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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