized against a political rival. Missing from this photos is Hillary Clinton who more than complicit.
Now, as DNI Tulsi Gabbard releases evidence confirming what many suspected, President Trump is calling for accountability at the top—including for President Barack Obama. Whether that actually happens is another story. The Justice Department would have to prosecute its own political class, and the courts could block it every step of the way.
Insiders say the show was bleeding $40–50 million a year. That’s a staggering figure for any network program, even one that technically held the #1 spot in late night. But that ranking doesn’t mean much when the entire genre is on life support.
One CBS insider told the New York Post: “Colbert might be No. 1, but who watches late-night TV anymore?”
Some liberals cried foul, claiming CBS pulled the plug just days after Colbert criticized its parent company for a $16M settlement with Trump. That feels like a stretch. The criticism wasn’t very powerful or funny.
The unfunny part was the more damning crime.
Yes, The Late Show was top dog—but only in a dying format. Younger audiences don’t watch live TV at 11:30 p.m., and they definitely don’t sit through monologues packed with DNC talking points.
This doesn’t bode well for the future of the two Jimmys who host ABC and NBC’s late shows. Fallon sticks to goofball charm, but it’s not reversing the slide. Kimmel’s become a scolding MSNBC host with even less humor.
And while the network hosts flounder, cable has a surprise king: Gutfeld!
Fox News’ late-night show Gutfeld!beats all three network hosts with an average of 3.29 million viewers so clearly it’s not the politics that is off-putting. Gutfeld is hosted by a libertarian-leaning comedian with a background in satire, not legacy media.
So maybe it’s not politics or the format. It’s just those guys?
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Israel came up with this new food distribution scheme after accusing the United Nations of being infiltrated by Hamas. It is nothing but a torture trap for the Palestinians.
The Wall Street Journal published this awful story over the weekend:
“Israeli soldiers interviewed by the Journal said they have fired rifles, machine guns and even artillery when crowds veered off approved routes to GHF sites or took short cuts. Soldiers said shots are fired around crowds to ward them off, but also at times directly at people who move in their direction.”
“They are told to fire warning shots in the air or to shoot at people’s knees, but mistakes happen, [one soldier] said.”
The fact that Israeli soldiers admit to firing machine guns and artillery at starving crowds—and the Wall Street Journal publishes it as standard procedure—should send chills down your spine.
These are not defensive actions. This is using food as a bait to execute people. The body counts are stacking up. Haaretz confirms these “massacres” aren’t isolated incidents—“32 Palestinians” were killed “waiting for aid” in southern Gaza on Saturday.
The Wall Street Journal quotes Israel’s response: “Israeli military officials said troops have caused deaths, but some said that Palestinian authorities’ numbers are inflated.”
Where is the international outcry? Where are the Western leaders who said “never again”?
What the Epstein Grand-Jury Testimony Won’t Reveal — and Why the Real Questions Remain
Attorney General Pam Bondi has asked a court to unseal the Grand Jury testimony related to Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 re-arrest. This move comes after former President Trump demanded the release of all grand jury testimony, claiming the media frenzy needs to be silenced with facts.
But let’s be clear: if you’re expecting a “client list,” you’ll be disappointed. This isn’t that. The 2019 grand jury wasn’t investigating who Epstein trafficked girls to—it was investigating why the U.S. government conspired with him in 2008 to grant an absurd plea deal that gave him and his associates blanket immunity for past and future crimes.
That immunity deal, made under the Bush administration and hidden from the victims, was later ruled a violation of their legal rights. Unsealing the 2019 testimony might expose who enabled that deal—who silenced the victims, who made the immunity stick, and who kept Epstein protected for more than a decade. But it won’t tell us anything about what he was up to between 2008 and 2019, when he was cavorting with Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Leon Black, Larry Summers, and others.
That’s the inconvenient gap the media isn’t addressing. Instead, we’re getting rehashed narratives. The New York Times ran a piece on Sunday emphasizing that one of Epstein’s accusers named Trump in her testimony. We knew this. She had previously stated that she didn’t have sex with Trump and that he “didn’t act inappropriate” toward her. But the Times still saw fit to recycle the association—because narrative, not new evidence, drives the news cycle.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journalgave a platform to Epstein’s attorney, who argued that Epstein acted entirely alone and that thousands of victims were harmed only by him—not by anyone in his powerful network. It’s a sleight of hand dressed as accountability. No mention of the immunity. No curiosity about the co-conspirators. And curiously, no acknowledgment that as Epstein’s lawyer, he’s still bound by attorney-client privilege—raising the question of what he’s omitting, and why.
Investigative journalist Darryl Cooper laid out the major questions in a three-hour interview with Tucker Carlson a few days ago, and we cannot recommend enough that you watch it. It helps clarify the Epstein questions we still can’t answer—and won’t be able to from this Grand Jury transcript.
Namely:
Why was Jeffrey Epstein—an unqualified 20-something with no college degree—hired to teach at the elite Dalton School by former Attorney General Bill Barr’s father, who just happened to write pornographic science fiction and had ties to intelligence circles from previous employment?
Why did Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell—a known Mossad asset—receive a state funeral in Israel with full honors, buried on the Mount of Olives among national heroes? What, if any, influence did he have on his daughter’s career and why did he introduce his daughter to Epstein in the first place?
Why did Les Wexner, one of the wealthiest men in America, hand over complete financial control of his fortune to Epstein—with no plausible explanation? Why has the Justice Department never scrutinized this relationship?
Why were major political and business figures meeting privately with Epstein after his conviction—including Bill Gates?
Why were the Podestas and other Epstein-adjacent figures repeatedly linked to disturbing child-related imagery and themes, yet shielded from serious media scrutiny?
Why did so many intelligence-adjacent figures orbit Epstein’s life, and why was he allowed to operate internationally for years?
Why don’t we know more about Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s admission that he was told Epstein “belonged to intelligence” and to back off?
Why was Epstein given a sweetheart plea deal in the first place—one that not only gave him minimal jail time, the right to come and go as he pleased, but also granted immunity to unnamed co-conspirators for future crimes?
Why were we told there was no surveillance footage from the night of his “suicide”—only to now receive what appears to be heavily edited, contextless clips years later?
The Grand Jury transcript might tell us which U.S. officials helped cover for Epstein.
But it won’t tell us why—and it definitely won’t expose the network that empowered, protected, and ultimately buried him.
News By The Numbers
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$406.8 million. That is how much Superman has made at the box office in two weeks, making it the top grossing film of 2025.
67,000. That is how many cases of deodorant were recalled by the FDA due to “cGMP deviations.”Translation: they weren’t made safely.
91. That was the age of As The World Turns soap opera star Eileen Fulton when she died last week.
Shark Week is trending because the Discovery Channel annual event is this week.
Rachel Tonie is trending because she’s now a screen-free storytelling toy — and some parents are thrilled, while others call it a cash grab. Here’s the story.
The Washington Commanders are trending because President Trump said they should return to their original name, “The Washington Redskins,” calling the change “a great insult to America” — and vowed to block their new stadium deal if they don’t.
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