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What We’re Reading: Trump’s Tariff Triumphs, More Russiagate Secrets, The Epic Epstein Distraction . . . And More

News, issues and events that caught our eye.

After Trump’s Tariff Deal With EU, Is China Next?

No tariff pause announced after US-China talks, with Trump set to make the ‘final call’ — Yahoo Finance

CNN Forced To Admit Trump’s Winning On Tariffs — X, Eric Daugherty

Trump trade deals prove access to the U.S. still matters above all else — Axios

Trump’s Trade Lesson for Economists (and the World) — Real Clear Politics

The EU-USA trade deal — Marginal Revolution

Russiagate Investigation Finds More Troubling Signs Of Misconduct

Details Buried In Recently Declassified Docs Further Implicate Obama In Russia Hoax — The Federalist

CIA Director Ratcliffe: “Classified Annex” of Durham Report Exposes John Brennan, James Comey, and Hillary Clinton to Perjury Charges — Fox, via Real Clear Politics

Ex-Russiagate FBI Agent Purges X Posts As Trump Admin Bears Down On Obama Intel Officials — Daily Caller

Russiagate Shows How Media Use Fake ‘Fact Checks’ To Launder Info Ops — The Federalist

Epstein Files: A Distraction From The Russiagate Hoax?

Trump Drops a Truth Bomb About the Epstein Files — PJ Media

Vance: ‘Trump has nothing to hide’ in Epstein case, says Obama, Bush ‘didn’t fully investigate’ serial pervert — New York Post

‘Higher Education’ Pays Up For Discriminatory Woke Policies

Harvard Trumped — Don Surber Substack

Janitors trapped by pro-Palestinian mob reach settlement with Columbia University — The College Fix

Trump Administration Launches Probe of Duke Law Journal, Warns Medical School Could Be Next — Washington Free Beacon

Higher Education Bubble Explained In Big Chart — X, via Instapundit

Beware Rationalizations for Leaving Universities as They Are — Real Clear Politics

Why Has Woke Left Made Actress Sydney Sweeney An Icon Of Hate?

MSNBC Goes Full Racist, Attacking Sydney Sweeney Ad Campaign — PJ Media

What Is An ‘Unbridled Shift Toward Whiteness’? — X

Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad slammed as ‘Nazi propaganda’ by crazed woke mob over jeans/genes pun — New York Post

In Blue Vs. Red Struggle Of Cities And States, Blue’s Not Doing Too Well

Nightmare in America’s Cities — PJ Media

Trump Orders Much Needed Housekeeping Of America’s Cities — Daily Caller

Violent Crime Began Plummeting in Baltimore Just After Voters Fired Their Soros-Backed Prosecutor — Coincidence? — Washington Free Beacon

How Many People Moved from New York to Virginia Last Year?Vote With Your Feet

Trump Administration’s Yuuge Shift In U.S. Climate Change Policy

EPA chief Zeldin undoes Obama’s climate change agenda, could save $1 tril — Ruthless Podcast, Fox News

The Bad Science and Bad Policy at the Heart of the Climate Movement — Roger Pielke Jr. Substack

Electricity generated from wind and solar cannot replace fossil fuels — America Out Loud News

New Immigration Policies Show Left’s Hypocrisy On Border Issue

Wealthy Residents Of Maine Resort Town Fret Over Losing Access To Cheap Illegal Labor — Daily Caller

Maryland Democrats Stage Sit-In After Denied Entry of Baltimore ICE Facility — Breitbart

New Data Shows Arrests of Criminal Illegal Aliens Have Made a ‘Real Impact on Public Safety,’ DHS Official Announces — Daily Wire

Media Lies Make Israel, Not Hamas, The Villain In Gaza

A Narrative on Experts and Genocide — American Thinker

To end food shortages in Gaza, the world should unite to end . . . Hamas — New York Post

Media Share Misleading Images Of Gazan Child To Falsely Accuse Israel Of Mass Starvation — The Daily Wire

Israel isn’t committing genocide – it’s resisting genocide — Front Page Magazine

Trump Rejects Starmer’s Decision to Recognize Palestinian State: a ‘Reward for Hamas’ — Breitbart

Emmanuel Macron shows his naïveté on proposing a Palestinian state — American Thinker

Trump Administration Boycotts UN ‘Publicity Stunt’ Conference On Palestinian Statehood — The Daily Wire

Biden-Harris funded anti-Israel groups — American Thinker

Miscellaneous, But Important, News . . .

FBI and DOJ Dismantle Massive Dark Web Child Porn Networks — The National Pulse

Canceling Colbert Begins the End of Television — The American Prospect

NPR Chief Turns to Dem Donors To Drum Up Funds — Washington Free Beacon

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