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Lead: Missiles over Kyiv

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Russia shattered a six-week lull at 02:03 a.m., hurling a mix of Iskander ballistic missiles and Iranian-made Shahed drones toward the Ukrainian capital. Nine bodies—including a mother shielding her son—were pulled from burning flats; more than seventy neighbors arrived at hospital with glass and shrapnel wounds. Mayor Vitali Klitschko called the barrage “the worst night since 2022,” while firefighters battled secondary gas-line explosions for hours.

President Zelenskyy cut short an investment tour in South Africa and will crash a NATO foreign-ministers’ dinner tonight, brandishing fresh satellite photos and pleading for Patriot missiles. U.S. officials say F-16 pilot training “won’t finish before June,” leaving Kyiv reliant on 30-year-old MiG-29s. Moscow’s MoD bragged it “hit decision-making centers”; locals insist the only “decisions” made there were about bedtime. Markets shrugged—but Polish radar operators didn’t: Warsaw briefly scrambled two F-35s when a cruise missile kissed the NATO border before looping back into Ukraine.

Dead-Cat or Drag?

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Wall Street’s two-day pop already looks like a sugar rush. Early futures slid 0.7 % after the S&P Global flash PMI dipped to 51.2, its lowest print since January, hinting that the post-holiday manufacturing sprint may be stalling. The bigger mood killer: an overnight White House leak that a partial rollback of the 145 % China tariff was “on the table”—then off the table three hours later. Treasury chief Scott Bessent finally admitted the mega-tariff is “politically unsustainable,” but offered zero timeline, leaving importers frozen.

Add in a euro flirting with a 3½-year high, crude drifting toward $92, and traders suddenly prefer cashmere-lined mattresses to equities. One bright spot: chipmaker ON Semi pre-announced upbeat AI-server orders, but even that couldn’t keep the Nasdaq future above water. In trader slang, yesterday’s bounce looks less like a dead-cat and more like a feather pillow: pleasant on impact, deflates fast.

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Switch 2 Stampede

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At midnight Eastern, Nintendo opened U.S. pre-orders for its long-teased Switch 2—price unchanged at $449.99. What followed looked like Taylor Swift ticket day: Target carts froze, Walmart e-queues looped, Best Buy served error 503s. The $499 “Mario Kart World” bundle sold out in 14 minutes, according to The Verge.

Tokyo quickly warned of “severely constrained” supply through August as component makers juggle rival handhelds from Sony and Asus. Within an hour, eBay scalpers posted consoles for $800, while GameStop promised a “line-only” drop on Saturday (pack lawn chairs). Why hold the line on price? Analysts say Nintendo wants to skate under Microsoft’s and Sony’s $499 entry tags, betting families will add a second unit for kids. Investors cheered: shares closed up 3 % in Osaka, their best day since last year’s Zelda launch.

News By The Numbers

222,000 — Americans filing new job-loss claims last week, a modest uptick that still signals a sturdy labor market.

€700 million — total of the EU’s fines on Apple (€500 m) and Meta (€200 m) for breaking the Digital Markets Act.

46 — Falcon 9 launches SpaceX has logged in 2025 after its 37-hour triple-header.

8.2 % — post-earnings drop in IBM shares, the stock’s sharpest single-day fall since 2022.

Kid-Net Lockdown

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Britain just told Big Tech to grow up. Regulator Ofcom unveiled 40 mandatory rules that will force every social network, gaming hub and search engine to verify ages, switch off “suggested” feeds by default, and quarantine violent, sexual or self-harm material from anyone under 18 by 25 July. Break the code and the fine is brutal: up to 10 % of global revenue—roughly $11 billion for Meta. In his House of Commons pitch, Tech Secretary Peter Kyle dangled a national 10 p.m. curfew for teens’ phones, calling doom-scroll fatigue a “public-health crisis.”

Platforms insist they’re on board—privately they’re furious about paying for age-scan tech that still miffs adult users. Safety advocates cheer the “watershed,” but remind lawmakers that VPN tutorials spread faster than homework memes: “Sixth-graders can out-hack any filter by lunch.”

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Lead: Ukraine’s Peace Deal

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The U.S. special envoy, Steve Witkoff, will head to Russia this week to meet with President Vladimir Putin.

The U.S. has presented a framework for peace negotiations with Ukraine. It would include recognizing Crimea as part of Russia. Which it is.

Ukrainian President Zelensky said that Ukraine will not recognize Crimea as Russian.

“Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea,” Zelensky said at a press conference on Tuesday. “There’s nothing to talk about here. This is against our constitution.”

As if it matters. It has been 11 years since Crimea has been a part of Russia, no matter how the Ukrainian government feels about it.

The deal could also lead to the U.S. lifting sanctions on Russia and include a ceasefire while the details are negotiated.

Meanwhile, Europe is pretending that it could go to war with Russia with what they call a “Pan-Nordic Army.” What they mean is that any of of these countries would lose a war with Russia but maybe, just maybe, if they stick together, they could die slower.

WEF Shakeup

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Is Klaus Schwab a scoundrel? He is but did he also scam the World Economic Forum?

Schwab resigned as the head of the WEF and now the organization reports that he is under investigation due to a “new whistleblower letter alleged financial and ethical misconduct by the longtime leader and his wife.” He refuted the allegations but he was ousted before he could make his case.

Some of the allegations include instructing aids to withdraw cash from WEF funds so that he could pay masseuses. Or that they would schedule WEF meetings in fancy places so that they could take trips.

Well wait…those things could be business expenses. Companies pay for massages for their executives all the time as part of their wellness packages. And if you want to have a business meeting in a fancy place, you’re free to do that as long as you really do hold those meetings when you go. We’re no fan of Klaus Schwab but why is the WEF suddenly throwing him overboard?

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New Peace Plan for Gaza

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Peace mediators from Egypt and Qatar have put forward a “truce lasting between five and seven years” for Israel and Palestine.

According to the BBC, the plan involves “the release of all Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, a formal end to the war, and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.”

Why are they “hostages” when they are Israeli and “prisoners” if they are Palestinian? Wrong. They are all hostages, innocent civilians held by governments that are hostile to them.

Officials from Gaza are heading to Cairo for negotiations but Israel has not responded to the proposal. Instead, it launched air strikes in Gaza, killing at least 26 people and injuring 60 more. They are also reportedly deploying bulldozers to the wreckage.

What’s Trending?

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“I Know What You Did Last Summer” is trending because a sequel to the 1997 film is due out in July and the trailer was released today.

Andrew Garfield is trending because he was on an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? where famous people are told about their ancestors.

St George’s Day is trending because the U.K. holiday, which is usually on April 23, was moved to April 28 this year because of its proximity to Easter.

News By The Numbers

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$2 billion. That is how much Airbus spent on its hydrogen-powered jet project in order to “go green.” Unfortunately the company is reportedly scrapping the project now due to “technical hurdles and sluggish adoption of hydrogen across the economy.”

71%. That is how much Tesla profits dropped in Q1 of this year. Elon Musk says that he will devote more time to the company and less time to the White House as a result.

3. That is how many prosecutors resigned at the Justice Department over disagreements regarding the indictment of New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Doing It For The Babies

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The Trump administration may offer women incentives to have babies in order to close the widening birth gap. One such incentive would offer American mothers a $5,000 “baby bonus” for every child born.

Several Eastern countries have incentives like this that actually have worked to encourage population growth. In China, couples are offered money to marry younger. Russia offers mothers sizable cash payments if birthing mothers are younger than 27 years old which can be used to buy a home, childcare or medical expenses. In Hungary, birthing mothers under 30 years old are exempt from personal income tax for the rest of their lives.

According to The New York Times, the Trump administration is also considering “funding programs that educate women on their menstrual cycles — in part so they can better understand when they are ovulating and able to conceive.”

I think AOC may have fainted when she read that.

These aren’t bad ideas but we can’t know for sure where they would go considering the source for the New York Times is “four people who have been part of the meetings who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.”

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Lead: Russia and Iran

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As the U.S. moves forward with a nuclear peace treaty with Iran, Russia has also solidified its relationship with Iran. Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly “ratified parliamentary approval of a crucial treaty with Tehran.”

Translation: These two are allies and a war with Iran would likely mean a war with Russia too.

The new commitment solidifies the two countries in areas such as national security, nuclear energy and “joint resistance against unilateral sanctions.” Both countries have faced grueling international sanctions, Iran based on Obama-era lies about a nuclear weapons program.

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China Tests Hydrogen Bomb

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Chinese researchers have reportedly “successfully detonated a hydrogen-based explosive device in a controlled field test, triggering devastating chemical chain reactions without using any nuclear materials.”

Translation: China can make a bomb that is not nuclear but still creates a fireball that exceeds 1,000°C for over two seconds. That is 15 times longer than a comparable TNT explosion. They called it a “sustained inferno.”

The weapon sounds terrifying but maybe a little less terrifying because it does not produce nuclear radiation or fallout.

Why would anyone want this? Reportedly, “the researchers looked at the weapon’s other potential military applications, such as using it to cover a large area with intense heat and focusing its power on high-value targets to destroy them”

It’s a targeted and terrifying bomb. China has a “no first use” policy about nuclear weapons. Does this still count since it’s not nuclear?

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9/11

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The 9/11 Commission was a scam. We should all agree on that by now. Dare we hope for another one based on legitimate questions?

That is what Republican Senator Ron Johnson has suggested. He wants new congressional hearings to look into unanswered questions such as: How did Building 7 come down?

“Structural Engineers say that thing didn’t come down in any other way than controlled demolition. Molten steel. Destruction of evidence. We want answers. What really happened on 9/11? It’s being covered up by our government,” Senator Johnson said. He claims that the government has destroyed evidence related to this.

Building 7 fell seven hours after the Twin Towers fell. The government explanation was that it was caused by fires from debris but architects and engineers don’t buy that.

There is an appetite for government disclosure right now. Should the U.S. government do this? Do we have any confidence that if they did, they would give it to us straight?

News By The Numbers

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7 months. That is how long Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut were in space. They landed on Sunday after a 220 day mission. Not 11 minutes. Seven months.

13%. That is how much cases of Tuberculosis are up in the U.K.

$75,000 to $200,000. That is how much the corporate sponsorship packages were for the White House Easter Egg hunt. According to The Telegraph, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were amongst the bunny bankrollers. The eggs were “small and medium” sizes to “avoid contributing to even higher prices amid an on-going egg shortage crisis in the United States, driving up prices.”

And The Oscar Goes To

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The Academy Awards launched a new rule for members who vote for Oscar winners. The rule is: You have to watch the movies to be eligible to vote for winners.

THEY WEREN’T DOING THAT BEFORE!? How can that be a NEW rule? What were votes based on before before?

It turns out, before academy voters were “encouraged” to watch the nominated films but now they have to. The Academy doesn’t say how they’ll verify that they did.

Anonymous ballots have been recently published with voters admitting that they didn’t watch some films. So prior to this change, what is an Oscar worth knowing that votes were not based on the actual work? What a charade.

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Lead: Israel Preps For War With Iran

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The U.S. may not be keen to join Israel to start a major war with Iran but the U.S. still reportedly shipped plane-loads of bunker-busting bombs to Israel.

Israeli broadcaster KAN reported that the “bunker-busting bombs” were amongst a shipment of “defensive weapons” and they are “in anticipation of a possible joint US-Israeli strike, should nuclear negotiations between Washington and Tehran fail.”

Negotiations continued with Iran this weekend and President Trump said in advance of that meeting that he’s “not in a rush to do it.” By “it,” he means start a deadly war with Iran.

Israel may be planning to go it alone then, with U.S. weapons of course. Reuters reports that if the U.S. is not game for this attack, “Israel has not ruled out an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities in the coming months despite President Donald Trump telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. was for now unwilling to support such a move, according to an Israeli official and two other people familiar with the matter.”

The second meeting between U.S. officials and Iranian officials did seem to be productive. Another meeting is expected on Wednesday for “technical discussions.” Does that mean they will hammer out the details of an agreement?

But what happens if the U.S. brokers a deal and Israel bombs Iran anyway? The U.S. doesn’t usually condemn Israeli war crimes. The U.S. did not condemn the killing of 15 medics in Gaza, which the IDF now says was a “professional failure.” Over the weekend, the IDF also reportedly bombed tent camps in Gaza, killing at least 16 people, many of them children. There has not been a U.S. response to either tragedy.

More Signal War Chat

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The New York Times has a bombshell report about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. It claims that not only did he participate in the Signal chat with plans to bomb Yemen, he had a separate Signal group where he shared those details with “his wife, brother and personal lawyer” and “about a dozen other people”

The report is “according to four people with knowledge of the chat” but The Guardian claims to have also “independently confirmed the existence of Hegseth’s own private group chat.”

The chat reportedly contained flight schedules for the aircraft that would strike the Houthis, the same information that was accidentally shared with The Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg. Two senior advisers in the group reportedly included Dan Caldwell and Darin Selnick. Both men were put on leave last week after being accused of leaking unauthorized information.

Would he do this? His lawyer and wife, a former Fox News producer, should know better than to have this on their phones. It would seem that all involved would know better so is this true or is there a story behind the story? For instance, he has been against strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. Could this be related?

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WHO Pandemic Treaty

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The World Health Organization says that it has finalized the Pandemic Treaty that it has been working on for three years.

This is the document that they tried to get passed last year but too many countries opposed it. The United States has withdrawn from the organization, dumping cold water on the idea.

The original proposal was a binding agreement that gave the WHO the power to implement lockdowns, vaccine requirements, and redistribute all goods and food production on the WHO’s own assessment of “pandemic risks.” It was an obvious usurping of national sovereignty.

The new proposal “affirms the sovereignty of countries to address public health matters within their borders, and provides that nothing in the draft agreement shall be interpreted as providing WHO any authority to direct, order, alter or prescribe national laws or policies, or mandate States to take specific actions, such as ban or accept travellers, impose vaccination mandates or therapeutic or diagnostic measures or implement lockdowns.”

Or so they say. The actual proposal has yet to be published. If this is true, it is a major backing down.

News By The Numbers

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$175. That is how much Katy Perry’s new Perry Playland dolls cost. She launched these toys on her Instagram after a brutal week of people just absolutely hating on her for the tone deaf space ride on Blue Origin. And oh look! The backup dancers are dressed in thongs humping the stage. How extra.

Two. That is how many alligators came to visit one homeowner in Florida. The homeowners said that one of them rang the doorbell.

Billions. That is how many cicadas will emerge in the Northeast as early as this week.

What’s Trending?

Selena Gomez is trending because the actress posted this photo in an Instagram story and fans noticed that she casually has a bottle of personal lubricant on the shelf behind her.

Dylan Mulvaney is trending because he says that he is trying to move to the U.K. Enjoy that 45% tax rate!

McDonald’s is trending because the company indicated that the Snack Wrap would come back on the 14th, without naming a month.

Ozempic Feet

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You’ve heard of Ozempic face and Ozempic butt, right? It’s when you take the weight loss drug and everything looks saggy and dehydrated. But you’re thin!

Now there is Ozempic feet. Doctors say that rapid weight loss and dehydration can cause Ozempic patients to have saggy and old looking feet.

Recall that Ozempic is supposed to treat Type 2 diabetes and heart disease but it is a lifelong drug with no indication of ever being able to go off of it. It is also known to cause blindness, bone thinning, permanent diarrhea, stomach paralysis and more.

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Lead: U.S. Rejects Israel’s War Plan

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President Trump has declined Israel’s plan to bomb Iran, according to The New York Times.

Israel has been planning an attack on Iran for months and trying to coax the U.S. into going along with it but the New York Times reports match Redacted’s own intel. There is an alleged divide amongst the Trump administration between those who want a war with Iran and those that don’t. Those that don’t, according to the Times include President Trump himself as well as Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth; Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence; and Vice President JD Vance.

“The debate highlighted fault lines between historically hawkish American cabinet officials and other aides more skeptical that a military assault on Iran could destroy the country’s nuclear ambitions and avoid a larger war. It resulted in a rough consensus, for now, against military action, with Iran signaling a willingness to negotiate.”

The Times reports that Israel was all but convinced that the U.S. would “sign off” on its plans to attack Iran “making the United States a central part of the attack itself” but President Trump insists on diplomacy over war for now.

The second round of talks are scheduled for this upcoming weekend and we should all pray that they result in peace.

The U.S. has also reportedly notified Israel that it plans to withdraw some troops from Syria where the U.S. is currently illegally occupying territory.

Dear Donald Trump…

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According to reports, France helped Ukrainian President Zelensky write an apology letter to President Trump in order to mend fences.

While the European Union talks tough about leading the war efforts in Ukraine, they secretly know that they can’t. Diplomats in France, Germany and the U.K. have reportedly “sweated over how to try and repair the badly damaged relationship between Trump and Zelensky.”

The White House confirmed that it received such a letter and have been continuing to work towards peace. White House envoy Steve Witkoff said this week that a peace deal with Ukraine was on “the verge” of a breakthrough. Leaders in Qatar have also expressed interest in hosting peace talks between Ukraine and Russia.

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Letitia James Is In Deep Doodoo

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The irony. New York Attorney General Letitia James prosecuted President Trump for inflating the value of his real estate for bank loans but deflating it for tax purposes. Now she stands accused of doing that very thing.

She has been referred to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation.

James bought a home in Virginia in 2023, while she was still serving as the New York Attorney General. There is nothing wrong with that except that she listed the Virginia home as her primary residence. Primary homes qualify for lower mortgage rates and lying on a mortgage application is a crime.

The neighbors of that Virginia home say that they’ve rarely seen her.

James also allegedly purchased other homes with her father as a co-signer but listed him as her husband. She’s never been married to her father as far as we can tell.

If James is prosecuted, she would be backed into a corner. She can admit that she committed mortgage fraud or she can insist that the Virginia home IS a primary resident which means that she violated her requirement as Attorney General to live in the state of New York.

The Justice Department has not prosecuted this yet and not commented on if they will.

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Subaru Outback is trending because images and news of the 2026 model were released.

Spotify is trending because the company had a major outage on Tuesday.

Flint Davis is trending because he was involved in a major boat accident at the Major League Fishing tournament. At least three people are dead and others were injured but it isn’t clear if Davis, a competitive angler, is amongst the deceased. The final day of the tournament was scheduled for Thursday but it has been canceled.

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40. That is how old The Breakfast Club film is. The cast and crew participated in a reunion panel and the star Molly Ringwald said that she doesn’t think the film should be remade because it is “too white” and doesn’t address modern issues such as “gender.”

59,000. That is how many users experienced a Zoom outage on Wednesday.

1.4 million. That is how many people in Puerto Rico lost power on Wednesday because the island’s power plant was knocked out of service. It is not expected to be fully restored until Thursday.

Sex is Real

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The Supreme Court in the United Kingdom ruled that men cannot legally be women and also men cannot get pregnant.

The court unanimously ruled that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act referred to biological sex, not acquired gender. Unanimously!

After a years-long legal battle, it turns out that the courts really do know what a woman is. Tory Leader Kemi Badenoch said the ruling meant that the “era of Keir Starmer telling us women can have penises has come to an end.” It will also have wide-reaching implications for maintaining single‑sex spaces for women such as sports, bathrooms, shelters, prisons and more.

JK Rowling, who is probably the most famous critic of gender ideology, said this about it in X: “The fact that so many UK trans activists are shrieking about injustice says it all. You never had the rights you claim you’ve now lost; you had demands. Your sense of entitlement grew unchecked because cowards and idiots bowed down to your campaign of intimidation.”

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Lead: Iran Nuclear Deal

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The U.S. may insist that Iran “eliminate its nuclear enrichment” program in the next round of negotiations this weekend.

Iran has said that it enriches uranium for nuclear power plants but nuclear power plants only require uranium to be enriched to 3-5%. Iran has admitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency that it enriches uranium to 20-60%.

A nuclear weapon requires uranium enriched to 90%.

So why do they enrich uranium to that 20-60%? There are uses for “low-enriched uranium” such as naval propulsion submarines, medical isotope production for cancer diagnostics and treatment, etc.

Could the Trump administration be comfortable with this? If they aren’t, would Iran give it all up?

The U.S. envoy Steve Witcoff said this about it: “A deal with Iran will only be completed if it is a Trump deal. Any final arrangement must set a framework for peace, stability, and prosperity in the Middle East — meaning that Iran must stop and eliminate its nuclear enrichment and weaponization program.”

Joe Biden Returns

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Former President Biden made his first public appearance since he left office and, besides farting loudly, he droned on and on about the Trump administration’s threats to Social Security.

He talked about how the Social Security website is down and people are freaking out. That happened once weeks ago. He joked about 300-year-old Social Security recipients and said that “by the time we left office, we had improved every single line of customer service from apply for disability to filing an appeal to reporting fraud.”

As someone whose tax return was filed on time but marked late, that was…not my experience during the end of the Biden administration but who is going to challenge him?

The former President made headlines by reminiscing about watching “colored” children denied public school in Delaware when he was a child. He was using the terms he would have used in that time. Is it the worst thing for an elderly man to say? Come on, man!

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Zelensky Extends His Presidency

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Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky gave himself a three-month extension of his own presidency by extending martial law for another three months.

Ukraine was due for presidential elections last year but President Zelensky canceled them and has said many times that the Ukrainian people don’t want to go to the polls. They like him right where he is. If only there was a way to know that for sure….

Ukrainian media had been reporting that Zelensky would not extend his regime but, alas, he did. And his advisors say that elections will not be held until at least six months after martial law ends.

Zelensky also said on Tuesday that the war with Russia has to end “diplomatically” because Ukraine lacks the military might to beat Russia but reiterated that Ukraine will never acknowledge the territory that now belongs to Russia as Russian. Not that it would even matter if he did.

Meanwhile, Ukraine has “simplified” the process of applying to fight for Ukraine as a foreign mercenary. The new process authorizes officials to “arrange and pay for transportation, food, and accommodation.” Since Ukraine cannot enforce military conscription, they’ll pay for your food and travel if you want to volunteer. WHO would do that?

News By The Numbers

17. That is how many states may see the Northern Lights today from a G3 geomagnetic storm.

May 29. That is when HBO Max will launch the next season of the “Sex and the City” spinoff “And Just Like That.” The trailer was released on Tuesday.

2.3%. That is how much food prices were up in March in Canada, down from 2.6% in February.

What’s Trending?

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Wink Martindale is trending because the TV show host died at the age of 91.

Lil Nas X is trending because the rapper says that he lost control of one side of his face but did not explain why.

Letitia James is trending because she has been referred to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation of alleged mortgage fraud. According to the New York Post, she allegedly “’falsified records’ to get home loans for a property in Virginia that she claimed was her ‘principal residence’ in 2023.” Mortgage fraud was what she prosecuted President Trump for.

Autism on the Rise

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A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that autism is up 16.1% since the last time they checked.

The new report shows that 1 in 31 children have autism.

Could it be because it is more broadly diagnosed? Possibly but why would it vary so much by region?

U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said this in a statement: “The autism epidemic is running rampant. One in 31 American children born in 2014 are disabled by autism. That’s up significantly from two years earlier and nearly five times higher than when the CDC first started running autism surveys in children born in 1992, opens in a new tab. Prevalence for boys is an astounding 1 in 20 and in California it’s 1 in 12.5.”

This clearly calls for more research and Secretary Kennedy said this: “Autism is preventable and it is unforgivable that we have not yet identified the underlying causes. We should have had these answers 20 years ago.”

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Lead: Negotiations with Iran

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The U.S. and Iran will hold a second round of talks this upcoming weekend on April 19. The initial talks last Saturday appeared to be productive. No one was bombed. No nuclear sites were launched or destroyed. We'll take that as progress.

The U.S. and Iran are trying to renew a nuclear agreement after President Trump withdrew from the last one during his first term.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Iran and the U.S. “got very close” to reaching what CNN calls a "framework for negotiations." He said that the talks were "Constructive and promising" and "conducted in an atmosphere of mutual respect."

The White House called the talks “positive and constructive” and a “step forward in achieving a mutually beneficial outcome.”

Axios reports that the two sides could even meet in the same room rather than hold discussions through a mediator.

Meanwhile, the U.S. has continued to launch airstrikes in Yemen, the most recent was reportedly a ceramic factory, resulting in at least six deaths. The U.S. says that it will wipe out the Houthis but the Houthis are more resolved than ever, continuing to launch attacks on U.S. drones and warships.

Deporting Almost Citizens

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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a Palestinian man at his citizenship hearing on Monday to deport him to the West Bank. His name is Mohsen Mahdawi and they call him a Hamas supporter.

Does this sound like a Hamas supporter? In December of 2023, he said this to 60 Minutes: "The fight for freedom of Palestine and the fight against antisemitism go hand-in-hand because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

He organized protests at Colombia University and spoke about losing his relatives in violent deaths at the hands of the Israeli military. What about this speech says "Jew-hater" as Zionist activist group Betar Worldwide claims?

Mahdawi reportedly invited pro-Israel Columbia professor Shai Davidai to coffee but Davidai left the coffee abruptly and posted this on X about Mahdawi. Mahdawi was also featured on StopAntisemitism.org as the Antisemite of the Week in 2024. They accuse him of antisemitism for chanting "from the river to the sea" and calling Israel occupied territory and speaking about "right of return," which means that Palestinians would return to the homes that Israel took from them. He called for freedom for the Palestinians "by any means necessary" and said that he can empathize with why Hamas would have launched an October 7 attack.

All of this would be allowed had Mahdawi been able to naturalize as an American but ICE made sure that he could not.

Is this doing anything to prevent antisemitism? It sure doesn't seem like it. According to a new Pew survey, more people than ever before have an unfavorable view of Israel.

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Deporting Americans Next?

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President Trump said that he would like to deport U.S. citizens to El Salvadorian prisons but "we have to obey the laws."

The President said this in a visit with El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele. The two leaders got on quite well, don't you think?

The law is clear. You cannot deport an American citizen from U.S. soil. In rare cases, the U.S. has revoked passports of citizens while they were abroad such as Adam Gadahn, an American who became an al-Qaeda spokesperson, and Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower, but not Americans who were on home soil.

This sentiment from President Trump is worrying given that legal residents of the U.S. have been denied due process and free speech. If this can be done to residents, can it be done to citizens?

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this about the idea: “there are obviously legalities involved." He continued: “We have a Constitution. But it’s a very generous offer … obviously, the administration will have to make a decision."

Does he interpret citizenship laws to be at the digression of any one administration? Yikes!

News By The Numbers

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15. That is how many new stores per year that Sam's Club plans to open in the next few years. The company announced bold new plans to expand to compete with Costco. I'm listening.

5.2. That is the magnitude of earthquake that hit San Diego on Monday.

€15.5 million. That is how much the European Union spent on "climate initiatives" that were instead funneled to left-wing non governmental organizations. The EU says that they will look into this and make changes.

MRIs and Forever Chemicals

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A new study shows that MRIs can leave toxic rare-earth minerals in your body for years.

When a patient goes for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, they sometimes get an injection of a fluid called gadolinium. The dye is like a highlighter around your organs, blood vessels and tissues to help the doctors see it all better.

Scientists found that oxalic acid, an organic compound found in humans and plant-based foods, can contribute to a buildup of gadolinium nanoparticles and contribute to complications and disease. Likewise, a previous contrast agent called Omniscan was also associated with complications "including nephrogenic systemic fibrosis."

Patients with kidney failure are also at high risk for these highlighting agents. My grandfather's health declined precipitously, accelerating his death after being exposed to one.

MRIs without the highlighting agents are an option though. You should be informed about this if you are asked to taken an MRI.

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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.

Pray for Peace Talks

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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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Measles Propaganda

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The media is crazed about the measles outbreak in Texas after two children died but when you look into the case of the children’s deaths, the real fear is medical incompetence, not the measles. This story is terrifying but measles is the least of it.

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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Lead: Ukraine’s War Play

Ukrainian President Zelensky admitted that Ukraine has been attacking inside Russian borders for the first time. This is something President Biden promised Ukraine would never do but they’ve been doing it all along.

Zelensky also claimed on X that Chinese citizens are “fighting as part of the Russian army.” He posted a video of a man he claims the Ukrainian army captured fighting for Russia.

A few months ago, he claimed that North Korean nationals were also fighting for Russia. Ukraine uses mercenary armies from over 50 countries, including the U.S., Canada, U.K. and France so why would this matter?

Zelensky is clearly desperate to escalate the war with Russia and evade peace. Another peace envoy is reportedly coming to the U.S. It would be wise to exclude the President of Ukraine from this envoy.

New Justice Department filings against Ryan Routh, the man who tried to shoot President Trump in Florida last year, show that he believed he was communicating with a Ukrainian officials prior to the assassination attempt, trying to get himself a “stinger or RPG” for the attack.

There is no proof that the person was actually from Ukraine but there is also no proof that they were not. Ukraine sells or loses at least half of the weapons that are sent from abroad.

While Zelensky stalls for peace, Russia reports that it will participate in the second round of peace talks with the U.S. on April 10 in Istanbul. Russia also says that it plans to deploy more “several hundred ground-based robots to the Russian military” so…not a moment too soon, eh?

Iran Wants Goodwill Gesture

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President Trump said that peace talks will begin with Iran this weekend in Oman. Iran reportedly says that they would like to see a “goodwill gesture” from the U.S. first. By this, they mean relief from sanctions.

The Obama administration put horrific sanctions on Iran for the entire 8 years they were in the White House without ever proving that Iran had a nuclear weapon. Read this demon’s justification of it in the book The Art of Sanctions if you want to know more about it.

The Trump administration has also not proved that Iran has a nuclear weapon but wants to come up with an alternative to the Iran nuclear deal, formerly known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The deal was put in place by the Obama administration and it involved Iran’s promise to curb nuclear activity in exchange for sanctions relief. President Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018 and reimposed those sanctions. President Biden was never able to negotiation a new one but…he didn’t really try.

What if the Trump administration replaces the sanctions with tariffs? Would we all be happy then?

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Bad News For The Flu Shot

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A new Cleveland Clinic study found that the 2024-2025 flu vaccine did not prevent influenza. Quite the contrary, actually, those who took it were MORE LIKELY to get infected.

Here is the study. Read it for yourself.

It was published by doctors from the Cleveland Clinic but it has not yet been peer reviewed given the data was collected through March 26.

The employees of the Cleveland Clinic were required to get the flu shot so 82% of them did. They followed up with 53,000 employees and found that the vaccinated and unvaccinated were getting infected with the flu at an even pace but “over the course of the study the cumulative incidence of influenza increased more rapidly among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. In an analysis adjusted for age, sex, clinical nursing job, and employment location, the risk of influenza was significantly higher for the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated state.”

They say that the vaccine effectiveness may have waned or may not have included the most prevalent strain of flu. But that is a problem every year. Vaccine makers come up with the formulation in the spring and make their best guess as to which strains to include that they think will be prevalent in the coming months. They can never accurately predict.

A few weeks ago, the FDA approved the 2025-2026 flu vaccine and it contains strains of flu that are dominant in the world now.

It is worth noting that the annual flu vaccine does not go through clinical trials. It also is not tested as to whether or not it stops infection in humans. It is only tested to see if recipients produce antibodies.

From this study alone, it is clear we need more research about why we mandate the flu vaccine if it is this ineffective and may in fact make people MORE likely to get the flu.

News By The Numbers

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16. That is how many underage New York City gangsters were charged with “terrorizing their innocent neighbors in a months-long barrage of gun violence.” They are from rival gangs and are reportedly responsible for 21 separate shootings over the last year.

1%. That is how much Bill Gates says that he will leave his children when he dies. He’s said for years that he doesn’t want his kids to inherit too much. Still, 1% of his estimated $101.2 billion is still over $1 billion so let’s not feel too bad for them.

$500 million. That is how much Forbes Magazine calculates that President Trump has personally lost from his own asset portfolio due to his own tariffs.

Stock Market Plunges

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The stock market fell into the red on Tuesday after regaining losses on Monday. The consensus is that no one knows what will happen once the Trump administration’s tariffs go into place and Wall Street doesn’t like uncertainty.

President Trump said that he is willing to put a 104% tax on China and China basically said: Bring it.

“China is not a seeker of trouble. But make no mistake: when challenged, we will never back down. Intimidation and threats never work with China,” read a statement by the Lin Jian, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson.

The President also announced that he will put tariffs on pharmaceuticals. At an event on Tuesday, he said this: “We’re going to tariff our pharmaceuticals and once we do that they’re going to come rushing back into our country because we’re the big market… So we’re going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals and when they hear that, they will leave China, they will leave other places because they have to – most of their product is sold here and they’re going to be opening up their plants all over our country.”

Guess who that would hurt badly? Europe. Many pharmaceuticals sold in the U.S. are made in Europe, India and China. CEOs from Big Pharma in Europe issued this panicked statement to European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen saying that Europe must change the way it does business to compete with the U.S. or risk losing billions of Euros of investment.

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Lead: Grey Monday

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Monday was not Black Monday with a major stock market fall out, as predicted by CNBC’s Jim Cramer and about every other corporate media outlet. Instead, markets ended up for the day.

The market was up at the end up Monday so Cramer explained it…this way. I don’t even know what he’s saying really. I think he’s saying it’s not that big of a deal actually and we’re not heading for such a bad time. On second thought, don’t sell everything, he’s saying.

Maybe the tariff plan is not so bad. European Commissioner Ursula Von Der Leyen now says that Europe will offer the U.S. a zero-for-zero tariff deal and there are reports that more than 70 countries have called the White House to negotiate their own trade deals. Considering there were 100 tariffs announced, that’s a 70% success rate in just a few days so…could it work?

Friends Of Israel

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By the looks of it, President Trump declined to ask Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the American citizen that was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers just days ago in the West Bank. Or the 15 medics that were murdered by the Israeli Defense Force. Or the civilians that were killed in Gaza in the last week.

Instead, he gave him a tour of the White House where large framed photos of the two leaders are mounted and reiterated that the U.S. is “a friend of Israel … It’s an honor to be so.”

And while it would seem that there is a bestie relationship here, the meeting was not a home run success for Netanyahu.

The President and Prime Minister held a “bilateral meeting” but did not take press questions in a podium format. That was reportedly canceled.

Netanyahu says that they would “eliminate the trade deficit with the United States. We intend to do it very quickly. We think it’s the right thing to do and we’re going to also eliminate trade barriers.”

When the President was asked if he would lift tariffs on Israel as a result, he said he doesn’t actually think he needs to since the U.S. gives Israel $4 billion per year.

President Trump also says that “direct talks with Iran” are planned for this upcoming Saturday in order to avoid a war. He says that a war with Iran is “not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with.”

The Israeli people want to avoid a war. Does Netanyahu know that?

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One TRILLION Dollar Defense Budget

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth thanked President Trump for “the first TRILLION dollar
@DeptofDefense budget.”

The President mentioned this in his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Secretary Hegseth added this postscript: “we intend to spend every taxpayer dollar wisely — on lethality and readiness.”

One area that DOGE has been silent on is bloated military contracts, which we know are a reality. A 2023 CBS News investigation uncovered that the Pentagon was billed $71 for a pin that previously cost less than a nickel, and $80 for a drainpipe segment valued at $1.41. Does the defense budget expansion mean that these inflated prices have not been addressed?

China has a military that is approximately twice the size of the U.S. military with approximately one third the budget. Why do you think that is?

The Pentagon has failed every audit since 2018. Perhaps we should see some public accountability before championing a bigger budget.

What’s Trending?

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AOC is trending because the congresswoman was photographed flying first class to a Bernie Sanders rally and the headline is that she is “battling inequality one ‘mimosa at a time.’” Don’t most representatives fly first class?

Blondie is trending because Clem Burke, the drummer for the band Blondie, died at the age of 70.

Victor Robles is trending because he was hurt catching a ball in right field against the San Francisco Giants on Sunday.

News By The Numbers

54. That is how old Mark Consuelos is and he is making waves because of this new spring 2025 campaign for Stuart Weitzman.

10. That is how many years Bev Vance, the mother of Vice President JD Vance, has been sober. The Veep celebrated that on X with this post on Monday.

300,000. That is how many Lowe’s employees will get Easter off.

Fluoride Out

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. says that he plans to instruct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending water fluoridation nationwide. This. Is. Necessary!

The U.S. government has known that fluoride is a neurotoxin for decades and actively fought to keep that data suppressed. For more on this, read this book: “The Fluoride Deception.”

Fluoride is toxic waste when it is a byproduct in industry and yet it is knowingly added to prevent cavities in humans, even though there is little data that it does even that. In fact, fluoride causes dental fluorosis, the spots on human teeth.

Secretary Kennedy says that he will develop a task force to continue to address fluoride in water.

Last year, Kennedy promised that “the Trump White House [would] advise all U.S​. water systems to remove fluoride from public water” on Day One of the Trump administration. He added that “fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease.”

Well, it’s a few months late but better late than never.

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