Well the price of eggs have come down in the U.S. since the Trump administration took office and are down 53% from January of 2024. That’s good for your nest egg! Get it!? Photo credit: Getty Images
In Case You Missed It.
💰 The House of Representatives passed a stopgap bill to fund the government through October. It will now go to the Senate.
📰 Politico reports that USAID employees are trying to destroy documents so that the Trump administration doesn’t find…what exactly?
🥗 The U.S. Department of Agriculture will cut $1 billion of funding for schools and food banks to buy school lunches from local farmers. That may seem sad but have you ever seen how many fruits and vegetables are thrown away in a school lunch room?? Should taxpayers keep buying them for the compost pile?
🚫 The U.S. Department of Agriculture has paused funding to the University of Maine System (UMS) because the state has refused to comply with the executive order to keep trans-identified boys out of girls’ sports.
🇺🇦 Ukraine launched over 300 drones at Russia, hitting an oil pipeline that brings oil to Hungary. Hungary “voiced its opposition to” to this attack.
⚖️ A Constitutional Court in Romania rejected an appeal by presidential hopeful Calin Georgescu who seemed set to win the office before he was thrown out of the race.
🎙️ Join us live for Redacted starting today at 4 PM EST we have lots to talk about.
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Lead: Ceasefire Deal in Ukraine
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The U.S. State Department says that Ukraine has agreed to “an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation.”
Don’t get too excited about the word “ceasefire” though. The ceasefire’s conditions are bombs. If Ukraine agrees to the ceasefire, the U.S. “will immediately lift the pause on intelligence sharing and resume security assistance to Ukraine.”
Security assistance means money and weapons.
Additionally, the deal involves “a comprehensive agreement for developing Ukraine’s critical mineral resources to expand Ukraine’s economy and guarantee Ukraine’s long-term prosperity and security.”
So will Russia go for it? Well, it would mean Ukraine still has Western weapons on Russia’s borders, which Russia rejects but it would put Ukrainian President Zelensky back under the thumb of the U.S., putting him out of reach of the Europeans.
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said this about it:
“He [Trump] is a negotiator-in-chief, and he put Zelensky in his place and told him that the Americans are serious about a long-term peace deal.”
The White House says that the Columbia University student that ICE detained and is attempting to deport was circulating “pro-Hamas propaganda flyers” and that those flyers even have a Hamas logo.
Is this enough to deny the right to free speech, even to a legal immigrant that is not a U.S. citizen? What would the constitution say? Remember that the ACLU in 1977 defended the rights of Nazis to march in a town of Holocaust survivors because the fierce defense of free speech is the fabric of American society. This case calcified who we are: a people committed to the idea that free speech must include speech that you don’t like.
Free speech advocacy group FIRE says that this is not enough. “The Press Secretary used the word ‘propaganda.’ What is another word for propaganda? Speech. And that’s the problem here is that we are talking about expression.”
Is there also unlawful conduct that the government count prosecute? The public should be made aware of this because the case is not black and white. It also highlights the Western problem of having immigrants who hate the culture they have moved into. This one is tricky and uncomfortable too.
Thousands of protestors in New York City have taken to the street to protest Khalil’s deportation, leading to clashes with police.
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Department of Education
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What is half of 4,133? That is how many employees will be eliminated at the Department of Education.
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said that this will help eliminate “bureaucratic bloat.”
“The Department of Education will continue to deliver on all statutory programs that fall under the agency’s purview, including formula funding, student loans, Pell Grants, funding for special needs students, and competitive grantmaking,” the agency said.
Before you get poetic about education, recall that the DOE does not have the federal authority to instate education standards and has never resulted in high standards in the first place. President Trump wants education run by the states, which is what the Constitution calls for too. See our piece on the Department of Education and its inception.
What’s Trending?
Photo credit: Walt Disney Co.
Snow White is trending because Variety reports that Disney will scale back the premiere of the live action film because people the consensus on the Internet is hatred for everything about the movie. It is also trending because the soundtrack was released and many people are annoyed that classics like “Someday My Prince Will Come” and “I’m Wishing” were not included in the film.
Bill Burr is trending for this Variety article about his new comedy show and how much he hates Elon Musk.
Tiger Woods is trending because he said that he had surgery for a ruptured Achilles tendon.
News By The Numbers
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$0. That is how much Southwest Airlines charges for checked bags for now. Starting in May, the company will start charging for checked bags for the first time ever and loyalists are devastated.
40%. That is the tax rate that Rosie O’Donnell will now pay on her worldwide income since she’s moved to Ireland to escape the U.S. until it is “safe for all citizens to have equal rights there.”
$4,550. That is how much Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is accused of paying for “dance training” with taxpayer dollars. She denies it saying it was an FEC filing but it is actually from a representational allowance which is paid with “taxpayer money.”
Makeup Wars
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The right-left divide is getting even more petty with the “makeup wars,” which of course are partisan.
Democrats say that “Republican makeup” is too heavy on foundation and thick eyebrows. Republicans say that “Democrat makeup” is clownish and sloppy with bright dyed hair, piercings and neon lipstick.
The two sides are indicating that their opponents not only have bad politics but also bad taste. It’s another way to make fun of people you disagree with.
According to the Wall Street Journal, “Comedian Suzanne Lambert popularized “Republican makeup.” [She] said her posts were meant to be cutting and provocative. Accuracy is not necessarily the goal.
“They’ve called us blue-haired liberals for years, right?” said Lambert, a former Republican who has light brown-blonde hair, in an interview. “They’ll make fun of our tattoos and our piercings, and we’ve never really clapped back.”
It’s not clapping back. It is childish and it is each group selling themselves a false notion of their own superiority.
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