Yashar Ali 🐘
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- I wish I knew more about this subject. I know RFK has some food proposals that even his critics are supportive of but it always feels like those are the proposals the Trump admin would never go for. So we get all the vaccine lies but none of the good food stuff.
- 1. NEW A bid by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to label pesticides as a potential cause of U.S. health woes has attracted pushback from some White House and agency officials who are concerned the move would disrupt the food supply chain.
- I am not going to mourn the lifting of sanctions on the Syrian people after they have suffered so much in the last two decades. And I say that knowing there will be significant corruption involved.
- The FBI has ordered agents to devote more time to immigration enforcement and scale back investigating white-collar crime. Pursuing white-collar cases, they were told, will be deprioritized for at least the remainder of 2025.
- 1. As many people learned this morning, the National Park Service prohibits swimming and wading in the water in Rock Creek due to oil, heavy metals, pesticides, pet waste, and raw sewage in the water.
- Like when Trump called Tim Cook ‘Tim Apple’ — now whenever I hear Ozempic or Mounjaro, all I’ll be able to think of is ‘fat shot drug.’
- Even if it was for the next President, it’s still not an appropriate gift for many reasons. We’re not a developing nation — we can afford to pay for our president’s travel!
- President Trump on the Qatari 747 gift.
- I always thought Biden should have negotiated with Hamas through an intermediary just for the American hostages and bypassed Israel. But he’s a norms guy — which people appreciate. This was one norm he should have disregarded.
- 1. NEWS via Jacob Magid: US special envoy to the Mideast Steve Witkoff negotiated with top Hamas official Khalil Al-Hayya through an intermediary to secure the release of American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander
