The News Roundup – Domestic and International (The 1A) 2025-05-30

Domestic

A manhunt is underway in New York City for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He was shot and killed on a busy Midtown Manhattan street in a targeted early morning attack.

Despite saying that he wouldn’t do so, President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, this week for federal crimes. The move has garnered intense criticism from Republicans, and some Democrats have joined in to express disappointment in the development.

New reporting by Semafor revealed this week that the Trump pick to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kash Patel, was the target of an Iranian hack.
Interview: 

https://the1a.org/segments/kash-patel-hunter-biden/

International

Israel’s latest offensive in Gaza is drawing criticism from world leaders. This week officials in Germany, Italy, and Spain called for the Israeli military to cease its campaign against Palestinian civilians.

The Kremlin is condemning the decision of Ukrainian allies to lift a ban on giving Kyiv long-range Taurus missiles.

And King Charles opens his address to the Canadian parliament with comments on the nation’s sovereignty saying “the true north is indeed strong and free.”
Interview: 

https://the1a.org/segments/israel-gaza-canada-charles/

 

MAHA is Project 2025’s Trojan Horse (Conspirituality podcast #259)

We’ve been talking about RFK Jr for years, and even dedicated an entire chapter to him in our 2023 book—and we’re going to keep covering him. Since his power and influence has only grown, and since he’s now in charge of America’s entire health apparatus, there’s no way to avoid it.

This week we catch up on the last few months of MAHA. 

• Derek looks into why he believes Kennedy’s apparatus, despite claims of being about health, is really a cover for Project 2025’s deregulatory agenda. 
• Julian discusses a recent paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Covid contrarians Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad, who now both work under Kennedy. 
• Finally, Matthew will contemplate Kennedy’s crude remarks on autism through the lens of disability politics.

Interview: 

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/259-maha-is-project-2025-trojan-horse

RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies | Trump administration | The Guardian

The 73-page "Make America healthy again" report – which was commissioned by the Trump administration to examine the causes of chronic illness, and which Kennedy promoted it as "gold-standard" science backed by more than 500 citations – includes references to seven studies that appear to be entirely invented, and others that the researchers say have been mischaracterized...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/rfk-jr-maha-health-report-studies 

 

Democratic STAR says Republican plans are unchristian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ3xMhqWcG8

 

They’re Letting Christians Do Crimes Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vudGQjSXyXg

 

I’ve seen the reality of the new Israel-backed ‘aid’ for Gaza. It’s nothing more than a deadly PR stunt | Eyad Amawi | The Guardian

Two days ago, Israeli soldiers fired on a massive crowd of starving Palestinians who just wanted to eat. Some of them had walked more than 10km to reach what was then the only aid distribution point in Gaza. They were looking for help from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a newly formed Israeli-backed logistics group that had set up a distribution centre in Rafah. Israel and GHF lost control of the crowd; Palestinians were shot and killed for seeking food, and dozens were injured.

 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/29/gaza-aid-israel-food-distribution-centre

 

Trump goes after Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society in fury over court ruling - POLITICO

The blame, Trump said, lay with the Federalist Society. "

I am so disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations," he wrote. "This is something that cannot be forgotten!"

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/29/trump-goes-after-leonard-leo-and-the-federalist-society-in-fury-over-court-ruling-00375813

Trump violating right to life with anti-environment orders, youth lawsuit says | Trump administration | The Guardian

Twenty-two plaintiffs between ages seven and 25 allege government is engaging in unlawful executive overreach…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/trump-administration-sued-anti-environment-orders 

 

Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 30, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRBLWAMd080

 

Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 29, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exVF39YVj24

 

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla, Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek | The Guardian

Instead of being about open science, it grants administration-aligned political appointees the power to designate any research as scientific misconduct based on their own "judgment" and includes the power to punish the scientists involved accordingly; this would weaponize government counter to the public interest...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/29/trump-american-science 

 

We Chased Driverless Trucks In Texas. What We Saw and what it means

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQrQrOPmszE

 

Trump Pardons Reality TV Stars, RFK Jr. Dials Back COVID Vaccines & JD Vance grifts in Vegas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23x2fQY0WJU

Donald Trump commutes sentence of former Chicago gang leader | Donald Trump | The Guardian

Hoover, 74, is the co-founder of Gangster Disciples, a gang described in court documents as "large and vicious" that sold "great quantities of cocaine, heroin, and other drugs in Chicago"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/donald-trump-commutes-chicago-gang-leader-sentence 

 

Doge employees hold stock in firms set to benefit from cuts, Democrats allege | US politics | The Guardian

Elizabeth Warren and others urge investigation over 'clear conflict of interest and potential criminal violation'…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/democrats-doge-elon-musk 

 

Israel confirms plans to create 22 new settlements in occupied West Bank | West Bank | The Guardian

Israel has said it will establish 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the legalisation of outposts already built without government authorisation, after a security cabinet vote held in secret last week...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/29/israel-new-settlements-occupied-west-bank-palestinian-state 

 

US federal court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs | Trump tariffs | The Guardian

The other was filed by a dozen US states, led by Oregon. "This ruling reaffirms that our laws matter, and that trade decisions can't be made on the president's whim," said the Oregon attorney general, Dan Rayfield. 

The plaintiffs in the tariff lawsuit argued that the emergency powers law did not give the president the power to apply tariffs, and even if it had done, the trade deficit did not qualify as an emergency, which is defined as an "unusual and extraordinary threat". The US has run a trade deficit with the rest of the world for 49 consecutive years...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/us-court-blocks-trump-tariffs

 

It’s unlikely a magic bullet will ever cure Alzheimer’s – maybe a magic shotgun can (The Conversation podcast)

For much of the 21st century, one theory has dominated research efforts to cure Alzheimer’s disease: the amyloid hypothesis. Beta-amyloid is a protein that builds up in clumps, or plaques, in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease and is linked to their cognitive decline.

But in recent years, despite the emergence of a couple of new drugs targeting these plaques, some scientists have begun to doubt the amyloid hypothesis. Don Weaver, a professor of chemistry at the University of Toronto in Canada, is one of them.

In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, Weaver tells us about shifts in the understanding of Alzheimer’s during his career of more than 30 years, and what theories are now emerging about what might cause the disease and how to treat it.

Weaver no longer believes there will be one magic bullet drug found to cure Alzheimer’s disease. Instead, he advocates for a magic shotgun approach that is likely to involve multiple ways of treating the problem, including starting much earlier in a person’s life.
Interview: 

https://theconversation.com/its-unlikely-a-magic-bullet-will-ever-cure-alzheimers-maybe-a-magic-shotgun-can-257268

Teaching Kids to Read: How One School District Gets It Right (Reveal podcast)

An elementary school in Ohio has some of the best little readers in the nation. How they did it—and how a new law put it all at risk. 

The schools in Steubenville, Ohio, are doing something unusual—in fact, it’s almost unheard of. In a country where nearly 40 percent of fourth graders struggle to read at even a basic level, Steubenville has succeeded in teaching virtually all of its students to read well.

According to data from the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University, Steubenville has routinely scored in the top 10 percent or better of schools nationwide for third grade reading, sometimes scoring as high as the top 1 percent.

In study after study for decades, researchers have found that districts serving low-income families almost always have lower test scores than districts in more affluent places. Yet Steubenville bucks that trend.

“It was astonishing to me how amazing that elementary school was,” said Karin Chenoweth, who wrote about Steubenville in her book How It’s Being Done: Urgent Lessons From Unexpected Schools.

This week on Reveal, reporter Emily Hanford shares the latest from the hit APM Reports podcast Sold a Story. We’ll learn how Steubenville became a model of reading success—and how a new law in Ohio put it all at risk.
Interview: 

https://revealnews.org/podcast/reading-steubenville-ohio-sold-a-story/

MAGA pastors falsely claim new Colorado law impacts their sermons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H66OgfFV1jg

 

Missouri Supreme Court Halts Abortion Access, Defying Will Of The Voters | HuffPost Latest News

"This latest attack by the Missouri Supreme Court is unconstitutional, unconscionable, and downright dirty politics," Mini Timmaraju, the president of Reproductive Freedom for All, said in reacting to the ruling. "It is devastating for people across the country to know that even if they organize, vote, and pass measures to protect their reproductive care, extreme GOP actors will still try to take away our constitutional rights."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/missouri-abortion-access-halted_n_68373f8be4b004530c698e00 

 

GOP Rep. Mike Flood Holds Fiery Town Hall | HuffPost Latest News

"When I return to Washington, I am going to very clearly tell the people in my conference that we cannot support undermining our court system and we must allow our federal courts to operate and issue injunctions," Flood continued….

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-flood-town-hall-big-beautiful-bill_n_68372c31e4b0327c975c7f1b 

 

Rep. Talarico asks questions of Rep. Noble on the layout of SB 10, Ten Commandments

Her responses reflect more fallacious "history" from David Barton, as well as general Christian nationalism. For more information, see the podcast "Telling Jefferson Lies".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Ts91cFi38 

 

Israeli troops open fire as US-backed food logistics group loses control of Gaza centre | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian

"Regardless of whether the GHF is operating or not, we know from decades of experience and the almost 600 days we have been responding to this catastrophe in Gaza that this shameful exercise in the militarisation of aid is not going to work," said Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam's policy lead in the occupied Palestinian territory. 

"Even in the most optimal of conditions, there is no logistical company who can feed 2.1 million people overnight. Humanitarianism is not just about handing out food parcels to feed starving people; it is about ensuring that people have the means to survive."…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/israeli-troops-open-fire-aid-group-loses-control-distribution-centre 

 

Chased, beaten and robbed: survivors describe Israeli settler violence in West Bank | West Bank | The Guardian

Palestinians and activists forced out of the village of Mughayyir al-Deir say they were harassed, stoned and shot at…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/28/chased-beaten-and-robbed-survivors-describe-israeli-settler-violence-in-west-bank 

 

Donald Trump’s Decades-Long Obsession With Eugenics – Mother Jones

Many people were shocked to read allegations last year by Donald Trump's nephew, Fred Trump III, about his uncle: Fred, whose son William has intellectual and developmental disabilities, reported that the elder Trump said during his first presidential term that people like William should "just die." 

That is shocking—but it's not surprising. The comment falls into a pattern of eugenicist and ableist views that Trump has espoused all the way back to the 1980s, when he spoke openly about the importance of having "the right genes" in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/trump-eugenics-disability-timeline-genes/ 

 

Rep. Talarico asks questions of Rep. Noble on proposed requirement to display 10 commandments in classrooms

Her justifications generally are based on the fallacious version of American history from pseudo historian David Barton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Na7eXsRpI 

J. D. Vance’s Bargain With the Devil - The Atlantic

"This isn't bribery. This is extortion…" 

"It's hard for Americans to wrap their minds around the idea that this country is not an example to others—a positive example—that its institutions are not somehow robust, that everything won't be all right. But what we are watching here is an attack on all of those foundational premises of American life. This is a scene not out of American history; it is an orgy of extortion and corruption unlike anything I've ever seen before in this country, and only comparable to things seen in the countries of the world that Donald Trump once called "shitholes." Why are shithole country shitholes? Not because they're poor, but because the authorities are not responsive to the people. The authorities are perverted from their duty and use that perversion as an opportunity for self-enrichment and aggression to the detriment of their own societies…" 

"Great villains require more of a backstory, more interiority, more rise and fall. And—let me keep testing this—J. D. Vance has that backstory. You know, the greatest of all literary villains is John Milton's Lucifer, who starts as the brightest of the angels and then has the steepest fall. Maybe there's something kind of Luciferian about J. D. Vance. I mean, he's someone—we know this from his own words—that he knows the difference between right and wrong. He saw Donald Trump as wrong. He became one of the most eloquent critics of the wrongness of Donald Trump. And then when opportunity beckoned, he chose wrong. He chose wrong, fully knowing what he was doing, aware of its consequences. He took a long time. He brooded over the decision, and then he made the choice. It's epic. It's literary. It's Luciferian. And it's more interesting than the crocodile that simply bites children and drags them under the Nile and drowns them for fun…"

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/05/the-david-frum-show-vances-bargain-with-the-devil/682954/ 

 

Nancy Mace’s Former Staff Claim She Had Them Create Burner Accounts to Promote Her | WIRED

According to former staffers and a deposition, Nancy Mace has allegedly used her tech background to deploy bots across social media—and asked staffers to surreptitiously post on her behalf.

https://www.wired.com/story/nancy-mace-former-staff-burner-accounts/ 

 

Trump Con BLOWN APART By Jon Stewart After Alarming Legal Escalation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daGgA9qeV5g

 

Trump has no plan for who will grow US food: ‘There is just flat out nobody to work’ | US immigration | The Guardian

"In the H-2A program, the way they're proposing to get rid of the regulations and any guarantees that workers get is going to look like legalized slavery. The industry understands that they need a labor force, but they [want] a labor force that is going to be afraid, that is going to be grateful because the employer is providing you a job."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/farmworkers-h-2a-trump-agriculture 

 

Trump to pardon reality TV stars Julie and Todd Chrisley | US news | The Guardian

Couple was found guilty in 2022 of conspiring to defraud community banks out of more than $30m and tax evasion…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/27/trump-pardon-julie-todd-chrisley 

 

17 iPhone Screenshot Tips and Tricks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiQT_IvL0n8

 

The Hopkins Forum: Can the U.S. Outpace Chin a in AI Through Chip Controls? (John Donvan; Open to Debate podcast)

We are excited to announce the second debate of The Hopkins Forum, a partnership between Open to Debate and Johns Hopkins University’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute.

The AI revolution is underway, and the U.S. and China are racing to the top. At the heart of this competition are semiconductors—especially advanced GPUs that power everything from natural language processing to autonomous weapons. The U.S. is betting that export controls can help check China’s technological ambitions. But will this containment strategy work—or could it inadvertently accelerate China’s drive for self-sufficiency? Those who think chip controls will work argue that restricting China’s access gives the U.S. critical breathing room to advance AI safely, set global norms, and maintain dominance. Those who believe chip controls are inadequate, or could backfire, warn that domestic chipmakers, like Nvidia and Intel, also rely on sales from China. Cutting off access could harm U.S. competitiveness in the long run, especially if other countries don’t fully align with U.S. policy.

As the race for AI supremacy intensifies, we debate the question: Can the U.S. Outpace China in AI Through Chip Controls?
Interview: 

https://opentodebate.org/debate/the-hopkins-forum-can-the-u-s-outpace-china-in-ai-through-chip-controls/

 

Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 28, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxNWnkQ6SaU

 

Clean Up Your Contacts App

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xhs3amQDLM

 

A hidden measure in the Republican budget bill would crown Trump king | Robert Reich | The Guardian

"Without the contempt power, judicial orders are meaningless and can be ignored. There is no way to understand this except as a way to keep the Trump administration from being restrained when it violates the Constitution or otherwise breaks the law …"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/27/a-hidden-measure-in-the-republican-budget-bill-would-crown-trump-king 

 

Wall Street Journal Shatters Core Trump Fantasy In Editorial Urging GOP ‘Revolt’ | HuffPost Latest News

The Wall Street Journal on Monday urged Republican senators to take the lead in confronting Russia over its ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It warned that Donald Trump and his allies' "naivete" on Russian President Vladimir Putin is only allowing the bloodshed to continue...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wall-street-journal-donald-trump-putin_n_68356aafe4b034e8d0515eca

The New Dark Age - The Atlantic

"By destroying knowledge, Trumpists seek to make the country more amenable to their political domination, and to prevent meaningful democratic checks on their behavior. Their victory, though, would do much more than that. It would annihilate some of the most effective systems for aggregating, accumulating, and applying human knowledge that have ever existed. Without those systems, America could find itself plunged into a new Dark Age.,,"

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-defund-schools-research-republicans/682742/ 

UnitedHealth’s collapse reveals the flaw at the heart of Medicare Advantage

This is the fundamental flaw at the heart of Medicare Advantage. Plans are beholden to shareholders, who seek short-term profits. Profits are only achievable through the widespread denial of care. Meanwhile, plans use these profits to buy up entities along the health care supply chain, whose clinicians and other employees can do the insurance company's bidding...

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/unitedhealth-group-care-collapse-medicare-advantage-rcna208528 

 

Trump's 5-step push to keep GOP control of the House in '26

President Trump's team has launched an early and aggressive behind-the-scenes effort to maintain the GOP's tenuous grip on the House in 2026 — and avoid his third impeachment…

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/27/trump-5-steps-gop-house-2026 

 

Texas close to requiring Ten Commandments in public school classrooms - The Washington Post

Texas lawmakers are close to passing a bill to require public schools to exhibit the Ten Commandments in classrooms starting this fall, a victory for the religious right that critics say blurs the line between church and state...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/27/ten-commandments-texas-public-schools/

Opinion | Trump’s military is hostile to young Black Americans - The Washington Post

"Service provided a twofold bargain for the country and the individual. 

But military service is a profound sacrifice. And when that sacrifice is met with hostility, erasure or contempt from political leaders at the highest levels, we must pause and reassess. 

Is it still worth it?"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/27/trump-military-hostile-black-americans/

 

The Truth About the "Crisis" for Young (white) Men

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1qV8-TqFOI

 

Jordan Peterson Gets Rattled In 20v1 Debate Over Morality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJQ87HXuMQ4

 

She went undercover on an Alt-Right Dating App for ONE YEAR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC2w8H_aba8

 

Is Trump Good for Israel? (John Donvan; Open to Debate podcast)

Many Israelis celebrated Donald Trump’s election victory and view him as an unparalleled ally. His first term solidified that perception: he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital by moving the U.S. embassy there and brokered the historic Abraham Accords. To them, Trump understood Israel’s security concerns, international challenges, and sovereign aspirations.

That belief persists into his second term. So far, he’s backed Israel militarily in its war with Hamas and suggested ideas like evacuating Palestinians from Gaza. Supporters argue that Trump’s alignment with Israel is deep-rooted and enduring. But critics view his support as transactional, not ideological — subject to change if broader U.S. interests, such as relations with Iran, come into play. They also note his wavering commitment to resolving the Gaza conflict, citing recent remarks that suggest a lack of interest in pushing for peace. Some argue his resistance to a two-state solution ensures long-term regional instability.

As Israel navigates a volatile geopolitical landscape, Trump’s role remains divisive. Is his support a genuine strategic partnership—or one driven more by political convenience than principle? We ask: Is Trump Good for Israel?

This release is the first installment of our inaugural foreign policy debate summit: The Trump Doctrine: A Global Reckoning?— a three-part series examining how Donald Trump’s foreign policy in his second term is reshaping U.S. relations with Russia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Interview: 

https://opentodebate.org/debate/is-trump-good-for-israel/

Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 27, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmF9MHSjCzE

Christian Nationalism: Using Spiritual Manipulation to Control a Party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_CwOp-v8gM

 

Responding to Charlie Kirk on homosexuality & the Bible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBc56AJbvVM

 

How Apologetics Sounds to Skeptics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a4-vGxc3G4

 

WOTMQ: Couldn't Get Arrested (on such evidence)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSpckq5j22U

 

In 'Original Sin,' Jake Tapper describes a 'cover-up' of Joe Biden's decline (Terry Gross; Fresh Air podcast)

CNN's Jake Tapper calls his new book a tragedy. Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, which Tapper co-authored with Axios' Alex Thompson, describes two Joe Bidens.

"The first one is the one that everybody got to know during his vice presidency," Tapper says. "And the second one was kind of a non-functioning Joe Biden. ... And that non-functioning Biden would rear his head increasingly starting in, like, 2019, 2020. And then, as his term went on, more and more behind the scenes."

The book describes a president who failed to recognize longtime political allies, lost his train of thought in important conversations and forgot important dates, including the death of his son, Beau: "We in the public would see some of it in front of the cameras ... but we had no idea how bad it was," Tapper says.

Tapper says one source described a president that was being propped up by aides: "One person told us that the presidency was, at best, a five-person board with Joe Biden as chairman of the board."

On Sunday, Biden's office issued a statement, revealing that the former president has been diagnosed with an "aggressive form" of prostate cancer, which has metastasized to the bone.

"It is very sad what happens to us, if we're lucky enough to get old. Very few of us retain our acuity until our death in our sleep at age 99," Tapper says. "It is the human condition, and that makes it difficult to report on this. But by the same token, we have a right to believe and expect that a president will be sharp and on top of things."
Interview: 

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5398050/joe-bidens-decline-jake-tapper-original-sin

Trump vowed to help US farmers. These four say his policies are ‘wreaking havoc’ | Farming | The Guardian

"Three main policies have been impacting us. Number one is the cancellation of USAID. That's about a billion dollars worth of grain that the United States purchases from farmers like me, and they give it to third world nations who are hungry. To kill that program is a disaster. It's morally bankrupt, and it hurts farmers' bottom line. 

Another thing that's very pressing is the payment freezes to farmers from the USDA. I was involved in the Climate-Smart practices. We were paid to implement stewardship practices that the USDA has been preaching since the Dust Bowl. The added benefit is these practices combat climate change. That's what the current administration doesn't want anything to do with. … 

I try to explain to people, if I were a repair person, and I went to my local grade school and fixed their furnace, and in the meantime, a new school board was elected, I still deserve to be paid. I've signed a contract with the USDA. The full faith and credit of the United States is at risk, because if Uncle Sam will renege on a farmer, they'll renege on anybody. 

The third one is the tariff situation. China is and has been our number one export for soybeans; 100% of the soybeans that I grow are exported. During Trump's first administration, half of all the soybeans that China purchased were from the United States. By the end of his first administration, it was down to a quarter. Now Brazil has taken over our role as the number one importer of soybeans into China. From an environmental standpoint, that means more deforestation in the Amazon. Mexico purchases 40% of all the corn in the United States. And he wants to have a trade war with Mexico? Mexico can just as easily buy their grain from Argentina and Brazil…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/23/trump-farmers-policy 

The GOP is banning states from regulating AI

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iVN1dq-EzBk

 

Russia targets Ukraine with more drone strikes as Trump says Putin has ‘gone crazy’ | Ukraine | The Guardian

The sheer scale of Putin's defiance of Trump following last Monday's call between the two leaders has imploded the US president's ill-defined strategy for ending the war in Ukraine, which Trump had promised to do within 24 hours upon taking office...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/26/russia-targets-ukraine-with-more-drone-strikes-as-trump-says-putin-has-gone-crazy 

 

Texas Senate passes bill to force Christian date labels (B.C. and A.D.) in public schools

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-SZslj5bb4

 

Someone explain to #trump that if he hates #trade #deficits, he should LOVE Harvard education

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YzV-Xj2j8Bk

 

Top Republicans threaten to block Trump’s spending bill if national debt is not reduced | US Senate | The Guardian

An analysis by the non-partisan FactCheck.org found that the claim that 1.4 million undocumented migrants were on Medicaid was false. People living in the US without immigration papers are not eligible for the federal program other than to receive emergency medical treatment. 'Fiscally irresponsible': Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' benefits the rich at the expense of the poor 

More than 1 million undocumented immigrants are in danger of losing health benefits as a result of Trump's cuts – but this assistance is provided by states and has nothing to do with Medicaid...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/25/trump-beautiful-bill-republicans 

 

A painful lesson in why you should prepare for a Senate hearing

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vUysC_tfb4E

 

Brief: The Gospel of MAHA Apologetics (Conspirituality podcast)

After being confirmed as Secretary of HHS, RFK Jr started installing his cabal of wellness influencers and contrarian doctors across the government's many public health agencies. And that means they have to apologize for their boss. 

Derek and Julian listen in on some of the most outrageous takes so far.

Interview: 

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-the-gospel-of-maha-apologetics

Utah Study on Trans Youth Care Extremely Inconvenient for Politicians Who Ordered It – Mother Jones

The state's ban on gender-affirming pediatric care "cannot be justified" by science, a two-year review concluded...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/utah-transgender-youth-affirming-care-ban/

 

Marco Rubio's words come back to HAUNT him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGnlbLPRYo0

 

MAGA Republicans just pulled the most Republican move ever #budget #bill...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4sMkkieWgTI

 

I’m ready to call it #supremecourt #constitution #rights #injunction #po...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Th2Fc0dCBYo

 

The Problem With "Natural" Immunity

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6DdIUUPm3ug

The atrocious #maga math behind the #trumpaccount #house #budget #medica...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yDWlKa10Q6k

 

Indivisible: the mass movement leading the progressive fight against Trump | US politics | The Guardian

It grew out of a Google Doc, and now has millions of US members – what's the secret of Indivisible's success?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/25/indivisible-donald-trump-progressive-movement 

 

 

Weekly Roundup: Oklahoma’s Catholic Charter School and Hegseth’s Prayer Service (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

Dan discusses recent developments on the separation of church and state, focusing on the Oklahoma Catholic Charter School case and its split decision in the Supreme Court. He also analyzes the implications of Pete Hegseth’s Christian prayer service at the Pentagon, highlighting concerns about religious liberty and the mixing of church and state.

Additionally, the episode examines JD Vance’s criticisms of Supreme Court chief Justice John Roberts and addresses ongoing tensions between the Trump administration and the judiciary. The script also touches on Trump’s claims of white genocide in South Africa and the alleged evidence presented during a meeting with South African President Cyril Rama.

The episode concludes with reflections on populist rhetoric and the role of evidence in shaping perceived truths.
Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/weekly-roundup-oklahomas-catholic-charter-school-and-hegseths-prayer-service/

A critical omission in the headlines about #habeascorpus #trump #constit...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2uZtklpbpUw

 

Trump admin RESCINDS $37.7M fine against Christian school that lied about tuition costs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7OJmZhXhs

 

Shutting down #maga’s racist whining over #blackfatigue

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mC3Qk2vqUkQ

 

Crime is Like a Denny’s (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Unjustified podcast)

The Supreme Court remanded the Alien Enemies Act case back down to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, and at least one of the judges isn’t happy about it.

Abrego Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador set off a fierce debate among officials in three cabinet agencies, despite agreement there had been a mistake.

Tulsi Gabbard’s Chief of Staff ordered intelligence analysts to edit an assessment with the hope of insulating Trump and Gabbard from being attacked for the administration’s claim that Venezuela’s government controls a criminal gang.

A federal judge found that the Trump Administration violated a court order when it sent a planeload of migrants to war-torn South Sudan, teeing up yet another possible contempt proceeding against the government.

Plus listener questions…
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-ykmfn-259b70b8

 

Trump EXPOSED by his Secret Dinner Attendees for THIS...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfBN6nj8og

 

Trump’s Tariffs Benefit the Billionaire Class

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NZp5mAZVpGg

 

Mike Johnson CALLED OUT for cutting healthcare for 1.4 million of his OWN voters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCtAg30frOc

 

Quacks, Cancer, and Kangen Water (feat Mallory DeMille) (Conspirituality podcast, Episode #256)

Cancer, as physician and author Siddhartha Mukherjee writes, is the emperor of all maladies. The disease—the over 200 different diseases all falling under this umbrella term—has been with us as long as we’ve been us. If anything is truly ancient, it is the cancer cells that are in all of our bodies, just waiting to be turned on if the conditions are right, or if our genes dictate the inevitability.

Deep in wellness land, cancer is something entirely different. It’s avoidable if you stop consuming seed oils, stop using 5G, stop thinking negative thoughts, and by god, stop taking those jabs that cause all the turbo cancers going around. And with every wellness warning comes a wellness solution. Today our correspondent, Mallory DeMille, returns for a deep dive into the treacherous depths of one of the more insidious grifts: treating cancer with the power of…water.
Interview: 

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/256-quacks-cancer-kangen-water-mallory-demille

The Strike That Broke a Supermax Prison (Reveal podcast)

After spending years locked in solitary confinement, a group of California men united to launch the largest prison hunger strike in US history.

At 18, Jack Morris was convicted of murdering a man in South Los Angeles and sent to prison for life. It was 1979, and America was entering the era of mass incarceration, with tough sentencing laws ballooning the criminal justice system. As California’s prison population surged, so did prison violence.

“You learn that in order to survive, you yourself then have to become predatorial,” Morris says. “And then, you then expose somebody else to that, and it’s a vicious cycle.”

When California started aggressively targeting prison gangs, Morris was accused of associating with one of the groups. The punishment was severe: He was sent to a special supermax unit at the state’s highest-security prison, Pelican Bay.

The facility was designed to isolate men deemed the “worst of the worst.” Like Morris, most lived in near-total isolation. No phone calls, no meaningful physical contact with another human, no educational classes, no glimpses of the outside world. The only regular time out of a cell was for a shower and solo exercise in another concrete room.

Decades later, prisoners at Pelican Bay, including Morris, started a dialogue through coded messages and other covert communication. They decided to protest long-term solitary confinement by organizing a hunger strike. It would become the largest in US history and helped push California to implement reforms.

This week on Reveal, we team up with the PBS film The Strike to tell the inside story of a group of men who overcame bitter divisions and harsh conditions to build an improbable prison resistance movement.
Interview: 

https://revealnews.org/podcast/pelican-bay-prison-hunger-strike-solitary-confinement/