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#1 Supreme Court Rejects Florida’s Bid to Sue California, Washington Over Truck Licenses for Immigrants - WPTV/Associated Press, ABC News, NEWSMAX, PBS News, Fox News Politics, CCN Florida, and April Color on X
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Florida's long-shot attempt to sue California and Washington state over the issuance of commercial driver licenses to truckers who don't speak English and are not authorized to be in the United States. The case stems from a crash in St. Lucie County last year that killed three people. The driver, Harjinder Singh, is accused of making an illegal U-turn on Florida's Turnpike that caused the wreck. Singh, who is from India, was carrying a valid commercial driver's license from California and had earlier been granted one by Washington state. Republican-led Florida has accused the Western states, led by Democrats, of openly defying immigration laws and asked the justices to rule that states lack the authority to issue CDLs to people who are not citizens or legal permanent residents...
#2 Eli Lilly Stock Edges Higher as Company Plans Nearly $4 Billion in Vaccine Deals - Sawdah Bhaimiya and Sam Meredith for CNBC, Emily Kopp/STAT/Melissa, Bloomberg TV, Wall St Engine/Thoughts on Healthcare Markets and Tech, Fierce Biotech/Sanjay "John", and Refrigerator Man on X
Eli Lilly on Tuesday announced plans to acquire three companies for almost $4 billion in cash, as it looks to expand its research and development business into infectious diseases. The company said it had agreed deals to buy Curevo, LimmaTech Biologics, and Vaccine Company for $1.5 billion, $780 million, and $1.55 billion, respectively. Shares of Eli Lilly rose 0.9% shortly after the market opened. “These acquisitions reflect a deliberate strategy to prevent disease at its source rather than treat its consequences,” Daniel M. Skovronsky, chief scientific and product officer and president, said in a statement. Curevo has developed a vaccine for the prevention of shingles in adults and was specifically engineered with a synthetic adjuvant to increase immune system tolerability and reduce side effects...
#3 Trump’s Pollster Found Voters Were Highly Concerned About Vaccines. The Poll Never Saw Daylight - Emily Kopp for The Daily Caller, nj4rfk, Toby Rogers/POLITICO, Jack's complete lack of surprise, and Autism Action Network on X
An unreleased poll appears to undermine the White House’s stated rationale for pivoting away from policies that inflame pharmaceutical companies. The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained a secret poll conducted in October 2025 by President Donald Trump’s longtime pollster, Tony Fabrizio, finding that 73% of voters expressed concern about childhood vaccine mandates, while a whopping 90% of voters expressed concern about the pharmaceutical industry’s corrupting influence...
#4 Trump Appoints Bondi to White House AI Panel - Alex Isenstadt for Axios, Fox News Politics, MJTruthUltra/Translations for normies, Mario Nawfal, and JP Sears/Disclose.tv on X
President Trump has appointed former Attorney General Pam Bondi to an advisory committee focused on AI policy, Axios has learned. Bondi, whom Trump ousted as AG last month, will be on the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The panel is chaired by former White House AI adviser David Sacks and White House science adviser Michael Kratsios. It also includes more than a dozen tech executives, including Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. Bondi will be charged with facilitating coordination between the government and the tech titans on the panel...
#5 Trump Administration Weighs NDAs for Federal Workers Over Media Leaks - Raquel Martin for NEWSNATION, TIME, NBC News, Special Report, Reuters/Maddened Ranter, and The Washington Post/Christina R on X
The Trump administration is proposing a new crackdown on government leaks that could require more federal employees to sign nondisclosure agreements, or NDAs, to protect sensitive information. The draft policy from the Office of Personnel Management would allow agencies to require current and new employees to sign confidentiality agreements if they handle nonpublic government information. Administration officials say the proposal is meant to stop unauthorized leaks involving ICE operations, military planning, and other sensitive government activities. Employees who improperly share confidential information could face civil or criminal penalties...
#6 Democratic Rep. Al Green Unseated by Rep. Christian Menefee in Texas Primary With Two Incumbents - Owen Auston-Babcock for NBC News, Fox News, Eric Daugherty, Houston Chronicle, CBS News, and MJTruthUltra on X
Freshman Rep. Christian Menefee defeated longtime Rep. Al Green in the Democratic primary runoff in Texas’ 18th Congressional District, NBC News projects, after a rare incumbent-on-incumbent matchup sparked by Republican-led redistricting efforts. The redraw of the state’s political map pitted one of the newest members of the House Democratic caucus against one of the longer-serving incumbents in the chamber. Menefee got 46% of the primary vote to Green’s 44% in the first round on March 3, pushing the race to a runoff since neither got a majority...#7 MAGA Triumph: Trump Ally Ken Paxton Defeats John Cornyn in Bitter Texas GOP Primary War - Fox News, The Associated Press, Houston Chronicle, Reuters/Bitcoinsports, and Attorney General Ken Paxton on X
President Donald Trump and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are the big winners in the Lone Star State's bitter Republican Senate nomination battle, which spanned for more than a year and became the most expensive Senate primary in history. Paxton, who was endorsed by Trump just one week ago, convincingly defeated longtime GOP Sen. John Cornyn in Tuesday's runoff election for the Republican nomination. With the vast majority of votes counted early Wednesday morning, Paxton topped Cornyn by over 27 points. Paxton now faces off against state Rep. James Talarico — a rising star in the Democratic Party — in the general election in a race that is among a handful that may decide if the Republicans hold their slim 53-47 majority in the Senate. Talarico, who topped progressive star Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a vocal Trump critic, in the March primary, is trying to become the first Democrat in nearly four decades to win a Senate election in Texas...
#8 Your Chocolate Bar Is Now a Corporate Science Experiment - Tracy Beanz & Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, MissSocial2121, Ms Cray, Tracey/LRayman, Adylady, and Adnan Hasan on X
Before we get to what’s being done to our chocolate, we need to understand why the industry says it has to be done. The story starts in West Africa, where roughly 70% of the world’s cocoa grows—mostly in the Ivory Coast and Ghana, mostly on small family farms, and mostly under conditions that have become increasingly precarious. Climate volatility hammered West African harvests in 2023 and 2024, sending cocoa futures to their highest levels since the 1970s—briefly hitting $11,530 per tonne in June 2024, up from around $3,000 the year before. A third of the world’s cocoa trees could die out by 2050. Child labor remains endemic across the supply chain—the major chocolate companies signed a protocol pledging to eliminate it by 2005. That deadline has been extended four times. It now sits at 2025. Deforestation tied to cocoa farming continues to gut West African forest cover. The problems are real...#9 Ousted Republican, Massie, Warns More Epstein Retribution Is Coming - Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling for The New Republic, Megatron, Shawn Farash/JS Brinkley, Steve H, and West LA Résistance/janice nelson on X
Republican Representative Thomas Massie has vowed to go scorched earth on the Trump administration—by unveiling previously unmentioned names related to the Epstein files. The rogue Kentucky lawmaker pointed fingers at Donald and Melania Trump during an interview with NBC News’s Meet the Press Sunday, claiming that the first lady is well aware that the Justice Department’s public rollout of its investigation into the pedophilic web is incomplete. Acting Attorney General “Todd Blanche is violating the law; there’s still millions of files they haven’t released,” Massies said. “We know from talking to the victims’ lawyers that their own 302 forms haven’t been released. We know the files have been over-redacted...
#10 AI Scans 400,000 Reddit Posts and Finds Hidden Ozempic Side Effects - Science Daily, Aurelius Health Group/Nolan Wolfe, A Midwestern Doctor/Jason Robertson, Pleb Kruse = BTC foundationalist in exile/Camus, and Dr. Kris Edward on X
AI scanning Reddit uncovered surprising side effects tied to blockbuster weight-loss drugs — including menstrual changes, chills, and unexplained fatigue. By analyzing over 400,000 Reddit posts, researchers discovered that users of popular GLP-1 weight-loss drugs frequently discussed unexpected symptoms like menstrual irregularities, chills, and hot flashes. The findings suggest AI could turn social media into a powerful early-warning system for spotting side effects that clinical trials may miss...
