Netflix is bringing Agatha Christie books to life in film, and The Telegraph wants to brand them as the next wave of girl-power movies. No. If you’ve actually read her, you know she wrote women with claws, contradictions, and sometimes murder on their minds — not characters drafted for your girl-bossing agenda.
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In Case You Missed It
📰 The Daily Beast has issued this apology to First Lady Melania Trump for reporting that she was in close contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
⚖️ Attorney General Pam Bondi says that the U.S. will go after “hate speech” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, even though there is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment and Kirk himself opposed hate speech legislation.
🔫 The alleged killer of Charlie Kirk has not confessed and the details the FBI are giving are…a bit dubious. There was a note but the note was destroyed?
🛂 The State Department is trying to add amendments to HR 5300 that would allow it to revoke passports of American citizens for “aiding and abetting human traffickers and foreign terrorist organizations.”
🏦 A U.S. appeals court ruled that President Trump cannot remove Fed Governor Lisa Cook—who faces mortgage-fraud allegations—because under the law she’s protected by a “for cause” removal requirement, meaning she can stay in her position while the legal challenge proceeds.
🚀 A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit by conservation groups who argued that SpaceX’s expanded launch operations in Texas—with FAA approval—threaten endangered wildlife, finding that the environmental review process satisfied legal requirements.
President Trump said on Monday that “U.S. Military Forces conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against positively identified, extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. The Strike occurred while these confirmed narcoterrorists from Venezuela were in International Waters transporting illegal narcotics (A DEADLY WEAPON POISONING AMERICANS!) headed to the U.S.”
The public was not given proof that these were drug dealers.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called the first bombing on September 2 a “heinous crime.” He called it “a military attack on civilians who were not at war and were not militarily threatening any country” and claimed that the United States was trying to goad Venezuela into a “major war.”
President Maduro says that the U.S. is after “regime change for oil” and not a drug war. That is what Redacted’s frequent military expert Colonel Douglas MacGregor think so too.
Israel’s War on Gaza Expands as U.S. Politicians Pledge Loyalty and Critics Are Silenced
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Israel claims that more than 300,000 Palestinians have left Gaza City since the IDF began its all-out assault there last month.
At least 32 people were killed over the weekend, including 12 children, according to reports. Civilians were instructed to leave, but airstrikes continue to hit the very places where they are told to go.
Every time Israel brings down a building, it insists Hamas was inside—without providing proof. The U.S. State Department is A-okay with that and so is President Trump.
President Trump said he read somewhere that Hamas was moving the hostages around above ground. He concluded that “ALL ‘BETS’ ARE OFF.” In other words: everywhere is bombable.
The conference was called “Fifty States – One Israel.” In case it wasn’t already clear, Israel presents itself as an extension of the United States and brooks no diplomatic distance.
Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League has declared that anyone who questions Israel’s role or reaction to the death of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk is antisemitic. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to post online about how close he was to Kirk and what an ardent supporter of Israel Kirk supposedly was—even though there are credible reports that Kirk had been breaking away from his allegiance to Israel over the atrocities in Gaza and had rejected donations from wealthy Israelis. Kirk’s own broadcasts showed he was beginning to question Israel.
It is always valid to ask who had a motive against the murder victim. That’s not antisemitic.
It is also valid to ask why the leader of a foreign nation continues to insist that the deceased lived for his cause, as Tucker Carlson pointed out in a conversation with Vice President Vance on Monday.
Those questions are not antisemitic—and we will ask them too.
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Trump’s TikTok “Rescue” Hands More Power to Washington
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President Trump is making nice with China this week. The President says he will have a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday and that tariff negotiations with China have “gone VERY WELL!” There are also reports that a resolution to the TikTok ban is in the works.
That’s fine until you hear what that resolution would be. According to reports, the U.S. government will force TikTok owners ByteDance to divest its U.S. operations to a group of private investors.
The Financial Times reported earlier this year that the White House wanted these firms to take partial ownership in the American TikTok: Andreessen Horowitz, Blackstone, Silver Lake.
Why would ByteDance go along with this? Perhaps because it would maintain majority ownership and still stand to profit.
According to reports, the U.S. government still has “security issues” that need to be resolved before the deal is final. Right. “Security issues.”
The TikTok ban was instated during the Biden administration and passed into law by Congress. President Trump vetoed the ban, but his “rescue” of the app only hands the government more power.
This is the U.S. government choosing who would own this vastly popular social network and making demands for “security issues.” If you can’t see the problem with this, you must be new here.
News By The Numbers
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Four. That is how many new donuts Krispy Kreme launched for the fall. Here are the flavors: Cotton Candy, Kreme Puff, Blue Ribbon Apple Pie and Caramel Churro.
7.42 million. That is how many people watched The Emmys on Sunday, up 8% from the previous year.
18 months. That is the prison sentence for a woman who got drunk and killed her son’s dog with a samurai sword. She initially said that the dog attacked her but later admitted that the dog was sleeping on the couch.
This videois trending because it is a heartwarming testament from a man who is showing off his first nice suit and saying that he was inspired to be a better family man in the wake of the death of Charlie Kirk.
Bob Vylan is trending because his show in The Netherlands was canceled due to comments he made about the death of Charlie Kirk. He took to X to explain that he did not celebrate Kirk’s death but the footage shows otherwise.
Cows Aren’t the Problem — Allan Savory Was Right All Along
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Monday marked the 90th birthday of ecologist Allan Savory — a milestone that feels like the perfect moment to let him say, “I told you so” about ruminant animals and soil regeneration.
Savory is the scientist who angered climate activists with this TED talk. What was so upsetting? He showed that managed herds of ruminant animals can restore soil, regenerate grasslands, and even reverse desertification. That was heresy in a climate narrative built on blaming cows. Activists use methane emissions as the excuse to get rid of them — never mind that methane from cows breaks down in about a decade, while degraded soils left without grazing herds stop absorbing carbon altogether.
Savory’s point was simple but revolutionary: healthy soils, regenerated by grazing animals, pull massive amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and lock it away for centuries. Without animals, land becomes barren, deserts spread, and ecosystems collapse. For millions of years, vast herds of bison and wildebeest roamed the Earth, emitting methane while building thriving ecosystems. The problem isn’t cows, Savory argued — it’s poor management. Yet 12 years later, his talk still carries a nonsensical disclaimer from TED, warning that grazing animals somehow “offset” their own benefits.
Savory proved otherwise. Cows are not the problem — in many ways, they’re the solution. They regenerate land, nourish people, and sustain ecosystems when managed wisely. His warnings went ignored for too long, but on his 90th birthday, we can finally give him the credit he deserves: Allan Savory was right all along. Save the cows — and happy birthday, Allan Savory!
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