đź’ˇ A new study finds that people who sleep with light exposure at night have a higher incidence of heart disease, stroke, atrial fibrillation, and heart failure, even after accounting for other cardiovascular risk factors.
🇮🇱 Israel has blocked more than 107 UN humanitarian aid requests for Gaza including supplies like blankets, winter clothing, and water-sanitation equipment since the October 10 ceasefire, according to a UN report.
🛂 President Donald Trump’s administration has reportedly directed U.S. visa officers to deny entry to applicants with certain medical conditions, including obesity, on the grounds they might become a “public charge,” according to a new State Department cable.
🌊 Three people died and at least fifteen were injured in the Canary Islands after tourists ignored official warnings and were swept away by giant waves during a fierce sea storm.
🌪️ Hong Kong Observatory has issued the T1 warning signal as Severe Typhoon Fung‑Wong draws closer, expected to skirt about 400 km east of the city between Tuesday night and Wednesday.
U.S. Senators say that they have reached a deal to end the government shutdown. Republican Senators found enough Democrats to support their spending bill.
The bill will next head to the House, where Republicans can pass it without Democratic support if nearly all of them vote in favor.
If the measure is enacted Monday, furloughed federal workers will be rehired and employees who’ve gone without pay will receive back pay.
Did Democrats get their way, adding Medicaid cuts back into the budget? They did not. They were promised a vote in December to extend Obamacare subsidies so they can chew on that for a while.
Trump’s Bribeonomics
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President Trump proposed $2,000 dividends to the American people. He says that this money would come from U.S. tariff income but only after some (not all) U.S. debt is paid down.
Remember during the first Trump administration when serious economists warned that Covid stimulus checks would lead to record inflation and no one listened? Get ready for a sequel if these “dividends” ever hit bank accounts.
It’s hard not to see this as an obvious distraction from broken campaign promises: to shrink the size of government, end foreign spending, and fight inflation with pro-business policy.
The President also put forward a 50-year mortgage to help young people afford a home. This plan is as wise as building your own house with no carpentry experience.
A 50-year mortgage is not much different from renting.
Here’s the math: On a $500,000 home at 6%, the interest on a 30-year mortgage totals roughly $460,000. Stretch that to 50 years and you’ll pay about $860,000 in interest. That’s nearly double the cost for the same house. Why would any president think that’s “helping”?
Trump compared himself to Franklin Roosevelt, who introduced the 30-year mortgage. But Roosevelt is no hero to emulate. He confiscated Americans’ gold, expanded federal power beyond precedent, and warped the housing market into a lifelong debt trap. Since his reforms, housing prices have risen more than 400% in real terms, and over 2,000% in nominal dollars.
And this is the legacy we’re copying? A power-hungry Democrat who made debt the American dream.
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BBC Fallout Becomes a Gift for Trump and Israel
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The BBC can’t seem to do right. Two senior executives at the network resigned this weekend after President Trump accused them of editing one of his speeches to make him seem responsible for the January 6 protests.
The Trump administration may be correct, but they are using the moment to run cover for Israel, which should have nothing to do with this story. The UK Embassy of Israel released this statement saying that they’re glad the BBC higher ups are resigning because the network isn’t fair to Israel.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt showed BBC headlines claiming that the network changed the death count at an aid center in Gaza before pulling the story. That’s false. The article remains online; the figures were simply revised as casualty reports came in.
The message from the White House seems to be: “See, you can’t trust anything they report! Not about Trump, not about Israel.”
By merging the BBC’s alleged anti-Trump bias with accusations of anti-Israel bias, they create one clean narrative — the global media is corrupt, the West’s enemies are “our enemies,” and Trump (and by extension Israel) are victims of the same dishonest press.
The press is dishonest, absolutely, but the Trump administration has not shown itself to be any better. This also gives them an excellent opportunity to ignore BBC reports showing that most Palestinian children killed in Gaza were shot in the head or chest. This is a detail that should spark outrage but instead gets buried under political theater about “media bias.”
News By The Numbers
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15. That is the age of the young French man who went viral for being photographed looking dapper after the Louvre heist. The Associated Press interviewed the clever gent and it turns out, he likes to dress this way every day whereas my 15-year-old son…does not.
144 hours. That is how long one man played Dance Dance Revolution to break a Guinness World Record. The previous record was 138 hours.
1,100. That is how many restaurant chairs were stolen by a gang of seat thieves in Spain. Police arrested seven people connected with this burglary spree.
What’s Trending?
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The Starbucks 20-ounce Glass Bearista Cold Cup is trending because it sold out on the first day it went on sale and caused customers to come to blows.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) alleged that the ostriches had bird flu but there was never any proof of that. Farm owners offered to test the birds but the government said that they would be fined for doing so.
Several virologists argued that, if the birds were infected, their antibodies could have been scientifically valuable in studying and potentially preventing human transmission. The CFIA would not consider those options. They were intent on killing the ostriches and after a drawn-out legal fight, they succeeded when the Supreme Court of Canada declined to stop them last week.
The images are straight out of a horror film. I don’t know how anyone can ever forgive the Canadian government for this. May God’s wrath come to the fullest extent to every single person who would do this to innocent animals.
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