🚶♂️ New York Mayor Adams revealed his new campaign slogan since he left the Democratic Party and is running as an independent. It is: “Safe Streets, Affordable City.”
🧪 The Texas Attorney General launched an investigation into Kellogg’s over their use of dangerous food dyes.
🚿 President Trump repealed Obama-era rules on low-flow shower heads that have resulted in more water use rather than less.
🕵️♂️ FBI Director Kash Patel announced the seizure of “48,400 pounds of illicit narcotics worth over $509 million” in Florida.
💻 The DOGE team say that they worked with the IRS to move the “login button” to the top left of IRS.gov because it was inexplicably in the middle before.
⚖️ An appeals ruled that the Trump administration does not have to reinstate workers that had been fired from 20 federal agencies.
*Stock data as of market close, cryptocurrency data as of 5:00pm AM.
Lead: Tariffs: Was This The Play All Along?
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President Trump put a 90-day pause for tariffs on at least 75 countries that have opened negotiations with the White House. China is not one of them. For China, he raised to tariff to 125%, effective immediately and China responded with an 84% tariff on the U.S.
Additionally, he lowed the reciprocal tariffs to 10% for everyone who is not China.
The stock market rallied on this news. It makes it all the more clear that the tariffs were an opening offer to force countries to make a better deal. This seems to have been his plan all along.
In fact, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett said exactly that on Wednesday at the White House: “This was his strategy all along.”
Investor and early Facebook founder Chamath Palihapitiya predicts that tariffs are also a tactic to transfer wealth back to the middle class. He calls it an economic NATO but just for the U.S., not for a block of countries.
It will be an important weekend for Iranian diplomacy as President Trump sends an envoy to speak with diplomats from Iran in Oman.
President Trump indicated that Israel could lead the U.S. into military action with Iran but then clarified that no one leads the U.S. into war because we do what we want.
“If it requires military, we’re going to have military,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “Israel will obviously be very much involved in that — it’ll be the leader of that. But nobody leads us. We do what we want to do.”
Then why did Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu send his demands for the talks via a video message? He says that he wants for Iran what happened to Libya.
The U.S. caused regime change in Libya by forcing the country to blow up their own nuclear facilities under U.S. supervision and then using NATO to assassinate former leader Muammar Gaddafi. Libya was prospering before the U.S. got involved. President Trump has criticized Hillary Clinton for leading this charge against Libya. Would he turn around and do it to Iran?
Netanyahu also said that another possibility is that Iran would “drag out the talks, and then there is the military option.” He’s hardly one to talk about dragging out peace talks, having demurred on ceasefire talks with Gaza for 18 months.
According to recent reports, Israel hit another civilian neighborhood in Gaza, killing at least 30 people including 8 children.
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The most recent death involved a young girl who had been hospitalized with a blood infection after suffering from tonsillitis complicated by chronic mononucleosis. When she was brought into the hospital, the father asked for inhaled budesonide by nebulizer but the staff treated her as if she was suffering from COVID and treated her with steroids instead. Like the first little girl, the staff missed things that could have been treated with antibiotics and the girls suffered and died. The first death involved a similar tale of missteps including the wrong antibiotic.
These are not scary stories about measles. They’re scary stories about doctors and hospitals and there is a productive way to learn from them but not with media scare tactics about measles vaccines. Did you know that medical error has been shown to be the THIRD leading cause of death in the U.S.!?
There have been measles outbreaks in Europe and Canada too but they don’t have the hysteria and push towards vaccination that has broken out in the U.S. Why do you think that is?
What’s Trending?
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LeBron James Barbie is trending but it is actually a Ken doll. James is the first pro athlete to be honored with a Mattel Ken doll.
Frito-Lay is trending because the company recalled over 1,000 bags of Tostitos Cantina Traditional Yellow Corn Tortilla Chips due to “an undeclared ingredient,” which may be “undeclared milk.”
Michelle Obama is trending because she addressed her recent absence from political events. She said that she was just making choices for herself.
News By The Numbers
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1. That is how many babies this woman is carrying in this photo even though her bump was huge. She gave birth to a 6 pound baby in January but the pregnancy was complicated because the baby could not swallow the amniotic fluid and had to be delivered by C-section early. The baby girl is still in the hospital for respiratory failure and we pray she will recover soon.
100. That is how many foster children a woman in Missouri took in but she was arrested for child abuse and endangerment. One child was reportedly traded for a monkey.
1,700. That is how many pounds of Cabot Extra Creamy Premium Butter (Sea Salted) butter were recalled in 7 states.
DHS Is Watching Your Socials!
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Immigrants to the United States can say what they want about Christians, white people, black people, hispanics. But they cannot have ever said anything that the government considers “antisemitic” or they will have their visas denied.
The Department of Homeland Security admits that it will scan the social media of immigrant applicants and use it as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests.
“This will immediately affect aliens applying for lawful permanent resident status, foreign students and aliens affiliated with educational institutions linked to antisemitic activity,” the government says.
Again…why just this one group? Why can applicants have negative attitudes about all other groups but this one?
This may explain why elite universities say that they have had their students’ visas canceled by the government without explanation.
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