Hungary’s government banned the Budapest Pride parade, citing “child protection” laws. I wonder why…?

Pride parades may have once been about equal rights for homosexuals, but they have morphed into public celebrations of sex acts. If a straight parade pulled half the stunts we’ve seen at these events, it would be shut down for indecency too.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen threatened Hungary with sanctions over the ban. She voiced her “full support and solidarity to the Budapest Pride and LGBTQ+ community” and said “marching for your rights is a fundamental freedom.”

Funny—I don’t recall her saying that in 2021 when Europeans marched against draconian Covid restrictions and civil rights violations.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán responded on X, telling her to mind her own business.

The post Hungary to EU: Keep Your Kinks Out of Our Country appeared first on Redacted.

Do you think President Trump really thinks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is innocent of corruption? He said so in a Truth Social post on Wednesday.

Netanyahu is due back in court Monday to continue his long-running corruption trial—on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust in three separate cases. The allegations range from luxury gifts like cigars and champagne to trading regulatory favors for flattering media coverage. One case allegedly involved gifts that included… a Bugs Bunny doll.

President Trump says that Netanyahu is “a WARRIOR, like perhaps no other Warrior in the History of Israel” and his “trial should be CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY, or a Pardon given to a Great Hero, who has done so much for the State.”

What is behind this? Surely he knows that the Prime Minister is still committing war crimes against innocent people in Gaza. Is that what he means by “warrior” or is this something more calculated?

Perhaps the President needs the Israeli Prime Minister to appear legitimate to legitimize the peace deal he brokered with Iran? Or maybe President Trump wants Netanyahu in his debt. Trump’s message isn’t just loyalty—it’s leverage. “We saved you, now you owe us.”

President Trump said that he is making “great progress” towards peace in Gaza. Is this praise part of the diplomacy or is this bro love for real?

The post Trump Wants Netanyahu Pardoned—To Save Israel or to Own Him? appeared first on Redacted.

President Trump got NATO leaders to “commit” to doubling their military budgets in support of the so-called “defensive” alliance.

Only—they’re not actually going to do that.

The pledge is to boost spending over the next 10 years, and most of it is earmarked for infrastructure projects, not new weapons or military readiness. It’s a ruse.

Does President Trump know this? Of course he does. But what does it matter to him? His goal was to reduce the U.S. share of NATO’s budget—and he did. NATO wanted to make a big show of stepping up—and they did. Everybody wins except NATO itself which will inevitably shrink without the big bucks from the U.S.

NATO chief Mark Rutte even delivered an Oscar-worthy speech in front of Trump, praising members for meeting their financial goals. Trump nodded along approvingly. But it was all theater.

Need proof? Rutte called Trump “Daddy”. A reporter asked the President about it, and Trump smirked it off: Sure, he said, they need help.

The White House even posted a video leaning into it: Daddy’s home.

The post Daddy Issues: NATO Pledges, Trump Nods, U.S. Pays Less appeared first on Redacted.

President Trump says he’ll resume peace talks with Iran next week—but don’t expect a nuclear agreement. According to him, there’s nothing left to negotiate:

“We destroyed the nuclear. In other words, it’s destroyed… blown up to kingdom come.”

The Trump administration disputed a leaked U.S. intelligence assessment reported by The Washington Post that said Iran’s facilities were damaged but not “obliterated.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slammed the media for premature, false reporting.

I’ve never wanted to NOT question a government narrative so bad in my life. Fine, they were destroyed. The nuclear weapons they never had. Wink, wink. No backsies, no do-overs.

That means the U.S. government’s current position is that Iran no longer has nuclear capabilities—and all future diplomacy will operate from that assumption.

Trump put it bluntly:

“They had a war, they fought, now they’re going back to their world… I don’t care if I have an agreement or not.”

So what happens to the neocons who were so pumped up this month for the war with Iran they always wanted?

Has the Persian rug been pulled out from under them?

The post Trump: Peace Talks Resume—Nuclear Treaties Dead appeared first on Redacted.

An Israeli professor claims that at least 377,000 Palestinians have been “disappeared” since Israel began its genocidal campaign against the Gaza Strip in 2023. Half of these are believed to be children.

The study was done by Dr. Yaakov Garb of Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba. He found that the pre-war population of Gaza was approximately 2.22 million. Today, it is approximately 1.85 million, leaving 377,000 unaccounted for. The official death toll is approximately 56,000 Palestinians and counting. Nearly 50 more people were killed on Monday by the IDF while attempting to get aid.

With Israel pivoting from its stalled Iran gambit back to Gaza, the question grows more urgent:

Where—exactly—did the other 377,000 people go?

The post Gaza’s Vanished: A Death Toll No One Counts appeared first on Redacted.

Ukraine has been welcomed into the European Union like a squatter—they can keep coming around but you’re not really one of us.

At the NATO Summit meeting, European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen said this about Ukraine: “We are integrating our defence (sic) industries as if Ukraine was in the EU.”

As if is not a real thing. This is political theater at its dumbest. They hand Ukraine the illusion of membership—flags, dinners, hashtags—but none of the actual guarantees.

President Zelensky didn’t flinch. Either he missed the insult, or breadcrumbs are all he expects from this crowd.

The post As-If Alliances appeared first on Redacted.

President Trump didn’t come to play diplomat. He came to collect.

The President arrived at the NATO summit on Tuesday and is reportedly skipping the panels and the pleasantries and ready to demand NATO countries commit to spending 5% of their GDP on defense. That’s a big leap from the 2% most of them still don’t hit. And instead of pledging real money, our so-called allies are offering accounting tricks and excuses.

Spain flat-out refused. They said they’ll only pay 2.1%, claiming “country-level flexibility” under NATO’s pledge. Why? Because paying more would mean cutting into their generous social programs. So instead, they let American taxpayers cover their military tab while Spain enjoys things Americans don’t have like free healthcare and five-week vacations.

The U.K. tried a different kind of con. They say they’ll boost spending—but it turns out it’s not new money. According to The Telegraph, they’re relabeling old infrastructure projects as “defense spending.” It’s not a budget increase. It’s a spreadsheet shuffle.

Now NATO leaders are scrambling to justify their free ride. Mark Rutte is shouting vague warnings that “the Russians are coming.” Ursula von der Leyen says they expect a full blown war with Russia in the next five years.

But here’s the truth: Russia isn’t trying to take over Europe. Even Russian state media keeps the war’s scope confined to the Donbas and Ukraine.

You’d almost think these people need the war to keep their sweet welfare system going. So what happens if President Trump tells them no? Gosh I hope he does!

The post America First, NATO Last appeared first on Redacted.

A ceasefire between Israel and Iran is holding for now but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that his country “will strike again” if Iran “thinks of rebuilding” its nuclear program.

President Trump was furious that Israel violated the terms of the ceasefire he put in place on Monday, saying “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing.”

But why would he trust Israel to honor a ceasefire to begin with? Israel has violated over 3,000 cease-fire terms since October 7—across Gaza and Lebanon. In Lebanon alone, Israel violated the ceasefire over 2,700 times after President Biden expressly forbid Netanyahu not to invade southern Lebanon.

Wouldn’t it be foolish to keep trusting Israel to honor its ceasefires? At what point does this stop being naivety—and start looking like complicity?

The Trump administration is now defending the destruction of the nuclear sites in Iran that were bombed on Saturday. The Washington Post reports that the nuclear sites were “not obliterated” but instead “set back by months.”

So what’s the truth? Was this a strategic victory—or a flimsy excuse for Israel to bomb again?

The post The Ceasefire Illusion appeared first on Redacted.

Alliance leaders are leaning hard on the old Cold War script — that Russia is the biggest threat — to convince member states to boost military spending. But let’s be honest: that narrative is wearing thin.

NATO chief Mark Rutte is pushing a new 5% of GDP defense spending target, calling it a “quantum leap” needed to bolster air defenses and buy thousands of tanks and long-range weapons. A NATO summit is happening this week and the goal? Convince member states to rebuild stockpiles and prepare for a more “dangerous world.”

But here’s the thing: most European NATO members currently spend around 2% — and they’ve been perfectly comfortable outsourcing their defense burden to American taxpayers. Why pony up now, when U.S. dollars have done the heavy lifting?

Plus, many of these countries are drowning in debt and already stretched thin at home. Free healthcare and month-long holidays don’t exactly pair well with an expensive military industrial complex.

And in case you were wondering how seriously they’re taking the 5% pledge — Spain has already negotiated an exemption, promising just 2.5%. Great deal for them. Not so great for the Americans underwriting the rest.

The post Mark Rutte’s 5% Fantasy: NATO Tries the Hard Sell appeared first on Redacted.

The new president of Syria — former ISIS member Ahmed al‑Sharaa — publicly promised to protect Christians and other minorities after taking office in January. That’s not going well.

On Sunday, between 20–25 Christians were killed and dozens more wounded in what’s being called the first major ISIS-style suicide bombing of a church since the fall of the Assad government.

Back in March, after 900 Alawite civilians were massacred in coastal clashes between Assad loyalists and transitional forces, President al‑Sharaa said this:

“We announce the formation of a fact-finding committee regarding the events on the coast and form a higher committee.”

And…? More deaths. More promises. Still “fact-finding.”

This isn’t just about failure — it’s about how fragile transitional governments are when they inherit power vacuums, warlord fiefdoms, and decades of sectarian wounds. Regime change may be complete on paper — but order hasn’t followed.

When will we learn?

The post Syria’s Christians Are Still Dying appeared first on Redacted.

Oil prices fell 7% after Iran fired on a U.S. military base in Qatar.

Why would oil drop after a bombing?

It was a collective exhale.

Prices surged Sunday on fears that Iran might close the Strait of Hormuz — a move that would choke off 20% of global oil supply. But instead of triggering an economic crisis, Iran responded with a limited military strike. No supply shock, no escalation — and everyone survived.

Markets read that as: crisis averted. And oil cooled off.

Is that that?

The post Markets Exhale as Iran Avoids Strait Closure appeared first on Redacted.

President Trump announced that Israel and Iran had agreed to a ceasefire but the terms read like an athletic event. Team A stops first and then Team B stops 12 hours later and then 12 hours after that, the bombs stop completely.

What…? Who…?

I don’t get it.

Both sides blitzed one another with deadly attacks, as the clock ran out but Iranian TV reported that the ceasefire began at 8 a.m. local time after Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said that they would stop firing after Israel stopped.

Earlier on Monday, Iran retaliated against the U.S. by bombing a U.S. base but President Trump said that it was “weak” and “expected.” His full comment:

“They’ve gotten it all out of their ‘system,’ and there will, hopefully, be no further HATE. I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, which made it possible for no lives to be lost, and nobody to be injured. Perhaps Iran can now proceed to Peace and Harmony in the Region, and I will enthusiastically encourage Israel to do the same.”

He then said that both countries had approached him with requests for a ceasefire and he championed both countries equally and said that they each have an “UNLIMITED” future “filled with great PROMISE.”

It sounds great and maybe it was all strategic but do we trust these parties to lay down weapons?

Is it really “out of their system”? Like a good cry?

The post Trump Announces Ceasefire appeared first on Redacted.

You’re used to hearing that plastic bottles are full of microplastics, I get it. Well, a new study is here to tell us that glass bottles are worse!

Researchers tested various beverage containers and found that glass bottles shed between 5 and 50 times more microplastics than plastic or metal ones.

They blame it on the caps, especially the paint or lining inside them, which flakes off and contaminates the drink.

I give up!

The post Glass Bottles: The Latest Thing That’s Trying to Kill You appeared first on Redacted.

An upcoming NATO summit has been shortened — and poor President Zelensky has reportedly been dropped from the agenda.

NATO’s World Forum in The Hague was set to kick off Tuesday with a lavish welcome dinner at the Dutch royal family’s castle, followed by high-level meetings between alliance leaders. But in the wake of the escalating conflict with Iran, the event has been scaled back — and Zelensky’s invitation has been quietly rescinded. He may still be welcome at the dinner though.

Remember when Zelensky was the must-have guest at every global ceremony? Now his war has been pushed to the back burner.

Where NATO once stood united against Russia, it now finds itself fractured over the war in the Middle East. Several member states have condemned Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza. Will they fall in line behind the U.S. again — this time to back Israel?

I’d love to be a fly on that wall!

Meanwhile, Zelensky is desperate to get the spotlight back. Over the weekend, he threatened Russia with long-range weapons and claimed his “Western backers” were on board.

My dude — your Western backers are starting to forget you exist.

The post Zelensky Dropped as NATO Shifts Focus to Middle East Crisis appeared first on Redacted.

Iran’s parliament has voted to close the Strait of Hormuz — but the move won’t take effect unless it’s approved by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.

If enacted, the consequences would be massive: nearly 20% of global oil trade flows through this narrow waterway. Even the threat of closure has already pushed oil prices higher, with markets bracing for turbulence.

So what happens if Iran follows through?

• Oil prices could skyrocket to $100–150 per barrel.
• Gas prices would climb, potentially past $4/gallon in the U.S.
• Shipping costs surge as tankers reroute and insurance premiums spike.
• Inflation rebounds, especially in energy-dependent economies.
• Supply chains slow down — everything from food to fuel gets more expensive.

For a global economy already under strain, this kind of shock could tip fragile markets into recession. Remember the last time a war tanked the global economy? You don’t have to reach back too far, it was in 2022 over the Russia/Ukraine conflict.

The U.S. and its allies could see this closure as an escalation and respond militarily. Let’s hope they don’t. The U.S. military publication, Stars and Stripes, reports that the “shipping industry was placed on high alert on Sunday with warnings that Tehran could retaliate against commercial vessels following after U.S. airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities.”

The post Iran Just Voted to Choke the World’s Oil appeared first on Redacted.

The U.S. celebrated its strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities as a great success but that has been hard to corroborate.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that the three sites were hit and “assessed that there has been extensive damage” at the sites but this was “based on an analysis of the information available to it,” not imagery or visits.

The IAEA did say that it was in contact with the Iranian regulatory authorities and was informed that there is no nuclear fallout – a critical detail.

This suggests one of two things:

1. There was no weapons-grade material present;
2. The U.S. deliberately avoided striking actual nuclear material.

If either is true, then this wasn’t a strategic dismantling of a nuclear weapons program. It was a symbolic strike, carefully designed to send a message — but to whom?

Political scientist Gilbert Doctorow says that the strikes were “political theater.” He says it doesn’t matter what was demolished.

“By saying that he has essentially deprived Benjamin Netanyahu of all justification to continue the war against Iran and spared the United States any obligation to otherwise intervene in the conflict. Meanwhile, the longer Netanyahu continues attacks on Iran, the more devastating the Iranian counter-strikes are becoming, to the point where critical Israeli infrastructure is being degraded and the viability of the economy is being put into question. The question now is what will come first: the utter destruction of Israel or the removal of Netanyahu from office and his incarceration.”

Could this have been President Trump’s game all along?

Iran has condemned the attack obviously. Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi called the attack a “grave violation of the UN Charter” that “will have everlasting consequences.” He declared that “Iran reserves all options to defend its sovereignty, interest, and people.”

The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting and UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the attacks as “a dangerous escalation.”

The Iranian U.N. representative said that the U.S. has “destroyed diplomacy” and “sacrificed its safety to save Netanyahu.”

Following these accusations, President Trump called for regime change in Iran.

That’s a jarring turn — especially in light of his own speech just last month in Saudi Arabia, where he said this:

“In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built. And the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves. Peace, prosperity, and progress ultimately came NOT from a radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly.”

What happened to that sentiment?

The post Symbolic Strike or Strategic Bluff? U.S. Hits Iran, Fallout Absent appeared first on Redacted.

The Supreme Court ruled that states can ban sex change procedures for minors, and — crucially — that transgender identity is not a protected class under the Constitution.

In its landmark decision in United States v. Skrmetti, the Court upheld Tennessee’s SB1 law, which prohibits doctors from performing sex change operations as well as prescribing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to children for the purpose of gender transition.

The Court rejected claims that the law violates the Equal Protection Clause, applying only rational basis review — the most deferential standard — and finding Tennessee’s interest in protecting minors from irreversible, experimental treatments to be plainly legitimate. As the Court noted, “many of these procedures, when performed on a minor for such purposes, are experimental in nature and not supported by high-quality, long-term medical studies.”

But the bigger headline is this: the Court declined to invent a new “suspect class” for transgender individuals, resisting activist pressure to elevate gender identity to the same legal status as race or sex. That move was always unlikely, given the Court’s long-standing refusal to create suspect classes for other groups — including homeless people, people with disabilities, the poor, and the elderly.

The decision sends a powerful message to lower courts: the Constitution does not require states to affirm gender ideology — and courts are not in the business of creating new protected classes on demand.

The post Supreme Court: States Can Ban Gender Transitions for Children appeared first on Redacted.

President Trump said he would do a better job as Fed Chief than Jerome Powell because Powell pissed him off by keeping interest rates steady instead of cutting them, as the President wanted.

President Trump called Powell “a stupid person” who was “costing the country a fortune,” citing high interest payments for the federal government.

I mean…we could also lower the federal debt to lower interest payments. That’s a thought.

The Fed also may have a new war to fund.

With a $37 trillion national debt, it is clear that the U.S. can’t afford a new war but it can if the Fed acts as a War Venture Capitalist like always.

Former Congressman Ron Paul points out in his fantastic book End The Fed, World War I was funded by:

• 21%: taxation
• 56%: Fed-backed borrowing
• 23%: outright money creation

That trend hasn’t stopped. It’s only intensified through every war since.

If we had no Fed, we couldn’t go to war. End the Fed indeed!

The post Fed Holds Rates — To Prep For War? appeared first on Redacted.

Israel doesn’t want you to know the extent of its damage or any of the damage it is inflicting. The government has issued an unprecedented order restricting Israeli media from publishing details about the war.

The IDF military censor applies to Israeli media and any foreign media operating in Israel. The censorship rules extend beyond Gaza, banning Israeli press from publishing stories that could “damage national morale” or “aid the enemy.” That includes civilian casualties, military mishaps, footage of protests, and even some international reports that contradict the official line.

And it is retroactive? 1984-style!

Media watchdogs and human rights groups have condemned these censorship demands as deeply authoritarian—especially given the global implications. When a military demands pre-approval of news coverage, that’s not just “national security,” that’s information control.

What is it that they don’t want us to see? Perhaps that the Iron Dome has been failing at an embarrassing rate. Al Jazeera reports that they “do not know exactly how some Iranian missiles made it past Israeli air defense systems.”

If the Iron Dome is struggling to intercept missiles, Israel’s censors are working overtime to intercept the truth.

The post IDF Orders Press Silence as Criticism Grows appeared first on Redacted.

President Trump said that Iran wants to re-open peace negotiations with the United States but the Iranian envoy to the United Nations says that is a lie.

“No Iranian official has ever asked to grovel at the gates of the White House,” a statement from Iran said on X. “The only thing more despicable than his lies is his cowardly threat to ‘take out’ Iran’s Supreme Leader. Iran does NOT negotiate under duress, shall NOT accept peace under duress, and certainly NOT with a has-been warmonger clinging to relevance. Iran shall respond to any threat with a counter-threat, and to any action with reciprocal measures.”

Okay so much for diplomacy.

The Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump has already given a greenlight to attack Iran but he is still “holding off to see if Tehran would abandon its nuclear program.”

What nuclear program? The one he thinks existed that U.S. intelligence confirmed does not? The IAEA has even admitted to having no evidence of this nuclear program!

The White House sure does seem to be prepping our psyche for war. This video, posted on the White House X account, says that the U.S. will “affirm with unwavering certainty that in the years ahead, and in every generation hence, whenever duty calls and whatever danger comes, the American soldier will be there. No matter the risk… they will seize the crown of victory.”

That sure does sound like a battle cry, doesn’t it?

The post From Peace Talk to Battle Cry in 24 Hours appeared first on Redacted.