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don't know where I guess that leaves out the European leaders but maybe they won't mind. I don't know. So that's coming. Trilateral. You're going to hear that word a lot. Trilateral. Well, Hamas has accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal from a bunch of Arab mediators. So, that's good news, right? No, because there's no chance that Israel is going to accept it. So, Israel is not thinking about a ceas…

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t does look to me like they're not going to save hostages if it would slow them down from completely depopulating and having command and control over Gaza forever. So I think the larger, you know I'm not in their heads so I can't read their minds but it does look like the larger goal is complete control of Gaza even if it's not the ideal situation for getting back hostages but anyway I wouldn't expect anything to happen from that.

Well, the State Department has reportedly revoked 6,000 foreign student visas because these foreign students were accused, I'm reading this in Red State, accused of various crimes. So, some of it is overstaying, you know, just staying longer than their visa. But there are other law violations and some of them were promoting terroristic views. According to who? I don't know, whoever makes that decision, but 6,000. Can you believe that? 6,000 students are being shipped home for bad behavior. 6,000. That's a lot. Wow. I would guess their violations were not big ones. And I don't know what percentage of them are just student visa overstays. You know, that would be the lowest level of crime, I guess, would be overstaying a visa. But if you do, you got to go home.

Well, the FDA has green lit a new lab grown salmon. So, it's going to look like a salmon and maybe taste like it, but it will be made out of cells that they grew in a lab. And then they added some vegetable stuff to it and made

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it taste right according to the Smithsonian magazine. And so we may have the first lab grown cultured fish. Now, here's the weird thing. I'm a pescatarian, so I eat fish. I don't love it. In fact, I don't really like any fish, but I eat them because protein. But even I'm grossed out by this lab grown meat. You would think that I would be more grossed out by the thought of eating a dead animal or d…

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