https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRXTK8m_lnE
Truth fears no trial.
A Guardian investigation has found the relationships among the three involve hundreds of thousands of dollars and benefits to Kennedy, Bigtree and Siri. As Mississippi doctors, health officials and families deal with the consequences of weaker vaccine policies, the Guardian found, Ican has used its Mississippi victory – what Bigtree called “arguably the biggest win for health freedom in history” – to raise money to expand its push to weaken vaccine laws around the country...
“If we as a nation introduce the idea that there should be broad and widespread religious exemptions, what it will mean is that the basic framework of vaccine protection will unravel,” he said.
In Mississippi, Edney, the state health officer, said after the ruling that it was “galling” that out-of-state interests and a federal judge had interfered in the state, weakening what he called a wonderful law that had brought 40 years of success…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/09/israel-bombing-lebanon-us-iran-ceasefire-condemnation
"As is normal among allies, we must clearly say even when we do not agree," Meloni told parliament. She went on to list episodes where she claimed her government stood up to the White House, from tariffs "which we have many times defined as a wrong choice," to defending "the honor of our soldiers in Afghanistan, who had been defined as useless," and protecting Greenland's territorial integrity alongside European allies.
The Italian leader also described the war in Iran as "a military operation that Italy did not agree with and did not participate in ... a fact that emerged in all its concreteness with the Sigonella affair," she continued. She was referring — for the first time in a public statement — to Italy's recent decision to refuse permission for a U.S. military aircraft to land at the Sigonella air base in Sicily before flying to the Middle East…
https://www.politico.eu/article/italys-giorgia-meloni-pivots-donald-trump-reset-premiership/
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-kallas-urges-israel-end-strikes-lebanon/
"In rural, urban, red, blue, Democrats have overperformed everywhere," said Jared Leopold, a Democratic consultant whose clients include Keisha Lance Bottoms, a candidate for Georgia governor. "That is a significant canary in the coal mine about what November of '26 is going to look like."…
"They're using popular culture against the No. 1 pop culture country, the United States," said Nancy Snow, a scholar who has written more than a dozen books on propaganda.
The pro-Iran images circulating online include a series that uses the style of the "Lego" animated movies. In one, an Iranian military commander raps, "You thought you ran the globe, sitting on your throne. Now we turning every base into a bed of stone," as Trump falls into a bullseye built of "Epstein files," the U.S. government's investigative records on disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein…
Prosecutors have claimed that Balat and Kayumi drove from Pennsylvania to the New York protest site carrying the bombs. On that day, the far-right provocateur Jake Lang and some 20 supporters were planning to protest in a demonstration called Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City.
Around noon, they arrived at the protest site, which also played host to an anti-Lang counter-protest. The indictment claims that dashboard camera video in their car recorded them freely discussing potential casualties.
Kayumi allegedly told Balat: “All I know is I want to start terror, bro” and “I want to petrify these people.”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/08/gracie-mansion-bomb-attempt-mamdani
https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2026/apr/08/prageru-university-conservatism
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/house-democrats-trump-war-powers-resolution-iran
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/09/pentagon-judge-press-access-case
“Conservative Catholics who spent years building an alliance with evangelical Protestants, are waking up to find that their allies consider their faith a species of paganism and their sacraments a blasphemy.”
Well, duh!
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/09/rfk-jr-amends-guidelines-for-key-vaccine-panel-00866086
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-rejects-tolls-on-strait-of-hormuz-yvette-cooper/
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/08/rand-paul-ice-funding-00865003
Iran, meanwhile, has continued to ratchet up the pressure on Israel: Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi referenced Netanyahu’s long-running corruption trial — which is set to resume Sunday — in a Thursday social media post, writing: “A region-wide ceasefire, incl in Lebanon, would hasten his jailing.”
“If the U S. wishes to crater its economy by letting Netanyahu kill diplomacy, that would ultimately be its choice. We think that would be dumb but are prepared for it,” he added…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/09/donald-trump-iran-ceasefire-lebanon-0086580
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/09/venezuela-iran-missile-system-2020-memo-00863522
Still, that frustration hasn't led to disengagement for Koenig. He waited for hours to see El-Sayed. He described the campaign as different from what he's used to seeing, something more like Zohran Mamdani's successful run for mayor in New York City. He wanted that kind of energy in Michigan.
"You're not going to get people out with business as usual," Koenig said.
Karol Molina, an artist who recently moved from New York City, said she had been hunting for a candidate in Mamdani's mold when she arrived in Michigan. She settled on El-Sayed, who is facing U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow in the state's primary.
"We want to be able to live and, like, afford life without constantly scraping by," she said...
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/09/nx-s1-5777587/teen-birth-rates-hit-another-historical-low-2025-cdc
Inclusion of Lebanon is significant difference in interpretation of truce agreed at 11th hour on Tuesday…
Aaron Parnas reports on breaking news of Trump's Cabinet threatening the Pope and Catholic Church as the Pope denounces war in Iran, including a look at who made the remarks today, implications for Trump, and much more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIEeFPq8HsU
“He was not threatening anyone. He wasn’t attacking anyone. DHS officers took out his eye and they did it despite a federal injunction that plainly forbids firing these weapons at people’s heads,” DeSimone said.
In September, a California judge issued a court order limiting the DHS’s use of force against journalists and legal observers exercising their first amendment rights, who posed “no threat of imminent harm”.
“They didn’t shoot him for their own protection – Tucker was shot in another overt act of repression,” DeSimone said...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/08/los-angeles-teen-eye-no-kings-march
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/08/epa-chief-zeldin-climate-denying-group-event