Well the price of eggs have come down in the U.S. since the Trump administration took office and are down 53% from January of 2024. That’s good for your nest egg! Get it!? Photo credit: Getty Images
In Case You Missed It. 💰 The House of Representatives passed a stopgap bill to fund the government through October. It will now go to the Senate.
📰 Politico reports that USAID employees are trying to destroy documents so that the Trump administration doesn’t find…what exactly?
🥗 The U.S. Department of Agriculture will cut $1 billion of funding for schools and food banks to buy school lunches from local farmers. That may seem sad but have you ever seen how many fruits and vegetables are thrown away in a school lunch room?? Should taxpayers keep buying them for the compost pile?
🚫 The U.S. Department of Agriculture has paused funding to the University of Maine System (UMS) because the state has refused to comply with the executive order to keep trans-identified boys out of girls’ sports.
🇺🇦 Ukraine launched over 300 drones at Russia, hitting an oil pipeline that brings oil to Hungary. Hungary “voiced its opposition to” to this attack.
⚖️ A Constitutional Court in Romania rejected an appeal by presidential hopeful Calin Georgescu who seemed set to win the office before he was thrown out of the race.
🎙️ Join us live for Redacted starting today at 4 PM EST we have lots to talk about.
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Lead: Ceasefire Deal in Ukraine
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The U.S. State Department says that Ukraine has agreed to “an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation.”
Don’t get too excited about the word “ceasefire” though. The ceasefire’s conditions are bombs. If Ukraine agrees to the ceasefire, the U.S. “will immediately lift the pause on intelligence sharing and resume security assistance to Ukraine.”
Security assistance means money and weapons.
Additionally, the deal involves “a comprehensive agreement for developing Ukraine’s critical mineral resources to expand Ukraine’s economy and guarantee Ukraine’s long-term prosperity and security.”
So will Russia go for it? Well, it would mean Ukraine still has Western weapons on Russia’s borders, which Russia rejects but it would put Ukrainian President Zelensky back under the thumb of the U.S., putting him out of reach of the Europeans.
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said this about it:
“He [Trump] is a negotiator-in-chief, and he put Zelensky in his place and told him that the Americans are serious about a long-term peace deal.”
Frequent Flyers
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The White House says that the Columbia University student that ICE detained and is attempting to deport was circulating “pro-Hamas propaganda flyers” and that those flyers even have a Hamas logo.
Is this enough to deny the right to free speech, even to a legal immigrant that is not a U.S. citizen? What would the constitution say? Remember that the ACLU in 1977 defended the rights of Nazis to march in a town of Holocaust survivors because the fierce defense of free speech is the fabric of American society. This case calcified who we are: a people committed to the idea that free speech must include speech that you don’t like.
Free speech advocacy group FIRE says that this is not enough. “The Press Secretary used the word ‘propaganda.’ What is another word for propaganda? Speech. And that’s the problem here is that we are talking about expression.”
Is there also unlawful conduct that the government count prosecute? The public should be made aware of this because the case is not black and white. It also highlights the Western problem of having immigrants who hate the culture they have moved into. This one is tricky and uncomfortable too.
Thousands of protestors in New York City have taken to the street to protest Khalil’s deportation, leading to clashes with police.
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Photo credit: National Security Advisor Mike Waltz
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