A judge ordered the release of a Palestinian man who was arrested at his citizenship hearing a few weeks ago. He was arrested because he supports the Palestinian people.

The judge ruled that his detention was wrong, writing “if the Government detained Mr. Mahdawai as punishment for his speech, that purpose is not legitimate, regardless of any alleged First Amendment violation. Immigration detention cannot be motivated by a punitive purpose. Nor can it be motivated by the desire to deter others from speaking.”

The judge condemned the arrests of “legal residents – not charged with crimes or misdemeanors – being arrested and threatened with deportation for stating their views on the political issues of the day.”

When Mahdawai was arrested, he was given a Notice to Appear stating that his “presence and activities in the United States would have serious adverse foreign policy consequences and would compromise a compelling U.S. foreign policy interest.” What foreign policy interest is that exactly?

Mahdawai has repeatedly called for peace, telling 60 Minutes: “The fight for freedom of Palestine and the fight against antisemitism go hand-in-hand because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

What will happen to him now? The government will have to formally charge him with something if it wants to continue pursuing him but he said that he is not afraid of the Trump administration.

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China is pushing back at the U.S. since the Trump administration launched a website blaming Wuhan for the Covid lab leak. China published a white paper suggesting that the Covid pandemic could have come from the U.S.

Well, there is evidence that could have happened as well. The U.S. was participating in Covid-related gain of function in Boston prior to 2019 and there was a 2019 outbreak of a respiratory virus in Virginia that may have been related to a lab leak from nearby Fort Detrick. China has repeatedly asked the U.S. to look into this and no one ever took them seriously.

China says that the U.S. made its own bed during the pandemic, which is why it was so bad.

“The slow and ineffective US response during the early stages of the outbreak set an appalling example to the international community and made the US performance in handling the pandemic the worst of all countries.” They go on to blame Republicans for “[encouraging] and [spreading] vaccine conspiracy theories, inciting resistance to and skepticism about vaccines among the public.”

So it’s to be a war of words over the Covid-19 pandemic then. How does this help anyone really?

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The Gross Domestic Product for the first quarter of 2025 dropped by 0.3% and the media is saying that this is the negative fallout from President Trump. But not when you drill into the details…

Almost every marker of GDP was UP except Government consumption expenditures and gross investment. Government spending, which was always up during the Biden administration, was down by 1.4% in the first few months of the new Trump administration. Anyone who reads the news would know that. But other measures were up including domestic investment by 21.9% (whoa!), fixed investment, goods and services.

Net exports of goods and services is down, which is to be expected due to tariffs.

The Biden administration was criticized for touting economic growth that was based on government spending. The contraction of the GDP under Trump is clearly based on reduced spending but economic growth outside of the government is impressive.

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The Trump administration secured the Ukrainian resource deal that was tanked when President Trump and President Zelensky had a tiff in the White House in February.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the deal, calling it a “historic economic partnership agreement between the United States and Ukraine establishing the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund to help accelerate Ukraine’s economic recovery. Economic security is national security.”

The U.S. will “invest” in Ukraine and “unlock” natural resources, they say. This means that once the war ends, the U.S. will have rights to rebuild Ukraine and mine the resources that the Ukrainian government has historically exploited through corruption. It’s a good deal in exchange for all of the money that the U.S. sent to Ukraine. It is exactly what Democrats said that they wanted out of Ukraine in secret. The Trump administration is doing it in plain sight.

“Today’s agreement signals clearly to Russian leadership that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine over the long term.”

If the war ends, Ukraine will hardly be sovereign. It will be beholden to the United States like it has been since 2014, only more so. But at least the war would be over and the current U.S. puppetmasters would not be provoking Russia.

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The National Health Service in the U.K. will now test all transgender children for neurodevelopmental conditions, according to The Telegraph.

All serious data about transgender youth shows that gender dysphoria is correlated with autism, ADHD, anxiety and other conditions but physicians have ignored that and treated the gender dysphoria primarily through medicalization and surgery. Since the publication of the Cass Report, physicians can no longer ignore this and push children into gender transition without treating underlying conditions.

The new NHS policy is to “evaluate each child’s mental health, their relationship with their family and their sexual development, including whether they are experiencing same-sex attraction.” Transgender children will have a “multidisciplinary team” of experts to this end. It’s about time!

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A town in Texas discovered that over $4 million of its local tax dollars were being sent to Israel. The town of San Marcos decided to stop that aid and Governor Greg Abbott does not want to let them do it.

Israel receives billions of dollars in Federal tax money. Why shouldn’t a local government decide not to send its own allocated local tax dollars abroad? Because Governor Abbott calls that “antisemitism.”

“In Texas, no governmental entity may enter into a contract worth $100,000 or more unless it includes a ‘written verification’ that the contracting entity ‘does not boycott Israel’ and ‘will not boycott Israel during the term of the contract,’” the Governor wrote in a letter.

The town is not trying to boycott Israel. They are trying to re-allocate their own money “towards essential domestic priorities” and the Governor is somehow mandating that supporting Israel is a local priority. It is absolutely insane. Does the town have to donate to every foreign ally?

This has got to go to court. How can a Governor disallow a municipality from stopping foreign aid?

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The House Education and Workforce Committee passed a draft bill to overhaul student loans.

The bill would force colleges to repay student loans if a borrower cannot so that taxpayers are not on the line for federal loans that go unpaid. That’s interesting! If students cannot pay back their debt, and they can prove that they did realize “a return on investment [for] the degree provided,” the university will pay back the loan, not the taxpayer.

If universities had to pay for failed market value of their degrees, how many of them would continue to let young students to rack up debt for a degree in “Renaissance Sexualities“?

The bill also prevents any future president from “any future attempts at loan ‘forgiveness’ and repeals a range of burdensome and costly Biden-era regulations.”

The bill also makes changes to Pell grants so that they can be used for shorter term vocational schools. It also sets borrowing limits for students so that they don’t just rack up debt so early in their career. It seems like a really good bill meant to fix what was so obviously broken.

It will move through one more committee before going to the House floor for a vote.

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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said this in a speech this week: “With God’s help and the valor of your comrades-in-arms who continue to fight even now, we will end this campaign when Syria is dismantled.”

The U.S. would prefer Syria and Israel to be peaceful neighbors. The Trump administration recently sent Syria a list of demands including destroying its chemical weapon stockpiles, banning certain Palestinian groups and searching for missing Americans. In a letter, the Syrian government says that it is willing to work towards those demands and that it will “not become a threat to Israel.”

Would Israel really accept Syria as a peaceful ally if the U.S. issued assurances?

The full context of Smotrich’s speech does not exactly show a desire for peace in the region. Here is the full quote: “With God’s help and the valor of your comrades-in-arms who continue to fight even now, we will end this campaign when Syria is dismantled, Hezbollah is severely beaten, Iran is stripped of its nuclear threat, Gaza is cleansed of Hamas and hundreds of thousands of Gazans are on their way out of it to other countries, our hostages are returned, some to their homes and some to the graves of Israel, and the State of Israel is stronger and more prosperous.”

The new government of Syria is trying to tell the world that it is no threat to Israel. Why would they say that? Because Syria is on Israel’s list and they don’t want to be the next Gaza.

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A new study shows that complications from the abortion pill are 22 times higher than the 0.5 % claimed by the FDA. The FDA says that complications from Mifeprex are less than 0.5% but this study refutes that.

Authors from the Ethics & Public Policy Center (EPPC) analyzed 865,727 prescriptions of mifepristone distributed to 692,873 women between 2017 and 2023. They found that 10.9 percent of those women experienced potentially life-threatening “serious adverse events” within 45 days, including emergency room visits, hemorrhage, sepsis, infection, and follow-up surgeries.

The media regularly hides the truth about abortion from women. To their mind, it is as easy as taking a Tylenol for a headache. They hide data showing that abortion is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. They probably won’t report on this study either.

EPPC President Ryan Anderson had this to say about it: “This study is the statistical equivalent of a category 5 hurricane hitting the prevailing narrative of the abortion industry. It reveals, based on real-world data, the shocking number of women who suffer serious medical consequences because of the abortion pill. The Trump FDA should take immediate action to protect the safety of American women by reinstating the safety regulations that the Obama and Biden Administrations removed.”

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The Biden administration did not try to seek a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, according to a new report. The report comes from Israeli Channel 13, translated by Drop Site News.

The report quotes former Israeli Ambassador Michael Herzog as saying, “God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period… We fought for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ That’s not to be taken for granted.”

According to Drop Site, “Nine top Biden officials acknowledged avoiding real pressure on Israel—even as the death toll surpassed 30,000. Israeli leaders openly bragged they dragged out the war, playing for time until Donald Trump’s return. Former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Ambassador Tom Nides, and others defended their unwavering support for Israel—even as they admitted enabling a campaign one U.S. aide described as ‘killing and destroying for the sake of killing and destroying.’

The report shows that Netanyahu tanked negotiations and that the Biden administration dared not push him. Those negotiations would have resulted in returned hostages. American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin was scheduled for release the day he was executed, according to the report. One source said: “There’s no doubt… those hostages would be alive” had Netanyahu really sought a resolution.

But, but, Kamala Harris told us she was trying to negotiate peace on the campaign trail. The Biden administration paid lip service to a ceasefire. It was easy to see by their actions at the time that they didn’t mean it.

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Less than two weeks ago, Spain bragged about hitting 100% renewable power on the national grid. And then the entire Iberian Peninsula lost electricity on Monday. Are the two things related?

The network responsible, REN, is saying the outage was due to a “rare atmospheric phenomenon” but they haven’tt name it. Was it solar flares? Was it temperature fluctuations? Who knows because they’re just telling us that it was something unnamed and rare.

They did say that the problem happened on the Spanish side of the border coming from high temperature variations and “anomalous oscillations” in high voltage lines. Well, that was reported in the renewable energy story. It says that solar reached new records just last week. Could these variations be responsible for the grid’s response?

Solar fluctuations could in theory set the stage for a crash, especially if solar production spiked or dropped very quickly. It could create a highly unstable environment where even modest disruptions (technical, cyber, weather) could cause an outage.

Journalist Michael Shellenberger reports that in 2024, cybersecurity researchers warned that vulnerabilities in widely used solar inverter models could allow mass remote shutdowns but those warnings were not heeded.

Power was restored late Monday but is still not completely restored throughout the region. Grocery stores are empty, schools were canceled, cash machines were out, people were stranded in elevators and on trains in the middle of nowhere. It was utter pandemonium but don’t expect a real answer from European leaders as to why this happened.

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Russia is declaring near victory for its Special Military Operation.

Russian presidential aide and Marine Board Chairman Nikolay Patrushev told TASS that this victory will go down in history as another successful fight “to exterminate the inhumane ideology of Nazism. The contours of our victory are already clearly visible.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a three-day ceasefire between May 8 and May 11, which is when both Russia and Ukraine celebrate Victory Day, the victory over the World War II Nazis.

Negotiations for a permanent ceasefire continue but in the meantime, Ukraine has almost no one left to fight. The country is reportedly having “serious discussions… about mobilizing women en masse.” Pray it never comes to that.

The U.K. has reportedly volunteered to “rebuild” the Ukrainian armed forces under a potential five-year deployment. You cannot rebuild what has been lost to death. What they mean is that the U.K. would deploy its own military to stand in for the dead Ukrainian military to enforce whatever peace deal is agreed upon.

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Democrats Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker held a sit-in on the front steps of the U.S. Capitol on Sunday for more than 12 hours.

Senator Booker said that this was inspired because “Congressional Republicans are preparing to gut Medicaid and essential services to give the ultra-wealthy a tax cut. Talking with Leader Hakeem Jeffries on the Capitol steps this morning about how we make our voices heard in this moral moment.”

There is no evidence that any Republican wants to cut Medicaid. Paul Ryan wanted that in 2012 but no Republican in office has actually proposed this.

Representative Jeffries said that this was to “have a real conversation about the dangerous situation we confront in America.” You can watch while a few dozen other people joined them throughout the day and eventually broke into song.

Is this the populist movement that can win the Democrats back the hearts and minds of their voters? What do you think?

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Moderna is in trouble in the U.K. for “offering children £1,500 and teddy bears to take part in Covid vaccine trials,” among other things.

The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) is auditing Moderna for “unacceptable” practices that they say “brought discredit upon the industry.”

The money and teddy bears scheme earned Moderna a £44,000 fine. Executives claimed that they didn’t know about it but new documents show that they did.

The full audit is due out shortly and the ABPI could suspend Moderna’s membership but that would amount to mostly a slap on the wrist. Novo Nordisk was suspended in 2023 but restored in March of this year and they were able to continue selling their products.

Esther McVey MP, a former member of the all-party parliamentary group on Covid vaccine damage, said this about it: “They know they can get away with it, and so they do; time and time again. It’s hardly surprising that public trust in the pharmaceutical industry and its regulators is through the floor.”

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The New York Times published a lengthy investigation into the helicopter that crashed into an American Airlines plane in late January. It concludes that the female pilot, Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, was to blame.

Voice recordings from the Black Hawk show Capt. Lobach flying too high and being told so repeatedly. She said that she would descend but two and a half minutes after that command, she doesn’t.

The control tower gives her repeated instructions but she may not have heard them if she was pressing the microphone to speak to the tower at the same time, like how two walkie talkies can’t speak to one another at the same time.

Capt. Lobach is also told by her flight trainer to turn left away from the jet but she does not.

The Times indicates that the air traffic controller could have “done more” to prevent the crash such as alerting the jet that the Black Hawk was not following commands and in their way but the controller and the flight trainers aboard the Black Hawk did repeatedly instruct Capt. Lobach to move away from the jet. Why she didn’t is anyone’s guess.

There are other worrying aspects of the report though. Moments before the crash, the Black Hawk had asked permission for “visual separation” after it was warned by Air Traffic Control about the passenger plane. This means that a pilot takes “control of navigating around other aircraft, rather than relying on the controller for guidance.” It is reportedly routine but since the crash, the F.A.A. has limited its use.

Couldn’t this be seen as…they practice on us, the civilians? They practice NOT being guided around civilian planes? Couldn’t they practice that on each other!? Should this many people have had to die before they quit that?

During a recent press briefing on the crash transportation secretary Sean Duffy said this about it:

“Having helicopters fly under landing aircraft, and allowing helicopter pilots to say, ‘I’ll maintain visual separation’ — that is not going to happen anymore. That is too risky. You’re threading the needle. And it’s going to stop.”

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Negotiations between Iran and the U.S. on Saturday took place in a ‘serious atmosphere’ according to reports. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said he was “satisfied” with the progress and “hopeful but cautious” that the two sides would come to a technical arrangement.

The United States has indicated that it would be satisfied with an Iranian nuclear power program but not a nuclear bomb program. It is also negotiating removal of sanctions put in place since the Obama administration. It would seem that the devil is now in the details.

Israel remains undeterred in its plans to bomb Iran—no matter what comes of these talks. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to demand that Iran’s entire nuclear infrastructure be dismantled but he is not a party to the negotiations.

The next round of negotiations will be next Saturday, May 3.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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