🚨 Space Bugs – May 21 2025

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Lead: Possible War with Iran Escalates

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CNN reports that Israel is planning to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, even as the Trump administration is actively negotiating a nuclear treaty.

“Officials caution it’s not clear that Israeli leaders have made a final decision, and that in fact, there is deep disagreement within the US government about the likelihood that Israel will ultimately act. Whether and how Israel strikes will likely depend on what it thinks of the US negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program,” CNN reports.

Why would Israel thwart the U.S. deal when so much of its own military is built on U.S. donations? To sabotage that deal, according to a source.

“I think it’s more likely they strike to try and get the deal to fall apart if they think Trump is going to settle for a ‘bad deal,’” the US intelligence source told CNN. “The Israelis have not been shy about signaling that to us … both publicly and privately.”

The source says that the U.S. is “unlikely” to help if Israel moves forward with this plan but the U.S. would be dragged into a war with Iran if it escalates.

White House sources also told Axios that President Trump wants the war in Gaza to end because the optics of so many civilian deaths is bad.

“The president is frustrated about what is happening in Gaza. He wants the war to end, he wants the hostages to come home, he wants aid to go in and he wants to start rebuilding Gaza,” one White House official said.

He is really the only one who can stop it but will he?

Autopen Scandal

President Trump says that the people who ran the Biden White House should face “severe legal” consequences. In the wake of President Biden’s admission of a late-stage cancer, it is clear that he was not well in the recent past and surely not well enough to run the United States of America.

But how can we find out who manipulated President Biden? Did he in fact understand the laws he put into effect? Or some of them at least? Is it possible to ever know that? It is clear that he wanted to run for re-election and that choice was taken from him. But by who!?

Incidentally, this is the plot of the 1993 movie Dave but the doppelgänger ran the country for the better.

President Trump can call for consequences but he can’t launch his own investigations. He can appoint a Special Counsel, which is probably a good idea. The Justice Department can also launch its own investigation and clearly it should.

Family Farms Fight Back

Four corporate giants now control 80 % of America’s meat supply—and the biggest share of U.S. pork is Chinese‑owned. The result? Additive‑laden, antibiotic‑soaked “sketchy meat,” while independent ranchers get squeezed out of business.

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Afghanistan Under Review

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The Defense Department has ordered a “comprehensive review” of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 “that led to the deaths of 13 U.S. Service members and 170 civilians in a suicide bombing at the Kabul International Airport’s Abbey Gate.”

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that a three-month review of the withdrawal has led him to the conclusion that more answers are needed.

The withdrawal was ordered by President Trump during his first term but executed by the Biden administration after two decades of pointless war in Afghanistan that the Bush administration knew it could not win. It begs the question as to whether or not there was ever a way to withdraw properly from such an epic loss. Could the lesson here be not to dig into mud we cannot get out of?

What’s Trending?

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Zootopia is trending because a sequel to the film is due out in November and Disney released this new teaser trailer on Tuesday.

Ann Kaplan Mulholland is trending for being such a b-word to a waiter when he tries to serve her a dish full of carbs at a boozy lunch. She is a Canadian entrepreneur, author, and television personality, best known for her role on The Real Housewives of Toronto.

George Wendt is trending because the actor best known as Norm on Cheers has died at the age of 76.

News By The Numbers

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3. That is how many children the Pig family have. It is now Peppa Pig, George Pig and Evie Pig. The new Pig baby was announced by proclamation (on Instagram) on Tuesday.

7. That is how many JCPenney stores are closing before Memorial Day.

$25 billion. That is how much the Department of Defense has asked Congress for to build the Golden Dome for America will cost. This is the “next-generation missile defense shield” that President Trump formalized in Executive Order (EO) 14186 on January 27, 2025. President Trump put that number at $175 billion.

New FDA Rules for Covid Vaccines

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The FDA says that it will no longer approve Covid vaccines without clinical trials for the general population. Instead, it will only approve COVID-19 vaccines for:

• Adults aged 65 and older.
• Individuals aged 6 months and older with at least one high-risk condition (e.g., asthma, diabetes, cancer, obesity).

This was announced in a New England Journal of Medicine publication by FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. Vinay Prasad, head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. It means that no approval for the general population unless there are clinical trials, not emergency use authorizations.

This does not mean that the current vaccines will be removed from the childhood vaccine schedule. That is determined by the CDC so as of now, the COVID-19 vaccine is still on the CDC’s recommended schedule for children as young as 6 months.

At the very least, it will mean shots going forward will need full approval but based on the way that the Novavax vaccine was approved last week based on truly shit trials, we shouldn’t get that excited yet. The standards for trials must go up at the same time as the requirement.

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