Meh. Shitty take.

Am I seriously the only one noticing all the black pills and doom flying around via kneejerk reactions?

Seriously.

Go talk to any non-shill medical professional in the movement - ask them about Means .. and then get back to me.

At some point we as a movement have to stop attacking every f***ing thing Trump does or else we can kiss our opportunity at saving this country goodbye.

And the saddest part? I see 75% of folks completely chuck their discernment and logic out the window just to join in on the latest kneejerk attack/reaction - It is pathetic.

Sorry - but I’ve not forgotten that Shanahan herself was literally married to a cabal creep (Sergey Brin), so excuse me while I side-eye her screeching.

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BREAKING: Gates Foundation to spend $200 billion through 2045 when it will shut down

Today the Gates Foundation celebrates its 25th anniversary by announcing its plans to close up shop.

Established in 2000 — when Melinda French Gates was just 35 and Bill Gates was 44 and the world’s richest man — the foundation quickly became one of the most consequential philanthropies the world has ever seen, utterly reshaping the landscape of global public health, pouring more than $100 billion into causes starved for resources and helping save tens of millions of lives.

For all its pragmatic public-health spade work, the foundation has also served as a kind of valorous abstraction — the seeming embodiment of “the Golden Rule,” in a phrase that Bill Gates likes to use, and the face of an increasingly anachronistic era of elite optimism.
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Ivanka Trump on Thursday will announce a new focus on access to fresh produce and healthy food, as part of growing national attention to "the role of nutrition in chronic disease and overall well-being," according to a preview provided to Axios.

Thursday's appearance marks her return to the national conversation, using her celebrity to spotlight an urgent policy issue.

During a fireside chat on Thursday at the Heartland Summit in Bentonville, Arkansas, President Trump's oldest daughter will discuss how "private-sector solutions and whole-harvest sourcing are helping expand access to fresh food, support farmers, reduce waste and drive lasting impact across communities," according to the preview.

She'll be interviewed onstage by Arianna Huffington — founder and CEO of Thrive Global — who tells Axios that Ivanka Trump's "decision to focus on democratizing access to healthy food comes at an unprecedented moment in our country's healthcare journey, where we're finally recognizing the scale of the crisis in chronic diseases."
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A power outage hit several areas of the Spanish island of La Palma in the Canary Islands on Thursday, just a week after national outages.

Local media reported that thousands of locals and holidaymakers across the island were left without power for nearly two hours after a blackout occurred at around 10am local time.

The affected areas included Los Llanos de Aridane, Breña Alta, Santa Cruz de La Palma and Fuencaliente.

More than twenty towns were left without in the dark in these areas, stretching from north to south of the island, before Endesa and Red Eléctrica begun working on restoring power.

Javier Llamas, the mayor of the town of Aridane, told a local radio station at around midday that: 'More than half of the power outage has already been restored.'    

Local media reports explained how the power outage could potentially affect up to 30,000 people in La Palma.
'The source is unknown for now, but everything points to a problem at the Los Guinchos power plant,' La Radio Canaria said.

La Palma Island Council urged residents to remain calm, avoid overwhelming emergency services, call 112 only if absolutely necessary, and prioritise saving battery life on mobile devices. 

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The Trump administration's plan to trim the IRS workforce has resulted in almost one-third of its tax auditors leaving the agency through March, according to a report from the U.S. Treasury Department's watchdog.

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has sought to trim the federal workforce through a combination of layoffs and so-called deferred resignation. Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, said on the electric vehicle maker's April 22 earnings call that DOGE's efforts "in addressing waste and fraud" will "get the country back on track."

The IRS has been a focus of DOGE's cost-cutting efforts, with plans to trim as much as 40% of its workforce this year. Through March, those efforts have resulted in the tax agency losing about 11% of its workforce, the May 2 reportfrom the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) found.

But revenue agents — the IRS workers who perform audits — have seen a much bigger hit, with 31% of those workers, or about 3,600 auditors, taking either the deferred resignation plan or getting fired in the first three months of 2025, the report found. Losing a large share of auditors could impact the federal government's ability to collect tax revenue, given that these agents typically handle cases involving wealthy taxpayers or corporations, experts say.
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Ukraine is starting to consider a shift away from the U.S. dollar, possibly linking its currency more closely to the euro amid the splintering of global trade and its growing ties to Europe, Central Bank Governor Andriy Pyshnyi told Reuters.

Potential accession to the European Union, a "strengthening of the EU's role in ensuring our defence capabilities, greater volatility in global markets, and the probability of global-trade fragmentation," are forcing the central bank to review whether the euro should be the reference currency for Ukraine's hryvnia instead of the dollar, Pyshnyi said in emailed remarks.

The dollar dominates international trade and accounts for the majority of global reserves, opens new tab. Major economies including Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong peg their currencies to the dollar.

But under President Donald Trump, the U.S. has unleashed a trade war by introducing what could be the highest tariffs in a century, a move that has prompted some observers to question the future role of the dollar as global reserve currency.

Now in the fourth year of fighting an invasion by Russia, Ukraine also saw Trump temporarily cut off some military assistance to the country.

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9:44 = 17? 🐸

WATCH: FBI Director Kash Patel tells U.S. Senate he will release Epstein files in "the near future."

Sen Kennedy: Did Jeffrey Epstein hang himself or did somebody kill him?

Kash Patel: Senator, I believe he hung himself in a cell in the Metropolitan detention center.

Sen Kennedy: Are you going to release all the information about that?

Kash Patel: Senator, we are working through that right now with the Department of Justice.

Sen Kennedy: When do you think you'll have it done, Kash?

Kash Patel: I in the near future sir,

Sen Kennedy: Like, before I die?

Kash Patel: We've been working on that and we're doing it in a way that protects victims and also doesn't put out into the ether information that is irrelevant for production of the public.

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17 days since the last pope passed and the new pope selected.

What a “coincidence” 🐸

H/T Shannon Armenis

BREAKING: President Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to intervene in its bid to revoke the temporary legal status granted by his predecessor Joe Biden to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants living in the United States.

The Justice Department requested that the justices put on hold Boston-based U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani's order halting the administration's move to terminate the immigration "parole" granted to the migrants under Biden. The move is part of Trump's hardline approach to immigration.
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Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is the New Pontiff - He is the first American Pope in history.

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What Has Robert Prevost Said About LGBT Issues?

It appears Prevost does not align with Pope Francis when it comes to the LGBT community.

The New York Times reported that back in 2012, he indicated that pop culture created "sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the gospel." In the speech to bishops, he referenced the "homosexual lifestyle" and "alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children."

What has Robert Prevost Said About Immigration?

Prevost's experience as a bishop in Peru had him work with immigrants. Per the New York Times, he was praised in the country for efforts to support Venezuelan immigrants.

Newsweek could not confirm details of Prevost's position on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. However, Prevost is a longstanding ally of the late Pope Francis, who repeatedly called for peace.
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17 Days since Pope Francis died.

89 votes needed to elect the new Pope (8+9=17).

May 8th is the day of the feast of the apparition of St. Michael.

Speaking of St. Michael - The name Cardinal Prevost chose, Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Leo XIII was the Pope that wrote the St. Michael prayer which Q posted.

He is also the first American Pope.

Yes - I am aware of his posts regarding BLM, Covid and Immigration.

But was he playing the game? Was he doing that to better his chances of being elected? We don’t know.

I do not know what kind of fruit this Pope will bear, but I choose the wait and see approach. Too many “coincidences” for me to ignore.

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