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Lead: Ceasefire Deal in Ukraine

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The U.S. State Department says that Ukraine has agreed to “an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation.”

Don’t get too excited about the word “ceasefire” though. The ceasefire’s conditions are bombs. If Ukraine agrees to the ceasefire, the U.S. “will immediately lift the pause on intelligence sharing and resume security assistance to Ukraine.”

Security assistance means money and weapons.

Additionally, the deal involves “a comprehensive agreement for developing Ukraine’s critical mineral resources to expand Ukraine’s economy and guarantee Ukraine’s long-term prosperity and security.”

So will Russia go for it? Well, it would mean Ukraine still has Western weapons on Russia’s borders, which Russia rejects but it would put Ukrainian President Zelensky back under the thumb of the U.S., putting him out of reach of the Europeans.

White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said this about it:

“He [Trump] is a negotiator-in-chief, and he put Zelensky in his place and told him that the Americans are serious about a long-term peace deal.”

Frequent Flyers

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The White House says that the Columbia University student that ICE detained and is attempting to deport was circulating “pro-Hamas propaganda flyers” and that those flyers even have a Hamas logo.

Is this enough to deny the right to free speech, even to a legal immigrant that is not a U.S. citizen? What would the constitution say? Remember that the ACLU in 1977 defended the rights of Nazis to march in a town of Holocaust survivors because the fierce defense of free speech is the fabric of American society. This case calcified who we are: a people committed to the idea that free speech must include speech that you don’t like.

Free speech advocacy group FIRE says that this is not enough. “The Press Secretary used the word ‘propaganda.’ What is another word for propaganda? Speech. And that’s the problem here is that we are talking about expression.”

Is there also unlawful conduct that the government count prosecute? The public should be made aware of this because the case is not black and white. It also highlights the Western problem of having immigrants who hate the culture they have moved into. This one is tricky and uncomfortable too.

Thousands of protestors in New York City have taken to the street to protest Khalil’s deportation, leading to clashes with police.

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Department of Education

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What is half of 4,133? That is how many employees will be eliminated at the Department of Education.

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said that this will help eliminate “bureaucratic bloat.”

“The Department of Education will continue to deliver on all statutory programs that fall under the agency’s purview, including formula funding, student loans, Pell Grants, funding for special needs students, and competitive grantmaking,” the agency said.

Before you get poetic about education, recall that the DOE does not have the federal authority to instate education standards and has never resulted in high standards in the first place. President Trump wants education run by the states, which is what the Constitution calls for too. See our piece on the Department of Education and its inception.

What’s Trending?

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Snow White is trending because Variety reports that Disney will scale back the premiere of the live action film because people the consensus on the Internet is hatred for everything about the movie. It is also trending because the soundtrack was released and many people are annoyed that classics like “Someday My Prince Will Come” and “I’m Wishing” were not included in the film.

Bill Burr is trending for this Variety article about his new comedy show and how much he hates Elon Musk.

Tiger Woods is trending because he said that he had surgery for a ruptured Achilles tendon.

News By The Numbers

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$0. That is how much Southwest Airlines charges for checked bags for now. Starting in May, the company will start charging for checked bags for the first time ever and loyalists are devastated.

40%. That is the tax rate that Rosie O’Donnell will now pay on her worldwide income since she’s moved to Ireland to escape the U.S. until it is “safe for all citizens to have equal rights there.”

$4,550. That is how much Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is accused of paying for “dance training” with taxpayer dollars. She denies it saying it was an FEC filing but it is actually from a representational allowance which is paid with “taxpayer money.”

Makeup Wars

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The right-left divide is getting even more petty with the “makeup wars,” which of course are partisan.

Democrats say that “Republican makeup” is too heavy on foundation and thick eyebrows. Republicans say that “Democrat makeup” is clownish and sloppy with bright dyed hair, piercings and neon lipstick.

The two sides are indicating that their opponents not only have bad politics but also bad taste. It’s another way to make fun of people you disagree with.

According to the Wall Street Journal, “Comedian Suzanne Lambert popularized “Republican makeup.” [She] said her posts were meant to be cutting and provocative. Accuracy is not necessarily the goal.

“They’ve called us blue-haired liberals for years, right?” said Lambert, a former Republican who has light brown-blonde hair, in an interview. “They’ll make fun of our tattoos and our piercings, and we’ve never really clapped back.”

It’s not clapping back. It is childish and it is each group selling themselves a false notion of their own superiority.

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Lead: X Targeted By Ukraine?

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Elon Musk says that X and Tesla were both targeted with a major cyberattack on Monday, causing massive outages.

Musk said this to Fox Business: “Well… we’re not sure exactly what happened, but there was a massive cyberattack to try to bring down the ecosystem with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.”

Could people in Ukraine act alone with such powerful resources? That is hard to believe. It is easier to believe that the same CIA resources that brought Ukraine its 2014 coup may be working against Elon Musk’s efforts to undo the regime change that the CIA so masterfully enacted. That is conjecture on our part, to be clear.

Meanwhile, US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, said that Ukrainian President Zelensky has apologized to President Trump in a letter, indicating that diplomacy to secure a peace deal with Russia may resume.

Show Me The Evidence

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What evidence is there that Mahmoud Khalil has committed crimes? He is the Palestinian man who was arrested by ICE and targeted by the State Department to have his green card revoked.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that he was “presented with evidence” that was used to determine that he was a “national security threat” but the public hasn’t. This leaves us worried that he is being labeled as a “Hamas supporter” for criticizing Israel, both of which are protected beliefs in a free society. Secretary Rubio says that he was “actively engaging in supporting Hamas.”

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said that “Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas.” Notice no one is saying he had ties to Hamas. He may have only had overlapping beliefs, which is why the public should demand answers. If he committed crimes, he should be prosecuted for those crimes. If not, we do not have thought crime in the United States.

Free speech organization FIRE sent a letter to many government organizations demanding answers. They say this: “To be clear, demonstrations on Columbia’s campus since Oct. 7, 2023, have included both constitutionally protected speech and unlawful conduct. But the government has not clarified the factual or legal basis for Mr. Khalil’s arrest.”

A judge has temporarily blocked his deportation after he filed a petition with the court alleging that he was illegally detained.

It is shocking to many people that green card holders have Constitutional rights but they do!

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Infighting Over The Budget

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President Trump may be losing patience with the budget resolution. On Monday, he threatened to primary Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie for opposing the GOP budget.

Representative Massie and Senator Rand Paul both say that they will vote against the GOP budget because it does not cut spending. Their point is: Why cut all of this government waste, only to bring on more?

Representative Massie said this about it: “The argument for [continuing resolution] in September 2024 was to fight in December 2024 after the election. The argument for CR in December 2024 was to fight in March 2025 after the inauguration. The argument for CR in March 2025 is to fight in September 2025 because… we’re not ready yet ?!?!”

Representative Massie is not a Republican loyalist who President Trump can pick on without consequences. He is Peanut the Squirrel to the independents who brought the Republicans the White House and the majority. It is not a fight the Trump administration should even consider.

If the House budget does not pass, the government faces a shut down by Friday.

News By The Numbers

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18,000. That is how many tonnes of Jet A-1 aviation fuel was aboard an anchored tanker that was struck by a container ship in the North Sea on Monday. It triggered a massive explosion and rescue operation for 37 people.

5,200. That is how many USAID contracts have been canceled by the State Department, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. That represents 83%, he says.

$4 trillion. That is how much the S&P 500 dropped from its peak last month. The Trump administration calls this “short term pain.”

May I Have Your Badge Please?

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says that she has revoked the security clearance of 51 former senior intelligence officials who signed a letter declaring that the Hunter Biden laptop was a “Russian information operation” along with many powerful people. They include:

• Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken
• Former U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
• Former deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco
• Lawyer Mark Zaid who represented the whistleblower who leaked President Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Zelensky, which led to his impeachment;
• Lawyer Norman Eisen who represented the House Judiciary Committee during the above referenced impeachment trial;
• New York Attorney General Letitia James, who continues to prosecute President Trump over his organization for alleged fraud
• New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg who brought the Stormy Danie’s hush money case to trial
• Lawyer Andrew Weissma who was one of the lead investigators of the Mueller investigation.

Director Gabbard also directed that the “President’s Daily Brief is no longer being provided to former President Biden.”

Many of these people have done odious things, to be sure, but many odious people still have security clearance.

In Edward Snowden’s book, Permanent Record, he writes about the “security clearance economy” that drives Washington D.C. He says that “having a security clearance is practically a prerequisite for getting a job—any job, not just in intelligence or defense.” He describes it as a “golden ticket” to work in Washington, not just in government and intel work. Everyone from security guards to IT support need this.

Is this just punishment for lying to the American people or is it political retaliation? Many of them are lawyers so they may in fact sue.

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Lead: Syrian Deaths Should Shock But Not Surprise

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The United States and European Union are acting surprised that the Syrian regime has allowed killing people in Syria. Even though the people who run Syria after the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad are terrorists known to the State Department as such.

The State Department says that the U.S. "condemns the radical Islamist terrorists, including foreign jihadis, that murdered people in western Syria in recent days.  The United States stands with Syria’s religious and ethnic minorities, including its Christian, Druze, Alawite, and Kurdish communities, and offers its condolences to the victims and their families.  Syria’s interim authorities must hold the perpetrators of these massacres against Syria’s minority communities accountable."

Except Syria's "interim authorities" are the Al-Nusra faction called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which is a branch of Al-Qaeda. So, after warring with Al-Queda for years, the U.S. is now asking them to stop being terrorists and surprised that they are?

The President of Syria says that he will launch an investigation into this matter.

The videos of civilians being killed is horrifying but should not be shocking. David Sacks put it this way: "What did removing Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad get us? Chaos, civil war, genocide. The rule for regime change operations in the Middle East is that they don’t flip a country from bad-to-good. They flip a country from bad-to-worse."

Canada's New Liberal Leader

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Canada's new Prime Minister is Mark Carney of the Liberal Party. He won the job in a vote within the party against Chrystia Freeland, former Deputy Prime Minister to Justin Trudeau. He was not elected by the people of Canada in a general election.

The people of Canada are supposed to get a chance to vote for a new Prime Minister this fall if all goes according to plan but again. His most staunch competitor will be the Conservative Party's Pierre Poilievre. He also faces Maxime Bernier of the People's Party.

Carney is only the second Prime Minister to jump into the job without first holding a parliamentary seat. He bills himself as a political newcomer with a background with big banks but his opponents say that he is a "disconnected member of the globalist elite." Well, he has never explained why he was associated with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Carney has a lot of perplexing ideas, such as a commitment to net zero. He also holds British and Irish citizenship but says he is in the process of renouncing them in order to be the Prime Minister.

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Negotiations with Iran

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President Trump says that he would like to have diplomatic discussions with Iran. He claimed to have sent a letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader.

He said this to Fox Business: “I hope you’re going to negotiate because it’s going to be a lot better for Iran and I think they want to get that letter. The other alternative is we have to do something because you can’t let [Iran] have a nuclear weapon. I’ve written them a letter, saying I hope you’re going to negotiate because if we have to go in militarily it’s going to be a terrible thing for them. You can’t let them have a nuclear weapon."

The Ayatollah is reportedly not interested, calling Trump's offer a "bully" tactic.

How does President Trump know that Iran is making a nuclear weapon? Iran has said MANY times that it is enriching uranium for nuclear power plants and has worked with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to prove that.

Tucker Carlson called out Fox News for its "wall to wall [coverage] with dead-eyed politicians telling you that Iran is a dangerous 'sponsor of terror.'" He said that this is "softening up the base for a war." But why is Iran the biggest threat, he asks? "Here’s one measure: over the past twenty years, how many Americans have been killed by Iran on American soil? Try to find that number, and then compare it to the number of Americans killed by drug ODs. Or suicide. Or illegal aliens. Or carjackings, diabetes and the Covid vax. Still think Iran is the greatest threat? How about we focus on our own country for a minute."

Clearly it is Isreal that leads the U.S. war drum against Iran. No studied person would come to any other conclusion. Carlson is taking the heat on this – as he often does – particularly by Zionist allies, which tells us how these positions are drawn.

News By The Numbers

34. That is how many days per year Vanna White works on Wheel of Fortune. She has been on the show since 1982.

3 hours and 12 minutes. That was the length of the last Avatar movie but director James Cameron says that the next one will be even longer.

43,000. That is how many McDonald's restaurants in the U.S. are going go get an AI makeover. They say that this will help them better predict when machines will fail – like the ice cream machine – and then service them before that happens.

What's Trending?

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Senator Rick Scott is trending because he posted this video about Daylight Savings Time with an Israeli flag most prominently displayed in his office. It inflamed many people, as demonstrated by the comments.

Myles Garrett is trending because the football player has reportedly agreed to a four-year extension with the Cleveland Browns for $40 million per year with $123 million guaranteed.

JD Vance is trending for this post about being confronted while walking his three year-old daughter in a stroller. He claims he was "followed around" but refutes of this claim that the protestors merely encountered him. The footage shows that he does try to de-escalate and then eventually remove his child from the discussion.

AI Surveillance State

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Over the weekend, a Palestinian man on a student visa had his green card revoked after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) arrested him at his home. Mahmoud Khalil was one of the lead organizers of the sit-in at Columbia University. His wife is an American citizen and she was threatened by ICE too, according to reports.

What did he do? Did he incite violence or simply support the same cause as Hamas, which is a two-state solution? So far, Redacted has not seen proof that he incited violence or broke laws. If he has, he should be prosecuted on those grounds, not for support of an idea.

Free speech organization FIRE says this about it: "Anyone facing arrest and detention must be afforded due process. Just as students and other demonstrators are obliged to abide by lawful rules of conduct, our government must abide by the First Amendment. The government must be clear and transparent about the basis for its actions to avoid chilling protected speech."

This comes on the heels of the Trump administration declaring that it will defund Columbia University and investigate "the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students."

Axios reports that the State Department is launching "an AI-fueled 'Catch and Revoke' effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups."

"Support Hamas" is code for "critic of Israel." So the State Department will scan social media of foreign nationals and punish them if they don't like what they see, even if it involves protected speech?

Free speech organization FIRE says this about it: "AI tools are emerging technologies, not trusted experts on the limits of protected speech under the First Amendment. They cannot be relied on to parse the nuances of expression about complex and contested matters like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Using AI to scour student visa holders’ social media for “pro-Hamas” speech and report that speech to an administration that threatens to deport international students for protected expression will undoubtedly encourage self-censorship on our nation’s campuses. America’s national strength is our commitment to free expression — let’s keep it that way."

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Lead: About That “Diplomacy”

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The U.S. is reportedly preparing to engage directly with Hamas to negotiate a peace deal with Israel. But if it is this kind of diplomacy, don’t hold your breathe.

President Trump wrote this on X and this on TruthSocial, threatening: “I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job, not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don’t do as I say… RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW, OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY LATER!”

He said that Hamas cannot keep any more dead bodies and continued, “Only sick and twisted people keep bodies, and you are sick and twisted!”

Israel also has dead bodies to exchange and had hostages long before October 7. Does he know that?

President Trump has repeatedly said that he cannot arrange a ceasefire in Ukraine without participation from both sides but has been called out for not engaging both sides of the conflict in Gaza. Well if this is his manner of engaging them, it is not to catch flies with honey.

Israel violated the terms of the ceasefire but the Trump administration sent a new round of shipments this week.

The Israeli government has cut aid to Gaza and reportedly has a “hell plan” that would “cut off electricity and water into Gaza to prepare for a full-scale resumption of the war.”

Ukraine is Europe’s War Now

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The Trump administration has paused weapons and intelligence sharing with Ukraine, according to the Wall Street Journal. What intelligence did the U.S. have? Apparently the U.S. helped Ukraine track Russian troops in order to fire HIMARS on them.

Without the weapons and intelligence, how will Ukraine keep its war going? Europe is digging through couch cushions to find the money. The plan is called the ReArm Europe Plan. It calls for the EU to spend more than €800 billion in defense spending but…they’ll have to borrow it. The rules allow each member state to increase their defense spending “without triggering the Excessive Deficit Procedure.”

In other words, they don’t have it. The EU is letting them borrow it. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says that this is necessary because “We are living in the most momentous and dangerous of times.” Her goal is for the E.U. to have a military budget equivalent to the U.S. annual military budget, which is also based on debt. Why in the world would anyone want to emulate that failing model!?

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Diplomacy With Iran?

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Russia has offered to broker talks between the U.S. and Iran.

These two countries are not at war but they are at loggerheads. The U.S. continually accuses Iran of having a nuclear weapon. Iran has worked with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to prove that it doesn’t but the U.S. keeps escalating accusations. Earlier in the week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had a call on Monday with Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz and “both leaders agreed that Iran remains a threat to regional security and agreed to work together on this challenge.”

Iran offered diplomatic talks with the Biden administration but has not offered any with the Trump administration. Could Russia be the middle man to cool down this rhetoric?

“Russia believes that the United States and Iran should resolve all problems through negotiations,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Bloomberg. Moscow “is ready to do everything in its power to achieve this,” he added.

Who cares who does it, as long as it gets done!?

News By The Numbers

22. That is how many Democratic Senators posted a video with the same scripted message about President Trump’s economic promises. Senator Cory Booker admitted to being the author of the stunt. We get that Democrats want to improve their messaging but does it have to be so scripted?

$5 million. That is how much money UC Davis is planning to spend on a locker room renovation project that will remove the single-sex spaces and build a “Universal Locker Room” that is “inclusive of members of all gender identities.”

$51 million. That is how much The Philadelphia Eagles will pay to re-sign Zack Baun for three years. They also re-signed Saquon Barkley for $41.2 million for two years.

Who Was In Charge All That Time?

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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has demanded an investigation into who was running the country while President Biden was in cognitive decline.

“It appears staffers and officers in the Biden administration may have exploited Biden’s incapacity so they could issue orders without an accountable President of sound mind approving them,” AG Bailey writes. “This would explain why the Biden administration’s orders were aggressivey much farther to the left than any previous President. If in fact Biden’s staffers were exploiting his mental decline, those orders are null and void.”

AG Bailey says that “it is black-letter law that a document is void, ab initio, when the person signing it lacks mental capacity.”

He is asking the Department of Justice to investigate “who has been running the country for the last four years.”

How do you think they would do that? Could they ask President Biden NOW why he did many things and to produce evidence of his understanding of those things? I doubt that would lead to very much. Could they ask for a document trail that led to executive actions? And would these Deep State actors be easy to identify?

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Lead: Weapons Sales

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President Trump has reportedly paused all military aid to Ukraine. This reportedly "applies to all US military equipment bound for Ukraine that’s not currently in the country, including weapons that are in transit on aircraft and ships or waiting in Poland to be delivered."

The Pentagon said that the pause will be "until the country’s leadership demonstrates a good faith commitment to peace."

The ultimatum gives me pause. This should be the end of the end, not because of President Zelensky's behavior. It should end because it is the right thing to do.

Most Americans support ending the war in Ukraine and more than half of Ukrainians want the war to end too, only you wouldn't know it if you only listen to Zelensky. He said this to the Associated Press on Monday:

"An agreement to end the war is still very, very far away, and no one has started all these steps yet. The peace that we foresee in the future must be just, honest, and most importantly, sustainable."

President Trump took to Truth Social to blast that statement, writing: "This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelenskyy, and America will not put up with it for much longer! It is what I was saying, this guy doesn’t want there to be Peace as long as he has America’s backing and, Europe, in the meeting they had with Zelenskyy, stated flatly that they cannot do the job without the U.S. – Probably not a great statement to have been made in terms of a show of strength against Russia. What are they thinking?"

Is this really the end of aid to Ukraine or is President Trump just punishing Zelensky for now? The personalities of this are a shame. Innocent people are still dying.

Tariffs Weren't A Threat

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President Trump's tariffs on Canada and Mexico were not idle threats. They went into effect today.

The Trump administration wanted serious efforts from both countries to curb the flow of drugs over the border but, the White House says that t"hey have failed to adequately address the situation."

So, game on.

The original plan was to put a 10% tariff on China but on Monday, the White House doubled it to 20%.

The President also announced a plan to put tariffs on "external" agricultural imports. He told farmers to "get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold INSIDE of the United States."

We are in unchartered waters now. The stock market faltered on the uncertainty of what tariffs will do to the economy.

The Atlanta Fed recently predicted a 2.8% drop in GDP in the first quarter of 2025. This may look bad but, as economist Peter St. Onge points out, "its not necessarily flagging distress. It's flagging that the country is healing" from the over-spending of the Biden administration. I like the optimism. Let's hope it's on target for all of our sake!

China retaliated by announcing new tariffs on U.S. food and agriculture products, which will go into effect on March 10.

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Protests at the Knesset

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Protests broke out at the Israeli Knesset on Monday because guard personnel did not allow bereaved families of October 7 victims to attend a speech by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The families are demanding a probe into October 7. They want to know what the Israeli government knew in advance, how it responded with lethal force on civilians and why the Prime Minister has repeatedly failed to negotiate for hostage releases when Hamas demands all along have been "all for all."

The Prime Minister says that anyone who wants an investigation like that is from the "deep state." He said that an investigative committee would only be "a committee whose conclusions are already predetermined, and they have been written, all concentrated at one end of the political spectrum."

He compared this to the political persecution of President Trump in the U.S.

"Most of the people see everything that is happening here, the cooperation between the bureaucracy, the deep state, [which] in the United States, did not succeed. And it will not succeed here either," he said.

The Prime Minster warned Hamas of "consequences you can’t imagine" if the remaining prisoners are not exchanged. He spoke of a "hell plan" to stop all aid to Gaza while resuming military attacks. The U.S. is apparently on board because Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had a call on Monday with Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz and they spoke of the two countries' "unbreakable bond."

What's Trending?

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SpaceX is trending because the eighth launch of the Starship rocket happened on Monday from Texas.

Fort Benning is trending because the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth renamed an Army base in Georgia back to its original name. The name was changed to Fort Moore in 2023 by the Biden administration.

Bill Nye the Science Guy is trending because he went on CNN and said that "forest fires in the Carolinas…didn’t used to be a thing.” Only, that's not true. The largest wildfire in South Carolina history was in 1976 and the state experiences approximately 5,000 wildfires per year.

News By The Numbers

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31 years. That is how long former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson has been an NFL announcer. He just announced his retirement from Fox Sports.

5 minutes and 40 seconds. That was how long Adrien Brody's Oscar acceptance speech lasted and some people didn't like it.

7,000. That is how many people the Social Security Administration plans to lay off, reducing staff from 57,000 to 50,000.

Did the FBI Hide The Epstein Files? 

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The head of the New York FBI office has been ousted. He says that he was not given a reason for this but this internal memo from a few weeks ago may have something to do with it.

James Dennehy is a Marine Corps veteran. After President Trump took office, he sent a staff email calling the Trump administration "a battle of our own" and advising his staff to "dig in."

Dennehy said that this: “Late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did. I was not given a reason for this decision.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi is now saying that the New York field office had withheld evidence about Jeffrey Epstein. She claims that this office had "thousands of documents" that were withheld when she requested them but she has them now and that her office is going through them for forthcoming release.

That doesn't quite explain the influencers with binders that happened last week. This narrative from the government has been hard to follow. They have over-promised and under-delivered. Could it really have been this one guy holding it up for the rest of us or is there something else to it?

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Lead: Coalition of The Warmongers

European leaders rushed to stand with Ukrainian President Zelensky after he was thrown out of the White House for petulantly demanding that the U.S. abandon diplomacy with Russia. After President Trump and Vice President Vance called him out for this, European leaders acted in unison to signal that Europe can and will pick up the torch by posing for this War Lovers Family Photo. They are calling themselves the "coalition of the willing."

European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen summarized the meeting thus: We want peace. We'll do it with a "massive surge" of war.

The U.K. signed a 100-year agreement to support Ukraine, both militarily and financially. This was already in the works since January but it was widely reported over the weekend to symbolize Britain's opposition to the U.S. position. This puts them on the hook for £3 billion per year until 2031. That's only 6 years so who knows what the remaining 94 will entail but they do have a plan to establish military bases along the Sea of Azov, which Russia controls. That should go well.

Part of this plan is for "combating…propaganda." So expect a lot of propaganda.

British Prime Minister Starmer also announced a £1.6 billion missile deal for Ukraine.

President Zelensky posted his summary of his weekend, reiterating that Europe is his new bestie because the U.S. refuses to play that role now.

Oh and Canada wants in on that action too. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau scored himself an invitation to the summit and now says that "everything is on the table" for Canadian support to Ukraine, including troops on the ground.

Based on this political theater, there are increasing calls for the U.S. to leave NATO.

Collaboration with…Russia?

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The Pentagon is reportedly ending it's cyberwar on Russia. This was reported by The Record and sort of validated by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

I say "sort of" because he commented on Hillary Clinton sharing it by pointing out that she too has a history with Russia. Hegseth, according to reports, has ordered the U.S. to stop "offensive digital actions" on Russia. Which serves as a reminder that the U.S. launches cyber warfare on other countries and was the first to launch a cyber weapon.

Why would he do that? Because you can't be attacking a country that you're trying to make peace with clearly.

The U.S. is also seeking out energy and mineral deals with Russia, which Russian President Vladimir Putin says is on the table. The mineral-rich land of Eastern Ukraine is now in Russia's control so that makes sense.

Now there are reports that the U.S. may want to invest in the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline. Yes THAT one, the one that the Biden administration sabotaged. It has never actually been activated but President Trump is ambitious about investment and energy so it very well could.

During his first term, President Trump said that he would kill the project but apparently he's had a change of heart.

Ukrainian President Zelensky says that he is still willing to sign the minerals deal that did not get signed after a sour meeting at the White House. Will the U.S. still want it?

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Ceasefire Ends

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Israel turned the bombs back on after the first phase of the ceasefire ended without an agreement to extend to a second phase.

Over the weekend, Israeli forces struck northern Gaza. Israel blames Hamas for "not accepting a US-backed proposal for extending the truce." They did not accept it because it did not have a commitment for Israel to end the war.

The U.S. plan, put forward by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, allowed the ceasefire to extend during Ramadan, which began on Saturday and ends on March 29. It would also extend through Passover, which is between April 12 through 19.

So what now that the second and third phases of the ceasefire are in limbo? Israel cut off aid flowing into Gaza while the U.S. stepped up weapons shipments to Israel. On Saturday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he had expedited the shipment of $4 billion in military aid for Israel. So…don't get excited about all that savings we may incur over stopping aid to Ukraine. Israeli Prime Minister thanked the U.S. for giving them the weapons to "finish the job."

News By The Numbers

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45,000. That is how many locations there are of a popular fast food chain called Mixue Ice Cream and Tea, mostly in Asia and Australia. That makes it the largest fast food chain in the world, topping McDonald's and Starbucks.

10%. That is how many more kids enrolled in architecture and construction classes in Wisconsin during the 2022-2023 school year than the year before. Trade courses are increasingly popular all over the U.S. as students seek out early vocation.

500. That is how many pushups one man did in one hour and then showed off the before-and-after pump.

What's Trending?

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Ozempic is trending because so many actresses looked so thin on the Red Carpet at the Academy Awards on Sunday.

Shane Gillis is trending because of this comedic open for Saturday Night Live. He actually called out liberals for being powerful and intolerant. What do you know?

Grand Theft Auto VI is trending on speculation that the game will be delayed again.

Gender Study Confirms What We Already Knew

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A new study shows what is a consistent trend: Gender transformation only makes mental health worse. We already knew that gender transformation increased the risk of suicide. A new study shows that surgical sex changes increases the risk of "depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders" than those who do not undergo surgery.

Well…who would have predicted that experimental procedures would make people so uncomfortable? Not do the procedures lead to sterilization and create life-long pharmaceutical patients, they are painful and increase a person's focus on "passing" as another gender. No one should go around the world hyper focused on how others perceive them!

The study, surprisingly, does not suggest that these procedures stop because they are associated with harm. It only suggests that there is a need for "ongoing, gender-sensitive mental health support for transgender individuals’ post-surgery."

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Lead: Hostage Exchange

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Israel has begun to release over 600 hostages. This release happened in exchange for the bodies of four hostages to the Red Cross, which happened as planned.

According to Al Jazeera, “there are 115 Palestinian Palestinians serving life and long sentences who are being released. Only 43 of them will be released to the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem. Ninety-seven of them will be exiled out of the occupied Palestinian territory, and 11 are originally from Gaza, so they will be returning to the Gaza Strip.”

Exiled where?

One of the hostages has reportedly been in a coma for months so Palestinian medical teams are awaiting his release.

The World Health Organisation says that over 160 healthcare workers from Gaza are still in Israeli detention centers and they are “deeply concerned about the wellbeing and safety of Palestinian health workers in Israeli detention”, after reports that detainees in Israeli prison facilities were routinely subjected to violence and mistreatment.

These workers could be a part of the next stage of the ceasefire. Hamas says that the remaining Israeli hostages will only be released if Israel commits to the ceasefire deal.

Is It Epstein Day?

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Attorney General Pam Bondi said that she will start releasing information on the Jeffrey Epstein case as early as today. She said this on Fox News on Wednesday night.

When she was asked why these files have yet to be released she said this: “There are well over 250 victims. We have to make sure that their identify is protected. Tomorrow, Jessie, you’re going to see some Epstein information being released by my office.”

When Rep. Anna Paulina Luna asked the Department of Justice for more information on Epstein as well as the JFK and MLK assassinations – an overly broad request if I’ve ever heard one – she was told that the DOJ would review her request and get back to her in order to protect the “integrity of criminal investigations and prosecutions…[and] uphold the rule of law, keep our nation safe, and protect civil rights.”

Does this indicate that there are still prosecutions moving forward regarding these cases?

So what could we see today from the DOJ regarding Epstein? Client lists? Flight logs? Will we see more of Whitney Webb has uncovered and his connection to Israel? I somehow doubt it.

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Flu Vaccine Meeting Canceled.

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Every year in March, the Food and Drug Administration meets to decide which viruses they will vaccinate for in the annual flu vaccine.

This year, inexplicably, that meeting was canceled.

But Dr. Paul Offit, a member of that panel, told CNBC that he received an email that the meeting would be canceled but did not say why.

I am going to take a wild guess. 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. Maybe, just maybe, new management at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which manages the FDA, have indicated that they want real testing for the annual flu vaccine, which is why manufacturers may be slamming on the pause button?

What do you think of that hypothesis?

Speaking of vaccines, shares of Moderna were down 5% on Wednesday on news that HHS was “re-evaluating its $590 million contract to develop a bird flu vaccine.”

What’s Trending?

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Monica Lewinsky is trending because she was a guest on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast and said that Bill Clinton should have resigned amid the scandal involving their affair.

Floyd Mayweather, the undefeated boxing champion, is trending for saying that President Trump is the “best President we’ve ever had.”

Amazon Alexa is trending because Amazon announced Alexa+, a “next-generation assistant powered by generative AI.”

News By The Numbers

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62%. That is the pay raise that the union for dock workers agreed to on Tuesday.

$2 million. That is the value of Nike sneakers that migrant thieves stole from slow-moving freight trains. There has reportedly been a string of train robberies from this group, like Jesse James times!

12 minutes. That is how long each can of soda shortens your life, according to one recent study.

Crying: Disease Outbreak

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Officials in the Congo say that a new “hemorrhagic-like illness” has killed at least 50 people.

The disease is not Marburg virus or Ebola because patients tested negative for that. It does seem to be “hemorrhagic-like” with symptoms including fever, vomiting and internal bleeding. In children, doctors say they experience “persistent crying.”

This is from The Daily Mail: “In a local health department report, officials added that the first three cases, in children under five who reportedly ate a dead bat, also suffered from diarrhea and fatigue.”

Somebody get these children something else to eat! Persistent hunger is a problem in Congo due to government corruption, among other factors. Reportedly, about half of the patients were malnourished and also tested positive for malaria.

So are you safe if you don’t eat bats? Or is this something that could spread from person-to-person? The WHO says it could be but there is also cause to be cautious. We have no idea how they are testing or confirming this disease nor do we know how reliable those tests are.

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Lead: Palestinian Hostages Will Be Released

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Hamas says that they have reached a deal with Israel. The deal would secure the release of over 600 Palestinians whose freedom was delayed last weekend.

Israel delayed its hostage release because they did not like the way Hamas released Israeli hostages but I guess they got over that.

“They will be released simultaneously with the bodies of the Israeli prisoners agreed to be handed over during the first phase, in addition to the corresponding Palestinian women and children,” Hamas said.

The ceasefire is still in place in Gaza while these negotiations take place. Israel says that if the next phase of the ceasefire is not agreed upon soon, they will restart the war.

Meanwhile, Israel has stepped up attacks on the West Bank and on Syria.

Ukraine Minerals: Me Made A Deal

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It appears President Trump will get his way with Ukrainian rare earth minerals. Ukrainian President Zelensky is expected to sign a deal with the U.S. as early as Friday, possibly in person with President Trump.

The deal will give the U.S. rights to Ukraine’s minerals. The thing is, Ukraine lost most of the places that have the minerals to Russia in the war. Most of Ukraine’s minerals are now Russia’s minerals so Ukraine has little to give but what they’ve got left will be mined and refined by the U.S. if President Trump has his way. This is what the President wants in exchange for the billions in aid that the U.S. has sent to Ukraine.

President Trump also wants to make a deal with Russian President Putin for access to their minerals too and Russia is reportedly game. According to President Putin, Russia is keen to begin “joint projects” with the U.S., which could involve a collaboration on aluminium extraction and supply to the US to stabilise prices.

For all of this to happen, the war in this region needs to end and the White House seems confident that a peace deal is imminent. Meanwhile, European leaders keep trying to act as if it isn’t. The Wall Street Journal says that European leaders are seeking to “Perfect the Art of Trump Whispering.” Lol. Good luck with that.

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 More Pervert Chats

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Tulsi Gabbard wants answers by Friday, or else.

The new Director of National Intelligence has demanded that the federal employees who used the NSA’s chat rooms to participate in “obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit” discussions be identified by Friday so that they can be terminated and stripped of their security clearance.

Investigative journalists Christopher F. Rufo and Hannah Grossman discovered that NSA, CIA and DIA chatrooms were used for sexually explicit conversations regarding [brace yourself] genital castration, artificial vaginas, piss fetishes, sex polycules, and gangbangs—all on government time.” The chats date from 2022.

The chats were not just about sex. They also had a recurring theme of hatred against Christians, conservatives, Italians, and heterosexuals. Italians? In this log, they celebrate the death of Christian leader Pat Robertson. In another, they discuss birthing “hermaphrodite babies in order to advance trans ideology.”

THESE are the people who were running the surveillance state during the Biden Administration! But then again, how would they know any better? This behavior was encouraged during the Biden Administration but under Director Gabbard, it is most certainly not.

What’s Trending?

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John Lithgow is trending because the actor confirmed that he has been cast as Dumbledore in the upcoming Harry Potter HBO series. He has been deemed worthy of the Elder Wand!

Kathleen Kennedy is trending because there were rumors that she was retiring from Lucas Film after ruining pretty much every franchise from Star Wars to Indiana Jones. Sadly, those are just rumors and CNN reports that they’re not true.

Rob Gronkowski is trending on rumors that he may return to the NFL after retiring and may consider joining the Denver Broncos. He is 35 years old and was one of the best when he played with Tom Brady in New England and Tampa Bay.

News By The Numbers

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25%. That is how much Tesla stock is down this year. Shares of the company dropped 8% on Tuesday alone.

Two. That is how many judges ruled to block the Trump administration from freezing federal aid on Tuesday. One was DC Judge Loren AliKhan and the other is Judge Amir Ali. Both were appointed by President Biden. Elon Musk has raised the issue of impeaching corrupt judges in response to this.

2.5%. That is how much the United Kingdom will increase its defense spending, according to Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Golden Visas

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President Trump announced that the U.S. will have a new green card program for high net worth people called a “gold card.” Many countries already have this. In countries such as Portugal, Spain and Turkey they are called Golden Visas. In Australia it is the Significant Investor Visa (SIV).

These countries offer residency with some extra tax perks to people who invest heavily in the country through real estate investments or business investments. The program that President Trump suggested would be called a “gold card” and it would require an investment of $5 million in the U.S.

“It’s somewhat like a green card, but at a higher level of sophistication. It’s a road to citizenship for people, and essentially people of wealth or people of great talent,” Trump said in the Oval Office.

“We’re going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million and that’s going to give you green card privileges-plus,” the president added as he rolled out the plan to a group of journalists. “They’ll be wealthy and they’ll be successful, and they’ll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people.”

This may sound elitist but it is not uncommon and you can’t blame a country for trying to encourage growth and income through investment. President Trump said that this program could help to pay down the national debt.

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