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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Sep 30, 2025 A quick look at the Gaza Peace Plan that Trump presented yesterday, and how he is giving Hamas only 3 or 4 days to accept it.

It turns out, however, that the U.S. and Arab nations had agreed to a different version of this peace plan, and then once Trump and Netanyahu met there were additional stipulations added that Israel wanted.


The White House has sent paperwork to the Senate to withdraw the nomination of E.J. Antoni as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, three sources told CNN. The withdrawal comes after CNN's KFile reported earlier this month that Antoni operated a since-deleted Twitter account that featured sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, derogatory remarks about gay people, conspiracy theories, and crude insults aimed at critics of Trump. Read more


President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced an agreement with Pfizer to voluntarily sell its medications for less, as his administration pushes to link U.S. drug prices to cheaper ones abroad. Pfizer has agreed to take measures to reduce U.S. drug prices, including selling its existing drugs to Medicaid patients at the lowest price offered in other developed nations, or what Trump calls the most-favored-nation price, according to the president. Pfizer will also guarantee the same "most-favored-nation" pricing on its new drugs for Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payers.


Military leaders have raised serious concerns about the Trump administration's forthcoming defense strategy, exposing a divide between the Pentagon's political and uniformed leadership as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons top brass to a highly unusual summit in Virginia on Tuesday, according to eight current and former officials.


Police in a Silicon Valley suburb were flummoxed last weekend after pulling over a self-driving Waymo robo-taxi for making an illegal turn, then finding no driver they could issue with a ticket.


President Donald Trump told top military brass that the US is fighting an "invasion from within," as he used a highly unusual gathering of officers stationed around the world to deliver a largely political speech that highlighted border security and rooting out "woke" culture. "After spending trillions of dollars defending the borders of foreign countries, with your help, we're defending the borders of our country," Trump said on Tuesday at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. "It's the enemy from within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control," he added.


A bombshell new report says border czar Tom Homan became the object of an FBI sting last year after an associate suggested to FBI agents that his former boss was ripe for a bribe. According to MSNBC's Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian, the Homan associate " Julian "Jace" Calderas" bragged to undercover agents that Homan "could facilitate future government contracts in exchange for big money." Calderas is a former U.S. immigration official who worked under Homan in the Obama administration, noted the Monday report. The report cites anonymous sources to claim that Calderas "allegedly proposed to the agents " who were posing as businessmen " that Homan, in exchange for $1 million, could help them win lucrative federal contracts if Donald Trump became president again."


The Supreme Court has backed President Donald Trump's power to fire the lone Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission without cause, agreeing at the same time to consider overturning a longstanding precedent that has protected independent agencies.


Jimmy Kimmel's return to late night wasn't quiet it exploded. His comeback episode on ABC pulled in 6.26 million viewers, his biggest audience in years. To put that in perspective, that's a 23 percent share of the entire late-night market, the kind of dominance not seen since Johnny Carson's days. Even more surprising, those numbers came despite a boycott that kept nearly a quarter of ABC affiliates from airing the show. The buzz was undeniable, with clips from the monologue racking up more than 14 million views online within hours. It was a free fall that underlined how much of his initial surge was fueled by curiosity rather than loyalty. Read more


I didn't even know he was alive in 2025.


The government of Israel has hired a new conservative-aligned firm, Clock Tower X LLC, to create media for Gen Z audiences in a contract worth $6 million. At least 80% of content Clock Tower produces will be "tailored to Gen Z audiences across platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, podcasts, and other relevant digital and broadcast outlets" with a minimum goal of 50 million impressions per month. Clock Tower will even deploy "websites and content to deliver GPT framing results on GPT conversations." In other words, Clock Tower will create new websites to influence how AI GPT models such as ChatGPT, which are trained on vast amounts of data from every corner of the internet, frame topics and respond to them " all on behalf of Israel. Donald Trumpf Jr and Lara Trump are "major stakeholders" in Clock Tower, which is run by former Dummkopf Trumpf campaign manager Brad Parscale. Read more


  • DIU released the names of 13 officers implicated in planning and organizing missile strikes against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, revealing the locations of their homes, vehicle registrations, telephone numbers, and email addresses. DIU priority is to identify command personnel responsible for cruise and air-launched ballistic missiles against Ukrainian cities. This data is available to national and international justice mechanisms to hold those guilty to account: "There will be just retribution for every war crime committed against the Ukrainian people."
  • Russian propagandists admit on national TV that Vladimir Putin's Special Military Operation" is going poorly with no end in sight and that in approximately four months the SMO will have lasted longer than the Great Patriotic War (1941-45).
  • Ukrainian SOF conducted a behind-the-lines mission neutralizing three Russian soldiers and their equipment. DIU: "We will once again destroy the enemy on his own territory." Read more


    In what follows, I argue that the root cause lies not merely in weakening demand or fickle policy"but in the decision to make the ZDX an all-electric vehicle from the outset. In other words: if the ZDX had retained an internal combustion (or hybrid) option, it might still be in Acura's lineup today.


    Monday, September 29, 2025

    Sep 29, 2025

    Amid all the news stories in recent days, there is one item that has completely flown under the radar. That news is Trump signing a National Security Directive which describes radical left violence in terns that are so broad, that millions of Americans probably fall under its definition.

    This directive, referred to as NSPM-7, describes certain indicators that are common with political violence. It is basically an exhaustive Presidential Memorandum on pre-crime.


    The White House on Monday released President Donald Trump's "comprehensive plan" for ending the war between Israel and Hamas, which has been going on since the Palestinian terrorist group carried out its attack on October 7, 2023. Read more


    President Donald Trump emerged from talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday declaring an end to the war in Gaza was closer than ever after Netanyahu agreed to a 20-point plan laying out the parameters of a ceasefire. The proposal, which Trump unveiled publicly for the first time, still requires sign-off from Hamas. And there are a number of provisions contained in the plan which the terror group has previously rejected. Read more


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