On Wednesday’s newsletter we called President Trump “Former President Trump.” While technically true since he is both the former and current president, it was an error on our part. I ran my story through an AI grammar check and did not catch that it had made that change. That oughta teach me! I ask your forgiveness.
In Case You Missed It
💰 Good news! Consumer Reports tested boba tea and found that “none of the boba tested above CR’s level of concern for lead” so my daughter will continue to ask me to buy these $7 investments.
🇨🇦 Canada will not send refurbished weapons to Ukraine as promised. Probably because that was always meant to be an empty gesture.
🏠 German authorities raided the home of prominent author and politician Jürgen Todenhöfer, seizing his phones and computers after he compared Israel’s military actions in Gaza to Nazi atrocities in a social-media post about Benjamin Netanyahu.
🛂 The Trump administration has reportedly deployed over 100 federal agents to the San Francisco Bay Area for a major immigration enforcement operation.
📜 Israeli parliament voted to give themselves permission to annex the West Bank, even though President Trump said recently that they’d better not.
🚌 💥 At least 46 people have died after two buses collided head-on while both attempted to overtake on Uganda’s Kampala-Gulu Highway, with initial reports of 63 fatalities later revised.
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Lead: The Hague Condemns Israel. The World Looks Away.
On Wednesday, The Hague issued a scathing rebuke of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The Hague is the International Court of Justice, separate from the International Criminal Court, which has also condemned both Israel and Hamas.
In a two-hour Advisory Opinion, The Hague said that Israel has committed several international violations including blocking humanitarian aid, maintaining total military control and killing civilians. They rejected Israel’s claims that UNRWA, The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, is infiltrated by Hamas and said that Israel blocked UNRWA without proof of these claims.
The court ordered Israel to allow UNRWA to resume work to refugees.
Will it matter? Not really. This is a non-binding court and both the U.S. and Israel have condemned the opinion.
It will also not matter if the news is suppressed, which it undoubtedly is. Searching X, TikTok and other platforms for this opinion yields next to no online chatter which feels artificial. It’s not every day a nation is condemned by The Hague for egregious humanitarian violations.
Trump Cancels Putin Meeting, Pretends to Punish Russia
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President Trump said he “didn’t feel like” meeting with Russian President Putin so the meeting has been canceled. He said he may feel like it on some future date though.
President Trump said this while meeting with NATO head Mark Rutte in the White House on Wednesday. Following that meeting, both the U.S. and the European Union announced new sanctions against Russia.
The European Union announced its 19th sanctions package against Russia and the U.S. announced a sanction on Russian oil due to “Russia’s lack of serious commitment to a peace process to end the war in Ukraine.”
The U.S. is funding the war but Russia is the one who lacks commitment to peace? Okay.
The sanctions will focus on oil companies Rosneft and Lukoil. Which sounds tough but the U.S. doesn’t buy Russian oil so it is mostly symbolic.
What will Russia do about this? What they’ve been doing all along: They will ignore the bloviating Western politicians and keep winning the war in Ukraine.
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The Louvre’s First Female Security Chief—and the Great Paris Jewel Heist
Photo credit: The Louvre, Remon Haazen / Getty Images
You don’t have to be MAGA to wonder if the first woman ever put in charge of security at the Louvre got the job more for “representation” than qualification. Especially after one of the most embarrassingly obvious heists in modern memory.
In September 2024, the Louvre announced the hiring of Dominique Buffin, the museum’s first female head of security. One year later, thieves in broad daylight used a motorized lift to hoist themselves into the jewel gallery, smashed display cases, and escaped on motorcycles. They haven’t been caught. The jewels weren’t just poorly protected, they were also uninsured.
The Daily Beast says that it is a MAGA talking point to question if Buffin was a DEI hire. But isn’t it reasonable to ask why there were so many obvious security holes at The Louvre? Ultimately, Buffin was responsible for all of them so it is logical to ask if she was qualified.
It turns out, she did not have experience in high profile security. Her background was in policing and security advisory roles. She had previously never been in charge of so much as a museum gift shop, let alone the crown jewels of France.
Le Monde reported that her appointment was part of a deliberate push to feminize the museum’s leadership ranks so it’s fair to assume that more seasoned candidates, likely men with operational security backgrounds, were passed over.
On Wednesday, museum officials held a press conference and admitted that the museum had been “defeated” and that their security overall was “very unsatisfactory.”
There have been calls for Buffin to resign but thus far, she has not. Which means it’s probably a good time to break in again if you’re a jewel thief!
News By The Numbers
€2 billion. That is how much rail operator Eurostar spent to buy new double-decker trains. The trains will hold up to 1,000 people and be the first high-speed double decker trains in the U.K.
61%. That is how many people view the Democratic Party unfavorably, according to a recent Gallup poll.
58%. That is how many people view the Republican Party unfavorably, according to the same poll.
Fwiw, we here at Redacted view them both unfavorably because they’re a uniparty!
What’s Trending?
Photo Credit: The Mirror
This postby The Mirror is trending because of the image that the outlet chose to use. The story is about how women would like a female-only train car on the London Underground to avoid harassment but image shows a woman of color being harassed by a dapper white male and that is not an accurate depiction of who is abusing whom.
Misty Copeland is trending because she gave her final performance on Wednesday in the New York City ballet. She was the first Black principal ballerina, a role she has had since 2015.
Bon Jovi is trending because the band will tour in the UK in 2026. I hope they do that bangin’ Kamala Harris campaign song!
Brain Shrinkage and Other Male Problems
Photo Credit: AI-generated image (ChatGPT/OpenAI)
A new study shows that men’s brains shrink faster as they age, specifically in areas related to memory and sensory processing.
Researchers were trying to figure out why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s, but this study ran contrary to their hypothesis. If men’s brains show faster atrophy, you’d expect men to have higher Alzheimer’s rates — yet the opposite is true.
Researchers concluded that brain aging alone doesn’t account for the gender gap in Alzheimer’s disease. The reason women are more likely to develop the disease remains unknown.
The study found that men’s grey matter thins more rapidly over time while women’s brains showed “more volume stability across regions.”
Could this be the first time women have been accused of being more stable as they mature?
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