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‼️ WOW Politico just reported what actually killed Canada’s trade deal with the United States. Not Doug Ford’s ad. Not a tariff dispute. Melanie Joly. She threatened to SUE Stellantis. Then she threatened to CLAW BACK funds from GM. The US auto industry went directly to the White House. Trump pulled the plug on a deal described as imminent. One official said Joly’s actions “inflamed a very important ally.” Another said it was “posturing” that destroyed the relationship. This is the same Joly who: -Never read the $15 billion Stellantis contract she publicly defended -Applauded 49,000 Chinese EVs into Canada while Canadian auto workers lost jobs -Was in Germany at a trade show posting LinkedIn content while all of this collapsed Minister. of. Destruction

A 17-year-old in Iowa boiled beets in her chemistry class and turned them into stitches that change color when your wound gets infected. Her name is Dasia Taylor. It started as a science fair project. She wanted a low-tech version of the "smart stitches" Tufts researchers built in 2016. Those used thread wired up with sensors and a tiny chip that pinged your phone if something went wrong. Cool, but useless without a phone or a hospital that can afford it. Her version doesn't need any of that. Healthy skin is slightly acidic, like lemon juice but much milder. When bacteria grow in a wound, the chemistry flips and turns more like soap or baking soda. Beet juice has a quirk. The same red pigment that stains your fingers when you cook it shifts color based on what it touches. Bright red on healthy skin. Dark purple on infected skin. The switch lines up with infection almost exactly. She tested ten threads before finding a cotton-polyester blend that soaked up the dye and changed color within five minutes. That was the prototype. Around 1 in 40 American surgeries end in an infection at the cut, costing hospitals more than $3 billion a year. In poorer countries the rate is closer to 1 in 9. In parts of Africa it's 1 in 6. In some Ethiopian hospitals, up to a quarter of surgery patients leave with an infection. The whole game is catching it early. Spot it in time and antibiotics handle it. Miss the window and the patient is back on the operating table. Dasia filed a patent in 2021 and started a medical device company called VariegateHealth in 2022. The stitches haven't been tested on real patients yet. New medical device patents can take a decade. She's also looking into a side benefit: the beet pigment kills bugs like E. coli and Klebsiella in lab tests. Smart stitches need a phone to read them. Hers just need eyes.

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Per Politico, a senior Gulf Arab official cut through the diplomatic theater with one of the most accurate assessments of the entire war: "Trump badly wants the war to end, but the Iranians are so far refusing to give him what he needs to save face and leave. And he does not seem to understand that they need to save face, too." This is the central deadlock that keeps every framework from closing. Both sides want out. Both sides need a politically defensible exit. Neither side fully grasps what the other needs to claim a win at home. For Trump, the win is about ending the war as the dealmaker who stopped Iran's nuclear program. For Iran, the win is about surviving the war as the regional power that withstood American military force. Both sides are right. Both sides have legitimate face-saving requirements.

The US Government has become the Karen of all Karen’s.

🔥🇺🇸BOMBSHELL: The US and Iran are close to a 14-point deal. The terms: Iran pauses uranium enrichment. US lifts sanctions and releases frozen funds. Both sides reopen the Strait of Hormuz. 12-15 year moratorium on Iranian nuclear weapons. 30-day negotiation period begins. Sound familiar? It should. This is Obama’s Iran deal. The JCPOA. The same deal Trump called the worst deal ever made. The same deal he tore up in 2018. $25 billion spent. Thousands dead. A UAE oil port on fire. Oil at $119 a barrel. To get back to where we started. Never stop connecting the dots.

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Alberta’s NDP Caucus has obtained video evidence that appears to show that a senior member of the United Conservative Party (UCP) party executive and a member of the UCP Caucus staff, people that are in the Premier’s inner circle, attended the April 16 online meeting of the Centurion Project. This meeting provided training to volunteers on how to use the separatists’ project database that is at the centre of this data breach of three million Albertans’ electoral data. The Alberta NDP Caucus obtained a recording of the Centurion Project’s April 16 online meeting, attended by 80 individuals. The attendee list and a video recording of the call identify that a ‘Rob Smith’ and an ‘Arundeep Sandhu’ were in attendance. The President of the UCP is named Rob Smith and the UCP Caucus Director of Stakeholder Relations is named Arundeep Sandhu. Alberta’s New Democrats have passed this recording on to the RCMP as they continue their investigation. This obtained video also shows Centurion Project members demonstrating how to use a database to search for personal information of Albertans by searching for the name and address of former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Jason Kenney’s personal information was shared on screen with all meeting attendees. This video appears to show the database that was built using the unauthorized electors list that was the subject of an injunction issued by the Court of King’s Bench on April 30, 2026. Premier Smith must immediately confirm whether Rob Smith and Arundeep Sandhu identified in the video are the same individuals that are associated with the UCP party and caucus. If these were the same UCP associates, the Premier must also explain: -Why were senior UCP officials attending the meeting? Were they directed to attend? -How she can claim, as recent as yesterday, that she only learned of this data breach from police statements on April 29-30, published almost two weeks after this meeting took place? -Why was it not reported or disclosed by any UCP or any government official to the RCMP and Elections Alberta that the Centurion Project appears to have unauthorized access to the electors list? -What actions, if any, she has taken to protect the privacy of Albertans? Albertans deserve answers and transparency from Premier Smith and this UCP government, now.