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💀 🔥 Before we begin, let’s take a moment to thank the Coldplay concert camera guy for uniting the country with fire meme material!!

🗞 Today’s Edition: 🎰 Trump Sues Murdoch, Colbert Axed, Ukraine Soldiers Get Points For Kills, UK Lowers Voting Age to 16, Kesha’s New App, Martian Rock Fetches $5.3M… & much more!!

🚨 Watch For: Attorney General Pam Bondi to release Grand Jury testimonies in the Epstein Case.

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📰🇺🇸 Trump Is Suing Murdoch, WSJ

⚖ President Donald Trump is threatening to sue The Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and Rupert Murdoch over a bombshell report claiming he once sent Jeffrey Epstein a risqué birthday note in 2003.

🖼️ The alleged note? A typed message reading "Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret," plus a sketch of a nude woman.

💥 Trump’s response: The letter is “false, malicious, and defamatory” adding, “These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don’t draw pictures.”

💬 Allies like JD Vance have rushed to his defense, calling the report “shameful.” Reuters says it couldn’t independently verify the letter’s authenticity—and WSJ hasn’t released the full image.

👀 Why it matters: This drags Trump straight into Epstein-world headlines again, escalates his war on Murdoch media, and intensifies calls for full transparency on Epstein docs—on both sides of the aisle.

⚔ Bottom line: It’s Trump vs. Murdoch, Epstein edition. And the receipts? Still TBD.

Geopolitics Decoded In 3 Moves

🎮 Ukraine’s Drone War Just Got Gamified

Ukraine’s new “Army of Drones: Bonus” scheme gives soldiers points for kills—like Call of Duty meets the Eastern Front. Verified drone footage earns units e-points, which can be redeemed for gear on a military Amazon-style marketplace.

💥 Tanks = 40 pts.
🎯 Captured Russians = 10x bonus.

☠ Critics call it ghoulish—an RPG where death = currency.

🧠 Bottom line: In a war of attrition, Ukraine’s betting that gamification can keep exhausted troops engaged—and make every strike count. Motivation? Sure. Morality? Murky.

🪤 Bolsonaro Tagged, Raided, and Trump-Retweeted

🇧🇷 Brazil’s Supreme Court hit ex-president Jair Bolsonaro with a curfew, ankle monitor, and social media ban amid 2022 election coup allegations against Socialist President Lula.

🎯 Trump? Supports Bolsonaro as a victim of “an unjust system.”

⚖️ Why it matters: Bolsonaro faces 40+ years if convicted. Brazil says it’s justice. MAGA says it’s a witch hunt.

🇬🇧 UK Lowers Voting Age to 16 And It’s Giving Chaos

🗳️🔻Over 1.5 million teens will vote in the next UK general election under sweeping reforms unveiled by Labour, in the biggest change since 1969.

📥 Ages 16+ can now vote.
🔓 Bank cards, utility bills now count as Voter ID. (Hello, illegal migrant voter fraud!)
📋 Automatic registration coming.

⚡Why it matters: Labour calls it modern democracy; critics say it’s a power grab.

🤔Irony: 16 year olds still “too young” for drinking alcohol, purchasing lotto tickets, getting married and going to war.

Political Drama From DC To NYC

📺 Colbert’s Show Canceled

🪓 CBS is axing The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in May 2026, calling it a “financial decision”—not performance-related. It marks the end of a 30yr late-night franchise on CBS, with no replacement planned for Colbert.

📉 Viewership and Ratings down for Late Night TV:

🪓 Jimmy Kimmel’s slated to be next.

💡 Bottom Line: Late-night comedy’s been tanking for years as the genre, once a nightly escape for all Americans, is now a polarized echo chamber.

💸🪨 Martian Rock Fetches $5.3M

☄ A rare 54-lb meteorite from Mars—aka NWA 16788—just sold at Sotheby’s for a record $5.3M. Blasted off the Red Planet millions of years ago, it crash-landed in Niger in 2023.

💰 Buyer? Anonymous—Jeff Bezos, is that you?

Tech Wars, Crypto Chaos, and AI’s Black Mirror Moments

🤑 Kesha 2.0: Pop Rebel Turns Tech CEO

🎶 Kesha just launched Smash, a “LinkedIn–for–music creators” platform that auto-generates fair contracts—no gatekeepers, no shady deals.

💪 Why it matters: After suing Dr. Luke, Kesha’s mission is clear—empower artists and finally smash exploitative music-business norms.

⚖️ Meta to EU: “Back Off Our Bots”

🤖 Meta says it won’t sign Europe’s new AI code of practice, slamming it as an “overreach” that could “stunt” innovation.

🔍 Why it matters: OpenAI signed on. Meta didn’t. Big Tech’s split signals a brewing transatlantic showdown—regulation vs. innovation, with Europe betting safety + control > speed.

🏠 “Home Alone” Almost Didn’t Happen

Warner Bros. canceled Home Alone because the production cost $14.7 million.

21st Century Fox took over the production and it became the highest grossing film of 1990 at $476 million worldwide. It was nominated for two Academy Awards and became one of the top all-time Christmas favorites to this day.

Because World Leaders Beg To Be Dragged