Anti-Trump protests happened in all 50 states this weekend. It was called the Hands Off protest.

According to the organizers, Hands Off is a “nationwide mobilization to stop the most brazen power grab in modern history. Trump, Musk, and their billionaire cronies are orchestrating an all-out assault on our government, our economy, and our basic rights—enabled by Congress every step of the way.”

The event was sponsored by many progressive organizations such as Planned Parenthood, Greenpeace, Women’s March and the Human Rights Campaign.

According to Business Insider, “the crowd looked older, with middle-aged Americans seeming to outnumber the 20-somethings that dominated rallies during the pandemic. It makes sense since many Americans are watching their retirement savings dwindle in the face of crashing markets and worry that staff cuts to the Social Security Administration could impact the crucial safety net.

While the anti-government protests held during Trump’s first term focused on social issues — like abortion and civil rights issues — many of the signs today targeted the economy.”

It also could be because younger people wanted the system to be dismantled. That’s what they’ve been calling for these last four years and they’re getting it, aren’t they?

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The White House says that more than 50 countries have reached out to the U.S. to come to make a deal over tariffs.

Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said that these negotiations will happen fast so price changes will not much affect the American consumer.

“They’re doing that because they understand that they bear a lot of the tariff,” he said.

We don’t know which countries have done this other than Thailand and Taiwan. American markets have not shown enthusiasm for this as progress. Dow Futures are still down significantly for Monday. Crude oil prices dropped approximately 6% on fears of a recession. This could mean cheaper gas but it could also mean a full market collapse so, glass half full, ya’ know?

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President Trump bragged about killing a group of “Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack,” along with aerial footage of the U.S. murdering a group of people.

“Oops,” said the President. “There will be no attack by these Houthis! They will never sink our ships again!”

The Houthis have never sunk an American ship. The Houthis have claimed responsibility for attacks on U.S. ships though.

How can we be sure that these people were planning an attack on U.S. ships? The last U.S. attack on Yemen killed civilians too so we should demand proof that civilian deaths are being avoided. And how do we know that this was a group of military combatants? Many are saying that these men were in a traditional tribal formation and they are not combatants.

President Obama came up with the precedent of calling any male of military age that was killed by the American military a “combatant.” Americans must be vigilant that this never happens again.

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Israel was caught in a lie over the death of 15 emergency medical workers in Gaza on March 23.

The BBC says that “Israel changes account.” No. They were caught lying due to footage.

Israel originally claimed that it fired on the car because it approached “suspiciously” without headlights or flashing lights. The video footage shows that wasn’t true.

Israel’s next explanation is that they were “linked to Hamas – but has so far provided no evidence. It admits they were unarmed when the soldiers opened fire.”

Over the weekend, a U.S.-backed Israeli airstrike hike Gaza again, killing at least 43 children, including civilians in the al-Tuffah neighborhood. Again, the images are just awful. This after Israel hit a school in the same area where displaced families were sheltering. Dozens were killed, including children.

Last week, Israel reported that a 17-year-old boy who was imprisoned for allegedly throwing stones at soldiers died after collapsing in prison even though he was never charged with a crime. A report on his autopsy shows that he starved to death in an Israeli prison.

Israeli officials say that this is all part of the plan to “eliminate Hamas,” followed by “a large-scale opportunity for voluntary migration.”

Why would the Palestinian people have to leave Gaza if Hamas were eliminated?

Hamas reportedly fired “10 rockets at southern Israel on Sunday night in the largest such barrage in months.” Israel disrupted at least five of them but “a 30-year-old man was lightly injured by shrapnel,” according to The Times of Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in the U.S. on Sunday for a visit with President Trump. Over the weekend, the Defense Minister Israel Katz revealed documents that they claim “prove” that Iran funded October 7. He claims that the documents were found in the tunnels of Gaza.

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As expected, Liberation Day was about reciprocal tariffs. President Trump announced a list of tariffs that will be put on imports for countries that charge the U.S. tariffs on exports.

As you can see, it is not exactly reciprocal. China charges 67% on U.S. products but the new tariffs on Chinese products are only 34%. Still, that’s 34% more than cheap Chinese goods were before so that’s gunna hurt.

The White House also ended “duty-free de minimis treatment for low-value imports from China.” That means no more cheap things from Temu. Those items will have to be treated like other imports, tariffs and all. That’s a pretty big deal.

“For generations, countries have taken advantage of the United States,” the White House press account said on X. “No longer. President Trump is implementing reciprocal tariffs to increase our competitive edge, protect our sovereignty, and strengthen our national and economic security.”

It is embarrassing to see how unfavorable many countries are to U.S. products but is this the way to allow American companies to compete globally? Kentucky Senator Rand Paul calls this executive overreach. He says that this will amount to a tax on American families and “one person is not allowed to raise taxes—the constitution forbids it.” He also says that this will cost Republicans dearly in upcoming elections.

“On many fronts, I’m a supporter of the president,” he said. “On tariffs, I think it’s economically a fallacy to think it will help the country. Tariffs are a tax.”

Asian markets and U.S. exchanges were all down on this news.

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Israel bombed a UN-run clinic on Wednesday. At least 22 people are reported dead including 9 children and a newborn baby. This was an UNRWA clinic, which Israel has repeatedly claimed is linked to Hamas. They say that the clinic was a Hamas “command and control center.”

The images are horrific. Hamas says that everyone inside the building were civilians.

Israel also ramped up the ground attacks in Gaza on Wednesday after they stated clearly that intend to “capture extensive territory that will be added to the State of Israel’s security areas.”

There are new reports that Israel is working with the U.S. to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities in just a few weeks. Israeli sources told The Daily Mail that President Trump is the best partner in this goal that they could hope for in the White House.

“From Israel’s perspective, with Trump in the White House, this represents the optimum moment to deal with Iran. There won’t be a better chance,” the official said.

Iran has repeatedly declared that these are nuclear POWER plants, not nuclear weapons plants and they have worked with the IAEA on inspections but some dangerous people want a war with Iran so this dangerous rhetoric persists.

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Amazon made a bid to buy TikTok on Wednesday.

Jeff Bezos, who attended the Trump inauguration and has a personal relationship with the Trump White House, submitted an offer to buy the social network and the White House has confirmed that their received the letter.

Former State Department whistleblower Mike Benz says that “this retroactively makes the past 6 months make sense.” Like it was all a game to concentrate this power into the hands of a tech oligarch.

ByteDance, the only Chinese company that currently owns TikTok (not to be confused with the Chinese government) will still retain 19.9% of TikTok, which is just below the 20% threshold limiting Chinese ownership outlined in Congress’s law. There is no word if them and the other investors want to sell a controlling stake to Amazon.

President Trump’s executive offer to keep TikTok in the U.S. expires this weekend so something has to happen before then.

The short-term ban that took place in January did cost TikTok users. The company has begun to lose young users to Instagram Reels and YouTube shorts.

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We are being invited to be inspired by these women because they are “the all-star lineup of Blue Origin’s historic all-female space crew.” It is manufactured feminism and it makes me a little mad.

First, the word “crew” is generous. A flight crew is usually the personnel responsible for operating and managing an aircraft during a flight. The Blue Origin rocket that these gals will be on flies itself so they are passengers, not exactly a crew.

And we are told that they were chosen by Lauren Sanchez, the fiance of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, because “of their proven ability to inspire others.” Really?

CBS News anchor Gayle King has repeatedly said that she doesn’t want to go because she’s terrified so what inspiring message is that for us gals? Let other people pressure you into dangerous things?

This Elle profile of the flight really had me with this line: “Based on the statistics of women and space exploration, it’s evident the representation is needed. Not only has it been over 60 years since women (or technically just a woman) traveled to space without men, but women also only make up about 11 percent of those who’ve ventured into space in total.”

Why is this a problem exactly? And why are they treating this like such an accomplishment when all they are going to do is sit there? And why is this article so heavy on the hair and makeup tips? And also, do you need a bra in space?

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Today is Liberation Day in the U.S., as declared by President Trump but we don’t exactly know what that means yet. We know it means tariffs for other countries but…is there a cuisine we should eat to celebrate or a ritual of sorts for the rest of us?

I don’t think it is that kind of holiday. It is an economic milestone when the Trump administration will set taxes on imports from other countries that tax U.S. exports. He calls them “reciprocal” tariffs.

Not all Republicans support the President on this one. Senator Rand Paul co-sponsored a bill to terminate the emergency legislation that will place tariffs on Canada. Other Republicans have joined the efforts to stop the tarriffs, which President Trump said would “let the Democrats have a Victory. It would be devastating for the Republican Party and, far more importantly, for the United States.”

Economists are divided on the tariff idea so there really is no way to know what will happen. The best we can do right now is…hold on. Like we have been.

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The Trump administration admitted that it accidentally deported the wrong guy but it’s okay because that guy was a gang member.

The case involves a man named Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. He was sent to the megaprison in El Salvador that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem showed off last week. His wife saw him in a news report about the prison and pointed him out to the government.

“Although ICE was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error,” the court document says.

Trump cabinet members are arguing that the man was an MS-13 gang member with “no legal right to be here.”

But how do they know that he was a gang member? Was he convicted of gang membership or gang-related crime? He wasn’t. In a 2019 immigration proceeding, a confidential informant claimed he was a gang member and said that his clothing was proof.

Abrego Garcia refutes this. He is a father with no criminal record, a union sheet metal worker and he complied with his regular ICE checkins.

The police never followed up for evidence so none of us can truly know. That is why we need due process for every human being created by God. The government is not God and should not have the power to do this. As Reason reporter Liz Wolfe put it: “We hold ourselves to a higher standard than that, we believe in due process here, and that’s what makes America great. There will be political consequences to Trump admin’s sloppiness.”

The ACLU says that the government has a list of how it identifies gangmembers including “high-end urban street wear,” Michael Jordan’s basketball jersey, and “sports attire from U.S. professional sports teams with Venezuelan nationals on them” as Tren de Aragua identifiers.

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New data shows that the economy was good in the first month of President Trump’s second term. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Personal Income and Outlays Report show that consumer spending was up .4% in February 2025.

Also, incomes were up by .9%. According to the report, “personal income increased $194.7 billion (0.8 percent at a monthly rate) in February, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI)—personal income less personal current taxes—increased $191.6 billion (0.9 percent) and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $87.8 billion (0.4 percent).”

Maybe it was because the liberal Economic Blackout handing started yet? That began on February 28 so until then, Americans were making more money and spending more money.

Economist Peter St. Onge said that this could still lead to a paper recession because these numbers are maybe a little “too good.” He says that there should be a bigger hangover from the Biden administration.

But will this economic upturn last through new tariff wars?

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How can a 3 year old get kicked out of school for being transphobic? That is what happened in the U.K, according to The Telegraph:

“Department for Education (DfE) data show the child, aged either three or four, was suspended from a state school in the 2022-23 academic year for “abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity.”

How in the world can a 3 or 4 year old abuse someone’s gender orientation? A safe guess would be that a young child saw that his or her classmate was clearly a boy or a girl but pretending to be otherwise and pointed that out.

The Telegraph goes on: “statistics show that 94 pupils at state primary schools were suspended or permanently excluded for transphobia and homophobia in 2022-23.” They don’t give further details on the case but to protect gender identity to the point of kicking children out of schools is outrageous.

The Prime Minister’s office responded to this by saying “Obviously, the Prime Minister would not support those sorts of measures. But equally, I don’t know the specific incident.”

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Iran says that it will respond with a “strong counterattack” if provoked by the U.S. after President Trump threatened to bomb Iran over the weekend.

“We are not moving towards (nuclear) weapons, but if you do something wrong in the Iranian nuclear issue, you will force Iran to move towards that because it has to defend itself,” said Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “Iran does not want to do this, but … (it) will have no choice.”

Iran has complied with all international uranium inspections and repeatedly said that it has no nuclear weapons. Where is President Trump getting this notion that they have a nuclear weapon? We’ve searched and searched for proof and come up empty.

The U.S. has at least 10 bases in Iran that would be vulnerable to a counterattack with at least 50,000 troops there. The best way to prevent them from being retaliated against is to not do something that would provoke retaliation, right?

Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to carry out daily airstrikes in Yemen, while blaming the Iranians for arming the Houthis.

Ron Paul says this about all of this renewed war rhetoric out of the Trump administration: “This reminds me of all the promises of George H. W. He was very promising that we were not be the policeman of the world and what did we end up as?”

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Europe has decided to go all in on punishing political opponents. In France, opposition leader Marine Le Pen was banned for standing office for five years and sentenced to jail after being convicted of embezzling funds. This would block her from taking the presidency in 2027, which she was on track to do.

She stormed from the courtroom before the verdict was read and muttered the word “Unbelievable.” On X, she vowed to continue fighting injustice until the end.

It is would be foolish to see this as an impartial trial. She was tried for financial records between the years 2004 to 2016, so nine years later she gets a verdict! She was accused of using EU funds for parliamentary assistants but she argued that their work blurred the lines between EU duties, especially as she is a member of parliament. She took nothing for herself and the punishment is harsher than other cases of this kind.

She joins the ranks of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Imran Khan in Pakistan, Matteo Salvini in Italy, and Calin Georgescu in Romania: modern opposition leaders jailed as they were poised to take office.

They want to punish Hungary’s Victor Orbán too if they can only figure out how. The incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz has drafted laws to demand the E.U. “withhold funds and suspend voting rights from countries that violate key principles such as the rule of law.” That could mean anything but Politico says that it is a clear shot at Hungary for continually opposing the liberal agenda.

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The Trump administration is reviewing nearly $9 billion in federal grants at Harvard while it investigates how the university has handled antisemitism.

“This administration has proven that we will take swift action to hold institutions accountable if they allow anti-Semitism to fester,” said Josh Gruenbaum, an official with the General Services Administration and a member of the government’s recently formed antisemitism task force. “We will not hesitate to act if Harvard fails to do so.”

What is it that Harvard is supposedly guilty of? There are no reports of violence. In November of 2023, pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel students confronted each other and there were allegations of harassment and doxxing by both sides. Why is only one group’s interest being represented by the Trump administration?

Colombia University had its funding targeted by the Trump administration a few days ago and capitulated to government demands to review policies towards Jewish students and “reviewing the portfolio of regional studies programs, starting immediately with those that teach about the Middle East and Israel.”

In a congressional hearing on Monday, Rabbi Levi Shemtov told the senate that it is “not enough to be not anti-Semitic.” He said that “one must be anti-anti-Semitic.”

This is the rebirth of neo-racism, the antiracist rhetoric that took hold during the Biden administration has since been shown to be racist: ranking people by race and skin color to bestow privileges on some and not others.

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President Trump promised to clean up Washington D.C. He meant that quite literally.

A recent executive order calls for “making the District of Columbia safe and beautiful.”

“As the capital city of the greatest Nation in the history of the world, it should showcase beautiful, clean, and safe public spaces. America’s capital must be a place in which residents, commuters, and tourists feel safe at all hours, including on public transit.  Its highways, boulevards, and parks should be clean, well-kept, and pleasant.  Its monuments, museums, and buildings should reflect and inspire awe and appreciation for our Nation’s strength, greatness, and heritage.  Our citizens deserve nothing less,” the order says.

This calls for tougher policies on crime, more policing on public transportation, and increasing “the speed and [lowering] the cost of processing concealed carry license requests in the District of Columbia.” It will also call for fast removal of graffiti and removal of homeless encampments on public parks.

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Israel’s Minister of Defense warned that the IDF is planning to “operate with full force in additional areas of Gaza.” In a post addressed directly to the people of Gaza, he says that they “will be asked to evacuate from combat zones for your own safety. The plans are already prepared and approved.”

Prepared and approved by who? He doesn’t say. He only says that Gaza is on its way to being fully occupied by Israel.

He says that the people of Gaza should “demand the removal of Hamas from Gaza and the immediate release of all Israeli hostages—this is the only way to stop the war.” He accuses Hamas of “putting your lives at risk, causing you to lose your homes and more and more territory that will be integrated into Israel’s defense formation.”

The word integrated is telling, isn’t it? This does not indicate a military mission. This means the land will become Israeli and that has been “prepared and approved.”

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The full text chain for the bombing in Yemen was published by The Atlantic and it is not something the Trump administration has been able to adequately explain. In fact, they tried to flat out lie it away.

Secretary of defense Pete Hegseth said this when asked: “Nobody was texting war plans. And that’s all I have to say about that.”

He’s parsing words. It wasn’t a war because no one fought back. It was an attack on targets who were in civilian infrastructure. One target was said to be at his girlfriend’s apartment. Why did the U.S. consider the other people living there to be acceptable collateral kills? Assassinations and bombing civilians is against international law.

What’s more, it seems like these were piloted aircraft with weapons that were fired remotely.

This is not fighting terrorism. It is terrorism. Why did the Trump administration do it and why did they do it so goonishly?

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US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem traveled to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador and published this video about it. It has one hell of a dystopian optic!

“I want everybody to know, if you come to our country illegally, this is one of the consequences you could face… This facility is one of the tools in our toolkit that we will use if you commit crimes against the American people,” she said.

She is standing in front of tattooed gang members, presumably bad dudes. But are we sure? Did these people have due process? We were told that they were the worst of the worst but we were told that about the people in Guantanamo Bay too and that turned out to be a lie. The American people should not be unwitting participants in another Guantanamo Bay.

The Trump administration is also fighting to deport university students who protested on behalf of Palestinians. A Turkish woman at Tufts University was detained because the government says that she “engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans.” New video shows her being approached by non-uniformed people in masks and put in an unmarked van. The government is still fighting to deport Mahmoud Khalil on slim evidence.

The point is: The U.S. government is arresting people for speech violations. The U.S. government tortured innocent people in Guantanamo Bay without due process. Are we being asked to cheer for the punishment of tattooed banditos to hide these facts or is this exactly what it seems? When is anything in politics ever exactly as it seems?

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“Climate change is going to fade from view like overpopulation did.” That is the headline from journalist Michael Shellenberger and political scientist Roger Pielke Jr.

It seems they are right. Two days ago I typed “climate change” into Google and the search engine returned a search for “climate variability.” I was floored. Google is pretending that it always viewed climate change as a naturally occurring phenomenon, which it is. That’s a lie! Google promoted the “climate crisis” by partnering with the United Nations to pervert search results with alarmist information.

What the climate narrative seems to be accepting is that the Earth’s atmosphere goes through natural cycles of warming and cooling and no one was ever able to prove human responsibility for it. In fact, a new paper in the journal Science of Climate Change disproved it. The paper used AI models to reveal that “human CO₂ emissions, constituting a mere 4% of the annual carbon cycle, are dwarfed by natural fluxes.”

The paper also asserts that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) uses faulty models to predict climate outcomes and humans’ roles in them. This was explained in detail in this book by veteran climate researcher Judith Curry: “Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response.”

The sad part about this narrative shift is how many people were made anxious based on junk science and alarmism and how many books you have to read to refute the utter crap that Google and the media have been serving up. We should never forgive them. I don’t.

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The simultaneous protests in Gaza and Jerusalem are a beautiful reminder that people are not their governments. These are humans that want and deserve the same thing: peace.

Hundreds gathered in Gaza on Tuesday chanting “Hamas out” and “Hamas terrorists.”

“Hamas is demanding our people to remain steadfast. But how can we remain steadfast when we’re dying and bleeding,” one protester is reported to have said.

In Jerusalem, thousands are still rallying outside the residents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanding a hostage deal. The sister of freed hostage Yarden Bibas, whose wife and two young sons were murdered in captivity, spoke out saying to the Israeli government: “Don’t offer condolences, bring forth a deal.” She said that “military pressure kills the hostages, military pressure raises the casualties.”

According to the Times of Israel, police “forcibly removed several protesters from outside the Knesset, and images and footage showed police officers dragging demonstrators one by one.”

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President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum requiring “the immediate declassification of all FBI files relating to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”

Crossfire Hurricane is the name the FBI gave to the investigation it opened into the Trump campaign. It was named after the 1986 Penny Marshall film Jumpin’ Jack Flash, which was related to a Rolling Stones song with the lyrics: “I was born in a crossfire hurricane.”

The Crossfire Hurricane operation was the brainchild of the ruling class, originally meant to smear the 2016 Trump campaign and later to delegitimize Trump as President. It involved a lot of dirty play on the part of CIA director John Brennan, FBI director James Comey, FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, President Obama, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Adam Schiff and many more people. They did in fact spy on the Trump campaign and they did in fact open investigations based on flimsy if not downright fake intel and they dragged people’s lives through the hell for it.

Current FBI director Kash Patel was one of the main investigators who brought Crossfire Hurricane to light so he knows and he told us what he could in his book Government Gangsters but there is surely more classified information that we should see. Will the government make a case against the actors who used the Justice Department in this way? They should.

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Argentina will declassify documents related to Nazis in Argentina after World War II. This could include proof that Adolph Hitler himself was one of them.

This will surprise non-conspiracy knowers but not us Redacted readers! There is copious proof that Hitler did not kill himself. In fact, the skull fragment that was supposedly from his self-inflicted gunshot turned out to be female while the blood samples were male. This couldn’t have been from his companion Eva Braun because she supposedly died by cyanide.

A great rundown of the many holes in the story of Hitler’s death can be found on the History Channel’s Hunting Hitler. They prove without a doubt that Hitler and several other senior Nazi officials did in fact continue socialist activities in South America.

So what else is there to know? Well, what did the Argentine government know about this? Did the U.S. government? (They did.) Why was this kept from the world during the Nuremberg Trials? How did this affect the Jewish immigrants that fled Europe to settle in South America?

Argentine President Javier Milei announced that these documents would be made public during a meeting with representatives from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international human rights organization that combats antisemitism.

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Serious students of climate science know that developed nations peak in energy demand and carbon emissions and subsequently decline as the technology advances. The U.S. and Britain both hit those peaks between 2007 and 2018 and a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that China has too.

“In China, growth in energy demand slowed to under 3% in 2024, half the rate in 2023 and well below China’s average annual growth of 4.3% in recent years,” the report says. “Emissions growth in China slowed in 2024, though per-capita emissions are now 16% higher than in advanced economies and nearly twice the global average.”

The IEA now warns that “emerging and developing economies accounted for over 80% of global energy demand growth.”

Energy growth is related to an improved quality of life for nations but climate activists hate the very notion of increased energy usage. You could frame it this way: Why do some countries get to improve the lives of its citizens with energy use while others are warned not to?

As African entrepreneur Magatte Wade puts it: “They’re burning coal in Europe while telling Africa to stick to solar. Colonial mindset never died, it just went green.”

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Hamas has “responded positively” to a new ceasefire proposal with Israel but Israel says that they haven’t seen a new proposal yet so no deal.

The reported deal would mandate the release of five Israeli hostages in exchange for Israel releasing hundreds of Palestinian hostages and allowing aid to return to Gaza. It was reportedly proposed by Egyptian negotiators.

While Israel ignores this proposal, it has stepped up attacks in Gaza and, according to the Washington Post, gearing up for a major ground operation.

The Post reports that Israel will use “new and more aggressive tactics,” “direct military control of humanitarian aid,” and target “more of Hamas’s civilian leadership, and evacuating women, children and vetted noncombatants from neighborhoods to ‘humanitarian bubbles.’”

Israel also killed two journalists in Gaza along with two women in separate attacks. There is video and it is horrible. The two journalists were: Mohammad Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today TV and 23-year-old Hossam Shabat, a reporter for Al Jazeera who was killed by an Israeli strike on his car. According to Antiwar.com: “Shabat was also a contributor to the American news site Drop Site News. He was previously put on a killed list by the IDF, which accused him of being a ‘terrorist’ without providing evidence.”

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The Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg claims that he was “accidentally” added to a group chat of senior Trump administration officials as they were planning to bomb the Houthis. He says that he was added by national security advisor Michael Waltz.

This story is fishy for many reasons. First, how does no one notice in several days of planning a bombing campaign that there is a journalist on the chain? Second, how does Walz have this journalist in his contacts? Could it be because he’d been leaking information to him already? Third, why does the Secretary of Defense put all of the logistics of the bombing raid in a chat with cabinet members? Do they usually know those details? Fourth, why are they using Signal? That would be a violation of federal records law.

Goldberg claims that he knew about the bombing in advance and then it actually happened.

A spokesman for the National Security Council told The Atlantic that the Signal group was real.

“This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain,” Brian Hughes, the spokesperson said.

The thread shows that Vice President Vance is hesitant about escalation in the Middle East and the Secretary of Defense is gung ho. Is this some kind of set up to show us who are the escalators and who are not? Is it a ploy to oust Walz or Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth? And did civilians have to die to show that?

Secretary Hegseth explained this by saying that Goldberg peddles in lies and garbage. When President Trump was asked about it on Monday, he said this: “I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of The Atlantic. To be it’s a magazine that’s going out of business. But I know nothing about it. You’re saying that they had what?”

He later joked about it on Truth Social.

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ProPublica reports that the “National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change.”

They are pretty sad about it but I’m not. They call it “catastrophic” and “devastating” but where has research like this got us? It only led to more misinformation like this from ProPublica:

“As extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, heat waves, wildfires and floods, continue to intensify and become more frequent, researchers are increasingly examining the impact climate change has on public health.”

Extreme weather events have gone down and the most extreme weather events that took the highest level of human toll were not recent. The strongest landfall wind hurricane to hit the U.S. was on Labor Day of 1935. The largest rainfall hurricane was Hurricane Easy in 1945. The worst storm to ever hit California was in December of 1961. The earth has experienced at least two periods of Global Warming above 2 degrees Celsius and recovered from both without research labs and green research and human mitigation.

A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services said this about defunding the health effects of climate change: “At HHS, we are dedicated to restoring our agencies to their tradition of upholding gold-standard, evidence-based science. As we begin to Make America Healthy Again, it’s important to prioritize research that directly affects the health of Americans. We will leave no stone unturned in identifying the root causes of the chronic disease epidemic as part of our mission to Make America Healthy Again.”

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CBS News looked into the claim by Tom Homan, the Trump administration’s Border Czar, that Massachusetts is “releasing immigrants charged with violent crimes” and guess what? They are.

“After reviewing every press release from January to the present, WBZ found only one which said Boston Police released someone wanted by ICE. All of the other releases stated that individuals wanted by ICE were released from jails or courts,” the report says.

This means that police had these guys, charged them, and then let them out even though they were wanted by ICE for being illegal migrants. And it’s a merry band of ne’er-do-wells it is!

They found one guy who charged with three counts of rape of a child by force and three counts of aggravated rape of a child. He was released on bail with an order for house arrest. Another guy charged with child rape also released on bail with a GPS monitoring device. Another dude charged with “indecent assault and battery in a person over 15, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, masked armed robbery, and assault to rape.” He too was released on bail with a GPS device. Two others were charged with child rape and released on just $500 bail before being picked up by ICE. Two others were charged with cocaine and fentanyl trafficking and both were also released on bail before ICE arrested them.

In Massachusetts, the state cannot hold a person based on their immigration status so these guys were offered a normal bail situation and they took it and walked free. A newly proposed law would allow the state to hold them for at least 36 hours if ICE has a detainer on them.

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Massive protests raged in Israel this weekend against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Protestors held up images of hostages to re-iterate that Netanyahu never had their best interest in mind and Israelis know it.

The protests were sparked after the dismissal of Ronen Bar, the director of the Israeli Security Agency, commonly known as Shin Bet. After he was ousted, an unnamed source reportedly admitted that Bar had known about October 7 hours before the attack.

Obviously. The Egyptian government warned Israel for days in advance of October 7. This should not be controversial. Israel knew.

Bar moved to thwart his dismissal, which prompted the Prime Minister to once again call for “judicial overhaul now.” Netanyahu was unpopular before October 7 for calling for this same thing and the people protested.

Bar was also said to be investigating the Prime Minister’s own office for alleged Qatari spies.

After October 7, Hamas always offered an all-for-all hostage exchange with the Israeli government and Netanyahu flatly refused, choosing revenge instead. If the conflict in Gaza ends, Netanyahu would face some ominous music and it is clear he is avoiding that at all costs and using fellow government officials as human shields. For how long can he do this?

The Telegraph asks this: “after nearly 80 years, are the wheels coming off the Middle East’s only democracy?”

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The Trump administration says that it supports Israel’s renewed attacks on Gaza, even with a reported 200 children killed.

The Trump administration “fully supports Israel and the IDF and the actions that they’ve taken in recent days,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

The White House company line is that Hamas violated the terms of the ceasefire, which is false. Israel reneged on the ceasefire and Israelis know it, which is why they are protesting.

Hamas began retaliating on Thursday, sending rockets into Tel Aviv. The Times of Israel reports that three long-range rockets were launched. Two struck open areas and one was intercepted by air defenses.

Israel’s attacks killed at least two Hamas leaders on Sunday, including Hamas leader Ismail Barhoum and a member of Hamas’s Political Bureau, Salah al-Bardawil. The attacks came near civilian and makeshift displacement camps.

Israel also says that it has begun annexing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip with a goal of removing between 5,000-10,000 people per day. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the goal is to remove all Palestinians within 6-12 months. Israel set up a “migration administration” to manage the project but they won’t go into Israel. Of course not. They are heading to Egypt where a “temporary” refugee camp will hold these people “while Gaza is rebuilt.”

The governments of Syria, Somalia, Somaliland, and Sudan all reported that the U.S. has approached them to receive Palestinian refugees too.

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Saudi Arabia is hosting peace talks this week for the war in Ukraine. On Sunday, officials from Ukraine met with officials from the U.S. Those same U.S. officials will meet with officials from Russia on Monday.

The U.S. interest in Ukrainian resources seems back on the table. Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said this on X: “We have concluded our meeting with the American team. The discussion was productive and focused — we addressed key points including energy. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s goal is to secure a just and lasting peace for our country and our people — and, by extension, for all of Europe. We are working to make that goal a reality.”

Steve Witcoff, the U.S. envoy in the middle east, told Tucker Carlson this weekend that the goal this week is to arrange a 30-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine that will be extended into a permanent agreement.

Ukrainian President Zelensky continues to repeat pie-in-the-sky demands such as NATO membership and regaining lost land but that seems to be because Europe wants to hear that, not because he will actually get those things. He may eventually stop speaking nonsense if a deal is reached.

It would be not a moment too soon. Moscow accused Ukraine of striking an oil depot and gas metering station in recent days, violating an “energy truce.” They warned that they reserve the right to retaliate, barring a peace deal.

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The drug cartels in the U.S. may be joining forces to fight the U.S. government and using advanced weaponry to do it.

These gangs are notorious for being violent against each other but the U.S. government is now their common enemy.

“What we’re seeing is cartels consolidate,” Ammon Blair, intelligence consultant and senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Secure & Sovereign Texas Initiative, told the Epoch Times. He says that the cartels have “military-grade weapons and equipment, including advanced surveillance technology.” This includes “undetectable drones, military-grade encryption built into their own cellular networks, and access to an Israeli Pegasus spy system that can break into any cellphone undetected.”

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond validates this problem.

“What we’ve observed is that coordination between cartels,” he said. “This is dangerous business.”

They are fighting to sell drugs to American children, which has made them rich. The Trump administration cannot solve this by simply closing the border and making ICE arrests. They may have a real fight on their hands, a war not just on the border but within.

Arresting dangerous people may not solve the problem since the cartels can use drones to delivery drugs undetected and the drones “can be armed with explosives and deployed for spying.”

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Democratic states are going to tax the past. As dumb as this sounds, it feels like a dangerous slippery slope.

In New York, the law demands that fossil fuel companies “pay $75 billion for carbon emissions dating back to the year 2000.” So…for business that they did legally, they’re being asked to pay penance for no provable reason. Vermont has a similar law and, according to Reason, “other Democrat-controlled states plan to follow suit.”

If they can do this to companies, can they do this to us? Travis Fisher, energy director at the Cato Institute, tells Reason that taxing the past is wrong: “I’ve been filling up my gas tank for 25 years. Will they go after me for every time I’ve filled up my tank?”

They will sure try!

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Portugal is the latest European country to collapse due to failed liberal policies.

Prime Minister Luis Montenegro lost a confidence vote in Parliament on Wednesday, collapsing the Parliamentary order and requiring a new vote, which is expected in May.

The Prime Minister has been in office less than a year since the previous Prime Minister Antonio Costa resigned due to a scandal linked to green initiatives. Costa is now the President of the European Counsel, trying to convince the block to go to war with Russia.

Why is the Portuguese economy and government in such disarray? Many reasons. Portugal makes none of its own decisions. Brussels pulls all the strings to the detriment of the Iberian nation. Portugal’s economy tanked when Europe began funding the war for Ukraine. Portugal opened its borders for mass migration when the rest of Europe started doing that. Portugal closed its economy during Covid. It has been misstep after misstep to the detriment of the Portuguese people and much of this was predicted by the Chega party, which has been maligned with the label “far right.”

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President Trump said on Wednesday that “nobody is expelling any Palestinians from Gaza.” This is quite different from his plan for the U.S. to “take over the Gaza strip” and for the people there to not “go back.”

A Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem says that they welcome this shift in narrative.

“If US President Trump’s statements represent a retreat from any idea of ​​displacing the people of the Gaza Strip, they are welcomed,” Qassem said in the statement. “We call for this position to be reinforced by obligating the Israeli occupation to implement all the terms of the ceasefire agreements.”

It’s hard to follow the Trump administration’s intentions when it comes to the Palestinian people. Recently, U.S hostage envoy Adam Boehler said that diplomacy with Hamas is going well. He said, “They don’t have horns growing out of their heads. They’re actually pretty nice guys; guys like us and the US is not an agent of Israel.”

The ceasefire did not move into its second stage as planned and Hamas is

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While Russia waits for a formal ceasefire proposal this week, it gained several new territories in the Kursk and Donetsk region. These regions will likely remain Russian after the hypothetical peace deal since the U.S. has conceded that Ukraine will have to cede territory in the ceasefire deal.

Russia hasn’t been formally presented with the ceasefire that Ukraine agreed to this week. They are waiting by the phone though and the Kremlin says that a phone call between Presidents Putin and Trump are a possibility. The White House says that special envoy Steve Witkoff will be traveling to Moscow later this week to deliver the proposal.

Meanwhile, the U.S. CIA and Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) have reportedly agreed to be cordial from now on too. It was reported that the two heads “agreed on regular contact to reduce confrontation between Moscow and Washington…following a phone talk between the heads of both intelligence agencies.”

Even though Ukraine agreed to the ceasefire, President Zelensky says that the peace deal cannot include losing the territories that Russia now controls, even though the residents in those regions requested Russia’s military operation and voted to join Russia.

“We are fighting for our independence. Therefore, we will not recognize any occupied territories as Russia’s,” he said.

The Trump administration has repeatedly said that they’re going to have to do this. They’re going to have to do this.

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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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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.

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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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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.”

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