Japan is on the brink of running out of Asahi beer after a cyberattack knocked out the brewer’s systems. Why would someone do that? It’s not just a crime, it’s a party foul!
âš“ Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly fired the Navy chief of staff, Jon Harrison, who had overseen sweeping changes to Navy policy and budgeting, following the Senate confirmation of Hung Cao as undersecretary.
🏠The Trump administration’s plan to boost coal production is gaining momentum, with leases awarded in Alabama and Utah, mines approved in Tennessee and Wyoming, and over 13.1 million acres of federal land opened for coal mining.
🇨🇿 Andrej Babis’s populist party won a decisive victory in the Czech parliamentary election, marking a significant political comeback and a pivot away from the Western-aligned liberal government led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala.
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Lead: Trump’s Ceasefire Plan That Netanyahu Won’t Abide
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Over the weekend, the White House said that Hamas has accepted his deal but Israel keeps signaling that they’re not on board.
On Sunday, the White House said that a hostage release was imminent. On Saturday, the White House said that “Israel has agreed to the initial withdrawal line” and that a “Ceasefire will be IMMEDIATELY effective.”
Does Israel know that? An Israeli spokesperson told journalists that “there’s no ceasefire in place at this point in time.” Israel continued its bombing campaign on Gaza on Sunday, killing at least 24 Palestinians.
Peace negotiations will take place on Monday in Egypt. The U.S. will reportedly send White House envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The White House is portraying this as President Trump strong-arming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into accepting the deal.
It postedthis Axios article quoting the President telling Netanyahu that he has no choice but to take it. Axios also reports that Trump told the Israeli Prime Minister that he’s “always so f***ing negative.”
This feels like a reputational save. If President Trump had this sway over Prime Minister Netanyahu, he would have used it months ago.
White House Sends Troops to Oregon Despite Judge’s Ban
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A judge in Oregon blocked President Trump from sending the National Guard to Portland, so the Pentagon redirected troops from California to Oregon to get around the ruling.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said Sunday that he will sue the Trump administration to stop this.
“He is using our military as political pawns to build up his own ego,” Newsom said.
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek said, “There is no need for military intervention in Oregon.”
But protests at ICE facilities have grown increasingly contentious. The Constitution gives the President the power to use the military to protect federal buildings. The Pentagon hasn’t said how it will deploy the National Guard, but if the mission is limited to protecting federal property, it would be within the bounds of federal law. That’s the same reasoning that made the California deployment legal. The troops were federalized to guard federal buildings, not to police city streets, keeping the operation within the President’s lawful authority.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said on Saturday that the White House gave him notice of its intent to send troops to his state soon as well, which he has indicated he will also fight.
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Death on Demand — and for Parts
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Canada has crossed an ethical rubicon by harvesting organs from assisted suicides.
Recently, the first heart from an assisted suicide was transplanted into a 59-year-old American man with heart failure. This is not the first organ harvested from Canada’s euthanasia program, but it is the first heart. According to the National Post, “at least 155 people in Canada have donated their organs and tissues after receiving a doctor-administered lethal injection” since 2016, although a “number of doctors are concerned that some Canadians receiving medical assisted death don’t actually meet Health Canada’s criteria for the procedure.”
Even people who support Canada’s MAiD program have objected to this trend. They warn it risks creating a kind of death coercion.
There is even an acronym for this: ODE, which stands for organ donation after euthanasia. Canada is the global leader in ODE. A Dutch study indicated that of 286 instances of ODE leading up to 2021, 136 were Canadian.
Indeed, there is evidence that MAiD has been presented to people who are depressed or poor but not terminally ill. Imagine a system where vulnerable people are talked into dying so that their healthy organs can be passed on to the wealthy. It’s a dystopic reality we are now living with.
This raises a disturbing question: was Canada’s euthanasia regime ever purely about compassion, or was it always destined to serve institutional convenience, namely, a pipeline for organs, budgets, and bureaucratic efficiency disguised as mercy?
News By The Numbers
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$33 million. That is how much Taylor Swift’s 90-minute film called The Official Release Party of a Showgirl made at the box office this weekend in the U.S. It wasn’t really a movie, it was behind the scenes footage about the album and a music video.
2.7 million. That is how many albums Taylor Swift sold of her latest release, The Life of a Showgirl. That is her best first weekend for any of her albums and second only to Adele’s 25, which sold 3.378 million in its first week. Mercifully, my daughters who like Taylor Swift are not into this album so it’s not on repeat in my house.
16,000 feet. That is the altitude that nearly 1,000 hikers were stranded on Mt. Everest this weekend due to a massive blizzard. Rescuers spent Sunday bringing them down but hundreds were still stranded on Monday.
What’s Trending?
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Meghan Markle is trending because she went to Paris for Fashion Week and posted a picture of herself in a limousine with her feet up near the place where Princess Diana died and people found that insensitive and tone deaf.
Pete Hegseth is trending because Saturday Night Live spoofed his speech this weekend with Colin Jost playing the Secretary of War.
Van Jones is trending after his appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher, where he accused Iran and Qatar of running a disinformation campaign on TikTok showing young people nothing but “dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, Diddy, dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby.” He later apologized on X, saying he regretted how it came across as a punchline—which only confirms that he knows those dead Gaza babies are real. Yet his point was that their images are part of a disinformation campaign. Did he mean to suggest that we shouldn’t see them? Did he intend to shift blame from the violence itself to the act of witnessing it?
Israel Admits to Treating Gaza Flotilla Activists as Terrorists — Including Five U.S. Veterans
When Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla, they took nearly 450 activists into custody, including Thunberg. The detainees say they were humiliated, denied medical care, and kept in squalid conditions without adequate food or water. They say Thunberg was singled out for mistreatment, dragged by her hair, tied, and mocked while being forced to pose with Israeli flags.
Israel disputes these accounts, calling them “brazen lies.” They say that the flotilla members are abusing them. They say one of their medical staff was bitten by a Spanish member of the flotilla.
But National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has openly admitted taking a personal interest in the operation, saying he was “proud that we are treating the flotilla activists as terror supporters.” He directed that they be handled as terror suspects, not humanitarian workers.
Many of the activists have since been deported to Turkey, but dozens remain in detention, their whereabouts still unknown. The United Nations has condemned Israel’s handling of the flotilla, calling for the immediate release of all remaining detainees and an independent investigation into their treatment.
At least five Americans were on the flotilla, all of them military veterans. The State Department said that it would monitor the situation and provide assistance to them but they also called the flotilla a “deliberate and unnecessary provocation.” There is no word on where those two Americans are as of this writing.
Shouldn’t we be demanding our veterans back right now from our “greatest ally”?
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