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News discussed:

Kelsey Piper and friends dug deep into PEPFAR effectiveness

The astronauts stranded on the ISS are back safe. And they were greeted back to Earth by a pod of dolphins!

Federal government awards contract for our angry triangle to Boeing

ICE rounded up a bunch of Venezuelans and flew them to prison in Venezuela

Roberts responds in a public statement

Vance is explicitly promoting defiance of the courts

Chief Justice Roberts's 2024 year-end report calls it out directly.

Green Card Holder Who Has Been in US for 50 Years Detained for weeks.

Canadian held for two weeks in prison for document snafu

EO Abolishing DoEd.

What the DoEd actually does:

Bad news on the economy

RFK is trying to remove cell phones from schools

Gaza war back on

Bombed the s**t out of the Houthis, Iran disavows, Trump doesn’t buy it

SecDef was discussing the plan on Signal with a reporter

Russia & Ukraine agreed not to damage energy infrastructure

Russia immediately attacked Ukrainian energy infrastructure

Subscriber request: NYU was hacked

Education Department investigating more than 50 colleges and universities over racial preferences

Columbia University has agreed to a list of demands in return for negotiations to reinstate its $400m Columbia said it expelled, suspended, or temporarily revoked degrees from some students who seized a building during campus protests last spring

Greenpeace must pay more than $660 million in damages

Happy News!

Prisoners in solitary confinement given VR

Taiwan signed a deal to invest $44 billion in Alaskan LNG infrastructure

MIT engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy

Mexican government found a swarm of giraffes in the state bordering El Paso

BYD (china) unveiled a new battery and charging system that it says can provide 249 miles of range with a five-minute charge

Idaho cuts regulations by 25% in four years by implementing Zero-Based Regulation

Utah just passed a permitting reform law

Troop Deployment

David - If you liked The Dragon’s Banker, you should read Oathbreakers Anonymous

Eneasz - How To Believe False Things

Wes - Men and women are different, but not that different

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