A liberal group is boycotting Walmart this week – yes again – because they believe the company has “contributed to economic corruption.”

The irony here is that they are hurting the very people they pretend to protect. In this must-read 2006 article, Michael Strong shows how Walmart has lifted more people out of poverty than most NGOs making it the world’s #1 anti-poverty engine. What’s more, former Obama advisor and Harvard professor Jason Furman writes about how Walmart’s low prices save low income Americans more than $2,000 per year.

Do these boycotts aim to hurt working class people or are they just lashing out at the Trump administration? You would think that if they really want to help the underprivileged people that they claim to, they would want to shop at Walmart.

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A new government report accuses the CDC, FDA, and HHS of delaying or suppressing warnings about myocarditis and other adverse events following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, especially in young people.

The report comes from Senator Ron Johnson’s Subcommittee on Investigations. It is called Failure to Warn: How Federal Agencies Downplayed the Risk of Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Following Covid-19 Vaccination. It is damning.

It includes internal emails showing that both the CDC and FDA discussed issuing a Health Alert Network or HAN in May 2021 but ultimately replaced it with vague “clinical considerations” on the CDC website. It also showed that the CDC gave advance notice of safety discussions with Pfizer and Moderna while withholding similar information from the public and doctors.

It shows a deliberate and systemic failure to serve the American public and allow them the ability to give informed consent to the vaccines risks. Why did they protect the vaccines so fiercely and not the American people?

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President Trump met with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office on Wednesday and confronted him with video evidence of the country’s treatment of white farmers.

President Trump called it a genocide and President Ramaphosa denied the scale of the problem and that it happened exclusively to white people. President Ramaphosa said that there is criminality in South Africa but people who get killed are not only white people.

What we have here is a tale of two “genocides.” Undoubtedly white farmers have been killed and it must be terrifying for them. By some estimates, more than 2,000 white farmers have been killed and the government does confiscate land but it also confiscates other white-owned business. But 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and President Trump has never confronted Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu like this.

Colonel Douglas Macgregor notes that this was likely done “at the behest of Israel.” South Africa has accused Israel of a genocide on the people of Gaza at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which Israel strongly condemns. By spotlighting alleged abuses in South Africa, Trump appears to be attempting to counter South Africa’s criticisms of Israel, thereby influencing international perceptions and diplomatic dynamics related to the Gaza conflict.

Will it work? It does not appear to be working.

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Republicans are reworking President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a comprehensive tax and spending package that is high on the President’s wish list.

The bill will extend the 2017 tax cuts passed by the first Trump administration, increase the child tax credit, and introduce deductions for tips and overtime pay.

There are some good nuggets in there but it is also a spending bonanza that could add $2.3 trillion to the deficit. It has a Medicaid work requirement that won’t go into effect for five years and is easy to work around. It expands military spending. It also has expanded infrastructure and energy tax credits that echo the very climate policies Republicans once criticized.

In essence, the bill tries to be all things to all wings of the GOP: tax hawks, social conservatives, and big-spending populists. As Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie said on Wednesday’s episode of Redacted: Why does this all have to happen in one big bill? Why can’t these goals be accomplished more efficiently in separate bills?

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CNN reports that Israel is planning to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, even as the Trump administration is actively negotiating a nuclear treaty.

“Officials caution it’s not clear that Israeli leaders have made a final decision, and that in fact, there is deep disagreement within the US government about the likelihood that Israel will ultimately act. Whether and how Israel strikes will likely depend on what it thinks of the US negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program,” CNN reports.

Why would Israel thwart the U.S. deal when so much of its own military is built on U.S. donations? To sabotage that deal, according to a source.

“I think it’s more likely they strike to try and get the deal to fall apart if they think Trump is going to settle for a ‘bad deal,’” the US intelligence source told CNN. “The Israelis have not been shy about signaling that to us … both publicly and privately.”

The source says that the U.S. is “unlikely” to help if Israel moves forward with this plan but the U.S. would be dragged into a war with Iran if it escalates.

White House sources also told Axios that President Trump wants the war in Gaza to end because the optics of so many civilian deaths is bad.

“The president is frustrated about what is happening in Gaza. He wants the war to end, he wants the hostages to come home, he wants aid to go in and he wants to start rebuilding Gaza,” one White House official said.

He is really the only one who can stop it but will he?

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President Trump says that the people who ran the Biden White House should face “severe legal” consequences. In the wake of President Biden’s admission of a late-stage cancer, it is clear that he was not well in the recent past and surely not well enough to run the United States of America.

But how can we find out who manipulated President Biden? Did he in fact understand the laws he put into effect? Or some of them at least? Is it possible to ever know that? It is clear that he wanted to run for re-election and that choice was taken from him. But by who!?

Incidentally, this is the plot of the 1993 movie Dave but the doppelgänger ran the country for the better.

President Trump can call for consequences but he can’t launch his own investigations. He can appoint a Special Counsel, which is probably a good idea. The Justice Department can also launch its own investigation and clearly it should.

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The Defense Department has ordered a “comprehensive review” of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 “that led to the deaths of 13 U.S. Service members and 170 civilians in a suicide bombing at the Kabul International Airport’s Abbey Gate.”

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that a three-month review of the withdrawal has led him to the conclusion that more answers are needed.

The withdrawal was ordered by President Trump during his first term but executed by the Biden administration after two decades of pointless war in Afghanistan that the Bush administration knew it could not win. It begs the question as to whether or not there was ever a way to withdraw properly from such an epic loss. Could the lesson here be not to dig into mud we cannot get out of?

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The FDA says that it will no longer approve Covid vaccines without clinical trials for the general population. Instead, it will only approve COVID-19 vaccines for:

• Adults aged 65 and older.
• Individuals aged 6 months and older with at least one high-risk condition (e.g., asthma, diabetes, cancer, obesity).

This was announced in a New England Journal of Medicine publication by FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. Vinay Prasad, head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. It means that no approval for the general population unless there are clinical trials, not emergency use authorizations.

This does not mean that the current vaccines will be removed from the childhood vaccine schedule. That is determined by the CDC so as of now, the COVID-19 vaccine is still on the CDC’s recommended schedule for children as young as 6 months.

At the very least, it will mean shots going forward will need full approval but based on the way that the Novavax vaccine was approved last week based on truly shit trials, we shouldn’t get that excited yet. The standards for trials must go up at the same time as the requirement.

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The U.S. Space Force plans to test rockets in Johnston Atoll, approximately 800 miles from Hawaii. The locals are saying: Not this again.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. military conducted nuclear tests on this region in their race with the Soviets for nuclear weapons. They were known as Operation Hardtack and Operation Dominic. That area is still considered nuclear. Although there was no civilian population exposed to the tests, U.S. soldiers and contractors were knowingly exposed to radiation. There is video of them standing there to watch a nuclear test with zero protection.

The locals also say that this is a spiritual violation of the land and they don’t want it used this way. They say that the land is finally recovering from previous military use, which included “coral dredging, atmospheric nuclear testing and the stockpiling and burning of toxic chemical munitions — including more than 2 million gallons of Agent Orange.”

The U.S. Space Force under the Department of the Air Force claims it wants to use this land to test space cargo shipments “to help determine whether commercial rockets can transport military equipment more speedily around the globe, in hours rather than days to weeks that current modes of transportation require.”

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FBI Director Kash Patel

Vice President JD Vance has a trip to Israel planned for Tuesday but has reportedly canceled it in the wake of Israel’s military operation in Gaza.

The Vance team cited “logistical” reasons for canceling the trip but did not expand but Axios quotes a U.S. official who says that the decision was made because the VP “didn’t want his trip to suggest the Trump administration endorsed the Israeli decision to launch a massive operation at a time when the U.S. is pushing for a ceasefire and hostage deal.”

Israel has commenced what they call Gideon’s Chariots. It is a full-scale invasion of Gaza with an attempt to displace every single one of the 2 million civilians living there. It involves Israeli airstrikes, ground troops, armored divisions, and naval units on a level not seen before.

Israel says that they have issued evacuation warnings via leaflets, text and media so if civilians stick around and die, that’s not on Israel. They tell them to go to Safe Zones but those Safe Zones have been bombed too.

France, the United Kingdom and Canada issued a joint condemnation of the Israeli military operation on Monday. It calls Israel’s reaction to October 7 “wholly disproportionate” and calls out the Netanyahu Government for breach of International Humanitarian Law. It says that these countries are “committed to recognising a Palestinian state as a contribution to achieving a two-state solution and are prepared to work with others to this end.”

Netanyahu did not take kindly to this statement. He called it a “huge prize” for Hamas and told them to follow President Trump’s lead and support Israel. He added: “We will take control of all the territory of the strip.”

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Iran says that it is still open to a nuclear deal but they do not want to negotiate in public. Probably a good idea.

The U.S. has previously said that it would be okay with Iran enriching uranium to a low level in order to build a nuclear power program and use for other civil development projects. Now the U.S. says that no uranium enrichment by Iran is acceptable. How did that needle move to 0? Did it have to do with Israel’s insistence that it be zero?

Over the weekend, Ayatollah Khamenei gave a speech in which he accused the U.S. of hypocrisy by seeking peace deals abroad but supporting “the massacre in Gaza.” He said that the U.S. “must and will leave” the Middle East and that Israel is a “dangerous, deadly, cancerous tumor” that “must and will be eliminated.”

He did not chant “Death to Israel” and “Death to the U.S.A.” The people in the audience chanted that and he did not stop them.

This is the temperature of peace negotiations right now but thankfully the Ayatollah is not doing the negotiations himself. Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi says that “Mastering enrichment technology is a hard-earned and homegrown scientific achievement; an outcome of great sacrifice of both blood and treasure. If the U.S. is interested in ensuring that Iran will not have nuclear weapons, a deal is within reach, and we are ready for a serious conversation to achieve a solution that will forever ensure that outcome. Enrichment in Iran, however, will continue with or without a deal.”

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President Trump spoke with Russian President Putin for over two hours and both reported that the conversation was positive. They say a ceasefire is in the works but…they’ve been saying that for weeks and this weekend, the Russian military reported that Ukraine is losing up to 1,345 servicemen per day.

President Trump said that negotiations are underway towards a ceasefire and permanent end to the war. He seemed to indicate that after the war ends, Russia can start doing business with the U.S.

President Zelensky said that he too spoke with President Trump and that Ukraine is “ready for a full and unconditional ceasefire.” He pleaded with the United States to stay involved and threatened Russia with sanctions from the U.S. and Europe if it does not cooperate. Who is he to threaten sanctions from countries he does not run?

President Putin says that the details of a ceasefire will continue in Istanbul where President Zelensky met with a Russian delegation just days ago.

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FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino sat for an interview with Fox News on Sunday and said some things that raised eyebrows, namely that Jeffrey Epstein DID kill himself.

“You know a suicide when you see one and that’s what that was,” said Director Patel.

What did he see that the rest of us cannot? How did he “see one”? The camera footage was not captured because the system reportedly failed only where Epstein was at the time. The guards also failed to check on him as required and later falsified their logs. Epstein’s cellmate was also mysteriously removed prior to his death so there were no witnesses. And there are still inconsistencies with the autopsy which showed fractures in Epstein’s neck which experts say were were more consistent with homicidal strangulation than suicidal hanging. So how can he be so sure out of hand?

Director Patel also said that a new “wave of transparency” is coming soon in “about a week or two” but that pertained to Russiagate and January 6 prosecutions. Will we ever see solid evidence about Epstein’s death?

They were asked why we have so little information on the assassination attempt on President Trump and Director Patel said that there “are two live prosecutions and we can’t get ahead of the federal court cases.”

That’s fair. The government cannot impugn defendants while they are defending themselves but Director Bongino did say there is no “there there.” As in, the conspiracies are not based. Really?

Both men reiterated that they are focused on criminal prosecutions at the FBI under President Trump. “We’re about to ruin your summer if you’re a bad guy.”

So how do you feel about the FBI under this new leadership? Does this put those two stories to bed for you?

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President Biden’s has spokesperson announced that the former President has “an aggressive form of prostate cancer” with “metastasis to the bone.”

This is tragic news but it is also highly unusual. President Biden was treated for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia in 2008 which is an enlarged prostate. The public was assured at the time that it was not cancer but we were also assured his treatment would include regular screenings, which would have caught this at a much earlier stage. Did he refuse screenings or is there malpractice at hand because those screenings were not ordered? This should have been detected and treated long ago based on his medical history.

As one cancer physician put it, “prostate cancer is the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases…. It would be malpractice for this patient to show up and be first diagnosed with metastatic disease in May 2025. It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed.”

So… why is this happening? Why wasn’t this caught and treated earlier? Or is this news to us and not news to the Biden family? In which case, these are valid questions: Did they release this news on the heels of Democrats blaming the President for his own failed health? Or perhaps to distract from the recordings from President Biden’s FBI interviews?.

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The Food and Drug Administration issued an approval for Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine. This is the only non-mRNA vaccine.

The vaccine was approved for adults aged 65 and older and individuals aged 12 to 64 with at least one underlying health condition that increases their risk for severe COVID-19 outcomes. But reading the clinical trials prompts serious questions.

The trials included populations that had a single doses and populations that had two doses. The trials showed a reduction in symptomatic Covid 7 days after the second dose. But the FDA didn’t approve two doses. They only approved one. So is one dose even effective at all at preventing Covid? We don’t know, that wasn’t tested.

There is also a noted risk of myocarditis and heart inflammation but it is lower than that of mRNA Covid vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna. There was also at least one vaccine recipient with “a serious event of Guillain Barré syndrome reported 9 days following administration of” the vaccine. The FDA notes that Novavax has to follow up on any further cases if they observe it.

The FDA is also supposed to follow up on how the vaccine does when it is shipped to patients. They don’t know!? They don’t. They must submit a study called “Shipping Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 rS (JN.1 Vaccine) Drug Product in Pre-Filled Syringe (PFS) Finished Good Presentation” by July of this year. This is not an uncommon practice at the FDA. They approve vaccines not knowing how they will fare once they are shipped to doctor’s offices. They test it on us.

Why would someone chose to take this given that its dosage was not trialed and its effectiveness unknown? Especially given the low prevalence of Covid. Your guess is as good as mine.

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Ukrainian President Zelensky gave the new Pope Leo a war souvenir at his inauguration Mass.

“Today, we presented Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex with a special icon – the Holy Mother with the Infant, painted on a fragment of a crate used to store heavy artillery munitions, brought from near Izyum. This icon speaks of our children. Of those who have suffered from the war, who were deliberately abducted and deported by Russia, and who are very much awaited at home – in Ukraine. We pray for the lives of all our deported children and hope for the Vatican’s support in this matter, so that all of them, both the children and Ukrainian prisoners, can return home,” he wrote.

Pope Leo offered to moderate peace discussions for all global conflicts so Zelensky got in line first to speak to the new Catholic leader since the cameras are still very much trained on the amiable new Pope but less interested in Zelensky’s antics lately.

The Pope’s Inauguration Mass was attended by global leaders including Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The Vice President shared this photo of a meeting after church with President Zelensky where he said that the two spoke about the “goal of ending unnecessary bloodshed in Ukraine, and we discussed updates on the ongoing negotiations for a ceasefire and lasting peace.” The Russian military reports that Ukraine is losing up to 1,345 servicemen per day.

It that a forced smile on Zelensky’s face or indication that they got on better this time?

These seem to be ornamental meetings for Zelensky. The people who can actually make this happen will speak on the phone on Monday: that is, President Trump and President Putin. After the call, President Trump says that he’ll speak with President Zelensky and members of NATO. He added: “HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE A PRODUCTIVE DAY, A CEASEFIRE WILL TAKE PLACE, AND THIS VERY VIOLENT WAR, A WAR THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED, WILL END. GOD BLESS US ALL”

OKAY GOOD

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Pope Leo XIV has begun tweeting and his first messages are unequivocally antiwar. In fact, he offered to mediate peace between warring nations!

“The Holy See is willing to help enemies meet, so they may look each other in the eye and so people may be given back the dignity they deserve: the dignity of peace. With heart in hand, I say to the leaders of nations: let us meet; let us dialogue; let us negotiate!”

One can only assume that means all leaders are welcome, popular and unpopular.

He also posted about the “the preservation of the Eastern rites,” which was important to Pope Leo XIII, he says.

It does not seem that any one conflict is more important to the Pope than another. In this post he gave permission to feel outraged about it: “There is so much violence and so many wars in our world! Amid this horror that should provoke outrage—as people die in the name of military conquest—stands the call of Christ, who repeats: ‘Peace be with you!’”

It is not unusual for Popes to play diplomatic peacemaking roles but it is interesting that this Pope wasted no time doing so.

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European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen got a slap on the hand for her backdoor vaccine deals with Pfizer from a European court.

The New York Times reported how von der Leyen secured Pfizer Covid vaccines for the whole of Europe with texts messages with Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla. The Times requested those texts and the European Commission rejected that request, saying that they didn’t have them. The Times says that they do have them and the court agrees, ruling they must hand them over.

The court also ruled that the EU “has not given a plausible explanation to justify the non-possession of the requested documents. Moreover, the Commission has not sufficiently clarified whether the requested text messages were deleted and, if so, whether the deletion was done deliberately or automatically or whether the President’s mobile phone had been replaced in the meantime.”

In other words: They were being shady.

This is the second time von der Leyen was caught deleting things from her phone. When she was Germany’s Defense Minister, she was investigated for military contracts and when officials searched her phones, they’d been wiped.

The European Commission has responded to this ruling saying that they’re sorry and the court is right, they should be more transparent. They have not committed to handing over the messages though.

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Ukrainian President Zelensky will attend peace negotiations in Istanbul today but he is being stood up by both Russian President Putin and U.S. President Trump.

Zelensky has been begging both leaders to come on Thursday but President Trump’s visit to the Middle East was not altered to oblige this request. President Putin is sending a Russia’s delegation led by Kremlin Aide Vladimir Medinsky. The delegation will also include Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Igor Kostyukov, and Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin. No Putin but it is the first time that Ukraine has met directly with Russian representatives since early 2022 when the West tanked their initial peace deal.

There is also that little problem that in 2022 Zelensky signed a law forbidding peace negotiations with Russia. How is he going to get around that? Easy: He says it doesn’t apply to him. That’s not true but he says a lot of dumb things.

The United States will not have representatives at this meeting. U.S. negotiators are planning to go to Istanbul on Friday, one day after the meeting.

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The Trump administration may have secured a nuclear deal with Iran. NBC News reports that “Iran is ready to sign a nuclear deal with certain conditions with President Donald Trump in exchange for lifting economic sanctions.”

NBC quotes Ali Shamkhani, a top political, military and nuclear adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He said that the deal would involve a commitment to not making nuclear weapons, “getting rid of its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium which can be weaponized, agree to only enrich uranium to the lower levels needed for civilian use, and allow international inspectors to supervise the process, in exchange for the immediate lifting of all economic sanctions on Iran.”

Iran already allows international inspectors to supervise and inspect its uranium.

In President Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia, he said that he wants to make a deal with Iran and if he cannot, he will launch an economic war. He did not say he would launch a physical war.

“If I can make a deal with Iran, I’ll be very happy if we’re going to make your region and the world a safer place,” he said. “But if Iran’s leadership rejects this olive branch and continues to attack their neighbors, then we will have no choice but to inflict massive maximum pressure, drive Iranian oil exports to zero, like I did before.”

Well he may have done it. NBC reports this: “Asked if Iran would agree to sign an agreement today if those conditions were met, Shamkhani said, ‘Yes.'”

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