Roughly 20 people gathered in New York City this weekend to protest outside CBS Studios in support of late-night host Stephen Colbert.
Imagine looking at the world we live in and thinking:
“What really needs my voice right now… is network comedy.”
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🇮🇱 Israel set a 90-day deadline for Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah, which it communicated to the U.S., and U.S. envoy Tom Barrack then delivered the ultimatum to Lebanon—effectively acting as a conduit for Israel’s demands.
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The Lead: No Forgiveness for the Angel of Death
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The U.S. withdrew from peace talks between Israel and Hamas, claiming that “Hamas does not appear to be coordinated or acting in good faith.”
Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff did not explain what that means. Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Hamas wanted Israel to stop controlling aid into Gaza as civilians starve. That does not seem to bother President Trump like one might think it would.
The President said on Sunday that “The U.S. is going to do more aid for Gaza, but we’d like to have other countries participate … It’s not a U.S. problem, it’s an international problem.”
“Together, these developments highlight a broader reality: Netanyahu dragged Trump and Witkoff into adopting a failed policy – one that returned no living hostages, cost the lives of nearly 50 Israeli soldiers since the war was resumed in March, led to the deaths of thousands of Palestinian civilians, and precipitated a full-blown humanitarian disaster. The consequences of this failure will haunt Israel for years.”
“There is no forgiveness for the angels of death,” protesters chanted.
Who is the angel of death in this context? It’s Netanyahu.
This isn’t just protest. It’s condemnation.
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More economic pain is in store for Europeans after European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen announced an economic deal with President Trump over the weekend.
There’s no formal text of the deal yet, so we’re left with what the two leaders say is in it. If we take them at their word, the deal is a win for the U.S. — and a loss for Europe.
Europe has agreed to invest $600 billion in the U.S., spend $750 billion on American energy, and commit to purchasing U.S.-made military equipment.
But wait, didn’t von der Leyen just push through a €2 trillion budget which promised to invest in European-made military equipment? So Europeans are now doubling down on weaponry purchases? How are they to pay for this?
They’ll tax their heavily-taxed citizens of course. Most EU countries are already above the Maastricht Treaty’s 60% debt-to-GDP limit — but if von der Leyen tells you to take on more, what choice do you have?
10 hours. That is the average amount of time that Americans spend online, according to a new survey. At least half of that time was spent “browsing, working, gaming, looking at social media, reading email or paying bills.” What else is there to do with the rest of the time?
28%. That is how many Americans think there will be a prosecution of an Obama-era official over the Russiagate hoax.
173. That is how many passengers evacuated an American Airlines flight in Denver on Saturday due to an aircraft malfunction. The video is harrowing.
A new study claims that COVID vaccines didn’t save as many lives as we were originally told.
But here’s the problem: the number of “lives saved” has always been based on mathematical models — not hard data. These models guess how many people might have died without vaccines, and then credit the vaccine for the difference. That’s a shaky foundation to begin with.
And when you factor in the CDC’s admitted overreporting of COVID deaths, those baselines become even more unreliable. So if we can’t trust the original death counts, how can we trust any claim built on top of them?
Even so, the recent JAMA study uses these math models to claim that most lives saved by the Covid vaccine were in elderly people. Even by these flawed models, very few young people were “saved” by the Covid vaccine. And yet they were still pressured to get vaccinated, despite the now well-documented risk of adverse effects in low-risk age groups.
Watch your socials! The British government has created an elite police unit to monitor online critics of immigration, scanning social media for what it calls “early signs” of unrest — because when you can’t control the border or the streets, you start policing the internet.
But it’s for your own protection, they say. After last summer’s migration protests, some of which turned violent, the government says that this is a public safety measure, designed to intercept early signs of escalation — before they turn violent.
But it is also thought‑crime surveillance, policing opinions rather than actions.
In a free society, you’re allowed to think and say what you want — as long as you don’t commit a crime. Clearly, the U.K. is no longer a free society.
What’s Trending?
credit: Netflix
Happy Gilmore 2 is trending because the sequel to the golf comedy was released on Netflix this weekend to mostly positive reviews.
Cameron Boyce is trending because there is a tribute to the actor who died young in the aforementioned Happy Gilmore sequel.
This video is trending of citizens at a Walmart apprehending a man who stabbed at least 11 people.
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