Disney has ditched the trigger warnings in front of classics like Dumbo, Peter Pan and The Jungle Book that warned that the films contained racism and “harmful” stereotypes. From now on, if you’re triggered by Dumbo, you’re on your own! Photo credit: Walt Disney Co.
📰 The Associated Press says that it was “denied access to the Oval Office because the Associated Press recognizes the international body of water on our southern coastline as the Gulf of Mexico.” Their explanation for that can be found here.
✝️ The Pope published this letter about deportations in the United States, acknowledging a nation’s right to enforce a rule of law while seeking to assert the dignity of all refugees. He says that we should call upon Our Lady of Guadalupe to protect individuals and families who live in fear or pain due to migration and/or deportation.
🇺🇸🇺🇦 President Trump says that he has sent “Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to Ukraine to meet President Zelensky” because he wants the war to “end soon.”
📅 Google says that it will no longer put things on your calendar such as the first day of Black History Month, Women’s History month, Pride month, or any other holidays and events. A spokesperson said that they had tried to add too many countries and cultural events and it just got too crazy.
🚻 Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has vetoed a bill that passed both chambers of congress to ban transgender experimental procedures for minors. Republicans say that they will override the veto.
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Lead: Ceasefire
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Emboldened by President Trump’s calls for Israeli hostages to be released by Hamas by this weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu echoed that in a video statement.
“If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon,” he says, “the ceasefire will end, and the IDF will return to intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated.”
Three hostages were set to be free on Saturday but Hamas announced on Monday that they would suspend this exchange because Israel had breached the deal.
While the ceasefire is in place, the IDF has stepped up firing on the West Bank. According to Haaretz, Israel has expanded its “open fire orders” to include allowing them to fire on any unarmed Palestinian, even if they are just “messing with the ground.” The claim is that this order is necessary to prevent explosives from being planted, but sources told Haaretz it has made soldiers “trigger happy.” They are also now allowed to fire on cars that are leaving combat zones in order to force them to stop.
The King of Jordan, Abdullah II, met with President Trump in the White House on Tuesday. He said that it was a “constructive” meeting and that Jordan has a “steadfast position against the displacement of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This is the unified Arab position. Rebuilding Gaza without displacing the Palestinians and addressing the dire humanitarian situation should be the priority for all.”
President Trump says that he would like to end the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, after news broke that FEMA had been spending money for housing on illegal migrants while denying claims for Americans in disaster zones.
“FEMA SHOULD BE TERMINATED,” he wrote in all caps. “IT HAS BEEN SLOW AND TOTALLY INEFFECTIVE. INDIVIDUAL STATES SHOULD HANDLE STORMS, ETC., AS THEY COME. BIG SAVINGS, FAR MORE EFFICIENT!!!”
Well, a new report says he’s right. An audit published at the end of January shows that FEMA mismanaged nearly $10 billion between 2020 and 2023. Plus, when they did have claims for Americans to pay out, they did so willy nilly. The report says that “FEMA did not issue determination memorandums when denying or reducing reimbursement requests, as required.”
But when it came to wasting money not for the American people, they were good at that. In one instance, FEMA approved a grant of $1.1 billion that was “supported by one sheet of paper with no itemized costs and was not prepared by a licensed Professional Engineer or cost-estimating professional.”
This is monkey business, man! Yes, get rid of the middle man. Send relief funds directly to the states.
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The House Oversight Committee announced a new Task Force on Declassification and Transparency. It will be led by Representative Anna Paulina Luna. She says that the committee will “expose federal secrets.”
She says that the committee will start with the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy and then handle other government secrets such as the Epstein client list. When asked who she would interview for the JFK investigation, she said that she’d interview physicians who attended him after he was shot. Well, they’re all dead so maybe she’s got a medium on staff.
These are not the same people who were tasked by President Trump’s executive order to declassify information about President Kennedy’s assassination. This is a self-appointed House of Representatives committee. We could learn something from it or it could be all politics like the January 6 committee so…don’t get too excited yet. We’re watching.
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Tuna is trending because cans of the fish have been recalled at several U.S. grocers.
Duolingo is trending because the company announced that they will retire the Owl logo.
This videois trending of a woman railing against the IRS. We ALL feel this.
News By The Numbers
$4.50 to $6.25. That is how much the Chicken Big Mac cost at McDonalds when it was available for a limited time last fall. The company says that they’re bringing it back along with a “new chicken strip offering.”
230. That is how many feet below ground the government retirement office is, according to DOGE. They say that the 700 employees who work there process federal retirements by hand, “in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania.” They reportedly process “~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months.”
>200,000. That is how many Danish people signed a petition to buy California from the U.S. in response to the idea that the U.S. could buy Greenland from Denmark. Californians may want to consider it! Denmark has a 55% tax rate, which is only a little higher than what Californians already pay only they’d get free healthcare out of the deal.
A new law in New Hampshire could give the state the right to take your children from you. A new bill removes the word “safety” from the legal definition of child abuse. It replaces it with “physical, emotional or psychological welfare.”
So if the government assesses that your child is emo, they can step in. I’m sure you can see where this could go wrong in our culture stemmed from the cult of safetyism.
For instance, in Minnesota, Child Protective Services accused a father of emotional abuse and neglect because he was a Christian and refused to call his daughter a boy and placed her in foster care with two gay men. New Hampshire is expanding its ability to do things like this.
Your child is in puberty? Let us step in. Your child wants to experiment with sex and drugs? We’ll take it from here.
Why does the state need to intervene in anything more than physical safety? There are already robust laws on the books to protect children. In fact, New Hampshire “removes children from their families at a rate nearly double the national average.”
Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, said this to Reason Magazine: “I happen to be a tax-and-spend liberal but this bill provides not one iota of additional help. It simply turns the [Division for Children, Youth and Families] into the ‘well-being’ police.”
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This newsletter is written and researched by Natali Morris. Please feel free to reach Natali at [email protected] for any editorial feedback.
