One of the more shocking email exchanges from the Epstein files is this one from spiritual leader Deepak Chopra. He says that "God is a construct" but "cute girls are real." He asks if Epstein had found him "a cute Israeli."
It’s hard to imagine a more complete collapse of the public persona Chopra spent decades cultivating. This was a man who preached transcendence, detachment from desire, and moral clarity.The real question isn’t just how Chopra recovers from this. Who cares if he does or not? The question is how so many people trusted him to guide their inner lives for so long and how they missed that he was into such unsavory behavior.
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The Lead: Congress “Keeps the Government Open”—Just Not Ours
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The House passed a massive spending package late Monday, sold to the public as a bill to “keep the government open.”
But whose government, exactly?
Yes, it keeps the U.S. federal government funded, but it also continues funding several foreign governments at the same time.
The full text of the bill has not been published but according to Rep. Thomas Massie, the bill includes $5 billion in benefits for refugees, $315 million to fund the National Endowment of Democracy, which specializes in manipulating foreign governments, nearly $4 billion in aid to Israel, $1.5 billion in aid for Egypt, $2.1 billion in aid for Jordan, $700 million for a global HIV-prevention program, and more.
This is a direct tax on the American working class and a transfer of wealth from U.S. workers to foreign governments. And yet Congress passed it without hesitation.
If you’re starting to suspect that government shutdown threats are little more than leverage to ram through foreign aid, you’re probably onto something. These spending items would provoke real debate if introduced as standalone bills. Instead, they’re buried inside “must-pass” legislation that holds American workers hostage. Pass it or face a shutdown.
It’s not governance. It’s ransom.
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President Trump says that he is in negotiation with Iran "right now" to avoid a military conflict.
“[The talks] are all over. But they are negotiating. They’d like to do something, and we’ll see if something is going to be done,” he told White House reporters.
"They had a chance to do something a while ago, and it didn’t work out. And we did ‘Midnight Hammer’, I don’t think they want that happening again,” he added.
This is all nonsense.
The United States never proved that Iran had nuclear weapons. It simply went ahead with a bombing raid. What, exactly, the U.S. now wants from Iran is anyone’s guess.
The US military claimed to have shot down an unmanned Iranian drone in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday. A CENTCOM spokesperson said that the drone was “aggressively approaching” near the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of Iran so an F-35 fighter jet shot it down.
Iranian media later claimed that the drone was conducting “routine” and “lawful” surveillance in international waters.
Iranian military leaders warned this week that their military is prepared for a conflict should the U.S. attack.
These were the words of Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi: “The slightest mistake will give us a free hand to act. The world will see a different face of a strong Iran; then no American will be safe, and the fire of the region will burn the United States and its allies."
Kaitlan Collins is trending because President Trump scolded her about not smiling when she asked about Epstein survivors.
Melinda Gates is trending because she responded to the alleged misdeeds of her ex-husband Bill Gates. Specifically, Epstein wrote that Gates sought antibiotics to sneak his wife to prevent her from knowing that he'd given her a sexually transmitted disease. When asked about these things, she said that they made her very sad. She did NOT say that they did not happen.
TMZ is trending because the gossip network said that it received an unverified ransom note demanding a substantial amount for the return of "Today" anchor Savannah Guthrie's missing mother, Nancy. They claim to have sent it to law enforcement.
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