Stephen A. Smith: Newsom prioritizes ‘trolling Trump’ over governing

ESPN host Stephen A. Smith discusses a report alleging Democratic strategists are pushing for a ‘straight, White, Christian man’ for their 2028 presidential candidate

9:08

https://youtu.be/qFITdquzo3Q

Shortly before Easter This virus is spreading rapidly in an Italian vacation region

blue NewsLea Oetiker 31.3.2026

Hepatitis A is spreading rapidly in Italy's Campania vacation region. The authorities suspect that contaminated mussels are the cause and have banned the consumption of raw seafood for the time being.

Hepatitis A is currently spreading rapidly in the Italian region of Campania.

Around 70 people have already been hospitalized.

The cause is believed to be mussels contaminated with the virus,which is why the consumption of raw seafood has been banned in Naples.

The German Foreign Ministry has adjusted its travel advice for Italy, but Switzerland has not yet done so.

Italy is •=warning of a hepatitis A outbreak in one of its most popular regions just in time for Easter==, when hundreds of thousands of people from more northern countries travel south. In Campania, which includes Naples, the Amalfi Coast and the island of Capri, the virus is currently spreading rapidly.

As reported by the Seieva monitoring system of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità,65 infections were registered between January and March 2026 - significantly more than in the previous year. According to "Rai News", around 70 people were receiving inpatient treatment at the end of March.

Seafood, especially mussels, is suspected. According to the authorities, these could have been contaminated with the virus. "Rai News" reports that the outbreak is now also affecting other regions such as Rome. The virus enters the food chain via contaminated water: mussels accumulate the pathogen in their tissue, which can lead to infection when eaten.

Vaccination recommended

Hepatitis A causes inflammation of the liver and manifests itself with symptoms such as tiredness, nausea, fever, loss of appetite and jaundice. The virus is usually transmitted via smear infections, for example through unwashed hands or contaminated food.

Vaccination is recommended for travel to affected areas, but is not a standard vaccination in Switzerland.

The German Foreign Ministry has now adjusted its travel advice for Italy. Travelers should also expect restrictions in gastronomy:In Naples, the sale and consumption of raw seafood is prohibited until further notice. Violators risk a fine of up to 20,000 euros.

https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/this-virus-is-spreading-rapidly-in-the-italian-vacation-region-3170157.html

(The trick is to tell the public of a dire outbreak, the solution have a vaccine to stop it!)

Fire on Delta flight after takeoff forces emergency landing

Video shows flames shooting from the left engine, as some passengers panicked inside the cabin.

(Not bird strike, Airbus jet is 19 years old. DEI strikes again)

2:13

https://youtu.be/sv_qIi82KTA

Shadow of Ezra

@ShadowofEzra

Candace Owens says she’s ready to testify in Charlie Kirk’s assassination trial to defend Tyler Robinson and prove his innocence.

She insists there’s no solid evidence linking him to the shooting, calling Robinson nothing more than a patsy set up by the FBI.

“I’m 99.9% sure Tyler Robinson didn’t shoot Charlie Kirk from that rooftop alone.”

“My goal is to find Charlie’s real killer.”

9:51 PM · Mar 30, 2026

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https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/2038796299579830631?s=20

The Iran War Is Hitting Luxury Carmakers Where It Hurts Most

Nowhere else in the world do buyers spend quite like in the Gulf, and that’s exactly the problem.

Simran Rastogi

Mar 30, 2026 6:30 PM EDT

The Gulf has long been one of the most important markets in the luxury automotive world. It accounts for less than 10 per cent of total sales volumes at most high-end brands,but generates profits far disproportionate to that share, because buyers there consistently opt for the most customized and, consequently, most expensive versions of every model on offer. Bentley CEO Frank-Steffen Walliser captured the sentiment perfectly just weeks before conflict broke out. “It’s the best market in the world,” he said of the Middle East. Now, with the conflict in the Middle East reshaping the region’s mood and logistics, that crown jewel is suddenly looking very fragile.

When the Showrooms Go Dark

Several luxury dealerships across the Gulf temporarily shut their doors after fighting broke out on February 28. Ferrari and Maseratipaused deliveries entirely as car carriers found themselves unable to navigate routes near the Strait of Hormuz. Some manufacturers began flying supercars directly to buyers to work around the disruption, an enormously expensive workaround that speaks to just how much is at stake. Reuters reports that Bentley’s CEO’s thoughts, saying that buyers in the region currently have “other thoughts than looking for a new Bentley.” Volkswagen’s Oliver Blume acknowledged the region is “very high margin” and that the conflict will “certainly have an impact.” A Bernstein Researchforecast suggested luxury sales in the Middle East could fall by as much as 50 per cent in the near term.

The Worst Possible Timing

This would sting at any moment. Right now, it stings considerably more.China’s luxury car market has collapsed. US sales face tariff-related uncertainty. Russia has been off the table since 2022. Lamborghini’s CEO recently noted there is no new major market waiting to absorb the shortfall.The Gulf was supposed to be the one bright spot, a high-margin cushion against softness everywhere else. That cushion is now under pressure, and the industry has few places left to turn.

https://www.autoblog.com/news/the-iran-war-is-hitting-luxury-carmakers-where-it-hurts-most

KEK that’s the worst thing that can happen to expensive car dealers!

American journalist Shelly Kittleson abducted in Iraq

Local authorities are searching for Shelley Kittleson, who was abducted in Baghdad.

Amberin Zaman , Elizabeth Hagedorn

Mar 31, 2026

American freelance journalist Shelley Kittleson was abducted by unidentified individuals in Baghdad on Tuesday, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said, as security forces worked to track down the perpetrators.

The ministry saidthe operation was launched immediately based on what it called “precise intelligence.” It added that authorities had intercepted a vehicle believed to belong to the abductors that flipped over as they tried to flee.However, Kittleson was not in the vehicle. Local newsreports indicated she was taken near the Baghdad Hotel on Saadoun Street.

Kittleson’s kidnapping recalls that of Russian Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov at a Baghdad cafe in March 2023. She was held hostage by the pro-Iranian militia,Kataib Hezbollah, for 903 days before she was freed under a deal that was brokered by the United States.

Kittleson, anAmerican citizen who has spent years in Italy and is currently based in Rome, is known for her courageous reporting from war zones in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.

Kittleson has no known agenda and has contributed to numerous publications, including Al-Monitor. Trump administration sources confirmed to Al-Monitorthat they were aware of the threat against her and had advised against travel to Iraq.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a US official said the State Department is aware of Kittleson's kidnapping and working with the Iraqi government to secure her release.

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/03/american-journalist-shelly-kittleson-abducted-iraq

Oracle cutting thousands in latest layoff round as company continues to ramp AI spending

KEY POINTS

• Oracle is conducting a round of layoffs, two people familiar with the move told CNBC.

• The layoffs were in the thousands, the people said.

• The software maker has continued to increase spending on data center infrastructure that can handle AI workloads.

Oracle has started telling employees that it’s cutting thousands of jobs, CNBC has confirmed, asthe software maker deals with a plummeting stock price tied to hefty capital commitments for building out AI infrastructure.

While Oracle’s core businessis on the receiving end of market panic about competitive risk from generative artificial intelligence models, the company is alsofacing pressure from investors about the amount of debt it’s raising for AI investments and its dwindling cash flow.

Business Insider reported on the latest cuts earlier on Tuesday.CNBC confirmed the cuts with two people familiar with the matterwho asked not to be named becausethe announcement hasn’t been made public.

Oracle, which employed 162,000 people as of May 2025, declined to comment. Thecompany’s stock price is down 26% this year, dropping more than all of tech’s megacaps.

Oracle continues to sell its flagship database for storing and serving up corporate information. In recent years, alongside cloud rivals such as Amazon,the company has ratcheted up capital expenditures as it builds data center infrastructurethat can handle AI workloads. But Oracle is smaller than its cloud peers.

Oracle has been leaning on the debt market to fund its buildout. In January, Oracle announced plans to raise $50 billion in debt and equity. During earnings last month, executives said there were no more plans to raise debt in 2026.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/oracle-layoffs-ai-spending.html

My wish is AI flashes and burns out, so our country and world is not ruled by machines!

4 hours ago

China and Pakistan propose five-point plan to restore Mideast stability

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar met on March 31, 2026, to review the situation in the region and outline a joint framework for de-escalation.

The meeting comes as Pakistan has in recent weeks positioned itself as a mediator in the Iran war, hosting talks in Islamabad with Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia days earlier and reportedly facilitating indirect exchanges between Iran and the United States.

In the statement, thePakistani and Chinese sides called for the immediate cessation of hostilities and urged all parties to take maximum efforts to prevent further escalation. They stressed that humanitarian assistance must be allowed to reach all war-affected areas without obstruction.

Beijing and Islamabad alsoemphasized the need to start peace talks as soon as possible, underscoring that dialogue and diplomacy are the only viable means to resolve conflicts.

They called for safeguarding the sovereignty, territorial integrity, national independence and security of Iran and its Arab neighbors, and urged all sides to commit to peaceful dispute resolutionand refrain from the use or threat of force during negotiations.

The initiative highlighted the importance of protecting civilians and non-military targets, calling on all parties to immediately halt attacks on civilian populations and infrastructure.

It stressed adherence to international humanitarian law and specifically warned against targeting critical facilities, including energy, desalination and power plants, as well as peaceful nuclear infrastructure such as nuclear power stations.

China and Pakistan also drew attention to the security of maritime routes, describing the Strait of Hormuz as a vital global shipping lane for goods and energy. They called for measures to ensure the safety of vessels and crews in the area, facilitate the safe passage of civilian and commercial ships, and restore normal transit through the strait as soon as possible.

Finally, the two countries reaffirmed the primacy of the United Nations Charter, urging stronger multilateral cooperation. They called for efforts to support a comprehensive peace framework and achieve lasting peace based on international law and the principles of the UN Charter.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/202603261868#202603318155

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Jailed Nobel laureate denied treatment, is in ‘critical’ condition - family

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi isin critical condition after suffering a heart attack in Zanjan prison and has been denied access to specialized medical care, the Narges Foundation said.

In a statement on Tuesday, the foundation saidIranian authorities have refused to transfer Mohammadi to a hospital or allow her to be examined by a specialist, despite reports of her losing consciousness, experiencing severe chest pain andmedical recommendations for an urgent angiography.

The group warned that her life is at risk in prison and criticized what it described as continued restrictions on her basic rights, including limited phone contact, a ban on communication with lawyers and the requirement that visits take place in the presence of security officials.

The foundation called for the immediate and unconditional release of Mohammadiand other political inmates and prisoners of conscience.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/202603261868#202603318155

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Iran's IRGC warns staff at US tech giants to evacuate Mideast offices

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on Tuesdaywarned employees of US technology companies Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, HP and Cisco to immediately leave their workplaces, saying firms it described as “key institutions involved in terrorist espionage operations” would be considered legitimate targets.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/202603261868#202603318155

Its time to eradicate this terrorist group that runs Iran!

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Blasts reported across Iranian cities as air defenses activated in Tehran

Explosions and bombardments were reportedacross several Iranian citieson Tuesday evening, including Bushehr, Shiraz, Kermanshah, Ramhormoz and Andimeshk, according to Iranian media.

Reports also pointed to blasts near the Iran Marine Industrial Company (SADRA) in Bushehr in southern Iran, and a local official confirmed a missile strike in a Kermanshah in the west.

State-affiliated outlets said air defenses were activated over Tehran to counter “hostile targets".

https://www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/202603261868#202603318155

Trump’s Iran War Rebuked by Blackwater Founder Erik Prince: ‘Chaos’ - Newsweek

(The only time Newsweek or any other U.S. news recites Prince’s opinions. They all have attacked him to destroy him for many years!)

The founder of Blackwater has criticized the U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran, saying the conflict isn't in "America's interests" and will lead to more death and destruction across the Middle East.

Erik Prince—a former Navy SEAL who founded Blackwater, the private military contractor later rebranded as Constellis—provided a blunt assessment to conservative influencer Steve Bannon on Sunday, a day after the killing of Iran's 86-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and more than 40 top Iranian security and regime officials.

"Look, Steve, I'm not happy about the whole thing," Prince said on Bannon's War Room podcast. "I don't think this was in America's interests.It's going to uncork a significant can of worms and chaos and destruction in Iran now."

Prince said Khamenei's assassination on Saturday would likely lead to tens of thousands of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vying to replace the former leader.

"Who takes over?" Prince asked on the podcast. He added:"I don't see how this is in keeping with the president's MAGA commitment. I'm disappointed."

Prince then questioned the preparation of U.S.-Israeli forces following Khamenei's deathand suggested ground troops would eventually need to partake in Operation Epic Fury.

"And again, who comes after that?" Prince said. "I don't know that there's a plan. These are ultimately solved by ground combat.I don't think a regime has ever been changed by airpower alone. It's wishful thinking, and now it [has] indeed cost American lives. I don't buy the argument that it was only because of—that they were doing it to preempt.When you load that many troops and that many aircraft in the immediate area, you can almost guarantee a response.

But again, how does the regime get changed?"

Prince also criticized U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to align the United States with Israel in the conflict.

He was "Subjecting our foreign policy to Israeli foreign policy, I have a real issue with that," Prince told Bannon. "I've said it before. I said it weeks ago on your show. This should not be the path forward, and the president's chosen to do it. I just wonder who pressured him that much to do it this way."==

Prince questioned the effectiveness of strikes in Iran last summer to destroy the nation's nuclear ambitions and saidhe had yet to see evidence of a "viable replacement" for Khamenei.

"Ninety million people, intelligent, hardworking, with a lot of tech and a lot of capability is not an easy endeavor to accomplish," Prince said."So the airpower alone, I'm concerned. And I'm concerned that this is not our fight, that this is Israel's fight that we got dragged into."

At least four American troops had been killed in action as of early Monday. Trump told reporters on Sunday that he expected additional casualties. Prince, meanwhile, advised the president not to deploy American troops in the conflict.

In a direct address to Trump, Prince said on the podcast, "Don't ever contemplate ground troops in Iran."

Some observers noted that Prince's dismay over the United States' involvement in the conflict didn't bode well for Trump and his conservative backers.

"Very, very notable, if you've lost Erik Prince," Curt Mills, the executive director of The American Conservative magazine, wrote on X on Sunday.

Trump, for his part, has not ruled out sending U.S. ground troops into Iran "if they were necessary," he told the New York Post on Monday.

"I don't have the yips with respect to boots on the ground—like every president says, 'There will be no boots on the ground.' I don't say it," Trump said. "I say 'probably don't need them,' [or] 'if they were necessary.'"

The conflict is expected to "go pretty quickly," Trump said.

"We're right on schedule, way ahead of schedule in terms of leadership—49 killed—and that was, you know, going to take, we figured, at least four weeks, and we did it in one day," Trump told the Post.

Earlier on Monday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said U.S. troops were not currently deployed in Iran, but he declined to speculate on whether that might change.

He told reporters, "No, but we're not going to go into the exercise of what we will or will not do."

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-iran-war-rebuked-blackwater-founder-erik-prince-chaos-11604452

(Anons prayer for Trump to get out of this asap. Our military and Hegseth is too pumped to go to war, who in the military advising him. I’d trust Prince more than Bibi and Israel. Bibi lied many people are dying.)

Understanding America's Goals in Iran, with Erik Prince and Mark Geist, & Clinton's Epstein Comments

(Yes Kelly is annoying and thinks she know everything, and her hidden hatred is not so hidden but she have knowledgeable guests on.)

Megyn Kelly is joined by Erik Prince, co-founder of Unplugged Technologies, to talk about polling showing the American people unclear about the goal of the Iran war, the incredible difficulties America will face in fighting the Iranian regime, the reality of the munitions challenges America is facing, Israel's involvement in getting the U.S. involved, what the best course of action now is, and more. Then Mark Geist, retired U.S. marine and co-author of "13 Hours," joins to discuss the reason it's important for the Trump administration to take preemptive action in striking Iran, what might happen if the U.S. doesn't act now, and more. Then Megyn brings highlights from Bill Clinton's wild deposition last week, where he was asked if he likes young girls, saying Epstein died after he "finally got caught," exhibiting a notable dynamic with his lawyer, highlights from Hillary Clinton's deposition too, and more. Finally Matthew Tkachuk, Team USA and Florida Panthers hockey star, joins to talk about what it felt like to win the gold for America for the first time since 1980, what his coach said to the team before that historic overtime, the incredible performance of his teammates, getting the call from Trump and visit from Kash Patel, going to the State of the Union, their relationship with the Team USA women's team, and more.

2:14:26

https://youtu.be/GfDUpqo2NBM

Why Israel Might Be In MORE Danger Now That the Iran War is Underway, with Professor Pape‘

(He’s a brilliant analyst that predicts and analyzes the possibility of Israel, and nukes. Very rational man.)

Megyn Kelly is joined by Robert Pape, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, to discuss why Israel may be in more danger now that the war with Iran has started, whether Israel would consider using a nuke, how Trump could adopt a policy of "military containment" to end the war, political ramifications of ground troops, and more. He sets Kelly straight on her theory.

8:44

https://youtu.be/g9dpgljiE6k

Shocking Report About Kristi Noem's Husband's SECRET Cross-Dresser Double Life with Bizarre Fetish

Megyn Kelly begins the show with a shocking report about Kristi Noem’s husband’s secret cross-dresser double life, pictures in The Daily Mail showing him wearing giant fake breasts, Kristi Noem’s reaction, and more

(Kelly is a gossip monitor and that’s why people listen, but she’s not wrong all the time.)

5:22

https://youtu.be/JOlZGlPpY7c

The “Holocaust of Our Time” Rages on in Gaza as Israel Shuts Down the Holiest Site in Christendom

Tucker Carlson

Bishop Joseph Strickland on Israel closing the holiest church in Christendom and the “holocaust of our time” in Gaza.

Most Reverend Joseph E. Strickland is a Catholic bishop known for his unwavering fidelity to Jesus Christ, his defense of the Deposit of Faith, and his courageous witness to the truth in an age of confusion. Ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Dallas in 1985, he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012 as the fourth Bishop of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, a role he served until 2023. A lifelong shepherd devoted to the Holy Eucharist and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Bishop Strickland has consistently proclaimed the Church’s teachings on the sanctity of life, moral truth, and Eucharistic reverence. In 2025, he founded Pillars of Faith, an apostolate dedicated to strengthening Catholics in fidelity to Christ and His Church. Today, Bishop Strickland continues his apostolic mission nationally and internationally through preaching, teaching, writing, and media outreach.

(It’s kind of weird that Bibi and Israel are starting new wars in every part of our society. Plus they want to claim all countries and territories in the Mideast!)

1:17:30

https://youtu.be/p7ZGf_QEyho