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#1 Tick Tock: Inside Pfizer’s Bid to Vaccinate Against Lyme - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, UncoverDC, Bloomberg, NBC News, ABC News, WSJ Business News, and Gareth Ortney on X
Pfizer is adding a new vaccine to its repertoire. The Big Pharma behemoth is preparing to bring a Lyme disease vaccine to market with its French partner, Valneva. The company recently announced the news, which comes at a time when public trust in pharmaceutical giants remains shaky, particularly following the contentious rollout of mRNA COVID vaccines. For anyone who’s watched Pfizer’s recent history with a critical eye, this new vaccine deserves a closer look...#2 African Territory Tells Trump Admin It Will Extradite Ilhan Omar - Joe Sommerlad for Independent, Mother Nature, James Bighouse, Silver Lee/Benny Johnson, Ekta/Janet, and Lioness/Proud Elephant on X
A small East African territory has told the Trump administration it would willingly assist with the extradition of Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar after Vice President JD Vance accused her of committing immigration fraud. Responding to a clip of a Newsmax interview with Benny Johnson discussing Vance’s accusation against Omar, the semi-autonomous region wrote on X (Twitter): “Deportation? Please, you’re just sending the princess back to her kingdom. Extradition? Say the word…”
#3 Trump Shares Renderings of His Presidential Library — a Massive Skyscraper in Miami - Raquel Coronell Uribe and Sarah Dean for NBC News, SKDoubleDub, Gary P Barwick, WPEC CBS12 News, Diane Mantouvalos, and Patti Shard on X
Trump posted a video on Truth Social that shows a tall, glass building with a large needle on top. The building has his last name in gold lettering across its facade, an American flag hanging down the middle and a presidential plane displayed on the first floor. (A Boeing 747 given to Trump by the Qatari government is set to be displayed in his presidential library once he leaves office.) The size of the proposed building dwarfs the nearby Freedom Tower, a downtown Miami landmark that carries special significance to Cuban immigrants in Florida — a key demographic that helped Trump win historically blue Miami-Dade County in 2024...#4 Washington State Adopts New Tax on Incomes Over $1 Million - Jeanne Whalen for Wall Street Journal/MSN, Jr, Forbes/Liam Henry, Newser, Vikki., and Daniel Vassallo/Governor Bob Ferguson/Leif Foged/Washington Concerned Citizen on X
Washington State on Monday enacted a tax on income over $1 million, the latest Democratic state to levy a tax aimed squarely at the wealthy. The law, signed by Gov. Bob Ferguson, creates an income tax for top earners beginning in 2028. The 9.9% tax will apply only to income over $1 million, and will be used to fund child care programs, free school meals, tax credits for working families, and tax breaks for small businesses. Until now, Washington hasn’t had any state income tax.
#5 Analysts Demand Hegseth Resign After Report He Sought Defense Stocks Before Iran War - Robert Davis for Raw Story, Mario Nawfal, Ethan Levins, Justice Served, AF Post, and Jim Moore on X
Political analysts and observers were aghast on Monday after a new report revealed that President Donald Trump's Defense Secretary has reached a new "height of criminality." Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's stockbroker looked into purchasing a defense-related fund ahead of the Trump administration launching its self-described "excursion" in Iran, the Financial Times reported, citing "three people familiar with the matter." "Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock in February about making a multimillion-dollar investment in the asset manager’s Defense Industrials Active ETF, the people said, shortly before the U.S. launched military action against Tehran," the report reads in part...
#6 Laura Dern to Star in Epstein Investigation Limited Series from Adam McKay - Adrian Horton for The Guardian, Oracle's Movie Club, RT/Abbey, Damien Hubbard/The Hollywood Handle, and Variety on X
Laura Dern is taking on the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, in a new limited series executive produced by Adam McKay based on journalist Julie K Brown’s work busting open the story. Dern will play Brown, the Miami Herald investigative reporter on the late, disgraced financier’s tail when no one else was, for the first scripted take on the Epstein case. The screenplay will be based on Brown’s 2021 book Perversion of Injustice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story. Sharon Hoffman, a writer on the 2020 limited series Mrs. America, will write the project and serve as co-showrunner with Eileen Myers (The Night Agent, Masters of Sex). McKay, the writer-director of Don’t Look Up and executive producer on the HBO juggernaut Succession, among other credits, will serve as executive producer alongside Dern and Brown...
#7 Florida Gov. Desantis Signs Bill to Rename Palm Beach Airport After Trump - ABC News, CBS News, Debra Black, Brittany Belle, RV Global Reset, Owen Gregorian, and 🅡🅔🅐🅛🅜🅐🅡🅛🅘🅝🅢🅕🅐🅝 on X
Palm Beach International Airport, which President Donald Trump flies in and out of when heading to his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, is likely set to be renamed in his honor. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday, renaming it the President Donald J. Trump International Airport. According to a release from DeSantis' office, the governor signed a bill from the legislature related to "Commercial Service Airports." That bill, which passed the Florida House and Senate in February, includes the provision that "'Palm Beach International Airport,' shall be renamed as the 'President Donald J. Trump International Airport,' subject to approval of the Federal Aviation Administration" and, per the bill, rights agreements. The law is set to go into effect on July 1, according to the state legislature...
#8 Supreme Court to Weigh Trump’s Bid to End Birthright Citizenship in Test of Second-Term Agenda - Melissa Quinn for CBS News, #TuckFrump, Patriot Lens, John Gramlich, Merry, Private Officer, and @mbalter — investigations and commentary on X
The Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to weigh whether President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship withstands constitutional and legal muster, a case that tests a key aspect of the president's second-term immigration agenda. At issue in the case, known as Trump v. Barbara, is whether Mr. Trump's directive, issued on his first day back in the White House, comports with the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause and federal immigration law. The dispute arrives at the high court as its conservative majority has handed the president several preliminary victories in cases over his immigration policies, allowing some of them to be enforced while legal proceedings continue. But opponents of the birthright citizenship order hope the justices will hand him a defeat in this case, especially after the court struck down Mr. Trump's most sweeping tariffs in February...
#9 A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing - Jeremy Kohler for ProPublica, Marjorie Taylor Greene/AF Post, Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker, Tyler Oliveira, Owen Shroyer, and Evan Kilgore on X
Nursing home operator Joseph Schwartz was convicted of a $39 million fraud, but President Donald Trump pardoned him just three months into a three-year prison term. Schwartz is one of several nursing home operators convicted of crimes who were granted clemency by Trump. The families of some patients in Schwartz’s nursing homes have been awarded millions of dollars from lawsuits. But they haven’t been able to collect from him...#10 Rep. Massie Revives Ron Paul’s ‘Money Bomb’ to Fight Off Trump-Backed Primary Challenge - Seth McLaughlin for The Washington Times, Dan Smotz (The System is Down)/Thomas Massie for Congress, Matt Kibbe, HIM™/Greg Fanning/Brandon Alexi, Eric Buhler, and Right Angle News Network/JR--- on X
Rep. Thomas Massie wants to make “money bombs” great again. The Kentucky Republican is borrowing a page from former Rep. Ron Paul’s playbook with a one-day “Save the Republic Moneybomb” fundraising drive Monday — and he’s going to need every dollar he can raise. Mr. Massie is President Trump’s top target in the GOP primary. Mr. Trump is backing Ed Gallrein, and some of the party’s biggest, pro-Israel donors are also lined up behind the challenger...
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